WEBVTT - Postgame Show: Eagles Lose 17-23 against the Seattle Seahawks 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.680 All right. In Monday Night football, the Eagles unable to 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.119 get it done against the Seattle Seahawks, falling seventeen to 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.439 twenty three. Russell Wilson remains perfect against Philadelphia. Thanks for 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.880 joining us here on the postgame show presented by Rico. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.640 I'm Amy Campbell, joined by Fran Jeffie and first, let's 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.279 just send our well wishes to Ike Reese, who posted 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.400 on his social media that he has tested positive for COVID. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.319 That is why he is not joining us for the 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.199 postgame show. We will absolutely be missing you and your 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.560 takes this evening. We wish you the best. Fran. Let's 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.839 get into this one. A tough loss for the Eagles. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.440 Ended up being a six point game, but what twelve 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.279 seconds before the game ended, it was fourteen point game. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.680 And you really felt like the Eagles never really were 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.960 able to feel like they were in a good position 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.560 in this one against Seattle. Didn't lead the entire game. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.560 Let's just start to wrap to bring this into perspective here. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.800 What are your initial thoughts. Yeah, I mean offensively, just 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.000 you know, continued futility, right, they couldn't get things going 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.479 in the first half. I believe it was the first 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.280 five drives started with three and ounce and you know, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.800 the slow starts continue to plague that side of the football. Defensively, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.320 I thought that they did a lot of really good 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.720 things continue to do with some good things to limit 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.280 Russell Wilson. We talked about that on the Kickoff Show. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.080 I think that they did some really good things both 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.720 on the back end and up front to really bring 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.000 it to the Seattle offense and kind of limit what 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.720 they were trying to do offensively. But ultimately on the 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 Eagle side, I mean, they could not move the ball 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.440 with consistency through the air or on the ground, and 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.560 going in this was a big time run defense. The 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.600 Eagles knew that they tried to move the ball through 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.400 the air. The offensive line could not protect first down, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.240 second down, third down. Did not matter that Carson Wentz 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.520 was under fire throughout much of this game. There were 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.080 some incompletions that were of the quarterbacks doing. There were 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.120 some incompletions that were of the receivers doing. It was 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.080 just overall just not a good day for the offense. Yeah, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.040 Carson went sacked six times tonight. I believe three of 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.920 those were on third down. They were showed some improvement 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.120 on those third down conversions. But Bran, you mentioned you 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.080 start the first five possessions going three and out on offense, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.200 even with the defense putting them in a good position, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.400 hard to really get anything going. When that's how you 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.919 start set the tone for the game. Let's bring in 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.320 the Eagles insider Dave Spidero and get your thoughts. Dave, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.760 just initial thoughts on tonight's performance against Seattle. You know, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.800 from the very start, looking at number eleven, how would 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.480 he come out and start the game. And he started 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.000 a game by throwing late to Richard Rogers when he 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.600 was open. By the time Carson got rid of the football, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.959 Rogers was covered. And then he misses greg Ward on 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.919 an easy throw, another incompletion on the outside a little low, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.160 and the outside to alshon Jeffrey on the outside right. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.480 I just think more of this is on Carson Wentz. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.840 Not throwing with confidence, not throwing with accuracy. Mechanics don't 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.760 look comfortable and flowing. I thought the Eagles tried to 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.880 get him out of the pocket more than we had seen. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.400 But again a first half where there's just very little 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.079 going on a number that jumped out at me as 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.119 I was tracking it yards per pass play, the Seahawks 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.600 averaging six point eight yards per pass play, and until 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.840 that final drive, which is just patting the stats, Carson 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.400 Wentz average two point five yards per past attempt and 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.560 the Eagles as an offense three point one yards per 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.040 pass attempt. So, I mean, this offense continues to tell 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.640 the same story week after week. And I gotta tell you, Fran, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.120 I mean, I know the offensive line gave up some 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.720 Jamal Adams blitzes and he kept coming coming. For the 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.040 most part, I thought they did okay. I thought they 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.600 gave Carson time to throw the ball. He's just getting 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:53.920 nothing going. He just doesn't look confident. The wide receivers, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.760 no big plays. Again, it's all Boston Scott, Miles, Sanders, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.080 Richard Rogers, alas God or middle of the field. Nothing outside, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:09.080 nothing vertical, nothing deep, nothing to threaten the Seattle defense. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.360 That's my take. I mean, it's more to me on 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:18.159 number eleven and this mystifying drop in performance than it 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.839 is on the play calling or the offensive line. I 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.279 just thought Seattle was there ripe to be had At times. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.240 There were receivers who were open, and Carson just didn't 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.240 get him the ball. Well, and Dave, what about the 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.080 other side of the ball for the Eagles. I think 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.200 you covered the offense pretty thoroughly and we'll continue to 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.880 break it down statistically where the Eagles struggled, but the 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.120 defense came out really strong, limiting the Seattle offense. A 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.000 couple of big plays got the better of them. Of course, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:48.080 dk Metcalf a historic performance from him again with the 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:49.919 big plays there for the defense. But what did you 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.080 think about their game plan against Russell Wilson and the 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:57.440 Seattle offense. Solid game plan, corralled him nicely, Wilson running 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.400 only for twelve yards twenty two of thirty one two 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.719 hundred and thirty yards. But and so that's good. But 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.440 what I expect from Darius Slay when you are matching 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.919 him up one on one. He came into Philadelphia to 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.200 be the shutdown cornerback, and I know that that really 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.880 doesn't exist in the NFL. But DK Metcalf targeted thirteen times, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.760 ten completions, one seventy seven, should have had a touchdown 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.400 catch in the end zone, drew a penalty. You know, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.920 Slay making that early mistake. I thought a kindness at 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.360 the tone he and Malik Jackson the back to back 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.560 personal foul penalties the Eagles held on that drive. I 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.839 thought they played tough against the run. Seattle just seventy 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.800 six rushing yards on thirty carries. I just want my 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.640 shutdown cornerback to shut down. And maybe DK metcalf is 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.200 just too big, too fast, too strong. But thirteen targets, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.960 ten receptions, one seventy seven. I mean, that's a that's 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.520 a really difficult obstacle to overcome. That that's a go 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.599 to receiver making plays whenever Russell Wilson wanted to dial 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.920 him up. Dave, I've got a question that's almost a 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.160 little bit big picture, if you take like a step back, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.400 what are your thoughts right now? Obviously it's such a 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.720 fast start for Travis Foglan this season and then this year. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.160 Over the last month, will say it's kind of tapered 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.320 off a little bit. We've seen some stats, especially Laton 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.920 games in the fourth quarter, But overall, what are your 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.520 feelings right now on number thirteen? It's hard to tell 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.440 for him because he's only gets targeted targeted a few 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.039 times a game coming into the game. Twelve targets, two catches, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.320 sixteen yards. In the previous two games tonight, two targets, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.080 two catches, sixteen yards. Is he not open? I just 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.800 don't feel like it's accurate for us to kind of 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.200 make a judgment on him, because Carson is just not 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.840 getting his eyes out to the perimeter of the defense. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.599 So I don't know, it's hard to tell. I mean, tonight, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.960 see seemed to have a little something going early in 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.360 the second half and then it petered out. But that's 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.320 kind of the story of the offense. I think when 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.920 your quarterback does not give you chance to make plays, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.200 does not throw with anticipation, is throwing lates. I think 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.600 this receiving corps kind of doesn't know where the ball's 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.320 going when it's coming to them. So it's very difficult 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.520 to judge Travis Folgum at this point, but certainly tonight 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.120 friend as a group, the wide receivers, you know, going 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.760 against a Seattle defense that has not played well all season, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.080 and still the longest completion to a receiver was eleven 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.800 yards to Travis Folgum. So I will hear from Doug, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.560 We'll hear from Carson. But I expected the Eagles to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.600 go after their cornerbacks, and maybe they had some chances 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.520 tonight there were some receivers who were open and Carson 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.000 just did not get them the football. Yeah, it's definitely 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.000 gonna be interesting to hear from coach and players a 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.800 little bit later. Dave, I'm curious your take about the 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.880 start of the second half of this Eagles offense. It 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.440 felt like they started they started strongly, started with the momentum, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.600 They put together a nice long drive, they took a 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.920 decent amount of time off of the clock, and then 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.440 it started to bizzle out and there were some mistakes 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.560 made later into that second half and they weren't ever 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.600 really able to get in it. But did you see 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.000 them come out with a little bit more of a 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.200 spark and can you figure out exactly where that came from? Yeah, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.720 a little bit of a spark, amy, But our expectations 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.160 have to be more than just a little bit of 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.880 a spark. What is missing from this offense is chunk plays. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.120 Fran you talked about it before the game. You thought 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.840 there was an opportunity for the Eagles to get chunk 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.120 plays right, and there were not chunk plays until late 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.040 in the game. Richard Rogers and run here and there, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.840 Dallas Godder to catch and run here and there, but 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.920 nothing on the perimeter. So it's hard to drive seventy 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.280 five eighty yards when you have the football and you've 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.000 got four poor field position. You need to find a 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.640 way to get those big plays, and they're just not 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.400 happening for the Eagles offense. So look, I know the 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.320 topic of conversation here is going to be about Carson Wentz, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.240 and quite honestly, I'm really interested to hear what Doug 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.960 Peterson has to say. How long do you stick with 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.199 a quarterback that's running an offense that is just not 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.800 scoring points. I mean, this is the age of moving 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.600 the football in the NFL. Never been easier to score points. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.199 Eagles have had winnable games. I thought tonight was a 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.360 winnable game. Cleveland was a winnable game, the Giants a 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.800 winnable game. The offense just didn't do its part. And Carson, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.640 I love you, Carson. It just doesn't look like he's 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.840 playing with confidence on the balls of his feet, delivering 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.520 the ball accurately, getting it out of his hands quickly, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.960 making fast, good sound decisions seeing the field. It's hard 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.679 to say he's doing that when once again, he's twenty 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.880 five or forty five two hundred and fifteen yards, six sacks, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:49.080 two touchdowns, and an interception in the red zone, a costly, 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.520 costly fourth down throw in the end zone. Yeah, I mean, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.760 it's a it's a topic that we've touched on so 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.880 many times. Obviously, there was a lot of a lot 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.880 of dude to talk about the quarter back situation coming 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.600 into this game over the last couple of days, all 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.120 kinds of reports flying around with the media. We did 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.319 see Jalen Hurts a handful of times in this game, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.240 I would say, no more than what we've seen in 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.800 the past. Going back to the offensive line, Dave, you know, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.720 we saw another change obviously up front due to some 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.040 injuries all around that group overall. Thought that you talked 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.840 about it a little bit at the top, but Jason 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.319 Peters making that move from left tackle to right guard. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.520 Any thoughts coming out of this game just on the 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.520 state of the offensive line, Yeah, I mean I thought 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.640 Frand like you know, when your first glance, it wasn't. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.719 There weren't jailbreaks. I thought Matt Pryor got beated once 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.600 or twice on the outside, but for the most part 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.400 got off the ball well, had good position, good leverage. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.720 I thought Jordan a lotta same thing. A little bit 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.240 of an acting job at the end there on the hold. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.040 I thought Jason inside seemed to do okay. They obviously 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:52.359 had trouble with Jamal Adams coming from everywhere deep, secondary, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.120 off the edge, coming from different sides with his blitz package. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.640 So Seattle did a nice job there. But that's the 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.640 problem here. Deep fenses are gonna keep taking chances and 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.520 blitzing because the Eagles are not threatening the defense with 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:11.160 the vertical game. They're not threatening defenses with a passing 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.520 attack to the wide receivers. It's screen. Get the ball out, uh, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.000 you know, get it to the tight ends in the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.800 middle of the field. It's nothing down the field to 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.320 wide receivers. So look, I thought Carson Wentz played tough. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.880 I thought he is running forty two yards rushing, you know, toughness. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.880 Moved the change at a little spark. I like that, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.440 referring back to what you said earlier, Amy, But until 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.120 this offense can get the football to Travis Folgan and 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.360 Jalen Rager al Shan Jeffrey, it's just hard to score 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.520 points in the league when you have to put together 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.480 eleven paid dry eleven play drives and and go seventy 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:52.240 five yards. Eagles offense needs that big play punch and 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.640 they just have not gotten it in these last several weeks. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.600 We thought, you know, going back to like the baltimorean 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.680 Pittsburgh game, John High Tower running down the field, added 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.720 some speed. Where is that explosiveness in this offense? It's 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.680 been a wall the last three weeks after the bye week. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.720 The offense has not been productive at all. So again, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.160 interested to hear what dougas to say here in just 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.479 a few minutes. Yeah, well, and Dave, clearly a frustrating 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.040 performance for this team that continues to stay bought in. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.080 And there are plenty of teams in the NFL that 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.720 have faced less adversity than this Eagles team. And you 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.760 get the sense that the players have quit on the team, 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.920 that there's trouble in the locker room. I'm curious for you, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.840 on hand, from what you can see along the sidelines, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.000 what can you tell us about the body language, especially 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.240 on defense. We heard reports from Lisa Salter saying that 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.360 guys like Fletcher Cox had pulled Carson Wentz aside earlier 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.760 in the week and gave him a pep talk and 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.800 say we got your back, man, don't worry about us. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.600 We're here for you. What did you see from the 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.000 body language on the sideline? Yeah, I thought the Eagles 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.679 played with intensity tonight, particularly on defense. I thought they 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.160 showed up, they were physical. I like that they have 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.320 not quit, they have not pointed fingers. I think that 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.360 this team still is focused in understanding that there's still 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.280 a race to be had here, believe it or not, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.000 in the NFC East. But I also see a Seattle 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:16.360 team that really has that swagger, that confidence. That's something 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.480 the Eagles are lacking when I watched them in this environment. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.760 And these are the only sounds you hear? Are there 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.560 two different sidelines? All right? Well, Dave, we are looking 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.920 forward to hearing from coaching players a little bit later. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.960 We appreciate your insight as always. Thanks so much. All right, guys, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.280 tough win tonight, three to seven and one, and the 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.920 schedule doesn't get any easier Green Bay next week, Aaron Rodgers. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.440 That is going to be an extremely tough assignment for 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.000 the Eagles. Oh yeah, especially after what they just did 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.000 to the Bears over the weekend. Another tough one for 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:50.080 the Eagles, Thanks Dave, Ali guys, Yeah, we'll get into 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.600 that matchup a little bit later. Aaron Rodgers at Lambeau 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.559 in December. A tough test for any team, Fran. Let's 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.640 continue to get into this one, and let's break down 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.480 the offense, and I think where I want to go 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.360 is talking about those long drives and of course third 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.360 down a big emphasis for the Eagles here. Some improvement 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.760 there tonight eight of seventeen forty seven percent, but you 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.880 are also were saying the forty seven percent is improvement. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.520 It wasn't until I believe the second half, the second half, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.080 where they converted their first third down in this one. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.160 So just what where did you see them struggle to 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.840 in first and second down to get to that point 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.720 where third down was such a difficult thing. Yeah, it 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.600 was a little bit of everything. You know. It was 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.600 a feudal run game. It was protection, it was misthrows, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.720 whether it was an errand throw from the quarterback or 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.000 drops from the receivers. It was a little bit of everything. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.360 It's what we've talked about. It's honestly, it's tough to 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.320 discuss because we've been saying this for the last few weeks, right, 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.040 and so for our viewers at home, that have been 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.240 watching this for the last few weeks, they would say, yeah, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.240 like this is what we've been talking about. That showed 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.960 up again tonight. So all those same things, you know, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.960 continue to show up. I think the big thing with 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.560 you know, turning it around on third down. Look, they 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.720 came out. It wasn't like they ran different plays, right, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.360 I mean they were they were running the same plays 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.000 that they've been running over the last few weeks. They 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.080 were just able to execute and they went I believe 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.360 seven for eight at one point on third down, seven 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:14.640 of eight consecutive attempts on third down. So whether they 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.080 were running the football, we saw a quarterback draw, we 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.040 saw some zone reads, we saw Carson take off, we 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.680 saw some quick throws to Dallas Gottard, we saw some inbreakers. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.880 So yeah, I mean they did a little bit of everything. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.440 The third manageable certainly helps, but they converted some third nates, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.800 they converted some third and seven, so uh, you know, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.200 I think ultimately it came down to them getting into 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.000 a little bit of a rhythm. You talked about that spark. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.920 They got into a little bit of a rhythm offensively, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.960 it was really that drive where I believe it was 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.440 first or second down, Carson Wentz dropped back and took 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.960 off for you know, fourteen yards and kind of finished 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.280 the run physically, and that that gave them a little 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.240 bit of juicy. I think that that got them into 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.240 a little bit of a rhythm. And after that, I 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.040 think that we started to see them move the football. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.840 But at the end of the day, I mean, the 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.480 slow starts have continued to plague this offense. I have 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 five three and ounce against this defense. Uh, tough to swallow. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.320 You know, whether that's run game, pass game, it doesn't matter. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.880 It's tough to get over that. The defense did their 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.920 job to kind of keep them in this. You know, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.200 it's fourteen nothing at one point when you had two 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.200 fourth down stops, two turn overs on downs for that defense, 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.040 it was a really valiant effort on their end, Especially 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.040 after that first drive. You're kind of wondering, is this 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.120 going to be one of those kind of sloppy those 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:20.960 sloppy games where there are a lot of bad penalties. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.240 The defense fount you know, I was able to hold 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.280 firm and came back of the offense. The offensively just 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.320 struggled to get things going. Yeah, the defense, like you said, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.960 forcing two turnover on downs for Seattle and a goal 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.640 line stand that was really impressive, Derek Burnett making some 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.280 big plays on both of those for the Eagles. You 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.640 talk about the Eagles drive before the half, scoring going 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.920 into the half, which to me is one of the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.200 most important things I look for in a game, That 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.760 momentum going into halftime. A lot of times, to me, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.760 it tells me who's going to win the game. Scoring 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.160 before going into the half really big for the Eagles. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.040 That was a drive that I think was over five 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.880 minutes long, and then coming out of the half going 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.560 down the field and taking another almost six minutes off 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.120 the clock with a twelve play drive kind of didn't 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.760 get and dunkin down the field there. It didn't feel easy, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.640 but you did feel like stringing together a twelve play 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.560 drive ending up with some points on the board there 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.760 and uh and of course taking some time off the clock. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.840 Like I said, that was what I was looking for 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:25.439 before the game started, was to keep the Seattle's offense 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.440 off the field time of possession. Though Seattle does get 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.080 the victory on that one thirty two minutes and fifty 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.760 six fifty seven seconds to the Eagles twenty seven minutes, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.159 so leaving the Seattle offense with enough time to let 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.000 Russell Wilson do what he does best friends. Yeah, and 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.120 ultimately looked. Yeah, they were able to get things going 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.600 on those two drives, and converting on third down certainly helps. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.280 But you know what the big thing too, Amy like, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.600 they get that touchdown just before half and you're you're 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.000 feeling good, and then you missed the extra points. So 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.200 while the offense is feeling good, I feel like that 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.960 that good will that you may have built that you 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.280 as a team, you're like, all right, like we will 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.240 get this, get things, you know, get this going the 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.080 right direction. You get the missed extra point and it's like, oh, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.200 you know, there was a little bit of that deflating 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.720 feeling going into the locker room. Now they didn't let 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.840 that get them. They came back out and like you said, 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.960 you know, we're able to kind of continue to build 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.080 off that. But ultimately still at the end of that 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.120 it's not like they didn't reach the end zone again 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.960 until that final drive on a hail Mary play well 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.680 executed hail Mary played. Great play by Travis Folgan to 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.840 bat it down to Richard Rodgers made a great one 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.719 hand and grab all that. That's great, but ultimately they 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.639 were not able to reach the end zone again the 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.399 rest of the game until that play, So, you know, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.240 just not enough from the Seagles offense. Russell Wilson finished 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.719 the game twenty two completions, completing seventy one percent of 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.640 his passes two hundred and thirty yards, one touchdown, and 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.280 not doing much damage on the ground six carries for 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.000 twelve yards, no touchdowns there. What did you think about 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.479 this defense's game plan against Russell Wilson tonight. I'm excited 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.960 to dig into the film on Tuesday morning and really 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.680 get a look at it, but I would say two things. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.560 You got to see a good amount of it seemed 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.720 like they mix things up from a coverage standpoint. Again, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.640 when I wait till get to the film to really 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.360 say that with certainty, but they definitely mixed some things 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.840 up from a coverage standpoint. And then also, it seemed 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.719 to me like the defensive line played with really good 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.200 rush lanes, really good discipline. And what I mean by 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.040 that is that guys weren't out of their gap trying 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.000 to freelance it and trying to get home as pass 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.960 rushers if they're responsible for the gap between the left 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.399 tackle and the left guard. For instance, they stayed in 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.879 that gap that way when Russell Wilson's trying to escape, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.160 he has nowhere to go. And I thought we saw 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.639 that a couple of times in this game. Fletcher Cox 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.040 was able to squeeze the whole. Derek Partnett got a 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.960 sack on fourth down that kind of was an example 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.560 of that. So I thought overall, the gap discipline, the 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.399 rush lanes from the defensive line seemed to be pretty 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.920 strong in this game. And I thought on the back 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.080 end they did some good things in terms of mixing up. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:50.280 Coach Doug Peterson is at the podium ready to talk 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:55.120 to the media. Hey, coach, thanks for taking the time. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:20:00.400 We'll get started here with John McMullin and then boo. Hey, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.760 Doug wanted to talk to you about that fourth and 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.320