Speaker 1: I believe. I don't know about you guys out there.
Speaker 1: I thought the hell of Mayor had a chance. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it was knocked down in the end zone and the
Speaker 1: Eagles suffer a heartbreaking defeat at the hands of Washington
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty four. It's the team's third consecutive loss.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson joined along Stide Ike Reese. Will hear
Speaker 1: from Greg ho Sell little bit later in the show.
Speaker 1: We're gonna undwrap everything here on the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. We're gonna go to FECs Field. We'll have
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly's press conference along with Mark Sanchez's press conference,
Speaker 1: and we might as well Ike start with Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 1: The theme of the season here for the Eagles, the
Speaker 1: Alpha and Omega, comes down to turnovers, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: started this game Mark Sanchez lost a fumble, Washington was
Speaker 1: able to convert into an early field goal for three
Speaker 1: nothing lead. The Eagles tie game twenty four. Twenty four
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Sanchez is leading the team down the field.
Speaker 1: They're right around midfield. Third down pass attempt to Macklin
Speaker 1: is intercepted by Bashaud Breeland and it gives the Washington
Speaker 1: team a short field to work with as are able
Speaker 1: to mosey undown accept the easy Chip Shop field goal
Speaker 1: for Kai Forbath, who kicks him the twenty six yarder
Speaker 1: to give Washington it's fourth win of the season. Yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just just very disappointing when you
Speaker 1: look at the execution of the team today, knowing what
Speaker 1: was a stake, knowing that they had to basically come
Speaker 1: in and not allow this Washington Ridskins team to hang around.
Speaker 1: Don't give them any confidence, don't give them any belief
Speaker 1: that they can beat you. And the Eagles made just
Speaker 1: enough mistakes today to keep the red Skins in the game.
Speaker 1: You talked about the early fumble by Mark Sanchez where
Speaker 1: he was sacked. I can't necessarily blame him for that.
Speaker 1: He was just he was sacked so fast by Ryan Carrigan.
Speaker 1: But then the penalties, the penalties, Chris, to me that
Speaker 1: that's the big story of the day. How many times
Speaker 1: did penalties either staller drive or keep a drive alive
Speaker 1: for the red Skins or staller drive for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Just far too many penalties to overcome. And then you
Speaker 1: saw the final interception for Mark Sanchez who was really
Speaker 1: having a pretty good day, you know, taking what the
Speaker 1: defense was giving him. You know, he was getting the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands quick for the most part
Speaker 1: of the day. You look at his numbers, thirty seven
Speaker 1: to fifty three, seventy four, that's those are pretty decent numbers.
Speaker 1: A couple of touchdown throws that he had, and he
Speaker 1: had really stayed away from the big mistake he really had.
Speaker 1: You know, you're watching the last two games versus what
Speaker 1: we saw today. This was a completely different Mark saying chess.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, he was just a little errand with
Speaker 1: that last pass, uh, they went, they went into the
Speaker 1: hands of the Shard Brelan. But certainly can't put this
Speaker 1: at the foot of Mark Sanchez the blame for this loss.
Speaker 1: I look at the penalties, and I look at miss
Speaker 1: field goals by Cody Parker. I know he's not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. He's been automatic for you pretty much this season.
Speaker 1: But bottom line, as you lose by three and your
Speaker 1: kicker missed two makable field goals, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: one came after a big turnover coming out of a half.
Speaker 1: They gave the Eagles great field position. They went three
Speaker 1: and out and didn't missed the field goal, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't so much what the Redskins did. I don't want
Speaker 1: to take all the credit away from the Restkins because
Speaker 1: they made a few plays, but I don't think they
Speaker 1: made enough plays to where you could say they deserved
Speaker 1: to win this game. This was more of what the
Speaker 1: Eagles did to themselves, not playing sort of a clean
Speaker 1: game in which they needed to play. They sort of
Speaker 1: We talked about this in the beginning of the game,
Speaker 1: whether or not you're gonna avoid playing down to the
Speaker 1: level of competition. I would say they played down to
Speaker 1: the level of competition to day, just with the the
Speaker 1: mental eras uh. Some of the executions defensively allowed to
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson to get behind you several times. For big players,
Speaker 1: you just can't have those things. And then the one
Speaker 1: critical era at the end of the game, the interception
Speaker 1: by Mark scint Sanchez when they were going down for
Speaker 1: possibly the game winning scorer. Um, it's just disheartening considering
Speaker 1: that what was on the line and where this team
Speaker 1: was just three weeks ago Thanksgiving, seems like it was
Speaker 1: last year. The way they performed against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and moved to nine and three, sitting at the top
Speaker 1: of the NFC East. Yes, yeah, you're exactly right, and
Speaker 1: it just the team has not looked like they looked
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving since Thanksgiving Day, and this is one that
Speaker 1: depending on what happens tomorrow in some of the games.
Speaker 1: You know, the door hasn't been completely shut on the
Speaker 1: post season hopes, but we need a lot more help,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, the Eagles need to get back to
Speaker 1: playing Eagles football. I mean, we had twelve games prior
Speaker 1: to the last three where they looked like they were
Speaker 1: at least one of the top five teams in the
Speaker 1: whole National Football League. In the last three weeks, they
Speaker 1: have not resembled any such thing. Ike Well said on
Speaker 1: every point. So let's lay out the playoffs scenario for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I know it's hard for Eagles fans to
Speaker 1: here at this point, but at nine and six, they
Speaker 1: cannot win a wild card. That is out of the
Speaker 1: picture at this point. They can still win the division,
Speaker 1: but Dallas must lose out and they played tomorrow against Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and they played the same Washington team in week seventeen.
Speaker 1: The Eagles go to MetLife Stadium next Sunday to play
Speaker 1: the Giants, They of course have to win that game.
Speaker 1: If the Eagles and the Cowboys finish tied, yes the
Speaker 1: Eagles would win the NFC East, but certainly that's not
Speaker 1: what's going to be on Eagles fans minds at this point.
Speaker 1: Thinking that this was kind of the easy stepping stone
Speaker 1: leading into that Week seventeen game, I think most Eagles
Speaker 1: fans figured, Okay, they'll take care of business against Washington
Speaker 1: because the one thing, and you mentioned this like, is
Speaker 1: that the East Eagles teams and the last two years
Speaker 1: with Ship Kelly, they've taken care of the lesser opposition.
Speaker 1: And on the Kickoff show, we had a stat where
Speaker 1: the Eagles have lost just two games to losing teams,
Speaker 1: and they were both last season to the Giants, who
Speaker 1: finished last season at seven to nine, and the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings late in the year. Outside of that, you look
Speaker 1: at all the losses prior to today, all five of
Speaker 1: them were against teams that were five hundred the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers or above, and they were all
Speaker 1: the top teams in the NFC. That's the one reason
Speaker 1: that the Eagles could have finished with eleven wins and
Speaker 1: still not made the pluffs because they will have lost
Speaker 1: all the tiebreakers within the conference after sweeping the AFC
Speaker 1: South teams that they played this season. So the one
Speaker 1: number that stands out to me, they're like the penalties.
Speaker 1: Thirteen penalties over one hundred yards given up of three yards.
Speaker 1: There you look down numbers because it's hard to really
Speaker 1: parsed this game and say, how did the Eagles lose
Speaker 1: this game? Yes, they had a couple of turnovers. Yes,
Speaker 1: Cody Parker, who had been automatic all season long missus
Speaker 1: two key field goals. But the penalties right there is
Speaker 1: what stands out to you the most. Yeah, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: penalties are the biggest thing. And that's uh, the Eagles
Speaker 1: are one of the more penalized teams in the league.
Speaker 1: That shift for some reason. That's just not like a
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly coach team, you know, is his coach that
Speaker 1: pays a lot of attension to detail and make sure
Speaker 1: that that that his players are paying attention to detail
Speaker 1: and pre snap. Uh you guys, that the guys have
Speaker 1: to be locked in and keyed into what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. And it was just far too often
Speaker 1: to day there were so many penalties Chris that you
Speaker 1: you were almost expecting a penalty after every play the
Speaker 1: way this referee crew was calling them, and a couple
Speaker 1: of them were if he calls you know, the rough
Speaker 1: and the quarterback. A couple of those two that happened
Speaker 1: that led to a Redskin scoring drive. I don't think
Speaker 1: those were rough and the penalty type of plays, but
Speaker 1: when the referees call them, they're not gonna overturn them.
Speaker 1: That's not something you can go back and review. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line is is that they allowed this team
Speaker 1: to stick around with their sloppy play, and once the
Speaker 1: Redskins game confidence, thinking that they could win this game,
Speaker 1: it was hard to turn it off. You know. I
Speaker 1: thought the interception of RG three would be the one
Speaker 1: to seal the Redskins fate and it wasn't. It was not,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was a you know, their defense
Speaker 1: came out and got a big, big turnover on that
Speaker 1: next drive to eventually put them in position to kick
Speaker 1: the game when it field goal. Watching those last couple
Speaker 1: of minuts like very similar to watching that Saints playoff
Speaker 1: loss back in January, where the Eagles offense left the
Speaker 1: field in position they were winning that game. They were
Speaker 1: tied here today, so you figure, Okay, if they can
Speaker 1: just get to overtime, they'd be in good shape. Of Course,
Speaker 1: you didn't want to see it to go overtime, but nonetheless,
Speaker 1: then the Saints took over. They got the kickoff return,
Speaker 1: and they had the easy drive to get the field goal. Here,
Speaker 1: Washington great field position because of the interception. They get
Speaker 1: the big pass play on the first play after that,
Speaker 1: and then it's at that point just setting up shop,
Speaker 1: getting four baths as close as possible. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, and we were kind of talking about hearing
Speaker 1: the studio watching the last couple of minutes here, what
Speaker 1: would you have done from a time management perspective clock
Speaker 1: manager perspective there in terms of would you have allowed
Speaker 1: Washington to score the touchdown to try to give their
Speaker 1: team the ball back? How would you have handled that?
Speaker 1: Would you have done anything different there? Yeah? I would have, Chris,
Speaker 1: and listen, it's easy for me to sit here in
Speaker 1: the warm studio and be a Monday morning quarterback or
Speaker 1: a Saturday evening quarterback. After the you know, the facts
Speaker 1: have already displayed themselves. But yeah, I look at that
Speaker 1: situation very similar to the Super Bowl when Green Bay
Speaker 1: was playing to dever Broncos and the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: allowed to rail Davis. I believe it was to go
Speaker 1: in and score a touchdown late in the game, just
Speaker 1: so that they would have an opportunity to get the
Speaker 1: ball back. And that's that's something and I would have
Speaker 1: thought about obviously, Chit was trying to hold them there
Speaker 1: for the field goal and try to say some time there,
Speaker 1: but it didn't work out that way. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have tried to allow them to go into the end
Speaker 1: zone and scope, but that's easy to say. You know,
Speaker 1: most coaches don't want to give up a touchdown at
Speaker 1: that point there, and they feel that they hold them
Speaker 1: to a field goal, they're going to get the ball
Speaker 1: back with a little more time. The penalty, I believe
Speaker 1: it was that gave the Redskins. I believe another down
Speaker 1: allowed the Redskins to run that clock down a lot
Speaker 1: further than they should have had the Eagles been able
Speaker 1: to get off the field, even if the Redskins had
Speaker 1: scored or kicked the field goal. It's like I said,
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to sit here in the studio
Speaker 1: and in second guests that in place Saturday evening quarterback.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is you're in desperate mode at
Speaker 1: that time, when in all reality, it shouldn't not have
Speaker 1: come down to know, it really shouldn't not have come
Speaker 1: down that this is a three and what eighteen three
Speaker 1: and eleven team, sorry, three and eleven team that had
Speaker 1: no business being in this game. But it's a divisional
Speaker 1: opponent that's planned at home, that's planned for a little pride.
Speaker 1: And once they hit on a couple plays early, I
Speaker 1: thought RG three gained a lot of confidence and the players,
Speaker 1: the players, I think gaged confidence as well, and they
Speaker 1: knew that they were in a dog fight from that
Speaker 1: point one. At the same time, halftime fourteen to ten. Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: McCoy rushing the ball tremendously in the first half. Eagles
Speaker 1: had some tough sledding, but they finally seemed like they
Speaker 1: were grounded. They finally seemed like they were taking control
Speaker 1: of the game. Open kick off the second half, Andre
Speaker 1: Roberts fumbles, Eagles recover. You think at that point, all right,
Speaker 1: where Eagles are gonna stomp them, you know, stomp the
Speaker 1: throats of Washington and put this thing away. Cody Parkin
Speaker 1: misses the field goal, and then from there it just
Speaker 1: seemed like they were just not able to seize it
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden. It's another thing that
Speaker 1: was going on throughout the course of the the season, another theme.
Speaker 1: Here Eagles fall behind by a double digit margin and
Speaker 1: have to work their way back. They were able to
Speaker 1: do so to tie the game, but they couldn't just
Speaker 1: get over the hump there at the end. But you
Speaker 1: bring up a great point there when you force a
Speaker 1: fumble coming out and half and you're up about four already,
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to go up twenty one to
Speaker 1: ten there. And now the red Skins, as a losing team,
Speaker 1: are gonna be sitting on that sideline saying, oh, here
Speaker 1: it comes, Here comes the avalanche of points and yards,
Speaker 1: and uh, all right, we're gonna send it to Fax Field.
Speaker 1: Here's Chip Kelly. You had two turnovers and thirteen penalties. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win a football game that way. I mean,
Speaker 1: we put them on, left him on the field too
Speaker 1: many times on third down where we got penalties to
Speaker 1: extend drives. You felt like you had to stop. But
Speaker 1: thirteen penalties and two turnovers isn't gonna win football game
Speaker 1: in this league. Feel like your team, I mean delaying
Speaker 1: losses and they come out with that. Yeah, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, you battle back and you end up tiying
Speaker 1: the game twenty four UM. But we didn't do enough
Speaker 1: good things to win obviously. Thirteen penalties missed, two field goals,
Speaker 1: two turnovers not enough to win a football game. I
Speaker 1: was on the other side and I knew it threw
Speaker 1: it behind. It looked like he threw it behind Jordan.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they were bringing they were
Speaker 1: bringing a blitz. I don't know if he had a
Speaker 1: chance to set his feet and throw the ball, but
Speaker 1: I know the ball was behind Jordan, not being able
Speaker 1: to sif that was big. You know, you want to
Speaker 1: come away with points. Obviously, you start off. It's a
Speaker 1: good momentum swing. Malcolm makes a nice play on the
Speaker 1: kickoff cover we get we get the ball out there,
Speaker 1: you think you're at least coming away with three UM.
Speaker 1: You always want seven in those situations. But you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the game was like all night.
Speaker 1: Was there any consideration given it? Just no. We didn't
Speaker 1: talk about that. Now. He was clear, he was one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. He kicked all week in practice, So I
Speaker 1: don't think it's got anything to do with that. I
Speaker 1: just think he missed. It looked like he missed in
Speaker 1: the same spot every time, even though one he made,
Speaker 1: it looked like he pushed it to the right. So
Speaker 1: some of those people, you try to get some help
Speaker 1: over the top, you know, um, in certain coverages and
Speaker 1: and uh and get matched up with them. But I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, we felt like our corners could stay with them.
Speaker 1: But obviously they didn't and he had a good game.
Speaker 1: I just needed to get someone else in there and
Speaker 1: see what he could do. So put no one in
Speaker 1: there and then brought fletchback and Dime. So yeah, a lot,
Speaker 1: they played a lot. They played very deep in coverage
Speaker 1: and played off of people. You know, they they were
Speaker 1: down a couple of linebackers. I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: felt like Zach could exploit them in there a little bit.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, he had a really big game
Speaker 1: against those guys, kind of operating giving us the ball
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field a lot, and that's
Speaker 1: what you know, that's what we took. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: couldn't didn't convert the red zone. Um miss those two
Speaker 1: field goals offense. If he didn't get it done, you
Speaker 1: m we got one game left. We're gonna go get
Speaker 1: ready and get focused for the New York Giants, and
Speaker 1: got to win that game, and then there's a lot
Speaker 1: of other things that have to happen besides that that
Speaker 1: we have no control over. But the only thing we
Speaker 1: do have control over is getting ready for New York.
Speaker 1: So I thought he played well in this game up
Speaker 1: until that turnover, you know, the one that Kerrigan stripped them.
Speaker 1: I don't think he saw him coming, um, coming around Lane.
Speaker 1: But besides that, I thought he threw the ball well. Um,
Speaker 1: but you can't turn the ball over in a critical
Speaker 1: situation like that. The struggled about three sacks and the
Speaker 1: first at what was going on there? Adjustments, Um, I
Speaker 1: think Jeff made a couple of adjustments up front. We
Speaker 1: got beat on a couple of twists just passing things off.
Speaker 1: I think he made some good adjustments and things settled
Speaker 1: down a little bit. I think uh Lane did a
Speaker 1: better job getting used to what Ryan was gonna do
Speaker 1: to him. Um. He's really a dynamic pass rusher as
Speaker 1: we all know. Um. But I thought I thought as
Speaker 1: a game when along those guys did a good job.
Speaker 1: You see, Jackson had his second straight. You can back
Speaker 1: to your original decision to really soon. Now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about the football game. Is this not the first time
Speaker 1: you stood here talking about turners? And now is this
Speaker 1: team laughing disappointed? No, they're not lacking discipline. We're just
Speaker 1: not doing the right things doing a football game. But
Speaker 1: don't think they're lacking discipline. There was ye got stopped
Speaker 1: in the second half. Yeah, we didn't get a good
Speaker 1: push up front. Didn't look like you look like we
Speaker 1: got knocked back a little bit. Um. And obviously, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna win games like this, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: convert on third down like that, and you know we
Speaker 1: knew it. Um. I don't think there was anybody coming
Speaker 1: for you, but we just didn't a real good push
Speaker 1: up from Did you consider going for it after that
Speaker 1: on fourth down? Though? I mean we were in we
Speaker 1: were normal field goal range. That wasn't It wasn't like
Speaker 1: it was a long kick that we were attempting at
Speaker 1: that point in time. So at the end of the half,
Speaker 1: what's up the decision? A very small fuel goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was too far out. We know pre game where
Speaker 1: he was gonna go. We had to get the ball
Speaker 1: inside of the thirty five yard land were inside the
Speaker 1: thirty five so now because if you turn the ball
Speaker 1: over there then they get a shot. So I think
Speaker 1: he did a good job of reading the quarterback size
Speaker 1: and understanding where he was trying to do. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times r G three was trying to
Speaker 1: look him off, you know, as the high safety below.
Speaker 1: He played a lot of man free coverage, and then
Speaker 1: you got to do a good job of reading the
Speaker 1: quarterback and react him back on that playoff thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job. Now, Belly's up in the box.
Speaker 1: We talk on the headset. You know, I knew what
Speaker 1: was gonna go on. So second game you have to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of bullets just getting back into it
Speaker 1: ties just so to maintain that sort of littlementum. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You know, when I think of out of it we created,
Speaker 1: we put ourselves in a hole, you know, and the
Speaker 1: with the penalties and um, you know, extending drives and
Speaker 1: that that's on us. But you know, you can't sit
Speaker 1: there and say, hey, we expended too much energy getting
Speaker 1: back in the game. We we had the ball at
Speaker 1: the end um driving put ourselves in a situation to win,
Speaker 1: and we didn't do it. We didn't. Next, you had
Speaker 1: some tough one on one situations last week too. Was
Speaker 1: there any thought to making sure he had safety helped
Speaker 1: out here against Sean? Now? I mean we we we
Speaker 1: had a game plan going in, you know, and felt
Speaker 1: like we could match up and obviously didn't work. I
Speaker 1: think their linebackers were really banged up. You know, they
Speaker 1: didn't have any I think Perry Raley was the only
Speaker 1: guy that was that's been a normal guy from Keenan Robinson,
Speaker 1: their number one cover guy had been out, so we
Speaker 1: felt like that was something we could exploit. Inside, we
Speaker 1: went into the decision to keep Fletcher and that kind
Speaker 1: of starting spot up until the latter stages given up.
Speaker 1: His troubles are less. What went into it. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about it and felt like he was the best
Speaker 1: guy to give us a shot on on on those
Speaker 1: rough and answer commies in terms of yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just saw the replay in the stadium, So it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter when I think I'm not in charge. So thanks,
Speaker 1: hes all right, Chip Kelly leaving the podium follow when
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty seven to twenty four loss at the
Speaker 1: hands of Washington. Chris McPherson ikeris here. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from quarterback Mark Sanchez in a little bit will react
Speaker 1: to what Kelly said after this quick break here on
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Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico. Uh like your thoughts
Speaker 1: on what Chip Kelly had to say that as press confidence,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just very emotional. I'm sure like most Eagles
Speaker 1: fans are, yeah at this point. So well, you know
Speaker 1: about giving help to Bradley Fletch or any of the
Speaker 1: corners with number eleven out there, de Sean Jackson, I
Speaker 1: guess they felt confident going into the game that they
Speaker 1: would be able to, you know, marginalize Deshan's effectiveness. Uh,
Speaker 1: without you know, giving a whole bunch of help to
Speaker 1: h to either the corners out there. And that's that's
Speaker 1: a dangerous that's just a dangerous philosophy to go into
Speaker 1: a game when with Jackson as one of the wilde receivers,
Speaker 1: because against the secondary, they've seen on film that if
Speaker 1: nothing else, teams are going to take their shots down
Speaker 1: the field against our corners. You know, we have a
Speaker 1: tough time at times playing the football in the air.
Speaker 1: And when you get a speed guy like Jackson, if
Speaker 1: you don't get a jam on him at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, I mean he does this to some of
Speaker 1: the top corners in the league. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: all pro corners in the league. He has the ability
Speaker 1: to do these sorts of things. And you know they
Speaker 1: tried to adjust later in the game, but it was
Speaker 1: just too late. I've always said about the Sean Jackson,
Speaker 1: He's never gonna hurt you with the volume of catches
Speaker 1: that he could possibly have in a game. It's always
Speaker 1: going to be the type of catching is. And he
Speaker 1: had two big ones today. I think two fifty yards
Speaker 1: Today they're really shortened the field for the red Skins.
Speaker 1: They were able to score the very next play off
Speaker 1: of the second fifty yard catching. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I think they scored a touchdown off of his first
Speaker 1: fifty yard catch. So you know, the effectiveness of having
Speaker 1: a guy like Jackson in your lineup is is that
Speaker 1: you don't have to work ten, twelve, fifteen plays to
Speaker 1: score if you're able to hit him in one of
Speaker 1: those deep balls. And you would have liked to have seen,
Speaker 1: you know, our defense do a better job, if of
Speaker 1: nothing else, keeping the ball in front of him and
Speaker 1: making Washington earn everything, because I believe if you force
Speaker 1: RG three to go, you know, eight, nine, ten plays,
Speaker 1: twelve plays more often than not he's gonna make a
Speaker 1: mistake in there somewhere. But when you give them drives
Speaker 1: of three and four plays, because you allow one of
Speaker 1: these big plays to Deshaun Jackson, it really allows for
Speaker 1: RG three to operate in his conference zone where he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do a whole lot. Sean Jackson four
Speaker 1: catches one hundred and twenty six yards on today. Robert
Speaker 1: Griffin the third not monster numbers, But like you said,
Speaker 1: if you want to have him beat, you have him
Speaker 1: do it with his arm. You figure he's not going
Speaker 1: to be someone who wants to run the football. Your
Speaker 1: estimation on how he performed it, it seemed like that
Speaker 1: you saw some fundamental mistakes in the first half. You
Speaker 1: saw the interception in the second half, and like you
Speaker 1: had said, you thought maybe that would be the undoing
Speaker 1: of him. Maybe that's the point where he unravels and
Speaker 1: is not able to rally the team. But after they
Speaker 1: got the short field from the interception, he didn't have
Speaker 1: to do a whole lot. After day, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure his confidence was shaking. That was a terrible
Speaker 1: read by r G three, as Nate Allen was shaded
Speaker 1: towards the side of the Shan Jackson, and they had
Speaker 1: single coverage on the backside with Pierre Garson and Carrie Williams.
Speaker 1: That's where the throw should have gone because Nate Allen
Speaker 1: had already gotten over the top. But again they get
Speaker 1: the ball back off of an interception from the Eagles
Speaker 1: on that final drive, and he doesn't have to make
Speaker 1: a ton of big throws there. They run the ball
Speaker 1: down the field goal range. R Williams doesn't make the
Speaker 1: tackle and Pierre gar soon is able to run after
Speaker 1: the catchyest. So again you didn't make it very difficult
Speaker 1: for him. Just two hundred yards passing a hundred yards
Speaker 1: rushing combined. Uh for the red Skins today. I thought
Speaker 1: the defense played well in spurts. You know. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing for the defense in my mind, was that they
Speaker 1: had critical penalties at times when you just couldn't have pennies.
Speaker 1: Whether it was jumping offsides or whether it was adding
Speaker 1: fifteen yards to a bogus rough in the passer call
Speaker 1: that happen and several times, not the last one that
Speaker 1: they called on Vinny Curry. I can understand. You take
Speaker 1: a swipe and you hit the quarterback in the helmet,
Speaker 1: then call yeah, they're gonna call that one, but the
Speaker 1: other two on Brandon Graham and I think Vinny Curry
Speaker 1: was the other guy. I just didn't see it, you know,
Speaker 1: I just didn't see where it was rough in the passer.
Speaker 1: And those were fifteen yard plays that were added to
Speaker 1: the end of plays, big time, big time plays. You
Speaker 1: had guy jump offsides on third and one. I think
Speaker 1: it was Fletcher shocks that. I think it was the
Speaker 1: four or five penalties that they had today on third down,
Speaker 1: they gave the red Skins first downs and allowed them
Speaker 1: to extend their drives. That's why it's unbefuddled by trying
Speaker 1: to describe how the Eagles defense performed, because you look
Speaker 1: at the numbers, and numbers aren't that bad, right, But
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna look at, say the final drive,
Speaker 1: defense needs to step up and make a play. There
Speaker 1: were some times throughout the course of the game where
Speaker 1: they need to make a play. Run defense pretty much
Speaker 1: stout as usual, held Alpha Morris who under a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He did have the touchdown in the first quarter, but
Speaker 1: outside of that, they were able, to the most part
Speaker 1: to contain the Washington run offense. And you figure, well,
Speaker 1: if you do that and forced Robert Griffin a third
Speaker 1: to throw the football. You're going to be in good
Speaker 1: shape to win the game, and the Eagles were in
Speaker 1: position to win the game up until the final drive
Speaker 1: offensively where they turned the ball over at midfield. But
Speaker 1: as you said, like when you look at the penalties
Speaker 1: and just sloppy execusion at certain points, it's really really
Speaker 1: tough to say, well, Eagles offense did a great job
Speaker 1: because there were times again when hey, the offense is
Speaker 1: going to struggle, you need to step up and make
Speaker 1: something happen, and they were unable to do that. So
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Speaker 1: Are I send it back to FedEx Fiel, We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from the quarterback Mark Sanchez. It's ten wins and uh.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I mean, we can't control anything on
Speaker 1: the outside, so just focus on we can control and
Speaker 1: um and move on. They were seems like they were
Speaker 1: taking away to do stuff that you had a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on the n Yeah they played, uh they
Speaker 1: played pretty sound in the back end. Um, But like
Speaker 1: I said, we moved the ball. I saw some four
Speaker 1: hund or something yards offense, which is great. Um got
Speaker 1: Cooper rolling two big touchdown catches, really really good catches too,
Speaker 1: especially the second one, and then Urtz just went off. Man,
Speaker 1: he had such an awesome day. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's too bad that that kind of stuff happens
Speaker 1: on a day that you lose the first position. In
Speaker 1: the second hand, Oh of course, you know, and we
Speaker 1: got to put ourselves in a in a we can't
Speaker 1: put ourselves in a better position. You know, coming out
Speaker 1: of halftime, Malcolm makes a great and now we got
Speaker 1: to go capitalize, and you know, it just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So that's too bad. We needed to get some points.
Speaker 1: There have some wins, but now for in a row.
Speaker 1: A lot of times they said each other quarterback, but
Speaker 1: that you know, you gotta you gotta win games. Um,
Speaker 1: the head coach and the quarterback. You know, we're the
Speaker 1: only ones who keep a record. Um, so that's that's
Speaker 1: the the goes with the territory with this position. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, they've been three really tough games and this
Speaker 1: one came down to the wire and we just came
Speaker 1: up a little short have you Have you known that
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna get a quarterback pretty much first episode,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I mean, it just we take
Speaker 1: a week to week, so there's a week to week thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, every week is a week to week thing.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just going trying to go one and
Speaker 1: oh and unfortunately these last three we let him slide.
Speaker 1: You guys, I miss here a little late till the interception.
Speaker 1: You yeah, I mean we uh, I knew people were
Speaker 1: gonna come free, and so I'm trying to anticipate where
Speaker 1: Max's gonna be, and you know, I'm getting the guy
Speaker 1: in my face and trying to throw it to him
Speaker 1: and just kind of miss it and guy made and
Speaker 1: unbelievable play. Would have been a great throwaway. And we
Speaker 1: get a fourth down and we're still rolling. So it's
Speaker 1: really too bad. You guys get close to find you
Speaker 1: had all the moment America again and then they go
Speaker 1: back down to school a second after the pick. The
Speaker 1: ups and downs the highest and lows. I think for
Speaker 1: the last two minutes of the game. How to flaving?
Speaker 1: Is that? How difficult is that? I mean, it's tough
Speaker 1: to tough to swallow you know, you want to get
Speaker 1: a win, especially with, like I said, some of the
Speaker 1: outstanding performances we had. Um, you know, it's really too
Speaker 1: bad when that happens and then we lose. You guys
Speaker 1: tie the score in the middle. Yeah, what happened now?
Speaker 1: Trying squeeze it into earths? I mean it's they they
Speaker 1: ended up dropping eight, so, um, just trying to get
Speaker 1: a quick one over the middle to him, and they
Speaker 1: converge on him pretty quick. I gotta see the film
Speaker 1: see if he really got a hand on it. He
Speaker 1: came over and was just I gotta catch it. I
Speaker 1: gotta catch him. That's just the way he is. He's
Speaker 1: an awesome guy and wants to catch every ball. So um.
Speaker 1: You know you can appreciate that as a quarterback, but
Speaker 1: you know he'd like to get it there even sooner
Speaker 1: or maybe move on. But I think they dropped eight,
Speaker 1: so they were gonna have five underneath. Anyway, when you
Speaker 1: put up that kind of those kids and numbers, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, how do you? How do you say? How
Speaker 1: do you? I mean, we lost. That's the most important
Speaker 1: thing is winning the game, whether I throw it for
Speaker 1: fifty yards or five hundred yards. I mean We got
Speaker 1: to get a win, So that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: You don't really worry about stats till the end of
Speaker 1: the year when you know the seasons months gone. And hey,
Speaker 1: that was a really good game he might have had. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all well and good, but we want to win.
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Mark Sanchez leaving the podium at FedEx Field.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the post game show your thoughts on
Speaker 1: sanchez performance. Overall, ran the offense efficiently, but just had
Speaker 1: that one buggaboo at the end of the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really did think that that Mark did a nice
Speaker 1: job of taking what the defense was giving him, you know,
Speaker 1: the risk, and surprise me with how much coverage they
Speaker 1: decided to play against the Eagles offense today as opposed
Speaker 1: to what Jim hazlet has done for the most part
Speaker 1: this season, which is basically sending the farm after any quarterback.
Speaker 1: And they didn't really do that until late in the game,
Speaker 1: and that really forced Mark Sanchez to get rid of
Speaker 1: that ball sooner than he wanted to. He had a
Speaker 1: little bit of happy feet because on that final series,
Speaker 1: and it was all because Jim Hazlitt started to blitz
Speaker 1: him a lot more on that final series. But prior
Speaker 1: to that, I thought he did a nice job but
Speaker 1: just taking what the defense was giving him. You want
Speaker 1: to leave zach Ertz open, Okay, I'll keep hitting him
Speaker 1: for the five ten yards, twelve yards, Okay. You wanted
Speaker 1: to playoff Roley Cooper and give him the hitch route, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll keep throwing it to him. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: what he did. He did a nice job of swinging
Speaker 1: the ball to his backs at times. There are a
Speaker 1: couple throws in there that he wishes he could have back.
Speaker 1: There were some guys downfield that you would have liked
Speaker 1: to have possibly seen him pull the trigger on. But
Speaker 1: I don't say this if you as a quarterback, if
Speaker 1: you aren't confident you can make that throw, I don't
Speaker 1: want you making that throw. And so he stayed away
Speaker 1: from the big mistake where he put his team in
Speaker 1: the hole and until that final drive again, the sack
Speaker 1: force Fumal, I don't think that was on Mark Early
Speaker 1: in the game, Lane Johnson was beat right off the
Speaker 1: snap by Ryan Carrigan, But the interception late I think
Speaker 1: was a direct result of Jim haslet dalling up the
Speaker 1: pressure on those first few players prior to that last play,
Speaker 1: and I think Mark, because he hadn't seen a ton
Speaker 1: of pressure all game, started to rush himself a little
Speaker 1: bit and that throw was off target, as was a
Speaker 1: throw I believe a player too earlier that could have
Speaker 1: been intercepted by Ryan Clark when he to get the
Speaker 1: ball to zach Ertz versus a Blitz. So, mum, I
Speaker 1: don't play this this loss at the feet of Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 1: I certainly don't do that. I don't think he's the
Speaker 1: reason that they lost the game today. His interception on
Speaker 1: the finals drive is what everyone will talk about. But
Speaker 1: compared to the way he played against Seattle and Dallas,
Speaker 1: I thought this looked more like the Mark Sanchez we
Speaker 1: had seen in the Tennessee game, the Carolina game, that
Speaker 1: first Cowboy game, as opposed to what we've seen the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Who would be your player of the game, Like,
Speaker 1: as we start to get your final thoughts, it would
Speaker 1: have to be a toss up between either Rolly Cooper
Speaker 1: or zach Ertz. I thought, I thought Cooper. This this
Speaker 1: was Cooper's best game of the season. It really was.
Speaker 1: And it's not that his numbers will jump off the
Speaker 1: screen at you. But I thought every just about every
Speaker 1: past that was thrown to him, he made the catches
Speaker 1: the end zone, you know, not the second touchdown at
Speaker 1: the first one. The second one I thought was a
Speaker 1: nice little over the show to catch that he made
Speaker 1: there to secure the ball, so you can only catch
Speaker 1: him if they throw him to you. I thought Raley
Speaker 1: had a real nice game, and that's it's been a
Speaker 1: while since we've been able to say that about Riley Cooper.
Speaker 1: Do you think Dallas will lose tomorrow? I think that's
Speaker 1: a very good chance they'll lose. And I listen, they
Speaker 1: watched this game today. They know if they win the mall,
Speaker 1: it's over. You know, they basically clinch the NFC East
Speaker 1: and they're in I believe. So will they make any
Speaker 1: difference to the players though, I mean, of course it does.
Speaker 1: Of course it does if you can get it clinched
Speaker 1: this week, as opposed to going into the final week
Speaker 1: and having to go on the road against the team
Speaker 1: that's already beat you. Oh and by the way, watching
Speaker 1: how they just played against the Eagles, the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: the red Skins true rival, and you best believe they'll
Speaker 1: be emotionally ready to go next week for that game.
Speaker 1: So I think today's results puts the Cowboys in a
Speaker 1: position where they're gonna go out there and definitely trying
Speaker 1: to take care of business at home against the Indianapolis Coast,
Speaker 1: although they're a much better team on the road. The losses,
Speaker 1: all four of the losses have come at home at
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Speaker 1: is the holiday season. So greg initial thoughts, you know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. What my initial thought is watching the game
Speaker 1: was I was amazed at the defense the Redskins chose
Speaker 1: to play, because the Redskins played into the only thing
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez really does well, which was throw the ball
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field at about eight to
Speaker 1: twelve yards, and I was really surprised that they in
Speaker 1: a sense let him do that. They played almost all
Speaker 1: zones for pretty much all of the game until that
Speaker 1: final drive they rushed three numerous times, and they gave
Speaker 1: up the eight to twelve yard area. And I was
Speaker 1: really watching the game. I was just totally we were
Speaker 1: talking about it. I was just really really surprised by
Speaker 1: that because those are the throws that Mark Sanchez can
Speaker 1: make well, and he made them well. And the thing
Speaker 1: is all we come as his game. You talked about
Speaker 1: Jim hasletitzelitzey Blitz, and you just figure they're going to
Speaker 1: bring the house. Sometimes they do. Jim Hazlet is very
Speaker 1: game specific. There are games in which he will attack, attack, attack,
Speaker 1: and there are other games where he will play a
Speaker 1: ton of zone. And obviously he chose to do that. Hey,
Speaker 1: he had a reason for it. You know, maybe he
Speaker 1: felt that if he forced Mark Sanchez to run to eleven, twelve,
Speaker 1: thirteen plays that at some point he'd make a mistake.
Speaker 1: There is a track record. But it was interesting to
Speaker 1: me that he chose that because he really allowed Sanchez
Speaker 1: to be a very efficient player for a large majority
Speaker 1: of the game. The Eagles had a sixteen play, ninety
Speaker 1: four yard tuss drive in the second quarter and that
Speaker 1: was I say on the halftime report with like Greece,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a drive that was gonna be
Speaker 1: the season saver right there. Yeah, there's you know, to me,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of things that standing. You know,
Speaker 1: you can talk penalties all day. I don't do penalties,
Speaker 1: because what are you gonna you were cringing off off camera? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you what they call? Yeah? I mean, and
Speaker 1: you guys talked about it already, but I think it's
Speaker 1: it was really a critical part of this game the
Speaker 1: second half, the beginning of the second half. That was
Speaker 1: a chance to go up by two scores, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Redskins RG three. To me, he's certainly not a
Speaker 1: comeback quarterback at this point in his career, and that
Speaker 1: was a chance to go off twenty one to ten.
Speaker 1: You get a really bad play by Andre robertson a
Speaker 1: really good play by Malcolm Jenkins. You're right there, you
Speaker 1: were inside the twenty. You're in the red zone on
Speaker 1: your first offensive snap. You need a touchdown, and I
Speaker 1: think a good team or a team ready to take
Speaker 1: that next step into the playoff scores a touchdown there.
Speaker 1: They just got the field they missed the field goal,
Speaker 1: they got no points, and then Washington came back out
Speaker 1: of touchdown so it was a ten point swing right there.
Speaker 1: What did you think, Greg, And this is something you
Speaker 1: pointed out while watching the game about the Eagles and
Speaker 1: the way they utilize the tempo in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was another thing. You're right. I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 1: that because this was not the speed tempo that we're
Speaker 1: used to seeing. How many times did we comment that
Speaker 1: the playclock got to twelve or eleven or even under
Speaker 1: stan got to under ten, And yes, they ran a
Speaker 1: ton of plays, So maybe it seems like a mood point,
Speaker 1: but it's not because you get used to playing a
Speaker 1: certain tempo and that's the way you play, and that's
Speaker 1: the way you're most effective because that's what you practice.
Speaker 1: And they really weren't playing that tempo. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why, We won't know why, We may never know, no,
Speaker 1: and he may not tell anyway, but they certainly were
Speaker 1: not playing at the same speed tempo that they normally do,
Speaker 1: or they haven't in recent weeks. Do you think that
Speaker 1: Washington did anything on defense to take away Lashawn McCoy
Speaker 1: in the second half. McCoy had sixty nine right rushing
Speaker 1: yards in the first half, was not as effective in
Speaker 1: the second half. Obviously you saw how good stances was
Speaker 1: and work in the past game, especially with zach Ertzwood
Speaker 1: a franchise record fifteen receptions. But so you look at
Speaker 1: the final numbers across the board and you say yourself,
Speaker 1: did Washington mix things up? They do something different? Did
Speaker 1: they just say did they go back to the Week
Speaker 1: three match him and say, you know, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: let McCoy beat us. If we're gonna lose to this
Speaker 1: Zegal team, it's gonna be Mark Sanchez. I think a
Speaker 1: couple of things happen. I think, first of all, it
Speaker 1: was evident to Chip Kelly and everybody we just talked
Speaker 1: about it that those eight yard throws were pretty consistently there,
Speaker 1: and you're going to take an eight yard gain every
Speaker 1: single snap if they're going to give it to you.
Speaker 1: And then then what happened is the second half progressed,
Speaker 1: is they got down, and I think that removed McCoy
Speaker 1: as viable an option as he was in the first half.
Speaker 1: So I think the combination of those two things limited
Speaker 1: McCoy's touches. Would you say, at sixteen in the first half,
Speaker 1: sixty nine in the first half, but how many I
Speaker 1: wonder how many carries because he had fewer carries I
Speaker 1: think in the second half clearly, But I think that
Speaker 1: that was it. They were able to throw the ball
Speaker 1: very effectively. The Redskins kept giving them those throws, and
Speaker 1: why not take them? Certainly that's the case. He average
Speaker 1: five point three yards were carrying the first half, finished
Speaker 1: with four eight eight yards total on twenty two carries.
Speaker 1: And I were talking about the Eagles defense, you know,
Speaker 1: I have a hard time trying to characterize the performance
Speaker 1: right for all, because some of the numbers you say,
Speaker 1: you're pretty I think their third down numbers were tremendous.
Speaker 1: The Redskins were not good on third down in this game,
Speaker 1: you know. But then all of a sudden, you look
Speaker 1: at the penalties, you look at the man points, the
Speaker 1: fact that they allowed them to drive down on the
Speaker 1: final drive of the game and get the winning points.
Speaker 1: You say to yourself, it wasn't certainly a dominating performance
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris was. I'd have largely in check outside the
Speaker 1: one touchdown the first half. But I think the players
Speaker 1: will remember, of course, are the two big ones to
Speaker 1: Deshaun Jackson, you know. And it's so interesting when you
Speaker 1: watch the Eagles defense on film. Obviously, Bradley Fletcher has
Speaker 1: been beaten this year. Carry Williams has been beaten this year.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles don't play man to man with no
Speaker 1: help on every snap. Sometimes it appears that way because
Speaker 1: guys get beat but you go through the tape of
Speaker 1: all these games and there's more often than not they
Speaker 1: have really excellent double team concepts. It just has seemed
Speaker 1: that they've been beaten by specific, big individual plays. And
Speaker 1: those two fifty yarders were obviously killers. That last play
Speaker 1: that got them in field goal range was just what
Speaker 1: an eight yard throw to Pierre Garson and then he
Speaker 1: made a great move on Carrie Williams and turned it
Speaker 1: up field. That's a tackle that has to be made
Speaker 1: right there, and then they're not in field goal range
Speaker 1: and you don't know what's going to happen. I made
Speaker 1: it a great point that DeShawn Jackson is not a
Speaker 1: volume receiver. He's not a guy that's going to get
Speaker 1: a ten catches a game. So how do you game
Speaker 1: plan differently for a guy like that? Where you obviously
Speaker 1: are aware that the home run ball could be coming
Speaker 1: at any time, But how much of your resources do
Speaker 1: you dedicate to try and to avoid make it. And
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Do you allocate two people to
Speaker 1: play sewn on every snap? Now, after the game today,
Speaker 1: I'm sure fans are saying, absolutely, that's what we should
Speaker 1: have done. But you know, when you go into a game,
Speaker 1: if you do that, you're limiting your options defensively. So
Speaker 1: I certainly understand Bill Davis's point. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: like last week with Dez Bryant. They had some really
Speaker 1: good defensive concepts with double teams both Brian Witten, and
Speaker 1: it worked really effectively. My guess is if you look
Speaker 1: at the film, there'll be some really good concepts in
Speaker 1: this game. But the times they did go man to
Speaker 1: man with a single high safety, two times they got burned.
Speaker 1: And those two plays they're fifty plus yrd places their
Speaker 1: chunk plays. They finally Eagles, Nate Allen particular picked up
Speaker 1: on getting the interception where you saw him shade over
Speaker 1: to the side because it was a bad throw too.
Speaker 1: Bathro under threw him as well. But still nonetheless give
Speaker 1: Nathan credit that as to realize that you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times RG three pretty much predetermined where he
Speaker 1: was probably going with the ball. They were able to
Speaker 1: take advantage, which is not enough time to one. That's
Speaker 1: an understatement to say the least. So we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick commercial break. We're gonna look ahead to tomorrow's
Speaker 1: matchup between the Colts and the Cowboys, and then we
Speaker 1: also hear from defensive corder Bill Davis, so maybe he
Speaker 1: will explain exactly what the game plan was for taking
Speaker 1: on RG three Alpha more end to Shawn Jackson. But
Speaker 1: you never know, you know, we have this is a tease.
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Speaker 1: Greg ho Sell by virtue of the Eagles loss Detroit
Speaker 1: has clinched a spot in the playoffs. As the playoff
Speaker 1: picture begins to unfold here, So we are, as we said,
Speaker 1: going to send it to FedEx Field down and landover.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from defensive coordinator Bill Davis, who's going
Speaker 1: to break down the Eagles performance on defense. Again. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things where you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: and you say yourself, all right, overall, not that bad.
Speaker 1: Some hurtful penalties, some costly penalties, as you said, Greg,
Speaker 1: some good performers on third down, but too many big
Speaker 1: players in the end, and that's why the Eagles end
Speaker 1: up on the losing side of the twenty seven to
Speaker 1: twenty fourth score. Here's the Eagles defensive coordinator Bill Davis,
Speaker 1: but led to just decide, you to see, just hes
Speaker 1: gotta beat for the second time vertically, and uh I
Speaker 1: wanted to do just get him up, get him out
Speaker 1: of there for a second, catch his breath, get his
Speaker 1: perspect Fiven and uh trying no one in there, Try
Speaker 1: someone else. You feel like that's just where you guys
Speaker 1: need to be at at this point. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's happened last two weeks so often at him two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. He's at two bad weeks. I
Speaker 1: was hoping to get out of that slump, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know didn't. They went at them deep and they
Speaker 1: made the plays on him. So I made a switch
Speaker 1: a trend for what you're seeing, what he's doing that
Speaker 1: keeps leading to this or not doing. No, it's just
Speaker 1: vertical ball. We gotta play better. You know. There's different
Speaker 1: techniques that he misses on each play, but they're all different,
Speaker 1: not the same one every time. You can never be
Speaker 1: a confidence crisis at that position, for sure. Absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: that's the number one thing you need. I think Fletch
Speaker 1: is a good corner, just he's lacking confidence right now.
Speaker 1: They're making some plays on him and um, he's in
Speaker 1: a slump. So we'll give no one shot. We'll give
Speaker 1: no one shot out there, and uh, you know the
Speaker 1: fletch take a step back. You guys kept them alive
Speaker 1: a lot on third down with penalties. Yeah, we can't
Speaker 1: have those. Manute that many third down penalties and think
Speaker 1: we're gonna you know, we can get off a field
Speaker 1: with making the plays what they have twenty percent on
Speaker 1: third down and we shoot ourselves at the football. The
Speaker 1: penalties you can't have and think you're gonna win games
Speaker 1: in the NFL. How do you stop that? Though? I
Speaker 1: mean it's every penalty was different, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know the exactly what which ones are right and wrong.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter they were called so they Uh, we
Speaker 1: just gotta play with more discipline. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what the penalties are. You know, just some are Uh
Speaker 1: something just happened with that many. You gotta played more discipline.
Speaker 1: Did you feel like somewhere wrong? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: You can't. There's so many things you're looking at the
Speaker 1: officials interpretation at the time. I'm looking at coverage and
Speaker 1: they call roughing and passion i'd even said, you mean
Speaker 1: you maintain your confidence in Bradley Fletye last few weeks? Sure,
Speaker 1: looking back now, acts, performances, excuse your decision. I don't
Speaker 1: regret anything. No. I make plans based on what I
Speaker 1: see and make decisions on what I see, and I
Speaker 1: don't regret one minute of it. He uh, like all players,
Speaker 1: you gotta give him a shot to get out of
Speaker 1: a slump when or in a slump, or you just
Speaker 1: end up bailing on everybody every every time one play
Speaker 1: goes bad. You can't play all that way, build confidence
Speaker 1: that way. So made the switch when I thought it
Speaker 1: was time to make a switch, and you know, unfortunately
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. It's Safe's its safe to say
Speaker 1: he's gonna start. I don't know. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: no idea. We'll make those decisions later. Could you see
Speaker 1: anything practice Bill this week? Or if I saw something
Speaker 1: in practice, I wouldn't have played him. I mean, guys,
Speaker 1: it's it's your cornerback in the NFL, and you got
Speaker 1: the guys running vertically on you. Sometimes they made plays,
Speaker 1: and they made plays in fletch. So there's nothing you
Speaker 1: see in practice that shows you that he's a good
Speaker 1: player right now, his confidence is down here. They made
Speaker 1: some plays on him, So we made a switch. You've
Speaker 1: talked so often in your two years here about how
Speaker 1: the defense going forward, getting better, getting better. These last
Speaker 1: few weeks, do you feel like that has stopped as
Speaker 1: a defense, Yeah, we haven't got better in the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. I mean we got back in the game
Speaker 1: twice now and twice uh, you know, they got back
Speaker 1: in it. So, uh, we got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do. You know, we got to take a hard
Speaker 1: look at all positions. It makes sure that we're putting
Speaker 1: guys in the right position to win. Look at the calls,
Speaker 1: look at the scheme, look at the players, look at
Speaker 1: all of it. We Uh, we can't shoot ourselves on
Speaker 1: footo penalties like that. You can't beat yourself in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's first, you can't beat yourself. They get a good
Speaker 1: enough players on the other side, they're gonna beat you
Speaker 1: without you helping them. But you have good enough talent
Speaker 1: in the second absolutely, yes, we do. Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: We have enough talent. We've played well at times and
Speaker 1: just lately we haven't had we have made the play.
Speaker 1: What was your reaction to the personal found by Kerry
Speaker 1: Williams on the I didn't say it, didn't say it
Speaker 1: at all. Mad. It happened because we were off the field.
Speaker 1: I was looking for you know, I didn't even see
Speaker 1: the flag and all of a sudden happens we're back
Speaker 1: on the field. Loads of things you can't do. We
Speaker 1: got have to have the discipline and we've got to
Speaker 1: get ourselves. We can't shoot ourselves on the foot like that.
Speaker 1: Fresh legs, absolutely not. We're in better shape than most
Speaker 1: teams we play. We're not tired legs. You know. Balls
Speaker 1: all right. There's defensive coordinator Bill Davis Gray, you have
Speaker 1: some interesting remarks. Listening to him talk, I know everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be discussing the player, Briley Fletcher. He got beat
Speaker 1: on those two verticals. Why don't you give him help
Speaker 1: every time? It's just not possible. It's not something that
Speaker 1: you it's twinning the NFL smack. It's big boy football.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to play. You have to line up
Speaker 1: and play man coverage and no matter what kind of
Speaker 1: corners you have. I know, fans right now, I think
Speaker 1: Bradley Fletcher is no good and obviously he's not playing
Speaker 1: well right now. And yes, he's probably lost some confidence.
Speaker 1: And we saw the replays on some of those touchdowns
Speaker 1: and his technique, as Bill Davis said, was not very good.
Speaker 1: But you have to line up and play man to
Speaker 1: man coverage in the NFL, and this defense is predominantly
Speaker 1: a man based defense. That's what they taught from day
Speaker 1: one when Bill Davis came here two years ago. So
Speaker 1: that's what the Eagles play. And you can't change your
Speaker 1: stripes now. No, No, they've least sixteen, you know, your
Speaker 1: next last game of the season, of the regular season.
Speaker 1: That's what you are. You can't drastically change the scheme
Speaker 1: just to say, oh, you know, everything's bad, because then
Speaker 1: you'll be out. You'll mess something else up. Starting corners
Speaker 1: in the NFL have to play man to man on
Speaker 1: meaningful snaps in almost every game. That's the way it is.
Speaker 1: The Gold beat a couple of times. Unfortunately it costs
Speaker 1: him tonight. So and now, do you agree with the
Speaker 1: sentiment that they've been keeping Fletcher out there because he's
Speaker 1: better than Nolan Carroll. Nolan Carroll came in and well,
Speaker 1: could you think anything otherwise? Do you think a coaching
Speaker 1: staff intentionally puts out a player they think is a
Speaker 1: lesser player. I would certainly hope not. No, they don't.
Speaker 1: Don't forget. They want to win two and their jobs
Speaker 1: are always on the line too, So coaches do not
Speaker 1: put out players they think are lesser players if they
Speaker 1: have a better player on the bench. It doesn't work
Speaker 1: that way. So he obviously benched him today because I'm
Speaker 1: sure that his confidence was a little bit shot and
Speaker 1: he's not been playing well. But they obviously believe Bradley
Speaker 1: Fletcher is their best corner or second best corner if
Speaker 1: they think Kerry Williams is better. But he's one of
Speaker 1: their two best corners, their best option to start exactly
Speaker 1: exactly well or another all right, So we need a
Speaker 1: little bit of hope, little optimism. Tomorrow, Dallas plays Indianapolis
Speaker 1: in Jerry World. If Indianapolis wins and Males cross Manfaorys win,
Speaker 1: Indianapolis win, that means the Eagles still have hopes for
Speaker 1: the postseason. They will still need to win against the
Speaker 1: Giants and needs more help, but nonetheless there's a sliver
Speaker 1: hope with the Eagles. Give us a quick preview what
Speaker 1: you expect. Andrew Luck has been putting up MVP type numbers.
Speaker 1: Big question to me is whether the Cowboys would be
Speaker 1: able to get to him with a pass rush because
Speaker 1: the offensive line for the Colts has struggled for us
Speaker 1: of this season. So how do you look at this
Speaker 1: matchup here? Well, the Colts are really an Andrew lux
Speaker 1: team pretty much. If you look at their entire team,
Speaker 1: their offense, other than Luck is really not that strong.
Speaker 1: Their old line has struggled all the year. Luck's been
Speaker 1: hit more than any quarterback in the league. They don't
Speaker 1: really have a consistent run game. They have a good
Speaker 1: group receivers, but not a great group group of receivers.
Speaker 1: T Y Hillton's tremendous. I think Reggie Wayne is sort
Speaker 1: of on the back end. He's on the back nine
Speaker 1: right now and he's outs. Yeah, I mean so yeah.
Speaker 1: So what do you think of the rookie Dante Moncrief. Well,
Speaker 1: I really like Dante Moncrief and I think next year
Speaker 1: it'll be a big time player. We need a big
Speaker 1: time player from them tomorrow. He's been Defensively, the Colts,
Speaker 1: they play a lot of man. That's probably the best
Speaker 1: part of what they do in defenses. They play man
Speaker 1: really well on the outside with Greg Toller and Vonte Davis,
Speaker 1: but their front seven has just been okay. If I'm
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, whether yeah, you have DeMarco Murray or whether
Speaker 1: it's Joseph Randall, to me, I'm playing the way I've
Speaker 1: played all year. I'm running the ball. I'm playing what
Speaker 1: has essentially become cowboy football. That's what I'm doing, and
Speaker 1: you have to live with that, and that's I think
Speaker 1: they could beat the Colts that way. But I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is the wildcard because Andrew Luck is obviously
Speaker 1: emerging as the best jung quarterback in football, and I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about the fact that he
Speaker 1: is the best jung quarterback in football and he's capable
Speaker 1: of winning games by himself. You mentioned DeMarco Murray. He
Speaker 1: had hand surgery. He is expected to play. I think
Speaker 1: he's pretty much told everyone in the organization that he
Speaker 1: is going to play. How do you think that affects
Speaker 1: the standpoint? From all right, he'll be able to hold
Speaker 1: the ball with the one hand, but if you're trying
Speaker 1: to do stiff arms catch the ball. And he was
Speaker 1: an effective receiving weapon against the Eagles, So how do
Speaker 1: you see that working out? You know again, I don't
Speaker 1: know you tell true the injury, but I do know
Speaker 1: that it will have an impact because he will not
Speaker 1: be able to carry the ball in that arm it's
Speaker 1: his left hand, right ring. He will not be able
Speaker 1: to carry the ball. He will not be able to
Speaker 1: step farm, he will not be able to use that
Speaker 1: hand to fend off defenders. And he's really much more
Speaker 1: of a sort of inside power runner than anything else.
Speaker 1: He's not really an out. They run a lot of
Speaker 1: outside zone, but he's not really a get to the
Speaker 1: edge burner. He's really kind of a bruns and confined spaces.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how he's impacted. And
Speaker 1: we don't, by the way, we don't even know how
Speaker 1: much he's gonna play. He may get out there and
Speaker 1: they may decide after five carries so that he can't.
Speaker 1: He can't do it because the last thing they want
Speaker 1: to do. Of course we want them to do this,
Speaker 1: but the last thing they want him to do is
Speaker 1: fumble to football. I wouldn't mind seeing a few goes tomorrow,
Speaker 1: to say the least. So the Eagles, okay, so they
Speaker 1: need the Colts to win. Let's say it happens, Yes,
Speaker 1: Dallas would play Washington, yep, same team we just saw
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. The Eagles will play the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: who have seemed to come to life thanks to the
Speaker 1: electric rookie Odell Beckham Junior. How impressive you've been by performances.
Speaker 1: I loved him coming out. I'm not surprised. I think
Speaker 1: you know the Giants Eagles fans remember the game, which
Speaker 1: I think was Week six, if I'm not mistaken right
Speaker 1: around there. Well, that was Beckham's first game, but the
Speaker 1: Giants were still a work in progress. They had a
Speaker 1: new offense, and the offense has gotten incrementally better every
Speaker 1: single week. It's a different Giants offense. The big problem
Speaker 1: the Giants have is they can't run the ball, but
Speaker 1: their pass game has gotten incrementally better every single week
Speaker 1: and now it's it's a meaningful threat, even though they
Speaker 1: don't have big time receivers other than the emergence of Beckham.
Speaker 1: Seems like he makes sure does, he sure does, and
Speaker 1: he's explosive. But the Giants defensively, they've had so many
Speaker 1: injuries and they're not very good. That's the concern. So
Speaker 1: all back on an impressive season, even though he pretty much.
Speaker 1: Most missed all of training camp, preseason, early part of
Speaker 1: the season. Like you said, that Eagles game, that Black
Speaker 1: Sunday game was the debut for Odell Beckham. The run game,
Speaker 1: Rashad Jenks been banged up. He hasn't been reliable for
Speaker 1: the Giants of like Andre Williams doesn't. He's a straight two.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't be hard for the Eagles to defend with
Speaker 1: their run defense, which is really good, which would be
Speaker 1: so different as compared to the last month with all
Speaker 1: the running backs that they faced. But the one thing
Speaker 1: is you hope that it's meaningful for them. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting obstacle for Chip Kelly. You
Speaker 1: know they've lost three straight games. Now you have to
Speaker 1: try