Speaker 1: All right, Welcome to the postgame Show, presented by Rico
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reeson Ike. This
Speaker 1: is an unusual position for us doing the postgame show
Speaker 1: over the last year. The Eagles on the losing end
Speaker 1: of a twenty seven to twenty one decision at the
Speaker 1: hand of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers got out
Speaker 1: to a twenty seven to seven lead using explosive plays
Speaker 1: early in the third quarter. The Eagles showed a lot
Speaker 1: of fight to get back in the ball game, but
Speaker 1: in the end, it just wasn't enough and the Eagles
Speaker 1: fall to one and one on the season. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Doug Pierson, quarterback Nick Foles while
Speaker 1: their press conferences, as well as Mike quicks exclusive one
Speaker 1: on one interview with the coach as well coming up
Speaker 1: later on the show. But big picture here, Ike, We'll
Speaker 1: start with the offensive side of the ball. Just not
Speaker 1: enough explosion, all right, Tampa Bay was able to get
Speaker 1: some big play start and we're out to jump with
Speaker 1: the Shawn Jackson seventy five your touchdown against Jalen Mills
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Jenkins. But the Eagles had the methodically moved
Speaker 1: the ball throughout the course of the game. Thought Nick
Speaker 1: Foles played very well, but just not enough playmakers for
Speaker 1: him to get those chunk yards and seem like the
Speaker 1: Eagles wanted to take a grinded out approach, which worked
Speaker 1: through the first half until once again the buck struck
Speaker 1: with another seventy five yard touchdown pass from Brian Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: to Oj Howard. Some poor tackling led to that big
Speaker 1: play there, and the Eagles were playing catch up from there,
Speaker 1: falling behind twenty to seven going to the halftime and
Speaker 1: losing twenty seven to twenty one. Night. Yeah, when the
Speaker 1: Eagles look back at this game, that's really what they're
Speaker 1: going to be kicking themselves about, Chris is the big
Speaker 1: plays they gave up on defense. I thought offensively, they
Speaker 1: did what they wanted to do. They know that they
Speaker 1: are lacking explosive players in this offense. You don't have
Speaker 1: al Sean Jeffrey Jagi went out early. Kudos to him
Speaker 1: from being able to fight through that back issue, come
Speaker 1: back in there and try to tough it out to
Speaker 1: help this team. But just not enough explosive players. No
Speaker 1: Darren Sproles today, so when you know you don't, you
Speaker 1: don't have the ability to really score within two or
Speaker 1: three plays. You're gonna have to move down the field methodically,
Speaker 1: and I thought the Eagles did that at times today,
Speaker 1: But when I look at this game, it really boils
Speaker 1: down to two plays. I mean, the first player of
Speaker 1: the game. You cannot give up a seventy five yard
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to former Eagle to Sean Jackson. You gotta
Speaker 1: make the Bucks work to get the ball in the
Speaker 1: end zone. You know, Royan Fitzpatrick has done a nice
Speaker 1: job the last two weeks, but just too many easy
Speaker 1: touchdowns for him. A one play touchdown drive there. The
Speaker 1: Eagles get a little momentum back after the Corey Clement touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then the defense turns around and give up a
Speaker 1: one place scoring draft scoring drive to Oj Howard due
Speaker 1: to poor tackling. You can't have that. This is too
Speaker 1: good of a defense. I'm pretty sure they're gonna hold
Speaker 1: themselves accountable when it comes to that, because they pride
Speaker 1: themselves on forcing teams to really work to put six
Speaker 1: points on the board. You may move the ball in
Speaker 1: between the twenties or in between the goal lines, but
Speaker 1: this team doesn't usually give up touchdowns from the defensive side,
Speaker 1: and to give up to one play drives, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz and his players that's what they're gonna look
Speaker 1: back at this game and think about all games that. Man,
Speaker 1: there's no way we should have given up one play
Speaker 1: drives to this team. Had we just made them work.
Speaker 1: Who knows, you get a turnover. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of times Tampa was moving the ball and we came
Speaker 1: up with big turnovers. And that's what you have to
Speaker 1: do when you're planning against a guy like Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: See if he can play mistake free for ten to
Speaker 1: twelve plays, you're giving him a scoring one play. His
Speaker 1: confidence gets going. And that's what happened for this Bucks offense.
Speaker 1: They were riding high after putting up forty eight points
Speaker 1: against the Saints on the road last week, and then
Speaker 1: you allow him to get comfortable by having easy scoring drives.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defense, I thought, didn't do their offense any favors.
Speaker 1: We knew the offense was shorthanded. You knew the offense.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to keep the You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: keep the points down in order to give yourself a chance.
Speaker 1: I thought this offense battled all day. I thought Nick
Speaker 1: battled all day. You had some guys contribute that you
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily think we're gonna contribute coming into the game.
Speaker 1: They fall short six points in this game. This is
Speaker 1: a game that was very winnable for them. You give
Speaker 1: the Bucks a chance to come out early on you,
Speaker 1: I guess you want to take you want to take
Speaker 1: something out of this game of silver line and is
Speaker 1: the fact that they played like champions and they didn't
Speaker 1: roll over over one hundred degrees out there down on
Speaker 1: the field. This team didn't give up. I saw players
Speaker 1: in the first half dropping like flies. You didn't know
Speaker 1: who was going to be left at the end of
Speaker 1: this game. Like I said, if there's any silver lining
Speaker 1: in this is that this team didn't give up. That's
Speaker 1: the heart of a champion. There's some things they can
Speaker 1: learn from this moving on the next week. But this
Speaker 1: was a winnable game for them. This is a winnable game,
Speaker 1: and a lot of fans are just gonna say it's
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback
Speaker 1: right there when you saw the schedule come out. That
Speaker 1: was gonna be a win for the Eagles, and that's
Speaker 1: I think it gonna be. Some of the disappointment there
Speaker 1: for fans right off to jump, and also the fact
Speaker 1: that this was a winnable game when it came down
Speaker 1: to the end. They knew going into this game that
Speaker 1: they had to stop those explosive playmakers. Tampa Bay had
Speaker 1: nine plays of twenty yards or more in the pass
Speaker 1: game against New Orleans a week ago. The Eagles they
Speaker 1: wanted to button that down after giving him five such
Speaker 1: plays to the Falcons in their Week one win. Well,
Speaker 1: the first play of the game, as we see DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson against Jalen Mills, Malcolm Jenkins came down seeming to
Speaker 1: defend the slant route and then Jackson took off on
Speaker 1: the post, knowing probably that Jaalen Mills had been you know,
Speaker 1: had had trouble with double moves in the past, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately Jackson got over the top and once you're over
Speaker 1: the top, there's no help there. That was going to
Speaker 1: be an easy touchdown. But the defense buckled down after
Speaker 1: that point and seemed to settle in and you felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if the Eagles can get that touchdown back, which they
Speaker 1: did on the Corey Clement touchdown, a fifteen yard run.
Speaker 1: You felt like the Eagles had them right where they
Speaker 1: wanted them. Okay, the defense was rolling. And then on
Speaker 1: the very next play, the first play from scrimmage after
Speaker 1: that touchdown, it's a pass play over the middle to
Speaker 1: Oj Howard. Jordan Hicks had good coverage but wasn't able
Speaker 1: to make the tackle that Ronald Darby went to go
Speaker 1: for the strip and seven tackle, and then after that,
Speaker 1: Howard was off to the race. Because Howard's a very
Speaker 1: athletic tight end, very fast, very much in a zach
Speaker 1: ll maybe even more athletic than zach Ertz. Was still
Speaker 1: able to take it to the house from there, and
Speaker 1: you just felt at that point from the defensive side,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so hard for the Eagles offense to
Speaker 1: get back into it because they had to move the
Speaker 1: ball so methodically down the field. Again, kudos and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles because he took a pounding down there in the
Speaker 1: backfield today from the Bucks defenders. But overall, you know,
Speaker 1: didn't make it a lot of mistakes, was smart with
Speaker 1: the football, got the ball quickly when he had to.
Speaker 1: You know, there just weren't enough playmakers to help him
Speaker 1: on the outside and Ike we were talking about this
Speaker 1: a little bit off camera. That's what's so concerning watching
Speaker 1: the Eels offense early in the season is the fact
Speaker 1: that there's not a lot of difference between this offense
Speaker 1: and the one at the end of the twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: campaign when you didn't have Carson Wentz and players like that.
Speaker 1: But still you didn't have Darren's Bowles at that time either. Yet,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of difference, but the explosion just
Speaker 1: isn't there. It just seems like it's very hard for
Speaker 1: this team to get going. You have Nelson Aglore, obviously,
Speaker 1: you don't have Jeffrey right now. You still have zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: but those big places aren't as a funding as they
Speaker 1: were at the end of twenty seventeen. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: gotta find that rhythm, right, you know, as an offense,
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to find those plays within the
Speaker 1: without I mean, within the course of the game. You
Speaker 1: gotta be able. They're not gonna be there readily for
Speaker 1: you when you dial them up, but you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be able to find big plays in the game.
Speaker 1: Guys that can take you know, a ten yard pass
Speaker 1: and go twenty thirty forty yards. That's what you're sort
Speaker 1: of missing. We saw Nelson be able to do that
Speaker 1: one of his long receptions the other day. But you
Speaker 1: need just a little more of that. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you another thing that I think is hurting the offense
Speaker 1: a little bit. The running game isn't as consistent. You know.
Speaker 1: The big part of this offensive success last year, especially
Speaker 1: in the postseason when they got things clicking, is that
Speaker 1: they were able to run the ball. And when you
Speaker 1: run the ball, you set up play action and that's
Speaker 1: where Nick does his work. When he's able to put
Speaker 1: that ball in the belly to running back pull it out,
Speaker 1: whether it's an RPO or it's a play action role pass,
Speaker 1: that's when Nick can get in the rhythm. I tell
Speaker 1: you Nick is a little better on the move than
Speaker 1: most people are give him credit for. He can't and
Speaker 1: extend plays. He's not gonna outrun guys, but he can
Speaker 1: extend plays if you get him outside the pocket, and
Speaker 1: I think that's sort of what they're missing. Inconsistent running
Speaker 1: the football. They ranted at times well today, but Jess
Speaker 1: wasn't as consistent with it. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: Penalties in the first half killed them far too many
Speaker 1: instances where they were behind the chains first and fifteen,
Speaker 1: first and thirty. Of those, I think there was a
Speaker 1: second and forty or first and forty. I mean that
Speaker 1: downing distance is unheard of, and that's difficult to find
Speaker 1: any rhythm. Duck and look at that play chart all
Speaker 1: he wants to. He knows there are no plays on
Speaker 1: that pay chart to convert when it's first and forty.
Speaker 1: So penalties early in the game, I thought they killed
Speaker 1: the drives for the offense. I thought they settled down
Speaker 1: and in the second half. They were a much better
Speaker 1: offense in the second half than they were in the
Speaker 1: first half. Just couldn't get key stops at the at
Speaker 1: the right time from the defense. Even that final touchdown
Speaker 1: to Nelson Eglo, that's a great drive there. That was
Speaker 1: they were started by the defense, Malcolm Jenkins punching the
Speaker 1: ball out from Mike Evans when they got a chance
Speaker 1: to go down and extend their drive. That's a great
Speaker 1: throw to Nelson Agilore in the end zone. But now
Speaker 1: we need the defense to get get a three and out,
Speaker 1: get a stop to get the ball back to the
Speaker 1: offense with a little time on the clock, and then
Speaker 1: the Bucks were able to get a couple of first down,
Speaker 1: not one, but a couple of first downs. They pretty
Speaker 1: much drained the clock and leave the Eagles with the
Speaker 1: you know, first and ten situation inside their twenty yard
Speaker 1: line and just have a chance with no time at
Speaker 1: that point. There you're talking about the misques, you know again,
Speaker 1: second week in a row where the opposing team gets
Speaker 1: an early star on them. Last week, at least they
Speaker 1: were able to hold a land to the field goal.
Speaker 1: This time around, Nod's lucky obviously, with the Jackson touchdown,
Speaker 1: Corey Clement and a big punk return in the first
Speaker 1: half that was brought back to due to a Josh
Speaker 1: Perkins block in the back penalty. You had a first
Speaker 1: down run by Clement where you lost yards because Nelson
Speaker 1: Aglo had an illegal block on it. You had a
Speaker 1: big game by Mike Woss that was wiped out by
Speaker 1: a Jason Peters penalty. So those are the ones that
Speaker 1: hurt you, man. Yeah, they kill the drives. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is And it's actually in a game like
Speaker 1: This's where you knew that you didn't have to be
Speaker 1: perfect on offense, but there wasn't that huge margin for error.
Speaker 1: Those little things will add up over the course of
Speaker 1: the game to put you in a bad situation there.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the defenses scheming those Bucks receivers,
Speaker 1: because you go from top to bottom and we saw
Speaker 1: how talented they are, from Deshaun obviously, to Mike Evans
Speaker 1: to Chris Godwin and had a touchdown pass as well,
Speaker 1: and they have the two tight ends with Howard and
Speaker 1: bred What did you think of the defense and the
Speaker 1: way that they were playing mostly off coverage and allowing
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to kind of dink and dunk his way until
Speaker 1: those big plays over the top were available. It's a
Speaker 1: difficult way to live. It just is. If you're not
Speaker 1: going to get up in challenge receivers in this league,
Speaker 1: you're gonna give them free releases and then hope you
Speaker 1: can come up and make the tackle. When you have
Speaker 1: skill position players like a Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson's even Oj Howard, I mean that was really just
Speaker 1: a ten yard pass that he wind up taking sweat
Speaker 1: seventy yards for a touchdown. You just can't have that.
Speaker 1: But those are type of skill position players that the
Speaker 1: Bucks have, and I think what it says is there
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of ball lack of confidence, I
Speaker 1: think from the individual players when you don't want to
Speaker 1: get up there and challenge these guys at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage when you're trying to keep from getting beat
Speaker 1: over the top. We're gonna have to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to challenge some of these guys because there are
Speaker 1: no days off, there are no Sundays off in the NFL.
Speaker 1: When it comes to playing defensive back, just about every
Speaker 1: team has go to guys that can make plays. The
Speaker 1: wide receiver position has become the most athletic, the best
Speaker 1: athletes on the field in today's NFL. And when you
Speaker 1: allow these guys free releases and able to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean Deshaun Jackson catching the ball in open field,
Speaker 1: that's a punt return to Helm, So you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to bring him down one on one,
Speaker 1: even a guy like Mike Evans. Great job by Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins being able to strip the ball from him. Well,
Speaker 1: most times Mike Evans gonna make a guy miss and
Speaker 1: then he's out the door for a big play. So
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's something that we've got to
Speaker 1: adjust to. We saw it last week. Gave up a
Speaker 1: lot of plays underneath to Matt Ryan and Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, Chris, you can't. You can't make
Speaker 1: a living in this league trying to play with your
Speaker 1: back to the goal line. Meaning that if you just
Speaker 1: want to keep guys in front of you, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the red zone and try to play
Speaker 1: stout defense then and see what we can keep them out,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be difficult to do. Man. Everybody isn't Steve Sarkisian.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody you can get these guys multiple opportunities
Speaker 1: down the red zone. They're gonna come up with schemes
Speaker 1: to get their best players free. And when you face
Speaker 1: the team like the Bucks, who do you double? I mean,
Speaker 1: who are you trying to take away? Whatever? Guys? Look
Speaker 1: at the Mike Evans touchdown. It was against Jalen Mills
Speaker 1: a two way ago. He just took the slant, easy
Speaker 1: pitching cash right there. As a defense, if you try
Speaker 1: to key in on one of these guys, then you're
Speaker 1: leaving single coverage for somebody else. And with this offense,
Speaker 1: that the Bucks have. They're just too skilled. And if
Speaker 1: you can't get the Ryan Fitzpatrick and rattle him, make
Speaker 1: him throw arrant passes. He was comfortable back there to day.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had time to throw the balls, just
Speaker 1: like he did last week against New Orleans. And I
Speaker 1: know we make fun of fitz magic, but he's a
Speaker 1: thirty six year old to see a whole lot that
Speaker 1: started a lot of football games. They're playing at home.
Speaker 1: He's comfortable and that's that's pretty much with that boil
Speaker 1: down to You couldn't get to him. I mean, completion
Speaker 1: percentage that's unheard of. High eight. Threw the four hundred
Speaker 1: yards four touchdowns once again. An interception wasn't even his
Speaker 1: fall bobble. Yeah, ball gets knocked into the air, and
Speaker 1: you know you were looking for a play like that
Speaker 1: to turn the tide. Yeah. I thought the pass rush
Speaker 1: was good in the first half, but it seemed like,
Speaker 1: especially after the Bucks got that second touchdown from Oj Howard,
Speaker 1: it seemed like that those guys were wearing down. You know,
Speaker 1: the heat's obviously gonna play a factor either. You could
Speaker 1: be rotating guys in out, but you need the starved players.
Speaker 1: You need Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cox, those guys to
Speaker 1: step up, and those those guys are gonna be wearing
Speaker 1: down throughout the course game because of that heat, no
Speaker 1: matter how good a rotation you have. So I felt
Speaker 1: like that if they weren't gonna bring the blitz, which
Speaker 1: they try at times, what Fitzpatrick, to his credit, understanding
Speaker 1: what defenses are going to try to do to him,
Speaker 1: they were able to block it up nicely and he
Speaker 1: was able to find the open receiver. It felt like
Speaker 1: that the strategy there was they need to win up
Speaker 1: front with the front four. They did so early on.
Speaker 1: They at least did so in the run game to
Speaker 1: make it so that they weren't two dimensional from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, though rely on that four man pass rush.
Speaker 1: It wasn't gonna pay off dividends when the Bucks are
Speaker 1: willing to keep an extra blocker in to make sure
Speaker 1: that they get I mean, there were some plays it
Speaker 1: was a two man run. I think the opening play
Speaker 1: was a two man a route. It was a two
Speaker 1: man route. It was just Evans and Jackson. But when
Speaker 1: you have two skilled position players like that, they can
Speaker 1: work for you. And here's the thing that the Eagles
Speaker 1: defense and Jim Schwarz, they're gonna have to come to
Speaker 1: realize when you're facing teams because there's such a great
Speaker 1: reputation with the front four front eight of this defense,
Speaker 1: teams aren't gonna wait until they are in obvious passing
Speaker 1: situations to try to take their shots. They're gonna take
Speaker 1: their shots on first down. When you think we're gonna
Speaker 1: run to football, we're gonna get in base personnel. We're
Speaker 1: gonna match Max protect, and then we're gonna run a
Speaker 1: two man route. That was the first player of the
Speaker 1: game that was a run personnel offense for Tampa, and
Speaker 1: through to form they had a play action. You get
Speaker 1: Malcolm jumping up thinking it's gonna be around. You got
Speaker 1: two backs in there, you got two receivers, and you
Speaker 1: got a tight end. And next thing you know, that's
Speaker 1: really a max protection formation and they really just want
Speaker 1: to see who can they get Mike Amazon a crossing
Speaker 1: route or Deshaun Jackson going deep into post. And so
Speaker 1: because of how good their defensive front is, teams aren't
Speaker 1: gonna let you dictate to when you can come after
Speaker 1: their quarterback. They're gonna try to hit you first, and
Speaker 1: that's typically gonna come on first down. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get them in an obvious passing situation, then they
Speaker 1: have to throw the ball. But they want to try
Speaker 1: to catch this Eagles defense by surprise by throwing the
Speaker 1: ball on first down and taking their shots on first down.
Speaker 1: What's interesting, Ike is and you we were talking about
Speaker 1: this a little bit before off camera. You go back
Speaker 1: to the end of last season, the road games, you know,
Speaker 1: at New York at the end of the season. You
Speaker 1: go back to the the Super Bowl, you know, against
Speaker 1: New England. You look at the defense here today. The
Speaker 1: defense on the road just isn't as stout as it
Speaker 1: is at home. I don't know if there's a rhyme
Speaker 1: or reason to it, but for whatever reason, you can't
Speaker 1: really find a common thread between all the teams, I
Speaker 1: mean all teams. You can't really say that what the
Speaker 1: offenses are explosive, they certainly a playmakers, but outside of that,
Speaker 1: it's bizarre to see how good and how dominant this
Speaker 1: defense can be at home, like we saw in the
Speaker 1: season opener against Atlanta, only to come back here and
Speaker 1: you're giving up, you know, four hundred and thirty six yards,
Speaker 1: but again three hundred and ninety three of them through
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, you look at the teller to tape there, man,
Speaker 1: I mean they dominated in time of possession. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: was basically one dimension or today throwing the ball. I
Speaker 1: mean when they look at this teller to tape, this
Speaker 1: stat sheet after the game, they're gonna be kicking themselves
Speaker 1: because it's gonna come back to two plays. It's gonna
Speaker 1: come back to the first player of the game and
Speaker 1: then the first player at there. You had gotten yourself
Speaker 1: back into the game with the Corey Clement touchdown, the
Speaker 1: big touchdown to O. J. Howard. I mean, really, that's
Speaker 1: the difference in the ball game today. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the difference in the ball game today is those two
Speaker 1: big plays. I look at that teller to tape and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, well, the Eagles played well enough to win
Speaker 1: this game with the exception of two plays, and that's
Speaker 1: the difference. In the NFL, it normally isn't a huge
Speaker 1: gap between the talent from either teams. When you're facing
Speaker 1: each other, it's usually a couple plays that either the
Speaker 1: other team hits on and you miss on. That's the
Speaker 1: difference between you winning and losing the ball game. Going
Speaker 1: back to that time of possession there again, thirty five
Speaker 1: almost thirty six minutes there for the Eagles. I thought
Speaker 1: that would work in their advantage. Yeah, I was thinking
Speaker 1: the way the offense was moving the ball methodically, I
Speaker 1: thought that they could wear down that Bucks defensive line.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the game, Jason Pierre Paul
Speaker 1: was still making plays. Bo Allen had to come out
Speaker 1: with a foot injury, but Gerald McCoy had a big
Speaker 1: sack late. I was hoping that this offensive line for
Speaker 1: the Eagles would be able to run the defensive line
Speaker 1: of the Bucks into the ground, knowing that they don't
Speaker 1: have the depth, especially from the pass rusher standpoint, and
Speaker 1: they would be able to take advantage there. But you know,
Speaker 1: just because they had to play catch up so frequently
Speaker 1: and get those points quickly, it just wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 1: me to be yeah, And you know, Doug looks at
Speaker 1: that and he says, well, we did what we wanted
Speaker 1: to do offensively. You know, well, we'll take this. Of course,
Speaker 1: you gotta have Jake Elliott, you gotta make you feel
Speaker 1: go sir, you gotta knock those in. But other than that,
Speaker 1: when the Eagles got down to the scoring area. They scored,
Speaker 1: they typically scored, So I thought, offensively, you did what
Speaker 1: you wanted to do. We just didn't do, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do. Defensively, you gotta make you
Speaker 1: gotta make Tampa drive that ball. Ten twelve plays, eat
Speaker 1: up some of that clock. And the reason why you
Speaker 1: want to do that because the likelihood of a guy
Speaker 1: like Ryan Fitzpatrick making a mistake within those twelve plays
Speaker 1: it increases. But if you just allow him to score
Speaker 1: on one play drives his work is done. It's easy
Speaker 1: work for him. So I thought the defense came up
Speaker 1: a little bit short today, although they made some big
Speaker 1: plays to help help us get back in the game.
Speaker 1: I just think those two plays, man, when they when
Speaker 1: they get it, when they get on that plane headed
Speaker 1: back up north here to Philly, they're gonna think about
Speaker 1: those two plays more than anything, because everything else, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, was what I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 1: Tampa is a good, good football team. When Ron Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: isn't a turnover machine. You don't go to New Orleans
Speaker 1: and put up forty eight points on Drew Brees and
Speaker 1: the Saints without being a good team. They have skilled
Speaker 1: position players, very explosive, but if the quarterback isn't going
Speaker 1: to be made to feel uncomfortable in the pocket, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a long day, especially on the road
Speaker 1: in his house and then that type of heat out
Speaker 1: there exactly. The one drive that stood out to me
Speaker 1: outside of the big explosive plays was the one late
Speaker 1: in the first half where Chris godd would have got
Speaker 1: the touchdown reception. Fitzpatrick was five or five on that drive.
Speaker 1: It was six plays. It was very easy, and that's
Speaker 1: where you started wondering did the defense have enough fight
Speaker 1: left in it to be able to come back in
Speaker 1: this ball game. That's where you started to say to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a situation where they just got the
Speaker 1: explosive play, touchdown, offense doesn't muster or anything. Do we
Speaker 1: have to be perfect? I think the defense knew early
Speaker 1: in the season, with the injuries on the offenside the ball,
Speaker 1: that they would have to be much better. So let's
Speaker 1: find out what the coach as to say. Let's end
Speaker 1: it to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. UM, a
Speaker 1: lot of uh, you know, a lot of dis disappointed guys,
Speaker 1: quite honestly, Um, a lot of self inflicted wounds today.
Speaker 1: You know, um obviously got beatn we gotta take the
Speaker 1: lost week. I learn from it. But you know, I
Speaker 1: try to preach our guys that, um, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's it's it's our execution. You know,
Speaker 1: it's what we do and uh that really matters. And
Speaker 1: we weren't successful in that area today. So a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of dejected players. But you know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of a lot of football
Speaker 1: left and and um, you know we'll we'll get it
Speaker 1: fixed on uh next couple of days and get ready
Speaker 1: for next week exactly. Yeah, I just gotta look at
Speaker 1: the tape and see what happened. I mean, you know, um,
Speaker 1: we just got to make sure we're in position to
Speaker 1: make those plays, will be ready for especially early in
Speaker 1: the football game. And and I won't speculate on it
Speaker 1: until I see the film obviously and see who see who?
Speaker 1: Uh uh we need to correct he was for a
Speaker 1: while and a little bit. Did I feel like you're
Speaker 1: just missing some Well yeah, I mean anytime you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're down a couple of bodies, it it uh, you
Speaker 1: know it affects you offensively, it tweaks your plan a
Speaker 1: little bit. But we had confidence in the other guys
Speaker 1: to step in and and um, you know, we would
Speaker 1: rely a little bit more on the run game and
Speaker 1: some of the things there. But the thing it was,
Speaker 1: we kept going backwards for all first half. We were
Speaker 1: you know, we weren't staying ahead of the sticks. We
Speaker 1: were getting penalties and lost the yardage on first or
Speaker 1: second down and just playing from behind a lot. So
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the injuries hurt, but but again it's
Speaker 1: self inflicted personnel. Now, I mean, you know, he's worked
Speaker 1: with those guys before. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to do coaches and players offensively, we got
Speaker 1: to do our job, make sure that we're putting these
Speaker 1: guys in position to be successful. And and um, you
Speaker 1: know obviously by by play call play design that that
Speaker 1: starts with me and and uh making sure that the
Speaker 1: players that with the guys that go in the game
Speaker 1: that they can handle. So it's not it's not on
Speaker 1: one persons. You hear percentage of your headset and then
Speaker 1: still kind of go off maybe got there and the
Speaker 1: office run. What did you hear on the four four
Speaker 1: all in your headset as far as the percentage, I
Speaker 1: was going for it anyway. Regardless of percentages. We were
Speaker 1: plus fifty. I mean we were. I was going for it.
Speaker 1: I felt we had a little momentum on that drive
Speaker 1: and and uh uh felt confident that we were going
Speaker 1: to get the uh get the first down. So I
Speaker 1: was going for that one first third eleven game off.
Speaker 1: But little three twenty three last first half, third eleven
Speaker 1: remember your own manage you get small six charts with Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that I felt like the defense
Speaker 1: was gonna be you know, soft cover two ish and
Speaker 1: and h five man box and chance to maybe break
Speaker 1: a run. I guess is that that answer your question? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, those stars slow starts, UM, gosh, good question.
Speaker 1: Um you know it's uh, I don't know, um scenario
Speaker 1: that we got addressed the next couple of days. You
Speaker 1: got to fix it moving forward. UM, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's every man has to look at themselves be included,
Speaker 1: and uh start with that and uh make sure that
Speaker 1: we're ready to go down. I mean not just a
Speaker 1: two seventy, just a number of big players on first down. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean thing before well, That's what we talked about
Speaker 1: all week. You know. We we had like five plus
Speaker 1: twenty yard games, I think in the Atlanta game and uh,
Speaker 1: defend against our defense and then and the you know
Speaker 1: the couple today, and we talk about eliminating the big
Speaker 1: play and and then conversely, offensively, we try to create
Speaker 1: the big play, and and big plays can come either
Speaker 1: in a run game or the passing game. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, again offensively, we're just we were just so
Speaker 1: far behind, you know, in the in the first half,
Speaker 1: just with penalties or lost yardage that it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: And uh uh you want to be able to on
Speaker 1: first or second down and be able to you know,
Speaker 1: shoot the ball down the field and and do some
Speaker 1: things that way. But again, we gotta just gotta look
Speaker 1: at it, man, We just gotta look at it each person,
Speaker 1: you know, man to man, and just just own the
Speaker 1: own the uh you know, own this game and and
Speaker 1: move on week. I'll talk about that later this week. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of times, you know, with the with the
Speaker 1: tight end situation. Um, you know, some of us by
Speaker 1: game planning, when we lose some receivers, you know, we
Speaker 1: start having to use the second or third tight end
Speaker 1: and um um and then plus it listen, it's it's
Speaker 1: a complex thing because it starts moving bodies around and
Speaker 1: and um without getting um real specific with the game
Speaker 1: plan because obviously you don't know the game plan. UM,
Speaker 1: just one one one part that goes down, then you
Speaker 1: have to adjust everybody else. And a lot of times
Speaker 1: it's easier with perk in the game. Uh Dallas played.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it didn't change our receivers
Speaker 1: on the outside. It kept those guys you know, sort
Speaker 1: of in their same spots. Again, you don't know, and
Speaker 1: this is not against you, but I'm just saying, without
Speaker 1: knowing the offense and the formations and the personnel that
Speaker 1: we have, UM, it's a UM. It can be a
Speaker 1: chess match moving moving multiple parts on offense. That means
Speaker 1: it makes sense it. Yeah, I know it's complicated because
Speaker 1: you don't know the plan. That's and that's nothing against you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you don't when you don't know the plan,
Speaker 1: the formations where we move guys and have guys specific
Speaker 1: in the game plan. If one guy goes down, now
Speaker 1: it shuffles the whole thing. And and so it's we
Speaker 1: can keep it real consistent by just moving one part
Speaker 1: and not many parts. I don't I just confused you more. Sorry,
Speaker 1: last year, I can't see rebound straight story. You know,
Speaker 1: you know this one last year? Yeah, you know, And listen,
Speaker 1: I'm I can't go back and relive those days because
Speaker 1: it's a new football team, new season. Now, we're gonna
Speaker 1: learn from this and we're gonna be better and and
Speaker 1: and I you know, vowed to the team in there
Speaker 1: that that we will get better. And obviously that starts
Speaker 1: with me. But you know, we do have to remember
Speaker 1: what we did a year ago. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pull back anything, you know, go
Speaker 1: back and start pulling out any kind of memories because
Speaker 1: the new football team, new faces, and we got our
Speaker 1: own circumstances now to fix. Yeah, I'll talk more about
Speaker 1: it probably tomorrow, probably want. Yeah, I thought you saw
Speaker 1: you saw his resiliency. I mean he took some shots
Speaker 1: early and and and stayed in there and and uh
Speaker 1: you know, rebounded, made some made some nice throws, good decisions,
Speaker 1: led led a couple of nice drives. But again, we'll
Speaker 1: evaluate it. We'll see where he's at. And uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we got everybody's got to look at it
Speaker 1: and and make corrections and move forward. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was enough to keep him out. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to risk any further with him in the game, and
Speaker 1: it was early, early enough to to just just if
Speaker 1: emergency situation if we needed to come back. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: were a couple of things I I don't remember off hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get back to Philly. We'll check on him again.
Speaker 1: Probably have an update for you tomorrow. Okay, thanks, all right, Hey.
Speaker 1: Coach Doug Pearson, addressing the media at Raymond James Stadium,
Speaker 1: obviously a bunch of disappointed and dejected guys in the
Speaker 1: locker room, went into a long explanation about why we
Speaker 1: saw a lot of Josh Perkins, who was very productive
Speaker 1: in the time out in the field. To me, just
Speaker 1: offers more of the receiver element. Knows more about that
Speaker 1: faster than the offense at this point than Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: But we still expect to see plenty of him in
Speaker 1: the future. But I'm sure fans are gonna be wondering saying,
Speaker 1: this was a guy who shined in the summer. You
Speaker 1: know it was good in the preseason. Was your top
Speaker 1: draft pick in twos and eighteen. How can we see
Speaker 1: more of him when you need those playmakers, but you
Speaker 1: need someone who could work on the outside, especially with
Speaker 1: those very good linebackers in Kwan Alexander and Lavante David
Speaker 1: sou Injury front, though, that's the big thing early on,
Speaker 1: and it happened very early in the game too, where
Speaker 1: Ji went down, came back in the second half and
Speaker 1: scored the touchdown. Mike Wallace had the one nice play
Speaker 1: but got injured. It was an ankle injury. He came
Speaker 1: out of the game, and then Jason Piers exited the game,
Speaker 1: and you know that's something you don't want to see,
Speaker 1: especially with the pass rushers that the Buccaneers have come
Speaker 1: into his matchup. But overall, I thought Big Va quitted
Speaker 1: himself nicely. He gave up a one sack early on
Speaker 1: there against Jason Pierre Paul, but for the most part
Speaker 1: he selled it. I thought was more like what we
Speaker 1: saw from him in twenty seventeen, which you know, with
Speaker 1: Piers getting up there in age, you know you need
Speaker 1: that backup guy and by time to be ready at
Speaker 1: all times. And I thought he did a better job today.
Speaker 1: I thought there were times where Foles had time in
Speaker 1: the pocket. Yeah, he definitely had the time. The pass
Speaker 1: protection wasn't the issue. It was just he didn't have
Speaker 1: the playmakers to get open to get opened. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's basically what it boils down to him. When you're
Speaker 1: talking about Joshua Perkins getting a NOD today. You know, Dug,
Speaker 1: if I can explain it in layman's terms, he's basically
Speaker 1: looking for one on one matchups that he can take
Speaker 1: advantage of. And so with a guy who's a former
Speaker 1: wide receiver, he feels like against speedy line backers, Perkins
Speaker 1: is probably better suited to probably break free from one
Speaker 1: of those guys. So believe me, I had to look
Speaker 1: up the glossary and find out who Joshua Perkins was myself.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if Dallas Goddard could have did
Speaker 1: any better than four catches for fifty seven yards to day. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought Perkins did a great job of
Speaker 1: coming in, filling in in a tough situation on the road.
Speaker 1: Didn't really have any any missus out there, maybe one,
Speaker 1: So I don't think that was the issue at all.
Speaker 1: I thought Doug hit it right on the head when
Speaker 1: he said shot themselves in the foot in the first half.
Speaker 1: That's basically what the board down to, too many self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. Telling about penalties, that stall drives. Even to
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace played where he made a nice move to
Speaker 1: get himself down the field, not only does he injured,
Speaker 1: he doesn't get injured. It's a penalty on the place
Speaker 1: it brings it back. So to me, that's what the
Speaker 1: first half boiled down to, just too many self inflicted
Speaker 1: wounds to where you couldn't overcome them. In the first half. Defense,
Speaker 1: I thought settled down in between that first play that
Speaker 1: Deshaun has scored on, the two explosive plays, the two
Speaker 1: explosive plays basically, and I thought they had settled down
Speaker 1: the second half. To me, it was a completely different
Speaker 1: second half. I thought the Eagles outplayed the Bucks in
Speaker 1: the second half, and the Bucks were really trying to
Speaker 1: hold on to win that game, you know. So that's
Speaker 1: something that this team will learn from. That's not an
Speaker 1: easy place to go down there and play when you
Speaker 1: look at the conditions, the weather being down there, going
Speaker 1: up against a hot team. And here's the other thing
Speaker 1: I tried to preach all week, Chris on my show,
Speaker 1: The Eagles are circled on everyone's calendar. Of course, that's
Speaker 1: on the schedule. You're the defending champions, and when you
Speaker 1: come to town, you're gonna get the best shot from everyone.
Speaker 1: You just start and when it doesn't look like you're
Speaker 1: at full strength, that gives the other team that much
Speaker 1: more confidence. So you know you're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to sneak up up on anybody. And this team needs
Speaker 1: to get with the mindset that every time, especially when
Speaker 1: they go on the road. It's one thing at home
Speaker 1: because you have you have you have the energy of
Speaker 1: the crowd to sort of feed off of them. When
Speaker 1: you're on the road, you got to come in and
Speaker 1: ready to play from the opening kickoff, and you're not
Speaker 1: helping yourself by giving up that first play touchdown too.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing is you figure, if you could
Speaker 1: go out there get that early score, kind of take
Speaker 1: the win out of their sales, so to speak, down
Speaker 1: there at Raymond James Stadium, you would feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1: But even still, they got to a point there in
Speaker 1: the first half after they climate touchdown where you said,
Speaker 1: all right, if they can at least keep it close
Speaker 1: for halftime, they got the ball to start the second half.
Speaker 1: They hadn't write where they wanted them. Then they gave
Speaker 1: up the explosive play touchdown to O. J. Howard. They
Speaker 1: gave up the drive, the quick drive that ended with
Speaker 1: the guy one touchdown and a missfield going there and
Speaker 1: a missfield goal in there exactly. You thought you could
Speaker 1: get that going to halftime. That's where you just said
Speaker 1: to yourself, maybe it's not gonna be, are they? But
Speaker 1: they battled back at the end, you know that game
Speaker 1: at twenty seven to seven, that easily could have been. Look,
Speaker 1: we've lost the thought they lost a number key guys already.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure that we can get things to get
Speaker 1: the guys back on the bus healthy and get them
Speaker 1: back to Philly in one piece. So now on top
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Speaker 1: game courtesy of Merrill Camp. Ye No. No. Nine, I
Speaker 1: thought it was one hundred degrees down there on Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay today. Those two look calm, cool and collected. Even
Speaker 1: Mike addressing the Meryl Camp during my broadcast. So he's
Speaker 1: savvy enough, he knows what's going on. So we're waiting
Speaker 1: here from quarterback Nick Foles in just a little bit.
Speaker 1: But to the point you made before about how every
Speaker 1: team has circled the Eagles on the calendar. To me,
Speaker 1: how it works in the Eagle's favor is when a
Speaker 1: team like Tampa that's trying to find itself gets to
Speaker 1: head big in the second half like they did twenty
Speaker 1: seven to seven, they have to start thinking or the
Speaker 1: Eagle's going to come back. And that's the thing. And
Speaker 1: after seeing what the Eagles pulled off last season, the
Speaker 1: Eagles have that intensity, They have that mentality to be
Speaker 1: able to fight back and come from behind. And when
Speaker 1: he started getting close, when he got to the twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty one, the Bucks probably had to wonder, oh,
Speaker 1: is this going to be a bad situation for us?
Speaker 1: So that at least can help the Eagles moving forward
Speaker 1: having that mentality of knowing that, look, you can get
Speaker 1: up on us, but we're going to find a way
Speaker 1: to fight back, especially as guys are going to continue
Speaker 1: to come back to the offense later on as the
Speaker 1: season for aggresses. Whether we see Carson Wentz next week
Speaker 1: against Indianapolis or not. You know, whether it's Alison Jeffrey
Speaker 1: backing lone, these guys are gonna get healthy. And not
Speaker 1: that injuries are excuse anymore, because it certainly wasn't for
Speaker 1: the Eagles last season. You've got to go out there
Speaker 1: with who you have and win with that team. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: though still they have the air about themselves that because
Speaker 1: they are the defending champs, they are going to be
Speaker 1: a tough out no matter how biggerly do you have
Speaker 1: on them at any point in the game. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the one thing that the Eagles have going in their favor,
Speaker 1: and this is really what almost cost the Bucks today.
Speaker 1: You can't run on this Eagles defense. I mean forty
Speaker 1: eight yards rushing for the Buccaneers the day. They would
Speaker 1: have loved to be able to run the clock down
Speaker 1: on Eagles, but they couldn't run the ball on the Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defensively did. They did what they wanted to
Speaker 1: do as far as making tample one dimensional. The only
Speaker 1: problem is that one dimension is really what hurt them today,
Speaker 1: which is depending the past, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: shore some things up in that secondary. We certainly have
Speaker 1: enough talent there and the secondary. But we got to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to challenge these wide receivers. You know,
Speaker 1: next week you're gonna have t Y Hilton coming in here.
Speaker 1: Next week, you got Eric Ebron at tight end, who's
Speaker 1: like another big wide receiver you're gonna have to face
Speaker 1: next week along with Andrew lux. So the team's realized
Speaker 1: that you aren't gonna let them run the football. They're
Speaker 1: gonna just chuck it. They're gonna just keep putting it
Speaker 1: up on you. And so we have to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to become better at defending the pass and
Speaker 1: not relying so much on our pass rush to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. We got to challenge these receivers at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. We gotta challenge these tight ends
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage bat balls away pretty much
Speaker 1: like they did last week when they needed to rose
Speaker 1: to the occasion against the Atlanta Falcons. That's what this
Speaker 1: secondary is gonna have to do. It really handcuffs Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz when he's had when he has to call defenses
Speaker 1: where your your corners are playing off and you're giving
Speaker 1: guys a ten yard cushion and you're not going to
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators are too good in this league for you
Speaker 1: to survived that way. I mean, for Ryan Fitzpatrick to
Speaker 1: be able to throw for four hundred yards today against
Speaker 1: this Eagles defense, that shouldn't happen. And I know the
Speaker 1: Saints defense isn't as good as the Eagles defense, but
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good Eagles defense. And to have
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick have the plays that he had today, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he did so much to
Speaker 1: earn him other than you know, the two plays they
Speaker 1: got in there was one hundred. He put it there
Speaker 1: and his guys did the rest of the work. But
Speaker 1: you know, Jim Schwartz is gonna be said to himself, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: especially on the Oj Howard touchdown, I called the right defense.
Speaker 1: We gotta come up and make the tackle. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing to give up a ten yard fifteen
Speaker 1: yard pass and play. Okay, they get paid as well.
Speaker 1: You make the tackle and you live to fight another day.
Speaker 1: But you can't let a ten yard pass turn into
Speaker 1: a seventy five yard touchdown. The first player of the
Speaker 1: game hats So I can't think of the other offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator for the Yeah, Todd Marker, great play call. From
Speaker 1: the you know, for him player, the game hads off
Speaker 1: to him. But the rest of the game, I thought
Speaker 1: we did more of helping that Bucks offense than the
Speaker 1: Bucks offense out executing us on defense. The first play
Speaker 1: in the game, I'll give him credit. It was just
Speaker 1: reminiscent of twenty and ten Monday night in Washington. And
Speaker 1: that's what d Jack does. Yes, Yeah, that's what Jack.
Speaker 1: You know that going into it, it's like I can
Speaker 1: tell you what you're gonna do, but he still is
Speaker 1: able to do it anyway, and he does. He does
Speaker 1: rides to the occasion against the Eagles and had everyone
Speaker 1: amped up for that part of it. Love to see
Speaker 1: Jail Mills bounce back because over the summer and in
Speaker 1: the preseason I thought he was fantastic, you know, the
Speaker 1: ability to read and react to what the opposing receivers
Speaker 1: would do, you know, the competiveness that he brings out
Speaker 1: to the field. It just hasn't come through in these
Speaker 1: first two games. Now, of course, you're lining up mainly
Speaker 1: against Julio Jones and DeShawn Jackson, and that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But as you mentioned, each and every week, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big playmaker to account for. And you can't
Speaker 1: get into a situation where they're just gonna move t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton over to Mills's side and then match them
Speaker 1: up all time and say, you know, Ron Darby is
Speaker 1: bettering coverage, we'll just keep it away from him and
Speaker 1: then go over with that matchup against Mills. Mills has
Speaker 1: to find a way to shore it up, and I
Speaker 1: think he has the confidence and the ability to do so.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna to figure a way to mask that.
Speaker 1: Moving forward. Yeah, I tell you, listen, I love Jalen Mills,
Speaker 1: and he certainly as a key part to our success.
Speaker 1: He was last year. He will be moving forward and
Speaker 1: far beard from me to try to be a coach
Speaker 1: and start moving guys around making personnel decisions. But you
Speaker 1: gotta think about Sidney Jones on the outside. I mean,
Speaker 1: Sidney Jones is just he's faster. He's a much better
Speaker 1: athlete than Jalen Mills. I mean, Sidney Jones is a
Speaker 1: top ten pick if he's not injured going into the
Speaker 1: draft last year. And it's a reason for that because
Speaker 1: he has all the requisite skills you need to be
Speaker 1: a number one corner in this league. You gotta have speed.
Speaker 1: You gotta have recovery speed. You gotta have athleticism. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: you gotta have confidence that you can go up to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and challenge guys in a bump
Speaker 1: and run situation, and if they beat you off the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you have to have the ability to recover.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I don't expect it to happen
Speaker 1: as recent as next week, but I mean, you're talking
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row where you got a corner
Speaker 1: who isn't necessarily challenging the receivers at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and more or less playing off and then hoping
Speaker 1: to come up and make the tackle. And what happens
Speaker 1: is is that when Jalen sees that slant come, he
Speaker 1: so desperately wants to come up and make the tackle.
Speaker 1: Now they're hit him with a double move. So you know,
Speaker 1: and I think, right now, and this is surprising to
Speaker 1: say about a guy like Jalen Mills, his confidence may
Speaker 1: be lacking a little bit. Right now. You're talking about
Speaker 1: back to back weeks where you're caught out there on
Speaker 1: the island and a touchdown is given up. Now, you
Speaker 1: gotta have a short memory in this league as a
Speaker 1: corner in order to be successful because the other guys
Speaker 1: get paid as well, and they're gonna make plays. But
Speaker 1: I just don't see the meals that I saw in
Speaker 1: the middle of last year when I was touting him
Speaker 1: to be a Pro Bowl corner. When you looked at
Speaker 1: weeks four through weeks eight last year, when he was
Speaker 1: just all over everybody that he had to come up against.
Speaker 1: He needs to get back to playing with that confidence,
Speaker 1: playing with that swagger. He's playing on his heels too much,
Speaker 1: and he's he's allowing the offense to dictate how he
Speaker 1: plays as opposed to saying I'm gonna come up and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take away one thing. You may beat me
Speaker 1: with something else, but you're not beating me with this
Speaker 1: right now. He's allowing a two way goal for these guys,
Speaker 1: and it was difficult to win that way, especially when
Speaker 1: you don't have the necessarily athletic ability to recover. That's
Speaker 1: the one thing that Ron Darby has in his favor
Speaker 1: is that he has the speed to recover if he
Speaker 1: misses you at the line of scrimmage with the jam
Speaker 1: or if you happen to get him on a double move,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be faster than a lot of receivers. He's
Speaker 1: faster or as fast as Julio, faster than Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: So even if those guys beat him on a double move,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to catch up. And that's something
Speaker 1: that Jalen just physically lax. But he's always been able
Speaker 1: to make up for that with his toughness, with his smarts,
Speaker 1: his intelligence, his ability to understand what routes are going
Speaker 1: to come against. Yeah, football, IQ was there, and that's
Speaker 1: what it will allow you to play in this league
Speaker 1: for a long time. Just right now, he needs to
Speaker 1: get back to having that swagger and that confidence that
Speaker 1: he played with last year. I know we're not accustomed
Speaker 1: to doing these postgame shows like this coming off a loss,
Speaker 1: but you think go back to last season. Look Week two.
Speaker 1: It was in Kansas City, another red theme stadium. The
Speaker 1: Eels went out up against a high octane offense in
Speaker 1: Kansas City which was flying at the time with Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt and Alex Smith as a trigger man, and Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill and all them, and Travis Kelsey of course forgive
Speaker 1: about him as well. So certainly it happened last year
Speaker 1: and the Eels were able to bounce back and they
Speaker 1: had that amazing win against the New York Giants which
Speaker 1: kind of catapulted this season from there. They're gonna need
Speaker 1: to find that magic again as the Indianapolis Cults will
Speaker 1: come to town. Indianapolis beating Washington, so you know, hurting
Speaker 1: division rival huge. It's a huge win for them because
Speaker 1: the Colts are trying to find them find themselves as
Speaker 1: Frank Reich has taken over as the head coach, Andrew
Speaker 1: luck Is back in the saddle. They're they're trying to
Speaker 1: get their identity on both sides of the ball really
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what kind of team they have.
Speaker 1: They're kind of in that twenty sixteen Eagles mode when
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson took over. So the Colts don't mind if
Speaker 1: they can upset a team here or there along the way.
Speaker 1: So they're coming in with big expectations. You know, Frank
Speaker 1: Reich is gonna want to upset the Eagles coming back
Speaker 1: to the house here. So that knows the personnel and
Speaker 1: he knows the exact personnel on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: He knows the personnelity. Yes, smart coordinator knows he's gonna
Speaker 1: come up with a good game plan, and he's going
Speaker 1: to see this tape and say, if the defense is
Speaker 1: going to continue to do this, I'm going to utilize
Speaker 1: my weapons in the same way. And look, the Colts
Speaker 1: don't have much of a running game themselves. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine with Andrew Luck chucking the ball all over
Speaker 1: the field if they have to, if that's what's going
Speaker 1: to take to win the football game. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna have to get things short up on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball because the front is there.
Speaker 1: I love the front, I love the rotation. I love
Speaker 1: what the new guys have brought to the table. You know,
Speaker 1: I was really excited when Michael Bennett made a big
Speaker 1: play there in the second half during the comeback, because
Speaker 1: you're looking, You're looking to see who's going to continue
Speaker 1: to set the tone, who's gonna continue to fight, who's
Speaker 1: not gonna give up, because that championship mental is going
Speaker 1: to be when the times get tough, when you're facing adversity.
Speaker 1: For the first time, this team has not faced a
Speaker 1: love of adversity. They've overcome injuries, but the thing is
Speaker 1: they have not had to deal with a lot of
Speaker 1: losses on the football field and how to bounce back
Speaker 1: from that. Now that these guys and some of these
Speaker 1: are new guys, Okay, everyone's gonna say, well, we have
Speaker 1: the culture in place, but the culture is all about
Speaker 1: the guys who are there presently, and if you're adding
Speaker 1: new people to the mix, it's gonna change up the chemistry.
Speaker 1: No matter what. You're gonna have your leaders, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have your core guys, but those new guys need to
Speaker 1: step up to the table. They need to come through
Speaker 1: in a big way. And that's what's happening. You're seeing
Speaker 1: guys who are coming in and making big plays like that.
Speaker 1: So seeing Michael Bennett do that in a second half
Speaker 1: was very encouraging to see seeing that the team as
Speaker 1: a whole fight and making sure that they're gonna be
Speaker 1: down twenty seven to seven, but they're gonna make this
Speaker 1: a ball game. Okay, they may not come back and win,
Speaker 1: and they fell six points short today losing twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty one, but they're gonna come back and give
Speaker 1: the Bucks everything they have and say, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a fight until all sixty minutes to make sure you
Speaker 1: win this ball game. Okay, you're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to walk out of here and have your fans chanting
Speaker 1: and laughing and at the Eagles as they're going off
Speaker 1: the field losing by twenty points. At the end of
Speaker 1: the game, you're gonna sweat it out and say to yourselves,
Speaker 1: all right, you gotta quality win, but we made you
Speaker 1: earn it for all sixty minutes. You have to know
Speaker 1: that when you're playing the Eagles that that's going to
Speaker 1: be the case. And that's good to see because again,
Speaker 1: this team has not had to overcome certain types of
Speaker 1: adversity a lot in the last year. Again, they lost
Speaker 1: Week two, okay to the Chiefs last year. Then they
Speaker 1: lose again until early December in Seattle, and then they
Speaker 1: had then they had to flip things right away because
Speaker 1: they had to go to la with a chance to
Speaker 1: clinch the division and possibly everything go into a free
Speaker 1: fall if they don't win that game from a home
Speaker 1: field advanced standpoint, and then they lose cars and win.
Speaker 1: So you kind of are galvanizing behind Nick Foles to
Speaker 1: see what he can do, and you carry yourself just
Speaker 1: enough to get home field advantage and you run that
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Sure, you lose that regular season finale
Speaker 1: to Dallas, but you had you know, Nate Subfeld and
Speaker 1: primarily the backups finishing of that game. You don't count
Speaker 1: that game. So again, so from a losing standpoint, this
Speaker 1: is a team that's lost Week two of last season
Speaker 1: and early December, that's it. So that's something that this
Speaker 1: team doesn't want to get accustomed to. But you need
Speaker 1: to find out how the guys are going to react
Speaker 1: when that happens. Are the guys going to all be
Speaker 1: back here in the building first thing Monday, going over
Speaker 1: the tape and being energized and coming into work like
Speaker 1: you would after a victory. After a victory, everyone's bouncing
Speaker 1: around the building. Everyone's you know, walking on a cloud nine.
Speaker 1: Everyone's excited. You're putting in the extra work. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna do that after a loss? What was very encouraging
Speaker 1: going back to last week after the win over Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz, who's tried and tested and you know comes
Speaker 1: through in the clutter teams like every single week for
Speaker 1: this football team, has some uncharacteristic drops for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and that win over Atlanta, he got himself on that
Speaker 1: jugs machine as soon as he could to make sure
Speaker 1: that didn't happen again, and he had eleven catches to
Speaker 1: the ike. Okay, he actually set a franchise record for
Speaker 1: the most games with double digit receptions. It was his
Speaker 1: sixth career outing with such an effort. So thirteen targets,
Speaker 1: eleven receptions for him ninety four yards. You know, he
Speaker 1: was a safety valve for that offense, coming through some
Speaker 1: big catches, those ones that you're used to seeing him
Speaker 1: make time and time again, being that that best friend
Speaker 1: for a quarterback over the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: even providing the big plays. I mean, he had the
Speaker 1: one big play down the sideline to ignite the offense
Speaker 1: there so late in the first half. I believe it
Speaker 1: was so overall he saw zach ertztep up to the plate.
Speaker 1: But you just need that who's that other playmaker gonna
Speaker 1: be in this offense? I tell the other thing I
Speaker 1: take away from from this game, and really early in
Speaker 1: the season, this loss does not concern me. Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: said something a couple of years ago when talking about
Speaker 1: his team, and they had gotten off to a little
Speaker 1: bit of a struggle. It may have been last year
Speaker 1: when they got off to a two and two start
Speaker 1: and only lost one more game the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: He said, there there's no team who has established their
Speaker 1: identity the first four weeks of the season. These coaches,
Speaker 1: they rarely played their first teamers in the preseason, So
Speaker 1: really the first month of the season is an extended
Speaker 1: preseason because these guys are just getting used to playing
Speaker 1: a full game, being out there for sixty sixty five
Speaker 1: players on either side of the ball. It's the first
Speaker 1: time for them. So and when you look at a
Speaker 1: team like the Eagles, who had turnover in the off season,
Speaker 1: when you look at personnel, they're still trying to form
Speaker 1: their identity. And you know, smack in training camp, Doug
Speaker 1: didn't have these guys at his disposal. There were certain
Speaker 1: guys that were missing practice because they were banged up
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. And they are still trying to put
Speaker 1: put together an identity for this team. And so if
Speaker 1: it may take, it may take another game or two.
Speaker 1: You hope you pull out wins despite that. But as
Speaker 1: far as playing a flawless game, as far as playing
Speaker 1: a clean game, as far as as a staff blishing
Speaker 1: who you are and what you're going to be for
Speaker 1: this season, last year was last year you're not the
Speaker 1: same team as you were last year. This is a
Speaker 1: new team. The identity for this team hasn't been established.
Speaker 1: Yes yet they're one in one through the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: You play at home next week. Take care of your
Speaker 1: business at home before you go on the road to
Speaker 1: Tennessee in two weeks. What you can't do is give
Speaker 1: away games. You can't dig yourself in a hole early
Speaker 1: in the season. So whereas when you do find your identity,
Speaker 1: it's too late. So you gotta be able to put
Speaker 1: some wins together. That's the thing they were able to
Speaker 1: do last year. You talk about the loss after the
Speaker 1: Kansas City game, or we almost gave away the Giants
Speaker 1: game the following week, and if Jake Elliott doesn't hit
Speaker 1: the sixty one yard field goal, we're headed. We're headed
Speaker 1: to overtime, and who knows what happens, And it seems
Speaker 1: it could be a different stories. So let's hear from
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Now, Nick Foles done in Tampa questions? Yeah, mean,
Speaker 1: I think the big thing is, you know, we can't
Speaker 1: show ourselves in the footwell penalties. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: looking back, you know, obviously we'll we'll look at the
Speaker 1: film and grow. But I think the thing that I
Speaker 1: take from this game is, you know how hard our
Speaker 1: team fought. I mean, Tampa Bay put a tremendous game. Um,
Speaker 1: they fought obviously extremely hard as well. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of adversity in this game. This NFL
Speaker 1: is tough. Playing football is a it's not an easy game.
Speaker 1: But I was really proud of my teammates and the coaches,
Speaker 1: UM for fighting you know, throughout all the adversity. UM,
Speaker 1: even the mistakes we didn't make. UM, we never once
Speaker 1: turned on one another another. We never put our heads down.
Speaker 1: We kept our heads up. We kept fighting. UM, we
Speaker 1: kept looking at the pictures trying to you know, fix
Speaker 1: what's going on. And you know, that's what we'll continue
Speaker 1: to do. UM, That's what this organization has done and
Speaker 1: we will keep going that. You guys out, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you know that that adversity I talk about, UM
Speaker 1: is something that you know, you keep working. UM, guys
Speaker 1: step up all the time. And uh, you know that's
Speaker 1: what we did. We gave ourselves as a team an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win this game. And that's what you know,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing you can do in this league. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we want everyone healthy, but you know that's
Speaker 1: not really the case. Sometimes this is a physical sport.
Speaker 1: Things happen. UM, So that's where the next guys that
Speaker 1: come in and do his job to the best of
Speaker 1: his ability. And I thought our guys stepped up today.
Speaker 1: We gave ourselves an opportunity to win. We have to
Speaker 1: clean up a lot of the penalties, UM and execution errors,
Speaker 1: but you know we will continue to do that, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's my job. You know, I've been there.
Speaker 1: You know, I've played this game a long time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not always going to have everyone healthy. That's just
Speaker 1: part of this game. So UM, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: really focus on that. I focus on you know, going
Speaker 1: out there, stepping in the huddle. Whoever's in that huddle,
Speaker 1: I trust them. You know, we got to get the
Speaker 1: job done. And you know, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that were injured this game. There's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that got banged up, but we kept fighting. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna focus on. I didn't get an explanation. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, they made the best decision. It's probably just
Speaker 1: not enough to overturn UM. You know, I felt, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was stowing in my arms going forward. But
Speaker 1: you know, watching on the screen, you know, right when
Speaker 1: my arms going forward, the ball starts, you know, comes
Speaker 1: out weird that happens when you're getting hit from behind.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know you
Speaker 1: have to keep moving forward. Um, they called the call,
Speaker 1: and you know that's it. You know, we keep moving forward,
Speaker 1: keep fighting the fourth and four, um like just in
Speaker 1: just in general or um yeah, no, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think that at the end of the day, we've
Speaker 1: converted a lot of those. Um. You know, anytime Doug
Speaker 1: calls a play, you know, we want to go for it.
Speaker 1: We want to be aggressive. That's just the one you
Speaker 1: know that we weren't able to, you know, get the
Speaker 1: first down. We were probably a couple of inches short.
Speaker 1: And I have all the confidence in the world and
Speaker 1: zac that's why I went there. Um, we just missed
Speaker 1: that one. Um. You know, obviously that's a that's a
Speaker 1: big blow. But at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: I don't second guess anything, you know, play comes in,
Speaker 1: We're gonna actually cute it. That one didn't work out,
Speaker 1: but you give me that play again. I'm going there again.
Speaker 1: You know, I have all the confidence and Zach, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get those plays we have historically, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna continue to be aggressive. And you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: continue to trust my teammates and I always trust my coaches.
Speaker 1: And you know, it just didn't work out that time, Zach,
Speaker 1: I got more around to the right side. Did you
Speaker 1: happen to see that pictures after that series? And if so,
Speaker 1: what is the profession on that play? Yeah? Um, you
Speaker 1: know that's something I have to go look back. I
Speaker 1: mean that was that was a physical game. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on. Um, It's hard to just pinpoint a play,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll go back, I'll look at it
Speaker 1: and see what I see. Um, just in general, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see like a lot of times you were looking
Speaker 1: at Um. I mean you're playing football. You know I
Speaker 1: was playing. I was. You know, I thought their defense
Speaker 1: did a really really good job of, you know, mixing
Speaker 1: things up, Um, you know, keeping us on our heels,
Speaker 1: showing us different things. And I thought, you know, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you're not always gonna go
Speaker 1: to your first guy. You gotta go through your progressions.
Speaker 1: There were times where I did have to go through
Speaker 1: my progressions, which I do um throughout each game, and UM,
Speaker 1: you know, but I felt good. I felt like, when
Speaker 1: you look back at this game, it's just about the
Speaker 1: fight and just continue to go through that adversity, through
Speaker 1: everything that's going on. Just continue to fight. No, I
Speaker 1: already knew that. He didn't even show me that. UM.
Speaker 1: I know that there's never a doubt in his toughness. UM.
Speaker 1: He just reiterates who he is. UM. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that he's a tough player. He takes hits,
Speaker 1: he continues to go UM, and that's just who he is.
Speaker 1: So he didn't need to prove me anything. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever the organization the team asked for me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do um obviously, you know, step in the huddle and
Speaker 1: playing the game. You know something that you know I
Speaker 1: love and you know it's a it's a crazy sport.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna focus right now and you know, cleaning out this
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Um. But you know, whatever the team asks
Speaker 1: for me anytime, I'm gonna be there and I'm want
Speaker 1: to help in any way possible. Who knows what will happen?
Speaker 1: You say, it's crazy. Um just from the game or
Speaker 1: just like everything. You know, I'm really not focused on
Speaker 1: that right now. Um. You know that was a physical game.
Speaker 1: There was a lot. We gave everything we had, Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay gave everything they had. So I'm gonna focus on that.
Speaker 1: Living the moment um. You know, I'm grateful and blessed
Speaker 1: to have played this game for as long as I have. So, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll go back on the bus, go home. Um,
Speaker 1: see my wife, see my daughter, see my dog. Focus
Speaker 1: on that. You know, that's something I gotta leave my
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I say my dog. He gets
Speaker 1: angry when I don't mention them. Um. But you know
Speaker 1: that's where I focus on that. Keep going. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever the team ask needs to me, I want to
Speaker 1: do and help in any way possible. A good job
Speaker 1: there any situations, no, no, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just the game. Um. You know I felt like
Speaker 1: you just have to you know, sometimes they were moving
Speaker 1: after the snap and I thought they did a good
Speaker 1: job and extempt their coverages. But um, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you know that's where we execute, and
Speaker 1: you know, we gave ourselves a chance to win the game. Um,
Speaker 1: the NFL is not easy. UM. You know our team,
Speaker 1: we were stuck together, and that's what I will focus on.
Speaker 1: You're not always you know, you want to win every
Speaker 1: single game. Um. You know, I look at this and
Speaker 1: guys gave everything they had this game. It just didn't
Speaker 1: turn out the way we wanted to. But you know,
Speaker 1: we will continue to build on this. We'll continue to
Speaker 1: lean on each other like we always have. Um, we
Speaker 1: didn't win every single game last year. I think people
Speaker 1: forget that. You know, there's a lot of expectations for us,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can't put that pressure on ourselves
Speaker 1: because we always talk about the family. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphiagos. It's a family, and we have to focus
Speaker 1: on that until health conversion. Um, you just you just
Speaker 1: have to keep going. I mean, they happen. I mean
Speaker 1: we had some big plays today. We had some things
Speaker 1: downfield and they weren't necessarily how you drew draw them up.
Speaker 1: And that's the game of football. Um, you can't force
Speaker 1: the big place. Um, you just have to continue to play.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the last year? You want to and
Speaker 1: then you guys, really, what do you remember about about
Speaker 1: what that is? Like? I think anytime you lose. It's
Speaker 1: not easy, um, because you give everything you have, but
Speaker 1: it's just you know, keeping a positive mindset, um, sticking together,
Speaker 1: getting ready to you know, go out there. You know
Speaker 1: the next day we're out there at practice or whatever
Speaker 1: meetings and being you know critical on you know when
Speaker 1: we watch this film, being critical of ourselves, but not
Speaker 1: to the point where you like start you know, worrying
Speaker 1: in a sense like you need to learn and then
Speaker 1: go out there on the price field and just focus
Speaker 1: on the practice and keep going and improving on you
Speaker 1: know what we saw from this week. You know we
Speaker 1: need to improve on those things. I think the big
Speaker 1: thing going in this next week is, you know, we
Speaker 1: can't have these penalties. You know, I think getting behind
Speaker 1: the chains. That's not something that we have done. And
Speaker 1: we put ourselves in a bad position earlier in the game.
Speaker 1: So clean that up. That's something that we'll focus on.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's what we do, That's what we
Speaker 1: did last year. That's who we are. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: our coaches are gonna you know, coach us, We're gonna
Speaker 1: go out there and play well. Um, you know I
Speaker 1: can't really you know, I wish the one to Zach
Speaker 1: in the red zone. You know, it is like six
Speaker 1: inches shorter. But at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: scored um a couple of plays later. So um, I
Speaker 1: look back. You can never you know, you can never
Speaker 1: second guess yourself in this game. It's not you know,
Speaker 1: you have to go out there and you have to
Speaker 1: give everything you have, um, and you have to lean
Speaker 1: on each other. And you know, I felt like we
Speaker 1: did that today. I sound like a broken record because
Speaker 1: I go back to that, but that's the only way
Speaker 1: I know how to play this game. So um, we'll
Speaker 1: go back. We're gonna look at this film. We're gonna improve,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do what we do. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and have fun and play, play with a
Speaker 1: lot of energy. So thank y'all. All right, there's Nick
Speaker 1: Fole speaking to reporters at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Look,
Speaker 1: he threw for three hundred and thirty four yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Okay, I mean he did everything he could
Speaker 1: to bring the Eagles within a victory six point short.
Speaker 1: I mean he did his part. Everyone's probably thinking if
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is in there, it's magically different. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to give Carson some time because we don't
Speaker 1: know what he's going to be able to do right
Speaker 1: off the jump. So we'll talk about that in a
Speaker 1: little bit. But first, Doug Peterson are one on one
Speaker 1: interview conducted by Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick
Speaker 1: after they wrapped up the press conference a short time ago.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what the coach had to say in this interview. Coach,
Speaker 1: one are the things that I learned long time ago
Speaker 1: is respect your opponents. And with that in mind, talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about this Tampa Bay team and what
Speaker 1: they possessed. Well, I'll tell you. I mean we saw
Speaker 1: it and we point against New Orleans the firepower that
Speaker 1: they had on offense obviously, and then defensively, the type
Speaker 1: of personnel that they have. They had a really good front.
Speaker 1: It's aggressive group. They're a downhill, fast flowing defense. A
Speaker 1: little nicked up in the back end, but you know what,
Speaker 1: they put pressure on the quarterback and that's what they
Speaker 1: that's what they pride themselves on. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: something that I try to talk to our team a
Speaker 1: lot about, is you know, we're gonna get everybody's best
Speaker 1: every single week. Yep, it doesn't matter. I don't, It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter this. First of all, this is the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and everybody plays hard every week. But when
Speaker 1: you're the team that everybody's looking at, we need to
Speaker 1: play like it. And and I felt like today we
Speaker 1: did too many things that that allowed us not to
Speaker 1: play the type of football that we used to play.
Speaker 1: You mentioned them being nicked up, your team a little
Speaker 1: bit nicked up too. Now, how did that affect you?
Speaker 1: And adjusting for Jason Peters, for Mike Wallace and all
Speaker 1: the injuries that you had. Yeah, it started with JP,
Speaker 1: you know, early in the football game. And then of
Speaker 1: course you know you're you're down now to you know,
Speaker 1: you know, Big v who which is which is great?
Speaker 1: We don't, We don't lose anything with that with that transition.
Speaker 1: But Mike Wallace went down early in the game. And
Speaker 1: now it really began to shuffle because we were down
Speaker 1: already with al Sean being out and and Sprowles being
Speaker 1: out and you know, some we had to really shuffle
Speaker 1: some things around, but try to keep it as consistent
Speaker 1: we can. We got some young receivers that are playing,
Speaker 1: and so we offensively wanted to make sure that they
Speaker 1: stayed in their their right positions, and just we shuffled
Speaker 1: the tight ends just a little bit. Talking about the
Speaker 1: young guys, Josh Perkins, he came up pretty big, has
Speaker 1: some big catches, especially down the stretch. Talk about it
Speaker 1: and his contribution a little bit. Yeah, I think we're
Speaker 1: blessed with three really good tight ends, quite honestly. And
Speaker 1: Zach and Dallas and Josh. And Josh is a player that,
Speaker 1: like Dallas, we want to get into mix. We want
Speaker 1: to get in the game and get them into the flow.
Speaker 1: And he did some nice things today and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just keep keep him coming, keep Dallas coming.
Speaker 1: And I think it's I think for us it could
Speaker 1: be an advantage, um, you know, whether we use them
Speaker 1: all at one time or use them and in different
Speaker 1: personnel packages. So I was real pleased from the tight
Speaker 1: end position. But when you look at the depleted receiving corps,
Speaker 1: Mike goes down, you already don't have al Sean. It
Speaker 1: has to put you a disadvantage even as a play caller.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it does, um, but you know
Speaker 1: what I don't. I don't even as a play caller.
Speaker 1: I still try to stay aggressive. I still try to
Speaker 1: you know, shoot the ball down the field. I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to put it, try to put it in our
Speaker 1: our our you know, in Zac's hands, trying to put
Speaker 1: in in Nelson Agloor's hands. You know, run the football
Speaker 1: a little bit. Jay obviously again was him and him
Speaker 1: and Wendell Corey maxing it up in a run game,
Speaker 1: the screen game. So it's just a matter of finding
Speaker 1: the right combination throughout the ball game that uh, that
Speaker 1: we can stick with and and uh, giving ourselves a chance.
Speaker 1: You're staying aggressive also get you in those fourth down
Speaker 1: situations where you're gonna go for it on fourth down
Speaker 1: and that's just your philosophy, it is. And today obviously, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of the fourth downs were towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game and they were kind of
Speaker 1: got to have a situations and and and you know
Speaker 1: the fourth and ten is is a tough one to get.
Speaker 1: But but I felt like in order for us to
Speaker 1: to get back into this football game, I was going
Speaker 1: to do that, and um, and we came up short
Speaker 1: on couple, but uh, you know, I'm going to maintain
Speaker 1: that aggressiveness. I'm gonna make sure that our players understand
Speaker 1: that and we got to do better on first and
Speaker 1: second down the third down to stay out of fourth
Speaker 1: and long. So he goes a little hand in hand.
Speaker 1: One last thing, coach, you know that this is a
Speaker 1: big play offense, the Tampa Bay Bucks. How big were
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns? The first one to Jackson and then
Speaker 1: the other one to the tight end Howard? They're big,
Speaker 1: I mean they're big. I mean those are things we
Speaker 1: talk about all week, trying to eliminate the big play
Speaker 1: and then offensively trying to create the big play. And
Speaker 1: you know, it happened again today, and we just got
Speaker 1: to continue to study, continue to um figure out why.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of football left loft season left.
Speaker 1: We were in this situation a year ago, one on one.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about what's what's ahead of us and
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting to work. Thanks coach, good luck
Speaker 1: next week. Appreciate it all right, Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Mike and Doug. Now we got play more come up
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Speaker 1: the Postgame Show presented by Rico And you know, going
Speaker 1: back to Tide, we were talking about before the break
Speaker 1: about it's not a dire situation with the Eagles losing.
Speaker 1: For me, I just want to see him stack wins
Speaker 1: early in this season. You made a great point about
Speaker 1: the Patriots and how they have to use that first month,
Speaker 1: those first four games to kind of find themselves, and
Speaker 1: that's certainly the case here with the Eagles. But still
Speaker 1: when you look at the schedule or we're actually gonna
Speaker 1: get into it much later in the show, you really
Speaker 1: want to get those wins early, especially with Washington losing earlier. Today,
Speaker 1: you could say the Eagles can be two and oh
Speaker 1: in the division. You know, Dallas is playing in New
Speaker 1: York tonight, so one will be one on one day
Speaker 1: will be o and two. Just take the take the
Speaker 1: leading in division and crush it from the start, so
Speaker 1: at least you have that path to the postseason already
Speaker 1: kind of taken care of, and then you can build
Speaker 1: from there. So that's that's why you want to see
Speaker 1: them come out with the win today, And you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to be able to win games
Speaker 1: that are winnable games. You're not gonna go sixteen and oh,
Speaker 1: that's obvious. You're gonna lose some here and there. And
Speaker 1: it's not to say that Tampa was an inferior opponent
Speaker 1: opponent to you, but simple fact is this was a
Speaker 1: game that you give credit to Tampa for doing what
Speaker 1: they did, but you didn't play your best today. And
Speaker 1: that's as a player and coaches, that's what gnaws at
Speaker 1: you when you when you're on that plane ride back home,
Speaker 1: when you when you hit the bed tonight and you
Speaker 1: think you're replaying the game in your head, you're saying
Speaker 1: to yourself, man, we gave one away because we didn't
Speaker 1: play our best today. And the first thing Doug mentioned
Speaker 1: when he started his press conferences, he talked about the
Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds, the penalties, things of that nature. Giving
Speaker 1: up one play drives. Those are the things that will
Speaker 1: eat at you until you get a chance to get
Speaker 1: back on the field next week. All right. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't the best of homecomings for wide receiver Nelson. Agilore
Speaker 1: had twelve targets, eight catches, eighty eight yards and the touchdown.
Speaker 1: We are actually going to break down this beautiful touchdown.
Speaker 1: I still know how he came up with an amazing
Speaker 1: throw byte Nick Foles down, there's the goal line, beautiful
Speaker 1: toe tap reception there to get the ball in for
Speaker 1: six points, and the hurdle over the photographer is something
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Speaker 1: all right, greg, Let's now look at a play midway
Speaker 1: through the fourth quarter Nour. The Eagles are trying to
Speaker 1: mount a comeback, and you see this touchdown pass on
Speaker 1: fourth and goal from Nick Foles to Nelson Agilar and really,
Speaker 1: to me, this kind of speaks to the receiver that
Speaker 1: Nelson Agilare has become because this release off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage here in the red zone in a clutch situation.
Speaker 1: It's a thing of beauty what he does to the rookie.
Speaker 1: M J. Stewart we got a little excited when we
Speaker 1: saw this play, thinking maybe we'd have a comeback here.
Speaker 1: But this is a two man route concept. It's a
Speaker 1: flat seven and why don't you draw that up because
Speaker 1: you're going to get the seven route by Nelson Agilar
Speaker 1: and this slot, and you're going to get the flat
Speaker 1: route by Shelton Gibson, and you have man to man
Speaker 1: coverage here, but you hit it right on the head.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of room. You're in the tight
Speaker 1: red zone. Okay, you're inside the five yard line. So
Speaker 1: the routes have to be run with absolute precision. If
Speaker 1: they're off by just a little bit, this throw can't
Speaker 1: be made. So you mentioned Aglar. What he does so
Speaker 1: well with his release is get MJ. Stewart, the rookie
Speaker 1: slot corner for the Bucks turned to the inside. So
Speaker 1: what that allows him to do now he wins the
Speaker 1: leverage game right off the bat, and that's absolutely critical.
Speaker 1: If Aglar just runs straight, he doesn't gain the leverage
Speaker 1: needed to run the seven route. So let's clear this Frannon.
Speaker 1: Let's see that happen now. And if we run this now,
Speaker 1: we can see exactly what Agilar did. Boom. Look at
Speaker 1: that right there and then freeze it right about there.
Speaker 1: See how he's won right now. He's one to the
Speaker 1: outside and because there's not a lot of space, you
Speaker 1: have to do that as quickly as possible. And because
Speaker 1: it's man coverage, the other corner is matched on and
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a big factor. But This
Speaker 1: was still really a very tight window throw right there.
Speaker 1: This is beautiful, so let's clear it and now we
Speaker 1: can see the throw. The corner does drop off and Foles,
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, made about as beautiful a throw as you
Speaker 1: could make on that because there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: space and you're working, like I said, in the tight
Speaker 1: rid zone. Yeah, so it makes a twenty one. The
Speaker 1: Eagles unable to get a stop there at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, but outstanding throw and catch there from
Speaker 1: Nelson Iglore and Nick Foles to help bring it within
Speaker 1: a score. Just couldn't get it all done today. Obviously
Speaker 1: a tough outing for this Eagles team. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was probably a tough outing for the Eagles defense. We're
Speaker 1: not used to seeing that with a Jim Schwartz defense.
Speaker 1: They normally play at such a high level weekend and
Speaker 1: week out. But the Bucks with Ryan Fitzpatrick, they're on
Speaker 1: a nice little role offensively and they have a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons. We saw that today. Yeah, no question, you'd
Speaker 1: like to see that game go a little bit differently
Speaker 1: there at the end. But guys a lot to learn
Speaker 1: from here in this Eagle's loss on all three sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. Honestly offense, defense, and special teams. Alright.
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Speaker 1: the app. Now we're gonna take our last break here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show presented by Rico. And on the
Speaker 1: other side, we're gonna look ahead to the schedule again.
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Speaker 1: as give you the Toyota Player of the Week nominees.
Speaker 1: You will not want to miss it. Well, I'm trying
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Speaker 1: at a brand new Toyota. All right, So, or to
Speaker 1: kick things off here, the Toyota Player of the Week
Speaker 1: nominees with running back Corey Clement, Darren Sprowls out stepped
Speaker 1: up in a big way of taking on a bigger role,
Speaker 1: especially on third down, and then Jagi gets hurt in
Speaker 1: the first half, so we asked to shoulder more of
Speaker 1: the load on offense. And I thought, bra lad juice
Speaker 1: to the run game out there. Yeah, you know, when
Speaker 1: Corey gets the ball in his hands, here a different
Speaker 1: little element, right, He runs the ball hard, runs with determination,
Speaker 1: and fans are like, wanted to see Corey become a
Speaker 1: little bit more part of the offense this week. Certainly
Speaker 1: didn't want to do to someone's else's misfortune. But when
Speaker 1: you see Jed Jile you go out early in the game,
Speaker 1: you know that Corey Clemmet is going to give a
Speaker 1: chance to touch the ball a little bit more today.
Speaker 1: And I like the fact that he catches the ball
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Five catches today fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: had a nice run out of the catch. Unfortunately had
Speaker 1: his part return called back due to a block in
Speaker 1: the back. But look forward to seeing Corey touched the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit more runs with that determination that
Speaker 1: he had last year. Just needed a few more opportunity
Speaker 1: and a crowded backfield. You never know what those opportunities
Speaker 1: are going to present itself. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: he was ready to roll to day when he was
Speaker 1: called upon. Also, we'll go down and make spect make
Speaker 1: tackles on special teams as well. Big still big part
Speaker 1: of his game. That's how he got in the field
Speaker 1: initially last season as a rookie and still continues that
Speaker 1: to this day. Scary moment in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 1: he took that helmet to helmet shot there going for
Speaker 1: that fourth passed. Great to see him come back in
Speaker 1: the game and look no worse for wear as a
Speaker 1: result of him. So our first nominee there is Corey Clement.
Speaker 1: Number two. We're gonna go with defensive tackle Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: who spectacular move early on the game shoving kl Fannick
Speaker 1: around to be able to get to Ryan Fitzpatrick for
Speaker 1: a sack, especially at a time when the Eagles really
Speaker 1: needed something on defense to spark themselves after the slow start.
Speaker 1: There Fletcher Cox just dominant in the middle of that defense.
Speaker 1: Once again, it seems like that Fletcher Cox might be
Speaker 1: a nominee each and every week for this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he put the target on his back, you know
Speaker 1: in the off season when he said his goal is
Speaker 1: to be Defensive Player of the Year. You know his
Speaker 1: agent mate and Aaron Donald got it last year. So
Speaker 1: I know that's part of the motivation for Fletcher and
Speaker 1: I'm all foreign And every game Fletcher has played in
Speaker 1: in two eighteen, that includes preseason games, he's got a sacking. Yes,
Speaker 1: So every game, if he keeps doing that, he'll finish
Speaker 1: with sixteen sacks and he'll be right there in the
Speaker 1: hunt for what he's driving for Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: All Right, our last nominee year, we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver position. Nelson Agilore. We talked about
Speaker 1: him a few moments ago in the Rico Review with
Speaker 1: that touchdown that he had beautiful catch from Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: But overall, just the one guy that you can count
Speaker 1: on to make things happen on the offense, whether if
Speaker 1: it's a short pass, a short reception just to get
Speaker 1: moved the change, or to come up with a big play.
Speaker 1: He had the catching run for fifty yards out there today.
Speaker 1: So Nelson Agilore once again also a nominee for the
Speaker 1: Toyota Play over the Week Award. There's really a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on Nellie getting a chance to go back
Speaker 1: and play in the city where he grew up down
Speaker 1: there in Tampa, Florida, and for the first time Bannon
Speaker 1: Raymond James Stadium. I thought he had a nice game.
Speaker 1: And the thing about Nelson that I like this year
Speaker 1: is his mental toughness. He's basically being called upon to
Speaker 1: show to the load in the passing game. You know,
Speaker 1: they move him all around short passes. Like to see
Speaker 1: him get a few more deep throws if we get
Speaker 1: a chance too, but he even has to be a
Speaker 1: part of a running game at times, really being that
Speaker 1: ultimate weapon for our offense. Nice job from Nelson agilo Man.
Speaker 1: The last two years for him just been fantastic. The
Speaker 1: reason why we drafted him in the first round a
Speaker 1: few years ago. Yeah six captain for today's game, So yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly a tip of the captain him having a big
Speaker 1: game going back to his hometown. So those are your
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Week nominees. Now let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the upcoming schedule again. Next week, the Eagles
Speaker 1: will host the Indianapolis Colts. Frank Reich and Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: come to town and it's gonna be a much more
Speaker 1: interesting matchup. The Colts beating Washington today, so they get
Speaker 1: the first win under the belt for Frank right there,
Speaker 1: as head coach Andrew Luck coming back into form after
Speaker 1: missing all of last season with the shoulder injury. So
Speaker 1: again there are some playmakers on that side of the
Speaker 1: ball for the Colts. You can't dismiss them. But again
Speaker 1: we talked about this earlier in the show. This defense
Speaker 1: has been so much different at home. You figure if
Speaker 1: they can get to Andrew Luck early and often, they
Speaker 1: should make it a long day because the Colts do
Speaker 1: not have a running game they can rely upon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this game next week. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's at home. Excited about that, But we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: a chance to see Andrew Luck here at Lincoln Financial Field.
Speaker 1: So this is a guy who's tabbed as being one
Speaker 1: of the bright young quarterbacks of the future of the
Speaker 1: National Football League, of that next generation quarterback. Couple injuries,
Speaker 1: the last couple of years has sort of flown under
Speaker 1: the radar when it comes to who are the future
Speaker 1: stars in the NFL at the quarterback position. That talent
Speaker 1: is still there and Andrew Luck So don't sleep on
Speaker 1: the fact that you haven't seen him in the last
Speaker 1: two years. He still has the ability to beat you
Speaker 1: with his arm. He does so again they get the
Speaker 1: cult and then they go to Tennessee the week after that,
Speaker 1: and if the Eagles can handle their business the next
Speaker 1: two weeks, there'll be three and one through the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. And I think most fans would
Speaker 1: take that and sign up for an incident. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what the discussion will be this week. The report
Speaker 1: that came out this weekend, the number eleven is close. Indeed,
Speaker 1: pay next. We haven't even touch that one. Staying away
Speaker 1: from that one, Okay, we figured we got all week there,
Speaker 1: we got all week. You know what on Marcieries starting
Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon on the sports radio ninety four w you
Speaker 1: have ball with that one. So again, it's the thing
Speaker 1: is gonna be. I would love to see him come
Speaker 1: back this week. I will love to see he and
Speaker 1: al Sean come back together this week to ignite the offense.
Speaker 1: But we just can't put you know, we can't expect
Speaker 1: him to come out and be Carson Wentz twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: We can't expect him to come out from the gate
Speaker 1: and be an MVP quarterback again. I think that's been
Speaker 1: putting two months. Not realistic. But again, I think Nick
Speaker 1: Foles played a very efficient game. Carson will bring that
Speaker 1: explosive element, okay, from the deep armed, the ability to
Speaker 1: make place with his feet. Certainly he's gonna have that,
Speaker 1: But how much will we see of that early on?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be a different style of quarterback coming
Speaker 1: back from the knee injury. I don't think he will,
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna know. It's gonna be point and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you Nick planned the way that he played
Speaker 1: this week. The offense is starting to find a little something.
Speaker 1: So he's throwing the ball around well, starting to get
Speaker 1: gain some confidence in his ability to throw the ball
Speaker 1: with these weapons that he has. He has around him,
Speaker 1: somewhat of a revolving door, you know, may have been
Speaker 1: able to hold off on bringing number eleven and back.
Speaker 1: So number nine is playing well man exactly so, and
Speaker 1: the number nine is probably like, you give me seventeen,
Speaker 1: you give me Aushan back. Right, we can make We
Speaker 1: saw the Super Bowls's on the Vikings Championship game. I
Speaker 1: can make something happen with him out there on the field,
Speaker 1: especially considering that Mike Wallas reports are that he was
Speaker 1: in a boot in the locker room, so we don't
Speaker 1: know what his long term productnosis is going to be
Speaker 1: or if he'll be available for next week's game against
Speaker 1: the Cult. Well, nonetheless, that's gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: here on the postgame show presented by Rico for Ike reason,
Speaker 1: all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm Chris McPherson.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Unfortunately, the Eagles go down twenty
Speaker 1: seven to twenty one to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, But
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