Speaker 1: Twenty seven to twenty four, your final score as the
Speaker 1: Eagles fall to the Lions here in South Philadelphia. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the postgame Show, presented by Rico Amy Campbell Ike
Speaker 1: Greased two weeks in a row, a heartbreaker, down to
Speaker 1: the last minute, down to the last drive for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and once again they come up on the losing side
Speaker 1: of things. Yeah, I mean, this is a difficult game
Speaker 1: to digest. This one's gonna hurt for a while they
Speaker 1: play again. Thursday said they don't have long to let
Speaker 1: this game linger. When you talk about another close game
Speaker 1: where you know, you look at the early miscuse in
Speaker 1: the game, and the Eagle's gonna look back on this
Speaker 1: game and say, we beat ourselves in this game. This
Speaker 1: is This is a disappointing loss at home for a
Speaker 1: team that you expect to play a lot better in
Speaker 1: their building. Yeah, a close loss like it was last
Speaker 1: week on the road against the Falcons, but a very
Speaker 1: different type of game. Let's head out now to link
Speaker 1: a financial field. Dave Spadero standing by debut or on
Speaker 1: hand for this game. Another roller coaster for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: What is your initial thoughts just as you're kind of
Speaker 1: processing what we've just unfold. Well, the Philadelphia Eagles fumbled
Speaker 1: what three times? They were called three times for offensive
Speaker 1: pass interference. They came back in the third quarter and
Speaker 1: immediately let up a drive for a touchdown. They had
Speaker 1: a chance amazingly at the end after the blocked punt,
Speaker 1: hurt themselves first of all with the block in the
Speaker 1: back penalty of foolish penalty, and then move the ball
Speaker 1: not a bit. And so this is what teams that
Speaker 1: are still trying to find themselves are like they as
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I mean, you've got to learn
Speaker 1: how to close out halves, which the Eagles did a
Speaker 1: very poor job of in the first half, and then
Speaker 1: you've got to close out in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 1: you are gifted the football at midfield. So I mean,
Speaker 1: it's extremely disappointing loss. It's a critical loss that's now
Speaker 1: two losses in the NFC, and an opportunity once again
Speaker 1: late in the game where they couldn't put together a
Speaker 1: drive to get points on the board. And so those
Speaker 1: are my initials. It's a team that is really struggling
Speaker 1: to play the kind of football that everybody thought it
Speaker 1: would be able to play when this season began, and
Speaker 1: I know that there was no DeShawn Jackson, and I
Speaker 1: know that there was no al Shan Jeffrey, and I
Speaker 1: know that Nelsa that Dallas Goddard was at dropped a
Speaker 1: wide open pass another mistake. But I also see things
Speaker 1: like a pass rush that is not getting home. I've
Speaker 1: see a team that just doesn't seem like it's faster, quicker,
Speaker 1: stronger than these other teams, particularly latent games. So it's
Speaker 1: very disappointing to be one and two and there's just
Speaker 1: no time to lay around because the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: a road trip coming in a matter of seventy two hours. Dave,
Speaker 1: how do you think they get passed? The whole close game?
Speaker 1: The planning, I mean planning close games and being able
Speaker 1: to close out these football games. Most of the games
Speaker 1: in the National Football League are one possession games, and
Speaker 1: I think over the last eighteen or nineteen games, the
Speaker 1: record in those close games haven't been very good for
Speaker 1: this football team. And I'm just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: is it a mental block here that they It seems
Speaker 1: like you get in these positions and we just don't
Speaker 1: seem the execute at our best lead. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting, Ike is that you come out,
Speaker 1: you've got two time outs left, You've got plenty of
Speaker 1: time on the clock, and there's no threat. It felt
Speaker 1: like of the run game, right, It felt like the
Speaker 1: Eagles were gonna drop back and throw the football. And
Speaker 1: when you don't have that multidimensional threat, it really makes
Speaker 1: it a little bit easier for the defense, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: the teams have been able here the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to pressure Carson. They have been able to cover
Speaker 1: on the outside. JJ Arthega Whiteside really hasn't shown the
Speaker 1: ability to separate. The Eagles are throwing the ball down
Speaker 1: the field of Darren Sprowles who had to push off
Speaker 1: to create separations. That happened right in front of me. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think ultimately you want to have a
Speaker 1: balanced offense, you got to play with confidence, and I
Speaker 1: think the only way to overcome that ike is to
Speaker 1: go out and win some of these late close games
Speaker 1: that the Eagles have just not been able to put away.
Speaker 1: And it's something that Carson Wentz and I understand how
Speaker 1: it's gonna work here on talk radio, social media, etc.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in position very similar to last year the
Speaker 1: Carolina game, unable to put points on the board, plenty,
Speaker 1: time on the clock, great field position, defense on its heels.
Speaker 1: Eagles did nothing with it. Damn. I look over the
Speaker 1: stats here. The Eagles really dominated in every single category.
Speaker 1: Time of possession, it means nothing because they gave up
Speaker 1: a kickoff return for a touchdown. Yeah, they fumbled the
Speaker 1: ball three times, two of them. The Lions recovered and
Speaker 1: took short fields and put up two field goals. So
Speaker 1: I mean those stats are hollow statistics. They really don't
Speaker 1: mean anything. Time of possession, none of that stuff matters.
Speaker 1: What matters is that the Eagles were given an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Defense played well enough in the red zone to hold
Speaker 1: the lines, the two field goals after those fumbles lost,
Speaker 1: and there the special teams come up big at the
Speaker 1: end the offense in the third quarter late there puts
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the board. Eagles unable to sustain momentum.
Speaker 1: And this is what happens to teams that just haven't
Speaker 1: found their way in a particular season. Costly mistakes cost them. Dave,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: be hearing from you as the week unfolds. From inside
Speaker 1: the locker room. And how everybody's feeling in there. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much. All right, let's get to your takeaways. Really.
Speaker 1: I mean, great to hear from Dave on the field
Speaker 1: there and just kind of you know, he said, I
Speaker 1: was standing right there when I saw that offensive pass interference,
Speaker 1: just a lot of you know, you can dominate the
Speaker 1: stat sheet, but costly mistakes and missed opportunities just can't
Speaker 1: get that won't turn into a win in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's my first takeaway from the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at these three games, this team continues
Speaker 1: to get off to somewhat of a slow start. I know,
Speaker 1: they got three points on the opening drive. That was
Speaker 1: certainly great to see, but then it was it was
Speaker 1: a tough sled And after that you talked Dave mentioned
Speaker 1: the fumbles. You can't have fumbles. I mean drop passes, right,
Speaker 1: you give up a kickoff return for a touchdown. These
Speaker 1: are things that you can't do if you want to
Speaker 1: win in the NFL. Makes it a much tougher role
Speaker 1: for you to toll to to overcome when you constantly
Speaker 1: shoot yourself in the foot three offensive pass and afferences.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we don't like the cat saw a
Speaker 1: game that had three offensives. I can't even remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't even remember. It doesn't often you can say
Speaker 1: their judgment calls, but two of the three were questionable, right,
Speaker 1: but it could have gone either way. They decided to
Speaker 1: call them. Once you get your arms extended from the body,
Speaker 1: it basically gives the official excuse to call a push
Speaker 1: off there. Having two on macting that last one on
Speaker 1: darren spros obviously hurt because those are drive stallers and
Speaker 1: that's what that's what that what what happened. And you know,
Speaker 1: for them to even find themselves in this game late
Speaker 1: was a surprise, especially the way to defense play. And
Speaker 1: then you talk about Carson's performance, Right, We're gonna always
Speaker 1: look at how the quarterback performs, and it was an
Speaker 1: up and down day for Carson. The win has been
Speaker 1: in the first three games. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: meaningless yards in between the twenties, not necessarily putting points
Speaker 1: on the board, and he's not getting help when he
Speaker 1: needs to help. Guys dropping passes. You can't have that.
Speaker 1: But Dave mentioned you get the ball twice late in
Speaker 1: the game with an opportunity to take your team down
Speaker 1: the field. That's what you want. That's what Carson is
Speaker 1: built to do. That's why I pay you franchise type money.
Speaker 1: He's gonna learn his career. That's how you're going to
Speaker 1: be judged, fairly or unfairly. That's what's gonna happen. In
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, Carson has had an opportunity, not
Speaker 1: by himself obviously, but had the opportunity with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands to put his team in position either
Speaker 1: win the game or at least tie the game. And
Speaker 1: the Eagles are sitting at one and two right now,
Speaker 1: and then I look at you know that block punt,
Speaker 1: I mean that block field goal. That was huge. That
Speaker 1: was huge, Right, You find yourself, you find yourself with
Speaker 1: an opportunity late in the game to steal this game,
Speaker 1: you know, to steal this game away from the Lions.
Speaker 1: And even when you do something great, great job from
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins blocking that pump. That was an awesome recovery
Speaker 1: from Russell Douglas the return, then you get a pointless
Speaker 1: block in the bag. You get a pointless block in
Speaker 1: the bag where you put you instead of your team
Speaker 1: and having the ball, I believe down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to score on that return.
Speaker 1: Instead of that, you're back at the fifty yard line
Speaker 1: starting that drive there, and it makes it that much
Speaker 1: more difficult for your offense where you had at least
Speaker 1: a guaranteed field goal attempt. Once your offense gets on
Speaker 1: the field after that fumal recovery and the return, now
Speaker 1: you have to get into field goal position and you're
Speaker 1: forcing these receivers to have to make plays. And what
Speaker 1: Detroit did there, Amy is they weren't going to let
Speaker 1: you throw the ball to zach Ertz. They were taken away. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was pretty much taken out of the
Speaker 1: equation right, especially on the final drive. So now you
Speaker 1: need mac Hollins, who had an opportunity to catch the
Speaker 1: ball couldn't come up with it. Now, obviously these aren't
Speaker 1: easy plays to be made, but this is the national
Speaker 1: football and that's what you really saw that Patricia do
Speaker 1: with his defense is, like you said, takeaway zach Ertz
Speaker 1: and forced the younger, less experienced guys to be the
Speaker 1: ones to make plays. J j Ra Sega, Whiteside, Matt Hollands,
Speaker 1: mac Hollands and Dallas Godder there and you could really see,
Speaker 1: you know, all the talent in the world. But you
Speaker 1: could see kind of that inexperience takeover a little bit
Speaker 1: for those guys, and this is the big time and
Speaker 1: this is when you gotta step up and make plays.
Speaker 1: You know, those young guys did a great job filling
Speaker 1: in last week in a tough situation, but they knew
Speaker 1: they were going to be counted on the day. And
Speaker 1: when you're playing with a guy like Carson, he's not
Speaker 1: going to force the ball. You don't want him forcing
Speaker 1: the ball into zach Ertz, so he has to trust
Speaker 1: the other guys on the team has spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: And that's what you saw on that final drive is
Speaker 1: that Detroit said, you're not gonna beat us with your
Speaker 1: two best receivers. If you're young guys catch the ball great.
Speaker 1: If they don't, then we go off the field as winners.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. Let's talk about that line's kickoff
Speaker 1: return for the touchdown a hundred yards all the way
Speaker 1: to the house to really set the tone in this game.
Speaker 1: What did you see on that play? How did that
Speaker 1: even happen? Oh, guy's not getting all blocked. Guy's not
Speaker 1: getting all blocks. You know, the lines that a great
Speaker 1: job is setting up this return, but there were a
Speaker 1: few guys in place if you just shared the block
Speaker 1: and go make the tackles, So guys still leaning on blocks,
Speaker 1: not being able to get off the blocks. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if they were surprised he brought the ball
Speaker 1: out or that he's returning, because you rarely get kickoff
Speaker 1: returns in this league anymore, and it's harder than it's
Speaker 1: ever been. Exactly in the Eagles, I can't even remember
Speaker 1: the last time they gave up a kickoff return. Dave
Speaker 1: Phipps is one of the best special teams coaches in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and you just don't typically see his units
Speaker 1: give up big returns like that. But that when you're
Speaker 1: when you're not playing well, that's that's what happens. You
Speaker 1: find different ways to to beat yourselves or to get
Speaker 1: beat I think when you say to beat yourself to me,
Speaker 1: that's what kind of you know, encapsulates this game. We
Speaker 1: were talking with Dave just about the statistics, and like
Speaker 1: I said, the Eagles really dominating every single category, even
Speaker 1: looking at the penalties, I mean, four penalties for thirty yards.
Speaker 1: That's not the worst thing that you've heard, but it's
Speaker 1: the timing of those things. We have them offensive passing
Speaker 1: the right, which is so weird, and it's it's that
Speaker 1: the timing of those things that sometimes it costs you
Speaker 1: a lot and sometimes it doesn't cost you as much.
Speaker 1: And today it was very bad timing and very costly
Speaker 1: penalties for the Eagles. Yeah, it really was. And you know,
Speaker 1: not to make any type of excuse, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you never want to blame officials for your play out there,
Speaker 1: you know. So they're gonna be calls that go against you,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be calls that go in your favor.
Speaker 1: You just have to play through those things. The Eagles
Speaker 1: had opportunities, you know, I tell you of Carson that
Speaker 1: last throw to j j Arthega. Whiteside probably wishes he
Speaker 1: put another yard or two on that throw to give
Speaker 1: him a legit opportunity to catch that. There may have
Speaker 1: gotten the defender, may have got a fingertip on it,
Speaker 1: but that's still a play that you go up as
Speaker 1: a big guy and he was brought here as a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty guy. You pull that in, You find a
Speaker 1: way to pull that in. And that's really what's that
Speaker 1: what you saw a couple of years ago when this
Speaker 1: team was rolling. Was that they got contributions from everyone.
Speaker 1: You know, Jess, wasn't this guy or that guy? Um?
Speaker 1: I can remember that year they had three receivers or
Speaker 1: if you include the tight end with at least eight
Speaker 1: touchdowns day year. So that means the ball is being
Speaker 1: spread around, and right now the others aren't necessarily stepping
Speaker 1: up and contributing. They are gonna need to make some plays.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be without al Sean possibly and Deshan in
Speaker 1: this next game as well, so you're gonna be relied upon.
Speaker 1: And until these guys start coming up with the plays
Speaker 1: at the right time, we're gonna be looking at eight
Speaker 1: games like this. Yeah, are we do we finish your takeaways?
Speaker 1: Did you get through all for we did? Okay? All
Speaker 1: right now, so let's let's go to Meryl Kim and
Speaker 1: let's see what Merril and Mike how the game was
Speaker 1: for them. Let's take it away. That goes WIMPs. He
Speaker 1: steps up, he's looking, he starts to run, he's across
Speaker 1: the fifteen, the ten, the five, he does and he
Speaker 1: is Let's see do they say his knee? They have
Speaker 1: not given a touchdown? Sick ball. I think as the
Speaker 1: stops at the war a nineteen yard runner. Why Carson
Speaker 1: WIMPs Howard the tailbuck, They give it to Howard. The
Speaker 1: wars in for the touchdown. Jordan Howard, with his first
Speaker 1: NFL touchdown as a Philadelphia Eagle, gets a great block
Speaker 1: from Alexell his play action Stafford back. He steps up,
Speaker 1: he lets it fly and at ten complete Marvin Jones
Speaker 1: was opened on the nearest sideline and flying across the
Speaker 1: field was Malcolm Jenkins and he deflected it off of
Speaker 1: its target. Efty backfield, third and five ball on the
Speaker 1: Lions twenty. Can the Eagles move the chains right here?
Speaker 1: Wentz back, Wentz looking, Wentz fires, he completes it and,
Speaker 1: spinning his agile art at the ten, breaks the tackle.
Speaker 1: He's in for the touchdown. That's what he does. That's
Speaker 1: what he does, and the ball remained in his grasp.
Speaker 1: This is an outstanding job of catching the football, securing
Speaker 1: it by Nelton Agilar and his third and goal from
Speaker 1: the two. Wentz sake said, he's rolling, he looks, he fires, touchdown,
Speaker 1: penalty flagged thrown as it goes to Aglar who goes
Speaker 1: in untouched ball of spotted kick gets blocked it's blocked,
Speaker 1: it's picked up by the Eagles, running with the football.
Speaker 1: Running is Douglas. Douglas on his feet, Douglas still running
Speaker 1: with the football. Finally the Eagles have him down. He's
Speaker 1: down outside the twenty. There's a late penalty flag on
Speaker 1: the field. But what an outstanding job of getting a
Speaker 1: hand on the football on the field goal. I think
Speaker 1: it's Malcolm Jenkins a hand on the boat. Okay, Fran
Speaker 1: definitely joining us now on the postgame show presented by
Speaker 1: Rico Fran. A lot to unpack from this one, and
Speaker 1: it really comes down to, like we were saying, a
Speaker 1: few costly mistakes for the Eagles, what are you looking
Speaker 1: to see as you're going in there breaking down the film. Well,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately from an X and NO standpoint, And
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about it on the kickoff show.
Speaker 1: I you and I talked about it throughout the game.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a good job of scheming things
Speaker 1: up from an X and O standpoint to beat man coverage.
Speaker 1: We saw it, and we saw it vertically. We saw
Speaker 1: it in the red zone, we saw it in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. They did a lot of really
Speaker 1: good things to get receivers open. But as you guys
Speaker 1: have talked about, I mean, you had what was it
Speaker 1: seven drops they said on the broadcast. You had three opis,
Speaker 1: you had two fumbles, You had the penalties that were untimely.
Speaker 1: That costs you on both sides of all, not just
Speaker 1: on offense. But you know that deep look, we lose
Speaker 1: the game by three points. You know a Keem Spence
Speaker 1: jumps off side on third and goal that gives them
Speaker 1: another shot. Carry on Johnson jumps into the end zone
Speaker 1: for a touchdown that could have been a field goal.
Speaker 1: That's four points. We just game right there. That's one
Speaker 1: play four points. So you know, to me, there were
Speaker 1: costly penalties on both sides. Just a game that look
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you can look whenever you
Speaker 1: have a game like this, and I'm gonna write this
Speaker 1: tomorrow as I write it, every single time there's a
Speaker 1: close loss. Whenever you have a close loss, there are
Speaker 1: going to be plays on both sides. We say, if
Speaker 1: this has gone the other way, we'd have it. We'd
Speaker 1: be talking about a different thing right now. And that's
Speaker 1: why they played the game. Let's talk about the Eagles
Speaker 1: defense a little bit. Still, not any sacks in this game.
Speaker 1: It's kind of been a theme throughout this week that
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get the pressure on the
Speaker 1: quarterback the way that the reputation suggests that they have.
Speaker 1: What did you see from that front and just that
Speaker 1: battle in the trenches when it comes to the Eagles defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it is tough to tell off the TV
Speaker 1: just to say, Okay, what exactly did they do, because
Speaker 1: even last week I thought we had that conversation is
Speaker 1: they couldn't get to Matt Ryan. But then you go
Speaker 1: back and you watch the film and you say, well, look,
Speaker 1: they did a really good job with scheming things up
Speaker 1: from the screen game like you know this to negate
Speaker 1: the pass rush, screen game play action, missdirection, and then
Speaker 1: three step you know, three step quick balls getting out.
Speaker 1: The Eagles actually held Matt Ryan to under fifty percent
Speaker 1: completion in the three step passing game. They were able
Speaker 1: to disrupt him, they just couldn't get home and finished
Speaker 1: for sacks. So I think, ultimately going back and watching
Speaker 1: this film tomorrow, Amy, I'm glad you're asked me the question,
Speaker 1: because that will be something I'm looking at. It did
Speaker 1: seem like that there was a lot of chipping. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately, at the end of the day, the coaches
Speaker 1: now they want more pass rush, they'd like to get
Speaker 1: more production because sacks are important. They don't tell the
Speaker 1: whole story when it comes to the pass rush. But
Speaker 1: ultimately you will want to be able to get those
Speaker 1: sacks because they do result in negative plays, stop drives,
Speaker 1: things of that nature. But ultimately I can't say that,
Speaker 1: Oh again, man, the pass rush was terrible tonight. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately you want to look at it and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: what did Detroit do? What did the Eagles not do?
Speaker 1: Then we can kind of come to say it to
Speaker 1: some kind of summer on the back end it well
Speaker 1: and even just being able to affect the quarterback. The
Speaker 1: Eagles had four tackles for a loss in this game.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford completed only fifty six point three percent of
Speaker 1: his passes two hundred and one yards, one touchdown, zero interceptions.
Speaker 1: Not a great day from Matt Stafford. Yeah. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what else, guys. You gotta get off the field
Speaker 1: on third down. Yeah. Earlier in the game, Detroit converting
Speaker 1: third downs and we know that pass rushing kid, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you finish in a minute, But coach
Speaker 1: is already at the podium, so we're gonna check in
Speaker 1: and hear what he has to say about this wall
Speaker 1: twice later in that game or any play calls, who
Speaker 1: take back or did you like the planning had? No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take any back. We understood exactly what they
Speaker 1: were doing. They obviously were putting pressure with you two
Speaker 1: guys on Zach and trying to eliminate him. And then
Speaker 1: we had one on ones across the board. Um, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's just great defense by them, you know.
Speaker 1: And UM, it's a good learning experience for our guys.
Speaker 1: Second week in a row, play or play their kind
Speaker 1: of game. Do you worry about the just big, a
Speaker 1: deflating kind of thing. I mean, do both these games
Speaker 1: last two weeks. We're right there if if if yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean these guys are. It's a good group. UM.
Speaker 1: Talked about it after after the game. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, this is this is not this is
Speaker 1: not a defining you know moment for our season at all. Again,
Speaker 1: only three games in, but we gotta get some things fixed.
Speaker 1: We know that, UM. And we're working on a short
Speaker 1: week this week. A bunch of one of those things
Speaker 1: in the past. Question of the game, where you guys
Speaker 1: we already again, Yeah, I mean that's something we gotta
Speaker 1: look at. Um generating a pass rush, whether we're four
Speaker 1: or five six, whatever it is. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: guys battled hung in there, and we had opportunities to,
Speaker 1: you know, make some plays on the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: Didn't do it. Um, But listen, there's enough to go
Speaker 1: around in this football game. You know, UM, offense, you know,
Speaker 1: untimely penalties, UH, fumbles, you know, UM drive killers. You
Speaker 1: know on offense, they kept us from from scoring. UM,
Speaker 1: but kickoff return for a touchdown? Um, you know, defense
Speaker 1: not getting off the field on third down, some third
Speaker 1: key third downball. I mean, it's just there's enough to
Speaker 1: go around. You just can't point your finger to one thing.
Speaker 1: I know. Most you had two skill guys, and Dallas
Speaker 1: was backed up, UM with Carson. There's some like there
Speaker 1: were a bunch of drops in this game. What do
Speaker 1: you do to make sure he doesn't get discouraged about
Speaker 1: the players? We just keep battling, keep fighting, go to
Speaker 1: work tomorrow, short week. Um. You know, Uh, we got
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in the players, and we just
Speaker 1: gotta we just gotta keep workings, had drive, keep back
Speaker 1: and play. What's your assessment looks hit in this game
Speaker 1: and you talk those two balls. It was just you know,
Speaker 1: just told him we got a lot of confidence in him,
Speaker 1: still got a lot of trust in him, and kept him,
Speaker 1: kept him out there. I mean, it's the only way
Speaker 1: you got to, you know, have trust and confidence in
Speaker 1: the players to keep him, you know, keep him out
Speaker 1: there and keep playing. And I thought he'd you know,
Speaker 1: sort of rebounded from those in the second half of
Speaker 1: a couple of nice runs to kick off returns obviously
Speaker 1: were good and um, just a learning and learning moment
Speaker 1: for for young running back and in games like this, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we know we got to take care of
Speaker 1: the ball. Every game is important. As you said many times,
Speaker 1: you're going going the road against a tough team. Short
Speaker 1: week specter, if you didn't pull it out of being
Speaker 1: one of three in a tough division race, does this
Speaker 1: magnify things a little bit this week? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we we're in a we're in a situation
Speaker 1: where you know, we're we've we've dropped two these NFC games,
Speaker 1: you know here back to back, and then we're going
Speaker 1: on the road again to a you know, another tough
Speaker 1: road environment team that I think one today and um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a challenge. You know it's a challenge,
Speaker 1: but works sighted for it. We're looking forward to the
Speaker 1: opportunity and we just gotta go to work tomorrow. Let's
Speaker 1: from humans, fat, I mean drops, drops can be a
Speaker 1: number of things. It could be, uh, one player, lack
Speaker 1: of focus just you know, turn your head, turn your eyes, um,
Speaker 1: meaning you just got to concentrate all the way through
Speaker 1: to the catch, through the tuck. Um. If it's a
Speaker 1: contested catch, obviously you got to be strong to the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: You know you look at where the ball is, is
Speaker 1: the accuracy of the quarterback. I mean there's there's things
Speaker 1: that can can factor into that, but um, today it
Speaker 1: was probably more on the focused part of it. You know,
Speaker 1: just gotta just gotta secure the ball. You guys have
Speaker 1: fallen behind in the game, and how how much of
Speaker 1: a strengths have put on a Holnis constantly have to
Speaker 1: kind of come back from behind. When you do addressing
Speaker 1: going forward, well, I mean, you know, we would love
Speaker 1: to be ahead, but but we have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in our offense. Um and and to be able
Speaker 1: to put us back in a position to win these games.
Speaker 1: And we were there again, you know, the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: we've had opportunity. Um, just gotta look at everything. You know,
Speaker 1: we got trusting our players. Um, you know, defense had
Speaker 1: some some nice stops, you know late in this game.
Speaker 1: Obviously we had the block field goal for an opportunity there.
Speaker 1: So UM, yeah, a lot of trusting our guys and
Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta execute a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Sanders had his head almost ripped off. There was no
Speaker 1: flag on a play. Did the officials give me an
Speaker 1: excent explanation why they didn't call anything on that? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, IM not gonna get into a whole lot
Speaker 1: of that, but it appeared on the field that it
Speaker 1: might have been a might have been a face mask.
Speaker 1: But it's it's hard to Um, it's hard to see,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, the game so fast and and
Speaker 1: uh and sometimes too where the hand is, Um, it
Speaker 1: could still pull a helmet off. Um, But we just
Speaker 1: gotta look at the tape and see what happened eight
Speaker 1: late when you're holding three timeouts of the two in
Speaker 1: the morning, going flip call or what your thoughts? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, situational right there. Um, just going ahead and
Speaker 1: going forward it three timeouts. I could use them on
Speaker 1: defense obviously, and uh we knew they were probably going
Speaker 1: to run the ball, you know, in that situation, and
Speaker 1: got him to kick the field goal, and you know
Speaker 1: it worked in our favor. But uh, um, we didn't
Speaker 1: capitalize on the other end. You got long with the
Speaker 1: minfield after the block field goal. It must have been
Speaker 1: tremendous momentum in the motion, and it just didn't seem
Speaker 1: like you know, nobody was opened and there adopting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was hard. I mean what
Speaker 1: they were, you know, man coverage, you know, putting pressure
Speaker 1: with three guys and just you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: double teams across the board was Zach and Nelly and um,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of bodies back there to try to
Speaker 1: try to fit the ball in. Um. But credit them.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a good defense and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll take a look at it and make our changes too.
Speaker 1: Was the air there, um, Well, again, until I really
Speaker 1: see the film and see what happened, it disappeared like
Speaker 1: we got we got stuck on blocks on the backside
Speaker 1: and the ball bounced outside which can't happen. And and
Speaker 1: and obviously touched own onstake that kind of haunt you
Speaker 1: a little bit from the whole team. Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you'd love to have the kickoff
Speaker 1: return you know back obviously there, um you know, and
Speaker 1: and and offensively, Um, we had a couple untimely you know,
Speaker 1: opis that were big plays in the game. They could
Speaker 1: have been big plays, even the one with Darren you
Speaker 1: know late in the game. Plays like that, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to fix. We've gotta crrec because those are
Speaker 1: obviously game you know, plays that can help us win
Speaker 1: these games. He played well. I thought he played well.
Speaker 1: He We did some things this game, you know, give
Speaker 1: him some opportunities to make some calls at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage based on what they what they presented, and
Speaker 1: uh he managed that extremely well. Uh played well, played tough,
Speaker 1: Um made some great throws. Uh. I thought he though
Speaker 1: he played well. Okay, thank you. This is not a
Speaker 1: defining moment for our season. According to head coach Doug Pearson,
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting stuff there in that press conference.
Speaker 1: I appreciated how we called, you know, some of those
Speaker 1: things on offense, drive killers that kept us from scoring,
Speaker 1: also emphasizing there's not really anyone to point the finger at.
Speaker 1: There is enough blame to go around. Any takeaways from
Speaker 1: coaches press conference. Yeah, I mean I like this demeanor,
Speaker 1: you know, straightforward. Obviously they have another game coming up
Speaker 1: in a few days, so you can't allow this loss
Speaker 1: to linger very much. You know, prior to this game,
Speaker 1: right I I. You know we do talk radio and
Speaker 1: talk about who has more pressure on them coming into
Speaker 1: this game. Well, it wasn't about pressure as much as
Speaker 1: who needed to really come up. And I thought Doug.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug was the guy that I chose. I
Speaker 1: thought he came out with a great game plan. I
Speaker 1: thought he had some stuff designed to get these young
Speaker 1: guys open. When you're down men and you don't have
Speaker 1: your best talent available to you, you have to sort
Speaker 1: of scheme your way open for us things. And the
Speaker 1: players were there. The players were there. Sometimes Carson didn't
Speaker 1: have enough time to get the ball to the right
Speaker 1: people and didn't even when he did. You had seven
Speaker 1: drives to day. You can't have seven drops. You can't
Speaker 1: have costly penalties and areas where either it stalls your
Speaker 1: drive sends you backwards, third and fifteen, third and twenty,
Speaker 1: when you have a first down picked up or extend
Speaker 1: a drive, when you jump offsides on third down and
Speaker 1: next play they score a touchdown on those are the
Speaker 1: things that will have a coach up all night pulling
Speaker 1: his hair out because those are the things that you
Speaker 1: just don't account for. You don't know when those things
Speaker 1: are going to happen. Yeah, a friend, interesting point there.
Speaker 1: We knew that there was going to be some changes
Speaker 1: on offense with the personnel. We knew that Deshaun Jackson
Speaker 1: was going to be out all shun questionable, Godard questionable,
Speaker 1: but did was able to play. But we talked all
Speaker 1: week about how this staff was going to have a
Speaker 1: week to prepare for this on offense, unlike last week
Speaker 1: from a game plan on standpoint mistakes aside, how would
Speaker 1: you evaluate the way they went into this matchup. I mean,
Speaker 1: a look, the plays were there. It was like said,
Speaker 1: the plays were there to be made. And if you
Speaker 1: go and you see these guys were wide open. They
Speaker 1: did a great job of attacking man coverage and a
Speaker 1: number of different spots. I mean the Nelson Agiler touchdown
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. I'm gonna be breaking it down
Speaker 1: in the next block of the show to make sure
Speaker 1: you stay tuned after the commercial for that. To me,
Speaker 1: like that was one of the That was a very
Speaker 1: well designed play. It's one of their hallmark plays to
Speaker 1: beat man coverage and it worked really, really well. The
Speaker 1: play to Miles Sanders down the seam in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: huge play in the game that helped. That was a
Speaker 1: great way to attack their man coverage scheme. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did a lot of different things that were really
Speaker 1: you know, Nelson's second touchdown after that, Miles Sanders play,
Speaker 1: great execution of a play to beat man coverage. They
Speaker 1: did a lot of really good things. Dallas Goddards playing
Speaker 1: there in the rid zone, that was the drop on
Speaker 1: the corner route. The plays were very well. It was
Speaker 1: such a beautiful I mean just that the ball was great,
Speaker 1: call was incredible, the throw was incredible. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got to finish. They have to figure out how to
Speaker 1: finish these plays. And to me, like Dougs the term
Speaker 1: of drive killers, I mean, that's that's exactly what they are.
Speaker 1: And I said it perfectly. If you have a if
Speaker 1: it's first ten or it's second and ten, and you
Speaker 1: have an offensive PI, Now what are you looking at.
Speaker 1: You're looking at the third and end way too long
Speaker 1: to try and convert. And I even thought Doug made
Speaker 1: a commitment to the run game to day. They ran
Speaker 1: the ball thirty attempts, almost thirty attempts today with the
Speaker 1: running backs, and if you don't have the fumbles, maybe
Speaker 1: Males Sanders gets the ball a little bit more than
Speaker 1: the carries that he had. They were running the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: they just shot themselves in the foot. Yeah, Carson had
Speaker 1: a couple of rushes as well. Four players rushed thirty attempts,
Speaker 1: like you said, one hundred and twenty seven yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So a commitment to balancing things out. A friend,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about your key to the
Speaker 1: game beat man coverage. I mean, that's exactly what we
Speaker 1: were talking about. Yeah, I mean they did it. They
Speaker 1: beat the man coverage. We just couldn't beat You couldn't
Speaker 1: finish beating the ball. We beat the ball up too much.
Speaker 1: We put the ball on the ground way too often,
Speaker 1: and so that that's a killer. It's something that it's
Speaker 1: very very hard to overcome. It's it's all like turnovers
Speaker 1: and the fact that it completely kills your momentum and
Speaker 1: completely deflates drive. So when you look at these drops,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be something that And it's not just the receivers.
Speaker 1: The tight ends had some, the running backs had some
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. It's the same thing with those penalties.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the blame is very evenly parsed out
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, so the Eagles actually started fast today.
Speaker 1: They got some points in the first quarter the first
Speaker 1: time this season. But at the same time, I've been
Speaker 1: trailing at half in all three games this season. Where
Speaker 1: if you're Dad Peterson, what are you going? Oh, and
Speaker 1: Carson is coming to the podium, so let's hear what
Speaker 1: he has to say. Every chance possible, I hold this
Speaker 1: now look back on it's frustrating. Yeah, it is frustrating.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the National Football League. You know,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of chances within each game that
Speaker 1: kind of make or break the ball game. And you know,
Speaker 1: we had the ball at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: chance to win, and we came up short. So it's
Speaker 1: obviously frustrating. But you know, we gotta we gotta quick turnaround.
Speaker 1: So we gotta look at our look ourselves in the mirror. UM,
Speaker 1: see where we can get better and come out flying.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, Carson, you got off to to really get
Speaker 1: start in the first quarter. What was different leading up
Speaker 1: to this week and maybe went and played into that. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think many things different. You know. I think
Speaker 1: we were able to come out early and put something together.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a lot of the tempo stuff
Speaker 1: going and guys were flying off the ball and making plays,
Speaker 1: so that was good to see. And then obviously we
Speaker 1: just kind of shot ourselves in the foot a little
Speaker 1: bit early on there after that. So, uh, we gotta
Speaker 1: be better. I gotta be better and we'll learn from it.
Speaker 1: The last two drives, Carson, when you have a chance
Speaker 1: to go down and get a touchdown to win, how
Speaker 1: could you have been better? Um? I mean I love
Speaker 1: to love to getting the end zone. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day getting the end zone. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go back and look at the tape. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things going on within those plays
Speaker 1: and no huddle communicating and everything. So UM, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go have to really go take a hard
Speaker 1: look and see where I can be better personally. But um,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier. Super frustrating. You have a shot
Speaker 1: like that, um, and to come up short the way
Speaker 1: we did. What was the feeling like every out was
Speaker 1: blocked to field goal? Where were you can tell the guys,
Speaker 1: I mean everyone was, Everyone's staying positive, you know, everyone
Speaker 1: was pretty optimistic. We just needed you know, uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it was twenty yards to be in
Speaker 1: field goal range and try and go win the ball
Speaker 1: game person foremost and uh, obviously we didn't get that done.
Speaker 1: Did you feel like you guys were executing for the
Speaker 1: most part of the ball It just seemed like, you know,
Speaker 1: the turnovers and the drop pass here there. Yeah, yeah, again,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch the tape a little bit, but I
Speaker 1: do know, you know, earlier early on, I thought we
Speaker 1: were moving the ball well, you know, we shot ourselves
Speaker 1: in foot a few times, and then down the stretch
Speaker 1: we just didn't make the plays and execute the way
Speaker 1: we know we can when it really mattered. So that's frustrating,
Speaker 1: But like I said, we got to move on. I
Speaker 1: know you guys are missing here on top of two
Speaker 1: receivers with the drops from your perspective, how difficult is
Speaker 1: that for a quarterback? You feel like you're making the
Speaker 1: plays and it's not. Yeah, it's part of the game.
Speaker 1: You know, Guys are gonna drop passes, We're gonna put
Speaker 1: the ball in the ground, I'm gonna throw picks, We're
Speaker 1: gonna misreads. Things happen. Guys make mistakes, and anytime you know,
Speaker 1: somebody makes it, you know it drops the past or
Speaker 1: something like that. I make sure I go right up
Speaker 1: to him, tell them it's coming their way the next time,
Speaker 1: and just try and keep building them up. Stay positive. Again.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. Nor one wants to make mistakes, but there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can really do about it, and just keep
Speaker 1: building those guys. What was your what what was the
Speaker 1: play called on the last play, the one to JJ?
Speaker 1: What was your what was your first raid? Um, there's
Speaker 1: a couple there's a crossing route and another crossing route
Speaker 1: and then he was outside, uh running the post. So
Speaker 1: um yeah, we were able to uh get get a
Speaker 1: one on one match up and you know, try to
Speaker 1: find something inside and gave him a shot and we
Speaker 1: just didn't make the play shot of the shot. So um.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say drastically, you know, obviously, you know when
Speaker 1: you have a guy like de Sean. You know, the
Speaker 1: shot plays are are usually a little more involved, but um,
Speaker 1: I think guys really rallied around each other and Mac
Speaker 1: and JJ and and you know, using Miles out of
Speaker 1: the backfield a little bit this week. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just being creative with how we can create mismatches and everything.
Speaker 1: So I'm really confident in the game plan with thought.
Speaker 1: We executed for the most part pretty well. We just
Speaker 1: came up shortation going back to a guy after each
Speaker 1: drops it or something that was wrong. You've been having
Speaker 1: one of the drives earlier in the game of Miles
Speaker 1: followed once got it back, and the fun again is
Speaker 1: that can you make it double? The more concerted effort
Speaker 1: to go talk to him, like, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you had? He kind of handled a situation. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that was obviously within the drive. So I don't
Speaker 1: really know what to speak on that. Uh, he knows
Speaker 1: that's something he's gotta work on. We all gotta we
Speaker 1: all got to be better. And uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna address too too much into that. Carson Dallas
Speaker 1: was out there a little bit, but it was really limited.
Speaker 1: The late game called all those guys and Deshaun and
Speaker 1: all the shot. Did that affect the game planning? Why
Speaker 1: there was so many atte sets and and trying to
Speaker 1: catch call park. I think it had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with what Detroit like to do on film. You know.
Speaker 1: I think we we saw where we could you know,
Speaker 1: attack and do some different things, and um, again I
Speaker 1: thought we executed it. Okay, could have been better. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll go back and watch the tap to see where
Speaker 1: we can improve. But um, I think it just had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with what Detroit likes to do
Speaker 1: on defense. It's really really obviously what you guys have
Speaker 1: tough trint around here and gets the team. That's three holmes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, what's the urgency like right now? But obviously
Speaker 1: there's a high urgency, um, you know, and coming off
Speaker 1: two losses first foremost, but we got a game on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I think that's crazy how fast we
Speaker 1: got to turn around. But um, you know, no one
Speaker 1: feels bad for us. We don't feel bad for ourselves.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to work right away tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, be full speed ahead for green Bay.
Speaker 1: Is good. They have that quick turnaround to say, uh, um,
Speaker 1: I mean you could argue either way. You know, honestly,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna flush this one down and uh
Speaker 1: move on and again just see where we can improve
Speaker 1: it and make the plays that we left out here today.
Speaker 1: Last week you talked to a lot about how frustrated
Speaker 1: you where there were a lot of frustrating parts of
Speaker 1: that game that we're out of your control. What is
Speaker 1: your level of frustration under a loss like this? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest thing for me is just you know,
Speaker 1: having a chance to win late in the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know with this two drives and coming up short. Um,
Speaker 1: It's it's really frustrating. And um it's it's something that
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta be better. I gotta be better.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, again, the hats off to Detroit.
Speaker 1: You know, they did a good job late in the
Speaker 1: game and the kind of you know, doing some different
Speaker 1: things to throw us off and we just didn't get
Speaker 1: it done. What kind of things were they doing different? Oh,
Speaker 1: they just did some different covers things with you know,
Speaker 1: doubling urts and doing some different things. And um, then
Speaker 1: not doubling ords and doing some different things. So um, again,
Speaker 1: just hats off to them. And then they played a
Speaker 1: good ball game. Get mentioned Darius Lay. It's a big
Speaker 1: part of their defense where you would wear and when
Speaker 1: he went down, which weeked his hamstring? Is that something? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you say you gotta go after that side. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean we were wearing right away. You know, we
Speaker 1: took a shot to Mac the next play down the
Speaker 1: sideline and we just didn't make it and they called
Speaker 1: the offensive pass interference. But um, yeah, we were aware
Speaker 1: and Daris is a great player. He's a great player.
Speaker 1: Means a lot to that defense. But again, hats off
Speaker 1: to those guys that had a good, good game playing
Speaker 1: for us. You mentioned getting Miles out about why because
Speaker 1: that he's simply because the speeds he you know, a
Speaker 1: fairly good rout runner for me and Wokie like what
Speaker 1: Black putt him out there? Yeah, I mean it came
Speaker 1: down to Miles getting Scrolls out there. We had Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard out there. It was just a lot of um
Speaker 1: again what we saw on tape and maybe creating some mismatches.
Speaker 1: And obviously Miles is an explosive guy, so you can
Speaker 1: get the ball in his hand. You saw them catch
Speaker 1: that seam ball out of the backfield, and um, he's
Speaker 1: an explosive guy and create some mismatches with some linebackers.
Speaker 1: So we try to use that as best we can.
Speaker 1: You have the three offens and pass your parents a
Speaker 1: Have you seen that before a game where I just
Speaker 1: kind of picked a call that way? I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: that stuff happens in the ballgame. Um, they're tough. It's
Speaker 1: hard to say whether they were or weren't. Um little
Speaker 1: little ticky tack calls here and there, But again I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't get a good look at either of
Speaker 1: them or any of them. So h it's frustrating, especially
Speaker 1: when you have a big play and it's called offense
Speaker 1: pass interference and obviously put you in a really tough
Speaker 1: spots obviously series. Yeah, yeah, that's tough. Again, I didn't
Speaker 1: get a good look at it. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: speak on what I thought of the call or anything,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely tough because, like I said, put you
Speaker 1: in a tough situation that by the goal line before then,
Speaker 1: what did you see on that? Like the let a
Speaker 1: little further? I did you see that? Yeah? Again he
Speaker 1: was um kind of the third option in just that
Speaker 1: progression and everything, and um, you know, just try to
Speaker 1: give him give him a shot. You know, obviously wish
Speaker 1: I would have completed it out the ball maybe out
Speaker 1: there a little further. Again, I didn't get a great
Speaker 1: look at that one either, but yeah, we just we
Speaker 1: just didn't make the play and we will next time.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes, QB one taking responsibility and showing some
Speaker 1: excellent leadership. They're saying, look, it's super frustrating, we have
Speaker 1: to be better. I have to be better, and I
Speaker 1: love to see that from him after he played a
Speaker 1: really solid game all around, taking the responsibility on himself
Speaker 1: and look saying after these guys, after these drops, I
Speaker 1: may get a point to go up to these guys
Speaker 1: and say, the next one's coming to you. I think
Speaker 1: that is that's a solid foundation that you build a
Speaker 1: team on with a quarterback with that kind of leadership.
Speaker 1: Completely agree. I mean, that's what's the type of that's
Speaker 1: the type of leader you want leading your franchise. And
Speaker 1: not surprised. Carson Wentz is a guy that when things
Speaker 1: aren't going well around him or players may not be
Speaker 1: playing up to their best, he is a guy that
Speaker 1: wants to uplift everyone. He's the guy that to encourage
Speaker 1: everyone that they'll do better the next time around, So
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at that, and I'm pretty sure in
Speaker 1: that locker room he's going around to every guy making
Speaker 1: sure they realize it's a lot of football left to
Speaker 1: be played. I know it hurts today one and two
Speaker 1: head of the Green Bay Thursday night. Things don't look good.
Speaker 1: But this is also a time when teams can pull
Speaker 1: themselves together. This is a championship married team. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of that DNA still here and it starts
Speaker 1: at the top with Doug. He's not gonna panic, so
Speaker 1: this team will rally. They'll bounce back. It looks tough
Speaker 1: right now, and it hurts right now, as it should hurt.
Speaker 1: But these guys is a lot of football left to play,
Speaker 1: and he needs to keep his spirits up because they
Speaker 1: take their cues from him. This is not the time
Speaker 1: to be pointing fingers. This is not the time to
Speaker 1: be making excuses. This is the time to get back
Speaker 1: to the drawing board and get ready to go do
Speaker 1: the unthinkable, which is go out to Lambo Field and
Speaker 1: figure out a way to come out of there with
Speaker 1: a w look. I have to say, well, when it
Speaker 1: comes to Carson's growth, I have really seen a big
Speaker 1: difference in him through these first couple of games this season,
Speaker 1: and especially his demeanor at the podium and in those
Speaker 1: tough moments. You know, he always has been a guy
Speaker 1: who has said the right things, but he really seems
Speaker 1: like he has taken a different type of ownership and
Speaker 1: it's almost this like he knows who he is a
Speaker 1: lot more and he's much more comfortable with leaving it
Speaker 1: all out there. So I've really noticed that growth from
Speaker 1: him as well. Of course, we already heard from coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson tonight in his press conference, but Mike Quick
Speaker 1: was able to go one on one with the head
Speaker 1: coach after this one. So let's take a look at
Speaker 1: what coach had to say in this interview. Coach, going
Speaker 1: into this game, you don't met Patricia's type of defense.
Speaker 1: They want to take away what you do best taken
Speaker 1: away zach Ertz, what was your plan going in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we felt that that's what they were going to do,
Speaker 1: and so we were ready. We had had Nelly ready obviously,
Speaker 1: we had Mac collinands ready to go, and we felt
Speaker 1: like we had some matchups out there that we could
Speaker 1: we could take advantage of. And you know, the other
Speaker 1: thing too. We didn't know if Dallas Goddard was going
Speaker 1: to be available. It was a kind of a game
Speaker 1: time decision, and we had already kind of put our
Speaker 1: game playing together. But um, you know, we had a
Speaker 1: couple opportunities there. We just we just gotta we just
Speaker 1: gotta do better down the field with focused catches. We
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we secure the football, hang out of
Speaker 1: the football. I mean a lot of that stuff was
Speaker 1: just self inflicted. Um, it's a good team, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, I felt like that we
Speaker 1: were our own worst enemy today. You're usually pretty calm
Speaker 1: when you go into the locker room at halftime. Were
Speaker 1: you able to keep that calm giving all the mistakes
Speaker 1: that they made early in the football game? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that was the message to the team was just listen, guys,
Speaker 1: we just settled down and just just focus on us
Speaker 1: and and and quit you know, shooting ourselves, you know
Speaker 1: in the foot. You know, things could turn out in
Speaker 1: our favor, and we had some of that in the
Speaker 1: second half, but we just didn't make enough of these plays. Uh.
Speaker 1: And really it boils down to just us and what
Speaker 1: we do and uh, making sure we're focused in on
Speaker 1: every play and uh, in trusting our guys and putting
Speaker 1: them in situations to be successful. You go out in
Speaker 1: the second half in year down ten, but there wasn't
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency. You called the play the game
Speaker 1: the way you called it earlier in the game. Um,
Speaker 1: how do you stay in that moment? I think you
Speaker 1: just trust your players, and we did. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence on offense. Um, you know, got back
Speaker 1: to running the football a little bit. We had some
Speaker 1: success doing that over four yards I think an attempt
Speaker 1: today rushing the ball, so that that that was gonna
Speaker 1: be a big part of this. In the play action
Speaker 1: pass world really opened up some things down the field
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, just stay with the game plan.
Speaker 1: It was it was ten points, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: we knew we just needed one stop on defense. The
Speaker 1: offense got in the end zone, got us back, and
Speaker 1: we felt like we were in good shape. Young guy
Speaker 1: like Miles Sanders, how do you keep him up when
Speaker 1: he has those those fumbles and those mistakes that he
Speaker 1: made earlier. Uh, you know, we just gotta continue. We
Speaker 1: just gotta keep talking with him. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: keep putting him in a football game, and we trust him,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can't get down on him because
Speaker 1: he's still a good player. He's a dynamic player, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a good player in this league. So
Speaker 1: we just keep we just keep putting him in there,
Speaker 1: and um, you know it's growing pains, but he'll learn
Speaker 1: from it. He'll be better. Now, how do you handle
Speaker 1: this short week? Gotta go out to Green Bay on
Speaker 1: Wednesday for a Thursday night game? How do you handle
Speaker 1: this short week with your with your mail? When you
Speaker 1: look big picture, you know we've lost the last two
Speaker 1: you know NFC games. Um, this is a third NFC
Speaker 1: game coming up. So from that standpoint, big picture, you know,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a game that we need. We need
Speaker 1: to we need to take care of business to go
Speaker 1: on the road and and try to win this football game.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we're also one and two
Speaker 1: and we need to win this football game. So you know,
Speaker 1: for many reasons, it's a it's I say it's a
Speaker 1: must win, but it's a it's a game that we've
Speaker 1: got to We've we've got to focus in this week,
Speaker 1: short week, we've got to go on the road and
Speaker 1: uh and try to get this one in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: All right, coach, good look Thursday night, thank you yes
Speaker 1: on wavering confidence in his team according to Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: which of course is what you want to see. We're
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Speaker 1: wide receiver Nelson Aghalore two touchdown performance in today's loss
Speaker 1: to the Lions his second two touchdown game in his career,
Speaker 1: and that first one in the third quarter looked like
Speaker 1: it was straight out of a video game. That is
Speaker 1: the subject of today's RICO review. Fran Duffy is going
Speaker 1: to break it down for us. Take a look. The
Speaker 1: last time the Eagles faced a Matt Patricia defense was
Speaker 1: just about nineteen months ago, and that was Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty two, February fourth, twenty eight team in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at one of their biggest plays
Speaker 1: from that game. One of the best play calls that
Speaker 1: they had. They ran a bunch of times in that
Speaker 1: game in the win over New England. The mesh play
Speaker 1: and what constitutes a mesh play. Well, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: three crossing routes over the middle of the field. And
Speaker 1: these are the three crossing routes that you're gonna see
Speaker 1: involved here from the Eagles. You've got Nelson Aghilore from
Speaker 1: one side. He's gonna run the underneath crosser. He is
Speaker 1: going to be the primary receiver for Carson Wentz. After that,
Speaker 1: you've got Zach Ertz running the second one. He's gonna
Speaker 1: run the second crossing route. He is the second in
Speaker 1: the progression. Four Carson Wentz. Then right here, you've got
Speaker 1: Matt Collins. He's gonna run this route right here. That's
Speaker 1: gonna put him right over the ball. That becomes the
Speaker 1: third route in the progression. A lot of stuff going
Speaker 1: on there, four Carson Wentz. But the one thing you're
Speaker 1: gonna check usually this running back is gonna be in
Speaker 1: the backfield next to Carson somewhere here. He's in the slot.
Speaker 1: That's an empty set. He's gonna run this wheel route.
Speaker 1: You remember that long catch that Corey Clement had in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was off this play. The reason why
Speaker 1: it doesn't go to Darren Sprowles. Here here's the man
Speaker 1: coverage defender over Darren Sprowls. He very easily is able
Speaker 1: to work over the top of this. So Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: gets off of that. Now you have to get to
Speaker 1: the progression. So we're gonna let this run for a second,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see exactly what Carson sees. Though Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions are in man coverage and mesh is great against man.
Speaker 1: Why because you're gonna create a lot of traffic in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Here, this is Nelson agil
Speaker 1: running that shallow cross. This is the defender in charge
Speaker 1: of covering him. That's justin Coleman, a former patriot here
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Look at all this garbage that he's going
Speaker 1: to try and work through to try and catch Nelson Agilore.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. So that's why that guy running
Speaker 1: that underneath crosser, underneath all that traffic, he is going
Speaker 1: to be the number one target for the quarterback on
Speaker 1: this play more often than not. Once that wheel route
Speaker 1: is taken out of the progression. Buy that defender right here,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz knows I have to get back to this
Speaker 1: shallow cross. That's exactly what he does. We're gonna let
Speaker 1: this run. You're gonna see Nelson catch this ball on
Speaker 1: the run. And now this is just God given ability here.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make one man miss, He's gonna make another
Speaker 1: man miss. Two spin, moves on one flat, turns on
Speaker 1: the jets and jumps into the end zone. Big touchdown
Speaker 1: there to pull the Eagles within a score. In the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Start with the knocolm Jaket's pass breakup, Eagles
Speaker 1: get great field position, march down the field. Nelson punches
Speaker 1: it in to get the Eagles back on the board. Oh,
Speaker 1: I could not get enough of that double spin move
Speaker 1: there from Nelly. We are going to take a quick
Speaker 1: break when we come back. We have our nominees for
Speaker 1: the Toyota Player of the Week. Of course, you know
Speaker 1: if you vote on that one, you have a chance
Speaker 1: to win a Toyota. So stay with us for that
Speaker 1: and then it's a short week for the Eagles. We'll
Speaker 1: be looking ahead to their matchup on the road a
Speaker 1: Green Bay on Thursday night. Stay with us, you're on
Speaker 1: the road and I play the road. Vine was rocky.
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Speaker 1: Respect as up. You were watching the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. Welcome back, I greased in the house. Today
Speaker 1: we are ready to talk to our fans. We have
Speaker 1: so many fans. We are going to take a look
Speaker 1: at the Toyota Players of the Week. Three nominees that
Speaker 1: you can vote on. Today's nominees Carson Wentz quarterback of course,
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz, and Malcolm Jenkins. You can probably tell this
Speaker 1: is getting my vote by the way I delivered that line.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking about these three? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: definitely three good candidates. Derek obviously, Carson, he has an
Speaker 1: big impact on the game and certainly has a role
Speaker 1: in the end another game. But that played a by
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins. Man, what I lost my mind? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think all we were like out of ourselves, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do a show because I
Speaker 1: am screaming so much watching this. I mean that was exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so thoughts about Yeah about Malcolm, No, I was an
Speaker 1: awesome block from jenk. You need your leaders to come
Speaker 1: up in those key moments, and at that point, you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: mister field goal, even if he makes it is still
Speaker 1: one possession game. Really, to me, the defense had done
Speaker 1: their job by stopping the lines, so that blocked field
Speaker 1: goal was above and beyond, and then the return man. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought they were going in the score on their play.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about you, but I was feeling
Speaker 1: nostalgic from the last time we saw a block field
Speaker 1: goal for with the Eagles and the oh you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. Keep them alive in the postseason. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, I forgot about Chicago. You forgot about Due,
Speaker 1: I think, Well, I forgot you got a fingertip on
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, that was a nice one. They're all right. Um,
Speaker 1: should we look ahead to the Green Bay Packers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had not a lot of time, so they're three
Speaker 1: and ozer. Um, they've looked great this season. And of
Speaker 1: course Lambo Field not an easy place to play, as
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: These are the type of challenges that as a player
Speaker 1: you have to embrace all odds against you. Going on
Speaker 1: the road the Lambeau Field to take on Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and the undefeated Packers National TV. We all get it, um,
Speaker 1: but these are the type of wins also that can
Speaker 1: turn your season around. And so this is a game
Speaker 1: where the Eagles are already shorthanded. It's on a short week,
Speaker 1: you're going on the road. To me, the quicker they
Speaker 1: get this game today out of their system, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take at least twenty four hours to get it out
Speaker 1: of the system and start thinking about green Bay and
Speaker 1: the task at hand. The better chance they have to
Speaker 1: go in there and win the game. Green Bays feeling good.
Speaker 1: They know that the Eagles are coming off a tough loss.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles are desperate team right now. They don't
Speaker 1: want to fall to one in three. And believe me,
Speaker 1: I've seen tougher, tougher task conquer I really have. I mean,
Speaker 1: green Bay isn't unbeatable. It's not like they're going to
Speaker 1: New England to play Thursday night. There a sense of
Speaker 1: the short week might actually help them kind of rinse
Speaker 1: this out of their thing. It does, I think it does.
Speaker 1: As a player, we don't have to benefit in this
Speaker 1: sport like baseball and basketball does, where they play multiple
Speaker 1: games in the week very often. You get it once
Speaker 1: a year usually, And so This is the Eagles opportunity
Speaker 1: coming off a difficult loss at home. They'll get out
Speaker 1: of town Wednesday. Hopefully you don't get on social media
Speaker 1: and don't listen to the radio, so that you can
Speaker 1: sort of block out all the negativity that's gonna be
Speaker 1: around this team on the outside, all that outside noise,
Speaker 1: and they can get back on the field Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Believe me, these guys want to get back on the
Speaker 1: field tomorrow. They want to get this taste out of
Speaker 1: their mouth as quickly as possible. So having a road
Speaker 1: game to where they basically have to go up there
Speaker 1: and take this US against the world mentality, I think
Speaker 1: it's also beneficial for him because again, you don't have
Speaker 1: the pressure of your home fan base in your ear
Speaker 1: for the next four days. They're gonna get out of
Speaker 1: here Wednesday, I'm pretty sure, and so again they can
Speaker 1: be isolated and focus solely on that game. The booze
Speaker 1: are from not your own people when it comes to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look when this team, we've seen it before, when
Speaker 1: they're back is against the wall, they play their best
Speaker 1: in that underdog role. Some of the best things have
Speaker 1: happened when the Eagle, our underdogs so it's definitely going
Speaker 1: to be a crazy week, but a great Thursday night matchup,
Speaker 1: and of course we've got you covered for all of it.
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Speaker 1: our kickoff show presented by Exalta frand Duffy. Of course
Speaker 1: we'll be joining me and then again we'll do this again.
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Speaker 1: insider content, reactions, analysis, recapping this one, looking ahead. It's
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Speaker 1: Have a good night, everybody,