Speaker 1: All right. In Monday Night football, the Eagles unable to
Speaker 1: get it done against the Seattle Seahawks, falling seventeen to
Speaker 1: twenty three. Russell Wilson remains perfect against Philadelphia. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us here on the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Campbell, joined by Fran Jeffie and first, let's
Speaker 1: just send our well wishes to Ike Reese, who posted
Speaker 1: on his social media that he has tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 1: That is why he is not joining us for the
Speaker 1: postgame show. We will absolutely be missing you and your
Speaker 1: takes this evening. We wish you the best. Fran. Let's
Speaker 1: get into this one. A tough loss for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Ended up being a six point game, but what twelve
Speaker 1: seconds before the game ended, it was fourteen point game.
Speaker 1: And you really felt like the Eagles never really were
Speaker 1: able to feel like they were in a good position
Speaker 1: in this one against Seattle. Didn't lead the entire game.
Speaker 1: Let's just start to wrap to bring this into perspective here.
Speaker 1: What are your initial thoughts. Yeah, I mean offensively, just
Speaker 1: you know, continued futility, right, they couldn't get things going
Speaker 1: in the first half. I believe it was the first
Speaker 1: five drives started with three and ounce and you know,
Speaker 1: the slow starts continue to plague that side of the football. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I thought that they did a lot of really good
Speaker 1: things continue to do with some good things to limit
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. We talked about that on the Kickoff Show.
Speaker 1: I think that they did some really good things both
Speaker 1: on the back end and up front to really bring
Speaker 1: it to the Seattle offense and kind of limit what
Speaker 1: they were trying to do offensively. But ultimately on the
Speaker 1: Eagle side, I mean, they could not move the ball
Speaker 1: with consistency through the air or on the ground, and
Speaker 1: going in this was a big time run defense. The
Speaker 1: Eagles knew that they tried to move the ball through
Speaker 1: the air. The offensive line could not protect first down,
Speaker 1: second down, third down. Did not matter that Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: was under fire throughout much of this game. There were
Speaker 1: some incompletions that were of the quarterbacks doing. There were
Speaker 1: some incompletions that were of the receivers doing. It was
Speaker 1: just overall just not a good day for the offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carson went sacked six times tonight. I believe three of
Speaker 1: those were on third down. They were showed some improvement
Speaker 1: on those third down conversions. But Bran, you mentioned you
Speaker 1: start the first five possessions going three and out on offense,
Speaker 1: even with the defense putting them in a good position,
Speaker 1: hard to really get anything going. When that's how you
Speaker 1: start set the tone for the game. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: the Eagles insider Dave Spidero and get your thoughts. Dave,
Speaker 1: just initial thoughts on tonight's performance against Seattle. You know,
Speaker 1: from the very start, looking at number eleven, how would
Speaker 1: he come out and start the game. And he started
Speaker 1: a game by throwing late to Richard Rogers when he
Speaker 1: was open. By the time Carson got rid of the football,
Speaker 1: Rogers was covered. And then he misses greg Ward on
Speaker 1: an easy throw, another incompletion on the outside a little low,
Speaker 1: and the outside to alshon Jeffrey on the outside right.
Speaker 1: I just think more of this is on Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Not throwing with confidence, not throwing with accuracy. Mechanics don't
Speaker 1: look comfortable and flowing. I thought the Eagles tried to
Speaker 1: get him out of the pocket more than we had seen.
Speaker 1: But again a first half where there's just very little
Speaker 1: going on a number that jumped out at me as
Speaker 1: I was tracking it yards per pass play, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: averaging six point eight yards per pass play, and until
Speaker 1: that final drive, which is just patting the stats, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz average two point five yards per past attempt and
Speaker 1: the Eagles as an offense three point one yards per
Speaker 1: pass attempt. So, I mean, this offense continues to tell
Speaker 1: the same story week after week. And I gotta tell you, Fran,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the offensive line gave up some
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams blitzes and he kept coming coming. For the
Speaker 1: most part, I thought they did okay. I thought they
Speaker 1: gave Carson time to throw the ball. He's just getting
Speaker 1: nothing going. He just doesn't look confident. The wide receivers,
Speaker 1: no big plays. Again, it's all Boston Scott, Miles, Sanders,
Speaker 1: Richard Rogers, alas God or middle of the field. Nothing outside,
Speaker 1: nothing vertical, nothing deep, nothing to threaten the Seattle defense.
Speaker 1: That's my take. I mean, it's more to me on
Speaker 1: number eleven and this mystifying drop in performance than it
Speaker 1: is on the play calling or the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: just thought Seattle was there ripe to be had At times.
Speaker 1: There were receivers who were open, and Carson just didn't
Speaker 1: get him the ball. Well, and Dave, what about the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball for the Eagles. I think
Speaker 1: you covered the offense pretty thoroughly and we'll continue to
Speaker 1: break it down statistically where the Eagles struggled, but the
Speaker 1: defense came out really strong, limiting the Seattle offense. A
Speaker 1: couple of big plays got the better of them. Of course,
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf a historic performance from him again with the
Speaker 1: big plays there for the defense. But what did you
Speaker 1: think about their game plan against Russell Wilson and the
Speaker 1: Seattle offense. Solid game plan, corralled him nicely, Wilson running
Speaker 1: only for twelve yards twenty two of thirty one two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards. But and so that's good. But
Speaker 1: what I expect from Darius Slay when you are matching
Speaker 1: him up one on one. He came into Philadelphia to
Speaker 1: be the shutdown cornerback, and I know that that really
Speaker 1: doesn't exist in the NFL. But DK Metcalf targeted thirteen times,
Speaker 1: ten completions, one seventy seven, should have had a touchdown
Speaker 1: catch in the end zone, drew a penalty. You know,
Speaker 1: Slay making that early mistake. I thought a kindness at
Speaker 1: the tone he and Malik Jackson the back to back
Speaker 1: personal foul penalties the Eagles held on that drive. I
Speaker 1: thought they played tough against the run. Seattle just seventy
Speaker 1: six rushing yards on thirty carries. I just want my
Speaker 1: shutdown cornerback to shut down. And maybe DK metcalf is
Speaker 1: just too big, too fast, too strong. But thirteen targets,
Speaker 1: ten receptions, one seventy seven. I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a really difficult obstacle to overcome. That that's a go
Speaker 1: to receiver making plays whenever Russell Wilson wanted to dial
Speaker 1: him up. Dave, I've got a question that's almost a
Speaker 1: little bit big picture, if you take like a step back,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts right now? Obviously it's such a
Speaker 1: fast start for Travis Foglan this season and then this year.
Speaker 1: Over the last month, will say it's kind of tapered
Speaker 1: off a little bit. We've seen some stats, especially Laton
Speaker 1: games in the fourth quarter, But overall, what are your
Speaker 1: feelings right now on number thirteen? It's hard to tell
Speaker 1: for him because he's only gets targeted targeted a few
Speaker 1: times a game coming into the game. Twelve targets, two catches,
Speaker 1: sixteen yards. In the previous two games tonight, two targets,
Speaker 1: two catches, sixteen yards. Is he not open? I just
Speaker 1: don't feel like it's accurate for us to kind of
Speaker 1: make a judgment on him, because Carson is just not
Speaker 1: getting his eyes out to the perimeter of the defense.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's hard to tell. I mean, tonight,
Speaker 1: see seemed to have a little something going early in
Speaker 1: the second half and then it petered out. But that's
Speaker 1: kind of the story of the offense. I think when
Speaker 1: your quarterback does not give you chance to make plays,
Speaker 1: does not throw with anticipation, is throwing lates. I think
Speaker 1: this receiving corps kind of doesn't know where the ball's
Speaker 1: going when it's coming to them. So it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to judge Travis Folgum at this point, but certainly tonight
Speaker 1: friend as a group, the wide receivers, you know, going
Speaker 1: against a Seattle defense that has not played well all season,
Speaker 1: and still the longest completion to a receiver was eleven
Speaker 1: yards to Travis Folgum. So I will hear from Doug,
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Carson. But I expected the Eagles to
Speaker 1: go after their cornerbacks, and maybe they had some chances
Speaker 1: tonight there were some receivers who were open and Carson
Speaker 1: just did not get them the football. Yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to hear from coach and players a
Speaker 1: little bit later. Dave, I'm curious your take about the
Speaker 1: start of the second half of this Eagles offense. It
Speaker 1: felt like they started they started strongly, started with the momentum,
Speaker 1: They put together a nice long drive, they took a
Speaker 1: decent amount of time off of the clock, and then
Speaker 1: it started to bizzle out and there were some mistakes
Speaker 1: made later into that second half and they weren't ever
Speaker 1: really able to get in it. But did you see
Speaker 1: them come out with a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: spark and can you figure out exactly where that came from? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a spark, amy, But our expectations
Speaker 1: have to be more than just a little bit of
Speaker 1: a spark. What is missing from this offense is chunk plays.
Speaker 1: Fran you talked about it before the game. You thought
Speaker 1: there was an opportunity for the Eagles to get chunk
Speaker 1: plays right, and there were not chunk plays until late
Speaker 1: in the game. Richard Rogers and run here and there,
Speaker 1: Dallas Godder to catch and run here and there, but
Speaker 1: nothing on the perimeter. So it's hard to drive seventy
Speaker 1: five eighty yards when you have the football and you've
Speaker 1: got four poor field position. You need to find a
Speaker 1: way to get those big plays, and they're just not
Speaker 1: happening for the Eagles offense. So look, I know the
Speaker 1: topic of conversation here is going to be about Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: and quite honestly, I'm really interested to hear what Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson has to say. How long do you stick with
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's running an offense that is just not
Speaker 1: scoring points. I mean, this is the age of moving
Speaker 1: the football in the NFL. Never been easier to score points.
Speaker 1: Eagles have had winnable games. I thought tonight was a
Speaker 1: winnable game. Cleveland was a winnable game, the Giants a
Speaker 1: winnable game. The offense just didn't do its part. And Carson,
Speaker 1: I love you, Carson. It just doesn't look like he's
Speaker 1: playing with confidence on the balls of his feet, delivering
Speaker 1: the ball accurately, getting it out of his hands quickly,
Speaker 1: making fast, good sound decisions seeing the field. It's hard
Speaker 1: to say he's doing that when once again, he's twenty
Speaker 1: five or forty five two hundred and fifteen yards, six sacks,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and an interception in the red zone, a costly,
Speaker 1: costly fourth down throw in the end zone. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a topic that we've touched on so
Speaker 1: many times. Obviously, there was a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of dude to talk about the quarter back situation coming
Speaker 1: into this game over the last couple of days, all
Speaker 1: kinds of reports flying around with the media. We did
Speaker 1: see Jalen Hurts a handful of times in this game,
Speaker 1: I would say, no more than what we've seen in
Speaker 1: the past. Going back to the offensive line, Dave, you know,
Speaker 1: we saw another change obviously up front due to some
Speaker 1: injuries all around that group overall. Thought that you talked
Speaker 1: about it a little bit at the top, but Jason
Speaker 1: Peters making that move from left tackle to right guard.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts coming out of this game just on the
Speaker 1: state of the offensive line, Yeah, I mean I thought
Speaker 1: Frand like you know, when your first glance, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: There weren't jailbreaks. I thought Matt Pryor got beated once
Speaker 1: or twice on the outside, but for the most part
Speaker 1: got off the ball well, had good position, good leverage.
Speaker 1: I thought Jordan a lotta same thing. A little bit
Speaker 1: of an acting job at the end there on the hold.
Speaker 1: I thought Jason inside seemed to do okay. They obviously
Speaker 1: had trouble with Jamal Adams coming from everywhere deep, secondary,
Speaker 1: off the edge, coming from different sides with his blitz package.
Speaker 1: So Seattle did a nice job there. But that's the
Speaker 1: problem here. Deep fenses are gonna keep taking chances and
Speaker 1: blitzing because the Eagles are not threatening the defense with
Speaker 1: the vertical game. They're not threatening defenses with a passing
Speaker 1: attack to the wide receivers. It's screen. Get the ball out, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get it to the tight ends in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. It's nothing down the field to
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So look, I thought Carson Wentz played tough.
Speaker 1: I thought he is running forty two yards rushing, you know, toughness.
Speaker 1: Moved the change at a little spark. I like that,
Speaker 1: referring back to what you said earlier, Amy, But until
Speaker 1: this offense can get the football to Travis Folgan and
Speaker 1: Jalen Rager al Shan Jeffrey, it's just hard to score
Speaker 1: points in the league when you have to put together
Speaker 1: eleven paid dry eleven play drives and and go seventy
Speaker 1: five yards. Eagles offense needs that big play punch and
Speaker 1: they just have not gotten it in these last several weeks.
Speaker 1: We thought, you know, going back to like the baltimorean
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game, John High Tower running down the field, added
Speaker 1: some speed. Where is that explosiveness in this offense? It's
Speaker 1: been a wall the last three weeks after the bye week.
Speaker 1: The offense has not been productive at all. So again,
Speaker 1: interested to hear what dougas to say here in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Yeah, well, and Dave, clearly a frustrating
Speaker 1: performance for this team that continues to stay bought in.
Speaker 1: And there are plenty of teams in the NFL that
Speaker 1: have faced less adversity than this Eagles team. And you
Speaker 1: get the sense that the players have quit on the team,
Speaker 1: that there's trouble in the locker room. I'm curious for you,
Speaker 1: on hand, from what you can see along the sidelines,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about the body language, especially
Speaker 1: on defense. We heard reports from Lisa Salter saying that
Speaker 1: guys like Fletcher Cox had pulled Carson Wentz aside earlier
Speaker 1: in the week and gave him a pep talk and
Speaker 1: say we got your back, man, don't worry about us.
Speaker 1: We're here for you. What did you see from the
Speaker 1: body language on the sideline? Yeah, I thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: played with intensity tonight, particularly on defense. I thought they
Speaker 1: showed up, they were physical. I like that they have
Speaker 1: not quit, they have not pointed fingers. I think that
Speaker 1: this team still is focused in understanding that there's still
Speaker 1: a race to be had here, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. But I also see a Seattle
Speaker 1: team that really has that swagger, that confidence. That's something
Speaker 1: the Eagles are lacking when I watched them in this environment.
Speaker 1: And these are the only sounds you hear? Are there
Speaker 1: two different sidelines? All right? Well, Dave, we are looking
Speaker 1: forward to hearing from coaching players a little bit later.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your insight as always. Thanks so much. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: tough win tonight, three to seven and one, and the
Speaker 1: schedule doesn't get any easier Green Bay next week, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: That is going to be an extremely tough assignment for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Oh yeah, especially after what they just did
Speaker 1: to the Bears over the weekend. Another tough one for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, Thanks Dave, Ali guys, Yeah, we'll get into
Speaker 1: that matchup a little bit later. Aaron Rodgers at Lambeau
Speaker 1: in December. A tough test for any team, Fran. Let's
Speaker 1: continue to get into this one, and let's break down
Speaker 1: the offense, and I think where I want to go
Speaker 1: is talking about those long drives and of course third
Speaker 1: down a big emphasis for the Eagles here. Some improvement
Speaker 1: there tonight eight of seventeen forty seven percent, but you
Speaker 1: are also were saying the forty seven percent is improvement.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until I believe the second half, the second half,
Speaker 1: where they converted their first third down in this one.
Speaker 1: So just what where did you see them struggle to
Speaker 1: in first and second down to get to that point
Speaker 1: where third down was such a difficult thing. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a little bit of everything. You know. It was
Speaker 1: a feudal run game. It was protection, it was misthrows,
Speaker 1: whether it was an errand throw from the quarterback or
Speaker 1: drops from the receivers. It was a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: It's what we've talked about. It's honestly, it's tough to
Speaker 1: discuss because we've been saying this for the last few weeks, right,
Speaker 1: and so for our viewers at home, that have been
Speaker 1: watching this for the last few weeks, they would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this is what we've been talking about. That showed
Speaker 1: up again tonight. So all those same things, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to show up. I think the big thing with
Speaker 1: you know, turning it around on third down. Look, they
Speaker 1: came out. It wasn't like they ran different plays, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they were they were running the same plays
Speaker 1: that they've been running over the last few weeks. They
Speaker 1: were just able to execute and they went I believe
Speaker 1: seven for eight at one point on third down, seven
Speaker 1: of eight consecutive attempts on third down. So whether they
Speaker 1: were running the football, we saw a quarterback draw, we
Speaker 1: saw some zone reads, we saw Carson take off, we
Speaker 1: saw some quick throws to Dallas Gottard, we saw some inbreakers.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean they did a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: The third manageable certainly helps, but they converted some third nates,
Speaker 1: they converted some third and seven, so uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately it came down to them getting into
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rhythm. You talked about that spark.
Speaker 1: They got into a little bit of a rhythm offensively,
Speaker 1: it was really that drive where I believe it was
Speaker 1: first or second down, Carson Wentz dropped back and took
Speaker 1: off for you know, fourteen yards and kind of finished
Speaker 1: the run physically, and that that gave them a little
Speaker 1: bit of juicy. I think that that got them into
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rhythm. And after that, I
Speaker 1: think that we started to see them move the football.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I mean, the
Speaker 1: slow starts have continued to plague this offense. I have
Speaker 1: five three and ounce against this defense. Uh, tough to swallow.
Speaker 1: You know, whether that's run game, pass game, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's tough to get over that. The defense did their
Speaker 1: job to kind of keep them in this. You know,
Speaker 1: it's fourteen nothing at one point when you had two
Speaker 1: fourth down stops, two turn overs on downs for that defense,
Speaker 1: it was a really valiant effort on their end, Especially
Speaker 1: after that first drive. You're kind of wondering, is this
Speaker 1: going to be one of those kind of sloppy those
Speaker 1: sloppy games where there are a lot of bad penalties.
Speaker 1: The defense fount you know, I was able to hold
Speaker 1: firm and came back of the offense. The offensively just
Speaker 1: struggled to get things going. Yeah, the defense, like you said,
Speaker 1: forcing two turnover on downs for Seattle and a goal
Speaker 1: line stand that was really impressive, Derek Burnett making some
Speaker 1: big plays on both of those for the Eagles. You
Speaker 1: talk about the Eagles drive before the half, scoring going
Speaker 1: into the half, which to me is one of the
Speaker 1: most important things I look for in a game, That
Speaker 1: momentum going into halftime. A lot of times, to me,
Speaker 1: it tells me who's going to win the game. Scoring
Speaker 1: before going into the half really big for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: That was a drive that I think was over five
Speaker 1: minutes long, and then coming out of the half going
Speaker 1: down the field and taking another almost six minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock with a twelve play drive kind of didn't
Speaker 1: get and dunkin down the field there. It didn't feel easy,
Speaker 1: but you did feel like stringing together a twelve play
Speaker 1: drive ending up with some points on the board there
Speaker 1: and uh and of course taking some time off the clock.
Speaker 1: Like I said, that was what I was looking for
Speaker 1: before the game started, was to keep the Seattle's offense
Speaker 1: off the field time of possession. Though Seattle does get
Speaker 1: the victory on that one thirty two minutes and fifty
Speaker 1: six fifty seven seconds to the Eagles twenty seven minutes,
Speaker 1: so leaving the Seattle offense with enough time to let
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson do what he does best friends. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: ultimately looked. Yeah, they were able to get things going
Speaker 1: on those two drives, and converting on third down certainly helps.
Speaker 1: But you know what the big thing too, Amy like,
Speaker 1: they get that touchdown just before half and you're you're
Speaker 1: feeling good, and then you missed the extra points. So
Speaker 1: while the offense is feeling good, I feel like that
Speaker 1: that good will that you may have built that you
Speaker 1: as a team, you're like, all right, like we will
Speaker 1: get this, get things, you know, get this going the
Speaker 1: right direction. You get the missed extra point and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a little bit of that deflating
Speaker 1: feeling going into the locker room. Now they didn't let
Speaker 1: that get them. They came back out and like you said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're able to kind of continue to build
Speaker 1: off that. But ultimately still at the end of that
Speaker 1: it's not like they didn't reach the end zone again
Speaker 1: until that final drive on a hail Mary play well
Speaker 1: executed hail Mary played. Great play by Travis Folgan to
Speaker 1: bat it down to Richard Rodgers made a great one
Speaker 1: hand and grab all that. That's great, but ultimately they
Speaker 1: were not able to reach the end zone again the
Speaker 1: rest of the game until that play, So, you know,
Speaker 1: just not enough from the Seagles offense. Russell Wilson finished
Speaker 1: the game twenty two completions, completing seventy one percent of
Speaker 1: his passes two hundred and thirty yards, one touchdown, and
Speaker 1: not doing much damage on the ground six carries for
Speaker 1: twelve yards, no touchdowns there. What did you think about
Speaker 1: this defense's game plan against Russell Wilson tonight. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to dig into the film on Tuesday morning and really
Speaker 1: get a look at it, but I would say two things.
Speaker 1: You got to see a good amount of it seemed
Speaker 1: like they mix things up from a coverage standpoint. Again,
Speaker 1: when I wait till get to the film to really
Speaker 1: say that with certainty, but they definitely mixed some things
Speaker 1: up from a coverage standpoint. And then also, it seemed
Speaker 1: to me like the defensive line played with really good
Speaker 1: rush lanes, really good discipline. And what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is that guys weren't out of their gap trying
Speaker 1: to freelance it and trying to get home as pass
Speaker 1: rushers if they're responsible for the gap between the left
Speaker 1: tackle and the left guard. For instance, they stayed in
Speaker 1: that gap that way when Russell Wilson's trying to escape,
Speaker 1: he has nowhere to go. And I thought we saw
Speaker 1: that a couple of times in this game. Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: was able to squeeze the whole. Derek Partnett got a
Speaker 1: sack on fourth down that kind of was an example
Speaker 1: of that. So I thought overall, the gap discipline, the
Speaker 1: rush lanes from the defensive line seemed to be pretty
Speaker 1: strong in this game. And I thought on the back
Speaker 1: end they did some good things in terms of mixing up.
Speaker 1: Coach Doug Peterson is at the podium ready to talk
Speaker 1: to the media. Hey, coach, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1: We'll get started here with John McMullin and then boo. Hey,
Speaker 1: Doug wanted to talk to you about that fourth and
Speaker 1: four play was about a little over eight minutes ago.
Speaker 1: It was a two score game at the time, So first,
Speaker 1: why did you decide to go for it? And then
Speaker 1: what did you see on the particular play. It looked
Speaker 1: like Carson and Dallas weren't on the same page. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you know, my mindset there was we got to stay
Speaker 1: as aggressive as possible on offense. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: had to try to make a play, get something something going.
Speaker 1: Uh And from my advantage point, UM, it just like
Speaker 1: Carson and Uh Dallas were we're not syncd up. It
Speaker 1: was a play we had used in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: They connected on it and it appeared that Dallas turned
Speaker 1: inside Carson threw it outside where where Dallas was on
Speaker 1: the first the first time we called the play. So
Speaker 1: just a matter of just those two guys being on
Speaker 1: the same page. But as far as the decision to go,
Speaker 1: we had to make every effort to just stay and
Speaker 1: really get us, get us into this game. And and
Speaker 1: Uh just wanted to stay as aggressive as possible. And
Speaker 1: then z and Garrol Doug. There was a four game
Speaker 1: stretch this season where Travis Fulgham was the leading receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Since the buy, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he's been a big part of the game plan. What
Speaker 1: have you seen from al Shan Jeffrey that that had
Speaker 1: him on the field more than Fulham tonight? Well, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, Travis is uh, you know, he's still
Speaker 1: a part of the offense and he knows he's got
Speaker 1: to continue to work hard each week and and uh
Speaker 1: and and play well and and al Sean is improving
Speaker 1: and getting uh you know, getting healthier, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to be able to use both those guys
Speaker 1: are two big targets, um, you know, for for Carson
Speaker 1: and UM, we've just got to continue to work and
Speaker 1: make make sure that both guys are ready to go.
Speaker 1: Even then christ and Rogers Doug was the plan come
Speaker 1: in tonight to use Jalen Hurts more and if so
Speaker 1: wide didn't have happened, Um, not necessarily. The plan was
Speaker 1: to use him when we could. Uh. The way the
Speaker 1: game started, you know, we just didn't have many opportunities,
Speaker 1: too many three and out so I don't think we
Speaker 1: got a first down until the second quarter. It just
Speaker 1: we just didn't We failed to execute. So it just
Speaker 1: wasn't uh, um, it just wasn't you know, in the
Speaker 1: in the in the cards. I guess it would speak
Speaker 1: you know, early in the football game, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: no more, no less than then what we would, uh
Speaker 1: you know, use him each week and then Jeff McClean, hey,
Speaker 1: can you explain the rotation between Hurts and Wentz Um.
Speaker 1: It feels like maybe it would be a challenge for
Speaker 1: either one of those guys to to find some consistency
Speaker 1: when one's in for one play then the other and
Speaker 1: then vice versa. Yeah, that's you know it is. It
Speaker 1: is a challenge for uh, for quarterbacks to do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, from an offensive perspective, if we can
Speaker 1: have a little change of pace there, you know with
Speaker 1: Jalen and mix things up whether we're running it or
Speaker 1: throwing it. UM. I thought the guys you know tonight,
Speaker 1: for the few plays that they you know, Jalen was in,
Speaker 1: they handled it well. Um the uh you know, it's
Speaker 1: just something well we'll continue to to work on um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it can it can be a little bit difficult,
Speaker 1: you know for uh for either one of the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you know, unless they can get you know, uh multiple snaps.
Speaker 1: But that just didn't happen. We were were too many
Speaker 1: three and ouns Jeff and then Mike ka uh Doug.
Speaker 1: A know, defense isn't more your side. But what was
Speaker 1: the plan to Jim's planning against against DK metcalf and
Speaker 1: would you think of you know what he did versus slay. Well,
Speaker 1: Dk is a great, uh you know, big target as
Speaker 1: a good receiver, Uh de Slay you know, matched up
Speaker 1: with him all night long and battled and uh made
Speaker 1: some plays and and and DK made some plays. So um,
Speaker 1: you know I thought overall, he you know, he did
Speaker 1: he did some did some good things. Played tough. I
Speaker 1: mean that's a that's a tough uh tough receiver to
Speaker 1: to defend. And and um, you know one that uh
Speaker 1: I thought De Slagh did did did some good things.
Speaker 1: Mike and then Zach Furman, Doug. When Jalen Rager was
Speaker 1: coming out, you guys selected him. You put an emphasis
Speaker 1: on speed. How why do you think you haven't been
Speaker 1: able to utilize that speed more in your play calling
Speaker 1: or at least on the you know, with completions down
Speaker 1: the field this season, well, um, you know some of
Speaker 1: it is some of it could be schemes, some of
Speaker 1: it could be uh, you know, Jalen still learning and
Speaker 1: and understanding what what what has asked of him. Um,
Speaker 1: he continues to improve each week, and we still find
Speaker 1: ways to to try to get him in space. We
Speaker 1: did it a couple of times tonight. And that's just
Speaker 1: the thing is, you know, there's there's also a lot
Speaker 1: of speed on defense. I think sometimes people forget that. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we do our part to to
Speaker 1: as as coaches to try to uh find ways creative
Speaker 1: ways to to do that. We did it with a
Speaker 1: little reverse with him tonight. We we did uh a
Speaker 1: couple of receiver screens or aver you were screened to him.
Speaker 1: He had one critical mistake on a red zone play
Speaker 1: that uh we we were gonna throw on a screen.
Speaker 1: He made a mistake there, So, um, we just gotta
Speaker 1: keep working and uh, you know, battle through it, Zach
Speaker 1: and then Martin Frank, Hey, Doug, you seem to suggest
Speaker 1: that lack of offensive rhythm was why Hurts was not
Speaker 1: more involved early. But isn't that And like I guess,
Speaker 1: can't that be a reason the play hurts more? No,
Speaker 1: and we can why not because it's not about one guy.
Speaker 1: You know, we had breakdowns across the board and um,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter you know who's back there. The
Speaker 1: mistakes were still going to be made and and um,
Speaker 1: you know something we gotta fix Martin and rob Maddy
Speaker 1: it Doug. Um, when when you did jayling in there
Speaker 1: the first time you took Carson off the field, and
Speaker 1: I was kind of curious as to what kind of
Speaker 1: advantage you think that gives you with you know, without
Speaker 1: Carson being on the field, and also when you put
Speaker 1: him back in, Um, you know, the next time, you know,
Speaker 1: Carson was on the field, and that was like a
Speaker 1: hand off to Miles. Just kind of like the difference
Speaker 1: I guess between you know, Carson being on and off
Speaker 1: the field when Hurts is in the game. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, when when Jalen's been on the field
Speaker 1: with Carson, Uh, defenses have been playing in a certain way,
Speaker 1: and as we have evaluated you know, those two together,
Speaker 1: putting Jalen on the field by himself, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: presents a little bit different picture for the defense. So um,
Speaker 1: that's why we did it. That's why we did it tonight.
Speaker 1: And UM but I think I think we can still
Speaker 1: get some mileage out of using both both quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: then also Jayleen uh as the quarterback you know, by himself.
Speaker 1: Rob and then Ed Kratz, Doug Moss Sanders had five
Speaker 1: carries in the first half. Obviously, you were going up
Speaker 1: against the worst past defense in the league. Was that
Speaker 1: part of the fact that why he wasn't running as
Speaker 1: much in the first half is that you were trying
Speaker 1: to attack that defense or is it what they were
Speaker 1: giving you. I just think they, you know, got after
Speaker 1: us a little bit in the run game, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, uh got on some edges. You know, we
Speaker 1: we missed, we missed uh their safety a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and we had to make uh we had to make
Speaker 1: some adjustments. But but we knew probably going into this
Speaker 1: game that we were at least gonna have to put
Speaker 1: the ball in the air. Um, you know, to give
Speaker 1: ourselves a chance. It's a good rush defense, and uh
Speaker 1: it's a good uh good front and um, you know,
Speaker 1: they did a nice job. We have time for two Morris,
Speaker 1: so we'll go ed Krafts and then less. Hey, hi, Doug,
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier you know you didn't have your first
Speaker 1: first down until the second quarter. I think there was
Speaker 1: less than five minutes ago. It's not the first time,
Speaker 1: uh that's happened this year. I think it was the
Speaker 1: Ravens as well. If the first first down came late.
Speaker 1: Why why do you think, and you put a finger
Speaker 1: on why that hasn't been fixed? Why this team continues
Speaker 1: to struggle to score in the first half or even
Speaker 1: pick up first downs. I think it just comes down to,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, you know, offensively, we've we've battled with
Speaker 1: a lot of injury, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: different movement parts up front with the offensive line guys
Speaker 1: in and out. You know, it's just we haven't had
Speaker 1: the consistency and the continuity that you would like week
Speaker 1: in and week out that Um, you know, you look
Speaker 1: at offenses around the league that have stayed together and
Speaker 1: have stayed healthy. There there's continuity and there's consistency there,
Speaker 1: and we just haven't had that this season. And um,
Speaker 1: it's something that we uh we you know, we don't
Speaker 1: make excuses for it. It's it's where we are and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we have to get better. Last
Speaker 1: question here with us that kind of played into what
Speaker 1: I was going to ask Doug, But I'll ask you
Speaker 1: in a slightly different way. Why are these week twelve?
Speaker 1: Why are guys not on the same page? You know
Speaker 1: they obviously Dallas Goddard and Carson Wentz had played together
Speaker 1: a lot. Uh, how do these mistakes keep happening? I
Speaker 1: mean it just comes down to each guy, you know,
Speaker 1: just just doing his job and not doing too much.
Speaker 1: And sometimes sometimes when you get in these situations, you
Speaker 1: try to do too much. And and it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of not chasing plays, but but making the plays
Speaker 1: when they come to you. And um, you know we're
Speaker 1: going to continue to work and um, you know we're
Speaker 1: not going to make excuses for anything. And we got
Speaker 1: another ball game here in a couple of days, and
Speaker 1: and uh we got to get some of this, uh,
Speaker 1: some of this corrected and and uh and move on.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks, Hey Dallas, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1: We'll get started here with Marcus Hayes and then Nick Fierro. Hey, Dallas,
Speaker 1: I know you had a pretty successful gay. How did
Speaker 1: you feel out there? And you know you had a
Speaker 1: touchdown catch and can you tell us what happened on
Speaker 1: the interception in the end zone, the catch where you
Speaker 1: and Carson didn't connect. Yeah, I mean I felt good
Speaker 1: out there. Uh, we had a play call. It was
Speaker 1: just like a ten yard uh sit route. I tried
Speaker 1: to work the leverage on fifty six. Um, I was
Speaker 1: kind of coming down an inside so he couldn't break
Speaker 1: up the play and I'd be able to make it. Um.
Speaker 1: Carson thought I was gonna be going down in a
Speaker 1: way and through it there. Um, you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: should have been where he thought I was going to
Speaker 1: be Um, I'll take blame for that one. Um. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it was a crucial point of the game, and mistakes
Speaker 1: like that can't happen. Pick and then Paul DOMI yeah, Steve,
Speaker 1: you know, just go back to that play. Two or
Speaker 1: these things showing up in practice, and if they're not,
Speaker 1: why are they showing up in games? The miscommunications. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we ran that play four times. I might
Speaker 1: I think I had three receptions on it. The fourth time.
Speaker 1: I might have been trying to do a little bit
Speaker 1: too much. You know, they were kind of sitting two
Speaker 1: over there on me and I just went in there
Speaker 1: and I was trying to make a play. We needed it.
Speaker 1: I knew the matchup was good, and I knew the
Speaker 1: ball was going to come to me. And I try
Speaker 1: to do too much. I'm on and Chris Mary Yeah, Dallas.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the fourth quarter, the fourth and two pass
Speaker 1: looked like you were just running a simple out route.
Speaker 1: If that doesn't get bad at a pretty good chance
Speaker 1: you catch that. I was on the other side of
Speaker 1: the field that was to Richard Rogers. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think if it doesn't get bad at rich catch isn't
Speaker 1: able to turn up the sideline for a little bit
Speaker 1: of a big game. Chris, My question to you, Dallas,
Speaker 1: what's the mood of this locker room right now? Going
Speaker 1: through these last three weeks? You kn't you You've been
Speaker 1: struggling to find ways to win and it just hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: So how do you how do you fix it? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep going to work. We need to
Speaker 1: clean up the little things. The defense I thought played
Speaker 1: very well today. Um, offensively, we need eleven guys on
Speaker 1: the same page at all times, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: we haven't had that. We just need to go and
Speaker 1: just keep fine tuning. You know, I think Prior was
Speaker 1: playing guard, he moved to tackle. Jordan wasn't playing he
Speaker 1: moved to guard or the other tackle, JP went inside. Um,
Speaker 1: we just need we just need, you know, to have
Speaker 1: the same lineup. We just need to keep working. Um.
Speaker 1: But the locker room, man, people are pissed. Uh. We
Speaker 1: got a lot of winners in that room and nobody
Speaker 1: likes to lose. Uh. It's tough going through a stretch
Speaker 1: like that. Um, but you know, I think we got
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna stay together. We're gonna keep playing
Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to work on Wednesday and get
Speaker 1: ready for the Packers and go down there and give
Speaker 1: them everything we got and uh, you know, hopefully we
Speaker 1: can get to win there. We have time for two more,
Speaker 1: so we'll go bow and then last, Dallas, do you
Speaker 1: think the offense let the defense down in this game? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the defense they went down there and what
Speaker 1: they get a stop on the freaking goal line. Unbelievable play.
Speaker 1: They stopped them on four down in midfield. When they
Speaker 1: play like that, we gotta convert. We gotta go down
Speaker 1: and score. So yeah, I think we did let them down,
Speaker 1: but I know that I was gonna have our back,
Speaker 1: just like if they're struggling, we need to step it up.
Speaker 1: We haven't done that as much as we need to
Speaker 1: this year, but um, you know we're gonna keep growing
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get there. Last question here with less Hey, Dallas,
Speaker 1: So why do these mistakes keep happening over and over again?
Speaker 1: It just seems like the offense, if you kind of
Speaker 1: pan back a little bit, I think you were like,
Speaker 1: oh for five on third downs at one point, and
Speaker 1: then it got better. But you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: time was wasted before the offense kind of got into
Speaker 1: any kind of rhythm at all. Is that a question
Speaker 1: or a statement? What I was saying? What what causes
Speaker 1: all of these breakdowns? Why can't people get on the
Speaker 1: same page? Week twelve? I mean, I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought I was doing my job out there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go and watch film. Obviously I left
Speaker 1: a few plays on the field, um that I wish
Speaker 1: I could have made. Um, But you know, when I'm
Speaker 1: in there, I can't see what everybody else is doing.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's a tough game. The defense that
Speaker 1: we played is is a good team. Um, they brought
Speaker 1: some different stuff. Uh thirty three, you never know where
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. He just he's just playing random. It
Speaker 1: seems that sometimes he's hitting different gaps. You never know
Speaker 1: where he's gonna be. Um. But yeah, just as offense,
Speaker 1: we just got to be better. Um. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 1: to go watch the film and kind of see where,
Speaker 1: uh we need to clean it up. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have the answer for you. Thank you, thank you, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Hey Slack, thanks for taking the time. We'll get started
Speaker 1: here with John McMullin and Martin Frank Hey slay. Uh obviously,
Speaker 1: Uh it looked like you were traveling with DJ pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire game. Fought hard. How how difficult it
Speaker 1: is to go up against somebody like that, that that
Speaker 1: kind of size, that kind of strength, that kind of speed. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was it was a great brittle you know. I
Speaker 1: won't say it was difficult. It's just that, Um, I
Speaker 1: lost every fifty and um and you know, and that's
Speaker 1: not I'm usually be on the other side of that
Speaker 1: to day. I'm on the other side of it, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: I let the team down. I told the defense, Uh,
Speaker 1: that game was on me. You know, I gotta play better.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, uh get prost to the DK
Speaker 1: for being uh giving me the good work. You know,
Speaker 1: we are competing every play, but uh, yeah, I lost
Speaker 1: every fifty fifty ball, and UM, I gotta be better
Speaker 1: Martin and Jeff. It's like, um, how tough was that
Speaker 1: for you to see? To see that because it seemed
Speaker 1: like in a couple of those year had like really
Speaker 1: good coverage on him and he still made the catch
Speaker 1: and everything. I mean, you know, what what is that like?
Speaker 1: I mean, it was tough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Feeling like the players weren't going my way. And you know, uh,
Speaker 1: but like I said, he did a great job catching
Speaker 1: the ball. Man. He did everything. He uh did everything
Speaker 1: good as a receiver, you know. So you know it's
Speaker 1: my worst I say this by far, in my worst
Speaker 1: game I ever played in uh in the league. You know,
Speaker 1: I lost really like truly lost almost every fifty fifty ball,
Speaker 1: like I was probably offah and uh, I've never been that.
Speaker 1: But like I said, pros to him, and he played
Speaker 1: his ass off today and I just gotta getting better.
Speaker 1: Jeff and the bow, Uh the slow can you take
Speaker 1: us through the two yard catch? We're just running basically deposts?
Speaker 1: And were you expecting safety help there? Honestly? No, I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was a blizz. He called all
Speaker 1: out there. They kind of protected up mass protected and UM,
Speaker 1: you know me as a dB uh anything you know
Speaker 1: about all out blicks. Uh he kind of said the
Speaker 1: States because the ball was to come out pretty fast.
Speaker 1: But uh, Russell did a good job of saying that
Speaker 1: our guests and UM and mats protected and he took
Speaker 1: the shot. So you know, I kind of sat down
Speaker 1: at a at the yard mark and UM. After that
Speaker 1: you know it was speed on speed, good catch by him. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I just gotta be better at that. I
Speaker 1: gotta just finish that playing, you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: fifty fifty uh he and he caught it, so, like
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta be better than that. Oh and
Speaker 1: then Chris Franklin, well you just said this was the
Speaker 1: probably the worst game of your career. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously these are the games that they you were brought
Speaker 1: in for to stop a guy like dk Um. You said,
Speaker 1: you you feel like you let the team down. How
Speaker 1: does that feel? What does it feel like? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a man about what I do. I'm I'm always
Speaker 1: feeling great. You know, I'm always in a bad mood
Speaker 1: and no bad spirit. But I understand and I own
Speaker 1: and and I got great ownership. I know. I know
Speaker 1: that I could change the game, and I know I
Speaker 1: could have helped. So I put that game with me
Speaker 1: because I posted it had and you know, did my
Speaker 1: job and shut him down. But like I said, he
Speaker 1: was making every catch possible, you know, every fifty fifty one.
Speaker 1: That's why it was his yard at the catch, no
Speaker 1: yat because I'm right there and I was, like I said,
Speaker 1: he just made more plays than I did. And uh,
Speaker 1: and I take a real big ownership, man, because I
Speaker 1: feel like I wanted the best in the game and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue to always take my ownership. And I
Speaker 1: just say he got the best of me today. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to going to work next week and
Speaker 1: it was this week and getting better man for the
Speaker 1: team because they deserve it. I deserve it. And uh
Speaker 1: and this organization do christ And then at Cracks it's like,
Speaker 1: was there any discussions on the sideline by you or
Speaker 1: anybody that you know off to possibly get you some
Speaker 1: more help as mac as matcalf Cup having that big game?
Speaker 1: Hell not, I only know help kind of question that
Speaker 1: next one D and then Chris Murray, Hey, uh, slay
Speaker 1: just um, this team is stuck at three interceptions, hasn't
Speaker 1: had one since October twenty second? Have you ever been
Speaker 1: on a team like that? And why why so few
Speaker 1: interceptions in week twelve? Here? Um, just because like I've
Speaker 1: been on a team like that before. You know, in Detroit, shoot,
Speaker 1: I think we want to have partly like seven seven
Speaker 1: to eight totally. You know, when you play a lot
Speaker 1: of man, your back is turned to the ball and
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to getting them type of picks
Speaker 1: you know, every play, so like that's what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, you see guys that play zone or guys
Speaker 1: that do a lot, those are guys that make a
Speaker 1: lot of picks. Um, you know, so when you play
Speaker 1: a lot of Man, you know, it's tough. That's why
Speaker 1: you see some of the great corners. That's with great
Speaker 1: man corners as in yourself as you can see Dion,
Speaker 1: I mean not Dion, but uh Vis, you know, but
Speaker 1: like twenty nine twenty eight because he played a lot
Speaker 1: of Man, you know. But it's that's that's what comes
Speaker 1: with it. You have time for one Marshall and here
Speaker 1: on Cress. Yeah, I gotta ask the question, how do
Speaker 1: you how does this locker room fix everything? The last
Speaker 1: three weeks? You have it one game, it's like you're
Speaker 1: in it, but you're not in it. How do you
Speaker 1: fix it? I mean, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: stay motivated? I mean she I'm you know, I can't
Speaker 1: answer for everybody else, but as to me as a player,
Speaker 1: I'm always motivated because the fact that I know guys
Speaker 1: depending on me. Man, I come in this locker room
Speaker 1: and look at their faces, we go to work together,
Speaker 1: we compete together, we make each other better some type
Speaker 1: of way. And I and I'm really big on not
Speaker 1: letting folks down, you know, as in with that aspect
Speaker 1: definitely when it comes down, it's the most best team sport.
Speaker 1: It is, so man. I take my uh, I take
Speaker 1: my team stuff pretty seriously. Man. I always want to
Speaker 1: be the best for them. I always want to prepare
Speaker 1: the best for them. And like I said today, I
Speaker 1: prepare a great But you know, like I said, I
Speaker 1: lost every ball. Thanks, all right, have a good day.
Speaker 1: I just love him so much. Man. Talk about a
Speaker 1: guy come into the podium after a rough day and
Speaker 1: saying I want to face these questions and look, I
Speaker 1: did not have my best game. In fact, Darius Slay
Speaker 1: says this was his worst game as a pro since
Speaker 1: he's been in the league, crediting DK Metcalf for playing
Speaker 1: a great game, for giving him that work today, and
Speaker 1: saying he lost every fifty fifty ball. He needs to
Speaker 1: do better. He told the team he needs to do better,
Speaker 1: but he's confident in himself that they brought him in
Speaker 1: for games like this and he didn't get the job done.
Speaker 1: And that is a competitor. I love to see that,
Speaker 1: and it's not only taking responsibility but clearly enjoying facing
Speaker 1: a guy like DK Metcalf who got the best of
Speaker 1: him today. And I'm sure he's going to be looking
Speaker 1: forward to the next time those two gets to be
Speaker 1: on the field together. And look, we saw a little
Speaker 1: chippy out there, and I don't hate that. This was
Speaker 1: a matchup. We were excited for going into this game tonight,
Speaker 1: and I just love to see Darius Slay's attitude after
Speaker 1: a matchup like that. Fran let me come to you
Speaker 1: with this and chalk a little bit about Dk Metcalf,
Speaker 1: who look, Darius Slay admitted he got the best of
Speaker 1: me tonight. He got every single fifty fifty ball, but
Speaker 1: he knock at the yards after the cash because I
Speaker 1: was right there. These are the words of slight. What
Speaker 1: do you think Metcalf did that? They gave this defense
Speaker 1: Indurius Slay so much trouble at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dk Metcalf, we sat at the top in
Speaker 1: the Kickoff show. He's one of the toughest covers in
Speaker 1: the NFL. With his size, his straight line speed, he
Speaker 1: is a physical specimen. I mean you talk about who
Speaker 1: are the best corners in the NFL. You said last
Speaker 1: year the two best corners in the National Football League
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen were Stephan Gilmore in New England, and
Speaker 1: you would say Tredevious White and Buffalo. Metcalf played both
Speaker 1: of them over the last month and a half and
Speaker 1: he took both of their lunch money and he went
Speaker 1: straight debot from Friday on both guys. And then he
Speaker 1: you know, faal up at Jaalen Ramsey who's playing lights
Speaker 1: out right now, and Jalen Ramsey he's got those dimensions,
Speaker 1: he's got that skill set to be able to match
Speaker 1: him from a physical standpoint, and Jalen Ramsey gave him
Speaker 1: trouble last week here a couple weeks ago. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately, look, when you look at DK Metcalfe,
Speaker 1: he's one of the toughest covers in the NFL. He
Speaker 1: was that way in college. He fell because of medical, right,
Speaker 1: every team passed on We heard about it a million
Speaker 1: times on the broadcast. Every team passed on him multiple
Speaker 1: times because of the medical. The medical was a big,
Speaker 1: big deal with him, um, you know, and that's why
Speaker 1: he fell. But no, there was no questioning his physical
Speaker 1: tools and what he could be at the next level.
Speaker 1: And he has reached that, you know, that potential. Still
Speaker 1: has things to work on, but certainly has reached that potential.
Speaker 1: All right, And with that, Carson Wentz is at the podium.
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. Hey, Carson, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1: We'll get started here with Dave Zangarrow and then John McMullin, Hey, Carson,
Speaker 1: slow starts have been kind of plaguing you guys all year.
Speaker 1: What happened tonight? Yeah, you know the same thing. I
Speaker 1: gotta go watch the tape. M you know, I know
Speaker 1: some things we just missed, we didn't execute. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I can be better early in the games. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they made some plays early and um did
Speaker 1: some things differently than what we had planned. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the slow starts are frustrating, you know, That's
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. I'm gonna go back and watch
Speaker 1: and see how we can change that and how we
Speaker 1: can change the momentum early in ballgames so we can
Speaker 1: not put ourselves behind the eight pall like that. John
Speaker 1: and Zach Berman, Hey, Carson, on the fourth and four
Speaker 1: play that turned into the interception, it looked like you
Speaker 1: and Dallas weren't on the same page. Can he kind
Speaker 1: of take us through what happened there? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you hit it on the head. You know, we just
Speaker 1: weren't on the same page. And you know that's on me.
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure we're we're squared away, we're on
Speaker 1: the same page. And um, you know, he had a
Speaker 1: big game. He had a big game, and we just
Speaker 1: missed a couple. But um, you know in that situation,
Speaker 1: that that matchup, you know, I thought everything was good.
Speaker 1: He's our guy and you know him and I just
Speaker 1: we gotta make sure we're on the same page for that,
Speaker 1: Zach and then Martin, Hey, Carson, how does it affect
Speaker 1: you affect the offense and affect Jewen when he's coming
Speaker 1: on the field mid dride you're coming off. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean listen, when we're stagnant like that as an offense,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm all ears. You know, whatever coach is
Speaker 1: confident in. However, we can you know, get some momentum
Speaker 1: or you know, pick up a first down in that
Speaker 1: case early in the game. And so obviously it's a
Speaker 1: tricky thing to navigate, but I think you know if
Speaker 1: it's going to provide us the spark that we need. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully going forward it can in those situations.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, obviously we just didn't do enough
Speaker 1: all around tonight Martin and Jeff McClean Carson, there's kind
Speaker 1: of been a lot of talk and speculation, you know,
Speaker 1: about you possibly getting benched or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: does that weigh on you at all? Do you think
Speaker 1: about that at all? And did that occur like during
Speaker 1: the game, any of that come up? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I said it last week. You know, this is what
Speaker 1: you sign up for, and as a quarterback ever since
Speaker 1: you're a kid, you know you're you're prepared for for
Speaker 1: any of those Nothing's ever guaranteed, and so for me,
Speaker 1: I don't think about that though. I just try and
Speaker 1: go out and be the best player I can be
Speaker 1: in practice, prepare my tail off, compete my tail off,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, hopefully we can get this thing
Speaker 1: turned around. But I don't think about those things. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it everything I got every time I step
Speaker 1: on the field. Jeff and then ed Bank Carson. Last
Speaker 1: week I think was forty seven drops. You only rolled
Speaker 1: out once this game. I don't know if it was one.
Speaker 1: Maybe there were another one, but I didn't see it
Speaker 1: a lot of this game either. It seemed like we
Speaker 1: ask you this every week and you say you like
Speaker 1: to roll out. Why aren't you being rolled out more? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we tried it a couple of
Speaker 1: times tonight. You know, they made some plays where, you know,
Speaker 1: different pressures and different looks. I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: it tough against the defense like that, when they're different
Speaker 1: doing different edge pressures and everything. So, yeah, I'll have
Speaker 1: to go back and watch the tape. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was a part of the plan to some extent,
Speaker 1: but they made some plays that took it away MK.
Speaker 1: All right, Carson Doug talked a little bit going into
Speaker 1: this game about trying to simplify things. Did that happen
Speaker 1: at times so offensively tonight or was it a lot
Speaker 1: of what we'd see in the last few weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think maybe a little bit um you know,
Speaker 1: right wrong or in different you know, we just to
Speaker 1: make the plays, you know. I don't think it was scheme.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a lot of those things.
Speaker 1: We just didn't make enough plays and win enough of
Speaker 1: our one on ones and and I didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: make enough plays or making enough good throws. So I mean, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's just how it was tonight. It was frustrating.
Speaker 1: Mike Kay and then Nick zero person. Um, obviously we
Speaker 1: saw Travis have that really great streak with you for
Speaker 1: those that stretched for the bye week. What are you
Speaker 1: seeing different in coverage when when he's lined up that
Speaker 1: that's kind of hurting that connection so far? Um, you know, nothing, really,
Speaker 1: you know, vastly different. You know, I think we were
Speaker 1: just rotating bodies a little bit more. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: alstround is a bigger part of what we do. And um,
Speaker 1: people are you know, maybe a little aware of Travis
Speaker 1: after those couple of weeks, But um, he's still the
Speaker 1: same player and we're still gonna, you know, have him
Speaker 1: be a big part of this offense and him and
Speaker 1: I will connect more. Going for Nick and the Michael
Speaker 1: Long high courtion in the fourth order there right before
Speaker 1: it was actually at a play right before you were
Speaker 1: sacked the time out. Um, it looked like Alston came
Speaker 1: out in the field from the sideline. He wasn't in
Speaker 1: on the play. You had a little bit of a conversation.
Speaker 1: Then he went back to the sideline. Can you share
Speaker 1: what went on there? Is that some words of encouragement
Speaker 1: or anything. No, I mean it was just some specific
Speaker 1: from the way that defensive back was playing. So nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: You have time for two more, so we'll go on
Speaker 1: Mike and unless um Carson, thank you, Alio Carson. Some
Speaker 1: tough losses the last few weeks, he had some tough
Speaker 1: games ahead, but this is still a very competitive division.
Speaker 1: But can you just tell he's kind of cut a
Speaker 1: pulse on what do you think this team is at
Speaker 1: and and as going forward unless you go into Green
Speaker 1: Bay this weekend. Yeah, I mean we're frustrated. You know,
Speaker 1: we're frustrated. I know I'm frustrated. I hate losing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's m it's very frustrating to have this result. You know,
Speaker 1: these last couple of week we're at this season, U.
Speaker 1: But the crazy thing about this league, in this division especially,
Speaker 1: is it's still wide open and guys know that. Guys
Speaker 1: know that, and you know we're looking ahead U to
Speaker 1: next week, getting this thing turned around and getting go
Speaker 1: in the right direction and hopefully you know, surprising people. Alright, less,
Speaker 1: Hey Carson, So We're in week twelve. Why do these
Speaker 1: mistakes keep happening? Why aren't people connecting? I know you
Speaker 1: had a screen, a s crucial screen past tonight where
Speaker 1: the receiver just sort of took off. It looked like
Speaker 1: he didn't know he was running a screen. Why do
Speaker 1: these things keep happening? Yeah, I mean it's it's a
Speaker 1: tough thing to answer, you know. I mean, it's something
Speaker 1: that I think every one of us is accountable for
Speaker 1: and wants to correct, you know, And it's you know,
Speaker 1: you can you can say a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: um to answer that question. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we gotta be better. We gotta be better,
Speaker 1: and those mistakes can't happen. And I gotta be better
Speaker 1: making sure everyone's on the same page and everything going forward.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm excited to turn that thing around. Um,
Speaker 1: turn this around. And UM, you know, like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: go surprising people. Thank you Carson, Thank you guys, thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time. We'll get started with bow Wolf
Speaker 1: and then Marcus Hayes Brandon, do you think the offense
Speaker 1: let the defense down tonight? Nah, it's a team game, man,
Speaker 1: you know, we just gotta figure out a way to
Speaker 1: keep on encouraging each other, keep on, you know, keep fighting,
Speaker 1: make sure we stay consistently on defense. And you know,
Speaker 1: we know the offense gonna get it right. You know,
Speaker 1: I just seen Carson. I know how how I mean
Speaker 1: it means something to all of us. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: things haven't been happening in the way we wanted to.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, man, it's no quit in
Speaker 1: us and we we got five games left. Slay, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind me following up, Slay also told us
Speaker 1: that that he felt that he let the team down. Um,
Speaker 1: what did you make of that? And you know, did
Speaker 1: he convey that to you guys? I mean we talk
Speaker 1: about ownership, you know, I know Slay which he had
Speaker 1: a couple of plays back, but you know, we all
Speaker 1: we all wish we could have a couple of plays back,
Speaker 1: you know, because certain stuff didn't happen the way we
Speaker 1: wanted to on certain plays. But I know that Slay
Speaker 1: he had dog. You know, he gonna come ready to go,
Speaker 1: you know next next play mentality. Uh, you know he's
Speaker 1: a fighter and so um, I mean, man, I'm riding
Speaker 1: with him every time. I just felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: DK did made some good plays, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we all got some We all got
Speaker 1: some fart in this thing. Marcus and Chris Murray, Hey Brandon.
Speaker 1: Three things. Can you talk about the fourth down stands
Speaker 1: and Derek Barnett, who's had kind of an up and
Speaker 1: down season, and the way that you guys contained Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson as as a runner, he's hurt you before in
Speaker 1: the past and he was there they're leading Russian. Can
Speaker 1: you talk about those two things? Well, we knew that
Speaker 1: coming in that you know, he's been beating us on
Speaker 1: the run, like you know, it's been like you know,
Speaker 1: just missed the Simmons here, or like we let him
Speaker 1: out on my end. Like as far as like being
Speaker 1: up contain you know, sometimes you might want to go inside. Uh,
Speaker 1: we we didn't want to rush scared, but at the
Speaker 1: same time we went out there, we rushed and we
Speaker 1: all was on the same page. Just collapsed in the
Speaker 1: pocket on Russell because we know Russell try to find
Speaker 1: those little holes based off the film that we watched,
Speaker 1: um you know, the last couple of times we played them,
Speaker 1: and so we tried to do a really good job
Speaker 1: of that and I think we did do a good
Speaker 1: job of containing them, hitting them. But you know, we
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna make plays, and you know, we
Speaker 1: just didn't make enough places to win the game. And
Speaker 1: can you talk about Burnette in the fourth down stance.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that made the play. What did that
Speaker 1: do for your defense? And how big is it for
Speaker 1: him to do that? You know, Uh, we took it
Speaker 1: as disrespect for them to keep going on fourth So
Speaker 1: you know, for dB to go out there and make
Speaker 1: a play, I knew he you know, he was coming off.
Speaker 1: I knew he was pissed, pissed off that they was
Speaker 1: still on the field, you know, on fourth down. And
Speaker 1: you know we were talking about that as defense, We're
Speaker 1: gonna hold them, were gonna hold them, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we got that done, uh, based off you know,
Speaker 1: just the effort of everybody as dB got off and
Speaker 1: you know, we got numbers to the ball to get
Speaker 1: it stopped. And you know, I'm happy for dB because
Speaker 1: I know dB definitely was dealing with injuries in the beginning.
Speaker 1: But you know, I know dB as a ball player
Speaker 1: and Henna, he's gonna come to work every day. Christen
Speaker 1: rob Kessner, Yeah, how does the leadership but all the
Speaker 1: captains of this team, keep these guys together. But obviously
Speaker 1: a fust rain three weeks. How do you guys keep
Speaker 1: your heads up? And what can be done to kind
Speaker 1: of get you guys out as funk right now? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what can be done is getting w you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, getting to win, putting it all
Speaker 1: together offense, defense, special teams, and uh, not making a
Speaker 1: you know, not making mistakes. I mean, mistakes gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but you know, uh, and critical critical downs when we
Speaker 1: need it. We can't be making you know, just silly penalties.
Speaker 1: You know. A couple of penalties I feel we can
Speaker 1: control is the personal files. Of course, you know, people
Speaker 1: get chippy and I understand that, but we got to
Speaker 1: own take ownership of you know, hey, we we can't
Speaker 1: be the guy that you know, cost this a drive
Speaker 1: because we want to extend it because we still got
Speaker 1: something to say whatever, like, you know, we just got
Speaker 1: to own our stuff and move on. But those the
Speaker 1: stuff that we could control. We could control those type
Speaker 1: of penalties, and I think that, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: we just got to continue to keep on holding honing
Speaker 1: in at the defense. We got to stay on top
Speaker 1: of you know, people when they get chippy, we understand,
Speaker 1: you know, that's part of the game. People got the energy.
Speaker 1: But you know, we got to be smart in situational football.
Speaker 1: We have time for a few more, so we'll go
Speaker 1: Rob add and Jeff Hey BJ. During the telecast tonight,
Speaker 1: the ESPN broadcasters were seeing that on the flight back
Speaker 1: from Cleveland that Fletcher Cox made it a point to
Speaker 1: seek out Carson and just say, hey, we got your back.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed any confidence concerns with Carson And do
Speaker 1: you feel, as a veteran leader that you need to
Speaker 1: do stuff as something of the same with him right now?
Speaker 1: Given a struggle. I mean I've done that, you know,
Speaker 1: every week. I always try to let them know, like, man,
Speaker 1: I've been there. I know what it feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: for people to you know, feel like get him out
Speaker 1: of here. You know, he's this and that, and it's like, man,
Speaker 1: the only way you turn that around is by working
Speaker 1: hard and making sure that you could just keep on
Speaker 1: working your technique, keep keep keep doing, you doing stuff
Speaker 1: behind the scenes like you're doing. Eventually all that stuff
Speaker 1: gonna start coming together for you again. I don't see
Speaker 1: you know, Carson, you know having too much going on.
Speaker 1: I try not to, you know, be in this ear
Speaker 1: about too much because you know, I know everybody's coming
Speaker 1: at him. But I tell him to block out that
Speaker 1: noise because at the end of the day, people donna
Speaker 1: eat them words one day, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But you gotta stay focused, gotta keep your mind focused
Speaker 1: and not clutter with who ain't never played. You know,
Speaker 1: people talk, they have their opinion, they get paid for that.
Speaker 1: We get paid to go out there and make plays,
Speaker 1: and so you focus on that everything and start turning
Speaker 1: around and uh, you know, we got your back because
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to divide our team and
Speaker 1: we want him to know that, you know, we were
Speaker 1: riding with him, you know, to the in Hey, BG,
Speaker 1: just as far as turnovers goes, team doesn't force alot
Speaker 1: of turnovers, especially interceptions. Why why do you think it's
Speaker 1: been so challenging to to kind of turn the ball over?
Speaker 1: You know, it's just sometimes it happens like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talk about, you know, those good defenses, you know,
Speaker 1: winning the turnover turnover margin, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
Speaker 1: And some games we do some games, some games, you know,
Speaker 1: we we don't. We gotta we gotta stake consistent, you know,
Speaker 1: with everything, and you know, we we even talk about
Speaker 1: just even up front. We gotta make sure that we
Speaker 1: continue to keep on swarming the quarterback, making a rough
Speaker 1: one back there so he can, uh, you know, so
Speaker 1: he can make a mistake and you know, throw us
Speaker 1: one or you know, get a tip. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's everything kind of works together, d line. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, getting after the quarterback definitely helps the dbs,
Speaker 1: and and dbs definitely help us on certain times too,
Speaker 1: you know, helping us get the sack, you know, taking
Speaker 1: away they first looks. But it's all we all work together,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. And and I gotta say, we gotta
Speaker 1: stay consistent. And the only way we stay consistent is
Speaker 1: just keep on working and block out all the noise
Speaker 1: and you know, just focus on us. Last question here
Speaker 1: with Jeff BG, do you guys get the sense that
Speaker 1: you're playing for Doug's job. I mean at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, where everybody's playing for they are at
Speaker 1: the end of the day when when stuff go bad,
Speaker 1: we know that you know, they're trying to weed out
Speaker 1: the ones that don't want to be here. And I
Speaker 1: don't see that, you know, I don't see people not
Speaker 1: want to be here. People definitely are, you know, coming
Speaker 1: to work every day. But you know, we gotta keep
Speaker 1: on holding people to a high standard of you know,
Speaker 1: not beating ourselves. And you know we I feel like
Speaker 1: Doug got us fighting and we always we always gonna
Speaker 1: fight for whoever is there. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: definitely for sure, we're trying to make sure we keep
Speaker 1: them here. Thanks, thank you. Okay. Veteran defensive lineman Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham with the final words from the players after tonight's loss.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the postgame show presented by Rico. Now
Speaker 1: it's time for the Rico Review tonight starring Dallas Goddarthy
Speaker 1: team's leading receiver, with his touchdown putting the Eagles, helping
Speaker 1: the Eagles score going into the second half. Here's fran Duffy.
Speaker 1: Let's look at this touchdown throw from Carson Wentz to Dallas.
Speaker 1: Got a really good design here by the Eagles on
Speaker 1: this play. On the previous play they had actually thrown
Speaker 1: a screen to got It, very similar to this. Look
Speaker 1: where got It was lined up on the right side
Speaker 1: behind Alshon, Jeffrey and Travis Folgum was out in the
Speaker 1: perimeter as well. And all you're gonna see here is
Speaker 1: the little short motion of last time it was got It.
Speaker 1: At this time it's Greg Ward. He's gonna step inside
Speaker 1: and catch a quick throw from Carson Wentz and try
Speaker 1: and leap forward. Eagles try and use the same action
Speaker 1: here where Carson Wentz is gonna drop back, look to
Speaker 1: his left and try and throw a pump. That's gonna
Speaker 1: try and get these defenders in white jerseys out to
Speaker 1: the perimeter clear some space in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: The other aspect of This is the route combination from
Speaker 1: the two tight ends. What you're going to see here
Speaker 1: from the Eagles down on the red zone is a
Speaker 1: concept they've run a number of times over the last
Speaker 1: few years. It's a stick nod all right. That's the
Speaker 1: stick nod route from Dallas Goddard and then a return route.
Speaker 1: That's the second option here for Carson Wentz. That's from
Speaker 1: Richard Rodgers. So Carson Wentz gonna drop back first, he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw the pump fake to Greg Ward. Then he's
Speaker 1: gonna work to his next progression. That's going to be
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard. That's really the first read here on this play.
Speaker 1: If that's not open, then you get to Richard Rogers.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna let this play for a sec and
Speaker 1: then pause. Watch as soon as Carson Wentz drops back,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take a look, throw that little pump fake.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see this route about to establish itself. He's
Speaker 1: settling as if he's going to run the stick route,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna try and get that safety to try
Speaker 1: and see if he can bite to the perimeter. That's
Speaker 1: gonna allow Dallas Goddard to work wide open in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. You can see the linebacker. He's
Speaker 1: gonna jump here. This linebacker, Bobby Wagner, he's already working
Speaker 1: out towards Greg Ward. That's gonna create a nice, wide
Speaker 1: open space right in the middle of the field. We
Speaker 1: gonna let this play. Look at all the space that
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard's got to work right in front of the safety.
Speaker 1: Carson hits him for a touchdown. Good design there by
Speaker 1: the Eagles nice two play sequence. Setting this play up
Speaker 1: with the screen on the previous play. Eagles get into
Speaker 1: the end zone, making a one touchdown game. Going into
Speaker 1: the locker room now. If your chance to vote for
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Speaker 1: And Tonight's nominees in this Eagles game, defensive end Derek Barnett,
Speaker 1: Eagles tight end Dallas Goddard, and Eagles defensive back Rodney McCloud.
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett Tonight three tackles, including two tackles for a
Speaker 1: loss and a sack. Two quarterback hits including two or
Speaker 1: and two big fourth down stops, making his presence felt
Speaker 1: in the backfield all night. Dallas Goddard a team high
Speaker 1: seventy five receiving yards and a touchdown, catching seven out
Speaker 1: of ten targets tonight, and then Rodney McLeod four tackles,
Speaker 1: three of them solo in a secondary that came to
Speaker 1: play against a Seattle offense with a lot of weapons. Friend,
Speaker 1: my vote is going to Derek Barnette tonight. I think
Speaker 1: anytime you see multiple fourth down stops and that guy
Speaker 1: in the backfield, quite a season he is having, especially
Speaker 1: after he's dealt with injuries through a lot of his
Speaker 1: time in the NFL, especially this season, and he's having
Speaker 1: a great season. Two fourth down stops. He's getting my
Speaker 1: vote tonight. What about you? Yeah, And I honestly, you
Speaker 1: could make the argument for Dallas Goddard once again leading
Speaker 1: this team and receiving I think you can look at
Speaker 1: some of the big plays offensively and say, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would give this to Dallas Goddard, But I'm gonna side
Speaker 1: with you here. I gotta go with Derek Barnett. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately, number one, you got to give some credit
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball. I thought the
Speaker 1: defense really came to play on Monday night, you know
Speaker 1: at the link. And then the second part of this
Speaker 1: is going to be the fact that Barnette, what he
Speaker 1: did in the first half, those two fourth down stops
Speaker 1: on those two drives to open the game really kept
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you know, kind of hopes alive earlier. While
Speaker 1: the offense was kind of sputtering to that start, I
Speaker 1: think that the defense was able to kind of keep
Speaker 1: things going. The two fourth down stops critical to I'll
Speaker 1: give Derek Barnett the not here. I love it, So
Speaker 1: it's unanimous for the two of us here on the
Speaker 1: postgame show. All right, now, it's time to look ahead
Speaker 1: to next week with our Jamison nightcap. We alluded to
Speaker 1: it earlier. The Green Bay Packers the Eagles on the road.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a tough matchup. The Packers
Speaker 1: in first place in the NFC North there eight and three.
Speaker 1: They're coming off a beatdown of the Chicago Bears forty
Speaker 1: one to twenty five. And the last time these teams
Speaker 1: played at lambau Field, the Eagles won thirty four twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That was early in the season. I think it was
Speaker 1: late September there to September twenty six. Aaron Rodgers at
Speaker 1: Lambo in December A different conversation entirely. A nineteen and
Speaker 1: three record for Rogers at Lambou Field in December. So
Speaker 1: fran a tough matchup here for the Eagles against a
Speaker 1: very tough A good Packers team is a tough opponent
Speaker 1: for any team in the NFL, and that's what they're
Speaker 1: getting this year. Yeah, you know, we saw the stat there.
Speaker 1: The Eagles scored thirty four points in that game last September.
Speaker 1: They have not cracked twenty since the bye week. So
Speaker 1: obviously we'll need to be able to do that. One
Speaker 1: way to do that, no turnovers, no sacks. Eagles haven't
Speaker 1: done that really in this twenty twenty season. They did
Speaker 1: that in that game against Green Bay. So you go
Speaker 1: on the road against a tough opponent, you're gonna need to,
Speaker 1: you know, really play good football, good solid team football
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. I've spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time studying this Packers team on both sides over
Speaker 1: the last week or so. It's a good team. You know.
Speaker 1: You look at Aaron Rodgers, He's playing as well as
Speaker 1: I've ever seen him play. Right now, he has really
Speaker 1: brought into that offensive scheme with Matt Lafleur. He is
Speaker 1: not playing outside of structure. He's been a little up
Speaker 1: and down with his play. Honestly, I would say for
Speaker 1: Eagles fans, Aaron Rodgers kind of turning around really kind
Speaker 1: of gives you hope to Okay, this is what Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz can turn his play around, because what he's done really,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of turning it around there in Green
Speaker 1: Bay is really impressive. Because Aaron Rodgers really looks like
Speaker 1: his former MVP self here in twenty twenty. Davante Adams
Speaker 1: is an absolute stud, one of the best receivers in football.
Speaker 1: Then on the defensive side, they've got some guys that
Speaker 1: can turn the ball over, some blue chip players both
Speaker 1: in the secondary and upfront as well. Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: some growing pains there in the early times of the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers Matt Laflour combat. Seems like the two of
Speaker 1: them really firing on all cylinders this season. A complete
Speaker 1: Green Bay team on both sides of the ball will
Speaker 1: be a big challenge there for the Eagles, And of
Speaker 1: course we will be right back here to preview that
Speaker 1: one for you. On the kickoff show presented by Exalta
Speaker 1: and the postgame show when that game ends. We will
Speaker 1: be at three forty pm Eastern December sixth. It is
Speaker 1: a December football game. That is where we are in
Speaker 1: the season. Three forty pm we will be right back
Speaker 1: here with the kickoff show presented by Exalta. Fran and
Speaker 1: I will be previewing this matchup against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: The Eagles on a little bit of a short week,
Speaker 1: I'm sure eager to put this matchup behind them and
Speaker 1: look ahead to another tough opponent. Of course, as always,
Speaker 1: all week long coverage leading up to that one on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com and all of our channels. We
Speaker 1: will see you next week. Everybody, have a great week.