Speaker 1: Welcome to the postgame Show, presented by Rico Chris McPherson
Speaker 1: alongside Ike Reese. This is as depressing as demoralizing a
Speaker 1: loss that the Eagles have incurred in quite some time.
Speaker 1: Head seventeen to three in the third quarter, the Eagles
Speaker 1: allowed the Tennessee Titans to come back, storm back with
Speaker 1: seventeen unanswered points. The Eagles were able to rebound to
Speaker 1: get a field goal descended to overtime. Jake Elliott put
Speaker 1: the Eagles up by three in overtime. So up twenty
Speaker 1: to seventeen, Ike, you figure the Eagles are in prime position.
Speaker 1: They've been winning these close games all season long, starting
Speaker 1: with the Thursday night kickoff special against the Falcons and
Speaker 1: then last week against the Colts, where it took a
Speaker 1: hail Mary at the end to finally put the Colts away.
Speaker 1: So Eagles up three in overtime, and let's just go
Speaker 1: through the plays real quick. Titans get fourth and fifteen,
Speaker 1: Taiwan Taylor gets a first down conversion. Mariota faced with
Speaker 1: a fourth and fourth situation, Sidney Jones commits a past
Speaker 1: interference penalty a third and nineteen, Mariota scrambles and make
Speaker 1: it fourth and short, and the Titans thought about going
Speaker 1: for the field goal to tie it. However, they brought
Speaker 1: back Mariota on the field and he dumps off a
Speaker 1: screen pass to Dean Lewis to get the first down,
Speaker 1: and of course, the touchdown pass to Corey Davis, who
Speaker 1: had explosive plays all throughout the course of the game,
Speaker 1: to give the Tennessee Titans a twenty six to twenty
Speaker 1: three win in overtime over the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles
Speaker 1: drop to two and two on the season. We're going
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach Doug Peterson, quarterback Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: and will have plenty of reaction in the next hour
Speaker 1: or so. Ike your initial thoughts on a tough day
Speaker 1: for Eagles fans, especially when you lean on this defense
Speaker 1: to come through in big situations like this, especially on
Speaker 1: the road, and they don't get the job done. Well.
Speaker 1: You know, Chris planning in this league for nine years,
Speaker 1: watching this game for a long time, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna plan enough of these close ball games that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get your fair amount of wins, but you're also
Speaker 1: going to take some tough losses. And the Eagles through
Speaker 1: four weeks this season, have found themselves in these tight
Speaker 1: games where they've had to come up with big stops
Speaker 1: late in the game, and to their credit, they've been
Speaker 1: able to walk away with the w twice. But today
Speaker 1: they were bitten and it was just far too many
Speaker 1: mistakes at the end of the game. You mentioned a
Speaker 1: lot of the crucial down in distant situations where they're
Speaker 1: in the eagle's favor but for whatever reason, they can't
Speaker 1: find their way off the field orbit whether it's a
Speaker 1: holding penalty or you know, being where it's third and nineteen,
Speaker 1: fourth and nineteen and Marcus thirty nineteen, Marcus marriol To
Speaker 1: scrambles for seventeen yards and really puts themselves in a
Speaker 1: position to decide to go for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: Gotta give Mike Raybell a lot of credit. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches at home in that situation, the
Speaker 1: field goal fourth and two. But in today's game, and
Speaker 1: you probably got Doug Peterson the thank for this, and
Speaker 1: in today's game, coaches are going for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many rules other than advantageous
Speaker 1: for offenses that you're almost better off taking a shot
Speaker 1: at it, especially in a fourth and two situations. So
Speaker 1: the Eagles just confined themselves a way to get off
Speaker 1: the field late in the game to sort of seal
Speaker 1: this victory. Way too many mistakes. Defense once again sort
Speaker 1: of jekoin hidish on the road versus being at home.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about explosive plays. You know, this
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans offense, this is the best they've looked all
Speaker 1: season long. I mean not They had two touchdowns coming
Speaker 1: into this game. In three games they had scored two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So this offense was pedestrian. Um, you're talking about Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariola with a banged up hand. Um. They showed early
Speaker 1: that they were going to throw the ball. So if
Speaker 1: the Eagles had any inclination that they were gonna come
Speaker 1: in here and focus on stopping the run, the Titans
Speaker 1: didn't even try to really run the football today. They
Speaker 1: decided they were going to attack this secondary and there
Speaker 1: were big plays to be had all day. Eagles fortunate
Speaker 1: a couple of times, even on that final drive that
Speaker 1: they eventually got scored on, the Titans had somebody wide
Speaker 1: open down the middle. He dropped the ball. Yeah that
Speaker 1: right there should have been the ball. Gave me figure
Speaker 1: that this young team trying to emerge should have been
Speaker 1: able to not overcome that they did. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: able to. I mean, and they had several of those
Speaker 1: plays where they dropped the ball. Mean Corey Davis who
Speaker 1: caught the game winning touchdown, he had at least three
Speaker 1: drops today that would have resulted in big plays for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans offense. You just look at this defensive
Speaker 1: hours and we got to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: tighten up our coverage. You know, uh that you can't
Speaker 1: rely on the pass rush all the time to get
Speaker 1: there to the quarterback and get sacks. With a guy
Speaker 1: like Marcus Mariota, who has athleticism, who has the ability
Speaker 1: to move around extend plays with his legs, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have your secondary hold up. And through three
Speaker 1: games or two games on the road, I should say
Speaker 1: we've been shredded through the secondary. I mean, Marcus Mariota
Speaker 1: over three hundred and forty four yards passing, Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? He guys probably hasn't thrown for that many
Speaker 1: yards in two years, you know, almost seventy percent completion percentage.
Speaker 1: Like it was just too easy for the Titans passing
Speaker 1: a one point all right, Mariota had the interception late
Speaker 1: in the first half, picked up by Vonte Max, led
Speaker 1: to three points for the Eagles. Mariota completed his next
Speaker 1: fifteen passes. There was not incompletion until overtime. The entire
Speaker 1: second half, Mariota was perfect and that's why. Look when
Speaker 1: the Eagles got ahead with that Alshon Jeffrey touchdown and
Speaker 1: took the seventeen to three lead, I said, this was
Speaker 1: exactly where the Eagles need to be because the Titans
Speaker 1: have not shown the explosive playmaking ability, the ability to
Speaker 1: come up with those chunk yardage plays in order to
Speaker 1: come back in a shootout type gate. I mean, they
Speaker 1: beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, to their credit, but they wanted
Speaker 1: by a score of nine to six. Okay, this team
Speaker 1: has just been finding ways to win. And you figure
Speaker 1: if the Eagles get up early, especially on the road
Speaker 1: where they have the bug a boo about, you go
Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay game, you go back to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl of last year. The defense has not been
Speaker 1: the same on the road, so you figure seventeen three,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: You're putting the ball in Mario's hands That's exactly what
Speaker 1: the Eagles want to come into this game. But as
Speaker 1: you said, Ike, the Titans game planned to say, we
Speaker 1: can't rely on the run. The Eagles have the best
Speaker 1: run defense in football. We're not gonna win with the
Speaker 1: ground game. Quite honestly, it seemed like every time the
Speaker 1: Titans offense got into a rhythm, you know, with Dion Lewis,
Speaker 1: with Taj Sharp, with Taywan Taylor, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they would give the ball Derek Henry and they would
Speaker 1: set themselves back. Yeah, Okay, that seemed like they the
Speaker 1: one bugaboo for the Titans offensively. It was every time
Speaker 1: they gave the ball at Derek Henry, that's what slowed
Speaker 1: them down. So they put the hand the ball in
Speaker 1: the hands of their playmakers and they were able to
Speaker 1: come back take the lead. And again, look the Eagles
Speaker 1: found a way to fight back. Okay. DeAndre Carter had
Speaker 1: the amazing punt return forty one yards put them inselves
Speaker 1: in position for the Jake Elliott field goal that sent
Speaker 1: into overtime. Jgi Wendell Smallwood move the ball methodagally and
Speaker 1: overtime got the field goal. You figured, Okay, the Eagles
Speaker 1: bounced back, they got the lead in overtime. Again, let's
Speaker 1: give it to the defense, Let's put on their shoulders
Speaker 1: and let them bring home the victory and come back
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia three and one. But that was not the case.
Speaker 1: As again, the Eagles got Mariote in down in distant
Speaker 1: situations that were advantageous for the Eagles, and they were
Speaker 1: just not able to seal the deal. It's just gonna
Speaker 1: come down to one play, and this is the type
Speaker 1: of game we're at the end of the year. However
Speaker 1: the Eagles finished, this is the one they're gonna be
Speaker 1: kicking themselves in. Okay, because the difference between three and
Speaker 1: one at the quarter pole verse two and two, it's massive.
Speaker 1: Dallas one. Today they rallied to beat the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are two and two. So as much as everyone's
Speaker 1: making fun of Dallas and the offensive struggles there with
Speaker 1: big d third two and two and right there with
Speaker 1: the Eagles, so as much as the Eagles have been
Speaker 1: able to scrape by, they're at that same mark right now.
Speaker 1: Three and one. Two and two is such a huge difference,
Speaker 1: and you're just digging yourself a hole and making much
Speaker 1: tough for as you get into the meat of the schedule,
Speaker 1: which which is gonna be very tough beginning next week
Speaker 1: with a rested Vikings team that's they're gonna be. Their
Speaker 1: season is should be on life support. Life support at
Speaker 1: this point. Okay, they need to come with the whip.
Speaker 1: So the bottom line the area is the Eagles digging,
Speaker 1: digging themselves a hole and not able to get a
Speaker 1: win in a very winnable game on the road today
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. So Ike, we'll go through. Let's go through
Speaker 1: your your three takeaways. And I think you kind of
Speaker 1: touched on the one already with the past defense. Just
Speaker 1: what have you seen differently from when the Eagles are
Speaker 1: at home as compared to one they're on the road. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously you got the crowd noise behind you. When you're
Speaker 1: playing at home, they're feeding off the energy of Lincoln
Speaker 1: Financial Field. That sometimes can rattle quarterbacks when you come
Speaker 1: in here and makes it hard for them to communicate,
Speaker 1: and the defensive line they get a chance to pin
Speaker 1: their errors back. So that's certainly an advantage for the
Speaker 1: Eagles when they're playing at home. It just seems like
Speaker 1: when they're playing on the road, we don't play as
Speaker 1: aggressively from a secondary start, We're not We're not necessarily
Speaker 1: getting up challenging these wide receivers, fighting them for the
Speaker 1: football at the point of attack. You know, when the
Speaker 1: ball is there, fifty fifty balls, you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to get the get the ball out of the wilde
Speaker 1: receiver's hands. And it just doesn't seem like our secondary
Speaker 1: is very good at doing that, and particularly our corners.
Speaker 1: And when you look at whether it's Sidney Jones, whether
Speaker 1: it's Jalen Mills, or whether it's Ron Darby, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be tested. The Eagles defense is hard to
Speaker 1: run against. So some teams are coming into the game
Speaker 1: with the idea of we're not gonna even try to
Speaker 1: run the ball today, except for when we have to
Speaker 1: run the ball, we can move the ball easier through
Speaker 1: the air against this team. Tennessee average thirty three carriers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most of the NFL yeah, and said we're not gonna
Speaker 1: do that. That's their m And maybe you could say
Speaker 1: Mariota has been injured. They were down there. Their top
Speaker 1: three offensive tackles one point. But still the mL of
Speaker 1: this offense has been run the ball through Henry and
Speaker 1: Lewis through the first three games of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they take their chances throwing it up against Jalen Mills
Speaker 1: and Ron Darby, and we just we gotta take it personal, man,
Speaker 1: We gotta take we gotta take umbrush to the fact
Speaker 1: that you're not gonna keep targeting me over here. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna keep throwing the ball over here. We need
Speaker 1: to get some turnovers, You need to get interceptions, things
Speaker 1: of that nature to sort of discourage opposing teams offenses
Speaker 1: for trying you. Because they're so stout upfront with Fletcher
Speaker 1: and Hellodi Nada and Brandon and all those guys. The
Speaker 1: teams are saying the easier path to moving the football
Speaker 1: is through the air against this team. As long as
Speaker 1: we either max protect give our quarterback enough time to
Speaker 1: throw it, or we get the ball out of our
Speaker 1: hands quickly, we're gonna be able to move the chains
Speaker 1: through the air. And the Eagles have to recognize this
Speaker 1: and it's not going to get any easier each week.
Speaker 1: This is a passing league, So teams are gonna throw
Speaker 1: the football against this Eagle secondary. We saw it coming
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year and they just need to
Speaker 1: do better. I mean, they need to do better. The
Speaker 1: guys that are out there are the guys that are
Speaker 1: going to be playing. Those are your three best corners.
Speaker 1: So there isn't some sort of magic potion that Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz can go to and pluck somebody off the beach
Speaker 1: that's going to do a better job. He's playing his
Speaker 1: three best corners. And you know, i Vante Maddox is
Speaker 1: a young, up and coming guy who got a chance
Speaker 1: to get out there today and had a nice interception,
Speaker 1: had a nice play, but he also got lost in
Speaker 1: coverage and his man was wide open on a overthrow
Speaker 1: that could have ended the game and overtime as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's some things that are mixed up
Speaker 1: in the secondary. We gotta get fixed, all right. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear again. We're gonna hear from head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson and quarterback Carson Wentz and just a little
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Speaker 1: with Merrill and Mike, So we went through the first
Speaker 1: of your three takeaways. Like, and that's the explosive plays
Speaker 1: allowed by the defense. Let's go to the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball and start up front where the line
Speaker 1: just has not protected as well since the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. In my opinion, going back to when Nick
Speaker 1: Foles was a starter, today that protection was an issue
Speaker 1: once again. Yeah, officsive line protection was a huge problem
Speaker 1: for the Eagles the day and like you said, it's
Speaker 1: been that way for the last couple of weeks. Carson
Speaker 1: went since his return. Sacked nine times five last week,
Speaker 1: four more to day, hit countless other times under the rest,
Speaker 1: plenty more opportunities for Tennessee to come in there and
Speaker 1: sort of rattle Carson a little bit in the pocket.
Speaker 1: And I can't necessarily put my finger on what the
Speaker 1: exact issue is because you have all five of your
Speaker 1: guys in there, everyone's healthy. We're just not doing as
Speaker 1: good of a job as we've done in years past
Speaker 1: of protecting the quarterback. And they're too good up front.
Speaker 1: You're talking about four Pro Bowl players to all Pro players,
Speaker 1: and a Hall of Fame to be player in Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: There's no reason that the Eagles offensive lines shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing a better job of protecting their quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 1: don't care how tough Carson is. The more you hit
Speaker 1: a quarterback, the more rattled he's gonna be in the pocket,
Speaker 1: and the more that he's gonna start either getting rid
Speaker 1: of the ball too soon or holding on to it
Speaker 1: too long. That's just the effects, the cumulative effect of
Speaker 1: hitting a quarterback, and that's what defenses want to do.
Speaker 1: So offensive line need to do need to pick up
Speaker 1: their pick up their play when it comes to pass
Speaker 1: protecting list. Excuse me there, It's not just the offensive line,
Speaker 1: it's the running backs as well. When you when when when,
Speaker 1: when you're in pass protection, you're right, it's not just
Speaker 1: the offensive line who have to block. When you're getting
Speaker 1: extra rushes in there and you got either a tight
Speaker 1: end part of the protection or the running backs or
Speaker 1: part of the protection, the running backs have to be
Speaker 1: on the same page with the offensive lineman. And it
Speaker 1: started last week with the Coats. What teams are gonna
Speaker 1: do is you're gonna get four guys rushing you straight.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get these loopers, these tes and et stunts
Speaker 1: where they're trying to get you to pass defensive linemen
Speaker 1: off and confusion. They're trying to get an advantage in
Speaker 1: a one on one matchup and two often a day
Speaker 1: when Dale Smallwood was caught back there not blocking someone
Speaker 1: because he was confused on who to block and that
Speaker 1: led a free rusher to come in. So, yeah, when
Speaker 1: you're talking about pass protection, it isn't just the offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: It's the running backs that when you are a part
Speaker 1: of the protection, you must know who to pick up.
Speaker 1: What scary is with these schemes we saw it last
Speaker 1: week with the Colts. You see it again toy with
Speaker 1: the Titans. And you mentioned those loopers and those delayed
Speaker 1: blitzes and delayed rushers. That's something I think teams are
Speaker 1: going to see and say, you know, this is something
Speaker 1: Eagles not being able to handle. And you don't know
Speaker 1: whether it's a communication, if it's just not knowing the
Speaker 1: rules and responsibilities on each play. And again, like I
Speaker 1: just mentioned to you, it's not just the offensive line,
Speaker 1: it's you know, that's where I think missing Darren Sproles
Speaker 1: comes into play in a big way because he's so
Speaker 1: good in pass protection. But across the board there, you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if those five guys the stars
Speaker 1: are just playing as well as they did last season.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it takes a week, you say after
Speaker 1: the Colts game, it takes a little bit of time
Speaker 1: for the team to adjust to blocking for Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: But you figure Carson Wentz guy's feedback, he's adjusted to
Speaker 1: playing in the pocket all right. Now he has another
Speaker 1: week of practice with these offensive linemen. You knew you're
Speaker 1: gonna see these types of blitzes and pressures from the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans today. But the problem is, you know, once again,
Speaker 1: and actually you know, we're gonna hear from the head
Speaker 1: coach and see what the issue was himself. Let's set
Speaker 1: it to Nashville. As Coach Pearson address up the media,
Speaker 1: you can say you gave a wink that you had
Speaker 1: and let go. What is the next step here, Well,
Speaker 1: it comes down to, first of all, you have to,
Speaker 1: as I said in that locker room, you have to
Speaker 1: hate this feeling more than you enjoy winning. And it
Speaker 1: comes out each guy. I'm starting with myself, and I
Speaker 1: look at myself in the mirror and make sure that
Speaker 1: I'm doing everything I can to prepare this football team
Speaker 1: for each weekend. And effort obviously is always there. And
Speaker 1: we have to we have to look at the film
Speaker 1: quite honestly, and and and it's all fixable. The things,
Speaker 1: the things that were the mistakes we're making are all fixable. Um,
Speaker 1: whether it's a you know, a coverage element being out
Speaker 1: of position or you know just uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: holding when we're on the perimeter offensively, we can't do
Speaker 1: you know, it's just things that we can correct and
Speaker 1: practice during the week. And and that's that's what we
Speaker 1: have to do. Very offense to school lead. You know
Speaker 1: this road stuff with defense. I mean we're talking about
Speaker 1: talking about exactly. Um, it's something scenario that that we've
Speaker 1: we've got to I've got to look at it this
Speaker 1: week and and uh, you know, because we are schedule
Speaker 1: is set up, we're home away, home away, so we
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna be on the road just as
Speaker 1: much as we are you know, playing at home. So um,
Speaker 1: it's something that uh, you know, we understand I think
Speaker 1: where we are as a football team. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna feel sorry for us, you know, with the
Speaker 1: injuries or you know, there's no excuses, so we don't
Speaker 1: feel sorry for ourselves. We just got to continue to
Speaker 1: work and and and keep getting better. But the last
Speaker 1: play of the first half, you run our running play
Speaker 1: with I think it's like eleven second blocks from the
Speaker 1: clock from the ten yard lines. The block process, get
Speaker 1: the first down, burn the time out, and then have
Speaker 1: maybe eight seconds to start taking shots to the end zone.
Speaker 1: Do you preach to your guys you know that penalties
Speaker 1: it's so good you address with and how frustrated these
Speaker 1: APLA gys have started it. It seems like it's in
Speaker 1: every game and really feels like you're beating yourselves in
Speaker 1: those situations. Yeah, I mean, the penalties are are are
Speaker 1: racking up and can't can't happen. We've got to we've
Speaker 1: got to eliminate those and and uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's something we do look at you know, I
Speaker 1: look at it here in the next couple of days
Speaker 1: and and uh before we get ready for the next opponent,
Speaker 1: and try to put a finger on it and just
Speaker 1: keep keep coaching the guess that's all we can do.
Speaker 1: If you just keep coaching them out of it. It
Speaker 1: seems like our hands are basic work pressure this year
Speaker 1: as he has as particularly with the Blitz. We'll give
Speaker 1: them credit. I mean, that's it's a pretty good front.
Speaker 1: We knew that going in. You know, it's a good defense. Um,
Speaker 1: so I give them a lot of credit. Number one,
Speaker 1: number two. Again, we'll look at the film, we'll make
Speaker 1: we'll make our corrections. It's a couple of guys got
Speaker 1: edged a couple of times. Uh, you know, we got
Speaker 1: to make sure that our backs and you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's a cohesiveness with that all that protection. It's not
Speaker 1: just one guy or two guys. You know, it could
Speaker 1: be could be the offensive line, could be the quarterback,
Speaker 1: could be the coverage, and so we just have to
Speaker 1: address it. And uh, um, you know, we pride ourselves
Speaker 1: and picking up the pressure, picking up the blitz, and
Speaker 1: we'll get back to that. And uh, we just as
Speaker 1: a situation again where we were just a little out
Speaker 1: of position. Um, and again credit them. It's a great
Speaker 1: play obviously, fourth and fifteen. You know. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: fixable situation obviously, and uh we'll we'll get it corrected
Speaker 1: with the whole movie parts of the defensive backfield. The
Speaker 1: last a couple of weeks, he could change this week.
Speaker 1: Uh do you expect a little bit that there's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be a growing together process for that? I
Speaker 1: think I mean a little bit. Yeah, there's gonna be.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be, um you know, some communication issues that
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta address. There's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: moving parts, moving guys around. Um. You know, it's very
Speaker 1: similar to offensively with you know the amount of injuries.
Speaker 1: You know, with the running backs and receiver group, there's
Speaker 1: moving people around and moving parts and and again it's
Speaker 1: it's something that um, you know, we'll continue to address,
Speaker 1: continue to work. We don't make excuses for it. Next
Speaker 1: man up plays and we we coach him up and
Speaker 1: getting ready. Pretty offense. Yeah, he was. He was excited
Speaker 1: to watch him play today. He was aggressive, he attacked football,
Speaker 1: kind of a spark for the offense. It was great
Speaker 1: to see him back and and uh keep him coming.
Speaker 1: Was he honest down counting to see this game goes?
Speaker 1: With how much table? I just wanted to see how
Speaker 1: the game unfolded with him, How is how he was
Speaker 1: with his you know, because he missed a couple of
Speaker 1: days there and just wanted to make sure that he was,
Speaker 1: you know, strong, you know as the game went. He
Speaker 1: felt really good as it went. As it went, CLU
Speaker 1: on the interfa over time they stopped get the man
Speaker 1: zone here? What was the issue those two situations? Well,
Speaker 1: a couple of times uh, you know again we stopped ourselves.
Speaker 1: Whether it was just execution, um, maybe a penalty back
Speaker 1: this up just to touch a sack something something negative
Speaker 1: happened um and and it just it just got us
Speaker 1: out of our rhythm. It seems like we got down
Speaker 1: there fine. Um and and the and they you know,
Speaker 1: Tennessee bowed their neck and and and kept us to three,
Speaker 1: much like our defense has done, you know for the
Speaker 1: first month of the season, you know, um and and
Speaker 1: again it's uh, you know, we pride ourselves and in
Speaker 1: the red zone obviously we've been we've been pretty good there.
Speaker 1: Um and and we just got to continue to work.
Speaker 1: Feeling loss like this, it's less likely to snowball because
Speaker 1: when you guys went through last season, doesn't have any
Speaker 1: bearing at all, has no bearing, has no bearing. Those
Speaker 1: guys in there are sick to their stomach right now,
Speaker 1: and u um, they they they take it. They take this. This,
Speaker 1: This hurts, This stings. Losses like this staying and uh um,
Speaker 1: it's something that we use is fuel for you know,
Speaker 1: our emotion and moving forward. It's uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: try to go one to know every week. That's our
Speaker 1: that's our main objective. And it starts in practice when
Speaker 1: we come back together on Tuesday. But I guess do
Speaker 1: you think that your experienced last season makes it less
Speaker 1: likely that this loss were turning into something and next
Speaker 1: week through will you get back? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not going to snowball that way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It At times it seems wavering a little bit more
Speaker 1: responsibility years when your shoulders day, I gotta get us
Speaker 1: back in the middle of the highway to ye. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, a lot of it falls on my shoulders,
Speaker 1: you know, preparing this football team during the week, mentally, physically,
Speaker 1: how we practice all of that. Um. But the one
Speaker 1: thing that that this team is has learned through resiliency
Speaker 1: and is just the ownership of just doing their jobs.
Speaker 1: Keep do simple better, you know, and and uh, just
Speaker 1: focus on their task and their job and and that's
Speaker 1: coaches and players and uh you know, um, I tell
Speaker 1: them all the time it's a you know, it's so
Speaker 1: it can be a simple game if if you keep
Speaker 1: it simple, do you eliminate turnovers, you eliminate penalties and
Speaker 1: just go execute? Um, you know. Um, And that's where
Speaker 1: we're at. The job is to be a huge problem.
Speaker 1: And then they weren't so much last year, kind of
Speaker 1: backing out, who what are your jobs? Is there anything
Speaker 1: that you can attribute the too or maybe to unsettle
Speaker 1: the position of the movie just um, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: just lack of focus at the time. You can count
Speaker 1: to a lot of things. But um, number one thing
Speaker 1: is we got to make sure we do catch the
Speaker 1: football and and uh, we just continue to work. Thanks. Thanks, yes,
Speaker 1: all right. Pearson addressing the media at Nissan Stadium in
Speaker 1: Nashville following the eagles twenty six to twenty three overtime
Speaker 1: loss to the Titans. The main takeaway from that was
Speaker 1: everything is very fixable. The goal now is just to
Speaker 1: rebound and be one and oh next week, not to
Speaker 1: allow this to linger or snowball, because again, the Eagles
Speaker 1: are not used to being in this situation where they're
Speaker 1: coming back from losses like this. You go back to
Speaker 1: last season, they lost that Week two game to the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Steamrolled through opponents on the way to that.
Speaker 1: I think it was nine straight wins they had before
Speaker 1: losing out in Seattle, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know they're in the pole position for the postseason,
Speaker 1: losing a course at regular season finale, which didn't matter
Speaker 1: when he came to standing. So the Eagles two and two,
Speaker 1: and let's get to the third of your takeaways, and
Speaker 1: Doug touched on it at the end of his press conference.
Speaker 1: Al Sean Jeffrey's return. So we've talked about the explosive
Speaker 1: plays allowed by the defense. The pass protection was by
Speaker 1: the offensive line. But the bright spot here for the
Speaker 1: Eagles is the offense getting back Alshon Jeffrey number seventeen
Speaker 1: or wasn't it great to see number seventeen out there?
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey making his twenty eighteen season debut today and
Speaker 1: he did it in a big way. Eight catches off
Speaker 1: of nine targets, got a touchdown in there, over a
Speaker 1: hundred yards receiving. This offense was missing a receiver like
Speaker 1: al Shan Jeffrey, the big play guy guy. Even when
Speaker 1: he's covered, you can still throw the ball up to
Speaker 1: him and he'll be able to go up there and
Speaker 1: get it in that fifty fifty catch radius that he has.
Speaker 1: So and in my opinion, you can tell the effect
Speaker 1: he had on the offensive passing game in general. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Mike Vrabel had zach Ertz on
Speaker 1: his Fantasy Football League team or not, because no one
Speaker 1: covers zach over the middle of the field all day.
Speaker 1: In part that's because you need to apply extra coverage
Speaker 1: to Alshan Jeffrey on the outside, so that allows zach
Speaker 1: Erst to do what he was doing in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. Even Nelson, who had twelve targets, only
Speaker 1: caught five of them, but the fact that he had
Speaker 1: twelve targets let you know that. You know Carson Wentzon
Speaker 1: is gonna spread the football around. Having a big body
Speaker 1: like Alshon Jeffrey back at his disposal is only going
Speaker 1: to help improve this offense is scoring. This was the
Speaker 1: best team in the league in the red zone. It
Speaker 1: hasn't looked that way through four games this year. They've
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit. They've scored some touchdowns, but there
Speaker 1: they too often have to settle for field goals down there.
Speaker 1: And I think as the weeks go on, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that red zone scoring touchdown percentage go up because
Speaker 1: having a big body like al Sean, along with Zach Erst,
Speaker 1: then you throw in Dallas Goddard, it's gonna be difficult
Speaker 1: for teams to defend those guys. Give Tennessee a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. I believe they were the number one red
Speaker 1: zone defense in the league when it comes to passing
Speaker 1: coming into this game, so they typically don't give up
Speaker 1: a ton of points, but I thought we had some opportunities.
Speaker 1: Having Alshon back is only going to increase those. The
Speaker 1: big thing with al Sean is the toughness he brings
Speaker 1: the swagger he brings to the offense as well, because
Speaker 1: going to this game, he had the one full practice
Speaker 1: with the shoulder injury on Wednesday, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he's on the injury report with an illness, missing
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, and then there were reports of it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a game time decision because of something
Speaker 1: that had been going around the building and they didn't
Speaker 1: know from a health standpoint how he'd be able to
Speaker 1: hold up. But you know, he just brings it at
Speaker 1: a dimension. You mentioned the size, the catch radius, the
Speaker 1: ability in the red zone, the explosive plays, but there's
Speaker 1: just an attitude that he brings to this offense. And
Speaker 1: it goes back to when he signed as a fridge
Speaker 1: in last year and there are all the sayings of
Speaker 1: how he's going to win the Super Bowl. He probably
Speaker 1: meant it when he was with the Bears at the time,
Speaker 1: but still he followed through on his words and won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl here with the Eagles. And then tell
Speaker 1: him that the offensive players before they start of this
Speaker 1: season that the twenty eighteen campaign begins with Atlanta and
Speaker 1: needs to end in Atlanta, where the site of Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty three is so definitely having that attitude that
Speaker 1: playmaking presents back in the offense is going to bode
Speaker 1: well for the future as a team moves on, because again,
Speaker 1: not all is for lost here. The Eagles are two
Speaker 1: and two, and it's a very The instant emotion and
Speaker 1: from the game is it's very it's very depressing. It
Speaker 1: it's very it's very upsetting because of you've seen the
Speaker 1: Eagles pull these games out. And you know, when Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson said that this is the new norm, you were
Speaker 1: thinking about long term winning success. You weren't thinking it
Speaker 1: was gonna be thrilling, nailed by yours each and every week.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles have been finding ways to win those
Speaker 1: games and you're just not accustomed to them losing in
Speaker 1: a fashion like this. So the key is going to
Speaker 1: be can the Eagles bounce back from a very tough
Speaker 1: loss on the road. I guess, look, give the Titans credit.
Speaker 1: This is a team that's leading to AFC South. They
Speaker 1: handled the Jacksonville Jaguars, who had just come off of
Speaker 1: beating the New England Patriots. Paste of the Patriots basically,
Speaker 1: you know, in Jacksonville came back. The game was in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and the Titans lost their starting quarterback early in
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert. Mariota, who doesn't have full strength in his arm,
Speaker 1: is able to lead the team just enough to get
Speaker 1: the victory and then they welcome the Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: You figure coming off an emotional divisional matchup, they might
Speaker 1: not be up for the game, but no, this was
Speaker 1: a litmos test for them to showcase that they are
Speaker 1: one of the better teams and that they are emerging
Speaker 1: and thriving with Mike vrabel as a new head coach there.
Speaker 1: So tip of the captain Titans, big win for them.
Speaker 1: The Eagles, you know, not able to take care of business,
Speaker 1: not able to get that eighth straight win, agains an
Speaker 1: AFC South opponent there, but you know it was there
Speaker 1: for the taking for the Eagles. They had the leading overtime,
Speaker 1: and you looked at the numbers very similar. But as
Speaker 1: we transition to the turning points of this football game,
Speaker 1: and there are plenty in this one, even in the
Speaker 1: overtime itself, just in the in the second half there
Speaker 1: the Eagles had the lead and the Harold Landry, rookie
Speaker 1: defensive end now at Boston College, comes off the edge
Speaker 1: gets a strip sack on Carson Wentz, Derek Morgan recovers
Speaker 1: and that allowed the Titans to climb back into this
Speaker 1: ball game. So again, the Titans were down seventeen to
Speaker 1: three after Alshon Jeffrey's touchdown in the third quarter. However,
Speaker 1: they were able to fight back and led the game
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen before the Eagles tied it up to
Speaker 1: send it to overtime. Yeah, that was a huge turnover.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the things that you can't afford
Speaker 1: to have happened when you're on the road. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are the things that home teams thrive on. And
Speaker 1: so get the Titans defense a lot of credit. They
Speaker 1: came up with the big play, and going up against
Speaker 1: the team like the Eagles, they knew that they were
Speaker 1: gonna need to have a short field from time to
Speaker 1: time to sort of help their offense out. And they
Speaker 1: couldn't have come up with a bigger play than that
Speaker 1: one there. To get that sad forced fumble against Carson Wentzon,
Speaker 1: you're already in scoring position. That was a huge momentum
Speaker 1: swing for that Titans, for that Titans team, and they
Speaker 1: really got the Titans crowd into the game. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm guaranteed the Eagles are starting to
Speaker 1: find out. You are defending Super Bowl champions. That means
Speaker 1: you are the big game on every opponent's schedule, especially
Speaker 1: when you go on the road. You are the big game.
Speaker 1: You see how Tennessee celebrated after that win. I bet
Speaker 1: you they celebrated more after that win than they did
Speaker 1: after beating Jacksonville last week nine to six. Because when
Speaker 1: you knock off the big dog, it validates you as
Speaker 1: a team. So beating the Eagles, Tennessee look at themselves like, okay,
Speaker 1: we are a good football team. At three and one.
Speaker 1: We just beat the world champ. So the Eagles have
Speaker 1: to get used to getting everyone's best shot every time
Speaker 1: you line up on Sunday. And I'll tell you, though,
Speaker 1: I look at this game and I say I have
Speaker 1: respect for Tennessee. Coming into this game, I thought they
Speaker 1: were a very good defense. The Eagles, at least offensively,
Speaker 1: are slowly but surely getting better. We ran the football
Speaker 1: well today, over one hundred yards rushing. I thought Jedgi
Speaker 1: ran the ball hard. Win Delle Smallwood when he had
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, he ran the ball hard.
Speaker 1: So we're starting to get this offense clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 1: We just gotta get our defense together. Carson over three
Speaker 1: hundred yards against that Titan secondary. That's pretty impressive to do.
Speaker 1: When you look at Malcolm Butler or Dory Jackson and
Speaker 1: the other corner. I think of Logan Ryan out there.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. And you gotta safety and Beers and
Speaker 1: Kevin Byard. So throwing for three hundred and something yards,
Speaker 1: that's a good sign for this offense. Having al Sean
Speaker 1: back in there, that's certainly a good sign. Jagi his
Speaker 1: first game in a couple of weeks over one hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing for the Russian attack today. Good things on
Speaker 1: offense on the road there, and you have all your horses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the running we're still yeah, you're still not even a
Speaker 1: full strength. No corn Clement, no Darrence bros. You can
Speaker 1: get them back. So for you, like what was your
Speaker 1: turning point? So for me, they're second half that Derek
Speaker 1: Morgan fumble recovery of the after the Harold Landry strip sack.
Speaker 1: For me, you know what was your turn? I think
Speaker 1: the big play in overtime Marcus Mariota scramble on third
Speaker 1: and nineteen. I mean you get that big sack on
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, and you're thinking, okay, they're out of field
Speaker 1: goal range as well, and to allow him to run
Speaker 1: for seventeen yards and really put his team in a
Speaker 1: position to decide to go for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: I thought they went from winning the ball game there
Speaker 1: or a desperation hill Mary passed at the end there
Speaker 1: to basically give in Tennessee whichever they wanted, whether they
Speaker 1: wanted to kick the field goal and played for a time,
Speaker 1: which would given the Eagles the ball back and the
Speaker 1: chance to win. Mike Rabel and the new Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: Ara decides to go for it on fourth down. They
Speaker 1: pick they pick up the fourth down. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: a couple plays later, game is over. So third and nineteen,
Speaker 1: that's what you want. Every defense wants that, every defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator wants that. And to have the quarterback scramble for
Speaker 1: seventeen yards. I mean, he really was their best runner today.
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota was. The other guys didn't do anything out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, And I thought that was the turning point.
Speaker 1: And if you had to account for him come into
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, that's the biggest thing, because you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, Derrick Henry and Dean Lewis, but Marioda is
Speaker 1: very much a huge part of that as well. And
Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles with that upfield, aggressive style, attacking
Speaker 1: defensive line, they knew they had to be disciplined in
Speaker 1: their gaps. But even then, at times the play will
Speaker 1: break down and Mariota will have room to run, and
Speaker 1: he was able to take advantage on a few opportunities.
Speaker 1: But again, you look at that overtime fourth and fifteen situation,
Speaker 1: Taywan Taylor makes the catch fourth and four, Sidney Jones
Speaker 1: as the passenger for Aarons. You mentioned the third and nineteen,
Speaker 1: which at first the Titans actually sent out Ryan suck
Speaker 1: up their kicking. Yeah, figure at least tie. Then they're like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, it's close enough here that if we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this, let's do this right. And you know,
Speaker 1: getting back to your point about the Titans validating themselves
Speaker 1: from this win, and it's gonna it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: weird feeling for Eagles fans because we're not gonna care
Speaker 1: about the AFC South, We're not gonna care about these
Speaker 1: al conference matchups really down the line. But the Titans.
Speaker 1: You have to feel good because they are three and
Speaker 1: one and they've beaten two of the final four teams
Speaker 1: from last season. Okay, so doesn't matter. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know if at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: we were looking, you know, straight in the eye of
Speaker 1: a two to one on one record, and certainly you
Speaker 1: wouldn't want the tie, But you know that's helped the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the past. It's better than a loss. And
Speaker 1: you go back to that two thousand and eight campaign
Speaker 1: which ended with a run to the MC championship game
Speaker 1: in Arizona. They got the tie that year that helped
Speaker 1: them get in the playoffs. And with the way the
Speaker 1: league is one this year, it's already been several ties.
Speaker 1: So I can only imagine towards the end of the
Speaker 1: year that half a game is gonna help or hurt someone.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make a different get in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make a difference. But again, you know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the standing, it's still early. But at
Speaker 1: the quarter turn, you're hoping that if you came out
Speaker 1: of at three and one, that that kind of was
Speaker 1: was for me the goal. Okay, obviously you want to
Speaker 1: be four though, you'd want them to win them all,
Speaker 1: but if they could have been three one coming out
Speaker 1: that you would have felt really good about. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna send it back down to Nashville, Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: set to address the media. Three you playing there a
Speaker 1: little I guess you kind of even throw it away. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: they covered us, they had us covered, and um, a
Speaker 1: little miscommunication there as well, and I just try to
Speaker 1: try to throw it away and keep it our field
Speaker 1: goal position and take the field goals else January back.
Speaker 1: It's a smart but things are going to take time
Speaker 1: to develop. Looked like in the second half you would
Speaker 1: kind of getting going, but not dealing dish and pour
Speaker 1: it out. Frustrating. I mean, it's frustrated to obviously come
Speaker 1: up short, especially as an offense when we had chances.
Speaker 1: You know, we had chances to finish in the end zone.
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the game, finishing the
Speaker 1: end zone in overtime. Um, we just didn't executing the
Speaker 1: red zone the way we wanted to. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: you could look around all sorts of plays from the
Speaker 1: game and then the day, we just didn't finish as
Speaker 1: an offense and as a team either offense put it
Speaker 1: all together, do you think. Um, you know, we'll have
Speaker 1: to watch the tape, especially this week, But UM, I
Speaker 1: think overall, I think we're hurting ourselves too much. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's something little here, here, here
Speaker 1: or there, and um, those little things kind of add up,
Speaker 1: you know, whether that's penalty, whether that's miscommunication, misassignments. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we're making physical mistakes too out there. Um, But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: too worried. Um. It's a frustrating one, but it's when
Speaker 1: we can learn from and bounce back from. It's part
Speaker 1: of the game. It's part of the game. I watched
Speaker 1: the film and see, you know, obviously there's time to
Speaker 1: hold on the ball too long. There's miscommunications and protections
Speaker 1: that we can get called right. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we got to watch a film and
Speaker 1: regroup on that. You expected. I wouldn't say more than that.
Speaker 1: More than we expected. You know. It seems like we
Speaker 1: get blissed quite a bit as an offense, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of in their DNA. They like to mix it
Speaker 1: up quite a bit. And uh, I thought that's what
Speaker 1: they did to that play at the end of the
Speaker 1: first path. But was that something who was kind of
Speaker 1: back to when you ran set us wrong? There? No,
Speaker 1: that was a play called Carson. What do you say
Speaker 1: to Nelson obviously had a game? What do you say
Speaker 1: or to kind of get him? Yeah, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not too worried about him. You know, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that that we rely on, that we trust, that I trust,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't lose confidence. Um, guys make mistakes,
Speaker 1: you know, I miss throws, Guys drop balls, align this box.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's part of the game. And um,
Speaker 1: obviously it's something that we got to clean up for
Speaker 1: all of us. But um, I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1: What was does message when you dressed you guys at
Speaker 1: the game? And we just gotta regroup. We gotta regroup.
Speaker 1: Obviously we're a quarter of the way through, sitting at
Speaker 1: two and two. Uh, not quite where we want to be,
Speaker 1: but you know, we got a long way to go yet.
Speaker 1: So um, we just gotta keep keep staying together. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we got to clean up.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we're right there. We just gotta
Speaker 1: um clean up some things and finish finish up some
Speaker 1: drives as an offense. Still those shoulder cats a strong
Speaker 1: you know, really have much guy. I mean it's great.
Speaker 1: I mean it's great to have alstro I'm back out there.
Speaker 1: You know, a guy that can make contested catches, can
Speaker 1: make plays for you. Give give the offensive spark. You
Speaker 1: saw it out there today. We still just came up
Speaker 1: short though. What was the chess match like kind of
Speaker 1: identifying over the protection for But they're sitting yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean they do a good job, you know, hats
Speaker 1: after them. You know, we study all week, try and
Speaker 1: watch the film and then um coming here and they
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit more, do something new. Um,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it goes every week. So you know,
Speaker 1: hats after them. I'm doing some things really well. Um,
Speaker 1: and we got to be better. Things that you can
Speaker 1: do to kind of you know, show up balls for
Speaker 1: what you do. See things that we're not expecting to
Speaker 1: James Uppers News. Yeah, I mean we got to watch
Speaker 1: the tape. Honestly, I'm not one hundred percent sure where
Speaker 1: some of the breakdowns were or what all happened, so
Speaker 1: we gotta watch the tape. Was pretty pet there. Um,
Speaker 1: the best of the war, did Jordan, what was going
Speaker 1: through your mind? Yeah? Yeah, I was just frustrated. You know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to win the game, you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: I didn't want to settle for a field goal. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to settle for overtime. I was just frustrated
Speaker 1: that we came up short a lot of third downs. Wow,
Speaker 1: how big your problem was that? Yeah, I mean that's tough.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a man shoot. Those are things that
Speaker 1: kind of had up, whether it's penalties, whether it's the
Speaker 1: negative plays. Um. You know, they did some good things
Speaker 1: um to kind of you know, and some of the
Speaker 1: nakeds and stuff they blitzed right into it kind of
Speaker 1: um set some good play calls on and uh, we
Speaker 1: just gotta say ahead of the chains. We can't keep
Speaker 1: putting ourselves in those situations. It's hard to hard to
Speaker 1: convert in those downs. Thanks you guys. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of doing the off season about say, you guys are
Speaker 1: gonna have a coal so back last year. I get
Speaker 1: everybody's best seeing that things come easy to get ye,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, we fully expect that, you know. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, this is NFL. Anyone can beat anyone.
Speaker 1: Any weekend. We got to bring it every week and
Speaker 1: we can't just keep having these simple mistakes that we sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, you just want to sweep under the rug,
Speaker 1: but those little things can kind of creep up and
Speaker 1: bite you. And I think that's what happened today, Thanks
Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz addressing the media and just expressing his
Speaker 1: disappointment about not getting the job done. And I believe
Speaker 1: it was Ruben Frank who asked the question at the
Speaker 1: end of the press conference and like, this is what
Speaker 1: you've been harping on. The Eagles are going to get
Speaker 1: the best from teams each and every week because they
Speaker 1: have that Super Bowl championship label attached to them. And
Speaker 1: we saw that once again here today with the way
Speaker 1: that the Titans were celebrating. It was just so it
Speaker 1: was so tough listening to the broadcast because basically we
Speaker 1: would hear the play, you know, the radio feed right
Speaker 1: before you would see it during the Fox telecast, and
Speaker 1: you could just hear the crowd react when Corey Davis
Speaker 1: scored the touchdown No. One that Tennessee got to win
Speaker 1: in overtime. Yeah, tough loss, obviously, you know, they these guys,
Speaker 1: they fought and these are the type of losses that
Speaker 1: you ride back on that plane. Man, you can't let
Speaker 1: it go. You can't. You can't let it go, especially
Speaker 1: when you know you had a seventeen to three lead,
Speaker 1: you're up on this team. It seems like you got
Speaker 1: everything rolling. You come out in the second half, you
Speaker 1: get a touchdown, you seem like you got everything clicking
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. And I know the defense in particularly
Speaker 1: those guys, they pride themselves on being able to stand
Speaker 1: up and do their part, and so to allow Tennessee
Speaker 1: to score twenty unanswered points and then the big you know,
Speaker 1: third and fourth down conversions, those are the ones that
Speaker 1: when you get on that bus to head to the airport,
Speaker 1: you don't have plane to come back here to Philly tonight,
Speaker 1: they'll still be thinking about it. They'll be thinking about
Speaker 1: the first thing when they wake up in the morning.
Speaker 1: Because these these games, you know the old cliche, you
Speaker 1: only get sixteen of them, right, and so you want
Speaker 1: to make sure every time you get an opportunity to play,
Speaker 1: you leave everything out there on the field. You do
Speaker 1: your best, and you know, sometimes you gotta tip your
Speaker 1: cap to the opposing team. Now, today it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of half and half. You can tip your cap
Speaker 1: to Tennessee because they earned the victory. They made the
Speaker 1: big plays when they needed to. But as a deepense,
Speaker 1: you're saying to yourself, we had them where we wanted
Speaker 1: the man, you know, they were one dimensional. That's how
Speaker 1: we like to play against teams, making them one dimensional
Speaker 1: and to give up those big conversions, those explosive plays.
Speaker 1: I know, those are the type of plays that they
Speaker 1: just eat at you defensively. You know what was eating
Speaker 1: at me was seeing Mike Rabel on the sidelines going
Speaker 1: back to the Super Bowl thirty nine. Oh no, you
Speaker 1: don't break that up. But as we probably have mindares,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have nightmares, and it made me think of
Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown of that game. Okay, Patriots beat
Speaker 1: the Eagles. It's it's like he's personally got the Eagles
Speaker 1: number for whatever reason. So for one head coach to
Speaker 1: the other, Devin Curse. We worked on that play all week. Man,
Speaker 1: you knew that play was coming. So now you're gonna
Speaker 1: be on your car ride home thinking about that. So
Speaker 1: for one head coach perspective to the other, let's go
Speaker 1: to our interview. The legendary Mike Quick. He was in
Speaker 1: the booth. Now he's outside the locker room speaking one
Speaker 1: on one with head coach Doug Peterson. Coach, First of all,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the issues you're having with projections Carson
Speaker 1: sex five times last week, four today. Um, what's happening
Speaker 1: with that? I really think you can attribute it to
Speaker 1: about three different things. Um. It could be the offensive
Speaker 1: line just getting beat. It could be the defense obviously
Speaker 1: with their rush lanes, and uh, maybe the coverage on
Speaker 1: the back end. And sometimes, uh, sometimes we put a
Speaker 1: sack on the quarterback. And we know, we know, as
Speaker 1: active as Carson can be, UM a lot of times
Speaker 1: you know, with him scrambling and getting out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: sometimes he goes down, and you know, it's just things
Speaker 1: that we've got to continue to address. We continue to work.
Speaker 1: We pride ourselves and picking up whether it's a blitz
Speaker 1: or a game up front and try to get better.
Speaker 1: What's most disappointing to you about this law? It's hard
Speaker 1: fought and certainly no lack of effort. It's never the
Speaker 1: lack of effort. Um. Probably the biggest thing is how
Speaker 1: we kind of kind of let them back into this
Speaker 1: football game. We had an opportunity to really I think
Speaker 1: kind of put them away there in the third quarter
Speaker 1: when the offense went down and scored and and it
Speaker 1: kind of felt the tides changed just a little bit
Speaker 1: and had a chance to I think just kind of
Speaker 1: almost win the game at that point, and we let
Speaker 1: them back in it with a touchdown drive and then
Speaker 1: I think they scored three their three last possessions there
Speaker 1: in the second half, and um, we were fortunate to
Speaker 1: tie it up and got over time. But you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the thing that that's kind of glaring
Speaker 1: right now, and we just got to go back to
Speaker 1: work on Tuesday and I'll get ready for the next one.
Speaker 1: You started the game with the vertical passion game, deep
Speaker 1: shot took to Nelson down the field. Well, there's something
Speaker 1: that that you saw in your preparation there that it
Speaker 1: was two things. One, it was something that that I
Speaker 1: had seen and we had seen as a staff and
Speaker 1: kind of based on formation and how they were going
Speaker 1: to come out play it. And then two, um, it's
Speaker 1: just my mindset going into this football game staying aggressive
Speaker 1: in the passing game. I honestly quick I felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, the first couple of games, maybe because of
Speaker 1: our injury situation or whatever. It was just uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe not feeling myself just a little bit.
Speaker 1: And and I really wanted to give the offense an opportunity.
Speaker 1: And a lot of that's on me as a play caller,
Speaker 1: so I take responsibility on that. And so that therefore,
Speaker 1: this game for me was was about I wanted to
Speaker 1: attack a little a little deeper down the field and
Speaker 1: take shots, and and we had opportunities. With Nelson, we
Speaker 1: had opportunities. I think, you know all Sean played extremely
Speaker 1: well down the field. The tight ends played well. So
Speaker 1: it was good to see. You mentioned Sean. How important
Speaker 1: is he to this office? What difference did he make
Speaker 1: today for this office? Well, you saw it. You saw
Speaker 1: the big, physical receiver out there, and uh, that was
Speaker 1: really good to see. The touchdown catch was it was
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. Uh you know, a couple just
Speaker 1: hitch route, slant routes, I mean just just putting the
Speaker 1: ball in on a big frame target like that and
Speaker 1: his catch after or run after catch. Um, it's just
Speaker 1: it was just a there's a shot in the arm
Speaker 1: for the offense and it was great to see him
Speaker 1: out there. Thanks coach. Good look next week, Thanks Quick.
Speaker 1: Interview is always there from Mike Quick and head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson. What's interesting about doing this show, like is
Speaker 1: the emotion is so raw and real because it's literally
Speaker 1: we hear and see that game winning touchdown catch by
Speaker 1: Corey Davis and it's like, all right, we're on. So
Speaker 1: it's like you don't even have a chance to sell.
Speaker 1: We don't get that, you know, twelve minute rest period
Speaker 1: that the players get before they have to talk to
Speaker 1: the media. So as you start hearing interviews, you know,
Speaker 1: hearing what you're saying, if you have a time to
Speaker 1: start thinking through things, and you know, one small silver
Speaker 1: line I'll take out of this right now is the
Speaker 1: Eagles are two and two. The two losses though, okay,
Speaker 1: one is an ALF Conference foe, okay to Tennessee. It's
Speaker 1: not going to impact you to NAC standings. The other loss,
Speaker 1: it's a Tampa Bay Tampa Bay. I think fitz magic
Speaker 1: is over the wheel spell off. Yeah, okay, we all
Speaker 1: expected that to happen at some point, you know, but
Speaker 1: it looks like it's finally happened. Jamis Winston went back
Speaker 1: in today, So who knows what the long term product
Speaker 1: nosis is for the Buccaneers, but it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be able to sustain the high rated
Speaker 1: play that they had those first couple of weeks of
Speaker 1: the season. So when you're looking at potential tiebreakers, at
Speaker 1: least the two losses at this point don't appear to
Speaker 1: be with teams that's going to impact you from that regard.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, and listen the conference lass. You always
Speaker 1: know the conference record record comes into place, does it
Speaker 1: comes into play? But you know two and two, Uh
Speaker 1: certainly would love to be four and oh three and one,
Speaker 1: but two and two, will you know, you lick your wounds,
Speaker 1: get back to the drawing board, and get ready for
Speaker 1: an even desperate Minnesota Vikings team coming in here next Sunday.
Speaker 1: So it's the NFL, man, it's not college football. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to play Apalanchian State, you know, once
Speaker 1: a week, although they beat some pretty good ball clubs
Speaker 1: all but in the NFL, you gotta come ready to
Speaker 1: play every weekend. So they'll watch the film on this.
Speaker 1: You know, you keep some of the good throw away
Speaker 1: some of the bad. Better come back ready to play
Speaker 1: against the Vikings next Sunday. All right, We've got a
Speaker 1: whole lot more come up here on the post game
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Speaker 1: for a couple of guys with local ties to Nashville
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. Derek Barnett players college football Tennessee. Grew up there,
Speaker 1: had a nice game, some penetration, got in the backfield
Speaker 1: tackle for loss there, you know. Continuing his strong early season,
Speaker 1: how wide receiver Jordan Matthews okay, returning to the lineup
Speaker 1: last week against the Colts and contributing with a big
Speaker 1: play touchdown. Nice to see it, even though I'm still
Speaker 1: getting used to seeing that number eighty on him like
Speaker 1: I expect every time I see eighty one, I think
Speaker 1: it's him, it's Kamar Aiken. So but still called his
Speaker 1: first ball today, Yes he did, but still Jordan Matthews.
Speaker 1: Nice for him to get involved in the offense here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: big time. And it's great to see Jordan back and
Speaker 1: then obviously playing at Baronderbilt getting a chance to go
Speaker 1: back home where he went to school, lad and get
Speaker 1: a nice touchdown there. It's great for Jay matt It's
Speaker 1: great for you know, he and Carson best buds mix
Speaker 1: up in coverage there. I don't know if Butler thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna have some help over the top, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't there. And it's great read by Carson and
Speaker 1: just dropped it right in the basket. And it's nice
Speaker 1: because you know, Alston Jeffrey had the big players. You know,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz has been reliable, but you need other guys.
Speaker 1: You need other guys to diversify this offense. So great
Speaker 1: job by Matthews by bringing that to the table. So
Speaker 1: for more insight, as I just talked about the play
Speaker 1: breaking their own defense. Let's get an All twenty two
Speaker 1: review our RICO review courtesy of Fran Duffy and Greg Cosell.
Speaker 1: Take it away, guys. All right, so the Eagles are
Speaker 1: down now three nothing late in the second quarter and
Speaker 1: they get a big touchdown here from Carson Wentz to
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews and Greg. This really just goes back to
Speaker 1: what you and I talked about on the Eagle Eye
Speaker 1: and the Sky podcast this week about the staple coverages
Speaker 1: of Mike Vrabel. In this Tennessee Titans defense. One of
Speaker 1: the things they love to do is play quarters coverage
Speaker 1: on the background for everybody here, explain what quarters coverage
Speaker 1: is in layman's terms and what we're gonna see from
Speaker 1: the Titans here. Quarters or cover four is basically what
Speaker 1: we call an umbrella coverage because you've got four defenders,
Speaker 1: the two corners and the two safeties, who are essentially
Speaker 1: deep players, each responsible for a quarter of the field.
Speaker 1: Hence the name quarters. That's what quarters coverage is. Now.
Speaker 1: There are certain ways you can attack quarters coverage based
Speaker 1: on the responsibilities of the safeties and the corners, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles on this particular play that touchdown to Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews did an outstanding job of attacking and breaking down
Speaker 1: the coverage. Guys, So tell us, well, what is the
Speaker 1: key here that makes this play go? Well, when you
Speaker 1: have two receivers to one side, the way this works
Speaker 1: is there's Jordan Matthews, there's Dallas Goddard. Now keep in
Speaker 1: mind because each defender and let's stay to that side.
Speaker 1: The top side of the field, fran So, which you
Speaker 1: have is Kenny Vaccaro. He's the safety right there. He's
Speaker 1: responsible for the inside receiver of the two receivers. Goddard.
Speaker 1: If he starts to run vertically at Kenny Vacaro, that's
Speaker 1: attacking Kenny Vaccaro's quarter of the field, so he's responsible
Speaker 1: for him. At the same time, George Matthews when he
Speaker 1: attacks vertically, Malcolm Buller is responsible for him. That's his
Speaker 1: quarter of the field. So what you can do is
Speaker 1: you can put this defense in a bind because it's
Speaker 1: still at its core a zone coverage. So corners tend
Speaker 1: to play with what we call outside leverage, meaning Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler will play outside of Jordan Matthews giving up the
Speaker 1: post because he can potentially get help from Vacaro. But
Speaker 1: when you attack Vacaro with Dallas Goddard and let's run
Speaker 1: it now and see how this works. After that explanation,
Speaker 1: you'll see Goddard's running vertically right about here. See he's
Speaker 1: ran vertically, Oh a good, what ten twelve yards? So
Speaker 1: now Kenny Vacaro basically locks him up as if it's
Speaker 1: man to man because Goddard ran vertically far enough that
Speaker 1: they needed now to match up man to man. But
Speaker 1: what did we say on the outside. Now you have
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews running to the post. The safety's gone and
Speaker 1: it's an outside leverage corner, so there's no one that
Speaker 1: can help Malcolm Butler here the post is clean and
Speaker 1: this hey, maybe the Eagles anticipated quarters coverage. We don't
Speaker 1: know that, but they got it. And if you run
Speaker 1: this play out, this turned out to be a classic
Speaker 1: quarters beater because there's no one over the top. And
Speaker 1: the reality was in the first half, Carson Wentz was
Speaker 1: throwing the ball exceptionally well. He couldn't have handed it
Speaker 1: to Jordan Matthews any better than that. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you look at Carson and last week things were a
Speaker 1: little bit slow. He's getting at us into the speed
Speaker 1: of the game. He came out of the locker room
Speaker 1: here on Sunday against Tennessee just on fire. Everything was
Speaker 1: on point, the timing, the rhythm, the accuracy and ball
Speaker 1: playsment just outstanding. McDonald's crowd partner of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there from Fran and Greg and you can
Speaker 1: check out the entire all twenty two review tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and the f one last
Speaker 1: note on the play like it just shows once again
Speaker 1: why it's important to have different players step up. Because
Speaker 1: Zach Kirtz, you know, dominating the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: sucking up the coverage there, you have multiple players thinking
Speaker 1: that he's going to be the go to guy opening
Speaker 1: things up, and then those guys, when I have the opportunity,
Speaker 1: have to take advantage. You have Delson Aglore who had
Speaker 1: a couple opportunities come as way wasn't able to capitalize
Speaker 1: a rare off day for him today. But nonetheless, it's
Speaker 1: great to see that the stars, the guys like Ertz
Speaker 1: and Jeffrey are able to help make plays happen for
Speaker 1: the guys like Jordan Matthews. Yeah, it's great to see
Speaker 1: Jordan take advantage of the player, right, you know, you're
Speaker 1: only gonna get so many opportunities in this offense. You know, Jordan,
Speaker 1: his second time around as an eagle, you aren't going
Speaker 1: to get the targets that you used to get when
Speaker 1: you were here. That the offense has many more weapons
Speaker 1: in it, so when you get those few opportunities, you
Speaker 1: have to take advantage of it. So it was great
Speaker 1: to see that Jordan was able to do that great
Speaker 1: read by Carson. He saw the middle of that field
Speaker 1: wide open and laid a nice ball out there for
Speaker 1: Jordan to run under. Very disappointed in the Rico review
Speaker 1: they didn't get into the business tie celebration tightening of
Speaker 1: the time. Yes, there, you know, throwing to old school
Speaker 1: a little bit there, back to twenty sixteen. So, but
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned that when Matthews was here before
Speaker 1: the first iteration, he was the offense. He was the offense.
Speaker 1: He got high volume percentages. You know, the ball was
Speaker 1: thrown to him frequently outside of the slot. So he's
Speaker 1: working more on the outside now, you know, to help
Speaker 1: this receiving corps. That's just trying to you know, kind
Speaker 1: of band aid things together after losing Alshan in the
Speaker 1: early part of the season and Mike Wallace as well
Speaker 1: as Mac Collins who are now on injured reserve. So
Speaker 1: does Jordan Matthews play qualify him to be one of
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Speaker 1: at a brand new Toyota. So the first nominee Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz going over one hundred yards. It seemed like early on,
Speaker 1: especially that first half, every time Carson Wentz through the
Speaker 1: ball it was headed to number eighty six and he
Speaker 1: delivered fourteen targets ten receptions for one hundred and twelve yards.
Speaker 1: Just another excellent outing from the Pro Bowl tight end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zach doing what he's what We've become accustomed to watching
Speaker 1: him do every week, which is catch just about every
Speaker 1: pass Carson, Nick Voles, doesn't matter, Nate Sutfield, whoever throws
Speaker 1: it to it, Zach is going to catch it. Really
Speaker 1: establishing himself as one of the top three tight ends
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I'll put him right behind Gronk and
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and he's on their heels. He's on his
Speaker 1: way to another Pro Bowl, no question whatsoever. So number
Speaker 1: two up the return. I'm number seventeen. I didn't realize this.
Speaker 1: He had nine targets, eight receptions, Yeah, over one hundred
Speaker 1: yards as well, so two one hundred yard receivers and
Speaker 1: one touchdown there in the third quarter, which at the
Speaker 1: time we thought played away. But again you got the
Speaker 1: contested cash ability, the explosive playability, that swagger back as
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gets to his big play guy. I want
Speaker 1: to say his go to guy. Urts is more of
Speaker 1: the go to guys, but Jeffrey is the guy who
Speaker 1: when you need something big to happen, that's number seventeen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I can't remember the last time we had a
Speaker 1: wide receiver go for one hundred yards. I know Zach
Speaker 1: has gone for one hundred yards, and I know Corey
Speaker 1: Clinment went for one hundred in the Super Bowl, But
Speaker 1: when's the last time we had a wide out Tory
Speaker 1: Smith Okay, yeah, I knew. It's been a while since
Speaker 1: we had a wide out go for one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: So it's great to have al Sean back in the
Speaker 1: line up, another big target security blankets, so to speak,
Speaker 1: that Carson can rely upon just like that reception right there,
Speaker 1: Just put the ball on that bag shoulder, and the
Speaker 1: big fellaw who's who's Who's a basketball enthusiast as well,
Speaker 1: knows how to go up and get and knows how
Speaker 1: to go up and get the ball. That's what you have.
Speaker 1: You have that with Arts, you have that with Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Just go up and get the rocks. So last, but
Speaker 1: not least, say number eleven himself, okay, under durest throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the day, still completed two thirds of
Speaker 1: his past attempts for three hundred and forty eight yards
Speaker 1: with two touchdowns. You know, just the ball looks crisp
Speaker 1: coming out of his hands. Reading things I thought much better.
Speaker 1: The pinpoint accuracy I thought was more prevalent this week.
Speaker 1: This is you know, after last week everyone was asking
Speaker 1: how long before number eleven? Is number eleven again? And
Speaker 1: we saw the main tenants to make sure you felt
Speaker 1: good about him moving forward. I felt that it came
Speaker 1: to fruition more this week, even in a losing effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could have very easily had four hundred and seven
Speaker 1: yards passing. I mean he had a couple of balls
Speaker 1: out there dropped. I thought he looked a lot more
Speaker 1: comfortable this week. It's his second game back. This guy,
Speaker 1: we can sometimes take him for granted, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's great to have him back in the saddle and
Speaker 1: he's doing what we've become accustomed to watching him do.
Speaker 1: This is what he does. I'm no longer surprised by
Speaker 1: three hundred yard passing games. I'm more surprised when he
Speaker 1: doesn't throw for three hundred yards. Love the fact that
Speaker 1: that completion percentage is up in the mid sixties, where
Speaker 1: it needs to be, and there's something added to the
Speaker 1: all day that. I was happy to see the long ball.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug talked about himself calling plays that's dialed
Speaker 1: up to go down the field. It was good to
Speaker 1: see that back in the offense. This offense will look
Speaker 1: even even crispy or even better as the season goes along,
Speaker 1: as Carson gets used to these guys. He's still only
Speaker 1: his second game back. It's still only his second game back,
Speaker 1: so wait till he has three, four or five games
Speaker 1: under his belt. He'll be back to planning at that
Speaker 1: MVP level in no time. You mentioned the completion percentage
Speaker 1: that much more impressive considering they were taking more shots
Speaker 1: down the field today from the jump. They wanted to
Speaker 1: establish those explosive players. They didn't hit on it early
Speaker 1: with Agilore, but they were able to do so later
Speaker 1: on in the game. And you've seen the highlight multiple
Speaker 1: times there of the touchdown to Jordan Matthews. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles are now two and two and they will welcome
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings in a rematch of the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: Game next Sunday at the Link. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a nationally televised game four twenty five pm. And the
Speaker 1: Vikings have had a few extra days to rest and
Speaker 1: they certainly need it because they are one two and one.
Speaker 1: Talk about an odd record coming into the showdown. After
Speaker 1: losing a shootout thirty eight to thirty one to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams on Thursday. The Vikings preseason darlings to
Speaker 1: contend for the NFC. You won't say that they're out
Speaker 1: of the picture, but their season will be on life
Speaker 1: support if they're not able to beat the Eagles next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple tough games for the Vikings early in the year.
Speaker 1: No shame in losing to the Rams on the road
Speaker 1: on a short week, but the Vikings to play to
Speaker 1: a tie versus Green Bay when I really thought they
Speaker 1: outplayed Green Bay in Green Bay. But they only come
Speaker 1: out of that game with the tie, and then they
Speaker 1: overlook the Buffalo Bills heading into that game against the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Bills handing them ill. So that's that's
Speaker 1: obviously a bad loss there that the Vikings want to
Speaker 1: get a two straight losses. They're certainly going to be
Speaker 1: coming in here trying to fight to keep their season alive.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are gonna need to match that desperation of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings when they come here. Andy Filippo, former
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach red zone coordinator, certainly is familiar with our personnel,
Speaker 1: much like Frank Reich was last week. No question, the
Speaker 1: thing for me will be can the defense, which has
Speaker 1: been outstanding at home, the best in the league at
Speaker 1: home over the last two seasons, can stay up to
Speaker 1: that level. Knowing the of Kirk Cousins and Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield, and Kyle Rudolph at tight end,
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs and am feeling so many weapons across the board,
Speaker 1: It's really gonna come down to can the defensive line
Speaker 1: win the matchup, and can the secondary be more aggressive
Speaker 1: knowing that Kirk Cousins is gonna have to get the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands asap to not take the hits.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a fun matchup. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 1: for you before we sign off here file thoughts. What's
Speaker 1: going to be the big topic on with Ike with
Speaker 1: a John Marks Tomorrow Sports Radio ninety four WP afternoons.
Speaker 1: I would imagine the defense. I would imagine the defense.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some may feel Doug may have taken his
Speaker 1: foot off the gas when they got up seventeen to three.
Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case. I just think
Speaker 1: we needed to capitalize in the red zone. They moved
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. We just wind up kicking
Speaker 1: field goals instead of scoring touchdowns. But I think the
Speaker 1: defense in those waning moments of the game, having the
Speaker 1: Titans backed up third and nineteen, fourth and fifteen, that'll
Speaker 1: be the topic of discussion. Get in that situation that
Speaker 1: should be game over, especially with this defense. The other
Speaker 1: thing I will say with the offense, they came out
Speaker 1: in the second half and then that long seven and
Speaker 1: a half minute drive should have worn out the Titans
Speaker 1: from that point and it wasn't able to finish them off.
Speaker 1: The Heels were able to get the seventeen to three lead,
Speaker 1: and he figured that should be game over, especially considering
Speaker 1: the defense with the big lead, Tennessee's not being able
Speaker 1: early in the season to come from behind and put
Speaker 1: up points in a hurry. And then lastly, you figured
Speaker 1: that the Titans would wear down defensively. It just didn't
Speaker 1: happen to turnover. Brought him back to sackless Wentz where
Speaker 1: they got the ball right down and Mariota eventually ran
Speaker 1: in for the touchdown. That's what brought Tennessee back to life.
Speaker 1: That big play right there is really what sort of
Speaker 1: gave them hope that they could because you could look
Speaker 1: at Tennessee during that game, they were lifeless. I mean
Speaker 1: until that big play today, got that sack forced fumble,
Speaker 1: they were lifeless. I was figured, you know what, great
Speaker 1: effort held them good for a half, but it's just
Speaker 1: not going to be. These are the Super Bowl champs
Speaker 1: and this is why. And Carson Wentz is catching the
Speaker 1: fire alshon Jeffreys back. Plenty of excuses, emotional game for
Speaker 1: them coming off the uh, you know win over Jacksonville
Speaker 1: at a lot of things could have gone against Tennessee's favorite,
Speaker 1: but again they scored seventeen straight, got it to overtime.
Speaker 1: After the Eagles tied it with the elite Jakeleen field goal,
Speaker 1: Tennessee fell behind in overtime and multiple times you know,
Speaker 1: should have had the game, should haven't finished, shouldn't finished,
Speaker 1: but just could not seal the deal. So that's gonna
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Speaker 1: Eagles and former linebacker Ike Greece, I'm Chris McPherson. You've
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Speaker 1: fall twenty six to twenty three and overtime, everyone, you know,
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