Speaker 1: All right, I'm trying to catch my breath. All right,
Speaker 1: we all figured out twenty seven thirteen the Eagles were
Speaker 1: probably gonna take the l but what a thrilling finish. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the comeback comes just a little short, as the Eagles
Speaker 1: fall to the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty Welcome to the postgame Show, presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. I'm Chris mcfeerson alongside I Greece. There are
Speaker 1: so many layers to under wrapped to this game. But
Speaker 1: the first thing I'll start, We'll take the immediate emotion
Speaker 1: coming out of this game, and for me, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be missed opportunities, and it's gonna be especially at the
Speaker 1: ends of the both halfs of this football game. You
Speaker 1: look at the end of the first half where the
Speaker 1: Eagles got the ball with seven teen seconds left, Chiefs
Speaker 1: just got a field goal to take a lead. You figure, Okay,
Speaker 1: if Doug Piers, who wants to kneel on the ball,
Speaker 1: go into halftime, he gets the ball to start the
Speaker 1: second half, you could be like, Okay, that's fine. You
Speaker 1: could understand it. It's what most coaches would do in
Speaker 1: that situation. They're running play to run play to Darren
Speaker 1: Sprowles gets a chunk yardage. Then they go deep to
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. Terrence Mitchell lecorback puts the ball up in
Speaker 1: the air, accidentally doesn't know where it's at. Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: great frame of mind, is able to catch it, run
Speaker 1: down the siline almost scores says that what should be
Speaker 1: a field goal for the new kicker, Jake Elliot chip
Speaker 1: shot misses it three points left right there. End of
Speaker 1: the game here about two minutes left. Eagles go down
Speaker 1: to get the Nelson Agiler touchdown to get within the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Trey Burton gets the on side kick recovers it for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. The team has one last shot. They go
Speaker 1: to the end zone. They had an opportunity there but
Speaker 1: not able to get it. They'd all their big guns
Speaker 1: out there on the field, al Sewn Torrey Smith not
Speaker 1: able to get it. Obviously not a high percentage, but
Speaker 1: to me, just missed opportunities. And when the Eagles come
Speaker 1: out of this game, there's a lot of things to
Speaker 1: feel good about this football team, like, but you feel
Speaker 1: like that they had the opportunity to win this one
Speaker 1: on the road today. Well, I mean just another step
Speaker 1: in the growth of this football team. I mean going
Speaker 1: into a hostile environment like Arrowheads Stadium. I played out
Speaker 1: there a couple of times. I know how loud it
Speaker 1: can get out there. They played well for three quarters
Speaker 1: three and a half quarters, couldn't finish the game. That's
Speaker 1: what they're learning to do as a young football team
Speaker 1: that's learning to be consistent. And when you're going to
Speaker 1: place like Earlhead, you look at the bottom of the graph.
Speaker 1: We just had it up there a second ago. To me,
Speaker 1: those were the two telling factors. Two for five in
Speaker 1: the red zone. You gotta get touchdowns instead of field goals,
Speaker 1: missed opportunities there. And then two turnovers. I mean the
Speaker 1: Chiefs didn't turn the ball over at all. We turn
Speaker 1: the ball over twice. The Chiefs get ten points off
Speaker 1: of our turnovers. To me, that's the difference in the
Speaker 1: football game. I mean, when you look at this thing,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are gonna feel sick coming back home to
Speaker 1: Philly because this is a team that they went toe
Speaker 1: to toe with and match them big play for big play,
Speaker 1: defensive defensive stand for defensive stand. The Eagles deserve to
Speaker 1: win this ball game to a degree, but in the end,
Speaker 1: you can't make mistakes like they had on the road
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. Give the Chiefs credit. They took
Speaker 1: advantage of it. They capitalized on it. When you're going
Speaker 1: to a place like Arrowhead, you gotta play nearly a
Speaker 1: perfect game. You gotta play nearly a perfect game. The
Speaker 1: ten points they gave up on the turnovers, plus the
Speaker 1: miss field goal right before the half, that's thirteen points
Speaker 1: right there the Eagles should have had on the bat
Speaker 1: and I'll add four more points because on the opening
Speaker 1: drive the Eagles did get a field goal Jake elliotts
Speaker 1: first in the NFL, but Carson went through a perfect
Speaker 1: ball of Torry Smith spot off. The defender should have
Speaker 1: had it. You know, you're talking about the red zone.
Speaker 1: Not able to convert two or five. That's one of
Speaker 1: the miss opportunities there. So right there, that's another four point.
Speaker 1: So you look at you tire, you up seven team
Speaker 1: lost points there for the Eagles on the field, and
Speaker 1: the scores twenty seven to twenty. If even if the
Speaker 1: score end of twenty seven to thirteen, the anyone have
Speaker 1: been that much closer because this was a tie ball.
Speaker 1: Nine minutes, nine minutes left to go, and then how
Speaker 1: about the irony of the go ahead score in this
Speaker 1: game coming from Travis Kelsey a fifteen yard reception off
Speaker 1: a shovel pass. It's just like Andy Reid just digging
Speaker 1: the elbow in there. Be like you saw this a
Speaker 1: few times. You know it was caught at some point
Speaker 1: and he unveiled it at the clutch moment there. But
Speaker 1: you make a great point there, Ike, as we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Doug Pierce, we'll hear from Carson Wentz just
Speaker 1: a little bit. You make a great point about the
Speaker 1: development of the two teams where they're at. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: are at the point where they're contending, They've been to
Speaker 1: then FC Championship game. They're they're eye in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: This is to them, this is the peak for them.
Speaker 1: They're trying to break through and get to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl this year. Okay, if they've gone toe to toe
Speaker 1: with the best in the AFC. They went to Foxboro
Speaker 1: Week one and stunned the defending champion Patriots in a
Speaker 1: game where I think everyone's said, you don't go on
Speaker 1: the road to the team celebrating the title and beat
Speaker 1: him in that Thursday and I kick off of handily too,
Speaker 1: and twenty one nothing. They won in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And this is another game. You know, when you look
Speaker 1: at the Chiefs of these first two games, they dominated
Speaker 1: the games in the fourth quarters. They finished strong, and
Speaker 1: that's what the Eagles were not able to do on
Speaker 1: this day. So the Eagles made great strides last weekend
Speaker 1: that went over Washington. You get the one on the road,
Speaker 1: start off good in the division. You know, be a
Speaker 1: team that's beat five straight times, all great things to
Speaker 1: accomplish there. But this was a litmuscess for the team
Speaker 1: because I thought that this team could play with the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and they did. Like you said, they were a toe
Speaker 1: to toe right there. You know, body blow for body blow.
Speaker 1: You know, even the big players they were matching each other,
Speaker 1: just didn't have enough to get over the top. And
Speaker 1: when you just add up the little mistakes one by one,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the difference. It's not gonna be so
Speaker 1: much one big play that really made the difference. It's
Speaker 1: just little things that accumulate over the course of the
Speaker 1: game that if you don't take advantage of them, they're
Speaker 1: gonna come back and bite you. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Just mistakes mishats. It really allowed the Chiefs to stick around.
Speaker 1: I thought the Eagles for the most part, did a
Speaker 1: great job of dominating the game really in the first half.
Speaker 1: It's just the scorer wasn't indicative of the way that
Speaker 1: they were playing in the first half, and it was
Speaker 1: due to some of their self inflicted wounds. There's another
Speaker 1: thing you can't do when you're a young team going
Speaker 1: into Kansas City. You can't be one dimensional. You know,
Speaker 1: the running game has still been a struggle for this team.
Speaker 1: Last week, we didn't run the ball very well. This
Speaker 1: week again, Darren Spros was our leading rusher. You look
Speaker 1: at that one hundred and seven yards. A lot of
Speaker 1: that Darren Spros is our leading rusher from the running
Speaker 1: back position. I think Carson Wentz may have been the
Speaker 1: leading rusher overall with fifty five rushing yards on four tips.
Speaker 1: So if you take away Carson's fifty five rushing yards,
Speaker 1: you're looking at what maybe fifty nine. My man wasn't
Speaker 1: very good and coming up, but get you get the point.
Speaker 1: Only ten rushers from Darren Spros, three from all Windale Smallwood,
Speaker 1: no rushing attempts from la Garrett Blunt, this week, Eagles
Speaker 1: got to get the running game going in order to
Speaker 1: beat teams like that. You're gonna play a tough team
Speaker 1: in the New York Giants that if you dropped back
Speaker 1: forty something odd times fifty times against that Giant's defense,
Speaker 1: you're asking for trouble. They had to find another way
Speaker 1: to move the football. You can't put all of the
Speaker 1: weight on Carson Wentz to shoulders with this passing game
Speaker 1: and expect him to just throw you to victory's week
Speaker 1: in and week out. You got to come up with
Speaker 1: some balance and that's gonna be trying to establish a
Speaker 1: run game. Didn't get it done again this week on
Speaker 1: the ground. Now, the thing you have to be feeling
Speaker 1: great about if you're an Eagles fan. The defense to
Speaker 1: me is legit. Yeah, this defense is very, very good,
Speaker 1: and they were putting some tough positions during the course
Speaker 1: of the game. And that's gonna happen in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the fourth quarter. You take away the strugles
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. You came into his game saying
Speaker 1: that you're going against a very good quarterback an Alex
Speaker 1: Smith probably underrated to some degree, but was lights out.
Speaker 1: Was the offensive Player of the Week in the AFC
Speaker 1: and that win over the Patriots. And it doesn't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing. Does not make mistakes. But you
Speaker 1: always thought of him as, you know, a dink and
Speaker 1: dunk guy. But he wasn't that way against the Patriots
Speaker 1: because he has all these tools. Now is disposable in
Speaker 1: Travis else in Tyreek Hill and now Kareem Hunt, Well,
Speaker 1: the Heel's did a great job of containing Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz give him credit for this. He knows how
Speaker 1: to limit those explosive weapons. You look at the top
Speaker 1: notch wide receivers he faced a year ago. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna let that guy beat you on a weekend, a
Speaker 1: week out basis, Okay, Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey was the
Speaker 1: dagger this week, which is rare that a tight end
Speaker 1: becomes a thorn in the eagle side for Jim Schwartz defense. Here.
Speaker 1: He's so awesome when he has the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's probably the best tight end
Speaker 1: running after the catch in the league. I mean, we
Speaker 1: talk about having wiggle. That big boy has wiggletone him.
Speaker 1: You watched him leap over defenders I mean, the effort
Speaker 1: to get in the end zone was nothing short of miraculous.
Speaker 1: He had to leap over defender and then get through
Speaker 1: two guys. So Alex Smith just dumping the ball off
Speaker 1: and then letting his weapons make plays. One more point
Speaker 1: about the defense along with that, Travis Kelsey played the
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt play. I mean, you just see guys missing tackles,
Speaker 1: and that's where you saw of defense wear down late
Speaker 1: in the second half of this game. I thought they
Speaker 1: did a good job, a great job actually battling up
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt for the majority of the game. He had
Speaker 1: the one big run where he broke that four touchdown
Speaker 1: and then he broke tackles to get the other touchdown
Speaker 1: late in the game. But I thought that was due
Speaker 1: to the defense just wearing down in that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Working on a short field. You put too much pressure
Speaker 1: on them when you give the ball away and scoring
Speaker 1: and the opposing team scoring area to force this Eagles
Speaker 1: team to get off the field. And with that said,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had an opportunity with a Viny Curry sack there.
Speaker 1: If he gets a sack there, it's fourth down. You
Speaker 1: kick a field goal. Now you're looking at if he
Speaker 1: makes it as a sixteen thirteen game, you still got
Speaker 1: a ball game. He can't bring down Alex Smith. He
Speaker 1: picks up the key first down, next thing you know,
Speaker 1: they're taking it in for a touchdown. I thought Vinny
Speaker 1: Curry had such a good game. He did have a
Speaker 1: good game, very good game, flying around the ball, very disruptive,
Speaker 1: you know, cause a lot of havoc in the backfield.
Speaker 1: But that's the one play that you need him to
Speaker 1: make it. When you look at the defense into events
Speaker 1: in the defensive line in general, Jim Schwartz and Chris Wilson,
Speaker 1: they've preached that they want the guys to finish. They
Speaker 1: want not just get to the quarterback. We saw it
Speaker 1: with Brandon grahamall last season. He could get to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: could he bring him down? And at times today they
Speaker 1: did a good job of that. They really got to
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. I thought they'd got him be a little
Speaker 1: jittery in the pocket for sacks today, did a great
Speaker 1: job getting the pressure. But that was the one at
Speaker 1: third down. And you know, another underrated aspect Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: talked about this. Another underrated aspect of Smith's game is
Speaker 1: his mobility, His way to escape the pocket, and you
Speaker 1: know they designed the run pass option plays for him
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. You don't know, they create
Speaker 1: so much misdirection that you don't know who's gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball on any given play. And overall I thought
Speaker 1: that the defense was for the most part, pretty disciplined.
Speaker 1: But you go to the third it was a third
Speaker 1: and four. I believe Alex Smith scrambles to his left,
Speaker 1: he gets away from Viney kerv No no clue whatsoever,
Speaker 1: how he's able to escape the pressure, gets the first down,
Speaker 1: keeps it alive. The next play, Travis Kelsey gets the
Speaker 1: first down, leaping over with stool Douglas and then he
Speaker 1: gets a shovel past score for fifteen yards out. You know,
Speaker 1: So that really to me the big moment, and that's
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna be. It's gonna come down to in
Speaker 1: those clutch moments, who's gonna be able to deliver those
Speaker 1: game changing plays. And on this day, Ike, it was
Speaker 1: quite simple that the Chief's offense was able to come
Speaker 1: through with the big plays when they needed them. The
Speaker 1: Eel's defense needs just another stop, another turnover, needs something
Speaker 1: at some point not able to get the job done.
Speaker 1: But last week Ike the Chief's offense scored forty two points.
Speaker 1: They had over five hundred and fifty I forget the
Speaker 1: exact toll, five hundred and fifty toll yards, and you
Speaker 1: look at what they were to du Tay, Okay, three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four total yards. You obviously want that
Speaker 1: to come down. But two hundred and thirty yards of
Speaker 1: the passing game with the weapons at the disposal. The
Speaker 1: rushing yards you mentioned with the Eagles, how pretty much
Speaker 1: half of them came off of Carson went almost half
Speaker 1: of them. And Kareem Hunt, he pretty much got all
Speaker 1: of his rushing yards off the one big play, the
Speaker 1: fifty three yard touchdown there which answered the Eagles touchdown
Speaker 1: from Alice John Jeffrey. Yeah, no doubt about it. Just
Speaker 1: needed to do more offensively, really, I thought the defense
Speaker 1: played an outstanding game for about forty five to fifty
Speaker 1: minutes of this football game. Needed more from the offense.
Speaker 1: But I'll get the offense this. When you're wanted to
Speaker 1: mention and you can't run the ball, it wasn't without calls.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a very good Kansas City Chiefs defense.
Speaker 1: They have pride. You saw that they started to wear
Speaker 1: our offensive line down late in the game. I thought
Speaker 1: Carson had moments where he had time to throw the
Speaker 1: ball back there in the pocket. But if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be one dimensional that Chiefs defense, Bob Sudden, he's gonna
Speaker 1: send extra guys. And that's what they saw in the
Speaker 1: second half, a lot of extra pressure coming. Sorenson was
Speaker 1: big time with his pressure packages. D four. All these
Speaker 1: guys able to overwhelm our offensive line in the second half.
Speaker 1: And I really thought that was the difference that Carson
Speaker 1: didn't look as comfortable late in that game as he
Speaker 1: had looked earlier in the game. Well, the first I
Speaker 1: thought the first half the pass protection, even though like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, they were one dimensional, I thought the pass
Speaker 1: protection was very good. He had clean pocket, he had
Speaker 1: time in the pocket, he could step into his throws.
Speaker 1: But you mentioned that wasn't there in the second half.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's just a result of having to backpill
Speaker 1: every single time, knowing that you're going to be throwing
Speaker 1: the ball time after time again. But you look at
Speaker 1: the numbers here Ike, you know, three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three yards, but largely because he had to throw the
Speaker 1: ball forty six times. Okay, he was sacked six times.
Speaker 1: I mean you're asking him to drop back fifty plus time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know this is a high rate Already. You look
Speaker 1: at the Eagles and not be able to get the
Speaker 1: run game going in the first two weeks. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the biggest question for this team moving forward.
Speaker 1: And you don't get an easy task next week when
Speaker 1: the Giants come to town. Yeah, but opener, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: You look at the schedule the next few weeks. They're
Speaker 1: facing some pretty good defenses. I mean, San Diego has
Speaker 1: a pretty good defense as well with that front seven.
Speaker 1: So if if the Eagles are going to righten the
Speaker 1: ship and get back on the winning ways of doing things,
Speaker 1: they have to be able to get that running game going. Listen,
Speaker 1: I love Carson Wentz. I love when he wings it,
Speaker 1: throws the ball out there. We like watching him do it.
Speaker 1: But like you, just you ask him to drop back
Speaker 1: fifty plus times, you're asking for trouble. So you gotta
Speaker 1: get the running game going. Didn't get Legarrett Blunt any
Speaker 1: carries today. It'd be interesting to hear Dugs thoughts on
Speaker 1: why he wasn't a bigger part of the game. Plan,
Speaker 1: maybe because Kansas City's defense is a fast defense and
Speaker 1: they wanted quicker running backs to sort of hit the
Speaker 1: holes or what have you. I thought Dani Spros did
Speaker 1: a decent job, you know, running the football at times,
Speaker 1: but you know, I you gotta get the running game going.
Speaker 1: I just don't see how you can ask Carson to
Speaker 1: throw the ball as much as he's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: the first two weeks. We got away with it in
Speaker 1: Washington last week against a better defense. The sacks, you know,
Speaker 1: even though the sacks aren't turnovers, they're negative plays. They
Speaker 1: put you behind the chains. They put you in second
Speaker 1: and fifteen, third and nineteen. I mean those are hard
Speaker 1: first downs to convert when you're looking at third and
Speaker 1: extra extra long like that. So I just think that
Speaker 1: makes it difficult for your offense. And we mentioned Giants
Speaker 1: next week, great secondary. We got to be able to
Speaker 1: get the running game going. It's interesting because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you call it during the broadcast, but the
Speaker 1: announcer said that Doug in their pregame meeting said that
Speaker 1: he wanted to feed the ball specifically to al Sean
Speaker 1: number seventeen, zach Ertz eighty six, and Darren Sprowle, so
Speaker 1: he wanted to feature the playmakers today. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: because you pretty much saw that within the game plan.
Speaker 1: You saw they might have targets go each of those
Speaker 1: players way, but you didn't get the ball, like you said,
Speaker 1: the little Garret blunt. And even if you try to
Speaker 1: at least sell the idea that you're going to be
Speaker 1: trying to establish the run game, yeah, all if it's
Speaker 1: just the pace of the game, the way things went,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a defensive slugfest. You know. They
Speaker 1: both teams went down the field pretty easily on their
Speaker 1: opening drives. Each put up a field goal, and you said,
Speaker 1: this might be a track meet. They might be going
Speaker 1: back and forth all day long completely, you know, both
Speaker 1: defenses to their credit adjusted and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: but you don't have a chance to establish the running game.
Speaker 1: That's probably the time where you wish you would done it.
Speaker 1: So maybe you're out, they're little bit longer in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, maybe the defense is a little bit fresher.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's gonna be the big question
Speaker 1: for the offense is how to establish the running game.
Speaker 1: We'll think about it. You know, you look at if
Speaker 1: you just look at the Chiefs offense, they stumbled around
Speaker 1: all day as well. They couldn't get a whole lot
Speaker 1: of rhythm going, couldn't get the running game going with
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt. But then you watched in that third quarter,
Speaker 1: they kept feeding Kareem Hunt the ball and they kept
Speaker 1: churning it and churning it, and he finally broke one.
Speaker 1: He finally broke a big one on a nice little drawplay,
Speaker 1: a well designed quick trap draw play inside there where
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt was able to break free. And he also
Speaker 1: got to touch down a second touchdown in the game late.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you gotta just stick with it and hopefully
Speaker 1: it'll break sooner or later. But I thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: at one point felt like we weren't getting enough positive
Speaker 1: yardage with the running game. And sometimes it's easy to
Speaker 1: just go back to the guy who has the golden
Speaker 1: arm and allow him to make plays with his arms.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this for the offense, the passing game
Speaker 1: was there. You know, as great as this Chief's defense is.
Speaker 1: Aushan Jeffrey had a pretty good day to day. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz had a good day to day. Torrey Smith a
Speaker 1: good day to day. He bounced back in the second
Speaker 1: half and came up with some big catches, the move
Speaker 1: the chain, so the passing game was working. It's just
Speaker 1: that it became too predictable. And when you're this predictable,
Speaker 1: predictable against a defense like the Chiefs have, eventually they're
Speaker 1: gonna get theirs. And that's what happened. That defensive line,
Speaker 1: that defensive front of the Chiefs eventually started getting the
Speaker 1: Carson wins. It's also you don't want to see your
Speaker 1: quarterback getting hit that many time exactly because okay, it's
Speaker 1: two sacks this week, three sacks this week. This week
Speaker 1: it was six in fact, but he's taking those hits.
Speaker 1: That's gonna have a cumuli effects by the time we
Speaker 1: get into November and December when you need him playing
Speaker 1: his best football. You don't want your quarterback worn down,
Speaker 1: and you also don't want to be You mentioned the
Speaker 1: Golden Arm, but it's also the feat as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the scramble drill seemed to make the biggest plays.
Speaker 1: Those are where a lot of the magic is happening
Speaker 1: right now for the offense, and it's almost you can't
Speaker 1: rely on it. It's not something you can go in
Speaker 1: and have the playbug and say, let's go to where
Speaker 1: Carson wentz Bolls is out and gets us a sixty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, you know, to Torrey Smith or whomever. It's
Speaker 1: a field for him, which is great to have. It's
Speaker 1: a great thing to have in the art. So but
Speaker 1: it's almost you can't rely on it. Now, watch me
Speaker 1: nitpick about it because I wish he had taken off
Speaker 1: a couple other times. He's standing back there and he's
Speaker 1: waiting for his receivers that get open. I thought the
Speaker 1: office a line had done a decent job of keeping
Speaker 1: guys off of him. But he's standing in the pocket
Speaker 1: waiting for guys to get open. And basically he gave
Speaker 1: up two or three coverage sacks. Where had he just
Speaker 1: used his legs and escape to the right or to
Speaker 1: the left. Maybe he makes a play with his legs,
Speaker 1: or he basically gets a guy open because he's moved
Speaker 1: the pocket, which moves the defense as well. Like I said,
Speaker 1: that's nitpicking. And when you're out there on the field,
Speaker 1: I'm not the one looking down the barrel of red
Speaker 1: Jersey's coming at me and whether or not my guy
Speaker 1: is getting open, or should I take off, he rushed
Speaker 1: with fifty five yards only on four attempts. I just
Speaker 1: thought there were a couple other times where had he
Speaker 1: escaped towards right or towards left, he would have avoided
Speaker 1: a sack and if nothing else, you could have thrown
Speaker 1: the ball away as opposed to taking a negative play there.
Speaker 1: That maybe is a difference of going against a guy
Speaker 1: like Alex Smith. There's been the league since two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, number one, former number one overall pick, and
Speaker 1: he has that awareness, that game situation experience. I think
Speaker 1: the situational football a sudden and that was preached a
Speaker 1: lot about Carson Wentz this offseason and working in those
Speaker 1: third down and red zone situations, those types of situation
Speaker 1: should probably come into factor as well. So again Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz there. You know you want to see him use
Speaker 1: those legs definitely to buy time in the pocket, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to see every down face it. But
Speaker 1: you do want to see him be able to take
Speaker 1: off when the offensive line has everything blocked up and
Speaker 1: there's just nothing coverage wise for you down the field
Speaker 1: to throw the ball too. And he's not a much
Speaker 1: better job this year protecting himself. Yes, when he gets
Speaker 1: out of the pocket. So you remember last year he
Speaker 1: was trying to hurt hurdle people at times and even
Speaker 1: taking it hits on his shoulders. I thought today he
Speaker 1: did a great job when he did decide to escape
Speaker 1: the pocket of knowing how to get down or get
Speaker 1: out of bounds. A couple of times thought he was
Speaker 1: going out of bounds and he extended to play by
Speaker 1: cutting it back in there. So there's the athleticism that
Speaker 1: you see from this guy that's underrated, and I think
Speaker 1: catches defenses by surprise at times. He can slide. He
Speaker 1: can slide. That's the biggest thing is and I think
Speaker 1: this is where we realize that even though he's had
Speaker 1: a full year of experience, he's still only eighteen seen
Speaker 1: career games. So that's part of the development that we're
Speaker 1: still unfalling again. You know, you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: here again from today, three hundred and thirty three yards
Speaker 1: just over fifty percent completion percentage. You know, as we
Speaker 1: want to see this team make such an astronomical jump
Speaker 1: from year one year or two, going from seven to
Speaker 1: nine last year to you know, double digit wins or
Speaker 1: whatnot this season, you see, the potential is there. But
Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna have those strides. There's gonna be those
Speaker 1: growing pains along the way. But one thing that I'm
Speaker 1: taking out of today is it's great that the Eagles
Speaker 1: invested in the weapons around him that he has got.
Speaker 1: That is, you know, when the Eagles are in an
Speaker 1: offensive funk, you realize that they can so quickly get
Speaker 1: out of it, because he could say, I could throw
Speaker 1: the ball to alshon Jeffrey it won on one coverage.
Speaker 1: And you know, if he's not batting Marcus Peters, guess
Speaker 1: what if he's against Philip Gaines. I love that matchup.
Speaker 1: You know, Tory Smith, he's got the speed. You know,
Speaker 1: we're still waiting for the deep ball to connect, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Uh, Mac Collins, you know, like way he
Speaker 1: was springing on here today. Nice nice job here again
Speaker 1: his first couple of NFL receptions. Zach Ertz being the
Speaker 1: reliable ones. Just about everything that's in his direction unless
Speaker 1: it's basically hitting the ground before he gets to him, right.
Speaker 1: You know, he catches everything. He's caught pretty much everything
Speaker 1: his way so far this season. He's been targeted consistently,
Speaker 1: but he's been reliable for Carson Wentz you know, and
Speaker 1: then the guys out of the back of the one
Speaker 1: area especially ironic going against an Andy reteam is the
Speaker 1: screen pass. Yeah, and that why that has struggled so much.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because lay in the
Speaker 1: game when they were trying to go to screen pass,
Speaker 1: you knew the pressure was just coming in, and you know,
Speaker 1: they were just feast on whatever they could get back there.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting how that aspect has struggled here through
Speaker 1: the first really through the first two games here, and
Speaker 1: screens are hard to sort of read to figure out
Speaker 1: where's the issue at all. Right, we're gonna sending out
Speaker 1: to Kansas City where Doug Peterson is now addressing the media.
Speaker 1: All right, carry today. Change. Um, it's an area that
Speaker 1: we have to address. We have to fix offensively. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I wasn't um pleased with how we ran the ball
Speaker 1: really the first two weeks. Um, it's not one individual,
Speaker 1: it's a team effort. So we gotta we gotta fix
Speaker 1: that going forward. You're going now as in oll, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't stand up here and say that, Um,
Speaker 1: we just gotta get the whole thing fixed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's uh, when you play good teams like we did,
Speaker 1: good defenses. You have to have the ability to run
Speaker 1: the ball. Uh, this is two weeks in a row
Speaker 1: we struggled, So it's a it's an area that we
Speaker 1: have to fix. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard. Um, it's tough
Speaker 1: to to to you know, I always have to rely
Speaker 1: on the throw. But listen, we're all in this together.
Speaker 1: We'll evaluate this film. Um, we'll go back and roll
Speaker 1: our sleeves up and and and get it corrected. And uh,
Speaker 1: we'll make sure that the next time out that we
Speaker 1: do we do a better job in that area to
Speaker 1: get getting hit a bunch six times getting out well
Speaker 1: and then yeah, I mean it's it's some exposure. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, he also made some great plays
Speaker 1: with his legs, So that's a give or take. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, um, sometimes you give up something to get
Speaker 1: something and part of the game. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to expose him like that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, he does an outstanding job with his
Speaker 1: legs extending plays and keeping drives moving. It's high quarter.
Speaker 1: What happened that, Yeah, it was a uh you know,
Speaker 1: um pass, It just just hit to me, appeared like
Speaker 1: hit a helmet. Um, so something I'll have to watch
Speaker 1: on the way back and just see for sure. But
Speaker 1: I hit a helmet and pop straight up. And you know,
Speaker 1: we just those situations there, you just critical times of
Speaker 1: the game. You can't make those mistakes. No, Um, got
Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in Isaac. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and and uh again without evaluating the film, it's it's
Speaker 1: I don't want to point fingers, and but at the
Speaker 1: same time, we got to make sure that uh we
Speaker 1: get him coached up right and and and and headed
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Well again, it's part of the
Speaker 1: you know, he's part of the whole the whole process
Speaker 1: here and and um, you know, it's something that we
Speaker 1: gotta address, we gotta fix moving forward. It's it's not
Speaker 1: just one guy. Um, it takes all of us, you know,
Speaker 1: it takes a it takes all eleven in the run game.
Speaker 1: So we just gotta gotta valuate it, fix it and
Speaker 1: get better. Not necessarily. Um, you know, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to show going in. Uh, you know, I felt like
Speaker 1: we could do we could do some things against the secondary,
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, and and throwing the ball. Um obviously
Speaker 1: you you uh, you hope your run game is is
Speaker 1: uh um on track and on point? It wasn't. Uh
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, it was it was it was
Speaker 1: tough sledding later in the game when when we sometimes
Speaker 1: you want to rely on that game run game. So
Speaker 1: we just gotta get fixed. Um, no way, fans or
Speaker 1: but we gotta go to work. As far as second,
Speaker 1: I think they held up fine. I did an outstanding job.
Speaker 1: There were some great plays, some great efforts on defense.
Speaker 1: Um you know, they got they got ten points off
Speaker 1: of our turnovers and it could be a potentially different
Speaker 1: football game. So standing here right now, those are things
Speaker 1: that again, um defense, I thought, uh Rally did a
Speaker 1: nice job. We gotta him and Ate. Still a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays, try to fix those. But overall, I
Speaker 1: thought the guys that stepped in played well, played hard,
Speaker 1: got some great experience. The offense a lot of guys
Speaker 1: we're talking about. No, the confidence is still there. There's
Speaker 1: no nobody's uh you know, dropping her head or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, there's still still a talented offensive line,
Speaker 1: very very good and um you know again it's you know,
Speaker 1: there's two weeks in a row we've played. We've played
Speaker 1: some good defensive fronts, and then we're gonna see another
Speaker 1: one next week. So we just gotta gotta keep going
Speaker 1: to work and working hard. Um Man, I thought he
Speaker 1: thought he you know, again, played hard, played tough, made
Speaker 1: some great decisions through the ball, accurately down the field.
Speaker 1: We had some missed opportunities in the first half that
Speaker 1: could have extended some drives. Um showed some toughness late
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, obviously there were there were
Speaker 1: a couple of things, you know, the pick is obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: he had had a fumble in the pocket that he recovered.
Speaker 1: But you know, those things are gonna happen. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, we got to eliminate those. But overall,
Speaker 1: I thought, uh, Um, I thought he played well. Um.
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to him before the game outside, you
Speaker 1: know it really just I guess pre game spoke to
Speaker 1: him just just see how he was doing. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. This was a great atmosphere to
Speaker 1: play in. Uh. These are these are these are great fans,
Speaker 1: passionate about their team and which they should be, much
Speaker 1: like our fans. And and uh, we're just excited. Next
Speaker 1: week we played at home. Yeah, they great. We worked
Speaker 1: all week against the noise and um, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: we had a false start at one point, but I
Speaker 1: thought I thought for the most part they handled it
Speaker 1: really really well, UM and really didn't have any issues
Speaker 1: a little bit. What do you remember, UM, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know a lot a lot of my my UH coaching
Speaker 1: background everything I'll be sake, I credit him for and
Speaker 1: UH played for him and worked for him, and and UM,
Speaker 1: you know, his his attention to detail, UM, his his drive,
Speaker 1: his motivation, how well he motivates his players and and
Speaker 1: gets the most out of his players. I think are
Speaker 1: some of the biggest things that I've taken away from him,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, the way he prepares during the week.
Speaker 1: Those those things are are you know, um things that
Speaker 1: that you know, I continue to grow grow with every
Speaker 1: every week and every game, so great mentor to have,
Speaker 1: UM wish him the best going forward? You are not
Speaker 1: at all? I would agree, Yeah, I would agree that's
Speaker 1: not a balance for success. UM, by no means do
Speaker 1: you want to do that at all. That's why I
Speaker 1: made the comments earlier about we got to fix the
Speaker 1: run game. Good team. Anything from that, Well, the takeaway
Speaker 1: is is is your right there? Um, team the team
Speaker 1: that let the scoreboard up in week one up in
Speaker 1: New England to come back and and and keep them
Speaker 1: tied and keep them held down, you know, for for
Speaker 1: three quarters. Um. The takeaway is we offensively have to
Speaker 1: have to address our own you know, uh needs and
Speaker 1: and the way we're playing uh offensively. And again it
Speaker 1: starts with me as a play caller. Um. Again, by
Speaker 1: no means so I want to throw the ball that
Speaker 1: many times. But but we got to get the run
Speaker 1: game fixed. And uh, it's a team effort. And however
Speaker 1: the game plays out, you know, we try to find
Speaker 1: a way to win at the end. Um. And uh,
Speaker 1: the mistakes obviously cost us today, last year, last week
Speaker 1: today so much obviously. Yeah, you know, Um, we had
Speaker 1: a couple I know in the first half, you know,
Speaker 1: third and I think it was a third and two
Speaker 1: or three and you know, penalty drops you back a
Speaker 1: little pushing on their third and long situation. You just
Speaker 1: can't again, you can't put yourself in in in those situations.
Speaker 1: And uh, um the middle part of the game again
Speaker 1: is an area that we have to we have to
Speaker 1: address and and uh you know fix um and and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, third and third and long is by you
Speaker 1: don't want to be there. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: there because you end up having to throw a little
Speaker 1: bit um against a good, good pass rushing. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks guys, anything, All right, there's head coach Andy or
Speaker 1: I was good say and we're talking. So Dougerson addressing
Speaker 1: the media after the eagles twenty seven to twenty loss
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs at the hands of Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: who is now nine and three against his former assistance.
Speaker 1: But the big question that we were talking about already, Ike,
Speaker 1: is what's happening with the running game? What's going to
Speaker 1: happen there? And uh dougs quote, we get the whole
Speaker 1: thing fixed, so it's evident it's out there. The question
Speaker 1: is what do you do? Do you what can you
Speaker 1: do with the line of scrimmage, with the offensive line?
Speaker 1: You know, the personnel is a personnel. It's not like
Speaker 1: you're going to be obtaining any other backs at this point.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if even if you were to
Speaker 1: obtain another back it would make all that much of
Speaker 1: difference there. The one possible move you can make, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously lack Eric Blunt getting him some touches when he
Speaker 1: doesn't have any carries that's one thing. But does a
Speaker 1: rookie Corey Clements get involved. Is that something that the
Speaker 1: Eels might say, you know what, Apparently they were working
Speaker 1: more in practice this week, they got some time with
Speaker 1: the first team offense. Even maybe is that something where
Speaker 1: you know what, they were filling with the idea for
Speaker 1: this game and now it's like, maybe we need to
Speaker 1: accelerate his development just a little more. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you know, this wasn't an ideal situation
Speaker 1: to have Corey Clement go out there and play a
Speaker 1: whole lot with the offense. You're an arrowhead, it's loud,
Speaker 1: that's a ferocious defense. Obviously, protecting the quarterback is the
Speaker 1: most important thing. We didn't run the ball a whole
Speaker 1: lot to day anyway, So Jess really wasn't an opportunity
Speaker 1: that I thought to bring Corey Clement and to play
Speaker 1: for his first game from from behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Now next week at home friendly Comfines, it's a lot
Speaker 1: quieter when the offense has the football. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: juiced up. It's gonna be the energy, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: certain to be juice. I think it's time to think
Speaker 1: about it seriously. I mean, we need we need a
Speaker 1: back that has the ability to get the tough yards
Speaker 1: in between the tackles, but as well get to the
Speaker 1: edge of a defense. As you know, this is the
Speaker 1: type of offensive running game that Doug wants to run.
Speaker 1: They like guys that can get to the perimeter and
Speaker 1: use that speed like a Sprows or when Delle Smallwood.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, you know Spros had his moments
Speaker 1: to day, but it wasn't consistent. And with le Garrett Blunt,
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure he's the type of running back
Speaker 1: that's gonna run on a perimeter. He'll get you the
Speaker 1: tough yards the tackles, but he's not running on the perimeters,
Speaker 1: uh to to break down angles. Guy like Corey Clement.
Speaker 1: He's not super fast, but he has decent speed and
Speaker 1: he's certainly a running it runs with his shoulders parallel
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage and can break tackles. I
Speaker 1: think it'd be a nice change of pace. He certainly
Speaker 1: would play with a lot of energy planning playing at home,
Speaker 1: and he's from this area. You need something to spark
Speaker 1: that run game. Why not? Why not? And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are gonna exhaust all possibilities, and I
Speaker 1: think Corey Clement or at least getting more of a
Speaker 1: looking practice now. Whether or not he gets the ball
Speaker 1: next week, that'll be determined on the field of the game.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you he's moving closer and closer up
Speaker 1: that depth. Jo Oh, you're not producing, Yetta, do something,
Speaker 1: you know, because you're you're getting to the point where
Speaker 1: we've seen this now for two weeks, and you've seen
Speaker 1: it against two good front front step okay, and two
Speaker 1: three four front. So I don't know if that's gonna
Speaker 1: give this team more trouble. I don't know you'll see
Speaker 1: a basic four three front next week, So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that will alter so many things, but something
Speaker 1: to consider at least. But if we're having this week
Speaker 1: after week after week, at some point you're gonna say
Speaker 1: something has to change or we're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: this in week ten, in week fifteen, and at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. As to why the Eagles maybe
Speaker 1: didn't get weren't able to reach their potential or fulfill
Speaker 1: it is because of what we've been talking about here
Speaker 1: in these early weeks of the season. So I so
Speaker 1: badly wanted to see the Egles win, not just get
Speaker 1: to two and oh. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: the stat during the broadcast. At the last time the
Speaker 1: Eagles went two and o on the road in both
Speaker 1: games to start of season, it was nineteen forty nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going way back time. Okay to one Day or
Speaker 1: the champions, But I wanted this seem to go two
Speaker 1: and o on the road, you know, against Washington, against
Speaker 1: Andy Reading and the Chiefs, and to come back to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia in front of that raucous crowd. I mean, this
Speaker 1: crowd could be fired up because you've had to wait
Speaker 1: a couple extra weeks to see your team in your house.
Speaker 1: But could you just imagine the electricity, the intensity, the
Speaker 1: fielding and the building. The New York Giants come to
Speaker 1: town on a short week because they played the Troyal
Speaker 1: on Monday night and have them in your house for
Speaker 1: that first game. It's almost making me think the way
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeoffrey played today, can we get the t O
Speaker 1: game from two thousand and four where you had the
Speaker 1: home open against the Giants and three touchdowns And I'll
Speaker 1: take that, you know, but that's kind of the energy
Speaker 1: the excitement I was looking forward to. So it's still
Speaker 1: gonna be an amazing scene at the Lake next week,
Speaker 1: no question about it. But you were just hoping to
Speaker 1: have that little extra bit with the two and O
Speaker 1: and just like all week, everyone would just be like
Speaker 1: juicing up port together, no doubt about it. And listen,
Speaker 1: this is the NFL, so there are no moral victories.
Speaker 1: This is in college football, where if you keep the
Speaker 1: game close against the Alabama, everybody feels good going back home.
Speaker 1: It's the NFL, so certainly the Eagles aren't in this
Speaker 1: thing to take moral victories out of it. But when
Speaker 1: all the dust settles and the emotion and the passion
Speaker 1: dodged out a little bit, let's say Tuesday, on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: when we realized we started off the season with two
Speaker 1: road games against a divisional opponent and a very tough
Speaker 1: place to go and win, an Arrowhead Stadium, And you're
Speaker 1: one in one, and that's the bottom line. You love
Speaker 1: to be two and oh, no doubt about that. Which
Speaker 1: you're one in one with two tough road games to
Speaker 1: start off the season. Um, we come home face the Giants,
Speaker 1: another another divisional opponent. We gotta have it. You gotta
Speaker 1: have next week's game. Here's the thing is, you got
Speaker 1: the more important of the two. If we're looking big
Speaker 1: divisional game, Yes, you got the divisional game. So if
Speaker 1: you were gonna say you're gonna be one on one,
Speaker 1: pick which one, you might say the Kima City Chiefs
Speaker 1: because they you know, the Chiefs have made all these
Speaker 1: the playoff runts. But quite honestly, the division one is
Speaker 1: gonna be so much more important because when you look
Speaker 1: at their wins from last year, it was all those
Speaker 1: teams like the Pittsburghs and Chicago weren't in the division. Like,
Speaker 1: all right, you had your seven wins, but you want
Speaker 1: to get them within the division. And to get that
Speaker 1: one on the road to kick things off so very
Speaker 1: important because you didn't have that last year. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know in the Vision games on the road, you did
Speaker 1: not win any last year. So to get the first
Speaker 1: one out of the way, you get the Giants at home,
Speaker 1: go to two on one, two wins in the division.
Speaker 1: You know, depending on how the Cowboys do later on,
Speaker 1: or they're playing right now against Denver, I don't have
Speaker 1: the score. They were trailing early seven nothing, Who knows,
Speaker 1: Maybe Denver helps us out and then maybe you're tie
Speaker 1: for first place in the division after three weeks, which
Speaker 1: would be a great feeling. It's a great thing to have,
Speaker 1: so to keep rolling in this first month of the season.
Speaker 1: So we're waiting here from quarterback Carson Wentz in just
Speaker 1: a few moments. Doug was asked a short time ago
Speaker 1: about Carson Wentz's performance, and by and large, I like
Speaker 1: what I saw from him. Again, it's when you're asking
Speaker 1: him to two forty six pass attempts, sacks six times.
Speaker 1: You know, some some was a pressure lating the game.
Speaker 1: Some were coverage sacks. When we discussed already how he
Speaker 1: couldn't have scrambled out of the pocket. Probably he was
Speaker 1: the one. Yeah, that was the one that to me,
Speaker 1: that was the bad play on the day. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the only bad one of the day. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: you had the you know, four rushing attempts for fifty
Speaker 1: five yards, so you know those areas as well. So
Speaker 1: pretty much you're looking fifty six times. Yeah, he's being
Speaker 1: asked to drop back. You know, it's against this defense
Speaker 1: on the road. It's reminiscent of the Bengals game from
Speaker 1: last season to a great extent where it was sixty
Speaker 1: times you drop back or sixty attempts. I forget the
Speaker 1: final number, but I remember it was up there and
Speaker 1: you're saying. Back then, we were saying, this is a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback going a gains, a tough defense in a
Speaker 1: road environment, offensive struggling, just all those factors not coming
Speaker 1: together for you. This is another one where maybe a
Speaker 1: year ago this would have been or this would have
Speaker 1: created more disastrous results. But the way that he's matured,
Speaker 1: the way he's grown in his game, you know you
Speaker 1: can rely on him and he can keep you close
Speaker 1: in these types of ball games, which is great to see.
Speaker 1: Now the next level is being able to win these
Speaker 1: types of ball games. He's the real deal. Yeah, make
Speaker 1: no mistake about that. He is the real deal. And
Speaker 1: like you just mentioned, that's the next step in his game,
Speaker 1: going into a hostile environment like Arrowhead Stadium and coming
Speaker 1: out there, coming out of there with a victory, even
Speaker 1: with having turned the ball over for the Goyhead score
Speaker 1: with the interception, you still have an opportunity to answer
Speaker 1: that answer that score back. And that's what the Bradies
Speaker 1: and the Mannings and the Breezes and those type of
Speaker 1: guys that's what they do on the road in tough environments,
Speaker 1: and Carson's getting there. He's getting there. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the eighteenth game of his career, back to back three
Speaker 1: hundred plus yard games, two touchdowns, but the one turnover.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that's the one he's gonna wish he
Speaker 1: could have back. And then, if I know Carson right
Speaker 1: in this short time that he's been a Philadelphia Eagle,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that strives to be perfect. He'll
Speaker 1: talk about throws that he wishes he had back that
Speaker 1: may have would have given his receivers a better chance
Speaker 1: to pull him in because he is perfect. He is
Speaker 1: meticulous when it comes to his game, and he puts
Speaker 1: a lot of weight on his own shoulders to be
Speaker 1: perfect and do everything correctly. But I'll tell you each
Speaker 1: week watching this kid, you see something different. You see
Speaker 1: a special play out of him every game. We've said
Speaker 1: it over and over and over again since he took
Speaker 1: the field last year against Cleveland. The future is bright,
Speaker 1: not only for this organization, but primarily for Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: moving forward. I mean, that's a tough Chiefs defense that
Speaker 1: he played up against today, and he can I know
Speaker 1: we threw it a lot, but he completed a lot
Speaker 1: of balls. Yes, we threw it a lot, and I
Speaker 1: know yards can pile up after a while. The fact
Speaker 1: that the matter is he threw a lot of balls
Speaker 1: and he only had the one interception. Really, Richard shaded
Speaker 1: on somebody's helmet. It wasn't as if it was a
Speaker 1: poorly thrown ball that he threw right into the lap
Speaker 1: as good. Yeah, that's the thing is the one thing
Speaker 1: has some drops too, has some drops. A couple of
Speaker 1: key drops Smith there on the first drive, a couple
Speaker 1: one area where maybe it's the timing things with alshon Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: I want to see him. Trust Alshan's jump ball building.
Speaker 1: There were two passes. Both were in the red zone
Speaker 1: along the left sideline and the one time you know
Speaker 1: a pretty much went on defense on both those times
Speaker 1: because the ball was maybe a little overthrown and you know,
Speaker 1: he really had no chance to make it. You know,
Speaker 1: Alston is so great. These fifty fifty balls give him
Speaker 1: the opportunity to make the play and that's something that's
Speaker 1: just gonna come with Tom. But you know, Loft, that
Speaker 1: ball ups just a little bit higher because and at
Speaker 1: the very least maybe Alshon draws a PI. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a situation there where all of a sudden where
Speaker 1: you know, Alshon goes up for the ball, gets tangled
Speaker 1: up by the dB. Most times they're gonna throw the flag,
Speaker 1: especially so in Alshon's nature, because they figured the big
Speaker 1: guys should be able to get there get that ball.
Speaker 1: If he for some reason not getting it, guess what,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll throw the flag on there. It's almost reactive
Speaker 1: at that point. So that's probably the one area with
Speaker 1: him that you wanted to improve just a little bit there.
Speaker 1: So speaking of the quarterback, Carson Wentz, he is set
Speaker 1: to addressing me. He is making its way up to
Speaker 1: the podium now at Arrowhood Steam in Kansas City. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from the second year quarterback the person will happen
Speaker 1: on the in Uh? It was it was a screenplay. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it was a bad throw and got got tipped around
Speaker 1: and they made the play throw it where Sprowls was
Speaker 1: in the vicinity. I think he was falling over, so
Speaker 1: I was more or less just trying to throw it away. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think first of all, that's that's a good defense,
Speaker 1: that's a good d line. Second of all, I gotta
Speaker 1: go watch the tape. You know, I thought the old line, Um,
Speaker 1: I thought they played well. You know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the numbers were, but number of
Speaker 1: the sacks I was holding on the ball for a while. So, UM,
Speaker 1: I think the old line played well. Um, we'll go
Speaker 1: back and watch the tape and and really kind of
Speaker 1: get that, get that honed in. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's tough. I mean we um again, that's a
Speaker 1: good defense. That's a good defense, and we thought, um,
Speaker 1: we just thought we could make plays in the passing game.
Speaker 1: And kind of that's just kind of the way that
Speaker 1: the game went today. And UM, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not overly concerned about the run game. I know
Speaker 1: we'll get that'll be a big part of our offense
Speaker 1: going forward. So um again, it's just kind of the
Speaker 1: flow of the game today. You know, when you've got
Speaker 1: a couple of running backs that all can can do
Speaker 1: different things. Um, my surprise. I wouldn't say surprised, you
Speaker 1: know last week when Dell wasn't as involved. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of when you got three guys, it's
Speaker 1: hard to get get them all involved. And I think
Speaker 1: we only had thirteen running plays today anyway, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to get everyone touches sometimes. Yeah, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: more balance is usually the way to go. But again,
Speaker 1: it was kind of just the nature of this game,
Speaker 1: the way they were playing some things and some things
Speaker 1: that we thought we could take advantage of that kind
Speaker 1: of let us down that route. And then obviously late
Speaker 1: in the game when we're dead, when we're down, you know,
Speaker 1: we're throwing every down. So um, that always kind of
Speaker 1: sways things a little bit. But what were you trying
Speaker 1: to do there? It was a screenplay, so I was
Speaker 1: trying to throw it away on that play. How much
Speaker 1: of it is bad, But I'll have to watch the tape.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously any time a ball gets tipped around,
Speaker 1: it's bad luck. But obviously I'd rather not throw it
Speaker 1: into d Lineman's helmet. St Yeah what think? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a good team. It's a good football team. There
Speaker 1: a playoff team last year. They just went went on
Speaker 1: the road and beat New England last week. So that's
Speaker 1: a good football team. This is a good environment to play. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought we we competed. You know, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, they made more plays than us,
Speaker 1: But we fought all the way to the end, and
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of good things that I think
Speaker 1: we did. Um again, we just came up short and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some of those things fixed as you
Speaker 1: as you get on the plan. I'm always the miss opportunities,
Speaker 1: you know. I always think of of where we could
Speaker 1: have capitalized, you know. Um, But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I thought we played our tails off. We
Speaker 1: fought to the end. Um. You know, we had two turnovers.
Speaker 1: You know, that's always always tough on the road an
Speaker 1: environment like this against a good football team. Um, So
Speaker 1: there's missed opportunities. But again we were right there in
Speaker 1: the in the ball game all the way to the end. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's there's good and bad to take away from
Speaker 1: this one today. What'd you see there? Um? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just I mean, they made they've made the way
Speaker 1: they're playing coverage wise today. The back shoulder was kind
Speaker 1: of the thing to take advantage of, and um, we
Speaker 1: we hit it a couple of times. We missed that one,
Speaker 1: and that's just the way way football goes sometimes. When
Speaker 1: you all recover the seconds left, why do you feel
Speaker 1: like it was a good idea to just go ahead
Speaker 1: and go for the end so as opposed to trying
Speaker 1: to sideline route the flock with the second because five
Speaker 1: seconds is not a lot of time fustrating. You are right,
Speaker 1: it was just the play. Yeah, that's that's football. You know,
Speaker 1: that's football. You know, we learned it last year. A
Speaker 1: lot of close ball games that we just didn't didn't
Speaker 1: find a way to win. Last week, we pulled it
Speaker 1: out on the road. This week we came up a
Speaker 1: little short. Again. It's a good football team. A lot
Speaker 1: of things to that we did well, a lot of
Speaker 1: things we can fix and we'll learn from it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the crowd was a big part of the day,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it impacted so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: their defense is pretty straightforward. Um, So we kind of
Speaker 1: just called it and let it ride today for the
Speaker 1: most part. And um again, we just didn't make enough place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's part of it. You know. There's definitely again anytime
Speaker 1: there's there's big plays to be made. Sometimes when I'm scrambling,
Speaker 1: and obviously there's gonna be sacks and times where you
Speaker 1: hold on to it. Um, So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: constant thing kind of every week, just knowing Wednesday the
Speaker 1: right time and you just got to find the find
Speaker 1: the right balance of it. Yeah, I think, UM, honestly,
Speaker 1: I've always felt really good chemistry with him. Obviously today, UM,
Speaker 1: I think he was almost a hundred yards or something
Speaker 1: like that. But UM, felt good with him, felt good
Speaker 1: with other receivers, UM, and we're just gonna keep building
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was pretty solid,
Speaker 1: you know. I think that was something they'd shown just
Speaker 1: a little bit on tape, UM, and they pretty much
Speaker 1: just held onto that until the second half. So we
Speaker 1: were kind of focused in and honed in on our
Speaker 1: calls by then, and then they started mixing it up.
Speaker 1: So so hats off to them. You know, they did
Speaker 1: some good things. I'd have to kind of make some
Speaker 1: adjustments there and UM create some mismatches, so to speak,
Speaker 1: in the backfield. But I thought the blitz pickup was
Speaker 1: still pretty solid. Yeah, we're good. We're again. I'll have
Speaker 1: to go back and watch the film. But I thought
Speaker 1: Darren with his with his running opportunities, I thought he
Speaker 1: ran hard, you know. I thought he ran his tail
Speaker 1: off in the in the passing game. I he did
Speaker 1: a good job screen game you know, we missed a couple.
Speaker 1: We missed a couple of some of those around me.
Speaker 1: Some we just didn't have a lane. And um, there's
Speaker 1: some big plays, big plays there to be made too.
Speaker 1: But but Darren's a just quite the competitor. I know
Speaker 1: when he had to fumble, you know, no one really
Speaker 1: worries about him. You know, he's he's been around and
Speaker 1: if anything, that just kind of ticked him off a
Speaker 1: little bit to play harder. So, um, yeah, I love
Speaker 1: I love when spearls in the game. Out there. What happened, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just the way they were playing coverage. It
Speaker 1: was kind of start over here and progressed back and
Speaker 1: he did a really good job on that route kind
Speaker 1: of making I believe it was the safety covering him,
Speaker 1: kind of making him think he was going to the
Speaker 1: corner and come back, and um he got opened and
Speaker 1: the line protected it up. It was really he was
Speaker 1: like my second progression. It was just a slower developing play.
Speaker 1: We're at the I think eight yard line or something
Speaker 1: like that, so, um, it took some time to develop
Speaker 1: and the line did a good job of You said,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of man you know, that's what they do. That's what
Speaker 1: they do, all right, So we were probably about to lose.
Speaker 1: Carson wentz in a few moments anyway, So a few
Speaker 1: seconds early there. I don't know if you heard the question, like,
Speaker 1: could you imagine when the Eagles were recover the outside
Speaker 1: kick Trey Burn did a great job of knocking the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, scooping it up, giving the Eagles
Speaker 1: one last chance for five seconds left? Could you have
Speaker 1: only imagined what would happen if they did a little
Speaker 1: screen pass, a little dump off the Darren Sprowls runs
Speaker 1: up the field, gets to like the ten yard line,
Speaker 1: makes it scintillating, and time runs out. Amiens, Yeah, everyone
Speaker 1: would be called for Doug like what do you do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not good. So I don't know. Yeah, you know, tough,
Speaker 1: tough way to end the game. Tough question for Carson
Speaker 1: had to answer. Yeah, they made the right play call.
Speaker 1: That's what you do, that heil Mary, that's what you do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that you had the opportunity was
Speaker 1: borderline miraculous. Yeah, we thought we were gonna get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we were called, hold it over
Speaker 1: the ladder or you could have done that, but I'm
Speaker 1: thinking what we would call that game, you know, if
Speaker 1: you can't do Miracle to Mental Lands, obviously it would
Speaker 1: have had some kind of funny name to it, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would been interesting to see if that's how that went.
Speaker 1: You could have done the hook and ladder. But if
Speaker 1: you do a screen pass and it's like, what's Doug doing?
Speaker 1: You got, you got al Sean, you got you got Tour,
Speaker 1: you got zach Ertz, you go to the end zone.
Speaker 1: One chance exactly. So the fact that they held car
Speaker 1: Michael back there, that's what we needed. Man got Yeah, seventeen,
Speaker 1: it's just the we're not seventeen was out there, so
Speaker 1: maybe it was Harold just a cold time's sake. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break here now. Obviously we're
Speaker 1: disappointed the teams won on one, but we're gonna explain
Speaker 1: why big picture, the Eagles have put themselves in great position.
Speaker 1: We're also going to show you some All twenty two
Speaker 1: analysis from Great Cosel and fran Duffy and give your
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Speaker 1: I recall a conversation with Troy Vince ahead of years
Speaker 1: ago when you guys first got Donan McNabb in the building,
Speaker 1: and how the attitude just changed within the locker room,
Speaker 1: within the team of how certain games before Donovan you
Speaker 1: knew when you line up on the field. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't even chance, It wasn't even tough. It was you
Speaker 1: had no chance. So it's true, Tory said, the difference
Speaker 1: with Donovan is you knew each and every week you
Speaker 1: at least had the opportunity. You were favored more often
Speaker 1: than not, but you at least had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: win ball games. I feel like I was really a
Speaker 1: big picture of this team with them one on one. Now,
Speaker 1: Carson went, you know you're gonna have a shot each
Speaker 1: and every week if you could go to Arrowhead. And
Speaker 1: everyone talked about the noise, the noise wasn't a factor
Speaker 1: to stay. Noise by large wasn't a factor. Today. You
Speaker 1: know you could rely on Carson to drop back sixty
Speaker 1: plus times over the course of a ball game, not
Speaker 1: make a ton of mistakes and give you an opportunity,
Speaker 1: and you know in the both halves again miraculous fashion
Speaker 1: where you know, the one ball gets bobbled by the
Speaker 1: Kansas cornerback, Zach ERT's great awareness cash it almost scores
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Then at the end of the game, Trey Burton,
Speaker 1: great job to get the onside kick. You have a shot.
Speaker 1: You just have a shot. At the end of the the game.
Speaker 1: You know the fact that he drove Wentz, drove him down,
Speaker 1: got the touchdown to Agalore to at least make it
Speaker 1: respectable at the end, because when it was twenty seven thirteen,
Speaker 1: you said, if this is the final score, it's not
Speaker 1: indicative of how the game was played. Again, it was
Speaker 1: a tie game with nine minutes left. Okay, a couple
Speaker 1: of us by the defense, that's where they stood at
Speaker 1: that point. But the fact is, each and every week
Speaker 1: as an Eagles fan, you know at this point that
Speaker 1: you feel good because Carson Wentz is wearing that number
Speaker 1: eleven jersey and lining up in the huddle on your offense. No,
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I mean, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a good football team this year. How good of a
Speaker 1: football team would it be we're gonna find out is
Speaker 1: this season unfolds got a big game divisional opponent coming
Speaker 1: in here next week, the New York Giants. On a
Speaker 1: short week, you gotta bounce back after a tough loss.
Speaker 1: That's the other things good football teams do, is they
Speaker 1: bounce back after a tough loss. They don't allow this
Speaker 1: thing to turn into a losing streak. So Eagles need
Speaker 1: to get back to basics this week in practice, get
Speaker 1: ready for the Giants next week. All right, So the
Speaker 1: most targeted receiver in tis game was one Alshon. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: scored his first touchdown as an Eagle. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: a little all twenty and two analysis here and bringing
Speaker 1: fran Duffy and Grego Sell, who take us to the
Speaker 1: RICO whiteboard for this week's RICO review. It's very sharp today,
Speaker 1: and now we're dealing with Jeffrey who here he's actually
Speaker 1: in this slot and he's matched against Philip Gains And
Speaker 1: this is what you're hoping from Alshon Jeffrey. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of receiver he is. He runs what we
Speaker 1: call a slot fade, and it's really the kind of
Speaker 1: route and kind of throw that's usually contested you're not
Speaker 1: running away from a corner, and if you freeze it
Speaker 1: right here, what you're going to see. This is not
Speaker 1: bad coverage by Philip Gaines. Jeffrey looked back for the ball.
Speaker 1: Gaines look back for the ball, So this is not
Speaker 1: a case where he's separating and he's wide open. But
Speaker 1: this is what Alseean Jeffrey is. He's the kind of
Speaker 1: receiver that can make catches when the corner is right
Speaker 1: there with him, and that's exactly what happens here. And
Speaker 1: it's a good throw too, by the way, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can go back. This is a very similar play to
Speaker 1: when Carson Wentz hit Jordan Matthews for his first ever
Speaker 1: NFL touchdowns at the slot fade. And one of the
Speaker 1: good things about that slot fade the receiver's got so
Speaker 1: much room and the quarterback's got so much room towards
Speaker 1: the sideline to be able to put this ball, and
Speaker 1: he puts it right on alshon Jeffrey's back shoulder and
Speaker 1: you see him come with. It's a really good route
Speaker 1: against man to man coverage because normally when you're in
Speaker 1: the slot, the outside receiver runs kind of a hitch
Speaker 1: and it opens the space for the slot fade and
Speaker 1: you see it here. And as we said, that's what
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey is. He's a big receiver, he's a physical receiver. He's,
Speaker 1: as they like to say now, a fifty fifty catch guy.
Speaker 1: He makes contested catches. Yeah, and someone we like to
Speaker 1: say that some of those fifty fifty balls with Alshan
Speaker 1: not quite fifty fifty. We're sent eighty twenty. We'd like
Speaker 1: to hope that's the question about it. So Alshon Jeffrey
Speaker 1: really getting on the same page as Carson Wentz. Big
Speaker 1: day for the big receiver. Great stuff, Greg and fran
Speaker 1: It will be more All twenty two analysis in the
Speaker 1: All twenty two review tomorrow morning on Philadelphia Eagles dot
Speaker 1: Com and the Eagles Mobile app. Is so great like
Speaker 1: having a guy like that that number seventeen again not
Speaker 1: how Carmichael, but Alshon Jeffrey, but just having being able
Speaker 1: to develop the offense and allow Wentz to take strides,
Speaker 1: because if he didn't have that talent around him, you know,
Speaker 1: it might be a situation where last year where he's
Speaker 1: doing a lot of checkdowns, there's a lot of short passes.
Speaker 1: He's not really allowed all of his talent to emerge
Speaker 1: and it just opens up the offensive playbook so much
Speaker 1: more to be able to say we can get chunk plays,
Speaker 1: we can get explosive plays when we need to in
Speaker 1: the course of a game, no doubt about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: bringing in al Sean even tour today, making his presence felt,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna open up this offense for everybody and
Speaker 1: Team Mac I mean, seamac just wait until we get
Speaker 1: a running game going. I mean, that makes this offense
Speaker 1: even more dangerous when they aren't one dimensional. So we
Speaker 1: gotta get the running game going. That's gonna open up
Speaker 1: the passing game even more and makes for them we
Speaker 1: don't become so predictable on offense, which makes it a
Speaker 1: lot harder for us to have success. To get this
Speaker 1: running game going, this could be one of the top
Speaker 1: offenses in the league. That's the thing. It's you knew
Speaker 1: by the end of the game what was coming at you.
Speaker 1: You knew it was gonna be either a screen or
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a DePass. It was gonna be
Speaker 1: Fair's one or the other. The Eagles were going to
Speaker 1: the pass game time after time again, so again for
Speaker 1: Carson wants to drop back as much as he did
Speaker 1: to as few mistakes as he did to have the
Speaker 1: production that the offense still was able to was able
Speaker 1: to have all positive signs. You just need an extra
Speaker 1: element to take things to the next level. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take our last break here on the postgame show presented
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Speaker 1: a brand new Toyota. Now, who are you voting for?
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's what everyone's wondering. We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: number seventeen himself, Al Sean Jeffrey seven catches for ninety
Speaker 1: two yards and his first touchdown as an Eagle ache. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big day for the big man, and we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for him to come through. I only took him two
Speaker 1: games last week. Missed a couple of passes that I
Speaker 1: know that he wanted back, overthrown, a couple of times underthrown.
Speaker 1: But thirteen targets is what I like. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is what Alshan is gonna get. They brought him in
Speaker 1: here defeating the football. He's a big possession type of receiver.
Speaker 1: He and Carson still working to get get that chemistry
Speaker 1: going together. But you watch him through the first two weeks,
Speaker 1: you can tell it's only gonna get better as the
Speaker 1: season goes on here, all right, So you gotta give
Speaker 1: props to the defense for the way they bowed through
Speaker 1: pretty much three plus quarters into his game. And the
Speaker 1: guy who is always there at the forefront, none other
Speaker 1: than fifty five Brandon Graham, half sack, disruptive in the
Speaker 1: backfield today. Just overall, another relentless performance. Two games, two
Speaker 1: outstanding performances by Brandon Graham, who they put the league
Speaker 1: on notice that he's one of the top four three
Speaker 1: defensive ends in the game last year, burning second team
Speaker 1: All Pro honors. He's right back on track to put
Speaker 1: himself in the Pro Bowl this season and honor he
Speaker 1: did not get a year ago. I agree, and I
Speaker 1: know this was tough for you today because there were
Speaker 1: several guys on defense that could have gotten this. The
Speaker 1: angry Bird Michael Kendricks used a very good game today,
Speaker 1: a sack at two tackles for losses. Fletcher Cox with
Speaker 1: another sack today and they also a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: That front is leading away two straight games where they've
Speaker 1: been after the quarterback. Four more sacks today, but his defense.
Speaker 1: The only difference to day is we couldn't take that
Speaker 1: ball away. But Brandon Graham, I agree with you, he's
Speaker 1: leading the charge up front. You know. Tim Jerkin also
Speaker 1: very deserving of the honors today. So who did I
Speaker 1: go with for the third nominee? I did go on
Speaker 1: the defensive side because I gave it. I gave props
Speaker 1: to a rookie. Okay, I went a little under the
Speaker 1: radar on this one. Rasul Douglas, all Right, playing in
Speaker 1: his first NFL game, was inactive for the win over Washington.
Speaker 1: Everyone's probably wondering well, what did Rasuel bring to the table.
Speaker 1: Remember they started the game without Ronald Darby because a
Speaker 1: disocayd Ankle. Joleen Watkins started outside of cornerback. He goes
Speaker 1: down trying to track a Dinie Jones punt, leaves with
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. He exits. The team also loses Rodney
Speaker 1: McCloud to a hamstring injury, so the secondary, already down
Speaker 1: a little bit, was hurt even more so by injury. Today,
Speaker 1: the rookie comes in and more than holds his own
Speaker 1: solid tackling. He was tested early by Tyreek Hill when
Speaker 1: he had to cover him. The biggest thing is for him,
Speaker 1: no big plays allowed, you know. You look, I figured
Speaker 1: that once they saw thirty two in the game, they
Speaker 1: knew it was a rookie, a tall, lanky corner. I
Speaker 1: figured they were gonna say, Tyreek Hill, you run a
Speaker 1: go right, you burn them. We're gonna test this guy
Speaker 1: early on. You didn't see that. Really. The only big
Speaker 1: pass play, you know, other than what Travis Kelsey did
Speaker 1: from a yard after the cash Dad point, was to
Speaker 1: Chris Conley catch over Jaylen Mills late in the game,
Speaker 1: which was one of the nail and the Coffin type players.
Speaker 1: But up until that point in the fourth quarter, you know,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were not really able to do much damage
Speaker 1: deep against this Eagle secondary. So for Russell Duggers for
Speaker 1: having to go in, you know, at a moment's notice
Speaker 1: and being ready for the call, I'll give him the
Speaker 1: honor there of being the third Toyota Player of the
Speaker 1: Week nominee. Nice job there. I thought the secondary did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job on the Chiefs receivers to day. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey over one hundred yards, so we know he
Speaker 1: was able to get his. Or you look at Conley,
Speaker 1: you look at Tyreek Hill, they didn't really get a
Speaker 1: whole lot, going eight catches between them under one hundred
Speaker 1: yards both receivers. We saw what they were able to
Speaker 1: do to that New England Patriots defense. We were down
Speaker 1: a couple of men, lost Rotten and McCloud today, also
Speaker 1: lost Watkins to day as well. So our secondary is
Speaker 1: getting thinner a bout a week. And I thought they
Speaker 1: did a decent job against this Chief's passing game. Again,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey got his, but he also got targeted an
Speaker 1: awful lot, and so you throw him a ball enough,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his catches. I thought the Eagles secondary,
Speaker 1: this young secondary did a nice job on the explosive
Speaker 1: outside guys today, cross your fingers that mccleoden Watkins, you know,
Speaker 1: walking become an important part of the defense very quickly here.
Speaker 1: And McLeod has been a reliable one in the backfield
Speaker 1: there with Malcolm Jenkins over the last year plus. You
Speaker 1: hope that those will just be day to day injuries
Speaker 1: and they'll be able to come back this Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Giants. So we're gonna go to Philadelphia Eagles dot
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Speaker 1: And I you know, one on one through two games,
Speaker 1: Eagles are in good position. You figure two tough games
Speaker 1: on the road to open the year, you get one
Speaker 1: under your belt. But it doesn't get much easier. That's
Speaker 1: the thing as we look here. But at least you
Speaker 1: have one at home with the Giants coming to the
Speaker 1: town this Sunday. Yeah, I mean, we wish we could
Speaker 1: play sixteen games against the Coach, the Bears, the Jags,
Speaker 1: you know, the teams that aren't very good San Francisco.
Speaker 1: But you know, we don't get to set the schedule.
Speaker 1: So it's the NFL. You're gonna get sixteen tough games,
Speaker 1: six in your own division and the other two ten
Speaker 1: games depending on who what division you're going up against
Speaker 1: that year. You're gonna have a tough schedule coming in.
Speaker 1: This year, we play the ANC West, where I think
Speaker 1: all four teams of very good football teams. Much like
Speaker 1: the NFC East, there are no easy games when you
Speaker 1: face the AFC West. And when I look at the
Speaker 1: Eagle schedule, you know what I say, Chris, bring them on,
Speaker 1: Bring them on. If you want to be a good team,
Speaker 1: you gotta beat good teams. Giant Sidecks Chargers won't be
Speaker 1: an easy game either, going out there to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: to play those guys. Arizona won't be easy. Denver. None
Speaker 1: of these games are gonna be easy. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to earn everything that we get, and I'm okay with that,
Speaker 1: because I think this team is a good football team
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily need the benefit of an easy schedule
Speaker 1: to show that they're a good football team. This team
Speaker 1: can play with some of the better teams in this league,
Speaker 1: and we got the first part of our schedule is
Speaker 1: road heavy, so we gotta sort of navigate through this
Speaker 1: first part of the schedule and then things are turning
Speaker 1: our favor again. We gotta get healthy. We can't afford
Speaker 1: to lose many more guys, and we gotta get the
Speaker 1: running game going. I like everything else about our football team.
Speaker 1: Gotta get the running game going, and we gotta keep
Speaker 1: guys healthy. Yeah, because you get last September Eagles were
Speaker 1: three no in the month that they had the big
Speaker 1: win over the Steelers. But you beat up on the Browns,
Speaker 1: you be up on the Bears. Look, you can't help
Speaker 1: who you guys take them. You guys take advantage of
Speaker 1: it and your credit deals for that. But it didn't
Speaker 1: make them a tougher team. But the course of the year,
Speaker 1: where this team is already ballot tested now going on
Speaker 1: the road, being a division rival, having a tough task
Speaker 1: there at Kansas City, you hope they learn from it.
Speaker 1: But now they get the home opener against the Giants again.
Speaker 1: If they can get to two and in the division,
Speaker 1: fans will be very, very happy for how the first
Speaker 1: month has gone. So that's gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: here on the postgame Show presented by Rico. Everyone can
Speaker 1: hear Ike Grease on the air tomorrow at two pm
Speaker 1: with Chris Carlin on Sports Radio ninety four MP. How
Speaker 1: do you think the moves gonna be? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get in the card to hear
Speaker 1: the postgame shows. I mean, I know this man base.
Speaker 1: You notice fans, They'll be riled up, they'll be passionate,
Speaker 1: they'll be upset. They're Eagles loss. Give it a couple
Speaker 1: of days, it'll subside again. We started this season all
Speaker 1: two straight road games against two tough teams. We walk
Speaker 1: away one and one. We'll regroup, get back to take
Speaker 1: care of the g man in the link next week.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm pumped up for you, the man in
Speaker 1: the link next That's the thing. It's not like the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns for the home open or something like that.
Speaker 1: You bid arrival. The guys in the locker room here,
Speaker 1: they hate the giants. Okay, that's the giants. Okay. It's
Speaker 1: pervasive throughout the building here and so hopefully the Eagles
Speaker 1: will take care of business at home. So for Fran Duffie,
Speaker 1: Greg Hosell, Ichrias and everyone here at the Eagles, I'm
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson, thank you very much for joining us. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on the air tomorrow at noon for Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson's press conference and then we'll have Eagles three to sixty,
Speaker 1: Dave Spidero and Brian Westbrook breaking down the law. So everyone,
Speaker 1: hope you have a good night. We'll see you tomorrow