Speaker 1: When you're up seventeen and nothing in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of a game, and in the first three quarters the
Speaker 1: defense has forced nothing but punch, that should be game over.
Speaker 1: The Eagles had the Panthers right where they won. They
Speaker 1: fell apart in the fourth quarter twenty one answered points
Speaker 1: and they fall twenty one and seventeen to Carolina. Panthers
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen with the game winning touchdown, which just over
Speaker 1: remaining Eagles got the ball back Carson Wentz lost the
Speaker 1: ball on fourth down. Carolina recovered a controversial call toward
Speaker 1: the end there, Eric Reid appeared to have the interception
Speaker 1: was called an interception by the referees. Initially, however, the
Speaker 1: play was reversed, still had a second life and not
Speaker 1: able to capitalize on it. This is one of the
Speaker 1: most crushing losses in recent history. And this is coming
Speaker 1: off a very difficult loss a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: where the Eagles lost seventeen to three to the up
Speaker 1: seventeen three against the Tennessee Titans. So the Hegels follow
Speaker 1: twenty one the seventeen. They are now three and four
Speaker 1: on the season. Another tough loss here in the NFC.
Speaker 1: Chris mcfiers here with ike Reas emotionals start here to
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico, It's really no other
Speaker 1: way to put it here. This is a game Legals
Speaker 1: should have won back at home. Looked like everything was
Speaker 1: clicking into form for the team, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they come up on the short end after allowing
Speaker 1: twenty one points there to the Panthers. Yeah. Really uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: of this team. This team usually when they get up,
Speaker 1: when they get up on a team, they typically put
Speaker 1: their foot on their throat and they able to close
Speaker 1: out games. That certainly was a hallmark for them last
Speaker 1: year during the Super Bowl run. But this year, this
Speaker 1: is the second time in the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: where you have a double digit lead in the second
Speaker 1: half and you don't seemingly put your foot on the
Speaker 1: opponent's throat and close out the game. This one hurts
Speaker 1: even more than the loss in Tennessee because when they
Speaker 1: went up seventeen to three against Tennessee, Tennessee immediately scored
Speaker 1: it was seventeen to ten, and they were really back
Speaker 1: in the game. And it was in Tennessee, so you
Speaker 1: kind of expect the home team to sort of fight
Speaker 1: until the end but you get a Carolina Panther team
Speaker 1: that's coming off crushing defeat last week to the Washington
Speaker 1: ran Skins. They're down seventeen nothing in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: on the road. Nothing has worked for this team all
Speaker 1: game offensively, and it almost seems as if once the
Speaker 1: Eagles went up seventeen to nothing, they thought the game
Speaker 1: was over with Carolina gets the football back after that,
Speaker 1: they go down to score with very little resistance, and
Speaker 1: I think that's when the momentum started to shift in
Speaker 1: this league. Man, the momentum shift just like that, and
Speaker 1: just like that, the Carolina Panthers found themselves back in
Speaker 1: this game. Even with the score seventeen to six, you
Speaker 1: could sort of tell the Eagles offense had started to
Speaker 1: stimy a little bit and really sputter and not have
Speaker 1: the type of dominance they had shown. They gave them
Speaker 1: that seventeen league. I mean, you had an eighteen play
Speaker 1: drive in the third quarter that led to a touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That that type of drive normally kills the will of
Speaker 1: your opponent. But the Panthers were able to come back
Speaker 1: and score with relative ease. I think that gave them
Speaker 1: a little confidence in a little momentum that really just
Speaker 1: throw caution to the win and say, hey, let's see
Speaker 1: what we can do. We got a little something going,
Speaker 1: we found something that's working, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you're in a dog fight and you can't get the
Speaker 1: momentum going back on your side. I've seen it far
Speaker 1: too many times in sports where a team that has
Speaker 1: all the momentum sort of lets their guard down and
Speaker 1: they can't regain the momentum. And that's what happened today.
Speaker 1: Once the Eagles lost that momentum after going up seventeen
Speaker 1: to nothing, they can never get it back. And it
Speaker 1: was all on the Panthers side of the football. And
Speaker 1: it's a lot of critical plays in this game late
Speaker 1: in the game that the Eagles are going to be
Speaker 1: kicking themselves about when they look at this film, particularly
Speaker 1: on defense where they allowed the Panthers to convert some
Speaker 1: third and loans even of worth and long. They allowed
Speaker 1: him to convert where it looked like the head Cam
Speaker 1: Newton sack, he's able to find Tory Smith. Tory Smith
Speaker 1: makes a big catch, darts down the sideline, and then
Speaker 1: it goes from are they going to possibly tidy game?
Speaker 1: They they're just trying to get in field goal range.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, they're thinking about going up and
Speaker 1: winning a game exactly. So we're just get some instant
Speaker 1: reaction over from the link. In a little bit, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from the head coach Doug Pearson as well
Speaker 1: as quarterback Carson Once. But first let's bring in Eagles
Speaker 1: insire Day Spadaro as well as Amy Campbell. Dave, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're emotional. It's distressing, it's deflating right now here inside
Speaker 1: the studio. I can only imagine what the mood and
Speaker 1: the temperature is like there at the link. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's stunning. It's a stunt silence. It's back to
Speaker 1: not really knowing what this football team is all about.
Speaker 1: As you guys said, we have a chance to put
Speaker 1: a game away, a team away. You do it, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I mean it was a complete one eighty
Speaker 1: to could turn the offense, stopped converting first to third down,
Speaker 1: couldn't move the ball and on. And then the defense.
Speaker 1: He mean, that was a shocking part to me. The
Speaker 1: way the defense just allowed gaping completions, breakdowns. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It was a complete difference from the first three quarters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they seemed in complete control, like you said, honest, Sam,
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball the first three quarters, and
Speaker 1: this whole thing unraveled in one quarter and the Panthers
Speaker 1: have three touchdown drives back to back to back, and
Speaker 1: just absolutely kind of shock everyone. I mean, the vibe
Speaker 1: in here is kind of weird. Everybody was feeling really
Speaker 1: good and varying control and gosh, having so much fun
Speaker 1: on offense. Right, that offense was looking so dominant and
Speaker 1: so much fun, and it unraveled so quickly and so strangely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think part of this is when you don't
Speaker 1: have a running game that you can really rely upon,
Speaker 1: which Eagles did not run the football with big chunks today.
Speaker 1: It was really they were kind of just mixing in
Speaker 1: the run to keep the Panthers, honest, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Carson Wentz started getting pressure and the
Speaker 1: Eagles not able to make it play down the field.
Speaker 1: Now they still had a chance first and tenethy Panthers
Speaker 1: twenty two yard line and no run game, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: just unable to get it in the end zone. And
Speaker 1: of course we thought there was some life down here
Speaker 1: without Eric Reid potential interception that was our reverse and
Speaker 1: of course Eric Reid, you know, doing some talking throughout
Speaker 1: this game, so it was interesting to see him make
Speaker 1: that big play there, but giving the Eagles more life
Speaker 1: still and other addictions to get in the end zone
Speaker 1: with time on the clock and just unable to even
Speaker 1: move the ball. Like you said, yeah, so this is
Speaker 1: an Eagles team that had a chance today to create
Speaker 1: some momentum getting above five go to London feeling really good.
Speaker 1: Instead you go back to saying, who are the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles at three and four with a tough game in
Speaker 1: London against Jacksonville to take this to the halfway point
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, we still don't know who this
Speaker 1: team is and which which team is at the team
Speaker 1: that we saw today or the team that we've seen
Speaker 1: look so good against the Giants last week, and there
Speaker 1: was there was so much energy all week. You know,
Speaker 1: you really thought a good mini bye week and three
Speaker 1: quarters of dominance, well two quarters and most most imus,
Speaker 1: I think to me, what will stand out, guys is
Speaker 1: lack of a running game that you could rely on
Speaker 1: late in the game, and then the defense a total
Speaker 1: collapsation three consecutive drives for touchdowns by a Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: offense that had done nothing to that point. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: about to go in the locker room. That's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to go talk to those guys and see
Speaker 1: how they feel about it. I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be super pleasant. Yeah, no, it's gonna be very tough.
Speaker 1: And my team, that has veteran leadership should know how
Speaker 1: to put a football team away. Eagles did not do
Speaker 1: that today. Chris and I back to you with an
Speaker 1: overcare complex Dave and Amy, thank you so much again.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the Eagles Life podcast as well
Speaker 1: as read Dave's On the Inside column a little bit
Speaker 1: later on this evening. So very interesting points there. You
Speaker 1: know the fact that you don't know what this team
Speaker 1: is because this Eagles team is not one consecutive games
Speaker 1: all season and basically for the better part of three
Speaker 1: plus corps. We thought today would be today, the Eagles
Speaker 1: would get back over five hundred, they'd be four and three,
Speaker 1: they'd be kind of getting into a bit of a
Speaker 1: role here as they prepare for that game in London
Speaker 1: and gets the Jaguars a week from today. But now
Speaker 1: they are sitting three and four. They're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a quagmire in the NFC. Alice is playing Washington, so
Speaker 1: only one of those teams will emerge first place in
Speaker 1: a division. So the division is still going to be
Speaker 1: pretty much up for grabs and that will be the
Speaker 1: silver line that we could discuss at some point. But
Speaker 1: right now, you know, the emotions, the disappointment. Everyone is
Speaker 1: just gonna be wondering how did this happen, especially at
Speaker 1: home where the Eagles had been so dominant for the
Speaker 1: last two plus seasons with Doug Pearson as the head coach.
Speaker 1: Also bring up a good point about the run game
Speaker 1: that was something that the Eagles could rely on last season.
Speaker 1: I think back to the Chargers game is the first
Speaker 1: one that comes to mind for me when they're in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and you know, with Lagarable and they are
Speaker 1: able to grind out about eight minutes off the clock
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter to help put that game away.
Speaker 1: I believe in the pieces that are here. And obviously
Speaker 1: you don't have Darren Sproles, you don't have Jagi. He's
Speaker 1: done for this season. You know, Sprowles possibly could start
Speaker 1: practicing in the next week or so, but he's probably
Speaker 1: not going to come back till after the buy. But
Speaker 1: I like Corey Clement. You know, I like what Josh
Speaker 1: Adams brought to the table. He brought some juice today.
Speaker 1: Smallwood had some tough runs. He had a key third
Speaker 1: down conversion. You mentioned that ninety nine yard driving the
Speaker 1: third quarter, which really should have put the game away.
Speaker 1: He had a huge third down conversion there. So I
Speaker 1: felt like at times they can get the job done,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's just not enough on a consistent basis,
Speaker 1: where Doug Piacer wanted to be balanced in the second half,
Speaker 1: knowing that they had the advantage there. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't have the answers if that's the biggest question is
Speaker 1: you're searching for answers at this point in the season,
Speaker 1: almost at the halfway point, but before we get into
Speaker 1: our turning points in this game, your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: run game or what the Eagles can do with the
Speaker 1: pieces that they have in place here. I'm like you, Chris,
Speaker 1: I like the young guys. I like what they bring
Speaker 1: to the table, but I like them as complimentary pieces.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought they worked well last year along
Speaker 1: with the Lagard blunt, along with the Jagi to sort
Speaker 1: of play off of them, sort of change of speed,
Speaker 1: type of backs, and I like Wendale and Corey sort
Speaker 1: of in those roles. Still a big unknown as to
Speaker 1: whether or not both of these young guys can shoulder
Speaker 1: the low for a full season, and that's really what
Speaker 1: they've had to do due to the injuries and the
Speaker 1: influx at the running back position. But I'll tell you this, Chris,
Speaker 1: I won't even place it at the feet of the
Speaker 1: running backs. I look at this game and it's the NFL,
Speaker 1: and everybody's gonna you know, nobody's gonna give up, right,
Speaker 1: So Caroline is not going to give up. They fought
Speaker 1: their way to get back in this game. I thought
Speaker 1: the Eagles on that final drive, you got the big
Speaker 1: pass interference call against al Sean Jeffrey that puts you
Speaker 1: down there, and then it got weird for the offense.
Speaker 1: And listen, we rarely ever criticize Carson Wentz, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: Kid rarely does anything the deems criticism to be necessary.
Speaker 1: But after that first down at the twenty two yard line,
Speaker 1: I thought there were some questionable plays there. I mean
Speaker 1: the interception that was thrown to Eric Read and overturned,
Speaker 1: that was a questionable throw. He wasn't under pressure, let
Speaker 1: the ball go high and sailed on him, almost picked
Speaker 1: off there. Then he comes back here he forces one
Speaker 1: to alshon Jeffrey that could have been picked off the
Speaker 1: very next play, and on that play it's third and two.
Speaker 1: You got Windale Smallwood in the flat pick up the
Speaker 1: first down. What was great about where they were on
Speaker 1: the twenty two yard line is that it wasn't first
Speaker 1: in gold, meaning you didn't have to get the ball
Speaker 1: in the end zone in four plays. You had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to pick up another first down and then sort
Speaker 1: of have four more plays. So it's third and two there.
Speaker 1: If you take the quick running back in the flat
Speaker 1: there to Windale Smallwood, he's wide open, he catches that,
Speaker 1: picks up the first down, gets out of bounds, and
Speaker 1: now you have four more downs to play with. I
Speaker 1: think Carson was looking for the big play there. The
Speaker 1: game wouldn't play the touchdown play. That's understandable. You gotta
Speaker 1: live and die with those sort of decisions as fans
Speaker 1: because that's just the type of quarterback that is. But
Speaker 1: I bet you when he looks back at that series there,
Speaker 1: that final series and after that first down play, I
Speaker 1: mean after that first down passing afference. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: some plays there that he wishes he could have did
Speaker 1: some other things with the football. It's a learning lesson
Speaker 1: for him. Sometimes you gotta take what the defense has
Speaker 1: given you. Sometimes you gotta live to find another down.
Speaker 1: And I just didn't think we did that. Once we
Speaker 1: got on a twenty two yard line first down. I
Speaker 1: thought there were some opportunities there where you could have
Speaker 1: picked up another first down and then maybe giving yourself
Speaker 1: four more opportunities to get the ball in the end.
Speaker 1: What's ironic is the Eagles have struggled in terms of
Speaker 1: getting into those third and manageable situations throughout most of
Speaker 1: this season, not playing good situational football. But Smallwood produced
Speaker 1: the great It was a nice play call. Spread out
Speaker 1: the defense, runch up the middle, get yourself into eight
Speaker 1: yards at eight yards on the first star. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you have a couple of chances to convert
Speaker 1: the short yard situation where you figure, okay, Doug can
Speaker 1: go into his bag of tricks and pull out something there.
Speaker 1: But it was not to be so. Obviously, again, Eagles
Speaker 1: leading through three plus quarters of a seventeen nothing lead,
Speaker 1: the Panthers five possessions in the first three quarters all punts,
Speaker 1: but final three possessions or first three possessions of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter resultant touchdowns, and then they knelt down to
Speaker 1: run out the clock. In terms of a turning point
Speaker 1: for you, like, where do you think this game went awry?
Speaker 1: I really believe the turning point happened after the Eagles
Speaker 1: went up seventeen nothing. They had an eighteen play drive,
Speaker 1: ninety nine yard drive where they got to touchdown to
Speaker 1: go up seventeen to nothing. And then the Panthers get
Speaker 1: the ball back and they go down the field eleven plays,
Speaker 1: eighty yards to get on the board, and that's where
Speaker 1: I believe the momentum shifted. The Eagles go up seventeen
Speaker 1: and nothing. It's almost feels as if they thought the
Speaker 1: game was over with after going up seventeen to nothing,
Speaker 1: because the Panthers moved the ball on it on that
Speaker 1: next series better than they had moved the ball the
Speaker 1: prior three quarters of the entire game. And that drive,
Speaker 1: that touchdown gave them a little confidence, gave them momentum,
Speaker 1: gave their defense life, and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: the offense can't pick up first downs and the defense
Speaker 1: our defense. It's back on the field with the Panthers
Speaker 1: offense having a little momentum going on their side. They
Speaker 1: score on three straight drives. But it started with at
Speaker 1: first touchdown where I thought, man, they score kind of
Speaker 1: easy there. You kind of hope that, okay, maybe hopefully
Speaker 1: the momentum is not switching. But I felt it, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could kind of fill it in the
Speaker 1: stadium as well, that the momentum went to the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. For me, it was after the
Speaker 1: second touchdown where Devin Funis, you know, got Ronald Darby
Speaker 1: to bite on the double move. Darby slips up Fungis
Speaker 1: gets a touchdown there, so from eighteen yards out, so
Speaker 1: Graham Gono, he missed the first point after opportunity, So
Speaker 1: you figure out least at that point the Panthers are
Speaker 1: fours ago for the two point conversion. Well, right there,
Speaker 1: Jared's right converts a short pass from Cam Newton that
Speaker 1: made a three point ball game. Meeting that if the
Speaker 1: Panthers got the ball once again, which they did, they
Speaker 1: would only need a field goal, and they not only
Speaker 1: got that, they got the touchdown. For me, it was
Speaker 1: at two point conversion because I felt like if you
Speaker 1: could have the ball back, if you're the Eagles, you
Speaker 1: have the four point four point cushion there, you'll feel
Speaker 1: like you're in good situation that you go with this
Speaker 1: defense and you at lease can force him to go
Speaker 1: for the end zone and not just a field goal,
Speaker 1: you would feel good about your chances. But I think
Speaker 1: when they got that two point conversion, it was at
Speaker 1: that point where it seemed like the moment was completely
Speaker 1: in the Panther's favor and they were able to sit
Speaker 1: back and say, we can not only settle for the
Speaker 1: field goal if needbe, but we can go for the win.
Speaker 1: And that's what they did as Newton hit Greg Olson
Speaker 1: for the game winning score. So for me, that was
Speaker 1: a turning point there. So we're gonna hear from the
Speaker 1: head coach and just a little bit here, but I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just across the board when you look at this
Speaker 1: defeat from the defensive perspective, Cam Newton was so streaky
Speaker 1: because early on, I don't know if it was the win,
Speaker 1: where's the pressure, maybe a combination of both. Newton was
Speaker 1: not able to get much going whatsoever with his arm,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden on those three touchdown drives,
Speaker 1: I think he had six or seven completions in a row.
Speaker 1: He got himself in a rhythm, and I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles did a great job of limiting the downfield places.
Speaker 1: And that's something that with Norv Turner's offense, that's what
Speaker 1: that's his calling card. He wants to stretch defenses vertically
Speaker 1: and he has not been able to do that with
Speaker 1: the Panthers this season, which is which is kind of befollowing.
Speaker 1: Because Cam Newton is one of the strongest arm quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: they have some speed options on the outside. You know,
Speaker 1: you figured they would find ways to stretch the field.
Speaker 1: That had not been the case. And you felt good
Speaker 1: if your the Eagles because they've been limiting them so
Speaker 1: short plays and not allowing the chunk plays there in
Speaker 1: the secondary. But all of a sudden in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: those explosive plays which have hurt the Eagles in the past,
Speaker 1: reared their ugly head once again and really put the
Speaker 1: Panthers in those, like you said, those quick scoring opportunities
Speaker 1: so they could climb back into this ball game where
Speaker 1: the Eagles felt like, if we just let you know,
Speaker 1: the play stay in front of us, it'll eat up
Speaker 1: the clock. It just didn't eat up as much as
Speaker 1: I think Jim Schwartz and company thought it would. And
Speaker 1: then a couple of times when the pass rush, which
Speaker 1: was doing a great job of getting to Cam Newton
Speaker 1: in the first half, in those first three quarters, when
Speaker 1: they would get a guy in the backfield Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: missing a sack comes to mind, they were not able
Speaker 1: to get Cam down. He's so difficult to defend from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, And once Cam got into a rhythm, you
Speaker 1: know it's he's one of those quarterbacks where if you
Speaker 1: get in his mind, you feel like you could rall him.
Speaker 1: Early sure, you know he's off his game, and I
Speaker 1: felt like they did a great job of doing that
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton to the point where I didn't know
Speaker 1: if he could bring it back. But once he got
Speaker 1: in the rhythm, once he found his footing there, especially
Speaker 1: not just with his arm, but with his legs as well,
Speaker 1: that's where you knew that something dangerous could happen. And
Speaker 1: when and when you look at this Carolina team, you
Speaker 1: go just the last two games alone, they beat the
Speaker 1: Giants on that sixty three yard field goal by Graham Gono,
Speaker 1: I mean that was a back and forth affair where
Speaker 1: they had to rally themselves. Okay, and last week they
Speaker 1: lost to Washington in Washington, but they trailed in that
Speaker 1: game early. You probably score seventeen to nothing and rally
Speaker 1: themselves into a position where they had a chance to
Speaker 1: win at the end. And ironically Newton missed a potential
Speaker 1: game winning throw in the end zone to Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: While they troll seventeen nothing. This time around, they learned
Speaker 1: from their mistakes and were able to come back and
Speaker 1: finish the job. So Newton making that little bit of
Speaker 1: improvement really made all the difference. But this is a
Speaker 1: Panther's team that's you know, scratched and claude and you know,
Speaker 1: use all the euphemisms you want for the fact that
Speaker 1: it's a cat based team. But nonetheless, though they've found
Speaker 1: them with them themselves to be able to get back
Speaker 1: in these types of ball games even though they're down,
Speaker 1: because they have such a hot quarterback who can fire
Speaker 1: themselves up back in a hurry, and he was able
Speaker 1: to do that on this afternoon here to get the
Speaker 1: Panthers in position even though they were down seventeen nothing.
Speaker 1: And like you said, games should have been over. Games
Speaker 1: should have been over in the fourth quarter after that
Speaker 1: ninety nine yard touchdown drive. But you look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: you know, sixty four percent completion percentage, two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards, no interceptions, and in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: no pressure. He was able to sit back in the
Speaker 1: pocket and find whoever he wanted. Yeah, and from a
Speaker 1: defensive perspective, what you're trying to do is keep your
Speaker 1: team in the game, right, So so even when it
Speaker 1: was all right, we're gonna send it over to the link,
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson about to address the media, don
Speaker 1: help them to a hundred and six yards of total
Speaker 1: offense before those final threat possessions, what happened? Well, Um,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it just, uh, you know, we didn't make
Speaker 1: enough plays offensively, defensively in the second half. You know,
Speaker 1: we we had opportunities to get off the field defensively,
Speaker 1: we didn't. We had opportunities to stay on the field offensively,
Speaker 1: and we didn't. And so you know, it's something we
Speaker 1: just gotta take a look at. Um, we gotta get
Speaker 1: you know, there were there were some positive things obviously,
Speaker 1: but but those are areas that have have heard us
Speaker 1: in a couple of games you know this season already.
Speaker 1: They just made more plays. Nothing changed, the same guys,
Speaker 1: the same same people out there. They just made more
Speaker 1: plays than we did. So really sychematically nothing changed. Um. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just we just didn't make enough in the
Speaker 1: second half of this game. Once you get down there
Speaker 1: on the final possessions interference play, you will go for
Speaker 1: a eight yards. Can you take us through the thought
Speaker 1: process there on the Playhold, what are you trying to
Speaker 1: do there? Or you just getting the end zone? Get
Speaker 1: the first down? What's well, we had to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone, you know, to win the game. Um.
Speaker 1: And and our thought there was, you know, give give
Speaker 1: Carson a pass and audible to you know, give them
Speaker 1: a run. So if they play a certain defense, we
Speaker 1: could get to the run. And we were able to
Speaker 1: do that and we got positive yards and then get
Speaker 1: right back on the ball and go go tempo a
Speaker 1: little bit right there, and and uh, and trying to
Speaker 1: get the first down. Still had timeouts, you know, so
Speaker 1: we still had a lot of options available to us, um,
Speaker 1: with the amount of time and timeouts in the in
Speaker 1: the game, So trying to get the first down, but
Speaker 1: ultimately trying to get in the end zone on the
Speaker 1: fourth and ten diversion they had reducing Um, I felt
Speaker 1: like that. I believe it was Jalen at the time
Speaker 1: may have may have slipped and may have fell down,
Speaker 1: and just Tory was was standing right there. We were
Speaker 1: real close of getting to getting to cam and getting
Speaker 1: them on the ground at the time time, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we were we were just a step behind
Speaker 1: at seventeen three. Now offensively there, what's sputtered? Um, we
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't execute, you know, we uh just just
Speaker 1: just broke down, you know, and then we can't have that.
Speaker 1: And those are things that uh, our guys pride themselves on,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's you know, I look at the
Speaker 1: I'll go back and look at you know, the couple
Speaker 1: of calls play calls there. See if I can do
Speaker 1: a little better there, help our team out there. And um,
Speaker 1: we had an opportunity on the third down al Sean,
Speaker 1: uh twenty four you know Brad Burry for them, came
Speaker 1: back and really recovered well. Al Sean was wide open
Speaker 1: and twenty four just came back and just got a
Speaker 1: hand in there late and knocked the ball away or
Speaker 1: otherwise we're on the field at that point too. What
Speaker 1: was the message to the team after a collapse like this, Well,
Speaker 1: the message is that, uh, um, you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: and I told him, I says, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to learn from these these these are these are things,
Speaker 1: these are these are games that the galvanized football teams,
Speaker 1: and and this is gonna do that, this is gonna
Speaker 1: bring us even closer together. Um basically told him that, hey, um,
Speaker 1: pressures off of us, nobody on the outside world to
Speaker 1: giving us a chance to do much of anything, and
Speaker 1: pressures off so we can go play, have fun and
Speaker 1: just relax and and and a lot of football ahead too.
Speaker 1: You know, we still have a bunch of games and
Speaker 1: still anything's possible, anything can happen, and you know, we
Speaker 1: still treat it as one week at a time. You
Speaker 1: guys closed the game earlier this season where you were
Speaker 1: a head seventeen and three in a second, yeard, what
Speaker 1: did you not learn from that one? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: that where's there's some kind of connective thread there between
Speaker 1: what happened in Nashville's it's happened here. Well, Um, fourth
Speaker 1: and fifteen, fourth and ten, we've got to go look
Speaker 1: at those two plays and that's probably the answer. So
Speaker 1: we've got to, you know, as as players and coaches,
Speaker 1: make sure that that we're putting our guys in position.
Speaker 1: And then secondly, we got to execute to play a
Speaker 1: lot of this. This is a player's game, right, players
Speaker 1: have to make plays and and uh um, you know
Speaker 1: we try to as coaches. We put him in possession
Speaker 1: to be successful and and uh so we got to
Speaker 1: evaluate that and and just coach better and play better.
Speaker 1: Working on to wait, you close on game. Something you're
Speaker 1: looking you'll be looking you're working on saying this week
Speaker 1: the sea. Well, I think we're gonna be working on
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Um, but that's one of them.
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about finishing all the time, and
Speaker 1: it just doesn't mean you know, the first half of games.
Speaker 1: We gotta finish the second half too. Than you are
Speaker 1: making an adjustments, you're not adjusting to No, No, I
Speaker 1: mean Carolina, Um, you know, just just get stuck to
Speaker 1: their game plan. Um, you know nothing we didn't expect. Um,
Speaker 1: so no, wait, cars believe Um well I thought overall,
Speaker 1: you know, um, pretty good. I think his numbers were decent.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the actual stat deal. But you know,
Speaker 1: bottom line as we lost and and so it's not
Speaker 1: a not an individual sport. He's part of it obviously,
Speaker 1: and uh did some good things and we'll we'll, we
Speaker 1: gotta take a look at the whole the whole pie
Speaker 1: right now. What do you mean by well number one,
Speaker 1: I think I think sald you know, no one has
Speaker 1: really given us a chance anyway, Um, whether we're putting
Speaker 1: pressure on ourselves to perform, um, you know, to play
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you know, live up to a certain expectation.
Speaker 1: I think I think that you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: that point where where you know, I think that that
Speaker 1: no one has given us that type of you know,
Speaker 1: maybe with the amount of injuries or whatever it whatever
Speaker 1: it is giving us much credit, you know, going into games.
Speaker 1: And and I think sometimes we we we we force issues,
Speaker 1: you know, we uh, we try to press just a
Speaker 1: little it instead of just you know, we don't have
Speaker 1: to go searching for plays. We just when the plays come,
Speaker 1: we just make let's just make the plays that come
Speaker 1: to us. And and right now we're not doing that.
Speaker 1: So I think that, uh, I think that's the pressure
Speaker 1: that's that's off of us, and we just we just
Speaker 1: have to get back to playing and executing better. Just
Speaker 1: cleared though. Are you saying that the players are feeling
Speaker 1: pressured to live up to what you guys accomplished last year. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I just think that each week,
Speaker 1: And this is something I've talked about all season, is
Speaker 1: is when we talk about embracing something, it's a choice.
Speaker 1: And we know that we get everybody's best every week.
Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, it's a good football team.
Speaker 1: You know, Carolina is a playoff caliber team. They were
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. It's
Speaker 1: a good football team. And and we know that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we don't use, um, we don't use injury,
Speaker 1: We don't use whatever it might be as an excuse
Speaker 1: not to not to perform, and and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think players coaches just put just added pressure
Speaker 1: when they don't have to, you know. And and that's
Speaker 1: something that we've got to We've got to you know,
Speaker 1: starts with me there and just making sure that we're
Speaker 1: doing everything even during the week, um, getting ourselves in
Speaker 1: positions to win games. There's still the defending Sir Bull champs.
Speaker 1: I mean that doesn't change. But at three and four,
Speaker 1: do you really think that pressure is off you guys, Now,
Speaker 1: it won't be. But but it doesn't have to come
Speaker 1: from us, you know, it doesn't have to come you know,
Speaker 1: there's enough pressure just the game itself brings its own
Speaker 1: sort of pressure. We don't have to go force anything.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go um, you know, go like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, don't have to go looking for plays.
Speaker 1: Let the plays come to you and then make them
Speaker 1: when they come. And and and that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: There's a play caller real quick. Uh, when you see
Speaker 1: the momentum ship like it did drastically, are you are
Speaker 1: you aware of that you mentioned it's a players game.
Speaker 1: What do you feel the need to kind of fuel
Speaker 1: things when you see the momentum change? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you feel it and you sense it. I don't think
Speaker 1: it necessarily have to get you out of your them offensively,
Speaker 1: because I thought we were doing some good things, you know,
Speaker 1: even in the run game, RPOs, play action pass, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the things that we were able to take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. But but yeah, no, I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like I had to get ultra aggressive or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Just because the tide was sort of changing just a
Speaker 1: little bit there in a second. Now, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: head coach Duck Pearson addressing the media saying they simply
Speaker 1: didn't make enough plays, and everyone's gonna point to the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, iike, But before we get into your takeaway,
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna say you came out of the first
Speaker 1: half feeling good about where the Eagles stood up ten nothing,
Speaker 1: dominating time and possession, dominating the yard totals. But the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter was it was only ten nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Panthers actually got the ball first to start
Speaker 1: the second half, and they moved the ball pretty well
Speaker 1: on the first drive of the second half. Still ended
Speaker 1: up punting, But nonetheless, though, you know, you felt that
Speaker 1: the Eagles could have done more to put themselves in
Speaker 1: a situation where it didn't have to come down to
Speaker 1: that final drive. And everyone's gonna say, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: when you're up seventeen nothing in the fourth quarter, that
Speaker 1: should be a victory. But at the same time, though
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna think about the final couple drives, you could
Speaker 1: look to the first quarter of the first half where
Speaker 1: there's gonna be missed opportunities there was a miss field
Speaker 1: goal by Jake Elly. There were plays that could have
Speaker 1: been me there that could have padded the lead to
Speaker 1: make it so that no matter how good Cam Newton
Speaker 1: got in the fourth quarter, there was no way he
Speaker 1: was going to bring the Panthers back. Nah, that's a
Speaker 1: great point, Chris. You know, I'm thinking about that first
Speaker 1: half and only having ten points on the board. I
Speaker 1: can remember saying something to someone in the press box like, man,
Speaker 1: like they should have more than ten points. Like this
Speaker 1: game feels like they've dominated it from start to finish
Speaker 1: of the first half, and to only be up ten,
Speaker 1: you knew that there were some missed opportunities out there,
Speaker 1: right the Jake Elliott field goal, that's three points there,
Speaker 1: you see, that would have made a difference at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Now now you only need a
Speaker 1: field goal to sort of go up and beat Carolina there.
Speaker 1: So every when you lose a game like this, everything
Speaker 1: matters when you look back on it right before the half,
Speaker 1: you know, not really being aggressive to go down the
Speaker 1: field and try to get points right before the half.
Speaker 1: People will go back and look at that at nitpick
Speaker 1: or as Doug is thinking, let me get out of here.
Speaker 1: I'm backed up a little bit. Don't want to make
Speaker 1: any mistakes down here. Let's get out of here with
Speaker 1: a ten point league. That's certainly understandable, but when you
Speaker 1: lose a game, everything goes under the microscope when you
Speaker 1: start to reflect on how do we get to hear
Speaker 1: an end result of twenty one to seventeen. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee you Jim Schwartz as a defensive coordinator, he's going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, thinking back on his game and
Speaker 1: saying to himself, you know, was I aggressive enough? You know,
Speaker 1: if there's a fine line between trying to be aggressive
Speaker 1: and playing smart, and so I know as a defensive coach,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say to themselves, as long as the clock
Speaker 1: keeps moving and you don't give up big plays, they're
Speaker 1: okay with that. As long as it takes you ten
Speaker 1: twelve plays to score in five six, seven minutes to score,
Speaker 1: you're gonna rount a time. But for some reason it worked.
Speaker 1: The first series that the Panthers scored on that was
Speaker 1: an eleven play drive. But the second touchdown they got
Speaker 1: happened far and having way too fast, and really that's
Speaker 1: where the momentum really flipped is Carolina scored so fast.
Speaker 1: Now they're saying to themselves, we have all the momentum.
Speaker 1: All we need to do is go out here and
Speaker 1: get it three and out and get the ball back
Speaker 1: to our offense. You mentioned the running game earlier. Here's
Speaker 1: where not having Let's say, I don't know a more
Speaker 1: explosive back, a better back, whatever you want, however you
Speaker 1: want to coin it, term it. They couldn't run out
Speaker 1: the clock. They couldn't finish off the game. You brought
Speaker 1: up that La game into the Chargers last year and
Speaker 1: how close that game was. What the biggest thing I
Speaker 1: take away from that Chargers game is that they never
Speaker 1: got the ball back with six minutes of plus to
Speaker 1: go because the Eagles were able to go into their
Speaker 1: four minute offense and eat the clock up. And that's
Speaker 1: what we were able to do last year with the
Speaker 1: running game that we had. This year, we're throwing far
Speaker 1: too much in situations where they should be running. And
Speaker 1: part of it it's because Doug doesn't like the yards
Speaker 1: are getting. Let's send it back to the lake. Quarterback
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz addressing the media. Now to win there at
Speaker 1: the end, offensively, we had a chance to seal the
Speaker 1: deal with the drive before, really the two drives before,
Speaker 1: we just didn't do it. So you know, when you're
Speaker 1: on the field at the end like that with a shot,
Speaker 1: balls in your hand and then you don't win, it's frustrating.
Speaker 1: Dogens wasn't as productive in the second half as it
Speaker 1: wasn't the first. Yeah, you know, it's hard to say
Speaker 1: it's culmination of things. You got to go back and
Speaker 1: watch the tape, but yeah, I mean that's just not
Speaker 1: a way for us to finish the game. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought we were moving the ball well, you know early,
Speaker 1: kind of kind of did some things well that we
Speaker 1: know we're capable of, and then it's just seemed like
Speaker 1: we let off the gas as an offense and uh,
Speaker 1: just stop making place. How do you guys recover from
Speaker 1: a loss like this? I mean, you have a similar
Speaker 1: lossugents Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, and now kind
Speaker 1: of now this one. I mean, how do you guys
Speaker 1: keep it from spiraling? I mean, you just isolate this
Speaker 1: game and this week and then move on to the next,
Speaker 1: you know, you learn from it. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: could sound like a broken record every time we lose
Speaker 1: up here, but it's it's onto the next you know,
Speaker 1: there's no time to feel sorry for yourself. There's no
Speaker 1: time to be be pissed about it. Um. You know
Speaker 1: you have to learn from it quick and bounce back
Speaker 1: next week. Did you see all those final two plays? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the fourth down, so I'll sean open across
Speaker 1: the middle late and as I stepped up, tried to
Speaker 1: try to make the throw, UM got hit and the
Speaker 1: ball came out, and the play before I just tried
Speaker 1: force one in there that I probably shouldn't have on
Speaker 1: the interception. I was saying that the fourth order like
Speaker 1: kind of like all of a sudden, they were blowing
Speaker 1: up later, so they didn't happen for you guys, just
Speaker 1: something that kind of put it was just because you're
Speaker 1: kind of let it off and get as a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it's really hard to say right now. Um,
Speaker 1: we got to watch the tape and see what where
Speaker 1: our errors kind of were. Um, but I know later
Speaker 1: in the game we didn't stay ahead of the chain
Speaker 1: as well, um, and result in some tough there downs
Speaker 1: that we just weren't able to say on the field.
Speaker 1: What happened on that interception that was over rolled attentific
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean that was just a miscommunication on
Speaker 1: Zach and my part. You know, we got to get
Speaker 1: that ironed out and we will seem like Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I obviously extremely frustrated about this game, and um,
Speaker 1: just really just praying, praying, just to ease my mind
Speaker 1: and ease my heart going forward. You guys have had
Speaker 1: some stretches this year where you guys are really gotten
Speaker 1: rolling and it looks like you've kind of turned the
Speaker 1: corner and then it just kind of, you know, you
Speaker 1: hit that wall. What is it gonna take to get
Speaker 1: that consistency? But um, that's a good question. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out what we're made of now going forward.
Speaker 1: Feel like we said that two weeks ago, uh saying
Speaker 1: it again. You know we're at you know, make a
Speaker 1: break time almost uh so to speak, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say exactly what it's gonna get, what
Speaker 1: it's gonna take. But again, we know what we can do.
Speaker 1: We do it you know here and there in some weeks,
Speaker 1: but we just gotta put it all together. Shall you
Speaker 1: mentioned in the end zone, uh that maybe you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that was was there another read to get tour.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should have just taken off and scrambled what
Speaker 1: was kind of going through your head and sho look
Speaker 1: back on? Yeah, I mean I was just trying to
Speaker 1: give him, give him a shot to make a play.
Speaker 1: I got to get the ball up higher if I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that. And um again I got to
Speaker 1: see the tape. There might have been another guy a
Speaker 1: supposing out games or a couple of problems with you guys?
Speaker 1: Do is it something that you do in practice? You know,
Speaker 1: next game out? Yeah? I don't know how you you know,
Speaker 1: work on closing out game so speak in practice. But um,
Speaker 1: it's something that we gotta do, you know, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: It's something I thought we did well last year. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we've shown that we can do it. Um
Speaker 1: but really offensively, you know, we gotta we gotta look hard,
Speaker 1: hard in the mirror myself included and laden games. We
Speaker 1: gotta be better. A message for Easton boss set the
Speaker 1: pressure to cope guys. Now, have you guys felt that pressure? Bowl?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think this town, the way
Speaker 1: I carried myself, the way really everyone in that locker.
Speaker 1: We put high expectations on ourselves every week. You know,
Speaker 1: whether we are seven and nine my rookie year we were,
Speaker 1: you know, on that hot stretch slash, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You know. I think we put high expectations on ourself
Speaker 1: to go out and my approach will never change win
Speaker 1: or lose onto the next week. And that's the way
Speaker 1: I'm gonna approach it. Thanks. Thanks, Yes, all right, short
Speaker 1: and sweet quarterback Carson Wentz, admitting that they might have
Speaker 1: let up of the gas a little too early. It's
Speaker 1: another learning lesson that this team, and you mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 1: Ike that uh laurie lesson for this quarterback is he's
Speaker 1: still young in his career, in his development, you know,
Speaker 1: experiencing certain situations for the first time. You know, last season,
Speaker 1: by this point, by the latter stages of games, it
Speaker 1: was blowouts most of the time, especially once the Eagles
Speaker 1: got rolling on the nine game win streak. They didn't
Speaker 1: have to make times where teams were fighting back in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to make it a game and eventually
Speaker 1: taking the lead, forcing the Eagles to, you know, try
Speaker 1: to get the rhythm back. And I thought Ruben frank
Speaker 1: At a very good question where in the first half
Speaker 1: it actually looked like the preseason ended for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: It looked like that finally the offense was clicking. You
Speaker 1: had explosive plays from al Sean Jeffrey that that back
Speaker 1: to back series of plays down the left side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where at al Sean gets makes a great contested grab,
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz makes makes a great catch. You said, they're
Speaker 1: trying to outdo each other at this point, like we're
Speaker 1: starting to see the offense come to life. You know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line was protecting well for Carson Wentz. You
Speaker 1: had multiple people contributing the run game. You had different
Speaker 1: people weighing in it and providing some relief there and
Speaker 1: providing some support. It seemed like the offense was finally
Speaker 1: clicking and the defense was just getting after Cam Newton
Speaker 1: and dominating the last scrimmage. You know, the Panthers have
Speaker 1: an outstanding rushing attack. They were not allowing that to
Speaker 1: get on track. It seemed like finally everything was coming
Speaker 1: together and then for whatever reason, it evaporated. And that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the big question is wasn't more on the offense,
Speaker 1: wasn't more on the defense. It's it's all across the board,
Speaker 1: It's all across the board, But you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see can they find that consistency again
Speaker 1: when it seemed like we've been waiting so long for
Speaker 1: it to happen, and you knew there was gonna be
Speaker 1: some delay in it because of the fact Carson didn't
Speaker 1: play until the third week of the season, he had
Speaker 1: no preseason alshon, Jeffrey missed the first three games. You
Speaker 1: understood that coming off the long off season of after
Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl, or shortened offseason after the long
Speaker 1: season of winning the Super Bowl, that it was gonna
Speaker 1: take some time for this team to click, that there
Speaker 1: would be almost an extended preseason. It just finally felt
Speaker 1: like it ended. And now it's almost like they're back
Speaker 1: to square one. But now they're three and four, you know,
Speaker 1: with a crucial game next week in London against the Jacks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was a a pivotal loss because you're at a
Speaker 1: point in the season where you're saying to yourself, who
Speaker 1: are we? What are we as a team? And the
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna have to do some serious soul searching
Speaker 1: over the next few days as to what they want
Speaker 1: their twenty eighteen season to be about. Now they can
Speaker 1: easily you know, rest on their laurels, know what they
Speaker 1: did last year, hang their hat on that, and just
Speaker 1: say twenty eighteen season, we can't repeat. Or they can
Speaker 1: say to themselves, no, this is not how we're going
Speaker 1: to defend what we did last year. We're gonna dig
Speaker 1: ourselves out of this and we're gonna go win this
Speaker 1: division and get into the postseason. Now, it's really about
Speaker 1: the mindset, because this was a crucial mental blow. Right
Speaker 1: you have a seventeen point lead at home and to
Speaker 1: lose a game like this, I can't even imagine what
Speaker 1: it feels like in that locker room right now. It
Speaker 1: almost feels like you lost two games because you feel
Speaker 1: like you took a step forward that Thursday night against
Speaker 1: the Giants. This feels like you took two or three
Speaker 1: steps back after you lose a game like this, And
Speaker 1: it can be it can be guys in that locker
Speaker 1: room man feeling sorry for themselves. It's gonna be real
Speaker 1: critical for the leaders on this team to pull everybody
Speaker 1: up by the bootstraps and demand excellence of them, demanded
Speaker 1: of them, demand that they do the small things that
Speaker 1: help you win games. The extra film study, the attention
Speaker 1: to detail, all those things, because there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of noise on the outside when you lose a
Speaker 1: game like this, especially in the city like Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: would advise them shut off all social media, hunker down
Speaker 1: inside this building, and get ready to finish this season
Speaker 1: like champions know how to finish a season, because this
Speaker 1: thing can go into a three or four game losing
Speaker 1: streak if you're not careful and you start to feel
Speaker 1: sorry for yourself or you start to think there's nothing
Speaker 1: to play for. So the leaders on this team are
Speaker 1: gonna have to get these players mind in the right
Speaker 1: position to let them know there's still a whole half
Speaker 1: of a scene and left to play. All their goals
Speaker 1: are still in front of them. They can still achieve
Speaker 1: those things, but they got to get out of this rut.
Speaker 1: They can't start feeling sorry for themselves. If anything, they
Speaker 1: ought to be angry with themselves and vow to never
Speaker 1: allow anything like this to happen again. Like they're gonna
Speaker 1: have five division opponents coming up in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season when they come back from London and
Speaker 1: the bye week, so there's a lot of football still
Speaker 1: left to be played. And the great thing about this league.
Speaker 1: It's one and done. All you want is an invitation
Speaker 1: to the party, and you want to be playing your
Speaker 1: best late in the season, then you can go on
Speaker 1: to run. This journey isn't going to be the way
Speaker 1: that it was last year, so that's out the window,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean it can't be a successful journey.
Speaker 1: We just have to pull ourselves together and get this
Speaker 1: out of your system as soon as possible. Go over
Speaker 1: to London, take care of business, get the bye week,
Speaker 1: get the first half out of your system, and come
Speaker 1: back to second half of the season to play new season.
Speaker 1: The second half. Man, it's a lot of football left
Speaker 1: to be played. But if you listen to these naysayers
Speaker 1: on the outside, they're gonna tell you the season's over
Speaker 1: with and and and the players can't buy any of that.
Speaker 1: And the coaches they're gonna do what they're supposed to
Speaker 1: do as coaches. I know they they're gonna instill the
Speaker 1: right things in these players, but they don't play the games.
Speaker 1: The players are the ones who play the games. They're
Speaker 1: the ones who are out there on the field, and
Speaker 1: these players have to believe that there's a lot still
Speaker 1: left to play for, including possibly getting to Atlanta, like
Speaker 1: we all hope they would at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: Just don't listen to Marks and Reese tomorrow. Don't listen yet,
Speaker 1: done it for WIP, not there whatsoever. I was waiting
Speaker 1: for you to say, everyone my show, make sure you
Speaker 1: shall listen to my don't even listen to that show.
Speaker 1: Don't even listen. It's infuly because Doug said this press
Speaker 1: conference that this type of laws can galvanize the team,
Speaker 1: and you talked a lot of great and made a
Speaker 1: lot of great points about the soul searching aspect and
Speaker 1: not allowing this loss to festering continue because you don't
Speaker 1: want to cost you next week's game against the Jaguars. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. And you look at if you
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are reeling, the Jaguars had the bench
Speaker 1: played boardles. They're getting trounced by the Houston Texans. You
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be two teams with championship aspirations that
Speaker 1: were both on a high at one point. The Eagles
Speaker 1: had there's ten days ago against the Giants. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots and they thought they were over the hump. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, someone's got to salvage their season. Okay, because
Speaker 1: after that game, both teams go into the bye week,
Speaker 1: and who knows what happens after that. One team is
Speaker 1: gonna be on a high. One team is definitely gonna
Speaker 1: probably be thinking exactly it might be thinking their seasons
Speaker 1: over at that point. So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how the Eagles handles. Because the Jaguars are used to
Speaker 1: going to London each and every year. This is new
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. So on the one hand, you could say,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to disrupt the routine. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's gonna be good for this team this week. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is the type of game where you say, you
Speaker 1: know what, you know what the atmosphere is gonna be
Speaker 1: like in Philadelphia, you know what the mood's gonna be like.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a dreary day tomorrow here at the
Speaker 1: NOCARE Complex. Okay, it's good. Then a couple of days
Speaker 1: they're gonna be get on a plane and heading out
Speaker 1: to London to kind of get that out of their
Speaker 1: system and be in a totally new environment. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with all the NASA airs and
Speaker 1: the radio shows and all that stuff. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a London fan base that's just getting adjusted to
Speaker 1: the game of football. Okay, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of Eagles fans there because it's the first time the
Speaker 1: Deals have ever played a regular season game overseas. They've
Speaker 1: had exhibition games, but this is an historic game for
Speaker 1: the Eagles because it's the first one in a regular
Speaker 1: season overseas. So that in and of itself is a
Speaker 1: huge deal. But maybe it's great that Eagles can just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, kind of get over the distraction
Speaker 1: there and just focus on the game and just get
Speaker 1: away and take care of business overseas against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So head coach Doug Pearson he met with the media
Speaker 1: a short time ago. But are Mike Quick caught with
Speaker 1: them one on one after the game. You always ask
Speaker 1: them great pointing questions after a game, especially a tough
Speaker 1: lost like this one. Let's find out what they had
Speaker 1: to say in this one on one interview right here. First, coach,
Speaker 1: what is it that you say to you guys after
Speaker 1: giving up when where you led the game almost the
Speaker 1: entire game? Yeah, you know, it's it's it's hard. You're
Speaker 1: searching for words and you're trying to kind of put
Speaker 1: things into perspective and basically just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that the guys understand that that we go into these
Speaker 1: games that you know, we've we've got to you gotta
Speaker 1: come away with no regrets. You got to make sure
Speaker 1: that you go into the game prepared. Um start, you know,
Speaker 1: starting with me as a caller played caller leading this
Speaker 1: football team. I look at myself. We can each look
Speaker 1: and look in the mirror and and and self evaluate.
Speaker 1: But you definitely want to make sure that your preparation
Speaker 1: during the week um is on point, because as we know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not getting any easier, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and teams, uh, teams are are are playing well,
Speaker 1: and uh you know we're not in a couple areas
Speaker 1: of the game. It's like for three quarters again today
Speaker 1: we played well and then and then one quarter a
Speaker 1: little bit of a letdown. So we just got to
Speaker 1: focus on in a little better the big emphasis that
Speaker 1: you would talk about playing sixty minutes in football game,
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I mentioned the team last night and
Speaker 1: this morning, you know, was was we got to play
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes and and uh, as cliche as sometimes
Speaker 1: that is, I mean it was evident today that we
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't play the full game. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we just got to continue to evaluate and and and
Speaker 1: again learn learn from this and and and make sure
Speaker 1: a lot of football laugh a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of games ahead of us, and nothing gets you know,
Speaker 1: nothing's gonna be handed to us. We got to make
Speaker 1: sure that we we go earn and and and work
Speaker 1: for everything that we got. Was it difference in Carolina
Speaker 1: because for three quarters they didn't really move the ball,
Speaker 1: couldn't score any points. Well, there is a difference in
Speaker 1: the offensive. I think the biggest thing was was a
Speaker 1: couple of their big plays. Um, Cam had a couple
Speaker 1: of big scrambles, you know, in the second half they
Speaker 1: had they had the reverse for the touchdown. So a
Speaker 1: lot of their things that came off of either a
Speaker 1: gimmick player or a broken play that that they had
Speaker 1: success at it. And you know, up to that point,
Speaker 1: I thought we were playing extremely well and defense was
Speaker 1: getting after Cam and um you know, you just when
Speaker 1: you're playing an athletic quarterback like that, you just got
Speaker 1: to make sure you you you know, you've got to
Speaker 1: try to push the pocket, but but keep him in
Speaker 1: there and he made some great plays in the second half.
Speaker 1: Young quarterback played extremely well. Maybe a couple of misfires
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Um, what's your conversation with Carson? They
Speaker 1: know it's amazing because as well as he plays, I
Speaker 1: think there's still room to improve obviously and learn from
Speaker 1: and and and and we'll we'll take we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at this tape. I think there were some situations.
Speaker 1: There was a situation down the stretch where you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe go someplace else with the ball or you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Well, we'll take a look at it
Speaker 1: and evaluate it. But he's played extremely well, and he's tough,
Speaker 1: and he's hung in there and battled and it made
Speaker 1: some great throws today and and the guys, guys, guys
Speaker 1: hung in their for him. And um, but we know
Speaker 1: too that it's uh, you know, it takes eleven on
Speaker 1: offense and uh uh sometimes sometimes we just got to
Speaker 1: make sure that that we use all all the guys
Speaker 1: and and uh just just I don't want him to
Speaker 1: feel like he's got to make all the place, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying as a young player, and that
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we're at right now. Offensively, You're right,
Speaker 1: he really filled the ball well and especially to their
Speaker 1: tight ends. What was it that you saw about this
Speaker 1: defense that led to the tight end being such a
Speaker 1: factor today. Well, we just we just felt like going
Speaker 1: in number one, our two tight ends are our mur
Speaker 1: our mismatches, you know, defensively, if they're gonna play with
Speaker 1: linebackers or safeties on them, And and we just felt
Speaker 1: we had an advantage there and and tried to exploit
Speaker 1: that just a little bit with some of the routes
Speaker 1: and combinations we had. And I thought we did a
Speaker 1: pretty decent job there and and doing some of the
Speaker 1: things and and so we just we just felt like
Speaker 1: that was gonna be part of our game plan and
Speaker 1: and use the middle of the field a little bit
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, execute execute some of the
Speaker 1: some of the throws we we we did to Zach
Speaker 1: and Dallas. All right, thanks great stuff. As always, I
Speaker 1: love that interview there between Mike Quick and appears after
Speaker 1: the games. I think Mike does a great job asking
Speaker 1: the right questions, getting to the point. And Doug had
Speaker 1: a very good answer about Carson and his development. And
Speaker 1: this is something that you touched on in terms of
Speaker 1: at times you want to go for the home run,
Speaker 1: but you know it's the singles and doubles that kind
Speaker 1: of keep the change moving and give yourself another chance
Speaker 1: to come out with the win. Yeah, and as a coach,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it could be difficult to try to coach
Speaker 1: a player like Carson Wentz from this tad point. I
Speaker 1: don't mean difficult coaching him. I mean difficult knowing when
Speaker 1: it just let him be Carson, or when you try
Speaker 1: to pull the reins in on some things. And when
Speaker 1: a player has the ability to Carson Wentz has, you
Speaker 1: almost have to just allow him to go out there
Speaker 1: and do his thing, and then you're coaching either after
Speaker 1: the series is over or you coach him on those
Speaker 1: plays when you watch him on film. Carson has made
Speaker 1: far too many good plays in his career to second
Speaker 1: guess things that he does when he's out there, because,
Speaker 1: you know, playing quarterback, it's not an easy thing to
Speaker 1: do just because we can see certain guys open or
Speaker 1: certain things become available from our couches or from the sideline.
Speaker 1: He's out there behind the line of scrimmage, got five
Speaker 1: guys trying to sack him while also trying to keep
Speaker 1: his eyes down field and read to go where to
Speaker 1: go with the ball properly, So it'll be some good
Speaker 1: coaching points for him. I'm pretty sure he looks back
Speaker 1: on the film and the one thing that I can
Speaker 1: assure you about Carson Wentz, there's no one is going
Speaker 1: to be more critical on him than himself. He's a
Speaker 1: self evaluator, very hard on himself when it comes to
Speaker 1: doing the right things with the football, going to the
Speaker 1: right area. I think he got locked in on Alshan
Speaker 1: because there's a sense a security there when you throw
Speaker 1: the ball up the al Shan you almost feel like
Speaker 1: he's going to catch everything that you put in his
Speaker 1: catch radius, which he pretty much had done all day
Speaker 1: to day. But I'm pretty sure when they look at
Speaker 1: the film again there'll be a place or two that
Speaker 1: Carson would have rather gone with the football. You look
Speaker 1: at the numbers there for Alshon Jeffrey, seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the balls to being thrown as way or being caught.
Speaker 1: And they're not easy passes. These aren't dump offs or
Speaker 1: checkdowns or screens. I mean, you can test it. They
Speaker 1: are contested catches down the field. One of them goes
Speaker 1: for a touchdown eight eight yards. Just again, another productive
Speaker 1: day from alshon Jeffrey. You know, again you felt that
Speaker 1: all the weapons were pretty much clicking in the offense. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want a more sustained ground attack, sure, but
Speaker 1: again you look at the last drive when you got
Speaker 1: yourself into the red zone. What's the play that got
Speaker 1: you there? It was it was Wendell Smallwood's run up
Speaker 1: the middle. Okay, and you had contributions from a multitude
Speaker 1: of players, Corey Clement and Josh Adams coming through, and
Speaker 1: they're able to do work not just you know, out
Speaker 1: of the backfield in the run game, but in the
Speaker 1: past game as well. Corey Clement has some great pass
Speaker 1: h pickups there, blitz pickups there throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game. So you know, overall they're helping keep themselves
Speaker 1: on the field. But you just felt that again the offense,
Speaker 1: what worked for three cores all of a sudden didn't
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Is it what Carson said that
Speaker 1: maybe they let up on the gas. That's me the
Speaker 1: big questions, and it's human nature. I don't think they
Speaker 1: consciously did it. I think it happened self consciously. Right,
Speaker 1: you go up by seventeen, you've been dominating this team
Speaker 1: all game. Carolina's punted on just about every possession up
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. So it's human nature to sort
Speaker 1: of let your guard down and relax a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you gotta fight against that, and that's the thing
Speaker 1: you gotta fight against what feels natural to you, which is, well,
Speaker 1: we won this game, let's sit back and watch the
Speaker 1: rest of the time unfolds. So a valuable lesson for
Speaker 1: all of them, not just on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, defensively as well. And it's a little more
Speaker 1: difficult for the offense to play with the league like
Speaker 1: that because the thing that happens offensively, if you say,
Speaker 1: will continue to be aggressive, continue to be aggressive well,
Speaker 1: and if you throw, throw, throw, Now, everybody's second guessing
Speaker 1: you're not eating up the clock, right, You left too
Speaker 1: much time on the clock. You gave the ball back
Speaker 1: to the Panthers without running any time off the clock.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a it's a tough balancing act
Speaker 1: from an offensive side because you want to try to
Speaker 1: manage the clock and if you can shorten the possessions
Speaker 1: and or shorten the game, that's gonna help you as well.
Speaker 1: But from a defensive standpoint, there shouldn't have been a letdown.
Speaker 1: I mean the defense, from from my view, you should
Speaker 1: have been trying to get a shutout. We don't get
Speaker 1: very many shutouts around here. You don't get very many
Speaker 1: shutouts in the NFL period, So that's what they should
Speaker 1: have been playing for. It shouldn't have been difficult from
Speaker 1: a defensive standpoint, but offensively, I can understand where you
Speaker 1: go up seventeen nothing. Now part of you is saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's work this clock down. Let's work this clock down
Speaker 1: and get out of here. And before you know it,
Speaker 1: it's seventeen fourteen, and now you got to ramp it
Speaker 1: back up and try to put points on the board.
Speaker 1: And the Eagles weren't able to do it. All right,
Speaker 1: So some interesting comments coming out of the locker room.
Speaker 1: We're going to discuss those as well as something else
Speaker 1: that coach Pearson said, and we'll also have some field
Speaker 1: breakdown on what made Alshon Jeffrey so dominant in today's game. However,
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the show. We've talked about
Speaker 1: how dominant Alshon Jeffrey was out there on the field
Speaker 1: today seven catches, eight eight yards, ten toll targets on
Speaker 1: the afternoon. But how did some of those plays, those
Speaker 1: key plays come to fruition. We're gonna send it into
Speaker 1: the film room now for the RICO review as Fran
Speaker 1: Duffy and Great co Sell breakdown Alshon Jeffrey's second core
Speaker 1: touchdown the first points of the game. Some interesting things
Speaker 1: to take away here about how the defense scheme this
Speaker 1: up and allowed Jeffrey to get a one on one
Speaker 1: matchup on the outside. For more, let's tend it over
Speaker 1: to the gentleman inside the studio. Well, Greg, one of
Speaker 1: the big factors that we've seen here with this Eagles
Speaker 1: offense has really been the presence of Alshon Jeffrey and
Speaker 1: really the relationship between both he and Carson Wentz. And
Speaker 1: this touchdown, the opening touchdown for the Eagles in this game,
Speaker 1: is a good example of that. And also the execution
Speaker 1: and understanding of a defense from Doug Peterson and his staff. Well,
Speaker 1: it really speaks to the importance of al Sean Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and the willingness of the Eagles offense to take shots
Speaker 1: one on one with Jeffrey against any corner. And you
Speaker 1: could see here this is twelve personnel. Jeffrey, we start
Speaker 1: up top, he's the single receiver right now, it's twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: So what do you have down below here, Fran You've
Speaker 1: got trips, You've got three receivers down below. So right now,
Speaker 1: here's what it looks like. Defensively, they have the Carolina
Speaker 1: has three over three and they have been a safety
Speaker 1: who is clearly cheated to this side of Alshon Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: So there's a possibility for a double on Jeffrey right now.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind you've got the corner Brady. He's
Speaker 1: playing with outside leverage, so this could well be a
Speaker 1: double team right now on Alshon Jeffrey, which would take
Speaker 1: him away as an option. But now let's run this
Speaker 1: and you'll see what happens. The Eagles use a shift
Speaker 1: here with Dallas Goddard and what does this do now?
Speaker 1: Defensively as we freeze it, it brings the safety down
Speaker 1: over Dallas Goddard. So the safety who may have been
Speaker 1: in play as a double team player on alshon Jeffrey
Speaker 1: is now removed. So what do you get with alshon Jeffrey?
Speaker 1: Get that one? Want you get the one on one matchup?
Speaker 1: So we can run it and you can see exactly
Speaker 1: what happens, and that's exactly where Carson Wentz looks. He's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere else. He's going to the one on
Speaker 1: one matchup that they set up by the shift from
Speaker 1: trips to a two by two set. And then if
Speaker 1: you freeze it right here, here's another play with Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and again the willingness to go to the one on
Speaker 1: one matchup. Jeffrey is at the top of the screen.
Speaker 1: He's the X receiver, the single receiver to that side.
Speaker 1: Of the formation, and what do you get now from
Speaker 1: a coverage standpoint, You're going to get man coverage cover
Speaker 1: one with a single high safety. But man coverage that's
Speaker 1: what cover one is. So now if we lose this,
Speaker 1: let the play run. You'll see exactly how this plays out.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz knows exactly what he has right now, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna look to his right make sure that that
Speaker 1: single high safety stays there. That's Carson Wentz's job to
Speaker 1: control that single high safety. Because what does he feel
Speaker 1: very good about. He feels very good with the one
Speaker 1: on one matchup of Alshon Jeffrey again against Bradberry. This
Speaker 1: is really well done, great execution, let's run it a
Speaker 1: big play, close to a thirty yard explosive play. And
Speaker 1: again the Alshon Jeffrey factor in the Eagles offense, and
Speaker 1: then you see great execution there from Carsons on both
Speaker 1: of those plays. Everybody on the same page. Eagles take
Speaker 1: an early lead in this game. Fran and Gregg outstanding
Speaker 1: work is always. You can check out the complete All
Speaker 1: Twins your review tomorrow morning here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Ike,
Speaker 1: you actually made a point. We were watching it during
Speaker 1: the game in the last couple of minutes that Alston
Speaker 1: Jeffrey didn't get credit for yards for that past interference
Speaker 1: flag that he drew. I would end up being the
Speaker 1: Eagles final offensive driver of the game. But the Panthers
Speaker 1: cornerback James Bradberry actually made the game saving play there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and smart played by James Bradberry there, because the coach
Speaker 1: would teach you that if you get beat like he
Speaker 1: was beating, and believe me, that was a touchdown had
Speaker 1: he not grabbed al Sean. But he did the right
Speaker 1: thing by grabbing al Sean. You take the passive deference.
Speaker 1: It's an obvious call, but it gives your defense the
Speaker 1: opportunity to play defense again. You know, the touchdown there
Speaker 1: gives the Eagles the lead and quite possibly game is
Speaker 1: over with at that point. Bradberry did what most defensive
Speaker 1: coordinators will teach you to do, which is, if you
Speaker 1: get beat like that, grab him, pull him down, we'll
Speaker 1: take the flag. We'll live to fight another day. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Carolina was able to do because that
Speaker 1: play was wide open. It was a great play call
Speaker 1: to go deep on the first play called the Panthers
Speaker 1: defense by surprise Alshean was wide open on the play,
Speaker 1: but Brad Burry did he He made the smart play
Speaker 1: by drawing a penalty there and given the Panthers the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go play defense again. I guess we're getting
Speaker 1: reaction from the locker room. We're gonna have it for
Speaker 1: you on the site in just a little bit as
Speaker 1: well as our app Fletcher Cox calling this the worst
Speaker 1: loss of his career, and there's really no other one
Speaker 1: that would come to mind that would even fit the
Speaker 1: bill outside of maybe the Saints playoff loss, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the twenty thirteen season. So as one of
Speaker 1: the leaders on his defense, he's a captain for the
Speaker 1: first time for this defense. It's gonna be come upon
Speaker 1: players like him, who are already playing out standing football
Speaker 1: to take their game almost to another level. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for Fletcher because you know, no descritch
Speaker 1: to the other defensive tackles, but you don't have destiny
Speaker 1: and don't have a load nod. Trey Von Hester was
Speaker 1: actually my unsung hero because of the ability of the
Speaker 1: defensive line to get pastor on Cam Newton early in
Speaker 1: the game. But still it seems like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of fletcher shoulders, but still he has to do almost
Speaker 1: more now as the leader to help get the defense
Speaker 1: back on track after this difficult loss. Now, I'll completely agree,
Speaker 1: and Fletcher has had his hands full from a leadership
Speaker 1: standpoint already this year, just trying to keep that position
Speaker 1: room together. Right. They're missing a lot of guys there,
Speaker 1: guys banged up in that defensive line room, and Fletcher's
Speaker 1: had to really be the one holding down the fort
Speaker 1: and there he and Michael Bennett outstanding Michael Bennett over
Speaker 1: the last month. Man, he's been playing great. But like
Speaker 1: you said, with Fletcher, he can never leave the field.
Speaker 1: He's out there pretty much the whole game. It's only
Speaker 1: what three of those guys, so they're missing a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. He can't come out the field. But you
Speaker 1: know what, when you get that sea on your chest, man,
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility comes with that, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: Fletcher is more than capable of shouldering that load and
Speaker 1: the role of being the leader on his team. And
Speaker 1: it may take him a day right here, twenty four
Speaker 1: hours to let this thing get get it out your system,
Speaker 1: But when they come back to work tomorrow Tuesday, they
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be important for him that he
Speaker 1: has the right mindset that he shows these guys from
Speaker 1: the work that he's putting in and how he takes
Speaker 1: to the practice field in the meeting rooms to prepare
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. They'll follow his lead because his play demands
Speaker 1: you follow his lead. And he's got to pick himself
Speaker 1: up and and just be that guy for the rest
Speaker 1: of these young guys in that room. He and Michael
Speaker 1: Bennett and along with Chris Long, Brandon Graham, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do it. And it's a part of being
Speaker 1: a leader on the team, man. And when times are
Speaker 1: tough like this, you know, you really find out what
Speaker 1: type of guys you got in the foxhole with you.
Speaker 1: It's all gravy when you're on a nine game winning
Speaker 1: streak and you're playing in the Super Bowl and everybody
Speaker 1: is patting you on the back. But these are the
Speaker 1: times that you find out what everyone is made of
Speaker 1: the tough times. And so I know what we got
Speaker 1: in number ninety one. I'm not concerned about him at all,
Speaker 1: And he'll show up to work tomorrow ready to go
Speaker 1: being a great leader and an example for the rest
Speaker 1: of these guys. On the defense. The key for coach
Speaker 1: Peterson during the week leading up to the travel to
Speaker 1: London is to try to keep things as same as possible. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have that disruption, and again I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 1: It could be a galvanizing force, having something different than
Speaker 1: you would normally be accustomed to in a week after
Speaker 1: a loss. But still they're gonna try to keep things
Speaker 1: as the same and as routine as possible before they
Speaker 1: have to make that trip overseas to London. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the London game, we're going to preview it after this
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Speaker 1: defensive lineman. I want to just say defensive end, but
Speaker 1: defensive lineman might he slides insides with Jerry Pressure, moving
Speaker 1: both right side, left side of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: There another great effort. Had a key sack early on
Speaker 1: in the game, which helped, I think put the Panthers
Speaker 1: out of scoring rain. They're, you know, a force around
Speaker 1: the ball. Three sacks and less four contests. He's really
Speaker 1: up to his game, and he has been providing a quality,
Speaker 1: dependable force, consistent force from a password standpoint, you know,
Speaker 1: along with Fletcher Cocks, they're upfront. Yeah, he really has
Speaker 1: played real well man um the last month. He seems
Speaker 1: to be in the backfield. You notice him every game,
Speaker 1: and this is why they traded for him, This is
Speaker 1: why they brought him here because he's gonna add something
Speaker 1: to that pass rush and we need him. We need
Speaker 1: him to play d tackle. We needing to play defensive man.
Speaker 1: We needing to get some bigger shoulder pass But that
Speaker 1: is for another day. But he's he's around the quarterback
Speaker 1: all the time and m glad he's here, man, and
Speaker 1: I expect him to get stronger as the season goes on.
Speaker 1: I think the rotation upfront is helping him stay fresh
Speaker 1: Layton games. So yeah, real, real happy with the way
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett has been playing all right up next the
Speaker 1: tight end himself, zach Ertz. I mean, look at these numbers.
Speaker 1: Eleven targets, nine receptions, almost another double digit receiving effort
Speaker 1: from today, one hundred and thirty eight yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been the go to guy, it seemed like every
Speaker 1: time until the end of the game that they needed
Speaker 1: a third down conversion, zach Ertz was the guy, and
Speaker 1: it was interesting in Carson Wentz's press conference where on
Speaker 1: that pass that was nearly intercepted by Eric Reid on
Speaker 1: the final offensive drive, Carson said there was a miscommunication
Speaker 1: between he and zach Ertz that like never happens. It's
Speaker 1: absolute shocking, but still another outstanding afternoon by number eighty six,
Speaker 1: especially from a Carolina team that has very talented linebackers.
Speaker 1: We have Keith Lee, Thomas Davis, and also they got
Speaker 1: burned by Jordan Reid, the Washington tighten a week ago.
Speaker 1: You knew they were going to focus on trying to
Speaker 1: take out Number eighty six and maybe make Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: beat him instead. But still zach finds a way week
Speaker 1: in a week out to be a dependable force for
Speaker 1: his offense as a top three tight end in this league.
Speaker 1: Would Grock and Travis Kelcey. We we need to start
Speaker 1: elevating the conversation too. He should be number one. That's
Speaker 1: the point I was about the main Sorry, he's making
Speaker 1: the argument for being the best tight end in football.
Speaker 1: He really is when you look at how much he's
Speaker 1: relied upon in this offense, the consistency weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: Guy never drops the pass um man. I think there
Speaker 1: is a legitimate argument for who's the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football, and I know it's between those three, And
Speaker 1: like you just said, it's gonna start being a lot
Speaker 1: more calls for zach Ertz as the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football. I actually forgot about this, you know, in
Speaker 1: the aftermath of how the game transpired. But remember Eric
Speaker 1: Reid's dirty hit on Carson Wentz early in the game. Yes,
Speaker 1: where Carson Wentz handed the ball off. It was clear
Speaker 1: as day. It wasn't an RPO, wasn't a play action,
Speaker 1: you know, fake, He handed the ball off, and Eric
Speaker 1: Reed just sacked Carson Wentz anyway, tackle them, brought him
Speaker 1: to the ground. Zach Ertz went and pushed in, you know,
Speaker 1: and gave Eric read a little bit of the business. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see, zach standing up for
Speaker 1: his quarterback, not just from catching the ball, while also
Speaker 1: defending him in such situations. Yeah, I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: on a limb here and just say zach Ertz will
Speaker 1: hold just about every receiving record here. I didn't say
Speaker 1: tight end. I said, every receiving record here by the
Speaker 1: time he leaves. Well, if that's two for a second,
Speaker 1: and that's I mean, I figured you were going tight
Speaker 1: end and he's gonna have all those They didn't have
Speaker 1: tight end records with no problem. Yeah, we better be
Speaker 1: looking at receiving. Yeah, because think about the amount of
Speaker 1: catches he makes every game. Yeah, I mean most receivers
Speaker 1: don't get eight, nine, ten catches and game game. And
Speaker 1: as long as he's playing with number eleven, man, they're
Speaker 1: gonna put up a lot of numbers together. Well, the
Speaker 1: one guy who is taking away from that share number seventeen,
Speaker 1: al Sean Jeffrey seven catches eighty eight yards. You know,
Speaker 1: we broke down his two of his big plays in
Speaker 1: the RICO review. We also drew the passenger of feerance
Speaker 1: flight that got the Eagles in scoring position on a
Speaker 1: final drive. I mean, you also forget about the fourth
Speaker 1: down grab they toe tapped along the sideline of brilliant cats.
Speaker 1: It's every time the ball is coming as way, you're
Speaker 1: just waiting for that wild moment to happen. And uh,
Speaker 1: we saw from the RICO review the great route that
Speaker 1: he ran. And you said you saw this up from
Speaker 1: the press box when you were watching the game in
Speaker 1: the first half. The route that he ran to get
Speaker 1: open on the touchdown, knowing that he had the one
Speaker 1: on one match up there against Brad Barry. This dude never,
Speaker 1: i should say, rarely ever drops the ball. If it
Speaker 1: hits his hands, he's typically going to catch it. And
Speaker 1: I think about the said ten targets, so it must
Speaker 1: have been three that they didn't connect on. I think
Speaker 1: all three of them had defenders in front of al
Speaker 1: Sean to where he didn't even get a chance to
Speaker 1: get his hand on the ball. So he typically catches
Speaker 1: everything he touches. I think he's he's been fantastic since
Speaker 1: he returned. Man, you got him for what nine more games?
Speaker 1: And the nine more games I believe man, I could
Speaker 1: see a thousand yards season coming from al Shan Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: All right, So those are the Toyota Player of the
Speaker 1: Week nominee. So as we transition toward what's ahead for
Speaker 1: the Eagles again, an historic trip coming up. First ever
Speaker 1: international regular season game taking place next Sunday in London
Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars. And it was a game that
Speaker 1: you know, when the schedule first came out. You said
Speaker 1: to yourself, you know, Carson Wentz going against the top
Speaker 1: flight defense, all those weapons on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball for the Jags. The Jags come off a
Speaker 1: season where they arguably could have been should have been
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in the fourth quarter, indeed surrender
Speaker 1: to lead to New England. Who England got to the
Speaker 1: championship game, and of course the Eagles won. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you know Jacksonville looking with you know, Blake Borrel selling
Speaker 1: in its quarterback. They have Letting Fournett coming back in
Speaker 1: the second season. They figured they had the formula to
Speaker 1: get back there, and they thought they were over the
Speaker 1: hump because they knocked off the Patriots. They dominated the
Speaker 1: Patriots and it looked great offensively. Borreals distribing the ball
Speaker 1: to a number of weapons seemed like the Patriots didn't
Speaker 1: have an answer. You said to yourself, all right, this
Speaker 1: Jacksonville team is for real. They're going to be in
Speaker 1: that conversation. Since that game, the wheels have fallen off,
Speaker 1: and today they lost to the Houston Texans by a
Speaker 1: score of twenty to seven. So sort of like the
Speaker 1: NFC East, the AFC South is wide opening up for grabs.
Speaker 1: I believe the Texans actually lead the division now with
Speaker 1: the win today. Four straight wins for the Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: I think they started off three. So they're four and
Speaker 1: three now and they lead the division with Jacksonville three
Speaker 1: and four. With Tennessee losing today, going to three and four.
Speaker 1: The Eagles in the NFC East, Washington is playing Dallas
Speaker 1: right now. I don't have this scoring update. We last
Speaker 1: saw seven nothing in Washington. Is still seven nothing in Washington.
Speaker 1: So if they win, it's going to be a four
Speaker 1: and two record for them. So both these teams trying
Speaker 1: to keep pace in the division, both not having the
Speaker 1: starts that they envisioned, you know, coming off great twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen seasons, A lots on a lot and for Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: this is their home way from home. They travel on
Speaker 1: and they go through this routine every single season. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be the first time for the Eagles. So a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting matchups and you throw in the travel
Speaker 1: on top of it. Is such a huge week for
Speaker 1: the Eagles and you feel like you're saying this each
Speaker 1: every week now with these games. But when you blow
Speaker 1: a seventeen nothing lead like you do today, when you
Speaker 1: blow a seventeen three lead like you did to Tennessee
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, that makes that margin for error
Speaker 1: that much smaller. Where you gotta capitalize on these games,
Speaker 1: which are going to be the standout, tough games on
Speaker 1: the schedule. Yeah, and this is a team that they
Speaker 1: have a lot of internal issues, right Blake Bortle's bench today,
Speaker 1: Cody Kessler, he was brought in and having to back up.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna start next week, whether they're
Speaker 1: gonna have Blake Bortles start next week or whether or
Speaker 1: not they're gonna have Cody Kessler start. But if it
Speaker 1: is Cody Kessler, they may start him just to try
Speaker 1: to jump start this Jacksonville offense right now. When you
Speaker 1: get a situation like they have in Jacksonville as a
Speaker 1: lot of finger pointing. The defense is looking at the
Speaker 1: offense saying, man, you guys can't put any points on
Speaker 1: the board. The offense is looking at the defense saying, well,
Speaker 1: we need you to get turnovers for us, get us
Speaker 1: some short fields. So I'm pretty sure there's a lot
Speaker 1: of finger point going on in that locker room. And
Speaker 1: sometimes when you have that going on and the team
Speaker 1: decides to go with the backup quarterback, that can sometimes
Speaker 1: galvanize the locker room and the defense could sort of
Speaker 1: rally behind the new guy being in there playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised if the Jags decided to
Speaker 1: go with Cody Kessler next week just to try to
Speaker 1: give their team a little bit of a spark. And
Speaker 1: the Eagles need to be careful of that because it's
Speaker 1: very little film on Cody Kessler. You're gonna be playing
Speaker 1: against a team that seemingly has nothing to lose once
Speaker 1: you go to the backup quarterback trying to salvage their season.
Speaker 1: And if you looked at some of those numbers from
Speaker 1: the Texans game, Texans offense didn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball well, but Deshaun Watson with guys
Speaker 1: like Will Fuller and DeAndre Hawkins, were still only He
Speaker 1: was still only able to throw for one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty yards. So that lets you know one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one yards. That lets you know that Jags defense
Speaker 1: from a passing standpoint, it's still tough to throw on.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I bring that up is because
Speaker 1: we're a throwing team. We don't necessarily have a running
Speaker 1: game that we're gonna just say we're gonna go in
Speaker 1: and feed the running backs the ball the whole game. No,
Speaker 1: we moved the ball by throwing it. And so going
Speaker 1: up against that Jags defense, Jalen Ramsey, aj Bouyer, those guys,
Speaker 1: Clais Campbell, yeah, class Campbell up front. Yes, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna this game. There's weapons, yeah, you know, so this
Speaker 1: game will be a game of field position. Who can
Speaker 1: take care of the football the best? All right, So
Speaker 1: you know, whichever these teams can sort of put behind
Speaker 1: what has happened this week and get focused on next
Speaker 1: next week the quickest, I think that'll be the team
Speaker 1: that comes out victorious. Nixt Which team is more calvinis
Speaker 1: you mentioned gallanis when it comes to the Jaguars, what's
Speaker 1: going to the backup quarterback? You could say? With the
Speaker 1: Eagles and how they respond to this loss, that's that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna be happening. Yeah, it's a crossroad situation for
Speaker 1: both teams. So let's take a look at the standings again.
Speaker 1: Washington and Dallas. They're battling right now. So Washington, if
Speaker 1: they win, they're up seven to nothing. They would be
Speaker 1: four and two in the division. Cowboys would drop to
Speaker 1: three and four with the Eagles. Interesting interesting note here
Speaker 1: is the Eagles will have to buy after Jacksonville. Then
Speaker 1: they host the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football at prime time,
Speaker 1: matchup to kick off the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: And of course the Giants are down there at one
Speaker 1: in five. So the NFC East is still up for grabs.
Speaker 1: But again the margin for error each and every week
Speaker 1: is getting smaller and smaller. So as we look at
Speaker 1: the upcoming games again London Jacksonville for this coming week.
Speaker 1: Here you get the bye week and then you know,
Speaker 1: right there it's Dallas obviously very difficult tests to go
Speaker 1: on the road against New Orleans and then you have
Speaker 1: the Giants at home. So it's really important that they
Speaker 1: come out and get the win this week. You really
Speaker 1: you can't look and say, well, they got the Saints,
Speaker 1: they got the Giants, they got they got the Rams
Speaker 1: in the future. You know a number of other tough
Speaker 1: games on the schedule. It's such a week to week league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got business. Just take care of it because right
Speaker 1: ahead of ye before you can even think about anything
Speaker 1: else there. So how so all the years you've been here, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you've got your show tomorrow, Marks the Reese two pm
Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon Sports railp You played here for a number
Speaker 1: of years, You've been on the air for a number
Speaker 1: of years. What do you think the temperature is gonna be,
Speaker 1: especially especially for what this fan base is experiencing this year,
Speaker 1: coming off of winning a Super Bowl, where it is
Speaker 1: it is viewing and perceiving the season in a different mindset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow will be a day that I believe
Speaker 1: the outrage level will be at as high as that
Speaker 1: has been in some time. Right, I mean, you lose
Speaker 1: a game like this after being up seventeen nothing in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, not just being up seventeen and nothing,
Speaker 1: but completely dominating the Carolina Panthers from a defensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: I mean Carolina's offense couldn't move at all. So I
Speaker 1: would imagine this loss probably has hurt more than any
Speaker 1: loss in recent memory that I could think of for
Speaker 1: these fans, because this is the law square they're sending themselves.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, we were celebrating not too long ago
Speaker 1: as if the game was over. Because fans, that's what
Speaker 1: fans do. You go up seventeen nothing and you look
Speaker 1: the way you've looked against that team. Fans are celebrating
Speaker 1: as if the games but they don't play. So when
Speaker 1: you look up and you turn around and you look
Speaker 1: up and you see hold On, we blew a seventeen
Speaker 1: point leading a fourth quarter, and lass, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: people right now are highly upset. It's going to carry
Speaker 1: over into tomorrow on all the shows. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I think this will last for a few
Speaker 1: days this because we don't have another game right until
Speaker 1: next Sunday, and so fans will be caught between the
Speaker 1: anger and frustration of losing the game in this fashion
Speaker 1: and also trying to reconcile with what's the rest of
Speaker 1: the season going to be? Like, should we just go
Speaker 1: ahead and just cancel any type of postseason plans? Should
Speaker 1: I even build myself up to even think this team
Speaker 1: has a chance to go deep into the postseason? And
Speaker 1: that's what fans do, right, So fans will say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to invest emotionally as much
Speaker 1: moving forward because I've already predetermined what the end result
Speaker 1: is gonna be. So you're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: fans wrestling with that because no one is ready to
Speaker 1: give up on a season right now, nor should they be.
Speaker 1: But when you're having games like this, it doesn't leave
Speaker 1: a lot of hope for fans, and you know how
Speaker 1: fans are man this thing. It'll flit back now once
Speaker 1: the Eagles get a w but for the next couple
Speaker 1: of days it's the roller coach of nature. That's another
Speaker 1: reason why you want the Eels to win today, to
Speaker 1: get themselves on a roll. So you could go to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If you could come out with that when you go
Speaker 1: into the byre feeling great and then the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: be coming to your house off the By, life would
Speaker 1: be great. But that's not the situation. So the Eels
Speaker 1: have to focus on getting back to business, getting back
Speaker 1: to work and finding a way to get a win
Speaker 1: in London this week. So head coach Doug Pearson, he'll
Speaker 1: address the media at noon on Monday. We will carry
Speaker 1: that for your life and we'll have complete cover from
Speaker 1: this game throughout the evening here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com,
Speaker 1: our app, and our social media channels. Frank Greece and
Speaker 1: everyone here at the Philadelphia Eagles, I'm Chris McPherson. You've
Speaker 1: been watching the postgame show presented by Rico. Try to
Speaker 1: have a good night, Eagles fans,