Speaker 1: At thirty seven to nineteen. Is your final score? Is
Speaker 1: the Eagles fall to the Rams at home and start
Speaker 1: this season? Oh and two. We are going to break
Speaker 1: it down for you here on the postgame show, presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. I'm Amy Campbell. I'm joined by fran Duffy
Speaker 1: and by Ike Greece. We are coming to you from
Speaker 1: three different locations to give you one cohesive show. We'll
Speaker 1: also be joined by Eagles insider Dave Spidero and I.
Speaker 1: Let's just start here. Big picture. Eagles start, get behind
Speaker 1: to start the game, they keep it, They're able to
Speaker 1: come back, get within within Oh my goodness, I'm so
Speaker 1: flustered by this game. All right, we have a lot
Speaker 1: to discuss. They're able to get close at the end,
Speaker 1: but they were not able to ever take the lead
Speaker 1: in this one. Why don't you start saying some words
Speaker 1: about this game? Well, I think it's fairly obvious. You know,
Speaker 1: the Eagles basically, for the second week in the row,
Speaker 1: beat themselves. I mean, the only difference this week was
Speaker 1: they didn't wait till when they were up seventeen and nothing.
Speaker 1: It started off from the opening drive, I mean the
Speaker 1: mouse Sanders fumbled there on the opening drive and to
Speaker 1: put the Rams right there in scoring territory. The Eagles
Speaker 1: were basically climbing uphill. From that point on. Rams able
Speaker 1: to go up twenty one to three after one quarter,
Speaker 1: and from that point you're basically pressing trying to get
Speaker 1: back into the game. They were able to get within
Speaker 1: five with the ball in the red zone and boom,
Speaker 1: another self inflicted wound. Carson Wins throwing a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the end zone a throw where you have to make
Speaker 1: a better throw. I'm not gonna say it was a
Speaker 1: bad decision. You just need to make a better throw there.
Speaker 1: To JJ Arthago Whiteside, if you're gonna make that throw.
Speaker 1: Big time quarterbacks certainly have confidence in their arm and
Speaker 1: they take a risk on throws like that, and they
Speaker 1: all then come through. And that's a throw there the
Speaker 1: Carson is capable of making. He needed to make that
Speaker 1: throw probably a second sooner than what he did, and
Speaker 1: that dB was able to break on in amy and
Speaker 1: I think from that point that really took the sale
Speaker 1: out of the team. They didn't necessarily recover fully after that.
Speaker 1: I know they had another opportunity when they were down
Speaker 1: and the Ram zone. What they had to settle for
Speaker 1: a field goal. But really, to me, by that point,
Speaker 1: that interception took a lot out of this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely seemed to take the wind out of their
Speaker 1: sales there. And of course, without the crowd, the crowd
Speaker 1: noise can only do so much. And I'm interested to
Speaker 1: hear Dave Spandaro's thoughts on that in a second. But
Speaker 1: fran let's look at this Rams offense, the Sean McVay
Speaker 1: offense that really had the Eagles defense looking pretty confused
Speaker 1: at least in that first half. Total net yards for
Speaker 1: the Rams four forty nine and the rushing yards for
Speaker 1: the Rams one hundred and ninety one rushing yards, it
Speaker 1: seemed like they were really able to just impose their
Speaker 1: will on the Seagles defense. Yeah, I mean, this defense
Speaker 1: or this offense has an identity. You're right, we talked
Speaker 1: about it this week on Eagles Game Plan. Ike. I
Speaker 1: thought you did a great job of breaking down what
Speaker 1: makes them so effective and what the Eagles needed to
Speaker 1: be able to stop them, and it required a lot
Speaker 1: of discipline at the second and third level. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait until I watched the film on Monday morning
Speaker 1: to really take away what I saw from this. But
Speaker 1: to me, I mean the Eagles defense. Obviously they couldn't
Speaker 1: stop anybody in the first drive or the first half.
Speaker 1: I mean, you go to Jared Goff start thirteen for thirteen.
Speaker 1: You talked about the numbers, Amy, I mean the offense.
Speaker 1: They had their way with the Eagles defense, running the ball,
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, play action, gadget plays. I mean, everything
Speaker 1: they wanted they took. They were great on third down,
Speaker 1: they were great in the red zone. You thought the
Speaker 1: opening drive, while it's just they had the short field.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get them back the next one. No,
Speaker 1: they marched right down the field. They score again. Like
Speaker 1: I said, everything was working on all cylinders for this
Speaker 1: La Ram's offense. They had the Eagles number and the
Speaker 1: first half. I was glad that the defense was able
Speaker 1: to bounce back. The offense showed some resiliency. They were
Speaker 1: good in the first half. They stayed with it. They
Speaker 1: didn't bail in the run game. They showed that they
Speaker 1: were willing to stick it with it. They got within
Speaker 1: a score and they must just a field goal in
Speaker 1: the second half. I mean, it was a tale of
Speaker 1: two halves where you saw the defense really kind of
Speaker 1: crumble in the first half, the offense held up their
Speaker 1: end and then the situations flopped on the at halftime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Jared Goff that thirteen for thirteen start
Speaker 1: to the game. That's the best start for him in
Speaker 1: his career, the most accurate he's been in his career.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Dave SPINNERO. Now who is
Speaker 1: on the scene. Dave, take me through just the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: what you observe from the guys in terms of the energy,
Speaker 1: the body language, and the ups and downs of this
Speaker 1: game and how they handled it without the fan support there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of atmosphere. Amy, it is the crowd.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a murmurs sound. It's not a loud,
Speaker 1: boisterous crowd. You really hear from the stands. And I
Speaker 1: spent a little time towards the end of the game
Speaker 1: in the stands. You hear the sidelines. So there is
Speaker 1: no juice at all, obviously from the pumped in noise.
Speaker 1: And the Eagles just haven't played these two games with
Speaker 1: that fevered pitch that they need to play with. So
Speaker 1: today an extremely disappointing start to the home season. I
Speaker 1: don't I disagree with Mike, I don't think the Eagles
Speaker 1: gave this game away. They certainly made a lot of mistakes,
Speaker 1: but I thought, look, if Cooper Cup doesn't fumble a
Speaker 1: punt return, this game is a lot worse than it
Speaker 1: already is here. So I mean, I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: were unable to get off the field defensively and then offensively.
Speaker 1: After scoring seventeen points last week, they only scored nineteen
Speaker 1: points this week. So there is a need for something
Speaker 1: to wake this football team up and have it play
Speaker 1: with its hair on fire. You it just you've ran
Speaker 1: through some numbers. One rushing yards, where are the linebackers
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee? Three touchdown catches victimizing linebackers, motion Eagles missing
Speaker 1: tackles Jared Goff nine point nine yards per pass attempt.
Speaker 1: These are staggering numbers against a group that we thought
Speaker 1: the defense was gonna rise to the occasion. Four more
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed and five trips to the red zone by
Speaker 1: the defense after three or four performance last week by
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, the Eagles. Eagles need something really
Speaker 1: good to happen here. Like you said, there's just not
Speaker 1: a spark, Dave. I want to go to the other
Speaker 1: side you brought up some of the numbers on the
Speaker 1: defensive side, but you look at this offense, the game
Speaker 1: plan this week certainly a lot different than what we
Speaker 1: saw a week ago against Washington. Instead of it being
Speaker 1: deep shot, deep shot, deep shot down the field, you
Speaker 1: saw a lot of underneath stuff and then they started
Speaker 1: to open it up a little bit more in the
Speaker 1: second half. Carson Wentz a handful of missus in the
Speaker 1: second half that, honestly, he just can't have, especially when
Speaker 1: they're working from behind trying to get back into this
Speaker 1: football game. What did you make of the game from
Speaker 1: Carson wentz concerted effort to get the football out of
Speaker 1: his hands, so I thought he did a better job
Speaker 1: of that. But yeah, he missed some receivers and turned
Speaker 1: the ball over another couple of times. Here, three more
Speaker 1: turnovers by the Eagles offense at six in two games,
Speaker 1: so just on I mean, they tried to incorporate Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts three plays, moved him around the formations as a decoy.
Speaker 1: There were times when the Eagles really showed great tempo.
Speaker 1: They tried to get, you know, up to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage quickly, get the get the offense going going,
Speaker 1: going seemed to work. You reference the interception in the
Speaker 1: end zone, a throw to Arthega Whiteside that was just
Speaker 1: not there. You had to make a perfect throw to
Speaker 1: thread the needle there. And I thought until that point
Speaker 1: Carson had done a nice job of taking what the
Speaker 1: defense was giving him. I felt on that play he
Speaker 1: got a little bit greedy. And you know the fact
Speaker 1: that the Eagles were able to claw their way back
Speaker 1: into the game after being down twenty one to three admirable.
Speaker 1: That play, coupled with the Rams coming right down the
Speaker 1: field and score, just took the wind out of the sails. Here.
Speaker 1: There's things that I see with this team that are
Speaker 1: very concerning after a giveaway. The defense is not getting
Speaker 1: off the field. The defense is not stopping anybody in
Speaker 1: the red zone. The offense is not producing consistent big plays.
Speaker 1: They got the running game going a little bit today.
Speaker 1: That was nice, but nothing big. A twenty two yard
Speaker 1: pass on a blitz to Miles Sanders. Nice, DeShawn Jackson
Speaker 1: twenty five yard game catching run, nice, but nothing over
Speaker 1: the top. I get it. It's against the screen a
Speaker 1: zone defense. I get that. You take what they give you,
Speaker 1: but too many turnovers. The defense, not getting stopped the defense,
Speaker 1: not changing the momentum of the game, not taking the
Speaker 1: football away in two games. These are all very significant concerns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta agree with you, Dave. I think you hit
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff with the nail. I mean the
Speaker 1: hammer right on the nail there, man, I mean on
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. I just see a football
Speaker 1: team that doesn't look like they are clicking on all cylinders. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because a lot of guys
Speaker 1: miss training camp due to injuries or rest or what
Speaker 1: have you. I'm not making an excuse. I just see
Speaker 1: sloppy play out there on the field on both sides
Speaker 1: of the football. You touched on a lot of that.
Speaker 1: And what you just said, whether it was miscommunication on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, guy's eyes in the wrong place, not
Speaker 1: being disciplined. Things they seemingly did well last week but
Speaker 1: didn't do well this week against this Rams offense where
Speaker 1: you really have to be disciplined on defense with your assignments,
Speaker 1: and on the offense lack of explosiveness, and the quarterback
Speaker 1: for two straight weeks not being a true difference maker
Speaker 1: in a positive manner. You can easily tell why the
Speaker 1: team is owing two. There are a lot of things
Speaker 1: to point to over two weeks where this team needs
Speaker 1: to improve. I will say the offensive line after last week,
Speaker 1: did a nice job us back this week. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got a couple of questions for you. Number One,
Speaker 1: we all thought coming into the season if the Eagles
Speaker 1: would be in a great position having the coaching staff
Speaker 1: coming back intact. That has not proven to be the case.
Speaker 1: I'd like you to come in. I'm that in just
Speaker 1: a moment. And then it was today an example of
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh going after the Eagles linebackers, Tyler Higby three
Speaker 1: touchdown catches for a tight end runs directly into the
Speaker 1: middle of the Eagles defense, Darryl Henderson breaking it big.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like McVeigh went after the Eagles linebackers today, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, man. I mean this is his
Speaker 1: third time going up against Jim Schwartz, and even though
Speaker 1: the Eagles have gone three and oz against Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Sean mcvay's offenses have been able to put numbers up
Speaker 1: against this defense, and typically the Eagles play good run defense.
Speaker 1: That's bite. The biggest thing I was surprised with today
Speaker 1: was that they didn't play solid run defense. I don't
Speaker 1: know if his guy's not in the proper gap. I
Speaker 1: think we're a little light Dave friend Amy on the
Speaker 1: back end of this defense. When you look at the
Speaker 1: back seven of his defense, where is the beef If
Speaker 1: that defensive line doesn't do a great job of getting
Speaker 1: off the offensive line and getting to the running back.
Speaker 1: When you get to our back seven, where is the
Speaker 1: Where is the size the strength to be able to
Speaker 1: get off flocks and get ball carriers on the ground.
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills is he may be tough in nature, but
Speaker 1: he's still one hundred and ninety pounds. And so when
Speaker 1: you're going up against a guy like Malcolm Brown, a
Speaker 1: guy who gets behind his shoulder pads and runs downhill,
Speaker 1: he's gonna run through those arm tacklers. That's where Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins was very good at. We already know our linebackers
Speaker 1: aren't very big, and then Rodney McLeod is not very
Speaker 1: big either, So I look up the middle of our defense.
Speaker 1: We don't have much size there. And what I saw
Speaker 1: today was that the Rams were able to get downhill
Speaker 1: and really just outfiit go off front seven, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a concern moving forward. And then finally, I
Speaker 1: have a question for everybody. I mean, what's with the
Speaker 1: Did the Eagles not expect Jared Goff to bootleg? Did
Speaker 1: they not expect misdirection? I mean it was like it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, he was just creating space the
Speaker 1: entire first half before the Eagles made some kind of adjustment.
Speaker 1: But guys, it looked to me like they had no
Speaker 1: idea that these boots were coming, that this play action
Speaker 1: bootleg game was coming. And that's what when you look
Speaker 1: at that scheme and we're trying to move Goff off
Speaker 1: of his spot, get him outside the pocket. Those are
Speaker 1: the things that we talked about last week for the
Speaker 1: Eagles with Carson Wentz against Washington, against that defensive line,
Speaker 1: get him outside the pocket, get him away from that
Speaker 1: pass rush. That's why when I look at this game
Speaker 1: and I say, man like, no, you know, very little
Speaker 1: pressure on Jared Goff. To me, that's more about mcveigh's
Speaker 1: scheme and then what the positions that they were able
Speaker 1: to put Jared Goff in. They constantly have him rolling
Speaker 1: away from the pressure after a run fake, So the
Speaker 1: defense is going after the back and he's going on,
Speaker 1: and it's an easy throw. It's a high low read.
Speaker 1: If I throw, if this guy's open, I'm throwing it
Speaker 1: to him. If not, it's going to a checkdown and
Speaker 1: that guy's running for eight yards. Like it happened way
Speaker 1: too often, time after time again. And then everything off
Speaker 1: of that, Like again we talked about it on Eagles
Speaker 1: game Plan. They run the play action, they go to
Speaker 1: the boot and then they throw a screen to Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup for thirty yards. They were dialing up all of
Speaker 1: the right calls and the Eagles just had no answers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great points by everybody, a really great conversation. And just
Speaker 1: to touch one more time on on Jared Goff's numbers.
Speaker 1: Completed twenty out of twenty seven passes and like we said,
Speaker 1: a thirteen out of thirteen start, seventy four percent, two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven yards, three touchdowns, zero interceptions, a
Speaker 1: QB rating of one forty two, so absolutely an outstanding.
Speaker 1: This Eagles defense really made him look pretty good today.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, we're going to let you go. I'm
Speaker 1: really looking forward to listening to your podcast later for
Speaker 1: continued analysis on this one. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: All Right, Thank you guys. Tough one today here at
Speaker 1: link at Financial Field than Field. Yeah, definitely, we are
Speaker 1: all feeling it. I can only imagine how it feels
Speaker 1: in there, and I'm definitely interested to see the press
Speaker 1: conferences from coach Doug Peterston and from some of the
Speaker 1: players which we will have live here. But let's continue
Speaker 1: this conversation. Let's get to your takeaways. What's your first one? Well,
Speaker 1: my first one, Amy, friend, this team got off to
Speaker 1: a slow start. I thought, playing at home in their
Speaker 1: first game in Lincoln Financial Field, they come out with
Speaker 1: a little more energy, regardless if you have fans there
Speaker 1: not the fact that you're planning your home stadium. You
Speaker 1: got to be able to create some energy, and I
Speaker 1: thought we came out flat. You know, Los Angeles is
Speaker 1: the team that came from the West coast to the
Speaker 1: East coast, and they're planning at one o'clock, which is
Speaker 1: ten am on the West coast. That should be an
Speaker 1: advantage for the Eagles. Instead, the Eagles seemed like the
Speaker 1: team that wasn't awake at one o'clock when it was
Speaker 1: time to kick the ball off and the Rams were
Speaker 1: ready to go, I mean started to series of the game,
Speaker 1: you fumble the ball, and then it seemed like the
Speaker 1: Eagles couldn't do anything defensively to slow down Jared Golf
Speaker 1: and Sean McVay on that offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: hitting Tyler Higbee time and time again, Cooper Cup on
Speaker 1: third downs. Really, I mean, before the Eagles realized what
Speaker 1: hit them, it was twenty one to three and the
Speaker 1: first quarter was over with. I think that was a huge,
Speaker 1: huge advantage for the Rams. They got off to a
Speaker 1: fast start. The Eagles weren't ready to go and twenty
Speaker 1: one to three. In this league, although it's not an
Speaker 1: insurmountable lead, man, it is very difficult to come back
Speaker 1: from that because you have to expand so much energy
Speaker 1: with the defensive stops and offensively, you almost have to
Speaker 1: be perfect just to get back in the game. And
Speaker 1: I mean when the Eagles got within five points, they
Speaker 1: weren't perfect on the play that they needed to be
Speaker 1: perfect one and that was the throw to jj Arthega
Speaker 1: whites Well. Carson just a little late there. He has
Speaker 1: the ability to make that throw, just didn't make an
Speaker 1: accurate throw, and that really took the wind out of
Speaker 1: the sail for this team. Slow start that they couldn't
Speaker 1: overcome Amy and for him, well, I can. When you
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, that deficit at the beginning, that
Speaker 1: slow start, and then they start getting a little bit
Speaker 1: momentum heading into the half, they're able to capitalize on
Speaker 1: that turnover start on the opposing eleven yard line, turned
Speaker 1: that into a touchdown. Go into halftime, Rams get the ball.
Speaker 1: They forced it three and out and they're driving down
Speaker 1: the field. I'm thinking, okay, this is going My fairytale
Speaker 1: brain says, this is going to be exactly like last
Speaker 1: week's game, but in the other direction. And then of
Speaker 1: course there was that killer interception into the end zone
Speaker 1: that Carson wentz through right where there was that opportunity
Speaker 1: to really build some momentum. It seemed like every time
Speaker 1: for him they started to get a little bit of momentum,
Speaker 1: there was a costly error that just took the wind
Speaker 1: out of their sales. And it's not one consistent issue,
Speaker 1: as it very rarely is in football, right, It's very
Speaker 1: rare that we get sit back and say, all right,
Speaker 1: it was this consistent theme that lost in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, on that interception, you know, without watching the
Speaker 1: film and just seeing the angles they showed us on TV.
Speaker 1: It seemed like he's rolling to his left and he's
Speaker 1: got a couple of receivers out of his disposal on
Speaker 1: that play side, and that backside post is almost like,
Speaker 1: you know, throw, you know, break glass in case of
Speaker 1: emergency kind of throw. Now again, it's like when we
Speaker 1: talked about with Carson holding onto the football with those
Speaker 1: sacks last week. You like the aggressiveness. You like a
Speaker 1: guy that is willing to pull the trigger on that
Speaker 1: tough throw down the field where maybe you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: need it, but it has that chance to be a
Speaker 1: huge play. But it's got to be a perfect throw
Speaker 1: in that scenario, and in that scenario it wasn't, and
Speaker 1: obviously it gets picked off, you know, and even if
Speaker 1: it wasn't picked off, JJ is gonna take a huge
Speaker 1: shot from the safety coming back across the field as well,
Speaker 1: So you know, either way, it didn't seem like it
Speaker 1: was going to be a positive play for the Eagles there.
Speaker 1: And as you guys mentioned, you guys have used the
Speaker 1: term took to the wind right out of the sales
Speaker 1: of that Eagles offense. Only a field goal in the
Speaker 1: last two quarters of play after that strong finish to
Speaker 1: the first half, they seem to have some momentum. They
Speaker 1: come out, they get that three and out. Maybe just
Speaker 1: like you said, it seemed like, all right, we're getting
Speaker 1: back into the groove of this thing. Is the wheels
Speaker 1: fell off. And I just want to mention Carson Wentz's
Speaker 1: stat line at twenty six forty three, but really the
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty two yards completed sixty percent a
Speaker 1: QB rating of fifty six point five. But the big
Speaker 1: number here is the two interceptions, and now he has
Speaker 1: four in two games, when last season he had seven combined.
Speaker 1: So definitely, I haven't seen this version of Carson before, ike,
Speaker 1: have you? No, No, I mean not since his rookie
Speaker 1: year where he threw I believe, fourteen interceptions. It's the
Speaker 1: only year he's throwing double digit interceptions. We know right now,
Speaker 1: this crazy pace, he's on his way to throwing thirty
Speaker 1: two interceptions this year. You're in Jami's Winston country here.
Speaker 1: Nobody throws thirty interceptions in the season. But in all seriousness,
Speaker 1: it's something that he needs to get corrected. When he
Speaker 1: typically has to force the issue or he feels the
Speaker 1: need to force the issue. That's where interceptions come. You
Speaker 1: look at most of his interceptions after his rookie season,
Speaker 1: they've come in games where they eiven either have been
Speaker 1: down or he's trying to make a play where there
Speaker 1: isn't a play to be made. And that's something that
Speaker 1: we don't typically see from Carson. It just creeps his
Speaker 1: head up every now and then. I certainly hope Amy
Speaker 1: and Fraying that this is not a trend for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, because you can't win many football games
Speaker 1: if your quarterback is turning the ball over. Well, everybody
Speaker 1: hopes it's not a trend. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: a team, let the Bronco Buck is feeling about this
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe we need maybe there needs to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a rain on the Bronco
Speaker 1: right now. But let's get to your next takeaway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that, Amy. We got the pull him
Speaker 1: backing and pull him in. Um My second take takeaway
Speaker 1: is the defense today? Um. I thought the defense really
Speaker 1: put the team overall in the hole by night, not
Speaker 1: being able to get off the field on third down.
Speaker 1: I think at one point the Rams were either seven
Speaker 1: for seven or eight for eight on third down conversions.
Speaker 1: We talked about Jared Golf getting off for on a
Speaker 1: thirteen for thirteen completion. Uh, he was never rattled until
Speaker 1: late in that first half. They didn't get any pressure
Speaker 1: on him big place things that we aren't all right.
Speaker 1: I hate to cut you off, but we have head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson ready for his press conference. Here's the
Speaker 1: who and then Paul Donald They Doug, you don't turn
Speaker 1: that volume down. Can you explain to us the decision
Speaker 1: not to accept the field goal after the penalty instead
Speaker 1: up going for it on fourth and three? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I felt at that time we had we had some
Speaker 1: momentum um, took the ball down the fields, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it was gonna be like a fourth and
Speaker 1: three I believe um, and and wanted to wanted to
Speaker 1: keep it, uh you know, to a one score, one
Speaker 1: score game. At that particular point, it felt like we
Speaker 1: had some momentum and and made the choice to keep
Speaker 1: the points on the board. And then Pat Gallen, Yeah, Doug,
Speaker 1: I think they ended up with one rushing yards for
Speaker 1: a play action team like that. Uh, that obviously is
Speaker 1: is is tough. What what was the biggest problem dealing
Speaker 1: with their uh, you know, their run game today. Well
Speaker 1: until until again, as you guys know, until we can
Speaker 1: look at the tape and and really, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: look at it. You know, it's it looked like it
Speaker 1: was just a down you know, a downhill rushing attack.
Speaker 1: You know, they did they did do some things on
Speaker 1: the you know, they're they're a stretch running team, and
Speaker 1: they did some things on the perimeter to us and
Speaker 1: got outside. But um, you know it's uh, with with
Speaker 1: all the moving parts on on offense, with the jet
Speaker 1: sweeps and the different things that they do and the tosses. It, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's something we've got to do, obviously, do a better
Speaker 1: job of. We We definitely pride ourselves here, um in
Speaker 1: stopping the run, and we didn't do a very good
Speaker 1: job today. And then Rob Maddy, can you take us
Speaker 1: into um into Carson's interception in the end zone that
Speaker 1: seemed like a big momentum changer. What did you see
Speaker 1: there and were you able to discuss that with Carson? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I believe it was first and ten and
Speaker 1: and uh, I just wanted to get Carson out of
Speaker 1: the pocket um on the play and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: again just a situation where we just got to continue
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, keep keep working. You know, if
Speaker 1: if plays plays are not there, um, you know, don't
Speaker 1: look to try to make something happen, just just throw
Speaker 1: the ball away in that situation or run. And you know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately it was a turnover in the end zone and
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we're just going to continue to
Speaker 1: correct and and uh move forward. Rob and then John McMullin,
Speaker 1: Doug overall, what did you think of Carson's performance today?
Speaker 1: It looked like there were some opportunities to make plays,
Speaker 1: But without seeing the film and knowing what the intentions were,
Speaker 1: what did you think overall? Well, I thought, again, I
Speaker 1: thought there were some some some good plays there, some
Speaker 1: some good decisions. He did a nice job, you know,
Speaker 1: handling the run game with some of the some of
Speaker 1: the checks that we had going on, and got us
Speaker 1: in and out of some some throws from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of bad defenses into into good positive plays. So he
Speaker 1: handled the game that way. You know. The one thing
Speaker 1: again that that um, you know we all have to
Speaker 1: take a look at, especially offense, is just just the turnovers.
Speaker 1: You know, we had the fumble early and then of
Speaker 1: course to the interceptions, and that's that's kind of been. Um,
Speaker 1: I think these first two weeks of the regular season,
Speaker 1: and that's that's, uh, you know, been the sort of
Speaker 1: the tale of the tape John and then D's and Gara, Hey, Doug,
Speaker 1: you lost, Isaac, say, I'm follow in the game. You
Speaker 1: got Lanney Johnson back as a whole. How do you
Speaker 1: think the offensive line held up coming off last week?
Speaker 1: And obviously from a sack pass protection standpoint, it seemed
Speaker 1: a lot better. Yeah, I thought they overall, you know,
Speaker 1: played played well, played played better than than the week before.
Speaker 1: And um, you know again it's it's a good it's
Speaker 1: a good defensive front that we played. We know Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald is a stremendous football player, and our guys handled him,
Speaker 1: handled you know him, and what they were doing, you know,
Speaker 1: really well. So hats off to those guys. They worked
Speaker 1: hard during the week to prepare for that. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought overall did a nice job, Eve
Speaker 1: and then Jeff McLean it dug after that, Uh, the
Speaker 1: decision to kick that field goal or keep the field goal?
Speaker 1: The Rams drive seventy five yards on three plays. What
Speaker 1: happened on that drive? And how disheartening is that that
Speaker 1: you put your faith in your defense and they can't
Speaker 1: hold up there. Well, I mean, you know that's the thing.
Speaker 1: We had some momentum. We got the three points and
Speaker 1: I believe we got it to a you know, five
Speaker 1: or six point game at that particular time something like that,
Speaker 1: And it really felt like the momentum was on our
Speaker 1: side and and you know, defense was was eager and
Speaker 1: ready to go back, uh, you know, back out on
Speaker 1: the field, which just needed to find a way to
Speaker 1: you know, get a stop at that particular time and
Speaker 1: get the offense out. And you know, that's the one
Speaker 1: thing we'll take a look at and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to we've got to do better there. We've
Speaker 1: got to coach, coach it better and play better in
Speaker 1: those situations to where everybody understands that, you know, you
Speaker 1: get one you get one stop in those situations and
Speaker 1: give it back to your offense. Um, you know, you
Speaker 1: got a chance to take the lead on maybe the
Speaker 1: next possession, definitely, And mcmahner Doug DeShawn Jackson wasn't targeted
Speaker 1: in the first half, and then it seemed like you
Speaker 1: guys did a job. We're conscious of getting him involved
Speaker 1: in the second half. What was the what was the
Speaker 1: meaning or you know, why wasn't he involved that were Well,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of things designed up early. Ball
Speaker 1: just didn't go his way from you know, a progression standpoint,
Speaker 1: made a conscious effort halftime. It's one of our adjustments
Speaker 1: to get him get him going in the second half,
Speaker 1: and uh felt like we did a good job there.
Speaker 1: He's an explosive guy that um, uh can can you know,
Speaker 1: make make some plays? So um a little bit was
Speaker 1: the coverage, uh, you know, other other times it was
Speaker 1: you know, play designed, the ball was going somewhere else.
Speaker 1: But we'll continue to get him involved with the offense.
Speaker 1: Tim and then Chris Franklin it Doug what went into
Speaker 1: the decision to bring Jalen Hurts up to the number
Speaker 1: two QB this week after having him in active week one?
Speaker 1: And then what did you see of the three plays
Speaker 1: that you had him in there? Um? Well, a decision
Speaker 1: we always do, you know what we feel sometimes it's
Speaker 1: best for the football team each and every week, and
Speaker 1: um we felt this week with him with him up,
Speaker 1: they could give us, uh, you know, give us an
Speaker 1: opportunity to possibly use him you know in those in
Speaker 1: those situations that we did, and obviously he went in
Speaker 1: executed them well, and um, you know it's a starting point.
Speaker 1: Is something that will evaluate each week. Chris and then
Speaker 1: Mike Martin, Frank he Doug, you look like you guys
Speaker 1: had about six or seven passes that went about longer
Speaker 1: than fifteen yards and like a lot of stuff was underneath.
Speaker 1: Was it a concertative effort heading into this week to
Speaker 1: try to go with a short passing game or was
Speaker 1: it something that the rams secondary and back in did
Speaker 1: to prevent definations? Yeah, I mean it's a little of both. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing too is you know, when
Speaker 1: when you get such a good player and Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: on the other side, you want to make sure that
Speaker 1: the you know, you're you're you're not back there um
Speaker 1: necessarily holding the ball or having lengthy, lengthy routes where
Speaker 1: where it's you know, more five and seven steps, so
Speaker 1: you know, the quick passing game. Get Carson on the
Speaker 1: edge movement stuff, um, you know, to allow him to
Speaker 1: to to see the defense. And you know, we had
Speaker 1: some success there in the first half of that and
Speaker 1: um kind of came out in the second half and
Speaker 1: did the same thing. You know again, got de Sean
Speaker 1: involved a little bit more. But you know it's it's
Speaker 1: it's week to week, you know, the way game plans
Speaker 1: are constructed. Um and um, you know we just uh
Speaker 1: today just didn't make it up. We need to hang
Speaker 1: on to the football a little bit better. Time for
Speaker 1: two more. So let's go Martin and then Nick Fierro, Martin,
Speaker 1: you're on mute, Go ahead, neck damn all right. Um, hey, Doug,
Speaker 1: how concerned are you about the defense going back to
Speaker 1: the second half against Washington. I mean, you guys have
Speaker 1: allowed sixty four points in the last six quarters. Well, listen, it's, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not about one player or one unit. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the offense has to do their part obviously
Speaker 1: not turned the football over, and we got to put
Speaker 1: points on the board when when we have opportunities. You know,
Speaker 1: field goals are great, but you know when we get
Speaker 1: to get into the red zone like that, it's it's
Speaker 1: we got to come away with more more scores, touchdowns
Speaker 1: and and then yeah, I mean the defense you know,
Speaker 1: has a has a part in that too. I mean
Speaker 1: they gotta they probabe themselves on you know, getting off
Speaker 1: the field and and um, you know, trying to help
Speaker 1: the offense. Things go, These things go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not one unit, one guy, it's things
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta dress we gotta dress them. Uh quickly,
Speaker 1: that's one here with Nick and then we'll get Carson
Speaker 1: in hidk. I just staying with the defense. Um, you've
Speaker 1: had a lot of turnover in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of your teeth players, most
Speaker 1: recently Malcolm to look rose Hill. Do you think the
Speaker 1: things are maybe starting to catch up with you and
Speaker 1: you need to get these two players more up to speed.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand, like the turnover of players. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the question the Uh, you've had a lot of
Speaker 1: defensive turnover over the last couple of years because the
Speaker 1: you you're replacing some key players. That's Malcolm most most recently,
Speaker 1: a cam Move Grouge a Hill. Um, you've had some
Speaker 1: some guys. But you know in the year before, Uh,
Speaker 1: is this kind of fought up to you? You think? No,
Speaker 1: I mean every every year you're gonna have turnover. I
Speaker 1: mean that's just that's just the way this this this
Speaker 1: league is, and and and the way the business goes.
Speaker 1: You know, for us. We do have some young players
Speaker 1: in some of those some of those roles, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at linebacker, there are some young
Speaker 1: players there. Receivers, we got some young players there, and
Speaker 1: um we're playing, you know, with some young offensive linement.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's that's gonna happen. That's part of
Speaker 1: that's part of this business. And you know, we can't
Speaker 1: I don't think you can just hang on the fact
Speaker 1: that these guys are young anymore. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're coaching them each week and we're getting them
Speaker 1: prepared to play and and now they just have to
Speaker 1: go out and play games. The more obviously game experience
Speaker 1: they get, the better they get, and um, they they
Speaker 1: you know, these players will will help our offense and
Speaker 1: also help our defense. One of the areas you're seeing
Speaker 1: some of the young players shine is obviously on special
Speaker 1: teams and they're doing a heck of a job there.
Speaker 1: All right. That's head coach Doug Peterson's thoughts after the game.
Speaker 1: And we are waiting any minute now for Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: to be joining us for a press conference. And I
Speaker 1: think probably the big thing that stood out to me
Speaker 1: from listening to Doug Peterson's press conference was just about
Speaker 1: the offensive line and their performance that look, they really
Speaker 1: handled Aaron Donald well and I looking at the statuet
Speaker 1: based on everything we talked about coming into this game
Speaker 1: with Aaron Donald and everything we had seen and thank
Speaker 1: her taking the time. Today, we'll get started with Wes
Speaker 1: Bowen and then Vac Berman. Than the interception to when
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the ball to JJ and just
Speaker 1: overall the the way the offense hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: really stab Bush itself. Uh consistently this season. What's going on? Uh?
Speaker 1: What did you see? Yeah? The interception, Um, they made
Speaker 1: a great play. Um, you know I got out on
Speaker 1: the uh the naked there to the left, and um,
Speaker 1: they had had us covered pretty well. I got pretty aggressive,
Speaker 1: tried to force one in there. Um, guy made a
Speaker 1: great play. So I got to be smart in that
Speaker 1: in that situation and overall offensively, Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: we know we're right there. You know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we had two turnovers, excuse me, two
Speaker 1: interceptions and the fumble. UM. Turning ball overs really killing
Speaker 1: us the last two weeks. Those are things we know
Speaker 1: we can clean up. But other than that, We truly
Speaker 1: feel that we're right there. We're just missing some things,
Speaker 1: timing of some things. Um, So we're not panicking. We
Speaker 1: know what we got to clean up and we will.
Speaker 1: Zach and then Jessica Versky and Carson. So what is
Speaker 1: the issue with the turnovers? Is it? Is it timing?
Speaker 1: Is it trying to make a play? What do you
Speaker 1: you identify as the biggest issue here? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of by case. You know, last week it
Speaker 1: was something today like I just said, you know, I
Speaker 1: tried to try to force one in there, make a
Speaker 1: play when you know I probably didn't need to. And
Speaker 1: so you know the fumble you know that Miles had,
Speaker 1: that that happens. You know, those are things the timing
Speaker 1: of our mistakes is really killing us right now. Um.
Speaker 1: But we know once we get these things cleaned up,
Speaker 1: you know, we have the potential with the pieces that
Speaker 1: we have on offense, to be to be a great,
Speaker 1: to be elite on offense. And you know, we're excited
Speaker 1: to get those things fixed and to start showing that
Speaker 1: we are elite. Jeff and then Mike Kay Hey, Carson. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with the talent around this team, you guys didn't expect
Speaker 1: to owen to start. What is your level of frustration
Speaker 1: with the way things have gone these first two weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean we're obviously frustrated. You never want to start
Speaker 1: owing two. You know, last week the way we lost
Speaker 1: Washington and starting O one one obviously not what we
Speaker 1: what we want and not how we expect to finish
Speaker 1: ball games. And then today, UM, coming out behind it
Speaker 1: again not not where you want to be, UM, but
Speaker 1: we know that there's enough things through two games offensively speak, UM,
Speaker 1: that we can put on the tape and know, all right,
Speaker 1: we're just we're right there. We're just missing some things.
Speaker 1: We're right there. Don't panic, We'll be okay. UM. And
Speaker 1: I've always had all the confidence in the world in
Speaker 1: our defense. UM. You know, things happen, but UM, we're
Speaker 1: not panicking. You know, we're excited to get back on it.
Speaker 1: Like and then Chris Murray Carson, what did what did
Speaker 1: you sorry getting feedback here? Uh, Carson, what did you
Speaker 1: see on the throw to JJ that resulted in interceptions? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was just moving to my left and UM saw
Speaker 1: JJ had a step on his guy. UM, really just
Speaker 1: try to force it in there before the free safety. Obviously,
Speaker 1: not what I should have done. Um, guy undercut it
Speaker 1: made a great play and UM, yeah that that definitely
Speaker 1: we had. We had some good momentum, that drive going.
Speaker 1: We were moving the ball well, Um, try to do
Speaker 1: too much, try and make a play and obviously can't
Speaker 1: do that, Chris. And then yeah, Carson, what do you
Speaker 1: do to kind of clean things up with his offense?
Speaker 1: It seems like, uh, you've been kind of inconsistent and
Speaker 1: not play and not played it because the quarter throughout
Speaker 1: the first couple of games of the season. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: we gotta execute, playing and simple. We got to execute.
Speaker 1: You know. We we executed some things very well today. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought we had some some good movement
Speaker 1: up front running the ball, um in our turbo type stuff,
Speaker 1: tempo up, tempo offense. Um, did some good things. Just
Speaker 1: not enough, not enough, and we got gotta protect the football.
Speaker 1: So I've said a couple of times now, but we're
Speaker 1: not we're not panickings. The guy's not falling. Um, there's
Speaker 1: some good things that we're doing and and we'll get
Speaker 1: back on it. We have time for a few more.
Speaker 1: So let's go bow at An and Jennie person. What
Speaker 1: did they do to take away the deep ball in
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, that's that's really what they did to
Speaker 1: take away the deep ball. They just played soft on
Speaker 1: the outside. They wanted to keep everything in front of them,
Speaker 1: and um, they did a good job of that. You know,
Speaker 1: we had to take a lot of underneath throws and
Speaker 1: take what they were presenting and giving us, and um,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the style of their defense at the
Speaker 1: same time. So you know, we took what was there.
Speaker 1: We thought we did some good things, but um, we
Speaker 1: got to be creative and find ways to get the
Speaker 1: ball downfield or just be smart and not fortunately like
Speaker 1: I did on the one interception Ed Kratz and then
Speaker 1: Jamie hey corson just the Sean Jackson didn't have his
Speaker 1: first target until the second half. Were they taking him
Speaker 1: away in the first staff or was it just a
Speaker 1: conscious decision not to go to him. Uh, it's really
Speaker 1: no explanation, I guess, just kind of the nature of
Speaker 1: the game. You know, Deshawn's a guy that we always
Speaker 1: believe in, no matter who's on him and no matter
Speaker 1: where he's at, and so it was just kind of
Speaker 1: the flow of the game how it worked out. But
Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy we know that scares the
Speaker 1: heck out of defenses and does a great job of
Speaker 1: creating separation and getting open, So he'll definitely be featured
Speaker 1: in our offense. Is just kind of the way it
Speaker 1: happened today. I'm in the first half, last one here
Speaker 1: with Jamie of Corson. You said, you guys are have
Speaker 1: all the tools to be an elite offense. So given
Speaker 1: the ode two start, what to you is the most
Speaker 1: disappointing doctor and all of that. Um, you know, I think,
Speaker 1: like you said, we do feel that we have of
Speaker 1: the pieces, we have the talent, we have the guys
Speaker 1: to be an elite offense. The turnovers have been killing us,
Speaker 1: the turnovers. You know, I got to protect the football,
Speaker 1: playing simple, you know, I got to own that, and
Speaker 1: you know, some of those things we can clean up.
Speaker 1: And the timing of the mistakes and the turnovers is
Speaker 1: really hurting us. And so we believe we can really
Speaker 1: hone in what we do and execute better and just
Speaker 1: protect football and we'll be just fine. Thanks Carson, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys. All right, the Eagles quarterback reiterating this guy
Speaker 1: is not falling, which is something that the Eagles usually say.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the season at least they had the last
Speaker 1: three years and they've made the playoffs every single one
Speaker 1: of those times. So this guy is not falling. We
Speaker 1: are not panicking. We are here are waiting for more
Speaker 1: players to join the press conference. So I am staying
Speaker 1: on my toes ready to quickly shuffle you back over
Speaker 1: there the instant a player is ready to give a
Speaker 1: press conference. And going back to Carson Wentz and the
Speaker 1: things that he had to say, Uh, and Fran and Fran,
Speaker 1: let me get your takeaways. He says, Look, we have
Speaker 1: the talent to make this work. The turnovers are where
Speaker 1: where we really need to clean it up, and those
Speaker 1: are on a case by case basis. What's your assessment
Speaker 1: of his assessment of what's been going right and going
Speaker 1: wrong for this offense. Yeah, I mean he said it
Speaker 1: there at the end. You know, I have to take
Speaker 1: better care of the football. You know, whether you're talking
Speaker 1: about the interceptions this week, the fumble and the interceptions
Speaker 1: last week, he has owned it and said he's got
Speaker 1: to take better care of the football. They've the picks
Speaker 1: this week a little bit different than the ones from
Speaker 1: last week, but look, all of them are going to
Speaker 1: be individual cases that the coaches and Carson will all
Speaker 1: go through in the film tomorrow on Monday when they
Speaker 1: come into the Novacare Complex. But you gotta get that
Speaker 1: that stuff figured out before next week. And obviously they
Speaker 1: take on a Cincinnati team that's got a little bit
Speaker 1: juice even though they're owe two. You know, they've got
Speaker 1: some juice here that's with two games, they feel they
Speaker 1: should be two and oh coming into this week. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think the Eagles also feel like they should
Speaker 1: be two and o two oh and two teams. I
Speaker 1: did not expect to be saying that when all right,
Speaker 1: and Miles Sanders is ready for a press conference ski
Speaker 1: and then again, high Miles, Um, what what reason do
Speaker 1: you guys have to believe that you can turn this
Speaker 1: around at this point given the way things went today
Speaker 1: and the way things went last week. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: long season. It's pretty simple. Uh, it's not the end
Speaker 1: of the world. We still got fourteen more games left.
Speaker 1: Um all it takes us, just us a resiliency. Coach
Speaker 1: Doug he always talks about that, and that's exactly the
Speaker 1: type of team we are. You know, we had a
Speaker 1: lot of setbacks last year and despite all the stuff
Speaker 1: that happened last year, we still made the playoffs, so
Speaker 1: I still think anything's possible, and it's still early in
Speaker 1: the season. And then Daniel high Miles, Um, you know
Speaker 1: you said you could have played last week. You got
Speaker 1: a pretty heavy workload today. Were you do you feel
Speaker 1: Did you feel pretty fresh throughout the game? Do you
Speaker 1: feel pretty good after the game health wise? Have to
Speaker 1: really get together a pretty good workload this afternoon. I
Speaker 1: feel I feel good, feel fresh. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: take us take all the you know, all the all
Speaker 1: the plays and stuff that all the other players the
Speaker 1: league were doing the joint the training camp, so I
Speaker 1: felt pretty fresh. But it also hurt me at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You know, my conditioning was kind
Speaker 1: of a problem in the game. But I still uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just toughed it out and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: still out there from my team. But uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I still feel fresh, you know. Um, despite the fumble,
Speaker 1: take that out on me. Um. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: have a training camp or you know, or like weeks
Speaker 1: of practice. This week was my only week of practice,
Speaker 1: like full practice, so so um that was expected or
Speaker 1: you know, but that's on me, and it won't even
Speaker 1: happen again, Daniel and then Jeff McLean Miles. What happened
Speaker 1: on the fumble, honestly don't remember. I just know my
Speaker 1: ball was loving it just I think somebody got a
Speaker 1: hand on it and it slipped out. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't have a whole camp. I'm not
Speaker 1: making excuses either, but I didn't have a whole camp
Speaker 1: to you know, get the hits. I didn't have no
Speaker 1: scrimmages or nothing like that. So, like I said, this
Speaker 1: was my first full week of practice in Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Jeff and then Rob Moddy Miles was seemed like you
Speaker 1: rebounded though, and there were a lot of holes to
Speaker 1: run through. What you know, how was the offensive line
Speaker 1: doing obviously a passwork group of guys. You know, would
Speaker 1: you feel like you guys saw on film in terms
Speaker 1: of how that was developing. The line did the hell
Speaker 1: of a job. They're blocking her ass off all weekend
Speaker 1: and today did a good job of of uh you know,
Speaker 1: containing ninety nine and they're two gap offense, so uh we.
Speaker 1: I was just using the double teams and then having
Speaker 1: the linebackers really choose. There were so many gaps that
Speaker 1: the linebackers didn't know which hold to choose. So that's
Speaker 1: why the running game was so successful. And you know,
Speaker 1: I trust those guys with my life, so um, as
Speaker 1: long as they're going and I'm right behind them trying
Speaker 1: to make them look good. Rob and then John McMullen
Speaker 1: Miles Carson seemed confident that you guys are an elite
Speaker 1: offense and you can get back to that if you
Speaker 1: can just clean up the turnovers. How frustrating is it
Speaker 1: start off when two when you think in your mind
Speaker 1: that you have that kind of offense and that kind
Speaker 1: of team. Yeah, it's it's very such frustrating, I'd be
Speaker 1: lying to you if I said it wasn't. Um, But
Speaker 1: like I said, it's it's a blessing that it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a long season and we, like I said, we
Speaker 1: got hello opportunities week by week just to get better
Speaker 1: and um, you know, get some get some ws on
Speaker 1: the left hand of that column. Martin Frank Hey, Miles, Uh,
Speaker 1: you mentioned a little bit. You didn't have a summer,
Speaker 1: really didn't have a training camp. How do you think
Speaker 1: you handle the other aspects of the game you recovered
Speaker 1: while running the football as far as hitting your spots
Speaker 1: as a receiver and pass protection. How do you think
Speaker 1: that went? What they didn't bliss? They didn't bliss a lot. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought they would bliss a lot despite the struggles
Speaker 1: that we had last week, but they actually didn't. I
Speaker 1: picked up one blitz. Uh. I just felt like our
Speaker 1: old line, the running backs, the quarterback tight ends the whole.
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as protection and running the ball,
Speaker 1: I think we were actually finally on the same page
Speaker 1: compared to last week. We All we can do is
Speaker 1: just build off that. You have time for two more
Speaker 1: So let's go Martin and then Dave zan Garrow. Hey, Miles,
Speaker 1: hows how disappointing was was that interception in the end zone?
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys, you know, scored the two touchdowns
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, and you know
Speaker 1: you're you're just about out there twenty yard line and everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, was that kind of tough for you guys? Overcome?
Speaker 1: H very a fresh day, you know. Um, But like
Speaker 1: I said, they got everybody's in this league for a reason.
Speaker 1: It was a hell of an interception. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I think the guy do for it, but
Speaker 1: you know, they get paid to do what they do too,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it set us back. I don't remember if
Speaker 1: they scored off that drive or not, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely hurt us. Last one here with Steve. Hey, Miles,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that you know it's a long season, and
Speaker 1: Carson also said the sky isn't falling, But how do
Speaker 1: you balance that mindset with also realizing that there has
Speaker 1: to be a level of intensity and urgency right now.
Speaker 1: Just taking it day by day, week by week, and
Speaker 1: game by game, play by play. That's it's very simple.
Speaker 1: We just got to get back to being us and
Speaker 1: stop doing too much and just play Eagles football. Thanks Miles, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay. Running back Miles Sanders in his season debut, saying,
Speaker 1: I am not making excuses, but I didn't have a
Speaker 1: training camp. This is my first week of practice. So
Speaker 1: the fumble, look, that's just rust. And that was actually
Speaker 1: kind of my instinct when I first saw that too,
Speaker 1: because Myles did not have the fumble issues last season.
Speaker 1: Here is Jason Kelsey. Let's hear his slots with Nick
Speaker 1: and then Tim McManus. Oh hi, Jason, it looks like
Speaker 1: the protection issues that you had from last week, whether
Speaker 1: it was the line or the backs tight ends seem
Speaker 1: to be cleaned up today. Is that something that you
Speaker 1: could take away from in this game at least? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know, there's always going to be
Speaker 1: analysis on how the game win. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: I obviously last week everybody kind of took their turns
Speaker 1: messing up, whether it was blown blocks, blown um, assignments, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. The past protection last week certainly wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough. Um. I thought it felt pretty good out
Speaker 1: there today. Obviously playing one of the best players in
Speaker 1: the league, Aaron Donald, there was a huge emphasis on
Speaker 1: being able to stop him. He's a game wrecker. Um
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, um, I thought we did a
Speaker 1: pretty good job of stopping him and the majority of
Speaker 1: their players in terms of pass rush him. And then zah,
Speaker 1: just what was the game plan with Aaron Donald? And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, who do you credit for for helping to
Speaker 1: stop him? Oh? Yeah, I mean, we don't make it
Speaker 1: too difficult, just double team him. Uh. You know, I
Speaker 1: think he's by far, you know, a generational talent that
Speaker 1: can wreck a game. And you know, you can see
Speaker 1: he's getting frustrated because he knows he's you know, we're
Speaker 1: making an extra hard for him. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, when you're in a when
Speaker 1: you're in a position where you can double them, double them. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times there's gonna be one on one
Speaker 1: and in those instances, you you gotta you know, man up,
Speaker 1: I guess, but um, you know, just try to put
Speaker 1: him in a situation where you know he's not going
Speaker 1: to be able to wreck the game for us. And
Speaker 1: you know we've we've put emphasis on that every time
Speaker 1: we played him. Um, he's a tremendous player. UM. I
Speaker 1: got so much respect for that guy. Um, So you know,
Speaker 1: I think that obviously Stouts the one that builds all
Speaker 1: these protection plans and everything. So um and obviously we
Speaker 1: through our two cents in throughout the week and by
Speaker 1: game time we got a pretty solid plan of attack
Speaker 1: Zach and then Chris Murray Jason. Big picture and I
Speaker 1: know it's only two games, but oh and two, it
Speaker 1: is not a good hole. What do you u yourself
Speaker 1: as big picture? How do you look at it? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, I try not to look at a big picture. Obviously,
Speaker 1: very frustrating to be O and two, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's on the next week. You know, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: it's only gonna gonna stop when we start winning games.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know, I don't think it really behooves
Speaker 1: you to uh to look too far past our next opponent,
Speaker 1: which is Cincinnati Bengals. Um. Just everybody's just got to
Speaker 1: try watch the tape, get better, um improve Uh you know,
Speaker 1: as as an individual, collectively as a team, find out
Speaker 1: what you can do to uh uh you know, to
Speaker 1: to help us take care of this. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously really frustrating uh to be O and two, but
Speaker 1: you know this is this is the spot we've put
Speaker 1: ourselves in. So what's next. Well, what's next is the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, um, And uh, you know we got to
Speaker 1: be ready to play them and try and get this
Speaker 1: thing back on track. Um, Jason, how difficult get through
Speaker 1: the offense? To watch another team of offense go sixty
Speaker 1: five seventy yards while you guys are sitting. Does that
Speaker 1: throw off the rhythm of the offense of your offense
Speaker 1: when you see that? Well, you know, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: we knew going in that we were going to have
Speaker 1: to try and you know, keep the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: away from them and these guys, uh, you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you give them a lead early and allow
Speaker 1: them to establish all the misdirection and runs and play
Speaker 1: actions and everything that they're good at. This team has
Speaker 1: been proven to be very successful, uh you know throughout
Speaker 1: their tenure with Sean McVeigh. Um. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: great coach, he's a great schemer, and that's what they
Speaker 1: want to be in. Um. So obviously, starting off the
Speaker 1: game receiving the football and getting a turnover and spotting
Speaker 1: them seven points. Uh, you know, that enables them to
Speaker 1: just stay in that situation. You know. I think if
Speaker 1: you look at the teams that have played well against
Speaker 1: these guys, against the forty nine ers, against teams like
Speaker 1: this that want to do the run and play action,
Speaker 1: you you try and get up on them early. You
Speaker 1: try and force their hand into getting out of what
Speaker 1: they're comfortable in. And we weren't able to do that offensively,
Speaker 1: So we made it very very difficult for our defense. Um.
Speaker 1: And and that started from the jump with the turnover,
Speaker 1: and I think, um, you know, yeah, obviously, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's frustrating to watch a defense, uh you know, unfortunately
Speaker 1: not be able to get off the field on third
Speaker 1: down and go through what they went through. But part
Speaker 1: of that's on us for allowing uh you know, the
Speaker 1: Rams do uh to dictate that. So I think offensively,
Speaker 1: you know, we we go out, we scored receiving the ball,
Speaker 1: and we uh get off to a better start. That
Speaker 1: limits what the Rams want to do. That gets all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it puts them in the in the
Speaker 1: position of trying to change up what their bread and
Speaker 1: butter is. So, um, you know that's that's on us offensively.
Speaker 1: Time for one more here, So let's go ed kratz
Speaker 1: Hi Jason Um. Matt Matt Pryor came into the game,
Speaker 1: and how do you think he did? And how does
Speaker 1: the team go from eight sacks last for week zero
Speaker 1: this week? Well, you know, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the eight sacks. Don't get me wrong, the offensive
Speaker 1: line played nowhere near what we're um you know, what
Speaker 1: what we expect to play and what our um you know,
Speaker 1: our level of um of where we want to be
Speaker 1: at last week was not there. But there was everybody
Speaker 1: to share in those eight sex you know, I think
Speaker 1: that obviously we didn't do well, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: between uh you know, offensive line, running backs, tight ends, quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: I think everybody kind of shared a little bit to
Speaker 1: blame last week. This week, UM, we had a great
Speaker 1: game plan, you know, uh, and and guys did their jobs.
Speaker 1: You know, we got better. That's that's the whole mode
Speaker 1: of this season. Everybody between the backs, the offensive line,
Speaker 1: the quarterback, everybody was doing a much better job this
Speaker 1: week at pass protection and um and and in facilitating
Speaker 1: a successful uh situation from the pocket. I think that,
Speaker 1: um U, that's not just us, that's everybody. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's all you're trying to do. You're all
Speaker 1: just trying to get better, trying to do your job
Speaker 1: just a little bit better. Uh, coaches, players, everybody, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we did that in past protection this week,
Speaker 1: but um you know obviously wasn't enough to get a win.
Speaker 1: And that's the uh, that's the end goal for all
Speaker 1: of this. So it's gonna keep on you know, watching
Speaker 1: the tape, keep on learning, keep on getting better, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we got next week coming up here with
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Prior al I guess yeah, that's Eagles center
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey was hit with his thoughts after the game.
Speaker 1: We are expecting Brandon Graham any minute to take his
Speaker 1: press conference, and here he is, Hey, b gee, thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time. Today. We'll get started with Mike
Speaker 1: Sielski and then bow Wolf, Hi Brandon. UM, big picture,
Speaker 1: where do you feel like you guys are at it?
Speaker 1: Owen two? Is this diary yet or is this something
Speaker 1: that you guys feel confident you can really get turned around?
Speaker 1: I'm confident that we can turn this around. Um. When
Speaker 1: you look at certain parts of the game, you like, okay, um,
Speaker 1: you know we we we we don't beat ourselves in
Speaker 1: certain situations. You know, we we can getting off the
Speaker 1: field on defense and then you know, um, we can't
Speaker 1: give up the ball, and then on defense we gotta
Speaker 1: have the offense back. You know, we just got to
Speaker 1: stick together. And I believe that we're gonna do that well.
Speaker 1: Bow and then Al Thompson and you guys have played
Speaker 1: them in that scheme before and had more success. Did
Speaker 1: they do anything differently today? It just didn't look like
Speaker 1: you guys report as prepared. I mean, we was. We
Speaker 1: we knew how they was gonna play us. You know,
Speaker 1: we knew that they liked to, uh, you know, play
Speaker 1: left and right, you know, Um, and we almost had
Speaker 1: them playing our game going straight drop back. But I
Speaker 1: know that they did a good job. They the best
Speaker 1: you know at doing you know, having a lot of
Speaker 1: distraction out there, and uh coach, you know, harped on
Speaker 1: it all all week. We gotta stop they the boots,
Speaker 1: we gotta stop the stretch game. And today it came
Speaker 1: down to those little things. Uh I had I had
Speaker 1: something there too myself where you know, when they popped
Speaker 1: on them runs. I'm holding myself accountable. I missed on
Speaker 1: something because I was playing the boot because they've been
Speaker 1: doing it all game, and you know, it just it
Speaker 1: got me frustrated. But you know, I can't do that
Speaker 1: being the leader of this team. So I'm just holding
Speaker 1: myself accountable. But I do know that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's something that that can be fixed, and I'm excited,
Speaker 1: uh you know, being the leader of one of the
Speaker 1: leaders on these teams. I just I just know that
Speaker 1: we we got a lot that we can uh you know,
Speaker 1: make up for. All we got to do is start
Speaker 1: getting to winning column al and then Paul Don Paul, yeah, Brandon,
Speaker 1: their misdirection game is is pretty good here. How difficult
Speaker 1: is it to deal with that? And then and then
Speaker 1: they come back and hit you with that up the
Speaker 1: middle play to Henderson, Uh, Henderson run forget what's running back?
Speaker 1: But I mean, just how challenging is that offense to
Speaker 1: play against? You know what it's it's it's a challenge,
Speaker 1: but it's something that we, you know, have been successful in.
Speaker 1: We just had to stay true to who we were
Speaker 1: and reading our keys and stand true as defensive end.
Speaker 1: We has to we has to close down and make
Speaker 1: sure that we squeeze the gap, um and certain and
Speaker 1: we did it for most of the game. But you know, uh,
Speaker 1: those big plays happen when you when you try to
Speaker 1: do something different, and so we can't get frustrated by
Speaker 1: uh their game plan. We got to make sure that
Speaker 1: we continue to stay doing those little things on what
Speaker 1: we do as a defense and how we how we
Speaker 1: play and uh, you know, we should be fine. But
Speaker 1: I do think it's everything that that happened today was
Speaker 1: self inflicted. And you know, of course they came out
Speaker 1: and they executed, and um, you know, they won the game.
Speaker 1: But I know that we can, uh, we can get
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff right because I love our spirit,
Speaker 1: I love our fight. We almost we was right there,
Speaker 1: um and then the turnover happened, but we could still
Speaker 1: have um Carson's back if we get off the field
Speaker 1: to given the bar back. But that didn't happen. Uh,
Speaker 1: they score it again, and you know they just we
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop the bleed. And all right, Brandon Uh
Speaker 1: as one of the leaders on this team, Um, the
Speaker 1: turning ration on both sides of the it's not where
Speaker 1: it needs to be for you guys to be successful.
Speaker 1: As one of the leaders, is it is. It can't
Speaker 1: be your place to address the entire team. We have
Speaker 1: to get better in this area because it's just not
Speaker 1: happening right now. That's what's cool about this team. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys have already been talking to
Speaker 1: each other, you know about what we're seen out there today,
Speaker 1: what we didn't like on certain stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: we were ready to get that thing right. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you know we see, we try
Speaker 1: to address it. And that's what I love with this
Speaker 1: team right now, because you know, through adversity people start
Speaker 1: to point the finger, but that's not us. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys owned up to what they did today, and
Speaker 1: you know we're moving on because the sky is not
Speaker 1: falling like coach said, and we're down to put ourselves
Speaker 1: in this position, but we can definitely get it out
Speaker 1: if uh And and you know, we didn't work this
Speaker 1: hard all offseason to turn our back on each other.
Speaker 1: You know, right now, we just need to stay focused,
Speaker 1: stay stay working, working hard, and you know, you know
Speaker 1: we we we we fighters and we're not gonna give up.
Speaker 1: And I love, um, you know just that about us.
Speaker 1: And we got to keep that and I think we will.
Speaker 1: That's a question here with Marcus Brandon. You've got uh
Speaker 1: three number one picks to a big time free agent
Speaker 1: on a defensive line. You guys have had to absorb
Speaker 1: some turnovers the football and a lot of turnover the personnel.
Speaker 1: But it seems like your defensive line the first two
Speaker 1: games should be more productive. That's where so many resources
Speaker 1: are spent. How do you how do you, I guess
Speaker 1: reflect on on that and the job you guys have
Speaker 1: done in the last eight quarters. Well, you know, we
Speaker 1: we we figure for us, we hold ourselves accountable. We
Speaker 1: we're the engine of this defense and we got to
Speaker 1: make sure that we we uh we step it up
Speaker 1: some and you know I think that, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're right, man, We we can, we can be more dominant,
Speaker 1: more dominant, you know, And I think, um, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna start in practice like we like we've been doing.
Speaker 1: Just got to keep working. Can't get frustrated when teams
Speaker 1: try to play you a different way, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and we just how to get it done. And I
Speaker 1: think we will. I know we will, you know, And
Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I'm excited actually because you know, when
Speaker 1: a lot of adversity hit, you know, a lot of people, um,
Speaker 1: you know, definitely give up on you. But that's not
Speaker 1: this team. We were still gonna fight, and we still
Speaker 1: gonna and we still got a lot of great greatness
Speaker 1: ahead of us. And you know, we believe and that's
Speaker 1: all that matter. We're gonna make sure we get it right. Thanks, PG,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Okay, clearly this guy is not falling. Is
Speaker 1: a Doug Peterson montro with several guys coming out of
Speaker 1: the locker room saying that, and look it's true, and
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham always optimistic, truly a guy who believes this
Speaker 1: team can bounce back. All right now, any second now,
Speaker 1: Rodney McCloud, it's going to be joining us. There is Okay,
Speaker 1: McMullan and then Jeff McLean. Hey, Rod, Obviously we talked
Speaker 1: a lot all week about the Rams and their misdirection
Speaker 1: and looks like you guys want a lot of big
Speaker 1: nickel with monarchis out there. How do you think it
Speaker 1: all went? Um? I mean we came up short today. Uh,
Speaker 1: we lost. We Our goal was to stop the run,
Speaker 1: goal was to eliminate the boot game. We understood, you know,
Speaker 1: they would do a lot of misdirections, jet motions, screens,
Speaker 1: and we didn't execute to the best our abilities today
Speaker 1: and we have to own that. Right now. We consider
Speaker 1: ourselves a good run defense and a good overall defense,
Speaker 1: and today we failed to do that. We gave up
Speaker 1: too many touchdowns, not enough turnovers. We're behind the sticks
Speaker 1: a lot on first and second down, which put us,
Speaker 1: which pushed them in in position where you know, we
Speaker 1: were faced with a lot of third and twos, a
Speaker 1: lot of third and threes, and that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: challenging to win. But overall, we run successful today and
Speaker 1: we got to get back to work. Uh. That's all
Speaker 1: you can do, um, in this moment, you have to
Speaker 1: wear this on your sleeve. Understand who we are and
Speaker 1: where we are at this point in time, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, go back to working and prepare for Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Jeff and Rannie, were you surprised by anything you saw
Speaker 1: from from the Rams today on offensive terms of their
Speaker 1: play call? No, it was identical to what we practice. Uh.
Speaker 1: This was one of those games where you had to
Speaker 1: play uh fundamentally sound discipline ball um, trusting one another,
Speaker 1: whether that's you know, the D line holding up there
Speaker 1: in the bargain, standing in their gaps to us in
Speaker 1: the back end, understanding how they're going to attack us
Speaker 1: in what areas and where we need to be. I
Speaker 1: feel like we uh started to chase plays rather than
Speaker 1: being in the moment and and you know, trusting one
Speaker 1: another consistently. Uh we did, you know, battle back and
Speaker 1: put ourselves in good position, but failed to finish the
Speaker 1: game in our fourth quarter Jamie and indeed, I mean
Speaker 1: you guys probably consider yourselves an elite defense. So given that,
Speaker 1: what is the most frustrating thing to you? With the
Speaker 1: O and two starts that were much better than you know,
Speaker 1: the results, Uh, you know, we put in a lot
Speaker 1: of work. Uh. Like I said, last week, we started
Speaker 1: off fast. This week started slowing and you know, put
Speaker 1: ourselves behind, but still both times we managed to fall
Speaker 1: short in that fourth quarter. And so you know, we
Speaker 1: just have to look ourselves in the mirror and figure out,
Speaker 1: I mean, what we're doing. We need to give a
Speaker 1: little bit more of ourselves. Uh, you know, whatever that
Speaker 1: looks like individually and then collectively, we just have to
Speaker 1: put a complete game together, particularly on defense. I can't
Speaker 1: speak on what goes on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: but defensively, we need to do our part. We need
Speaker 1: to play send you defense. We get time for a feemore,
Speaker 1: So let's go deep less And Zach Brody mentioned some
Speaker 1: guys started to chase plays a little bit. How do
Speaker 1: you prevent that and why does that happen in a
Speaker 1: game where the team you're playing does kind of exactly
Speaker 1: what you expect them too. It's frustrating, you know, the
Speaker 1: rams and what they do. You know, they they hit
Speaker 1: you with you know, the stretch, and then they converted
Speaker 1: with a boot, and then they run a screen. You know,
Speaker 1: you're you're constantly you know, just unconventional style offense. I
Speaker 1: would say, at this day and age and where we are,
Speaker 1: and we knew that coming in, and that was the
Speaker 1: task at hand and what we needed to do myself
Speaker 1: included a couple of plays. You know, you're playing the
Speaker 1: last play rather than playing to play at hand and
Speaker 1: what you see right in front of you. So we
Speaker 1: have to make sure moving forward, man, we just be present, uh,
Speaker 1: focus on the play at hand, get the job done,
Speaker 1: and you know that will put us in good position
Speaker 1: and win these games less and then Zach Rodney, is
Speaker 1: there a problem in the defense with knowing where everybody
Speaker 1: is supposed to be pre snapped? The linebackers in particulars
Speaker 1: seem to be out of position a lot. What did
Speaker 1: you see? Oh no, I think, uh, you know, guys
Speaker 1: knew exactly where they needed to be. The Rams they
Speaker 1: do a lot of up tempo UH style offense. They
Speaker 1: get to the line very quick, getting their spots. Either
Speaker 1: they go on first sound or uh they're trying to
Speaker 1: uh figure out what's what defense you're in and and
Speaker 1: and they go on too. So we understood that we
Speaker 1: had our adjustments for speed breaks versus you know, if
Speaker 1: they gave us um, you know, uh normal offense. So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that rattled us. I don't
Speaker 1: think that that played a factor. It was more so
Speaker 1: us executing UM consistently. Uh, you know for sixty minutes. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like I said, we started off slow, battle back UM,
Speaker 1: and then we couldn't close this game out when our
Speaker 1: team needed us in riding fourth quarter there Doug Peterson, Uh,
Speaker 1: he declines the penalty on the field goal. It's a
Speaker 1: five point game, and the defense comes out and and
Speaker 1: and and the Rams score on three plays. What happened
Speaker 1: in that sequence in particular? Uh repeat that again, the
Speaker 1: sequence when they scored on a three play drive. It
Speaker 1: started with the forty yard run by Henderson and then
Speaker 1: Higbee caught the thirty eight yard touchdown. But that three
Speaker 1: play drive there, what happened just not in our not
Speaker 1: in our gaps, uh, you know, gap responsibility. We all
Speaker 1: have to UM play that play. And then that's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Uh. It was nothing that uh the
Speaker 1: Rams did. It was all self inflicted and us UM
Speaker 1: not being where we needed to be. And and we
Speaker 1: can't give up explosive runs or explosive passes. They get
Speaker 1: the forty yard run, obviously we get them down and
Speaker 1: now our backs against the wall, we're trying to fight
Speaker 1: and they run what we call flag will sneak to
Speaker 1: tight end out and you know, we just have to
Speaker 1: have good eyes and discipline football. And that's what this
Speaker 1: game was today and we were on discipline team. Thanks Rotting,
Speaker 1: Roddy McLeod continuing to use this platform for social justice
Speaker 1: wearing that Brianna Taylor sweatshirt that you just saw there.
Speaker 1: All right, we are going to take a quick break
Speaker 1: on the other side. It's friends break down the Rico Review,
Speaker 1: featuring a Dallas Goddard play along with the nominees for
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Speaker 1: back to the postgame show presented by Rico. It's now
Speaker 1: time for the Rico Review and fran Duffy is going
Speaker 1: to bring us Jalen Hurtz's first play as an Eagle
Speaker 1: take a look. Well, all offseason, we have been waiting
Speaker 1: to see how the Eagles would be using quarterback Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts in this offense. Would he be working by himself,
Speaker 1: would he be working alongside Carson Wentz. Well, here on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of an answer here, as
Speaker 1: we've got to see Jalen Hurts a big part of
Speaker 1: the offense in the opening half a couple of plays
Speaker 1: here where he served as eye candy for the Eagles offense.
Speaker 1: This is the very first time we're seeing him here.
Speaker 1: He is with quarterback Carson Wentz under center. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see Jalen Hurts to his right with Miles Sanders flank
Speaker 1: to his left. So what we're gonna see here is
Speaker 1: basically a triple screen by the Eagles offense. You're gonna
Speaker 1: throw Miles Sanders out to the left side, You're gonna
Speaker 1: put Jalen Hurts out to the right. Carson Wentz is
Speaker 1: gonna drop back and pump fake to both players, try
Speaker 1: and get the defense to widen out, create a huge
Speaker 1: void in the middle of the field where Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: is gonna sneak right up the seam. So we'll just
Speaker 1: let this play out. Carson Wentz is gonna take the snap.
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw the pump fake to his left, throw
Speaker 1: another to his right. I've seen the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: do this time and time again with Travis Kelsey, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they do here to open up the
Speaker 1: team for Dallas Goddard. Carson Wentz drops back and hits
Speaker 1: Goddard over the middle of the field. It's a first
Speaker 1: down and helps set up the Eagles first touchdown of
Speaker 1: the game. They go down twenty one to nine in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. And now is your chance to vote
Speaker 1: for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: cast your vote and get a chance at a brand
Speaker 1: new Toyota. This week's nominees Eagles linebacker t J. Edwards,
Speaker 1: defensive end Brandon Graham, and running back Miles Sanders and
Speaker 1: fran and Ike. I'm going with Brandon Graham on this one.
Speaker 1: Of course, it was exciting to see him on the
Speaker 1: field after he had been in the concussion protocol this week. Oh,
Speaker 1: he had the stack of Jared goff alone stack of
Speaker 1: the game. But let me read you This tweet from
Speaker 1: Chris Long as well given BG some love. Former Eagle
Speaker 1: Chris Long says BG saves a TD no stat for it.
Speaker 1: Don't be the box score pass rush watcher making his
Speaker 1: presence felt on and off the stat sheet. That's my pick.
Speaker 1: What about you like? Yeah, good job by BG getting
Speaker 1: a hand on Jared Goff's elbow to force at a
Speaker 1: high throw to that wide open Henderson in the end zone.
Speaker 1: But I gotta be honest with you, Amy, of the
Speaker 1: three candidates, I know TJ made that big play to
Speaker 1: help sett Off a touchdown to get the Eagles back
Speaker 1: in the game, But I just don't want to give
Speaker 1: it to either of these guys. I mean, the defense
Speaker 1: played poorly today. TJ is a part of the defense.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders fumble early in the game put the random
Speaker 1: score in position. I'm gonna go off the board here
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm gonna go with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Big bounce back week for them. Did a nice job
Speaker 1: in the run game for Male Sanders and Boston Scott.
Speaker 1: And guess what, no sacks on Carson Wentz today. I
Speaker 1: believe was able to keep the quarterback clean. Can't say
Speaker 1: the offensive line was any cause for the miss us
Speaker 1: today from the quarterback order running back, So I would
Speaker 1: give it to the old line welling Aaron Donald four
Speaker 1: games against the Eagles as yet to get a sack.
Speaker 1: So definitely offensive line deserves a lot of love. Fran
Speaker 1: Are you gonna take one of the three nominees that
Speaker 1: we have been given or do you want to make
Speaker 1: something up as well? Well? I mean, I just can't
Speaker 1: believe you didn't give it to t J. Edwards he
Speaker 1: gets a forced fumble on special teams, I would thought, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the specialties pro bowler, Oh, you'd be all
Speaker 1: over this. Surprising, But I definitely get where you're coming from, Mike,
Speaker 1: and one hundred percent agree with you about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: To me, one of the things that I'm excited to
Speaker 1: kind of put on display tomorrow is the fact that
Speaker 1: the offensive line was able to get so much movement
Speaker 1: in the run game. A bunch of those Miles Sanders runs,
Speaker 1: you could see the double teams working up to the
Speaker 1: second level getting movement at the line of scrimmage. To me,
Speaker 1: that was a big part of why the run game
Speaker 1: was able to be so successful. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to vote for one of these three.
Speaker 1: I am going to give it two Miles Sanders just
Speaker 1: because he makes his return. He has that critical fumble
Speaker 1: on the opening drive. You know, I'd like to see him,
Speaker 1: you know, own that in the with the media this week,
Speaker 1: say like, hey, you know, I gotta be better than that.
Speaker 1: I got to protect the football. But when you're talking
Speaker 1: about Miles Sanders what he means to this offense, we
Speaker 1: got to see that today just under one hundred yards
Speaker 1: rushing did reach the end zone. So yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: if i'm gonn of those three, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: it to Miles Sanders. But that's like with a little
Speaker 1: bit of a tip of the cap to the offensive
Speaker 1: line as well well. And hopefully now Myles has his
Speaker 1: legs under him, He's had a game and he's going
Speaker 1: to be moving forward without it. Sounds like he feels
Speaker 1: confident that he's not going to be making those same
Speaker 1: mistakes again. All Right, we are going to be looking
Speaker 1: ahead and moving forward. And next week the Bengals are combing,
Speaker 1: are combing, are coming to Philadelphia for a one pm kickoff.
Speaker 1: Press Taylor will be making his return as well as
Speaker 1: he is the head coach. Head coach there in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and the Bengals also owing two after a loss to
Speaker 1: the Browns thirty five thirty on Thursday Night Football. We
Speaker 1: will of course be covering everything for you, starting with
Speaker 1: the kickoff show, which will be forty five minutes before
Speaker 1: kickoff now so we'll be right here at twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: with Fran Duffie, and then again after the game the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico, myself, friend and I. We
Speaker 1: do it every week, you know the drill. At this point,
Speaker 1: we hope to see you next week. Until then, have
Speaker 1: a great week. M