Speaker 1: Thirty seven to ten is your final score. The Eagles
Speaker 1: failed to get it done in Dallas. Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us on the postgame show presented by rico Ike Crease Brand,
Speaker 1: Duffy Amy Campbell. We are going to try to unpack
Speaker 1: this thing. The Eagle is not really in this from
Speaker 1: the start. Ike, Yeah, I'm surprised too. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: a big game coming up this week, we knew what
Speaker 1: was the stake, a chance to be in first place,
Speaker 1: getting the division win on the road over the team
Speaker 1: that you're tied with, and just a little surprised that
Speaker 1: the team didn't come out and performed the way we
Speaker 1: expected them to. And I'm pretty sure that'll be the
Speaker 1: talk in the locker room. It's just how flat they
Speaker 1: seemed when you think about some of the miscuse, the
Speaker 1: things that has continually plagued this team all year long
Speaker 1: showed up again today. I mean, last week it was
Speaker 1: the two big plays on defense in the first quarter
Speaker 1: that put them into an early hole. This week it's
Speaker 1: two big players on offense, you know, And that's why
Speaker 1: when people talk talk about why why are the slow stars?
Speaker 1: Why does this happen? It's not the same thing week
Speaker 1: after week it's not oh, you know, third down, they
Speaker 1: got to get better, or you know, they gotta run
Speaker 1: the ball better. It's something different each week, and those
Speaker 1: things just kind of spiral, and it certainly did today.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's to jump out to an O fourteen hole,
Speaker 1: it is tough to bounce back from. They obviously not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: within the first six minutes they're down O fourteen. Coach
Speaker 1: Peterson elects to receive to start the game, hoping to
Speaker 1: give the offense a little bit of a spark, and
Speaker 1: they didn't even really have much of a chance to
Speaker 1: get that going. Like, yeah, again, self inflicted wounds when
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over the way they did. You
Speaker 1: think about early in this game, the miscues. Fran just
Speaker 1: mentioned that, you know, Dallas gott are coming out fumbling
Speaker 1: on that opening drive. You know, Dallas takes that in
Speaker 1: and scores. Then they come back get the ball, Carson
Speaker 1: gets sacked, strip fumble, Dallas ball again right there. So
Speaker 1: before you even before the defense can even catch their breath,
Speaker 1: you're down fourteen nothing. Dallas with the ball in a
Speaker 1: great situation deep in Eagles territory, setting up for the score.
Speaker 1: And these are the things that I'm sure they talked
Speaker 1: about all week not wanting to happen, not allowing to happen,
Speaker 1: focusing in on not beating themselves, and to still come
Speaker 1: out and have that happen has to be very disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think anytime you have this kind of scenario where
Speaker 1: on all three sides of the ball, you just didn't
Speaker 1: have the kind of effectiveness that you would have wanted
Speaker 1: in a division game, in a high stakes game. It's
Speaker 1: still earlier. We're not even the mid season yet, but
Speaker 1: we talked about on the Kickoff show. May I mean,
Speaker 1: this was this was a high stakes game. You know,
Speaker 1: winner goes home as first place in the NFC East
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are coming home now losers are too
Speaker 1: straight still have to go on the road next week
Speaker 1: against a five and one Buffalo team, and then you've
Speaker 1: got Chicago, who's going to be a desperate, hungry team
Speaker 1: that was in the playoffs last year coming back for
Speaker 1: revenge for last year's playoff loss. Yeah, I mean, we
Speaker 1: knew this would be a difficult part of the schedule
Speaker 1: that they would have to try to navigate through, and
Speaker 1: that lost last week in Minnesota, didn't get off to
Speaker 1: a good start with the three game road trip. I
Speaker 1: thought you would be able to bounce back going up
Speaker 1: against the struggling Dallas Cowboy team that had lost three
Speaker 1: games in a role, you know, including losing to an
Speaker 1: OH and four Jets team last week. It just didn't
Speaker 1: look like the same Cowboys team from the previous three weeks.
Speaker 1: And for the Eagles, they pretty much resembled how they've
Speaker 1: looked all year long. I mean, they've been able to
Speaker 1: overcome it at times, but you play this way every week,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your fair share games. It's just difficult
Speaker 1: to come from behind when you're on the road down
Speaker 1: by double digits early in the game. And the Eagles
Speaker 1: had been living on that tight rope all year long,
Speaker 1: really trelling in just about every game, with the exception
Speaker 1: of the Jets game. And as we wait to hear
Speaker 1: from coach Chuck Peterson and Carson Wentz on their thoughts
Speaker 1: on this game, will continue to unpack it here on
Speaker 1: the show. Guys, let's go to the trenches, because this
Speaker 1: was something Brand and I really talked about before in
Speaker 1: the in the kickoff show, that this is going to
Speaker 1: be a battle on the line of scrimmage, and let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about Eagles defensive line versus the Dallas offensive line.
Speaker 1: They had some injuries on the offensive line, but those
Speaker 1: guys were back tonight. They were healthy, and it really
Speaker 1: seemed like the Eagles defensive line. There's some injuries there
Speaker 1: at the defense of tackle position, but they really got
Speaker 1: pushed around up front. Yeah. I mean, you had three
Speaker 1: sacks I believe overall in the game, you know, and
Speaker 1: somewhere were key in the first half, and it was
Speaker 1: good to see Derek Barnett get home for that sack
Speaker 1: that helped get the Eagles the ball back, and on
Speaker 1: one score game, it was still kind of a situation
Speaker 1: where you thought, all right, let's go make something now.
Speaker 1: After that sack by Derek Barnett forces third long, Eagles
Speaker 1: get the ball back and give it back to them. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think when you look at the defensive line,
Speaker 1: I am excited. That's probably one of the big things
Speaker 1: I'm interested to go back and see tomorrow when I
Speaker 1: watched the film, is you know, what did the pressure
Speaker 1: look like? I will say this early in the game,
Speaker 1: first half, I might just chart in the game a
Speaker 1: lot of checkdowns from from Dak Prescott, so that goes
Speaker 1: back to the coverage and say, okay, so the coverage
Speaker 1: down field look good. He's forced. They're forcing checkdowns by
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I do want to go and see what
Speaker 1: the pressure looked like. I'll say this though, we talked
Speaker 1: to Amy about all the things they do schematically. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about it this week as well. Play action
Speaker 1: screen game, stacked receiver bunches made more of a quarterback
Speaker 1: friendly offense. We saw all that. The quarterback run game
Speaker 1: was prevalent for Dallas tonight, you know, and obviously Ezekieliot
Speaker 1: and what they want to do in the run game.
Speaker 1: So all of that goes to the gate. A pass rush,
Speaker 1: the ball comes out quick. You know. Those are the
Speaker 1: things where it can be a little bit tough to
Speaker 1: evaluate just watching live on TV. Yeah, I thought they
Speaker 1: did a nice job in the passing game. Listen, when
Speaker 1: you dropped back like Dallas does and you got Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott back there, it makes it difficult at times to
Speaker 1: get that pass rush there. It was a back and
Speaker 1: forth I thought between the old line and D line
Speaker 1: when it came to the pass protection. But the running
Speaker 1: game is where we struggled there. I thought Zeke was
Speaker 1: able to get too many yards on first down at times.
Speaker 1: And when you're playing a team like the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: run the ball as well as they do and we
Speaker 1: struggle in the passing game, you're gonna have to decide
Speaker 1: through your game plan what are you willing to give up?
Speaker 1: And it looked like this week they paid a little
Speaker 1: bit more attention to the passing game and helping these
Speaker 1: corners out in coverage, and the running game was going
Speaker 1: to be defended by six and seven man box and
Speaker 1: Zeke is just too good. You need an eighth man
Speaker 1: up there, and eventually he's gonna get his. And I
Speaker 1: thought tonight Dallas won the battle. As far as the
Speaker 1: run game goes. They ran the ball on as better
Speaker 1: than anybody I've seen pretty much all year. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you're looking at the statuetes, they rushed for one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty nine yards I believe one hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: of those were Ezekiel Elliott, and then the passing game
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirteen yards through the air for Dallas.
Speaker 1: But really the big number, I mean, if those numbers
Speaker 1: aren't big enough, what really jumps out to me is
Speaker 1: the first down. So they had twenty three to the
Speaker 1: Eagle sixteen brand. Yeah, and the first I mean, those
Speaker 1: rushing numbers are that's the states that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: that and that's really what this Eagles defense. They've always
Speaker 1: been able to hang their hat on being able to
Speaker 1: stop the run. In this game, that was not the case.
Speaker 1: And certainly I'm just going going through my you know,
Speaker 1: my chart here and just looking at Zeke plus seven,
Speaker 1: Zeke plus eight, Zeke plus eighteen, Yeah, Zeke plus thirteen,
Speaker 1: Zeke touchdown run. I mean it started early. It wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was all garbage time in the second half. They
Speaker 1: were able to pick up chunks of yardage on the
Speaker 1: ground early in this game. That brings up third manageable
Speaker 1: allow was going to keep moving the football, and that
Speaker 1: makes it very very tough to play defense. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really does. And and Dak probably hit two big throws
Speaker 1: to day. I mean he hit the wide open one
Speaker 1: on the double move by Mary Cooper and the other
Speaker 1: one of the Marty Cooper called that's just an outstanding catch,
Speaker 1: great coverage, and it was just one of those moments
Speaker 1: that just kind of you pick You're like, well, that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's an example of a guy going
Speaker 1: up and making a play. Yeah, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: the coverage is there and the receiver goes up and
Speaker 1: makes that play there. Um, So that's sort of what
Speaker 1: we need on our our side of the football, right,
Speaker 1: We gotta have guys come up and make Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just can't make the ordinary play. Sometimes you got
Speaker 1: to make the extraordinary play when you want to start
Speaker 1: to get your offense gone. And that's really what Dak
Speaker 1: had going for him tonight is that this guy's made
Speaker 1: a couple of big catches for him, But really it
Speaker 1: was that running game that allowed him to operate back
Speaker 1: there with really no pressure around him, especially in the
Speaker 1: play action. Like, why don't we get to your three takeaway?
Speaker 1: Since we have been taking away many things from this one,
Speaker 1: let's get to ikes three takeaways. Well, we've discussed pretty much.
Speaker 1: I mean some of them early miscues in the game.
Speaker 1: You just can't have that turn, the fumble by Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard can't have that, and then the strip sacked that
Speaker 1: Carson gave up. You know, Lane, I thought I had
Speaker 1: a tough night tonight. Back there in pass protection, DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence got his first sack against the Eagles in his
Speaker 1: career right there, setting up that touchdown. So having those
Speaker 1: early miscues, not being able to get off the field
Speaker 1: on third down, A couple of key penalties on defense
Speaker 1: put this team behind the eight ball in that first
Speaker 1: half where Dallas just pretty much controlled the clock. Key
Speaker 1: penalties on special teams too. Yeah, that was a big
Speaker 1: penalty the punt return for you know, Boston Scott brings
Speaker 1: a back pass midfield. Rudy Ford penalty on a block
Speaker 1: in the back that was it was an unnecessary penalty.
Speaker 1: There was no reason to pushing the back there, brings
Speaker 1: it back inside the fifteen. That's a forty yard swing
Speaker 1: in a two score game. It's a critical play that
Speaker 1: is hidden yardage that no one talks about. But that's
Speaker 1: four first downs for this team that has to be
Speaker 1: able to create those big plays at forty yards as
Speaker 1: an eternity. That's I mean, that's a huge, huge impact. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know on special teams that you know they weren't
Speaker 1: able to happen. And then you had a couple of
Speaker 1: kick returns as well, where the ball you know, was
Speaker 1: kicked into the end zone could have been a touchback
Speaker 1: that came out bad. Blocking whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: They get caught tackled inside to twenty and that's another
Speaker 1: again ten fifteen yards. They were talking about a big
Speaker 1: difference in the end, you know, in the end game
Speaker 1: of those drives, it adds up well, and when we
Speaker 1: look at the Eagles offense, I mean, not really able
Speaker 1: to get a lot going there as well. Friend, you
Speaker 1: didn't have I think Alshan didn't have any catches until
Speaker 1: the third quarter and you were looking kind of down
Speaker 1: those receiver stats. Z Arts didn't get anything I think
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarters. So just really unable to get
Speaker 1: anybody going in the passing game. Yeah, when you have
Speaker 1: thirty I want to say it was thirty three plays
Speaker 1: run in the in the first two and a half quarters.
Speaker 1: That's gonna happen. There's only so many balls that go
Speaker 1: around and in that kind of scenario. So I think
Speaker 1: when you look at the way that this offense operated, um,
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't able to create those big plays.
Speaker 1: They weren't able to stay on the field. You had
Speaker 1: too many penalties, you had too many Uh the turnovers
Speaker 1: obviously certainly set this team back. But look, this is
Speaker 1: this was a game that they're gonna go back and
Speaker 1: they're gonna watch this film and say, you know, from
Speaker 1: the jump, it just was not our night. Well, I
Speaker 1: know it's something. Yeah, you guys are gonna want to
Speaker 1: go back and watch the film. But I just at
Speaker 1: an initial takeaway, what were they doing so well on
Speaker 1: defense that the Eagles were not able to get really
Speaker 1: much going in the passing game, in the run game,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. The offense just wasn't able to get
Speaker 1: anything going. Yeah, mother takeaway Amy fran Is the pass
Speaker 1: protection and night I thought the best day and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys did tonight was get after Carson Wentz without having
Speaker 1: to bring extra pressure. They did at times, but for
Speaker 1: the most part they were able to get pressure on
Speaker 1: Carson with just their front four. I thought Andre up
Speaker 1: and down night with his first start over there and
Speaker 1: left tackle, and I mentioned a second ago Lane I
Speaker 1: thought struggled a little bit tonight as well. Carson Rise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Lane typically plays well against de Marcus Lawrence. But
Speaker 1: you know, DeMarcus Lawrence is a is a pro bowled
Speaker 1: defensive ends led his league in sacks, so it's no
Speaker 1: shame and giving up one or two to a guy
Speaker 1: like that. But I thought Carson was hit way too
Speaker 1: much tonight. There were times where you had coverage sacks
Speaker 1: right where he was standing there and holding the ball
Speaker 1: with no one to throw it to, and you wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to get rid of it, and they didn't,
Speaker 1: and he was hit alten tonight. So I thought the
Speaker 1: pass protection kind of failed in the night and it
Speaker 1: makes him jittery in the pocket. You know, when you
Speaker 1: start getting hit like that, you start to see ghosts.
Speaker 1: Either get get out of the pocket too soon or
Speaker 1: you're holding onto the ball too long. And I thought
Speaker 1: they disrupted his slow tonight when he was able to
Speaker 1: extend a few things just by doing what he does.
Speaker 1: But like you said, still the breakdowns with the coverage
Speaker 1: and the offensive line still as magical as he can
Speaker 1: be in that moment, Fran he could only do so
Speaker 1: much in those situations. You alluded to it earlier that
Speaker 1: you know at some point you also need guys to
Speaker 1: go up and make place for your Carson Wentz it
Speaker 1: made some great place to individually for himself to create
Speaker 1: in the backfield, but you also need guys to come
Speaker 1: up with some big players the back end for you
Speaker 1: as well. It takes two to tango. You know, we've
Speaker 1: started watching, you know, Sunday night game, so we get
Speaker 1: to watch the one o'clock games. We watched the four
Speaker 1: o'clock games. You see up and down the league teams
Speaker 1: that were able to make those big plays in the
Speaker 1: passing game. The Eagles have just not been able to
Speaker 1: make them consistently enough over the last four or five games,
Speaker 1: and it's come back to hurt them for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and one guy who did make big plays when he
Speaker 1: needed to was Dak Prescott. I thought Dak when he
Speaker 1: needed to make a big throw tonight, he was able
Speaker 1: to make the throws. Really the one turnoverhead late in
Speaker 1: the game. Other than that, I thought he played a
Speaker 1: relatively clean game, didn't force many throws, was able to
Speaker 1: run the football at times as well. And he rushed
Speaker 1: for another touchdown tonight. So in a game like this,
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks are gonna have to come up big. And
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, Carson didn't get the help they
Speaker 1: needed to be able to come up big tonight, and
Speaker 1: Dak got the help that he needed to be able
Speaker 1: to come up big. Starting with an effective running game.
Speaker 1: When you rush for over one hundred and eighty yards,
Speaker 1: that's gonna make life easy for your quarterback back there, Fran,
Speaker 1: let's go back and reflect on your key to the game.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're gonna want to watch the film kind of
Speaker 1: dive in a little bit more. But I first glance,
Speaker 1: how do you evaluate? That was gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: one to off the initial evaluation, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: just the communication in the secondary being able to handle
Speaker 1: all the different things that the Dallas offense was going
Speaker 1: to throw at them. I will say I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of those stacked receiver sets, So Dallas, you know,
Speaker 1: stay true to what they had been doing over the
Speaker 1: course of the first six games, and you know that's
Speaker 1: stacking receivers, that shifts motions little a lot of variety
Speaker 1: with the formations, a lot of play action obviously the
Speaker 1: run game, in the screen game, we saw a lot
Speaker 1: of two back sets from them, So they kept things,
Speaker 1: but you know, multiple they did. They tried to attack
Speaker 1: the Eagles in a lot of different ways and they
Speaker 1: were able to have success. So tough for me to
Speaker 1: say exactly how they did for me. I think one
Speaker 1: of the big things too is you know, you look
Speaker 1: into this and say, all right, if you're the Eagles, again.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug Peterson said it earlier this week, and
Speaker 1: it's tough to say it when you're in a game
Speaker 1: like this where you lose by you know, twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: A few plays early in the game completely outweigh and
Speaker 1: say and send the game going spiraling into a different way.
Speaker 1: You say, if you don't fumble that opening drive, like
Speaker 1: where's this team at? If you don't give up the
Speaker 1: stack fumble, like, where's this team at? It's it's frustra
Speaker 1: But that's that's football. That's exactly what the NFL is
Speaker 1: on a week to week basiness. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that that ripple effect is from those early turnovers and
Speaker 1: you get down fourteen nothing, Now you have to scrap
Speaker 1: your game plan because now you're in catchup mode. And
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what they were in from what ten
Speaker 1: minutes to go in that first quarter when Dallas went
Speaker 1: up by fourteen. At that point, you basically are just
Speaker 1: in a throw throw, throw, throw, throw mode, and it
Speaker 1: makes it easy for a defense to sit back and
Speaker 1: and sort of divide, i mean, disguise what they want
Speaker 1: to do, bring an extra pressure of times dropping guys
Speaker 1: back off in coverage because they know you have to
Speaker 1: throw the ball to try to catch back up. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think the turning point was for this game.
Speaker 1: We'll start with you like, well, I think the early turnover.
Speaker 1: I think when you when you're on a road like that,
Speaker 1: and Doug decided to take the ball to try to
Speaker 1: get this team off to a fast start. Um, and
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over on that opening drive, man,
Speaker 1: that is deflating. And for the home team to have
Speaker 1: something like that happened early in the game, it just
Speaker 1: energizes that crowd. It gives that whole team life over there.
Speaker 1: And I thought Dallas was able to ride that wave
Speaker 1: of energy for the entire first half, and so they
Speaker 1: sort of fell asleep in the third quarter and then
Speaker 1: picked it back up. About it, it was just too late.
Speaker 1: Once you turn the ball over like that early in
Speaker 1: the game, it's hard to overcome. Remind me of the
Speaker 1: playoff game we had back in two thousand against the Giants.
Speaker 1: I mean, we went up there opening kickoff, they took
Speaker 1: it to the house for a touchdown and we never recovered.
Speaker 1: We never recovered from it. Crowd was into the game,
Speaker 1: and once you have something like that happened to you
Speaker 1: early the first thing you say to yourself is, man,
Speaker 1: here we go again. Here we go again. So it
Speaker 1: becomes deflating for you as well, because you've told yourself
Speaker 1: all week, I'm gonna do this, right, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1: We gonna make sure we do this on the first drive.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug is preparing to get that ball on
Speaker 1: the opening drive because the Dallas wins the toss, they're
Speaker 1: gonna defer to the second half, so they know they
Speaker 1: had a pretty good chance of having that ball coming out.
Speaker 1: And to have that happen on the opening drive, it's deflating.
Speaker 1: And sorry, Doug does that to try and set the tone. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it's set the tone going the other way.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the you know what if they go
Speaker 1: you know, we'll say six, seven and out and you
Speaker 1: putt and you pin them into the inside the fifteen,
Speaker 1: you feel good about it. That's fine, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you live and you play play in the next series.
Speaker 1: But to turn the ball over on the fifth play
Speaker 1: of the game and give them the ball inside the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line, that gets you going the other way.
Speaker 1: Then you get back and you give it away on
Speaker 1: your second player the next drive, it's really tough to
Speaker 1: bounce back. That's the killer. And I'm telling you, I've
Speaker 1: been on teams where you struggle to get out of
Speaker 1: your way and get out of your own way, and
Speaker 1: when something like that happens early, it's just human nature
Speaker 1: that you're in the back of your hair. You said, Man,
Speaker 1: here we go again. We can't do And it's just
Speaker 1: it's just human nature. When you don't have the positive
Speaker 1: reinforcement coming from positive plays and things that you're doing
Speaker 1: well out there, that stuff just starts to creep in
Speaker 1: your hand and it festers. And the Eagles got to
Speaker 1: find a way to get off to faster starts. And
Speaker 1: I know it seemed like we say this every week.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, we have said it every week
Speaker 1: because it applies. Because it applies every week, man, And
Speaker 1: and to have that go down like that, man, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just difficult to overcome when you're on the
Speaker 1: role like that. I did. I did want to give
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard some credit for having that yet a touchdown
Speaker 1: and um, you know, getting that place one touchdown there
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Of course, we're waiting to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson he is about to approach the
Speaker 1: podium to dissect this loss to Dallas. I'm sure coach
Speaker 1: is going to have a lot to say about the
Speaker 1: confidence he has in his team and always his goal
Speaker 1: to go one and oh this week here comes coach Peterson. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you uh defect you're overconfident? No, not at all.
Speaker 1: Do you regret um, voicing your confidence earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: and nope, do not. Just felt like, you know, I
Speaker 1: had a lot of confidence in this football team, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of trust, a lot of faith
Speaker 1: in the guys, had a good week of preparation. Um,
Speaker 1: and and quite honestly, I just you know, Um, after
Speaker 1: a game like this, we all have to kind of
Speaker 1: step back, look in the mirror, especially myself. Starts with
Speaker 1: me and um, this is one of those games that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I take personal from that standpoint. We didn't
Speaker 1: play well and that's that's that's personal on me. So, um,
Speaker 1: I gotta get that fixed. Something similar last week. What
Speaker 1: can you say about the team? They just look unprepared tonight. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if turning the ball over is unprepared,
Speaker 1: but um, that that's that's we can't do that we
Speaker 1: can't start the game that way. You know, we had
Speaker 1: two fumbles to start the game, which led to fourteen points.
Speaker 1: That's hard against good football teams. That's hard. You can't
Speaker 1: do that, you know, mistackles, things like that. There's just
Speaker 1: things that we look at that uh. Um, we have
Speaker 1: to fix and we gotta fix them in a hurry. Um.
Speaker 1: And and we'll take a hard luck, you know, hard
Speaker 1: look at that in the next couple of days. What
Speaker 1: happened on the deep ball to Nelson where it looked
Speaker 1: like maybe if you had laid out you have a
Speaker 1: chance to catch it. He explain that, Or to do
Speaker 1: you have any perspective all? And what happened on that play?
Speaker 1: We just missed what was on one behind the decisions
Speaker 1: one third, one second quarter. You guys run the ball, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have runs. We have we have runs in that
Speaker 1: in that situation. Yeah. I I I elected to run
Speaker 1: the football. Didn't check her. Yeah, I called the run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I thought we could. They're gonna play a soft
Speaker 1: zone defense and we run the ball. Carson wasn't able
Speaker 1: to get very comfortable all night. What did you think
Speaker 1: of the protection tonight? Um, it's gotta get better. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a good pass rush, though, I give them credit,
Speaker 1: it's a really good pass rush. So we have to
Speaker 1: do our part. We had. We got to you know,
Speaker 1: be critical of ourselves. We gotta get better there and
Speaker 1: and uh improved that's uh can't. Can't you know, let
Speaker 1: our quarterback get hit that many times? Second quarter they
Speaker 1: had You guys had a third and seven they plait
Speaker 1: stop age with a cornerback. Uh, we missed the protection,
Speaker 1: just missed the question. Um. Yeah, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that go into that. It could have
Speaker 1: been the back. Um until I see the film and
Speaker 1: actually see where the call was made. Um, it could
Speaker 1: be a combination a couple of things. You had said
Speaker 1: at the start of last week, we're gonna go down there,
Speaker 1: We're gonna win. Had you seen anything leading up to
Speaker 1: this game over those next six days to suggest a
Speaker 1: performance like this might be ahead. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: I thought. I thought the guys were you know, you know,
Speaker 1: preparing themselves to come down here and and and and
Speaker 1: do that. Um. Give give Dallas credit. You know, they
Speaker 1: said they had a great game plan and they they
Speaker 1: flat out beat us. It's just the worst losses you've
Speaker 1: been here. It's either one or two. Yes, does something
Speaker 1: have to change if you lose two games by at
Speaker 1: least eight two points? In our own what has to
Speaker 1: change is we gotta roll our sleeves up and go
Speaker 1: to work. We gotta figure out what's Uh, you know
Speaker 1: what's going on. We got ninety games left. Um, it's
Speaker 1: gonna start with me. I'm gonna I'm gonna own this one,
Speaker 1: you know, for the football team. Um, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: hard for the next couple of days. But uh, we
Speaker 1: got the guys in the locker room to get it fixed.
Speaker 1: I know that. And I still have a lot of
Speaker 1: faith in them, a lot of trust, and uh, we'll
Speaker 1: get it fixed talented enough. Yes, why do you believe that?
Speaker 1: Because you see you see signs of it, you see
Speaker 1: glimpses of it. Um, you know, obviously we're injured, and
Speaker 1: we got some guys that they're they're missing, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't use that as an excuse. And
Speaker 1: and uh, I do feel like we got enough talent
Speaker 1: on this football team to to get the job done
Speaker 1: over thirty backs. You know, I look at it, and
Speaker 1: and uh I also gotta you know, I can't I
Speaker 1: can't put it all. I can't put it all on
Speaker 1: the defense. You know, the turnovers, Um, you give you
Speaker 1: give you give Dallas a short field like that. You know,
Speaker 1: teams are really teams are gonna score anyway. I mean
Speaker 1: that's just, uh, that's just what happens in this league.
Speaker 1: And so it's everybody. It's not just not just one unit. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's the thing that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we have to look at here in the next couple
Speaker 1: of days and and get it fixed in a hurry.
Speaker 1: Did the gab a catch in the first three quarters?
Speaker 1: Targeted once? What did they do scheme wise to take
Speaker 1: him out of it? Um, it wasn't. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of stuff they did. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they played their defense like like we thought. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the protection broke down, so Carson couldn't
Speaker 1: really set his feet and deliver the football to him.
Speaker 1: But I thought Zach did make makes a couple of
Speaker 1: tough catches, uh, you know in this game. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, something we'll have to evaluate and look at.
Speaker 1: You ran rent all lot eleven of your first seven
Speaker 1: team plays, Um, Jordan had some success. Was that the
Speaker 1: plan going in? Did anything change after the first two
Speaker 1: turnovers and turns you play call well as far as
Speaker 1: running the ball, um, you know, we felt like we
Speaker 1: had a good run plan. Um, there were some uh,
Speaker 1: there were some kills in there. Uh, you know for
Speaker 1: the quarterback to get to um you know, Um, you
Speaker 1: can't listen you fall down fourteen nothing, something's got to
Speaker 1: get you know, something's got to change and and and
Speaker 1: it kind of takes you out of your rhythm a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um, put a drive together, scored, got ourselves
Speaker 1: back in it. But uh, you know, we just couldn't
Speaker 1: couldn't seem to catch up. You tried different ways last
Speaker 1: week to wake up this team, motivating this team. What
Speaker 1: more can you do? How do you get it across
Speaker 1: to this team? Well, you know, listen, obviously it starts
Speaker 1: with me. And when you wake up and coming into
Speaker 1: the building every day. You got to come there ready
Speaker 1: to work, ready to prepare and um, and and it's
Speaker 1: with everybody. It's just not you know, you're not pointing
Speaker 1: to finger one one group or one person. It's everybody.
Speaker 1: It's it's me included and um, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: the message. That's just the message that we got to
Speaker 1: continue to prepare like we've been doing, put in the
Speaker 1: hard work, put in the time, you know, uh, and
Speaker 1: and get ourselves ready for another game. Correlation between this
Speaker 1: loss and a lack of motivation or a lack of preparedness. No, No,
Speaker 1: I feel like the guys were well prepared coming into
Speaker 1: this game. You know again, I've said it about three
Speaker 1: times already that they were they were prepared. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, you can't turn the ball over like
Speaker 1: we did. I mean that just flat out the bottom line,
Speaker 1: and games like this, you can't turn the ball over
Speaker 1: and give give good teams field position inside the fifty,
Speaker 1: inside the twenty and expect to win a football game.
Speaker 1: So to me, that's not not necessarily being being prepared.
Speaker 1: There there are other factors, and so from where you stand,
Speaker 1: what's the biggest problem. It starts with me. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna own this one. This is to be this one
Speaker 1: will be on me. Okay, coach saying it starts with me,
Speaker 1: which is what he has been saying and true to
Speaker 1: true to form. Their taking responsibility as a head coach
Speaker 1: should really surprising to me to hear him say this
Speaker 1: is the number one or number two worst loss since
Speaker 1: I have been here obviously taking this one pretty hard.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, can't turn the ball over that many times
Speaker 1: and expect to win. It's a problem that has played
Speaker 1: the Eagles this season. As a player, what do you
Speaker 1: do to correct this? Obviously you weren't playing but right,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I know it's something that the players
Speaker 1: are conscious of. I mean, obviously Dallas Godda doesn't want
Speaker 1: to turn the ball over right there, but he's trying
Speaker 1: hard to continue to fight for yards and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: those are the type of things that happens to teams
Speaker 1: when you can't get out of your own weight. It's
Speaker 1: just things like that that happened. Even the extra effort
Speaker 1: plays turn out to be bad plays for you. And
Speaker 1: that's really what happened right there on Dallas with Dallas
Speaker 1: got her there, the one with Carson. I mean, nothing
Speaker 1: really you can do right there. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: get better pass protection and try to get the ball
Speaker 1: out Quaker, But when the ball is exposed like that,
Speaker 1: doesn't take a whole lot for that defender to reach
Speaker 1: around there and knock the ball loose there. The one
Speaker 1: where he he didn't even may have took it, may
Speaker 1: have taken his eyes off the ball on the fumbled snap.
Speaker 1: You know that one. That was a difficult one to
Speaker 1: see right there, because he's typically pretty good with that
Speaker 1: and that's just a classic case where he took his
Speaker 1: eyes off the ball. It was a good snap, hit
Speaker 1: him right in the chest. Can't have that the interception.
Speaker 1: I think it's just something as a result of trying
Speaker 1: to make something happen forcing the ball there. Didn't see
Speaker 1: the defender there. And again, when you get down by
Speaker 1: as many points as they were down, a defense is
Speaker 1: just sitting back waiting on you to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: They're shitting back in those zones and they're reading your
Speaker 1: eyes as a quarterback. And when these receivers Carson these,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's typically gonna go to Alishan or Zach
Speaker 1: or Dallas got it. So the deepest knows that as well.
Speaker 1: And they're keying in on Alishan on that play. You
Speaker 1: got a robber in the hole right there who's able
Speaker 1: to pick him off. So, um, those are just things
Speaker 1: that happen when you're pressing, when you're trying to make
Speaker 1: something happen, as opposed to just allowing the players to
Speaker 1: come to you. Uh. Typically that's what happens you You
Speaker 1: typically force something bad to happen when you're sort of
Speaker 1: pressing the issue. Yeah, uh to me, I think you know,
Speaker 1: the turnovers are tough. We're I was actually I was
Speaker 1: texting back and forth with Ben Fennel about it. You know,
Speaker 1: it helps me out Eagles game planning with Eagle in
Speaker 1: the sky and we're talking about, all right, how we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this for tomorrow, and he's like, you know, turnovers,
Speaker 1: Like what is there talking? Like, are we're gonna break
Speaker 1: down like four points of ball security? Like there's there's
Speaker 1: only so much that you know, even that the coaches
Speaker 1: can can talk about it with these guys with like
Speaker 1: they all know what it takes to protect the football
Speaker 1: and not fumble the football. I mean they've learned that
Speaker 1: since Pop Warner forever, you know, So it's not it's
Speaker 1: nothing new that they've never heard before. There's not some
Speaker 1: magic wand they can kind of wave over it. It's
Speaker 1: just like they have to take better Carol football. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: When from the perspective of the defense, when you are
Speaker 1: playing from behind and you're in a hole that fast,
Speaker 1: how does it change things for a defense? It's difficult
Speaker 1: because now the coach is limited as to what he
Speaker 1: can do, you know, and when the Cowboys are getting
Speaker 1: the ball and moving it the way they were on
Speaker 1: first down and second down, now you can't be aggressive
Speaker 1: and when because you don't want to leave single coverage
Speaker 1: out there with a Marii Cooper and Michael Gallup. The
Speaker 1: difficult part is when an offense can have it either way,
Speaker 1: when they can run the ball well and hit you
Speaker 1: with the pass, your defense is basically on their hills,
Speaker 1: and to get two turnovers from the offense then early
Speaker 1: in the game and have your back against the wall
Speaker 1: there early in the game. I mean, the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: really were on the hills all night from that point on.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just hard to overcome that. When you
Speaker 1: got players like that on that side of the ball
Speaker 1: that are playmakers and Amari Cooper and Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: you give them a short field to work with and
Speaker 1: they're able to cash in on it. It just it
Speaker 1: puts the deepensive coordinator under a lot of stress because
Speaker 1: now he's gonna say to himself, how do I get
Speaker 1: the ball back? Am I going to gamble? Right? And
Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys going to lead they really just
Speaker 1: want to eat up the clock as best they can,
Speaker 1: and it put Jim, put Jim's horts in a difficult
Speaker 1: position because now he's gonna be overly aggressive, and then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are taking shots down the field, especially when
Speaker 1: you have a couple of injuries there to your defensive tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're already shorthanded. Already shorthanded as well. Friend. I think
Speaker 1: you had a key stat, an interesting stat for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking at that, some of the key
Speaker 1: numbers in this game. Look at anytime you have a
Speaker 1: loss like this, you're gonna have the numbers will tell
Speaker 1: a little bit of a story. Third down, money downs, right,
Speaker 1: Eagles three for nine dollars, eight for fourteen over fifty
Speaker 1: percent conversion for the Dallas Cowboys on third down red zone.
Speaker 1: In terms of touchdown person Eagles oh for two Dallas
Speaker 1: three for five included two for two. You gift wrapped
Speaker 1: fourteen points before five minutes are up in this game. Turnovers,
Speaker 1: we talked about four to one in favor of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And then the other big one. They said
Speaker 1: this one on the broadcast. I'm assuming this number was
Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus. Chris Collinsworth said that eleven miss
Speaker 1: tackles in the first half. Yeah, like I said, you
Speaker 1: won't want to get double digits in one game. To
Speaker 1: have it in the first half, that's a tough one
Speaker 1: to swallow. So coach Peterson keeps preaching on I watched
Speaker 1: the film and these are correctable things. These are correctable things.
Speaker 1: It's the miss tackles, it's the turnovers, it's the penalties,
Speaker 1: it's things that are correctable. But it hasn't been something
Speaker 1: that they've put it all together. And uh yeah, you
Speaker 1: just see like a you know, just a lack of
Speaker 1: focus and discipline across the board. Yeah, and that's what
Speaker 1: that's what happens when your teams aren't performing well. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the reasons why you look at these things.
Speaker 1: And like Fran was saying, they certainly are conscious of it,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure throughout the week they are mindful of
Speaker 1: wanting to try to get these things turned around. It's
Speaker 1: just when you go out there on the field, now
Speaker 1: you have an opposition there and so you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to overcome that opposition and Dallas Dallas losing three games
Speaker 1: in a row, I think that they kind of clouded
Speaker 1: people's minds as to what type of team this was.
Speaker 1: But this is a team that's very talented that just
Speaker 1: hadn't played well the last three weeks, and they got
Speaker 1: their guys back tonight and they seem to put it
Speaker 1: all together. And it's it's difficult losing. It's hard to
Speaker 1: lose four straight games in this league. Eventually, you're gonna
Speaker 1: turn it around somewhere. And tonight was Dallas's night, and
Speaker 1: this game doesn't feel good, and the Eagles are sitting
Speaker 1: at three and four. Still a lot of football left
Speaker 1: to go, and I know we remind ourselves of that,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles need to remind themselves of that and
Speaker 1: get this thing turned around, because even with nine games
Speaker 1: to go, you can also lose the majority of those
Speaker 1: nine games if you don't turn this thing around. As
Speaker 1: far as getting off to faster starts, the self inflicting wounds,
Speaker 1: things of that nature, the things that we've been talking
Speaker 1: about every week. If they don't get this week, you
Speaker 1: know what you are, what you're what you're putting out
Speaker 1: there on the field. And after seven weeks, we've seen
Speaker 1: this consistently, meaning inconsistent self inflicted penalties, self inflicted miscus
Speaker 1: like fumbles and things of that nature. Man. Unfortunately, this
Speaker 1: is where you're at in the season. At the seven weeks. Oh,
Speaker 1: we knew this was going to be a tough stretch
Speaker 1: for the Eagles, and of course that this game was
Speaker 1: going to be a difficult one to win on the
Speaker 1: road at Dallas, a Dallas team that, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: then having a three game losing streak only made them
Speaker 1: more dangerous because they were going to be so desperate.
Speaker 1: And you know, kind of the criticism of them this
Speaker 1: season so far was they looked great in the first
Speaker 1: three games, but did they have a really good win.
Speaker 1: This is now a good win for them. They lost
Speaker 1: to teams that were a little bit better, and of
Speaker 1: course the Jets, which kind of you know, that one's
Speaker 1: a little bit confusing as well. But you mentioned they
Speaker 1: get those guys back, and so they are going to
Speaker 1: start clicking. The Eagles are going to get another shot
Speaker 1: at them. The division is still very much wide open,
Speaker 1: Coach Peterson saying, you know, we've got the guy in
Speaker 1: the locker room to turn it around. And that's what
Speaker 1: I'm confident in bright spots that we can look at
Speaker 1: from this one. Well, even just off what you just said.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dallas was three and five last year and
Speaker 1: then turn it around and they and they win a division.
Speaker 1: So you know, the Eagles are three and four, far
Speaker 1: from all the way out of it. But to me,
Speaker 1: if I look at this, Sarah, what are some of
Speaker 1: the bright spots some of the things that you take
Speaker 1: away and just for me that I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: tomorrow watching the film. One is going to be a
Speaker 1: play that I believe I'm gonna break down a little
Speaker 1: bit later in the show after our first commercial is
Speaker 1: the Dallas got or touchdown? We referenced it earlier. Really
Speaker 1: cool kind of alteration off a play they've been running
Speaker 1: the last few weeks that connected for a big play,
Speaker 1: So excited to dive deep into that. I thought we
Speaker 1: saw some interesting two back stuff, like with both Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders and Jordan Howard on the field together. So that'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to kind of dive into that and see
Speaker 1: exactly what they were doing from that standpoint, you know, defensively. Look,
Speaker 1: the Jalen Mills interception I thought was really good to see.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to kind of dig into the film and
Speaker 1: see exactly how Jalen looked in his bounce back from
Speaker 1: that injury. Yeah, he's one. I'm interested to Seymour and
Speaker 1: Andre Dillard as well. Any initial thoughts about how he
Speaker 1: performed in his first NFL start a rookie left tackle,
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a difficult position, especially when you're
Speaker 1: going up against those Dallas passua rushers. To me, I
Speaker 1: think if you look at rookie is going to the NFL,
Speaker 1: quarterback obviously off the toughest business to jump right in
Speaker 1: and have success after that. To me, it's offensive line
Speaker 1: and corner, the two positions where you are in uncomfortable
Speaker 1: situations moving backwards in reverse. Unnaturally you're asked to think
Speaker 1: a lot offensive line. In corner, he was putting a
Speaker 1: tough spot last week against Minnesota, and Everson Griffin watching
Speaker 1: him this week, I you know, obviously he gave up
Speaker 1: the one sack. I'm sure to go back and watch
Speaker 1: and see how he looked on film against Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: a very talented pass rusher. Yeah, baptized fire get out
Speaker 1: there for him. He got to get his feet wet
Speaker 1: at some point, and one up against a guy like
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, great test for him. I thought I thought
Speaker 1: he played well for it. Being his first game national TV.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure you're going in there having to
Speaker 1: fill in for Jason Peters. It's always pressing when you're
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft, right, I mean when
Speaker 1: you're when you're a number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested and excited to see him going forward.
Speaker 1: You know, the talent is there. He just has to
Speaker 1: get the confidence and get a little bit more experience
Speaker 1: because going up against a veteran like Robert Quinn, he
Speaker 1: has a lot of different pass rushing moves he can
Speaker 1: hit you with. Yeah, of course, Coach Peterson expressed confidence
Speaker 1: in him earlier this week. Hey, that's why we drafted him.
Speaker 1: It's hey, welcome to the league, kid. I'm watching you
Speaker 1: watch all around the NFL, and I watched, you know,
Speaker 1: the sacks from all around the league, and you see
Speaker 1: a rookie offensive lineman on the receiving end of those
Speaker 1: sacks time and time and time and time again. I
Speaker 1: go through this draft class, and you know, you see
Speaker 1: guys that were first and second round picks that I
Speaker 1: was excited about coming to the league. Use the word baptized, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I see Joan tell Or, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a top ten player in this draft, and we
Speaker 1: have gone to the top fifteen from Florida. Give up
Speaker 1: a sack or two every week, not just one game
Speaker 1: against a pro well pass rusher every week. So offensive
Speaker 1: line of very tough position, and I thought for the
Speaker 1: most part he seemed to farewell. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: what they say that the old cliche is true. The
Speaker 1: closer you are to the ball, the more developmental that is,
Speaker 1: especially at those offensive line positions. And there he is
Speaker 1: protecting Carson Wentz in his first NFL start. As we
Speaker 1: wait for QB one to take the podium, we were
Speaker 1: a few seconds away from hearing Carson Wentz his thoughts
Speaker 1: on this game, on this loss to the Cowboys tonight,
Speaker 1: Wentz completing sixty one percent of his passes. And let's
Speaker 1: take a listen, Carson, what's your level of trust in
Speaker 1: your wide receiver group at this morning. It's high, It's
Speaker 1: very high. I mean, those guys go out there game
Speaker 1: in and game out and make plays. And I feel
Speaker 1: extremely confident with them, you know, after this game and
Speaker 1: still going forward. And but at the end of day,
Speaker 1: we just gotta be better offensively. Today it was a struggle. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they played us played as well. We did not play well,
Speaker 1: so we got to correct some things and get back
Speaker 1: on to what what do you see as the biggest
Speaker 1: problem at this point. I mean, all I know is
Speaker 1: when you turn turn the ball over the first two drives,
Speaker 1: that's hard, makes it really hard. Put the defense in
Speaker 1: a bind early like that. Um, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: We can't do that. We got EXCU better. We got
Speaker 1: EXCU better early. Especially, Um, we gotta stop digging ourselves
Speaker 1: these holes and uh, you know we can get it fixed. There.
Speaker 1: Didn't look like you had a lot of time to
Speaker 1: throw them today, a lot of pressure. Was it tough
Speaker 1: having enough time? Um? You know, they had a good
Speaker 1: pass rush, good pass rush, and um, you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, we we got down early, um and made
Speaker 1: it tough on ourselves. So obviously, especially late in the game,
Speaker 1: we were we were forced to throw the ball and
Speaker 1: then you know they were painting their ears back and UM,
Speaker 1: there's things I can do better. I gotta have better
Speaker 1: pocket presents and help those guys out as well. So um,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, we just got
Speaker 1: all all be better. Seven in the second quarter, they
Speaker 1: rushed the corner off the edge on you uh, game
Speaker 1: the way it was that just a situation where you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta see him or I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta see that and make the right protection call. In
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, he threw a team to Nelson. Um
Speaker 1: did you catch it? Did you feel like the effort
Speaker 1: when the ball was there? And what did you see
Speaker 1: on the play? Well, I wish I thought we had
Speaker 1: a touchdow when I threw it, I didn't see the
Speaker 1: end result. Um, I was on the ground, so I
Speaker 1: didn't didn't get a chance to see. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I when I threw it, I thought we had had
Speaker 1: a good one there. But I gotta make a better
Speaker 1: throw obviously and hopefully get him in the end zone
Speaker 1: next time. What did they do to take Zach away today?
Speaker 1: Three quarters? He was Yeah, zero catches. They didn't really
Speaker 1: do anything unusual. Honestly, they played their defense. They play
Speaker 1: it well. Um, she we barely had the ball the
Speaker 1: first half. We shot ourselves in the foot, got ourselves down,
Speaker 1: and you know, they didn't really like I said, they
Speaker 1: didn't do anything out of out of the ordinary. We
Speaker 1: just gotta, you know, stay on the field and be
Speaker 1: better early on. Especially how do you was playing the
Speaker 1: way this team starting games because Doug made the change
Speaker 1: in terms of getting the ball first, and he gets
Speaker 1: still and Bela, that sucks. It definitely sucks. It's it's
Speaker 1: something that we got to get fixed. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, we came out to moving the ball,
Speaker 1: we were doing some good things, and then the fumble happen. Um,
Speaker 1: And that stuff happens. That stuff happens, but it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: And then the next drive the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I fumbled. I gotta protect the ball better. Um, And
Speaker 1: so those things are tough. You know, it's a good defense.
Speaker 1: They made a couple of plays there early and then
Speaker 1: got us in a hole. Where's two losses. He's experienced here,
Speaker 1: where's the ring for you? I'd probably agree. I'd probably agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially back to back, the way we've played. Um,
Speaker 1: there's things we gotta fix, for sure, there's things we
Speaker 1: gotta fix. But I'm confident that we can. I'm confident.
Speaker 1: It's a long season and UM, we can get these
Speaker 1: things fixed and get get her going in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Those are fixable things. Because I've been with these guys.
Speaker 1: I've been with these guys. I know it we're all
Speaker 1: capable of I know. Um, if we all just stay together,
Speaker 1: we can we can bounce back. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: we had a rough night. At the end of the the day,
Speaker 1: we had a rough night. We're all gonna own it
Speaker 1: and move on and learn from it. Um. But again,
Speaker 1: I'm extremely confident to get this thing going in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Frustrated, UM, a little embarrassed. You know, we
Speaker 1: we we didn't show up. We didn't show up. They
Speaker 1: beat the crap out of us, and we gotta be better. Um,
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm confident that will get things fixed. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a this is a ticktoff group.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna rebound from it. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm confident we'll be all right. Of course, back to
Speaker 1: back bad losses, a couple with like grumblings coming out
Speaker 1: of the locker room this week, Well we need the
Speaker 1: speculation that there's a fractured group. Um, what what do
Speaker 1: you say? I love that locker room. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in the guys, and UM, I really
Speaker 1: think that these losses obviously you never want to lose,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna pull us together, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna, um really cause us to
Speaker 1: look ourselves in the mid in the mirror individually, UM,
Speaker 1: and and take ownership of a lot of things. But
Speaker 1: I think it'll pull us together and as a family. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, the leaders got to step up and make
Speaker 1: sure everyone's in this together. And I'm confident that we'll
Speaker 1: do that. And So from where you stand, what's the
Speaker 1: biggest problem with this team right now? Execution? UM, It's
Speaker 1: hard to pinpoint one thing. Obviously, when you lose the
Speaker 1: way we did tonight, UM, execution was was poor. It
Speaker 1: was very poor on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: you know. And UM, that's a good team at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. That's that's a good football team.
Speaker 1: And when you dig yourself a hole like that, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to come out of. Early on there was
Speaker 1: it seemed more running and passing m bocus the reason
Speaker 1: for that, UM, I guess I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: actually true or not. I thought it was a pretty
Speaker 1: balanced approach, you know, we go into each each game
Speaker 1: trying to be balanced. UM. And I thought we were
Speaker 1: moving the ball effectively both through the through the air
Speaker 1: and on the on the ground. UM. And, like I said,
Speaker 1: those turnovers. Those turnovers skilled us, and you know we
Speaker 1: did get the one drive going there, Um, but then
Speaker 1: after that it was tough sledding for us. Overall. How
Speaker 1: do you feel like you played the night? You gotta
Speaker 1: be better, Um, what was the three turnovers that that
Speaker 1: can't happen. I gotta be better with that. I gotta
Speaker 1: protect the ball, um, and I gotta be better leading
Speaker 1: this team for sure. On the first drive deep past
Speaker 1: al Sean, did you want that challenge? Do you think
Speaker 1: that I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell. Um. It's always
Speaker 1: frustrating when you see a flag and then they pick
Speaker 1: it up. But I couldn't see the jumbo tron. It's
Speaker 1: ginormous above me. I can't even see what's going on,
Speaker 1: So I have no it's near here. In our graf him,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, Okay, like quarterback, like head coach, taking
Speaker 1: responsibility for this one. Frustrated, a little embarrassed. They beat
Speaker 1: the crap out of us. I admire his honesty, I
Speaker 1: admire his candor on that, and I really love that
Speaker 1: he said this is a ticked off group right now,
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably a great place for this
Speaker 1: team to be like any any reflections on what Carson
Speaker 1: had to say. I mean listening handle word like you
Speaker 1: pretty much handles it every week. And that's what a
Speaker 1: quarterback should do is pretty much put all the blame
Speaker 1: on yourself and take responsibility. That's what what good leaders do.
Speaker 1: He talked about, you know, the execution again and and
Speaker 1: you know, not getting off to a fast start, and
Speaker 1: I know, you know, you know they want to um,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, they just can't get a clicking early.
Speaker 1: You know, some of his throws were a little bit
Speaker 1: off there early in any game that you want, you
Speaker 1: like to see him sort of get those either down
Speaker 1: or get it out of his hands quicker. But you know,
Speaker 1: I thought, once you had to turnovers early in the game,
Speaker 1: it really is difficult to really stick within a game
Speaker 1: plan that's going to allow you to have a balance
Speaker 1: attack through the running game and the passing game. And
Speaker 1: once they became all throws, it's just difficult. You know,
Speaker 1: you said it best when I think when you look
Speaker 1: at at this team and it's a ticked off team
Speaker 1: right now. And the first thing I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: like was the best teams you've been on when you
Speaker 1: have a loss like this, what is that atmosphere? Like,
Speaker 1: what is that? What is it that you would want
Speaker 1: it to look like? You don't want to be in
Speaker 1: that situation, but what do you want it to look
Speaker 1: like in the locker? And then I guess the next
Speaker 1: couple of days, Well, what you hope for is that
Speaker 1: people you open that your teammates, it's quiet, and get
Speaker 1: back to work, right. You know, you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're focused. There's gonna be an edge pretty
Speaker 1: much to everyone. And those are the type of teams
Speaker 1: we played on. We lost the game. It was not
Speaker 1: fun to come to work. It just you know, it
Speaker 1: made for the weeks to be longer because practice was
Speaker 1: much harder. You know, things are different in today's NFL
Speaker 1: than it was obviously when I played. But there's enough
Speaker 1: veterans on this team that believe in each other. And
Speaker 1: this is a team that's been in the postseason the
Speaker 1: past two seasons, so they know how to dig themselves
Speaker 1: out of this hole. It's just a matter of continuing,
Speaker 1: continuing to believe in one another and don't start fingerpointing.
Speaker 1: You know, if you got to get in here and
Speaker 1: do extra film, start doing it. You know, get in
Speaker 1: here and get extra film in. If you need to
Speaker 1: get healthy to get back on the field, you need
Speaker 1: extra treatment. Start getting the extra treatment. But the biggest
Speaker 1: thing you do is you pull closer together. You know,
Speaker 1: the moment you start pointing fingers in the moment you
Speaker 1: start looking at your teammates side out and wondering, man,
Speaker 1: can't you catch the ball or can't you make a tackle,
Speaker 1: that's when things go awry, and that's when the season
Speaker 1: starts to unravel. So I think this is a group
Speaker 1: starting off with Doug as the head coach here, this
Speaker 1: is a group that typically pulls closer when things start
Speaker 1: to go bad. So they have recent history, no question
Speaker 1: to draw from, and so I think they'll be okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is kind of a consistent theme with this team,
Speaker 1: is that they don't point the fingers at each other
Speaker 1: when things are not going well. We are going to
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Speaker 1: touchdown for the Eagles in this loss to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Goddard bouncing back from fumbling early in the game, having
Speaker 1: that short memory and getting that touchdown. Here's a closer
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Speaker 1: Thanks Amy. Now let's get to that touchdown, the first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the game for the Eagles. In this game,
Speaker 1: they're down fourteen nothing, and now you're going to see
Speaker 1: really creative play call and also great execution from everybody
Speaker 1: up front. We've seen Miles Sanders, we just saw him
Speaker 1: last week score a touch down where you had him
Speaker 1: running down the seam on basically a quasi wheel route
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, and the other two routes that
Speaker 1: were complimentary was a jet sweep out of the slotsy
Speaker 1: of the jet sweep action, and you had a deep
Speaker 1: over route to hold the safety. So this is the
Speaker 1: same concept, but the Eagles have a little new twist
Speaker 1: here out of this set because you've got Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: in the backfield a split gun set. Instead of the
Speaker 1: jet suite, You're actually gonna have Jordan Howard go to
Speaker 1: the flat. That's gonna save that same kind of purpose
Speaker 1: here for this Eagles offense. Try and get the eyeballs
Speaker 1: of the linebackers into the backfield to the left side.
Speaker 1: You're still gonna get that deep over route, and you're
Speaker 1: still gonna get the wheel route from Miles Sanders. So
Speaker 1: those are the three key routes here, and the idea
Speaker 1: is you've got to beat the free safety who's in
Speaker 1: the deep middle of the field. The Dallas Cowboys are
Speaker 1: a big, single high team, a lot of Cover one,
Speaker 1: a lot of Cover three, So you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to beat this guy, the deep safety who's just
Speaker 1: off the screen. So the Eagles are hoping that they're
Speaker 1: to get a big match up here with Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: at the athletic tight end, one on one with Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh because they've seen this. The Dallas Cowboys have
Speaker 1: seen the Eagles run this play numerous times. They're at
Speaker 1: it twice last week. They've run it five or six
Speaker 1: times throughout the course of the season. So when you
Speaker 1: see Miles Sanders in the shotgun, if you're one of
Speaker 1: these linebackers, you are alert right away to the wheel route,
Speaker 1: and they were counting on that. So we're gonna let
Speaker 1: this run and you're gonna see Carson Wentz. They're gonna
Speaker 1: send Jordan Howard from left to right. He's gonna stare
Speaker 1: at that safety in the middle of the field. Make
Speaker 1: sure he's there. Take a peek at Miles Sanders the
Speaker 1: safety moves. You can see he's in no place to
Speaker 1: defend this throw. And the Eagles score touchdown over the
Speaker 1: top from Carson Wentz to Dallas Goddard. Big play to
Speaker 1: pull the Eagles within a touchdown here in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: And thanks for and great stuff as always, going a
Speaker 1: deeper dive into the game and the Rico review there.
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Speaker 1: and Jalen Mills. Jalen Mills making his return to the
Speaker 1: field after almost a year off, almost a full year
Speaker 1: off his last game October twenty eighth of last year
Speaker 1: against the Jagson London. Great to see the Green Goblin
Speaker 1: back out on the field and making plays, looking like
Speaker 1: looking like his old self out there. Ike, It's good
Speaker 1: to see Jayon back out there. Great to see him
Speaker 1: get an interception in his first game, So I guess
Speaker 1: he would get my vote. Although Derek Barnett, I thought,
Speaker 1: I mean that sack guy. Oh yeah, that was pretty
Speaker 1: big early in the game. Yeah. I think Mills has
Speaker 1: you know the play, but he also has you know
Speaker 1: the story. Swears the bank collar yea a lot. Yes,
Speaker 1: one of the bright spots, something for the Eagles to
Speaker 1: build on as they move forward. Um, let's take a
Speaker 1: look ahead, we uh as we wrap up this show.
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll be back here next week to discuss
Speaker 1: the matchup with the Bills, the third and final game
Speaker 1: of this three game road trip. Here, um the five
Speaker 1: and one Bills ike, which is not something I thought
Speaker 1: I would say. Though. They don't really have a win
Speaker 1: against a good team, so that record is a little
Speaker 1: deceiving there. They beat the Dolphins, they beat the Bengals,
Speaker 1: they beat the Jets, the Giants loss to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So what do you see from this? They are much improved.
Speaker 1: I want to give them some credit on that, but
Speaker 1: they do not have a good win. What do you
Speaker 1: see from this matchup? Very good defense. Buffalo has. You
Speaker 1: know Sean McDermott. We're very familiar with coach McDermott, being
Speaker 1: a former Eagles coach and a former Carolina defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen quarterback, runs around a lot, can make plays
Speaker 1: with his legs. But they like to win with their
Speaker 1: defense and they don't give up a ton of points.
Speaker 1: They don't mind playing games, you know, seventeen thirteen, nineteen
Speaker 1: to sixteen. They try to take care of the ball
Speaker 1: and force you into making mistakes. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: in a tough game today versus Miami, and then Miami
Speaker 1: just started turning the ball over, and that's what Buffalo
Speaker 1: relies on, is that defense. They aren't going to take
Speaker 1: a lot of chances with the young quarterback up there
Speaker 1: because he's still learning a position, but that is a
Speaker 1: tough place to go up there and plays as a team.
Speaker 1: That'll be another tough road game, but a game I
Speaker 1: think that's winnable. A game I think that's winnable. I
Speaker 1: think this would be the best offense other than the
Speaker 1: Patriots that the Jets, I mean that the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: have faced. Yeah, absolutely, And yeah, I think low scoring
Speaker 1: is kind of their mode. That defense loaded with talent
Speaker 1: that they have slowly acquired through several drafts, and they're
Speaker 1: really starting to put it altogether there. If you're the Eagles,
Speaker 1: you're on this flight home, you're looking ahead to Buffalo. Now,
Speaker 1: what is the mentality to flush this one, look ahead
Speaker 1: and kind of finish this little road stretch strong? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got two straight weeks of losses, right,
Speaker 1: so this one is hurting a little bit more. Knowing
Speaker 1: it was on national TV. The way the game unfolded,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought Carson summed it up pretty well
Speaker 1: that you know, they felt like they got embarrassed tonight
Speaker 1: and didn't show up. So that's how the majority of
Speaker 1: the team is going to fill after a loss like this.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I don't even know if I would watch
Speaker 1: much of the film of this game, because not a
Speaker 1: whole lot went right tonight, and you kind of want to,
Speaker 1: you know, get this thought out of your mind and
Speaker 1: get focused on Buffalo as quickly as possible. So I
Speaker 1: would imagine those guys will being here tomorrow looking at film,
Speaker 1: trying to get this Cowboys game and this taste out
Speaker 1: of their mouth, trying to get to Buffalo as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, went saying well said in my opinion
Speaker 1: that it's a ticked off group there. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: going to be a really interesting environment around here at
Speaker 1: the Novacare Complex throughout the week. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of good content on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and
Speaker 1: all the platforms, so you're gonna want to follow us
Speaker 1: all week long leading up to that game. And of
Speaker 1: course we will be right back here as always a
Speaker 1: half hour before kickoff. That'll be twelve thirty pm on Sunday,
Speaker 1: as the Eagles are on the road at Buffalo. We
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