Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment. Okay, the Eagles able to get a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but not able to get over the hump against Seattle
Speaker 1: seventeen to nine. Year final score here today in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the postgame show, Amy Campbell,
Speaker 1: fran Duffy, I greased, guys. The Eagles fault to five
Speaker 1: and six. Not a game that they're probably going to
Speaker 1: be too proud of here. A lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of difficulties on offense, a lot of good stuff on defense.
Speaker 1: Kind of same theme that we saw last week with
Speaker 1: New England, Like yeah, I mean, start on that offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, not being able to move it.
Speaker 1: Then when they had opportunities to move the ball got
Speaker 1: inside Seattle's territory with it. They turned the ball over
Speaker 1: a couple of times against the team like Seattle, who
Speaker 1: didn't come out with their hair on fire today. They
Speaker 1: didn't come out clicking on all cylinders either, But the
Speaker 1: Eagles not able to take advantage of that, and eventually
Speaker 1: the Seahawks too many turnovers, that's what doomed this team today.
Speaker 1: Five turnovers is not really something you can overcome very much.
Speaker 1: In the NFL, four straight games, this defense has held
Speaker 1: the opponents under our seventeen or under wow. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's all you can ask for if you're a defense.
Speaker 1: I know that was something that Jim Johnson preach was, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we holding the seventeen or less, we feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: And they've been able to do it over the last month,
Speaker 1: all right. Dave Spernaro standing by from Lincoln Financial Field. Dave,
Speaker 1: you're right there, feeling the vibe, feeling the energy of
Speaker 1: the crowd, the energy around the Eagles bench. Take us
Speaker 1: through it, what's going on, and the fans deserve to
Speaker 1: be upset. Very very poor performance once again by an
Speaker 1: offense that just look, it's the same drum we've been
Speaker 1: beating all year. Can't get the football down the field,
Speaker 1: really bad ball security. Carson wentz booing, got booed right
Speaker 1: there as he ran off the field into the tunnel.
Speaker 1: And Carson's playing very poorly. I mean, the right side
Speaker 1: of the offensive line was a disaster today. Brandon Brooks
Speaker 1: goes out with the illness and they're already missing Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: Andre Dillard, bench, Matt Pryor and Hella Pulavati Viti playing
Speaker 1: the second half of this game on the right side
Speaker 1: of the line. That's a far far cry from an
Speaker 1: all pro tandem of Brooks and Johnson. But whatever it is,
Speaker 1: the Eagles got to find a way to fix Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: And I know that he's throwing to receivers who don't
Speaker 1: have great speed, and I know that they're not catching
Speaker 1: everything for him. But there are too many times when
Speaker 1: he's just not looking comfortable in the pocket. He's holding
Speaker 1: onto the ball too long, he's making bad decisions. His
Speaker 1: ball security in the last few games here in the
Speaker 1: pocket has not been good. So a lot of things
Speaker 1: wrong with the Eagles offense starting with number eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta agree with you on that, Dave. You know
Speaker 1: I looked at this you're looking at this game today.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a game that was about drop passes from
Speaker 1: the skill position players or Carson not getting enough help
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. You know, pays him
Speaker 1: me to say it starts with number eleven and the
Speaker 1: way that he played today I think really hampered this
Speaker 1: offense being able to capitalize on some opportunity there early
Speaker 1: in the game. He just doesn't look comfortable in the
Speaker 1: pocket to me, whether it's the pocket awareness or his
Speaker 1: ability to let the ball go on time, and I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering whether or not he's able to see the
Speaker 1: entire field and use the entire field as opposed to
Speaker 1: cutting off the field and limiting himself as to where
Speaker 1: he can go with the football. What are you seeing
Speaker 1: down from the field. I don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: receivers wide open, first of all. So in defensive Carson,
Speaker 1: that is one thing that is happening. The look he
Speaker 1: throws to Zach Ertz. A lot he throws too, he
Speaker 1: throws to Dallas Goddard, he throws to Miles Sanders when
Speaker 1: he has a chance to and but he's not getting
Speaker 1: the ball outside. And look, not a lot of separations.
Speaker 1: But there are times when you must trust throwing anticipation.
Speaker 1: I look, I don't know, I don't know it. When
Speaker 1: things don't work, you just you look all you go,
Speaker 1: hey boy, this offense, which was so creative, now it's
Speaker 1: not creative at all. That's not on and so it's
Speaker 1: just it just doesn't seem to be. There's no sync
Speaker 1: at all with this Eagles offense. They look the first possession,
Speaker 1: you feel it here there's a little bit of momentum
Speaker 1: going on. The Eagles get down the field and you know,
Speaker 1: they kick a field goal and you thought, ah, jeez,
Speaker 1: there's a chance right there, you get seven points, and
Speaker 1: they didn't capitalize on it. After the Dallas Goddard fumble,
Speaker 1: the Eagles get the ball right back and they didn't
Speaker 1: capitalize on it. So, I mean, it just it's just
Speaker 1: every quarterback goes through it. Carson really hasn't gone through
Speaker 1: this kind of struggle. The struggles he had last year
Speaker 1: were a different kind of struggle. So this is a
Speaker 1: very critical time in the development of Carson Wentz. He's
Speaker 1: not getting a lot of help from a protection standpoint,
Speaker 1: certainly did not today. He's not thrown to Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: all Pro wide receivers. We get that, but there are
Speaker 1: times when you've got to make the play or at
Speaker 1: least keep your team out of a bad situation. And
Speaker 1: that just didn't happen today, and it didn't happen last
Speaker 1: week either. Right, Very well, said Dave. We'll let you
Speaker 1: get into the locker room. There a lot of reacting
Speaker 1: going to be happening after this game. Thanks so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you, fran I think really well said there by David.
Speaker 1: It's kind of my sense that I had as I've
Speaker 1: been watching Carson in the last few weeks, and I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of getting into my emotional intelligence of what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing. This can't be easy for him, and there's
Speaker 1: something about adversity that changes a person and you kind
Speaker 1: of see them click into their own sense of identity
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And you see a lot of
Speaker 1: athletes go through it, especially once who have success at
Speaker 1: every level of their career. When it gets really hard,
Speaker 1: they are able to kind of find this new level.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I've seen him kind of
Speaker 1: get there yet. This is a different type of adversity
Speaker 1: that I don't think we've seen him face. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Dave kind of alluded to that as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think honestly that there's a lot of nuance that
Speaker 1: needs to be had with this discussion because I think ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, football is a team game. We talked about this.
Speaker 1: It takes all eleven guys, right, So, yeah, one one
Speaker 1: small little error on any given play, whether it's a
Speaker 1: miss block or a drop or a wrong route, the
Speaker 1: guy's not being on the same page. That can get
Speaker 1: you know, that can end a drive or it can
Speaker 1: keep a drive going. That's in a micro sense. But
Speaker 1: then when you look at from a macro sense, and
Speaker 1: I look at Carson Wentz and you know, you lose
Speaker 1: to Sean Jackson, you lose Alston Jeffrey, You're going into
Speaker 1: this game without Nelson Aglore as well. You're down your
Speaker 1: top running back in Jordan Howard, You're down Lane Johnson.
Speaker 1: You lose Brandon Brooks in the first quarter. Your team
Speaker 1: is struggling. There's a lot of adversity that this whole
Speaker 1: team has gone through. From from a big picture standpoint,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. It's a lot. And as a young
Speaker 1: quarterback who's still trying to kind of come into his
Speaker 1: own and say, this is my team. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: put this, you know, put my stamp on it, it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot. It's a lot to handle. So I
Speaker 1: think ultimately it's a Dave said, it's a very critical
Speaker 1: part in his development where we're at a very critical
Speaker 1: stage right now for him. We know the kind of
Speaker 1: player that he can be, we know the kind of
Speaker 1: play he's one of the most talented passers in the league.
Speaker 1: We saw Russell Wilson make some bad throws today, they're
Speaker 1: able to bounce back, so Now it's a small picture,
Speaker 1: all right, next week against Miami, how does he bounce back?
Speaker 1: Big picture twenty twenty twenty twenty one, how does Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz continue to look down the road? It's not about
Speaker 1: next week, it's about big picture with this team and
Speaker 1: knowing you've got your franchise quarterback, you've got to continue
Speaker 1: to you know, obviously, look, the guys around him have
Speaker 1: to get better. But when you look at it, you
Speaker 1: can we can point to any route and say, man,
Speaker 1: that was a bad throw, that was a terrible interception,
Speaker 1: that was a bad sack from Carson Wentz there, Yes,
Speaker 1: and that individual play. But I think it's a culmination
Speaker 1: of all of these factors coming in because football is
Speaker 1: the ultimate team game and going in all that stuff
Speaker 1: is going on mentally as well. Yeah, that mental component
Speaker 1: is huge, and I think you know, he's never going
Speaker 1: to point the finger at anybody else on this team.
Speaker 1: He's always going to take full responsibility for all of that,
Speaker 1: whether it's on him or not. He's going to do that,
Speaker 1: which is you know, kind of the job as the
Speaker 1: leader is to always say, look, it doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: the breakdown was. At the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: we're all accountable, and he's absolutely always going to be
Speaker 1: doing that kind of thing as well. And you know
Speaker 1: he's also going to continue to work his butt off
Speaker 1: to impression. I mean, he's not going to short change
Speaker 1: you on a hard day's work. He's going to continue
Speaker 1: to work to try to get this fixed. He knows
Speaker 1: that he needs to play better. And when you're down
Speaker 1: the type of talent that they are on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, a lot of our eyes are
Speaker 1: going to focus on how does the quarterback play? Can
Speaker 1: his play sort of ignite everyone around him and sort
Speaker 1: of lift up their spirits? And I think the one
Speaker 1: thing that was a little discouraging the day not that
Speaker 1: he made a bunch of bad throws or anything of
Speaker 1: that nature. I think it was some of the this
Speaker 1: sort of simple plays that would keep them out of
Speaker 1: negative situations that I would have liked to have seen
Speaker 1: Carson make, Like now you're getting rid of the footballs
Speaker 1: that are holding onto it and that turned into a
Speaker 1: fumble dumping the ball off the mouse Sanders in the flat.
Speaker 1: You know that may not have led to a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but that's a play where who knows, mouse may make
Speaker 1: someone miss and it does turn into a touchdown, but
Speaker 1: if you overthrowing him by three yards, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to do anything. So I think Fran touched
Speaker 1: on something that's very key, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: Carson will ever be able to sort of shake it.
Speaker 1: The guy puts a lot of pressure on himself. He
Speaker 1: wants to play well. He wants to do well out there,
Speaker 1: and that's what you're seeing right now. He wants it
Speaker 1: so bad that sometimes the simpler throws become the harder
Speaker 1: ones to make because he really wants to be able
Speaker 1: to take that ball and hand it to those guys
Speaker 1: and have something positive happen. But that's just not the
Speaker 1: way the game works. I think going forward he's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay because again, his work ethic is impeccable. He's
Speaker 1: going to continue to get better at this, the coaches
Speaker 1: around him going to continue to coach him up. I
Speaker 1: thought the young receivers, when given an opportunity, they made
Speaker 1: plays today. So that's something else that you can take
Speaker 1: away from this game that the more those guys are
Speaker 1: out there and they feel less pressure to have to produce,
Speaker 1: the more they're going to relax. And when as their
Speaker 1: opportunity comes, they'll be able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: The way I look at it is this as you're
Speaker 1: an Eagles fan, You're watching this game, and you say,
Speaker 1: you know what this this was tough to watch. Offensively.
Speaker 1: Defensively was awesome. We'll talk about that. Yeah, Offensively, this
Speaker 1: was very tough, tough to watch. It's been tough for
Speaker 1: the last seven quarters to watch this offense. But this
Speaker 1: two shall pass. Like at some point, everybody's gonna get
Speaker 1: everything's gonna come together, The speed's gonna come back. I
Speaker 1: don't again, I don't know what we're talking about this
Speaker 1: game next week against Miami, the week after that, when
Speaker 1: we get down the run or this divisional run here.
Speaker 1: Big picture wise, you have to like what this team
Speaker 1: has put how this team is put together. There are
Speaker 1: pieces in place that you can work with moving forward.
Speaker 1: You know, they still have to be able to say,
Speaker 1: all right, we have to execute it and continue to
Speaker 1: develop some of these young players. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about that defense and the defense. Defensive performance here,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had thrown two interceptions coming into this one,
Speaker 1: when we saw Rodney McCloud had one, and then kind
Speaker 1: of threw it backwards to Vonte Maddox. Also, this was
Speaker 1: like one of the I've never seen so many like
Speaker 1: laterals in like side, like like a college game like
Speaker 1: kind of game, with just all of the wild ball.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of the ball was in the
Speaker 1: air end the ball was on the ground a lot
Speaker 1: more than I'm used to seeing it in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It was wild, which I'm sure it's fun if you're
Speaker 1: on the winning end of it. Let's talk about this
Speaker 1: defensive performance that was. You know, Russell Wilson didn't have
Speaker 1: that impressive stout line that we're used to seeing from him,
Speaker 1: but he still was able to do just enough to
Speaker 1: get his team to win, which is why he's so dangerous.
Speaker 1: Six sacks the defense, and it's not even just that
Speaker 1: the defense was constantly in his face. I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about it later when I break some film down,
Speaker 1: because there are plenty of examples of this defense getting
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. So it was tough for me to
Speaker 1: try and pick just one. I think I know which
Speaker 1: play I'm gonna do. But I think when you talk
Speaker 1: about this defense and what they've been able to do
Speaker 1: over the last couple of games, over the last few games. Really,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, seventeen points are less over the last
Speaker 1: four games played. They're continue to hold up. They're into
Speaker 1: the bargain. The bargain the rushes there, the linebackers were
Speaker 1: playing well. The secondary is really coming together. I know,
Speaker 1: they gave us some big plays. Guess what. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: offense was the most explosive pass game in the NFL
Speaker 1: this season. Coming into this game. They held in the
Speaker 1: seven team. You're gonna they're gonna get theirs. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they score a touchdown off another trick play. That's the
Speaker 1: second in two weeks. These teams are trying to know
Speaker 1: they have to go deep into their bag of tricks
Speaker 1: just put up points against the Eagles team. And then
Speaker 1: they give up kind of a you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say a cheap but they give up that
Speaker 1: long touchdown run. That's a tough play, all right, You
Speaker 1: know that was a tough one. The only touchdown they've
Speaker 1: given up really of circumstance in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: I think ultimately this defense is playing at a really,
Speaker 1: really high level. It's the only reason we've been in
Speaker 1: the last two ball games. And you can say they
Speaker 1: outplayed Buffalo's defense in Chicago's defense then led to victories
Speaker 1: for us because the offense and those games weren't explosive either.
Speaker 1: It's just that the defense was playing so well and
Speaker 1: those other teams quarterbacks aren't Tom Brady and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I'm with frame. When you look at what this defense
Speaker 1: has been able to do over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you got to tip their cat to them. They're the
Speaker 1: only reason that you've been in these ball games and
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to even win these games. So unfortunate
Speaker 1: the offense can't necessarily capitalize on their play Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: hasn't looked like this as a quarterback all year long,
Speaker 1: pretty much. And it wasn't that he turned the ball
Speaker 1: over a lot, but you forced him into a lot
Speaker 1: of third and long situations. Some of them he converted,
Speaker 1: others or most he did not convert. And this defense
Speaker 1: continued to give them opportunities by taking the ball away
Speaker 1: and we just couldn't capitalize on it. It's a product
Speaker 1: of having all their guys back right now. So now
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz can go deep in that playbook and come
Speaker 1: up with some play designs, particularly in man coverage because
Speaker 1: he has his full secondary back and that defensive front
Speaker 1: four starting to play well. I like that. Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: has also bring an extra pressure. I think Malcolm may
Speaker 1: have had what three sacks today, at least two sacks.
Speaker 1: He was in the backfield an awful lot. Rodney McCleod
Speaker 1: making plays to day. Anytime your safeties are becoming a
Speaker 1: part of your rush package, that's going to be difficult
Speaker 1: for any offense to be able to protect. And Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz give him a lot of credit. Man, he's done.
Speaker 1: He's been able to dig into that playbook a lot
Speaker 1: deeper than last month or so. It has really given
Speaker 1: this team a chance to win. Now in the last
Speaker 1: four games they're two and two. But if not for
Speaker 1: his defense, you could very easily be on for give
Speaker 1: you a sense, sorry, we'll give you a sense real
Speaker 1: quick of what this defense will be able to do.
Speaker 1: Looking at the stats, Russell Wilson completed thirteen of twenty
Speaker 1: five passes. Yeah, Carson Wentz completed thirty three passes on
Speaker 1: his own. So when you look at this twelve incompletions
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson, that's as many as Carson Wentzatz. We
Speaker 1: could talk about Russell Wilson or about Carson Wentzon's struggles
Speaker 1: in this game, Russell Wilson had just as many incompletions.
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of think I think that kind
Speaker 1: of speaks to the defensive play. That doesn't excuse Carson's play,
Speaker 1: but going to the defense speaks a lot. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And if you look at the total offensive yards there,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eagles only four behind the Seahawks on
Speaker 1: that one. So let's hear from coach on today's game.
Speaker 1: It's very disappointing. I thought. Defensively, I told the defense
Speaker 1: they played outstanding. Again, you know, outside of a couple
Speaker 1: of plays. Offense, obviously it's just not good enough with
Speaker 1: the mistakes, you know, the turnovers, the execution, um, just
Speaker 1: not good enough to win inaccurate, right, and then he
Speaker 1: was just turning the ball over in your view, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Well, it's it's hard sometimes, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, playing that position is tough anyway. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure and a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: we ask a lot of our quarterback and a lot
Speaker 1: of Carson and and you know, the one thing you
Speaker 1: can't do in that position is just put pressure on yourself,
Speaker 1: you know, to perform. You just gotta let you gotta
Speaker 1: let things unfold, you know, and sometimes you can do
Speaker 1: that when I think sometimes, as you know, you feel
Speaker 1: like the offense is struggling, and you feel like you
Speaker 1: have to make a play, and and you just gotta
Speaker 1: let the kind of the game unfold, Let the offense unfold.
Speaker 1: Just let everybody work for you. And don't feel like
Speaker 1: you got to make every play you said to him
Speaker 1: during the game or at half time, try to correct
Speaker 1: some days, I mean, you know, just again just those
Speaker 1: same things. Just let everything kind of unfold. And listen,
Speaker 1: We've always said this, it's not about one guy. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know, our quarterback is is a
Speaker 1: big part of our success and the things we do,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, sometimes you know, even as
Speaker 1: a play caller, you just got to get back to
Speaker 1: some of the basic play some of the things that
Speaker 1: you have a lot of time invested on and and
Speaker 1: and get back to that and and try to get
Speaker 1: something wrong. Well, at halftime, we made a switch, went
Speaker 1: with big v Um. Just felt like at the time, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just needed to switch it up, make make
Speaker 1: it make something happen there and and it went with
Speaker 1: a big v in the second half noise. Um, he
Speaker 1: just you know, got sick. Uh and and just just
Speaker 1: had an illness and uh, you know we had to
Speaker 1: make it make a sudden change anything related to the
Speaker 1: previous battles with things. I haven't talked to the doctors yet.
Speaker 1: Carson was obviously savoring his hand. He went back to
Speaker 1: the lock room, came back. He tried on a glow
Speaker 1: and to different that he communicate to you at all
Speaker 1: how bad it was hurting. Now he had you know,
Speaker 1: he tried to glove early in the game, pulled it
Speaker 1: off in the rain, the rain and stopped. Um and
Speaker 1: everything everything was okay with his hand. Mentioned the defense
Speaker 1: played well in that game. Um, as the play caller
Speaker 1: on offense, do you feel like the offense has kind
Speaker 1: of letting the other side of the ball down right now? Um,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't. We don't point fingers like that.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're a team and when we when
Speaker 1: we win, we win as a team. When we lose,
Speaker 1: we lose his team and today we lost as a team.
Speaker 1: Did you realize that Carson had hurt his hand and
Speaker 1: looked like quarter. Yeah, were there any consideration of replacing
Speaker 1: him with Josh? Looked like he came back and maybe
Speaker 1: got X Rayser got examined. We no, I mean, everything
Speaker 1: everything that the information I got in game was was
Speaker 1: positive with with Carson, So we kept kept playing did
Speaker 1: he get it next right now? He did and it
Speaker 1: was negative. Well, the piles and yeah, it's unfortunate. Um,
Speaker 1: you know big v uh obviously just overset the guy
Speaker 1: and or really kind of set past that the guy
Speaker 1: and and and the d N disrupted the timing of
Speaker 1: the play, which you know, we gotta do a better
Speaker 1: job there. We gotta coach little better on that play.
Speaker 1: And um, just our our failed execution. O. When your
Speaker 1: defense played so well against an MVP Kennedy with a
Speaker 1: you know, a pretty good offense at home, your defense
Speaker 1: has produced the last couple of weeks, and the new
Speaker 1: offense hasn't. I mean, is it frustrated seeing that side
Speaker 1: of the ball played so well on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball not pulled up the end of it? Yes,
Speaker 1: Why did you want to run that play on that
Speaker 1: third down? Just to style the defense? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: the defense the structure during the game, I mean the
Speaker 1: way the way it was. We had we had had
Speaker 1: some success, not necessarily on that play, but the little
Speaker 1: shovel passed to Dallas in the game, very similar play. Um.
Speaker 1: And and uh, we just didn't execute, you know, we
Speaker 1: knew we gotta again, that's on me. I gotta, I
Speaker 1: gotta coach that play better. Carson undergo further Carson undergo
Speaker 1: further testing on his hand. I'm sure he will. Yes,
Speaker 1: great Ward had a big role for someone that was
Speaker 1: just elevated from the practice squad a day or earlier.
Speaker 1: Was that something you worked on all week to get
Speaker 1: him involved? Um, well, as you guys know, and and
Speaker 1: you know, well maybe you don't know. Um, he's been
Speaker 1: working with our starters, you know, just because of the
Speaker 1: injuries we've had it at the receiver position, so he's
Speaker 1: been getting a lot of time in practice with our starters.
Speaker 1: So UM, his role was about about what it should
Speaker 1: have been, you know, if had he you know, if
Speaker 1: if he was an act more of an active player
Speaker 1: for us, you know, on the on the on the active.
Speaker 1: So UM, I thought he did some really nice things
Speaker 1: for us. Um, and something to evaluate tomorrow when we
Speaker 1: look at the tape thirty one on the third and
Speaker 1: one leading team, you had a hand off and uh
Speaker 1: got for a loss. Wind up quarterbacks team there, Um,
Speaker 1: well we're the spot. We actually the couple of things.
Speaker 1: One the spot, I thought the spot was a little
Speaker 1: bit closer, and then and then on when we lined
Speaker 1: up it was a little bit further away. Um, play
Speaker 1: we had we had just had just run that play
Speaker 1: about two or three plays before, had some success. Miles
Speaker 1: had a nice run. Came right back to it again. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll coach it better next times. Was a
Speaker 1: little off with some of the younger receivers. Can see
Speaker 1: you afterwards him talking would go on the sidelines. Was
Speaker 1: there ever situations where they weren't on the same page
Speaker 1: where or anything like to have? Um, not not really,
Speaker 1: I know it can be a little bit different when
Speaker 1: when not all you're you know, you're working with different guys.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's listen, this is this is the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and and we spend a lot of time,
Speaker 1: you know, working with all our players, and uh, these
Speaker 1: guys spend a lot of time even off the you
Speaker 1: know side during practice to get some of these throws. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever they were talking about, either either a
Speaker 1: route or maybe the next time a route like that's called.
Speaker 1: You know, the type of adjustment that they could make
Speaker 1: in the game. You know. How how is a week
Speaker 1: of speed you with any indication or fear that you
Speaker 1: would come out and the team would be as sloppy
Speaker 1: as it Wasn't. I didn't thought we had a good
Speaker 1: week of preparation. Guys were, guys were focused. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: so that that was no indication obviously of the performance today.
Speaker 1: Starters as you are on offense right now, doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you as a play call or I think I'm I
Speaker 1: think I'm more aware of maybe certain certain things. Um.
Speaker 1: You know that, Uh, we can or can't do. Um.
Speaker 1: But but for the most part, as we game plan,
Speaker 1: you know, and put things together, we're still we're still
Speaker 1: thinking of the same guys and putting things, you know,
Speaker 1: even in the run game. Um. But and then once
Speaker 1: you get into the game too, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: make your own adjustments as as you see fit. We're
Speaker 1: trying to get in the right direction. And you said
Speaker 1: sometimes guys have to play a little beat up. N
Speaker 1: how come they didn't play the Um, they just they
Speaker 1: just weren't there yet. Uh. And again We're not going
Speaker 1: to risk anything further with either one of those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, we still have we still after that
Speaker 1: after this game, obviously five left and we can still
Speaker 1: make a push and didn't want to set them back
Speaker 1: any further. Bad game and a bad game versus for
Speaker 1: concern agod problem that that goes beyond a little bit.
Speaker 1: Our issues on offense tonight, we're today we're not about
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I mean, obviously he's he's he's a part
Speaker 1: of it. This is this is an offensive issue. So
Speaker 1: starts with me. Um, I gotta look, I gotta look
Speaker 1: at it. I gotta make my own assessment of my performance,
Speaker 1: and then we'll coach the players this week and we'll
Speaker 1: get better. How do you what it is done? Alright?
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Okay, coach Very clear. Our issues on offense today,
Speaker 1: we're not about Carson Wentz. It starts with me and UM.
Speaker 1: Not to get like too soft right now, but I
Speaker 1: am just loving the way that Doug Peterson um handled
Speaker 1: this entire press conference, answered all these questions, and I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking to myself, can you imagine if Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: had ended up on a team with a defensive coach
Speaker 1: who could not relate to sure these roadbumps right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, how lucky is he to be in this
Speaker 1: situation with a guy who totally understands how he feels.
Speaker 1: We see that all around the NFL almost weekly basis
Speaker 1: where that goes the other way so certain. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what That's one of the things that I was
Speaker 1: talking about, is that don't look at it in just
Speaker 1: this game, like you can't just look at Carsonzott has
Speaker 1: a great support or system around him. We're not talking
Speaker 1: about what the receiver, who the receivers were today. We're
Speaker 1: not talking about missing Jordan Howard and missing the right
Speaker 1: side of the old line. I'm talking about support system
Speaker 1: around him to continue to build around this. He's gonna
Speaker 1: learn from this, He's going to get better. I do
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit more about the offensive
Speaker 1: line and just some of the struggles that we saw.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna want to dig into that tabe
Speaker 1: a little bit more and kind of see what reveals itself.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're missing, like Dave Spierro said earlier,
Speaker 1: you're missing some all pro talent there. You know, you
Speaker 1: can only get so creative where just the level of
Speaker 1: play goes down a little bit. Where did you see
Speaker 1: some of the struggles today. Well, it's tough without seeing
Speaker 1: the table, But I will say that SAX SAX can
Speaker 1: be a little fickle because it's it's not just an
Speaker 1: offensive line issue. Sometimes it is. On some plays they are.
Speaker 1: It's not just a quarterback issue. Sometimes on some plays
Speaker 1: they are. It can be a receiver issue, it could
Speaker 1: be a running back issue. So all of those things
Speaker 1: come into play. There were plays last week and can
Speaker 1: we broke down a play on Eagles game plan this
Speaker 1: week where you could point to all three aspects of
Speaker 1: You could look at the receivers and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: the receivers didn't uncover quick enough. You know, the quarterback
Speaker 1: probably could have pulled the trigger a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: and the protection didn't hold up. So all three things
Speaker 1: come together when you have sacks. Typically that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it looks like, is that it's not just on
Speaker 1: one guy. It's typically some kind of a team effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know we don't like to use injuries as
Speaker 1: in these shoes or the bottom line is, there's a
Speaker 1: reason why Brandon Brooks is an All Pro Arguably the
Speaker 1: best right guard in football, the reason why Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: is arguably the best right tackle in football. And they
Speaker 1: drop off from those guys, it's gonna be large. It
Speaker 1: just is. And you give credit to the young guys
Speaker 1: going in there doing what they could do. Andre Dillard
Speaker 1: never having never played right tackle before moving over there,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he would feel comfortable. And you wondered
Speaker 1: how much Seattle will game plan to try to throw
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff at him to get him crossed up.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is this offense is
Speaker 1: just missing too many of their top level performers and
Speaker 1: it's showing out there on the field. Whether it's the
Speaker 1: inconsistencies and being able to move the football, take care
Speaker 1: of the football, the quarterback being able to play well,
Speaker 1: everybody having a certain comfort level in an endgame situation.
Speaker 1: All those things are playing a part in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks of watching this offense sort of struggle to
Speaker 1: be consistent moving the ball. You look at them earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, they were one of the better teams
Speaker 1: on third down, They were one of the better red
Speaker 1: zone teams on third down when they had the majority
Speaker 1: of their players out there on the field. It's gotten
Speaker 1: progressively worse as you continue to lose guys. You just
Speaker 1: can't say, next man up. It sounds cute, it's a
Speaker 1: great cliche, and it's great when it works. This is
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and when guys go down, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some level of drop off and you're fortunate
Speaker 1: if it doesn't cost you a game. And I think
Speaker 1: we were able against Chicago and Buffalo missing some key
Speaker 1: guys to get through those games. And when you're playing
Speaker 1: in New England's and the Seattle Seahawks Bill Belichick, Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll as head coach, is Tom Brady Russell Wilson's quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: that stuff is going to be an awful hard to overcome. Well,
Speaker 1: especially when you know earlier this week, Doug Peterson said,
Speaker 1: I believe it was in the one on one interview
Speaker 1: with David Spadaro, Jordan Howard is the key to the
Speaker 1: Kingdom when it comes to opening up the run game
Speaker 1: and the offense. That was his words. And so just
Speaker 1: when you're missing so many guys, but especially such a
Speaker 1: critical piece, there's just going to be a difference when
Speaker 1: you have another guy Jgi, who's coming off of having
Speaker 1: not played for a year, no matter how talented he is.
Speaker 1: So they're just gonna see those types of things. Why
Speaker 1: don't we get into your takeaways? Well, I mean you
Speaker 1: gotta start with the offense and the struggles on the
Speaker 1: offense of a touched on. Yeah, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: was my first takeaway of the game. Is just this
Speaker 1: offense just did not play well today. And even when
Speaker 1: they had opportunities moving the ball and it hasn't success,
Speaker 1: they wind up shooting themselves in the foot, turning the
Speaker 1: football over deep and Seattle territory where it looked like
Speaker 1: you can get some points there, and against a team
Speaker 1: like Seattle that wasn't playing their a game, you would
Speaker 1: hope that you could capitalize on those sort of things.
Speaker 1: We just weren't able to take advantage over the day.
Speaker 1: And it starts with the quarterback, and when he's a
Speaker 1: little rusty or he's a little off, the offense is
Speaker 1: gonna show. And the ineffectiveness and the inability to maintain drives,
Speaker 1: pick up first downs and give yourself another opportunity to
Speaker 1: get some rhythm going. It just wasn't there force five turnovers.
Speaker 1: You know, the numbers are comparable on offense between two
Speaker 1: teams but five turnovers, what are you gonna do to
Speaker 1: overcome night? Should we talking about how good greg Ward
Speaker 1: looked though? Should we give him a little well? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think listen, he didn't hurt you out there today.
Speaker 1: I think we may overstate how well he played today.
Speaker 1: Thankfully he caught the balls that cast him through to him.
Speaker 1: But if you watch those play designs and from the
Speaker 1: defensive standpoint, they were willing to give up those balls
Speaker 1: underneath to greg Ward for four or five yard games,
Speaker 1: Kudos to him, Like I said, if a being in
Speaker 1: the right players being able to catch the ball. But
Speaker 1: Seattle wasn't going to allow the ball to be thrown
Speaker 1: over their head, and he was the beneficiary of being
Speaker 1: able to catch some of those things underneath. I mean,
Speaker 1: what really? And Doug was asked about this in the
Speaker 1: postgame press conference said, you know, have with all these injuries,
Speaker 1: does it affect you as a play caller? And the
Speaker 1: reality of it is, especially in a game like today
Speaker 1: where you're missing those guys. You're missing even Nelson, who
Speaker 1: had been your viable deep threat to this point, you're playing.
Speaker 1: What always say about the red zone is that it's
Speaker 1: tough for offenses in the red zone because everything is
Speaker 1: so constrained, defenses get to play like the Eagles are
Speaker 1: in the red zone throughout the course of the field.
Speaker 1: So when you're missing those guys on the outside, and
Speaker 1: then you're missing Jordan Howard like you mentioned earlier, Amy,
Speaker 1: you're missing a guy that really can help establish the
Speaker 1: tone of your run game and say, okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep defenses on us that way. You're missing your hammer inside,
Speaker 1: you're missing any of the explosive weapons outside. Everything is constrained,
Speaker 1: everything's in a short box. And that's kind of how
Speaker 1: we have to see this offense play right now until
Speaker 1: some of these guys get healthy. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: What's your next takeaway? Well, the player a quarterback, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we that's sort of where we are.
Speaker 1: And I think the numbers. I look at this game
Speaker 1: today and I say Carson got off to a slow start.
Speaker 1: The turnovers are probably the biggest thing when you look
Speaker 1: at his play today, because thirty three or forty five
Speaker 1: certainly isn't a bad completion percentage. But the fact that
Speaker 1: fran just mentioned, the fact that the majority of that
Speaker 1: stuff is underneath where Seattle is really trying to force
Speaker 1: you to throw the football. Not being able to connect
Speaker 1: when they tried to stretch the field, I thought hurt
Speaker 1: the offense at times today. And it wasn't as if
Speaker 1: there were a lot of windows there for Carson to
Speaker 1: be able to put that ball in play. But he
Speaker 1: did have a couple of opportunities, and you would have
Speaker 1: liked to have seen him connect on him. The offensive
Speaker 1: line I thought at times failed him because if you're
Speaker 1: a quarterback in that pocket is collapsing on you, there's
Speaker 1: a clock in your head and you're saying, I gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here, or I got to get rid
Speaker 1: of the football. And I thought he had at least
Speaker 1: four or five throws to day when they were just
Speaker 1: arm throws. You didn't necessarily get a chance to step
Speaker 1: into the throw, get his hips into the throw, and
Speaker 1: that's when you're going to get the ball either sale
Speaker 1: or it is gonna tell all on him. And I
Speaker 1: thought a couple of times to either Arthago Whiteside or
Speaker 1: Greg Ward, he hit them on the wrong side of
Speaker 1: their bodies, and it was because it was strictly an
Speaker 1: arm throw as opposed to being able to line his
Speaker 1: elbow up. They hips up and pinpoint that ball where
Speaker 1: it would accuracy where he wants to put it. I
Speaker 1: believe it was Steve Young who said when he was
Speaker 1: at San Francisco that he would be able to tell
Speaker 1: looking on film if a plat pass was going to
Speaker 1: be complete or not just by looking at the guy's feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not even likely. Forget to play. I'm just gonna look
Speaker 1: at my feet, okay. If if my feet are good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this ball was probably complete. And so to Ike's point,
Speaker 1: some of those issues in your lower body as a
Speaker 1: quarterback can lead to some of your issues from a
Speaker 1: ball placement standpoint. But pressure, that's that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why pressure is so important for a defense is
Speaker 1: if you're moving the quarterback off the spot, if you're
Speaker 1: making him feel uncomfortable. We saw that with Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: today as well. He's not comfortable, his feet can't get
Speaker 1: set now, he's off targeting a lot of these throws.
Speaker 1: I was off on one of my points there, ain'ty
Speaker 1: my second friend was supposed to be. How well the
Speaker 1: defense playing, Yeah, that's what I expected. Yes, Yes, I
Speaker 1: got a mixed up there, Sorry about that. Yes, just
Speaker 1: a um effort. My mind is locked in on the
Speaker 1: offense now. They played, but the defense really did play well.
Speaker 1: They really gave this team a chance to win this game.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson back there uncomfortable all day. I thought he
Speaker 1: didn't extend plays as well as he's done throughout the
Speaker 1: season today. So the game plan to sort of keep
Speaker 1: him corralled and not let him just run around behind
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and hit you over the top.
Speaker 1: I think work worked to a tea today. Able to
Speaker 1: get six sacks on him back there and really made
Speaker 1: him uncomfortable for the most part. As when it came
Speaker 1: to throwing the football frame mentioned earlier. Really the only
Speaker 1: touchdown they gave up through the air was the throwback
Speaker 1: to Russell Wilson, where it took a great throw as
Speaker 1: well by Russell putting that ball in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone. He thinks, I love more than a
Speaker 1: trick play like that. And Russell Wilson only fifteen yards
Speaker 1: rushing and he has been one of the best pressures
Speaker 1: on the team as well. So defense did a great
Speaker 1: job cryling him. What I was gonna ask earlier and
Speaker 1: I forgot was Fletcher Cox on the field on the
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny touchdown. I had to look and see look
Speaker 1: at that. I think he might have not been there,
Speaker 1: which is going to be, you know, a difference maker there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sometimes when if they had just I think they
Speaker 1: had just finished a series or not finished. But I
Speaker 1: think SEATTLEW had just gotten the first down. So it's
Speaker 1: not it's not odd that Fletch will come out for
Speaker 1: the first down play so he can be fresh for
Speaker 1: second and third down out there when you hopefully you
Speaker 1: got them in a third and long second and long situation.
Speaker 1: For him, he has to sort of pick and choose
Speaker 1: where he can catch a breather at and it typically
Speaker 1: happens after team just converted a third down into a
Speaker 1: first down and then he's normally back on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a huge impact on that first third down
Speaker 1: of the game where he got home quickly for a sack.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Fletcher Cox, you look
Speaker 1: at Brandon Graham, their ability to win inside quickly was
Speaker 1: a big part of today. But then also the guys
Speaker 1: on the outside, and that goes as well to Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: that goes to Nigel Bradham. Those guys did a great
Speaker 1: job of contain today where you know, Russell Wilson, if
Speaker 1: he was able to get outside the pocket, he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to really feel comfortable. The ball came out quickly,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that again Team Sport, a lot
Speaker 1: of that goes to the coverage in the back end
Speaker 1: was really really strong throughout the day. But during the
Speaker 1: press cottage like he bought up a good point that
Speaker 1: their longest catch of the day or their highest receiver
Speaker 1: of the day was Tyler Lockett thirty eight yards and
Speaker 1: it came on the one play. Yeah, what happened on
Speaker 1: the McLeod interception. So it looked to me, it looked
Speaker 1: to me, and I want to see the film them.
Speaker 1: They were in that inverted cover two that I ever
Speaker 1: all a lot of fans like to kill the Eagles
Speaker 1: because they've given up some big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: In this coverage. It looked like they were in that
Speaker 1: coverage and Roddy McCleod was playing underneath. Darby came from
Speaker 1: the from deep impacted the catchpoint, got the ball up
Speaker 1: in the air and McLeod came in from underneath. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, nice little play. I'm excited to see that
Speaker 1: one on film. That was a fun one. To watch.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our turning points of the game. Um,
Speaker 1: can we pinpoint any moments where this thing well for me?
Speaker 1: For me, I mean it's still a ten three game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Late in this game and the Richard Penny touchdown, to
Speaker 1: me was the turning points. As difficult as it had
Speaker 1: been for the Eagles offense to get any touchdown, get
Speaker 1: any points on the board, you sort of felt it
Speaker 1: we could keep this thing to a one score game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles may be able to steal this thing in
Speaker 1: the end. But once they went up by two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: I just felt like that was the nail and the
Speaker 1: coffin because of the way the offense had played to
Speaker 1: day and how difficult it was for them to move
Speaker 1: the ball and eventually get it in the end zone. Um,
Speaker 1: when when Penny was able to get that touchdown, and
Speaker 1: I hate to make that my turning point because that's
Speaker 1: almost a knock against the defense, But they held on
Speaker 1: as long as they could, and that's really the only
Speaker 1: bad play they had today from a defensive standpoint. To me,
Speaker 1: that was when I felt like we may not get
Speaker 1: this one. But that's also saying, Okay, I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: trust this offense to be able from two squads at home,
Speaker 1: even though there was definitely time left for that to happen,
Speaker 1: and being at home that we had not seen anything
Speaker 1: to give us faith that the offense would be able
Speaker 1: to do that, and to come back to the defense
Speaker 1: wind up getting another turnover to give you another opportunity
Speaker 1: to pull with their seventh. So many chances. The tough
Speaker 1: one for me would be that fumble on they tried
Speaker 1: to sprint draft down. To me, it was an enemy territory.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a fumbled exchange between Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: and Miles Sanders. Coach was asked about it in the
Speaker 1: postgame press conference and he said, you know, big vieb
Speaker 1: kind of overset there. Let the defender get too far upfield. Look,
Speaker 1: this is a play and a lot of Fenser saying
Speaker 1: what were they trying to do here on this play?
Speaker 1: The Eagles have had a lot of success if you
Speaker 1: go back Lashawn McCoy twenty eleven, twenty twelve for the
Speaker 1: other late years of Eat. They loved the sprint draw
Speaker 1: Howard Mudd, that offensive line. They ran this a lot
Speaker 1: and it resulted in a lot of big plays. The
Speaker 1: Eagles haven't run that a lot to date here in
Speaker 1: this offense, but it's something that you see throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the NFL where really you're just trying to
Speaker 1: suck the defense upfield and then just kind of hit
Speaker 1: them late with a late hand off to the running back.
Speaker 1: And that's what they were trying to do. They were
Speaker 1: trying to get a nice little lane in the middle
Speaker 1: of the defense. Unfortunately the exchange is fumbled because that
Speaker 1: instant pressure happened. Now you could say, is that on
Speaker 1: big v as the spacing right with the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the running back, where are they on the same page? Regardless,
Speaker 1: ball ends up on the ground, goes back the other way.
Speaker 1: That to me was the turning point, because it looked
Speaker 1: like they were starting to string a really nice drive together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have a third turning point. I think both
Speaker 1: of those were moments where the wind was really taken
Speaker 1: out of the sales. I totally agree that going down
Speaker 1: by two scores, not a lot of faith in the
Speaker 1: offense to do what we hadn't seen them do this game.
Speaker 1: But I think that that that turnover there on the
Speaker 1: botched hand off there with Miles standers because also they
Speaker 1: were getting a little bit of momentum, but they were
Speaker 1: on the Seattle thirty eight, and the swing went to
Speaker 1: Seattle having the ball in the Philadelphia thirty two. And
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the field position battle and some
Speaker 1: of those hidden yards that you so beautifully taught us
Speaker 1: about last week friend against the Patriots. Not to me
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest swings was not only do
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over and lose the momentum, but
Speaker 1: you were getting close to scoring and now you're putting
Speaker 1: your opponent in a good scoring position. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it happened a couple of times. Happened in the first
Speaker 1: half two And that's really where when the team looks
Speaker 1: back at this game Carson offense, they're going to say,
Speaker 1: we had opportunities, right, we had opportunities when we finally
Speaker 1: got a little momentum and got down in the territory.
Speaker 1: The interception, you know, when Carson had somebody right in
Speaker 1: his face, probably wants to put a little more air
Speaker 1: under that ball to Dallas Goddard and then can't allow
Speaker 1: that dB to be able to undercut you and make
Speaker 1: that interception there. That that was another sort of momentum
Speaker 1: killer where I thought Okay, we're starting to move the ball.
Speaker 1: Here's an opportunity to sort of put some points on
Speaker 1: the board. And again you just shoot yourself in the
Speaker 1: foot there. Those are the ones that are deflating. Those
Speaker 1: those are the ones where you say, man, we had
Speaker 1: a chance right there. Yeah, absolutely, and I believe Carson.
Speaker 1: We were about to hear from Carson Wentz, which I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to hear from him and just kind of
Speaker 1: catch his vibe and his demeanor after this one, as
Speaker 1: he's you know, always taking responsibility for the struggles of
Speaker 1: the offense and never pointing fingers, but especially after a
Speaker 1: day like today where not a lot was going right
Speaker 1: for this offense, where you saw a lot of the
Speaker 1: playmakers out, a lot of the top guys on offense
Speaker 1: who would be catching those passes, who would be running
Speaker 1: the ball not playing today. Also the offensive lines, some
Speaker 1: shifts there with different guys coming in and out, a
Speaker 1: lot of different things for him to adapt to a
Speaker 1: side quick. Yeah, just my haunt, everything was was negative,
Speaker 1: so um should should be good. I don't get um,
Speaker 1: you know, as I was just you know, making sure
Speaker 1: it was good. But that's by no means an excuse
Speaker 1: for how we performed onsoever that happened on the tackle. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you blanked it not well enough at all.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta, Um, I have to you know,
Speaker 1: be better. I have to lead this team better. I
Speaker 1: gotta protect the football better. We can't put it on
Speaker 1: the ground the way we did. Um, And it starts
Speaker 1: with me. It starts with me, And I'm frustrated. I
Speaker 1: know everyone's frustrated with this, with this loss offensively, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, turning the ball over, UM, starts with me.
Speaker 1: I gotta be better and we will. We seemed, I
Speaker 1: guess difficulty. We're only what was that? We just put
Speaker 1: the short passes? We get the way up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just got on this. You know, I missed a few
Speaker 1: and um, there's there's no no excuses. I just missed him.
Speaker 1: I gotta better, you know, it's gotta be better. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you see the amount of players that you're missing an
Speaker 1: offense that you might try to do too much or
Speaker 1: maybe putting too much pressure on yourself at all to
Speaker 1: to do more. I do feel like that's in case
Speaker 1: at all. Uh. I didn't feel that necessarily today. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought we you know, I thought we
Speaker 1: did an okay job, and there's plays there to be made,
Speaker 1: and every time we got something going, we turn it over,
Speaker 1: you know, And and that's uh, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of handful of those were on me, you know, and
Speaker 1: starts with me. I gotta protect the football. And you
Speaker 1: can't win many games with with five turnovers, you know
Speaker 1: like that. So you know, our defense played great again,
Speaker 1: um gave us a fighting chance again and offensively we
Speaker 1: let them. Now I really can go back and contain
Speaker 1: the detail still talking about the throw, talk about the
Speaker 1: two passes they've missed, the crossing rounds and sapping just
Speaker 1: behind them in the first third game and then when
Speaker 1: you go over to a mile stand whatever happened to
Speaker 1: all those two particular plays. I missed them, missed the throw.
Speaker 1: I gotta be better. I mean, there's there's no seasons.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the wind, it wasn't there's nothing. I just
Speaker 1: missed him. I gotta better crossing. Can you tell when
Speaker 1: you do miss the throw? Is that an immediate thing?
Speaker 1: Can you tell maybe the hookburg wasn't there, and maybe
Speaker 1: a mechanic or that's something to go. Um, you could
Speaker 1: say sometimes that might be the case. You can tell,
Speaker 1: but today I don't. I don't know, I got enough.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm not gonna stand up here and
Speaker 1: making seeses for miss throws. You know, That's not what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I gotta make those throws and I
Speaker 1: will next time. I looked at those mechanical things, foot work,
Speaker 1: follow through our position, all that stuff. How you scorize that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we always, you know, kind of study that throughout the week. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, as the week, as the season goes, you
Speaker 1: know this, um can be harder to focus on those,
Speaker 1: but we always talk about him and work through them.
Speaker 1: So um, again, there's no no excuse with that either. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean I felt good mentally, you know, mentally, I
Speaker 1: think everything was good every you know, we were right
Speaker 1: there and I physically just missed it. Throw on the phone,
Speaker 1: handoff and it's a Miles name that they're doing. What
Speaker 1: happened on that play? Because that was a pretty good
Speaker 1: scoring Yeah, Um, that one of stuff. There's no excues
Speaker 1: on that either. I gotta I mean, that's something that
Speaker 1: we got to work and and be better at. You know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it was kind of a new
Speaker 1: kind of play, and um, I Miles and I just
Speaker 1: probably didn't um communicate enough on it. And I gotta
Speaker 1: be better for him and give him a chance on them.
Speaker 1: This is enough characteristic play. Does anything kind of something
Speaker 1: standing out like I know that I this is where
Speaker 1: I'm kind of straying or whatever the case, UM not really,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the turnovers, you know, I think
Speaker 1: everything else. You know, we missed you know a few
Speaker 1: throws and and things like that, but the turnovers really,
Speaker 1: um kill us, you know, And that's something that UM,
Speaker 1: I gotta take a hard look at and see what
Speaker 1: where where can I be better? Um? Where can I
Speaker 1: um obviously keep and the driving a kick one way
Speaker 1: or not, you know, and and not put our defense
Speaker 1: in bad situations? And um, I can be better. I
Speaker 1: will be better and we'll get the thing go. Tom,
Speaker 1: is it to play without Jean? You're top wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, you're in top running back, um like Johnson
Speaker 1: and the brand up prost that. Yeah, I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: that's that's part of football. You know, that's part of football.
Speaker 1: Every year, every game, you know, there's there's ampul of injuries,
Speaker 1: there's this and that, and you know we've since the
Speaker 1: day I got here, always said the next man up mentality,
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of confidence in the guys
Speaker 1: that do do get in there. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought a lot of a lot of those guys
Speaker 1: you know, play to play a good game today, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, um that's we just didn't make the plays.
Speaker 1: I didn't make the plays. And um, but by no
Speaker 1: means is that an excuse or anything. On teams here
Speaker 1: before though they had a lot of injuries, didn't plays
Speaker 1: sloppy league. They should guys play today? What was the
Speaker 1: difference was the difference? Yeah, what happened back then, it
Speaker 1: was happening now. So tough to say. You know, like
Speaker 1: you said, it was sloppy, you know, plays playing simple,
Speaker 1: it was sloppy. Um. You know I was a little
Speaker 1: careless with the football today, and um, that's frustrating. I
Speaker 1: would be the first to say, I'm not happy about it,
Speaker 1: you know, and I I gotta fix it. I go
Speaker 1: look in the mirror. Um, and you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: really no excuse or no other you know, real big issue. Um,
Speaker 1: so to speak, we sho gotta take here at football.
Speaker 1: Given the ustability on the offensive, one good idea to
Speaker 1: get you outside the pocket or get you away from
Speaker 1: pass rushing. That's that's a game plan thing kind of
Speaker 1: every week, you know, depending on how they play us
Speaker 1: and what you know, what they want to do and
Speaker 1: what they show on tape. So um, you know you
Speaker 1: could always second guests and say, maybe we could have
Speaker 1: done this more that more. Um, that's football. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the guys up front, you know,
Speaker 1: fought their butts off and did what they could, and um,
Speaker 1: I just I let them know the next man up.
Speaker 1: But how do in game change in versus like you
Speaker 1: game player not haven't playing and my Louis Bryant didn't
Speaker 1: met the game. Uh, they blew Andre, I'll put a
Speaker 1: big V. So there are a lot of moving parts,
Speaker 1: is that yeah? Different? I mean I think it is
Speaker 1: tough for those guys. I mean you know that. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, they're always ready, you know. That's
Speaker 1: that's the mindset, you know, be ready. And obviously with
Speaker 1: with Lane and Brandon, you know, two of the best
Speaker 1: of their position. Um, but you know, I thought those
Speaker 1: guys again, I'd have to look at the tape, but
Speaker 1: I thought they stepped in and did and did their
Speaker 1: thing and did well. Um. You know, so, so that's
Speaker 1: not an excuse. We believe in every guy that dresses
Speaker 1: out there, you know, whether they're I'm gonna play no
Speaker 1: snaps or play the whole game. So we can be
Speaker 1: better and we will be. Sometimes when you've had these
Speaker 1: tough games in New Orleans last year, maybe I guess
Speaker 1: Cincinnati you're a Brookie season. How did you respond? What
Speaker 1: were the few hours and days like after that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, not make it a giant thing.
Speaker 1: You know, just for one we got you got six
Speaker 1: six days and you're back on you know, it's six
Speaker 1: days to get ready. So um, try not to really
Speaker 1: change your routine or do anything crazy. Just stay with
Speaker 1: what you know and um, just take a hard look
Speaker 1: in the mirror, you know, and say where can I
Speaker 1: be better? And um, you know, we realize that there's
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of outside noise and guys
Speaker 1: looking at us. And as a leader, I gotta be better.
Speaker 1: I gotta lead these guys better. And keep this single.
Speaker 1: It might be the first time first time we've heard
Speaker 1: you get booed. I don't know if you've ever been
Speaker 1: better in high school, college or anythingcause maybe to write
Speaker 1: a passage of the city. But does that affect you,
Speaker 1: does make it more frustrated to hear it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you never want to hear it, but you
Speaker 1: know it is what it is. That's this, that's the city,
Speaker 1: that's the fan base, and um, I'm frustrated to you know,
Speaker 1: when we're playing like that. So you know, they have
Speaker 1: every right when we're playing poorly too. To let us know,
Speaker 1: Alban was talking about the importance of playing complimentary football
Speaker 1: depending on how like a game is taking shape, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. What do you think that you know,
Speaker 1: the offense has rolled and that is you know, over
Speaker 1: over the last five games to um, what what exactly
Speaker 1: do you mean for for all the both sides to
Speaker 1: be sicked up, to be ensuring the best chance of winning,
Speaker 1: helping together the other side out and what's them? What
Speaker 1: do you think the roles for this offense given the
Speaker 1: service states? Yeah, I mean, you know, for us offensively
Speaker 1: every week, you know, we want to stay on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, we want to convert their downs. We want
Speaker 1: to you know, have ball control, and um, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we our ball control. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think our time proffession was still okay, we just
Speaker 1: put it on the ground or put it on the
Speaker 1: defense's hands. You know, I got to be better with that.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think that's kind of our
Speaker 1: moo is it just sustain drives down the field and
Speaker 1: um not put our defense in bad situations. And we
Speaker 1: did that a few times today and they stepped up
Speaker 1: and played well. So UM, yeah, it's tough, you know,
Speaker 1: these last two weeks when the defense plays plays good football,
Speaker 1: um and complimentary wise, we didn't help them out your hand,
Speaker 1: you're getting more tests on it. Is there anything that
Speaker 1: you concerned about there? I don't think so, But obviously
Speaker 1: we'll wait and see. You're gonna tough to not to
Speaker 1: not press, you know, even go you know, you turn
Speaker 1: a kind of defeat who you offense to not try
Speaker 1: to drive them hard to get the fell back in
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, you could say that, but I
Speaker 1: think we've done a good job this year of not
Speaker 1: letting that be the case, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think us pressing is the reason we turned the
Speaker 1: ball of you know, it was just you know, it
Speaker 1: was sloppy. You know, fundamentally, I got to be better.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just sloppy. You know, and um,
Speaker 1: but pressing wise like that, I don't think that. I
Speaker 1: thought we did a good job of handling that and
Speaker 1: just taking what was there and trying to just stay
Speaker 1: on the field. And we just didn't good to do
Speaker 1: a good job of it. Why or how is it
Speaker 1: going to be better? But I think I guess what
Speaker 1: should people look at? You think this is just going
Speaker 1: to improve? Yeah, I mean, and I get the question.
Speaker 1: I do, Um, you know, especially after the last two
Speaker 1: weeks performances offensively, But um, you know, the same thing
Speaker 1: stays the same for me is I have a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence, a lot of confidence and in myself to
Speaker 1: fix things I can correct and a lot of each
Speaker 1: guy's going to do their part and get it fixed.
Speaker 1: And um, you know we're gonna turn the page real quick.
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna learn from this. Turn the page.
Speaker 1: But you know, we got six days ago and practice,
Speaker 1: work our tails off, you know, and go get a
Speaker 1: w on the road. Thank you guys. Okay. I thought
Speaker 1: it was very interesting that he said, look, we didn't
Speaker 1: play well enough. We have to I have to blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It starts with me and kind of caught
Speaker 1: himself there just speaks to his mentality. Any reactions from ownership, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was what that was what you wanted to hear
Speaker 1: from your franchise quarterback. I think exactly. Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: as frustrated as everybody, whether you're at home, whether you're
Speaker 1: in the studio, whether in that locker room, he's as
Speaker 1: frustrated as everybody. Uh, and he's gonna do whatever it's
Speaker 1: got to do to get it fixed. Um. So I
Speaker 1: appreciated the honesty and the ownership. Yeah. I always like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every week I think you know, when he stands up
Speaker 1: there at the podium, he's always reflective of how he
Speaker 1: played that day, especially in losses. Right, he's going to
Speaker 1: start with himself and wins. He's all about praising his teammates,
Speaker 1: praising the guys around him, and that's what you want
Speaker 1: from the leader of your football team. And it starts
Speaker 1: with the head coach. He is pretty much the same way.
Speaker 1: And Carson takes Doug's ques as well. And you know,
Speaker 1: those two guys are gonna always be under the microscope
Speaker 1: when it comes to this football team when they aren't
Speaker 1: doing well, and it's just refreshing And no, I guess
Speaker 1: I should say, it's encouraging to know that from our
Speaker 1: two most important leadership positions on this team, you have
Speaker 1: guys that you know, our hard workers are gonna hold
Speaker 1: themselves accountable first and going to do everything that they
Speaker 1: can to get this thing fixed. Carson knows he's not
Speaker 1: playing well himself, first and foremost, but he also understands
Speaker 1: that he has to bring these young guys along. Right,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the veterans al Sean Nelson out there
Speaker 1: with him, so these young guys are looking to him
Speaker 1: for leadership, not only standing at the podium, not only
Speaker 1: throughout the week in practice and how he approaches his
Speaker 1: work every day, but out there on the field and
Speaker 1: throughout the course of a game. And there were several
Speaker 1: times where you know, there was a camera shot of
Speaker 1: Carson on the side and he's talking to either Greg Ward,
Speaker 1: He's talking to either JJ Arthega whiteside after a completed
Speaker 1: ball that's going over there and trying to get on
Speaker 1: the same page with your wide receivers. Saw him talking
Speaker 1: to Miles Sanders over there after the botched handoffs. So
Speaker 1: those are things that you want he has to make
Speaker 1: sure he tempers his frustration because again those guys are
Speaker 1: gonna take their queue from him and watching him on
Speaker 1: the sideline. And again, I know it almost sounds redundant
Speaker 1: at times when we're talking about Carson, but I think
Speaker 1: as you move forward, these are things that are gonna
Speaker 1: make him that much better as a quarterback going forward.
Speaker 1: These are tough times for him, you know, things I
Speaker 1: don't want to say they came easier to him, but
Speaker 1: he's certainly had a lot more success his first couple
Speaker 1: of years in this league. And the one thing I
Speaker 1: know about this league, this league will humble you. This
Speaker 1: league will make you go back to the drawing board
Speaker 1: and get better and update your resume. And I think
Speaker 1: cars Carson's going through with a lot of young quarterbacks
Speaker 1: go through, which is gone through tough times, trying to
Speaker 1: navigate through it while being a leader and being upbeating
Speaker 1: and being positive, and these type of things are gonna
Speaker 1: make him a better player and a better leader as
Speaker 1: he moves forward through his career. Yeah, and that does
Speaker 1: happen in the evolution of a quarterback. I think we're
Speaker 1: seeing Jared Goff goes through right now as well in
Speaker 1: LA And of course those two will be tied together
Speaker 1: forever about one going one and two in the draft
Speaker 1: as well. Of course, really good point by you, Ike
Speaker 1: that we're seeing Carson Wentz take responsibility and also Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson always saying it starts with me. That's the message
Speaker 1: from the two of them. Coach Peterson also caught up
Speaker 1: with our own Mike Quick a little bit earlier tonight.
Speaker 1: Here's here's that interview. Coach you, after a game like this,
Speaker 1: how do you address the team? It's it's funny. As
Speaker 1: I was walking off the field, that's that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I thought of. How am I going to do this?
Speaker 1: Because I thought the defense played outstanding again, kept us
Speaker 1: in this football game against a good offensive teams. Two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row they've played well, and the offense
Speaker 1: today really really struggled. So you know, it's kind of twofold.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, then at the
Speaker 1: end of the message, it's you know, we're a team,
Speaker 1: and and we're all three phases. We're not we're not
Speaker 1: fifty fifty or thirty thirty thirty whatever it is, um
Speaker 1: and and we're gonna continue to fight, We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna continue to work, and we'll get things fixed and
Speaker 1: get ready for next week. Much is gonna be said
Speaker 1: about your quarterback play over the past couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: But tell me about the scrambling at the offensive line
Speaker 1: and all the things, the adjustments you had to make
Speaker 1: there with the injuries and such. Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it definitely can take a toll on you. It can
Speaker 1: affect you. Um, you know as far as uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the moving parts. Um, you know, we we we've we
Speaker 1: had a good week of practice. I really felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, Andre had a good week preparation at right tackle.
Speaker 1: Each day he got better, he was prepared, ready to go.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes in game, you know, things just happened
Speaker 1: and and and then of course you have to make
Speaker 1: an adjustment there. So Big V went in and um,
Speaker 1: you know, settle down just a little bit in the
Speaker 1: second half. But you know, other than that, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta look at it. We gotta look at everybody
Speaker 1: has to look at it with uh, you know, with
Speaker 1: open eyes. And we gotta get better. How do you
Speaker 1: get to your quarterback going tray? You know, that's something
Speaker 1: we'll we'll discuss the next couple of days and get
Speaker 1: ready for Miami. But um, you know, we just got
Speaker 1: to get back to some of the basics I think,
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe you know, go back to some of
Speaker 1: the things that U he had success with earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, maybe even as an offense, and really just
Speaker 1: allow him to play to play free, whether that's up tempo,
Speaker 1: which we had success today doing some of that or
Speaker 1: or whatever. We just got to take a hard look
Speaker 1: at that as a coaching staff, and we've got to
Speaker 1: help him to Thanks coach, you know, I think him Okay,
Speaker 1: great stuff. As always there from my quick and Tag Peterson.
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Speaker 1: the postgame show as we continue to break down the
Speaker 1: Eagles loss to the Seattle Seahawks. A strong performance from
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense, who really got pressure on Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: made him uncomfortable all night. A lot of sacks on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks quarterback, a big one coming from Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: getting the credit on that. He is the subject of
Speaker 1: this week's RICO review. Fran Duffy is going to break
Speaker 1: it down for us. Take it away, Fran, one of
Speaker 1: the big stories of the first half was absolutely this
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. Four sacks on Russell Wilson. The pressure was
Speaker 1: constant and it didn't always result in the sack, but
Speaker 1: all throughout the first half he was very hurried and
Speaker 1: his processing led to a lot of incompletion, some missues
Speaker 1: that are uncharacteristic of Russell Wilson. A lot of that
Speaker 1: goes to not just the defensive line, but tight coverage
Speaker 1: on the back end. And it all started on the
Speaker 1: first third down of the game. Really well schemed sack
Speaker 1: here from Jim Schwartz, and this Eagles defense, here's where
Speaker 1: you're gonna see along the line of screaming. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have five Eagles defenders, five over five what's commonly known
Speaker 1: as a diamond front here across the NFL, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see what that does is it just creates a
Speaker 1: series of one on one matchups because the offensive line,
Speaker 1: they don't know who's coming, who's going, who's dropping out,
Speaker 1: So you have to account for everybody, which means that
Speaker 1: all five offensive lineman they're gonna be occupied by five blockers. Now,
Speaker 1: the fifth blocker along this defensive front is Nigel Bradham.
Speaker 1: He's the fifth rusher, so he's not actually going to blitz.
Speaker 1: He's gonna step forward and take on the left guard.
Speaker 1: He is essentially just gonna drop back and just be
Speaker 1: a spy on Russell Wilson. So you're four rushers here
Speaker 1: are gonna be dirt furnheat off the edge. Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: lined up one on one with the center, Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: lined up inside and Josh Sweat coming off the edge.
Speaker 1: But like I said, this guard he doesn't know that
Speaker 1: Nigel Bradham's not coming, so he has to treat him
Speaker 1: as if he's going to blitz. We're gonna let this
Speaker 1: run and you're gonna see exactly what happens here. Is
Speaker 1: really again five one on one matchups across the board,
Speaker 1: and the most pivotal one is this one right here.
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox lined up on the backup center, Joey Hunt
Speaker 1: is just gonna bench press him into the backfield, right
Speaker 1: into the lap of Russell Wilson. You've got type man
Speaker 1: to man coverage across the board as well. In the secondary.
Speaker 1: He's got nowhere to go with the football and Fletcher
Speaker 1: gets home for the sack. Really good job here by
Speaker 1: this defensive staff and the front seven of getting home
Speaker 1: to Russell Wilson and getting off the field for a
Speaker 1: three and out to start the game. Okay, great stuff
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Speaker 1: there for the Eagles ERTs with ninety one yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown today. Brandon Graham and Malcolm Jenkins both making
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson pretty uncomfortable. Brandon Graham with one and a
Speaker 1: half sacks, Malcolm Jenkins with two sacks in today's in
Speaker 1: today's game, there, who did you get your vote here
Speaker 1: on this one? I gotta go with a defensive guy
Speaker 1: the way they perform today. I gotta go with Jane.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna say what I'm thinking. Yeah, j
Speaker 1: play arguably his best game of the season. Ye round
Speaker 1: the football everywhere, getting sacks on Russell Wilson. I know
Speaker 1: he had the responsibility of being somewhat of a spy
Speaker 1: today with Russell Wilson. Are you gotta give him credit
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson not having the type of running day
Speaker 1: that he's a customed to happen. So I like the
Speaker 1: way Jink played. I liked in Brandon. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 1: Brandon seven sacks and at last or seven and a
Speaker 1: half sacks in his last seven games. He's been doing
Speaker 1: an awesome job. And Zach Zach is steady as you go,
Speaker 1: mister reliable. Absolutely, and I mean really the great spot
Speaker 1: on the Eagles offense to day, the one guy really
Speaker 1: helping them move the sticks um. I also thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of fun that BG and Malcolm each shared
Speaker 1: a sack there that each got half on one of
Speaker 1: those there. So yeah, gotta love the team work from
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Speaker 1: which guys we think deserve it, but I always love
Speaker 1: to see who the fans pick every week, so that's
Speaker 1: always really fun for us. Yeah, it's good that Malcolm
Speaker 1: and BG shared that sack today because that's probably the
Speaker 1: last time they're going to be feeling good with each other.
Speaker 1: Case you didn't recognize Michigan and Ohio State big game
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Speaker 1: to be rivalry week. Say well, what stakes a little
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Speaker 1: All right, as we look ahead to next week, the
Speaker 1: Eagles will be on the road for the first incepent
Speaker 1: a little while, but they get to go to some
Speaker 1: warmer weather. Actually, to my hometown. I grew up in
Speaker 1: South Florida. It was raised as a Dolphins span, and
Speaker 1: my allegiances are going to be in a different spot
Speaker 1: next week as well. M Dolphins really struggling this season.
Speaker 1: Two and nine. They just lost to the Browns forty
Speaker 1: one twenty four. Not a lot, not a lot going
Speaker 1: on there in Miami. Yeah, and my first word to
Speaker 1: the Eagles would be respect your opponent. Yes, because the
Speaker 1: cliches exactly. We know the cliche any given Sunday, So
Speaker 1: if you don't come ready to play, Miami could have
Speaker 1: their third win of the season. So, um, it's a
Speaker 1: business trip, it's not a vacation. Go down there and
Speaker 1: take care of business these last five games. You know,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, depending on how the game turns out in
Speaker 1: New England, they still confine themselves one game behind the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the standings and really with the to control
Speaker 1: their own destiny if that happens today. So the Eagles,
Speaker 1: there's still a lot to play for it. They can
Speaker 1: still win this division, but you got to get back
Speaker 1: on track starting next week in Miami. Yeah. You can't
Speaker 1: underestimate anyone every All of these teams are NFL teams,
Speaker 1: and of course the Dolphins have been able to get
Speaker 1: two wins those teams didn't expect that either. And look,
Speaker 1: I think Brian Flores is a really good coach. I
Speaker 1: think he's building something there. But you know, they've gotten
Speaker 1: rid of a lot of their star players. They are
Speaker 1: really doing a serious rebuild there. But I like the
Speaker 1: direction that this coach seems to be taking it there.
Speaker 1: And the benefit for the Eagles is that, you know,
Speaker 1: Brian Flores is obviously from New England, so you just
Speaker 1: faced New England a couple of weeks ago. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get somewhat the same defense down there in Miami, so
Speaker 1: that should help this offense out. Even though you only
Speaker 1: score a ten against New England, but seeing a similar
Speaker 1: defense for the second time in three weeks should be
Speaker 1: beneficial to the offense. It'd be interesting who's available to
Speaker 1: go next week, because if you still are without the
Speaker 1: offense of power of Howard Nelson, I mean Nelson, Agilore
Speaker 1: and al Sean Jeffrey and your officsive Lineman, it can
Speaker 1: be a struggle. Hopefully we get the majority of those
Speaker 1: guys back next week to make the quarterbacks job a
Speaker 1: little easier and the head coach's job a little easier
Speaker 1: when it comes to play calling, because having twenty four
Speaker 1: in that backfield, so it gives everybody a comfort zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he opens everything up well, and like you mentioned to
Speaker 1: me earlier, it's going to be a short week with
Speaker 1: the holiday going on. And hey, speaking of New England,
Speaker 1: they're currently up ten to zero on the Cowboys, so
Speaker 1: that's something we're all going to be watchings the night unfolds.
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Speaker 1: down with the postgame show presented by Rico. As always,
Speaker 1: we will see you then. Happy Thanksgiving everybody, have a
Speaker 1: good one.