Speaker 1: While the Eagles overcome a slow start, but in the
Speaker 1: end it is not enough to get the win in
Speaker 1: Atlanta twenty four twenty your final score as the Falcons
Speaker 1: stand down at the end. I really a brutal way
Speaker 1: for this one to end for the Eagles, with zach
Speaker 1: Ertz on fourth down making that catch being less than
Speaker 1: a yard short there to end the game. Initial thoughts
Speaker 1: as you begin to process all that we've just seen.
Speaker 1: Just a tough game. Yeah, I mean, obviously, going in
Speaker 1: on the road against a team like Atlanta coming off
Speaker 1: a tough losses they had last week, you knew this
Speaker 1: would be a hard fault game, and the Eagles just
Speaker 1: couldn't overcome somewhat of a slow start, and justine in there,
Speaker 1: got to find a way to pull this game out. Tough,
Speaker 1: valiant effort. You know, give Atlanta credit. They obviously came
Speaker 1: in in a desperate situation planning at home, didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to O and two, and they gave the
Speaker 1: Eagles everything they had tonight. In the Eagles a little
Speaker 1: bit of shorthanded. We'll get to that as the show
Speaker 1: goes on at night, but shorthanded missing key guys early
Speaker 1: in the game and they were really fighting uphill all
Speaker 1: night and really had a chance there late in the game.
Speaker 1: And I know Zach all pro tight end, He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be kicking himself a little bit. Gotta run that
Speaker 1: route a yard or two, a little deeper past the
Speaker 1: first down markers. Carson is expecting him to be past
Speaker 1: the first down mark and when he hits him with
Speaker 1: that throw, Zach knows that probably wishes he had that
Speaker 1: one back. But a tough, hard fallt game. Eagles come
Speaker 1: up on the short end of this one. Yeah, really
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. A lot of screaming going on in
Speaker 1: this office, a lot of emotions, ups and downs. You
Speaker 1: see a lot of both sides going for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down. Just a lot of excitement on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. Like I said, we're going to break
Speaker 1: it down. If you're watching us on Facebook, go ahead
Speaker 1: and send us your questions world, do our best to
Speaker 1: get to some of those. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: into your three takeaways. What's the first one for you? Well,
Speaker 1: I think a slow start. I mean on the road,
Speaker 1: a second game in the row, Eagles get off to
Speaker 1: a slow start. It's becoming somewhat of a this heartening Tree.
Speaker 1: And when you look at this team, think back to
Speaker 1: where they were in the Super Bowl year and how
Speaker 1: they would get out to a fast start on a
Speaker 1: lot of teams scoring in the first quarter. You know,
Speaker 1: last year it was a little bit of an issue,
Speaker 1: not getting all to a good start offensively. First two
Speaker 1: games so far this year, same troubles, not getting all
Speaker 1: to a good start offensively, whether it's turnovers, whether it's penalties.
Speaker 1: They find themselves behind the a ball and have to
Speaker 1: sort of climb out of a hole. And it's a
Speaker 1: lot tougher to do on the road. And that's the
Speaker 1: first thing I noticed to night. You were hoping for
Speaker 1: a fast start on the road against a desperate team
Speaker 1: like Atlanta. We did not get a fast start. Defense
Speaker 1: kept us in the game, but the offense again off
Speaker 1: to a slow song. Well, Eagles scoreless in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in the first half. And you talk about
Speaker 1: those injuries there, I mean, they were without a lot
Speaker 1: of major pieces on their offense. Dallas Goddard hurt and
Speaker 1: warm ups didn't see the field at all. Deshaun Jackson
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffries, zero targets to both of those guys, saw
Speaker 1: very limited action there. Jason Kelsey went out for a
Speaker 1: minute for concussion protocol, as did Carson Wentz. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of limited limitations on this offense where the
Speaker 1: story this year has been their depth. Let's keep going
Speaker 1: with your takeaway, what's next? Tell you when you when
Speaker 1: you lose guys the way they lost early in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about key guys like the Sean Al,
Speaker 1: Sean Dallas Goddard, and makes it a lot harder for
Speaker 1: your offense to really get a flow going. So what
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to do is lean on your defense.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Eagles did tonight. They lean on
Speaker 1: their defense. And Jim Schwartz has been very good against
Speaker 1: this Atlanta offense the last three meetings. Able to keep
Speaker 1: this offense under twenty points, able to keep Julio Jones
Speaker 1: out of the end zone. Unfortunately, he's able to get
Speaker 1: in the end zone twice tonight. But I like what
Speaker 1: the defense did early in the game, creating some turnovers,
Speaker 1: allowing the offense to get some short fields to work with.
Speaker 1: Really a good game plan from Jim Schwartz today, really
Speaker 1: dialed up the blitzer is able to keep Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and that offensive line sort of off guard, really keep
Speaker 1: them on their heels. Some big sacks, some big third
Speaker 1: down stops. But I know Jim Schwartz and a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there asking for Coach Sports to dial
Speaker 1: up the pressures, bring more blitzes. Coach Sports warned us
Speaker 1: this week in his press conference about dialing up those pressures,
Speaker 1: and it kind of leaves you exposed on the back
Speaker 1: end when you get to that fourth and three played
Speaker 1: that Julio Jones was able to score that touchdown on
Speaker 1: Eagles dialed up the pressure, you gotta make the tackle.
Speaker 1: Falcons recognized that checked out of the play that they
Speaker 1: were in, went to a quick throw to Julio. They
Speaker 1: got all four touchdown. But I thought the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: played much better than they did last week, except for
Speaker 1: the one play against Julio Layton the game, I thought
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense really kept this team in the game
Speaker 1: to night. Yeah, like you said, Jim Schwartz really mixed
Speaker 1: it up with the bulitz really kept the pressure on
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, made him very uncomfortable heat He had three
Speaker 1: interceptions in this one, which is very uncharacteristic. We got
Speaker 1: some highlights, you know what, let's checking with Meryll Kim
Speaker 1: the most exciting part of our show. Let's hear from
Speaker 1: Merrill recent Mike Quick on today's game. Intercepted, it's picked
Speaker 1: off and they will mark it down. But Sydney Jones
Speaker 1: took it off the hands. It was deflected and the
Speaker 1: Eagles have come up with a big interception right here
Speaker 1: and a major mistake. Third down to nine for Atlanta motion,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, the tight end, Ryan and the gun. He's back,
Speaker 1: he pumps, he's going deep again, and it's intercepted. It
Speaker 1: is Derby Derby at the thirty five, at the thirty
Speaker 1: Derby carrying the football and finally takes it down to
Speaker 1: the twenty four yard line. Second interception of the game
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Well, I love Doug, but let it
Speaker 1: be said, I'd go for the free right here and
Speaker 1: just with this much time left and the way they've
Speaker 1: been moving the football, Wentz back, Wentz looks has time
Speaker 1: time fires complete touchdown. Dog's right, Dulcinaglore in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Dog is absolutely right. You're funny.
Speaker 1: You're so funny. Second and eight folio Jones in motion
Speaker 1: to the far side of the field, split way out
Speaker 1: and the gun is Ryan looks right, fires for the
Speaker 1: end zone, intercepted by Nathan Garry who takes it out
Speaker 1: to the one intercepted by Nathan Garry and now a
Speaker 1: penalty flag comes down. That was the third interception by
Speaker 1: the Eagles end this game. They just took points away
Speaker 1: from Atlanta. Tight formation slot to the nearest side of
Speaker 1: the field. Aglor end the slot, Wentz under center and
Speaker 1: he sneaks and he's in touchdown. Eagles take the lead.
Speaker 1: Joined the Howard to the right of Wentz standing in
Speaker 1: the gun. Wentz takes the snap's back fires two points hurts.
Speaker 1: You are watching the postgame show presented by Rico I Greased,
Speaker 1: Amy Campbell, frand Duffie now joining US France. Initial takeaways
Speaker 1: from this crazy game. It was a crazy game. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. This guy's my initial takeaway. This
Speaker 1: team didn't blink. Yeah. We've seen so many teams throughout
Speaker 1: the NFL over the first couple of weeks where they
Speaker 1: get down in an early hole and they fold. We've
Speaker 1: seen it with a number of teams. I could think
Speaker 1: of Cleveland Browns right off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: All the hype coming in on Cleveland they come in
Speaker 1: Week one, they lay an egg. Tennessee gets up on
Speaker 1: them early. They fold. You look at some of these
Speaker 1: other teams around the league early on, they go out,
Speaker 1: they face some adversity, they fold. This team on the
Speaker 1: road against an O and one desperate team. We talked
Speaker 1: about it in the Kickoff show, Amy. This team coming
Speaker 1: back with Atlanta is a talented team. It's a battle
Speaker 1: tested team. You knew they weren't going to fold and
Speaker 1: coming they weren't going to go oh and two willingly,
Speaker 1: So you had to come in and punch them in
Speaker 1: the mouth. They came back and they fought. Yeah, injuries,
Speaker 1: early score deficit, guys getting hit left and right. I'm
Speaker 1: hurt and watching this game, yeah, I mean, and they
Speaker 1: bounced back. They just keep fighting. It really was remarkable,
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch their ike. We talked about all
Speaker 1: of those key pieces of that offense that we're missing,
Speaker 1: and really at the end the receiver Nelson Ago or macollins,
Speaker 1: and those two had really solid games for the Eagles tonight,
Speaker 1: so stepped up when the numbers called that next minute
Speaker 1: up mentality. Yeah, it really has been a trademark of
Speaker 1: this team under Doug Peterson's coaching. I mean, they typically
Speaker 1: fight you tooth and nail for sixty minutes four quarters.
Speaker 1: Didn't expect anything else from them tonight. Man down, multiple
Speaker 1: guys down. Next guy has to step up, and this
Speaker 1: team is right there in the end with an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win this game late in the game. Never questioned
Speaker 1: whether or not this team is going to give you
Speaker 1: a full day's effort they typically do and undermanned, you know,
Speaker 1: losing key guys early in this game could have very
Speaker 1: easily folded the tent and no one would have questioned it.
Speaker 1: But this team, true to its character, gonna fight you
Speaker 1: all the way to the end and had a chance
Speaker 1: there late in the game to really steal one on
Speaker 1: the road against a desperate team like the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: A lot of people talking about this Falcons team throughout
Speaker 1: the week as if this Falcon team is not a
Speaker 1: very good team, it's not a talented team based off
Speaker 1: the way they played last week in Minnesota. You can't
Speaker 1: judge a team off the first week of the season.
Speaker 1: I really had this Falcons team in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: had them winning this division NFC South, and I knew
Speaker 1: this would be a tough game. The Eagles didn't expect
Speaker 1: them to be undermanned after a series or two in
Speaker 1: this game. But I thought they would be in the game,
Speaker 1: and I thought they would have a chance late. Just
Speaker 1: one of those opportunities that they missed out on. But again,
Speaker 1: when they look back at the film, they can be
Speaker 1: proud of the effort that they've given. But that's really
Speaker 1: been a trademark at a team. We truly expect them
Speaker 1: to come out and give you an honest day's work. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent on this team, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: And let's not forget last year the Eagles took care
Speaker 1: of business against the Falcons at home. But the Falcons,
Speaker 1: their defense was majorly injured in that game and a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys, several of their guys were lost
Speaker 1: for the season in that game, so not at full
Speaker 1: strength the way we saw them tonight, And you saw
Speaker 1: how good their defense can look when they're healthy. So,
Speaker 1: fran I know a lot to break down in this film.
Speaker 1: What do you have your eye on that you're going
Speaker 1: to be looking looking to break down as you get
Speaker 1: into things tomorrow. Yeah, I think number one will be
Speaker 1: the first thing is looking at what defensively they did
Speaker 1: to turn up the heat a little bit on Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half. That defense, the defensive line,
Speaker 1: and also the blitz package we saw that cover zero
Speaker 1: blitz that Jim Schwartz and the Eagles defense through at
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan to create that Ronald Darby interception in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. To me, that was one of the biggest
Speaker 1: plays of the game that helped turn the tide, helped
Speaker 1: the Eagles go into a touchdown make it a one
Speaker 1: score game. I want to see exactly some of the
Speaker 1: other things that they did. You saw a zone pressure
Speaker 1: where Fletcher Cox dropped out, but you know they were
Speaker 1: able to get home. I'm excited to see what the
Speaker 1: Eagles did from a strategy standpoint, But on the other
Speaker 1: side of the coin, and in the same point, I
Speaker 1: think you have to give a tip of the cap
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Falcons here because from the opening drive
Speaker 1: I thought that they dialed up a lot of interesting
Speaker 1: plays that kind of played on the Eagles aggressiveness and
Speaker 1: that's look, that's good coaching from Atlanta's part. You find
Speaker 1: exactly what the strength is of an opponent, and then
Speaker 1: you want to try and find ways to tack it.
Speaker 1: You have to give credit to Atlanta. They found ways
Speaker 1: and it was little dink and dunk plays and then
Speaker 1: it became the big one that at the end. You
Speaker 1: have that screen pass at the end that all plays
Speaker 1: on the aggressiveness of the Eagles defense. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: just set them up, set them up, set them up
Speaker 1: for that big shot. Let's go to our plays in
Speaker 1: the game, Ike, what is it for you? Well, for me,
Speaker 1: I would I would have to go to the interception
Speaker 1: laid by Ron Darby. I mean, you're gonna play right
Speaker 1: there where put your side right all the games are over.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of updates are coming through
Speaker 1: right now, notifications they keep going play the Ron Ron
Speaker 1: Darby interception I thought was big. And you get that
Speaker 1: late in the game you just mentioned it frand you
Speaker 1: get Jim Schwartz dawling up a zero blitz Eagles not
Speaker 1: really known for that. And then Ron Darby on Julio
Speaker 1: Jones able to get his head around and make that
Speaker 1: play I thought allowed the Eagles to get right back
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, what about you? To me, it's
Speaker 1: the fourth down conversion of Nelson Iglore on that last drive,
Speaker 1: because to me, you had the adversity of you know,
Speaker 1: they come back and Nelson has that drive, and that's
Speaker 1: individual adversity, but also team adversity. I mean, the air
Speaker 1: just kind of falls out of you as a team.
Speaker 1: Like you could probably speak to that is when you
Speaker 1: feel like you've got momentum and then you lose it.
Speaker 1: And then for Nelson to come back three plays later
Speaker 1: and make that catch, Carson's getting hit, the whole offense
Speaker 1: then comes around and now it's like, oh, we got
Speaker 1: this again. To me, I'm sitting there and I'm like, honestly,
Speaker 1: I want to win the game. I'm just as juiced
Speaker 1: if we lost that we lost the game as we
Speaker 1: did we by winning because you saw that fight from
Speaker 1: the Eagles in that for them to convert on fourth
Speaker 1: and eight in that situation, to me, that speaks to
Speaker 1: the fight that this team has. That's a winner's mentality.
Speaker 1: The fact that they were to come back off of
Speaker 1: that because you have a play like that on first
Speaker 1: down and you say that's a walk off touchdown. To
Speaker 1: come back off of that to me in a losing effort,
Speaker 1: that that stands out to me. But you would be
Speaker 1: more juice if they want of course i'd be more juice,
Speaker 1: but I don't want I don't walk away from this
Speaker 1: loss though, feeling like, oh man, like that was to look,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna go sixteen and ol like you're beer.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna go sixte No, you're gonna lose games.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna lose a game, you want it to
Speaker 1: look like that one did, where you faced adversity on
Speaker 1: the road against a good team, a battle tested team,
Speaker 1: and you went Tom Swinger. Well, I was going to
Speaker 1: pick your play of the game, friends, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick a different one now because it's one of the
Speaker 1: most superhuman things I've ever seen Carson wentz to. And
Speaker 1: we've seen him do a lot when he's falling down,
Speaker 1: being sacked, keeping the play alive, getting that pass to Macollins.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was especially great to see maccollins have
Speaker 1: a game like that tonight too. That to me was
Speaker 1: one of the craziest things we've seen Carson wentz to.
Speaker 1: And we've seen him do some pretty crazy things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you needed him to sort of step up and
Speaker 1: make plays when plays weren't there, and that's what Carson
Speaker 1: has the ability to do. Keep plays alive. I just
Speaker 1: thought tonight it was asking a little much of him
Speaker 1: to just be a magician on just about every series
Speaker 1: that he was out there. Not enough easy plays being made,
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands, let guys make
Speaker 1: plays for him. It was too much relying on him
Speaker 1: tonight to come up with this spectacular play. And he
Speaker 1: was able to do it at times. But when you're
Speaker 1: on the road and you're going to get some fast
Speaker 1: defense like the Atlanta foul, eventually it's gonna catch up
Speaker 1: to you. Now, the Eagles, they were in this thing
Speaker 1: all the way to the end. But I just thought
Speaker 1: Carson under Durest took some hits tonight and it just
Speaker 1: didn't look like anything was easy for the Eagles offense tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, we saw them come alive last week against
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins. Tonight, I just thought this offense pretty
Speaker 1: much had the fight and scrape for every yard that
Speaker 1: they got tonight. Yeah, Like you know what it's like.
Speaker 1: I mean, you go into a week or you have
Speaker 1: a week of preparation where you understand, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be down this guy, this guy, and this guy. We're
Speaker 1: gonna prepare for that. To go into a game and
Speaker 1: then minutes beforehand find out all you know, like Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard not gonna be available. Oh the opening drive, all
Speaker 1: right to Shaun's down, Al, Shawn's down, all right, Jason
Speaker 1: Kelsey's out for a little bit, all right now, Jason
Speaker 1: Peters late in the game, he's out. Tim Jernikins out,
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby's out, Sidney Jones is out. All these guys
Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup. That's a lot to
Speaker 1: react to on the fly. What is that like from
Speaker 1: a players standpoint being able to overcome that? You Being
Speaker 1: a backup player throughout my career, I know for those
Speaker 1: guys as you have to be ready to go. You
Speaker 1: have to be ready when your number is called. So
Speaker 1: a guy like jj Arthega Whiteside maybe didn't expect to
Speaker 1: play as many snaps as he did tonight. Mac Hollins
Speaker 1: maybe didn't expect to play as many snaps as you didn'tnight.
Speaker 1: But this is the NFL and you need to be
Speaker 1: ready at a moment's notice. And as a backup player,
Speaker 1: I thought these guys came in and they're quitted themselves
Speaker 1: well tonight, especially being young as they are thrown into
Speaker 1: this position to where you're going to be relied upon
Speaker 1: series at the series and I thought they responded to well.
Speaker 1: I thought Carson responded to well, listen, he can't. You
Speaker 1: can't control who you're going to be throwing the ball
Speaker 1: out there too. You just have to run the offense.
Speaker 1: And I thought the Carson did a great job of
Speaker 1: the night trying to spread the ball around. Obviously, you're
Speaker 1: trying to build trust with some of these young guys
Speaker 1: that you don't have a huge report with when it
Speaker 1: comes to being out on the practice field working with
Speaker 1: and you, like S Francis said, you almost have to
Speaker 1: learn on the fly as they're out there. And I
Speaker 1: thought the offense early it sputtered a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I thought in the second half they started to get
Speaker 1: some things going with the young guys and Carson started
Speaker 1: to show where he could trust those guys to put
Speaker 1: the ball up in their hands, and they came through
Speaker 1: for him for the most part. Had some plays that
Speaker 1: I know guys are gonna want back. You brought up
Speaker 1: to Nelson Aguilar play. I know Nelson he is a
Speaker 1: true perfectionist. He'll tell you that that's a ball that
Speaker 1: he has to pull in late in the game, but
Speaker 1: hoping that we'll have our guys back next week when
Speaker 1: it's time to take on the Lions. If not, these
Speaker 1: young guys got a lot of experience tonight that is
Speaker 1: going to be valuable to them moving forward. Absolutely something
Speaker 1: to build on. To talk about Carson kind of having
Speaker 1: to do everything. He certainly got pushed around a lot
Speaker 1: in their sacked three times, and we were kind of
Speaker 1: expecting the trenches to be a big part of this game,
Speaker 1: and we definitely saw it affecting him, affecting the offense
Speaker 1: a lot to build on. Fran you said, look, if
Speaker 1: we have to take a loss, this is a really
Speaker 1: positive way to have one. This is kind of how
Speaker 1: you want to see it go down. What do you
Speaker 1: see as some building blocks? You know, I mentioned experience
Speaker 1: for some of the younger receivers, the guys who aren't
Speaker 1: always getting all the touches. What do you see as
Speaker 1: a building block for this team moving forward. It's absolutely
Speaker 1: gonna be They're gonna go to the film and they're
Speaker 1: gonna see the plays that they could have made, the
Speaker 1: plays that they left on the field. But you're always
Speaker 1: gonna try and find those bright spots as well and
Speaker 1: So those guys that you know that Ike mentioned, maybe
Speaker 1: they weren't expecting to play sixty five snaps or seventy
Speaker 1: three snaps or even fifty snaps or thirty snaps here tonight.
Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna go to the film. They're gonna
Speaker 1: see what they did well. They're gonna see what they
Speaker 1: didn't do well, and now it's about, you know, moving
Speaker 1: on from that. And to me, you look at some
Speaker 1: of these young guys. I can't wait to go into
Speaker 1: the tape and see what j jer think a Whiteside did.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go to the tape and see
Speaker 1: all right, Andre Dillard on that last drive, to me,
Speaker 1: look pretty good in those final three plays. Like I
Speaker 1: want to see these young guys that came into the
Speaker 1: game and see how they performed. Josh Sweat looked like
Speaker 1: he had a couple of impressive rushes tonight. So to me,
Speaker 1: I want to go and see those young guys that
Speaker 1: had to come on. What did they look like? How
Speaker 1: do you go on and build from this against the
Speaker 1: Detroit team. They're gonna come in and they're gonna be
Speaker 1: ready to play here on Sunday. Yeah of course, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, a lot to build on. Looking forward,
Speaker 1: we are just waiting to hear from head coach Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: who is approaching the podium. Now let's hear his thoughts
Speaker 1: on this game, of course, but with the resilience you
Speaker 1: guys showed despite injury, circumstance, everything else some positive at all. Um.
Speaker 1: I love the way these guys fought. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was in our hands yea uh short, yeah, it stains obviously, UM,
Speaker 1: no losses like this and uh, it's gonna manage better.
Speaker 1: I saw doctor in tears as he want. Hasn't the
Speaker 1: man suffered enough you guys? Yeah? Um, I fo doctor
Speaker 1: walking us? What did you I mean to? It's hard
Speaker 1: to find words, you know. Um, these guys are hurting obviously,
Speaker 1: the hard work in coreparation that they do during the
Speaker 1: week to put in. Um. I just told him that that,
Speaker 1: you know, I was proud of him. I'd also told
Speaker 1: him that you know, this is gonna this is gonna
Speaker 1: really unite this football team. Um. You know, through all
Speaker 1: the adversity that we faced h tonight in this game. Um,
Speaker 1: and and really no one, no one should hang their head.
Speaker 1: You know, they battled. It was in our hands at
Speaker 1: the end to win and again we could came him short.
Speaker 1: It hurts, but they'll they'll be better for the final test.
Speaker 1: Down past to Jones. I mean there's a fine line
Speaker 1: between pick action, legal blocking and picks. What did the
Speaker 1: player look like to you? Clean? It was clean? Obviously
Speaker 1: we'll look at it, you know, on the way home tonight.
Speaker 1: But um, you know we were in all outlits and
Speaker 1: and just coming after the quarterback in that situation, he
Speaker 1: checked to the receiver screen, got two blocks on a
Speaker 1: perimeter foot races. Can you talk about the jument she
Speaker 1: made it at the half because the second half, well,
Speaker 1: adjustment started, uh in the first quarter, Um when when
Speaker 1: guys started started falling for us. Um, and give credit
Speaker 1: to Micro and Jeff Stoutlin, you know in the run
Speaker 1: game and passing game and just just coming up and
Speaker 1: you know, keeping you know, keeping guys like JJ and
Speaker 1: keeping guys like mac Hollins and and uh obviously the
Speaker 1: running backs and Nelly and Zach just keeping them, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of abreast of what we were doing and some
Speaker 1: of the changes we were making because we had to
Speaker 1: switch some personnel groups tonight in midstream, which is hard
Speaker 1: to do. But give credit to those guys for doing
Speaker 1: it so, because there's something This was a game, um,
Speaker 1: and came down to the end, given all the injuries
Speaker 1: you guys suffer, there's something separate the back. This was
Speaker 1: as close as it was with a chance to win
Speaker 1: it all. I mean, yeah, I think I think, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no moral victories obviously, but I think with the
Speaker 1: resiliency of the team and what what offensively we were
Speaker 1: faced with, and then of course the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: we lose Tim jurninggain and you know in this football
Speaker 1: game and um, you know, it just it just sort
Speaker 1: of things began to kind of snowball a little bit.
Speaker 1: But the fact that we hung in there, we battled, um,
Speaker 1: gave ourselves a chance we had to lead there, you
Speaker 1: know late in the game. Um. And and that's really
Speaker 1: what these games come down to. It's just a couple
Speaker 1: of plays here and there that can go in your
Speaker 1: favor or the other way. And tonight to win and
Speaker 1: you know, their way. Anybody seriously heard, well, well, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously we'll check tomorrow we get back, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and and have have more of an update tomorrow. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to comment on those those injuries
Speaker 1: right now, you know, long term, we don't know you
Speaker 1: prepare for different scenarios, But did you ever discuss or
Speaker 1: you can vision what to do when you're down? I
Speaker 1: guess two receivers, one tight end. You yet have four
Speaker 1: school guys there. I mean you always have a plan
Speaker 1: for maybe one guy. You know, obviously one guy goes
Speaker 1: down because you can shift some things. But when you
Speaker 1: you have your two top receivers and a tight end
Speaker 1: go down. Um, it's it's difficult, you know, because now
Speaker 1: you're really having to uh put guys in positions that
Speaker 1: haven't gotten those you know, they haven't gotten those reps
Speaker 1: during the week. Was the place you limited in terms
Speaker 1: of what you were able to call? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it cuts things way down because you're out of your
Speaker 1: twelve personnel obviously when Dallas isn't there, you know, and
Speaker 1: then and then some of the stuff. Uh, it just
Speaker 1: limits you a little bit. But I listen, credit uh
Speaker 1: you know, credit might credit stout and for the past
Speaker 1: is the run's getting it getting it together and communicating
Speaker 1: with me so we could we could execute what we
Speaker 1: did these injuries. You rely on the coordinators for personnel
Speaker 1: groupings or do you rely on the position coaches to
Speaker 1: kind of say who's best for well the coordinators. Coordinators
Speaker 1: can can shift the personnel groupings, but then the position
Speaker 1: coaches during the game have to really we got a
Speaker 1: coach and and this is this is Uh, it was
Speaker 1: great to see we had great communication. Um even pregame,
Speaker 1: you know, when when we found out about Dallas. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's great communication on their part and then they
Speaker 1: handled it well again the moment in the first half,
Speaker 1: your level of concern with Carson he got banged around,
Speaker 1: so he was missing some balls that he usually was
Speaker 1: more accurred on. You had to get a vague where
Speaker 1: was your level of concern? One, is this a good
Speaker 1: idea to keep going or with him? No? I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: you know we knew coming in it was gonna be
Speaker 1: gonna be a battle. It was gonna be a physical game.
Speaker 1: Obviously the quarterbacks not exempt from that. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: we tried to give him I tried to give him
Speaker 1: some throws where the ball could come out early and
Speaker 1: and and that. But at some point you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta push the ball down the field and uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take some protection and give credit to the Falcons.
Speaker 1: I mean they had a tremendous pass rush tonight, whether
Speaker 1: they were rushing four or five guys and put pressure
Speaker 1: on them all night. That's right. Did you talked at
Speaker 1: all halftime about whether there was a problem with the
Speaker 1: surface or the pleats or something. You had so many
Speaker 1: calf injuries and now we were just ready to make
Speaker 1: adjustments and get ourselves back in this football game in
Speaker 1: the second half. Okay, A lot to take away from
Speaker 1: coach his press conference there it hurts, but he says
Speaker 1: this team is going to be better for it seems
Speaker 1: relatively had kind of an energy that he was at
Speaker 1: piece with the result of today, given all that they
Speaker 1: had thrown at them, to overcome so much of that
Speaker 1: is really a positive thing for this team. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a coach that knows we're in game two of
Speaker 1: a sixteen game schedule and there's no need to overreact
Speaker 1: to your first loss of the season. They weren't going
Speaker 1: to go undefeated all years, so you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: loss somewhere, and it's on the road. It's a tough
Speaker 1: loss considering the circumstances. Doug has every right to somewhat
Speaker 1: feel proud about the effort that his guy's game tonight
Speaker 1: and they were under man and they're going up against
Speaker 1: a desperate team, and so you want to pull some
Speaker 1: positives out of this because he knows his guys are
Speaker 1: in there hurting tonight. He knows Zach Hurtz is hurting.
Speaker 1: He's kicking himself over that final play. Nelson Agilor, who
Speaker 1: had a great game tonight, it's kicking himself over that
Speaker 1: drop pass on the final drive. Carson Wentz, who finished
Speaker 1: up strong but did not start strong. It's kicking himself
Speaker 1: for the slow start. And the defense who actually came
Speaker 1: out and played real well to night and kept them
Speaker 1: in the game. They gave up one play to night
Speaker 1: to Julio Jones. That at all out blitz that everyone
Speaker 1: is calling for. They want everybody. Everybody wants Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: to blitz. Well, he blitz, And this is what can
Speaker 1: happen when you send extra guys. There's nobody out there
Speaker 1: on Julio Jones one on one, and a player like
Speaker 1: that can make something out of nothing, and that's what
Speaker 1: Julio was able to do. So I understand where Doug
Speaker 1: is coming from the night because he knows this is
Speaker 1: something that they need to build off of. Reminds me
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen. Tough loss out there in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: came down to the final drive or it was a
Speaker 1: one possession game where the Eagles had a chance to
Speaker 1: possibly send the game overtime. Really did some things to
Speaker 1: shoot themselves in the foot in that game, but they
Speaker 1: came out of that game knowing that they were good
Speaker 1: football team and they just needed to fix some small things.
Speaker 1: I believe that's the same thing. They're gonna come out
Speaker 1: of this game knowing that that's a good Falcons football team,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles had every chance to win this game.
Speaker 1: Lead Now that flight back or be a little quiet
Speaker 1: because they realized that they could have stolen the game
Speaker 1: on the roll against a very good NFC opponent, But
Speaker 1: they also understand that that it's a long season left.
Speaker 1: They have a game next week against the Lions at
Speaker 1: home that they need to sort of get healthy, get
Speaker 1: back here and try to get a win back here
Speaker 1: at home so you can get back on the right
Speaker 1: side of things. It's a lot of football left. I
Speaker 1: noticed this loss hurts and it's a little disappointing, but
Speaker 1: Atlanta was gonna you were gonna need to play better
Speaker 1: than your B game to beat Atlanta tonight. And the
Speaker 1: funny thing is, ain't they almost beat this team with
Speaker 1: their B game? Oh yeah, they almost beat the Falcons
Speaker 1: with their Look. We gave ourselves a chance to win.
Speaker 1: These kind of games always come down to a couple
Speaker 1: of plays. It's very small margin of error. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what we saw. And for them to do what they
Speaker 1: did to keep themselves in it when they had all
Speaker 1: those injuries. But like coach said, you know, we plan
Speaker 1: maybe for one guy or maybe, but never for as
Speaker 1: many guys as was injured in this, especially on offense
Speaker 1: when it comes to, you know, a similar position group
Speaker 1: of that pass catcher there, so just to be able
Speaker 1: to get creative and utilize what they still had. There
Speaker 1: a lot of positives to take from this. One thing
Speaker 1: that stood out to me when we put up that statboard.
Speaker 1: Both teams pretty one dimensional on offense. Both really got
Speaker 1: it done through the air. I believe less than fifty
Speaker 1: There you go fifty seven yards rushing for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: forty nine for the Eagles, which is really surprising, honestly
Speaker 1: for both teams. You maybe expect the Falcons to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more, a little bit more balanced. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you expect both these teams to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more balanced. Like what stands out to you about this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean forty nine yards rushing is not what you
Speaker 1: is not ideal for you on the road. When you're
Speaker 1: on the road in a hostile environment, you got to
Speaker 1: deal with crowd noise. You want to be able to
Speaker 1: run the football so you can take the air out
Speaker 1: of the crowd. And I thought tonight, um, we became
Speaker 1: a little bit predictable and throwing the ball and putting
Speaker 1: and putting the ball in Carson's hands. Uh and not,
Speaker 1: you know, no fault of our owners, just as the
Speaker 1: running game wasn't working. You know, credit Atlanta's defense. They're fast,
Speaker 1: they're they're fast flowing, they can get to the ball.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we did a great job of blocking
Speaker 1: at the point of attack and then getting up to
Speaker 1: the second level getting on those linebackers. Atlanta's linebackers Dion
Speaker 1: Jones too often free flowing to the football, able to
Speaker 1: get their unscathed and make running and make tackles in
Speaker 1: the backfield on either Mouse Sanders or Jordan Howard. We
Speaker 1: had some success, some success when we tried to run,
Speaker 1: but not not nearly enough success. And when you have
Speaker 1: guys like Alshon Jeffrey and Deshaun Jackson, Dallas Goddard missing
Speaker 1: from your offense, you need to be able to run.
Speaker 1: Perhaps because the Falcons realized that the Eagles were a
Speaker 1: little bit banged up on the perimeter there, that they
Speaker 1: were able to sell out against the run a little
Speaker 1: bit more and not really caused the Eagles to struggle
Speaker 1: to get it going on the ground. Yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. Anytime you're taking a guy like Jackson off
Speaker 1: the field, you I'm pretty sure Dan dan Quinn and
Speaker 1: his defensive coordinator that was their whole game plan this
Speaker 1: week is not let de Sean Jackson beat you over
Speaker 1: the top. And so now you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about him at all. You don't have to worry about him,
Speaker 1: which means you don't have to devote an extra man
Speaker 1: to coverage. Now you can key in on the running game.
Speaker 1: When you're looking at Arthega Whiteside and Nelson Aghalore out there,
Speaker 1: it's Jess isn't enough of a passing threat to force
Speaker 1: your defense to have to double cover or anybody or
Speaker 1: anything of that nature. Want you want, you key in
Speaker 1: on zach Ertz and he can't beat you over the top.
Speaker 1: He's more or less going to beat you underneath. Now
Speaker 1: you can, you can. You can devote an extra guy
Speaker 1: to the box and play the run game. And I
Speaker 1: thought the Eagles they got in some looks where Carson
Speaker 1: is reading the defense and he's saying, Okay, if I
Speaker 1: got a six man or seven man box, all run
Speaker 1: the ball. But if there's an eight man box, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball. And the Falcons never had to
Speaker 1: have an eight man box. They never had to have
Speaker 1: the extra guy in the box to stop the run,
Speaker 1: which means they can add an extra guy in pass
Speaker 1: defense and forces the Eagles to run the ball. So
Speaker 1: even when the Eagles ran the ball, the Falcons didn't
Speaker 1: feel necessarily threatened, and they were able with their speed
Speaker 1: to corral whether it's Jordan Howard or Mouse Sanders. And
Speaker 1: I tell you, Miles Sanders, as much as I love
Speaker 1: him as a runner, he's gonna have to learn how
Speaker 1: to put his foot in the ground and get north
Speaker 1: and south right. Yea, in college, you can't outrun everybody
Speaker 1: to the edge is sometimes you gotta take the yards
Speaker 1: that are there, the tough three four yards that are
Speaker 1: there to set up the plays on the outside. But
Speaker 1: if the defense is expecting you to bounce every run
Speaker 1: that you get, they're gonna be waiting on you. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure that something deuced will get corrected with the
Speaker 1: young running back. Most young running backs struggle with that
Speaker 1: earlier slippery throughout your career. And you're used to being
Speaker 1: able to do that against college competition, especially high school,
Speaker 1: right then that works and that's your game to have
Speaker 1: that elusiveness. But we've seen that from Miles in practice
Speaker 1: and in a training camp leading up to this season
Speaker 1: that he does have that ability to put a spot
Speaker 1: in the ground getting north and south. So just a
Speaker 1: matter of translating that to games. Let's go to the defense.
Speaker 1: We've spent a lot of time talking about the offense
Speaker 1: here tonight, and one of the things was we saw
Speaker 1: to him jurning to get injured. We don't really know
Speaker 1: what's going on there. Also, at that defensive tackle spot,
Speaker 1: we're now without Malik Jackson, so Hassan Ridgeway saw some action.
Speaker 1: Akeem Spen saw some action there in the middle obviously
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox is you know, is Fletcher Cox? When you
Speaker 1: look at that defensive tackle position, what can this team
Speaker 1: build on where they've had that depth attacked? Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: in there, Amy, And man, I tell you it's not
Speaker 1: it's not getting getting any better any faster. I mean,
Speaker 1: you lose a guy like t Jard again and we
Speaker 1: don't know how significant his situation is. But now what
Speaker 1: are you looking at? You're looking at Fletcher Cox and
Speaker 1: Traymond as Yeah, like yeah, it's it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: King Spence who's still knew to the defense. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot there. And if you can't if you can't
Speaker 1: get pressure, or if you can't affect the offense with
Speaker 1: your front for it, really it really puts the rest
Speaker 1: of your defense in a bind. And I thought Derek
Speaker 1: Barnette played well to night. I thought I thought um
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham had some plays, he showed some flashes. We
Speaker 1: didn't get a sack on Matt Ryan, but they were
Speaker 1: around Matt Ryan all night. They forced two turnovers on him,
Speaker 1: so they had him throwing off his heels, They had
Speaker 1: him feeling uncomfortable. He was affected a lot. He only
Speaker 1: went down the one time, but they had they had
Speaker 1: they were in his face, they were throwing him off
Speaker 1: a lot. And that's where Jim Schwartz preaches that sacks
Speaker 1: don't necessarily tell the whole story, right and see if
Speaker 1: this affecting the quarterback. Actually, I learned this from Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn when he was at Florida and I covered the Gators.
Speaker 1: This idea of affecting the quarterback. How you can have
Speaker 1: that sometimes just getting him off his game, even a
Speaker 1: hand in the face, that that translates to turnovers. It's
Speaker 1: not always a sack that you're going to be looking for. There. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of his intersections came because either somebody was in
Speaker 1: his face, Brandon Graham may have got enough hand on
Speaker 1: his elbow when he threw the balls, and Ron Darby
Speaker 1: intercepted it. That's how you can create turnovers affecting that
Speaker 1: quarterback's arm. And again, I know everybody will look at
Speaker 1: the sack stats and say, well, why are we not
Speaker 1: hitting the quarterback or we're not getting sacks. Well, you
Speaker 1: got two turnovers a night that were a direct result
Speaker 1: of pressure on Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan throwing off his
Speaker 1: back foot, throwing the ball up. You're able to capitalize
Speaker 1: on that. So I like what the defense was able
Speaker 1: to do by taking the ball away from Matt Ryan. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a catch twenty two. When you send extra guys,
Speaker 1: you leave yourself exposed. And that's what happened on the
Speaker 1: Julio Jones touchdown, is that we sent extra guys. We
Speaker 1: didn't get there. The offense recognize it. They got the
Speaker 1: ball out of their hands quick, Julio is able to
Speaker 1: make a simple catch and run for a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: Julio got loose for that one score. But throughout the night,
Speaker 1: obviously he's Julio Jones, He's going to have his numbers.
Speaker 1: Rusul Douglas really aggressive and covering him, add some nice
Speaker 1: pass breakups there. What did you see from Russula as
Speaker 1: he continues his development, We've been looking to see him
Speaker 1: kind of take that next step in this league. I
Speaker 1: thought he covered Julio pretty well tonight, all things considered.
Speaker 1: So did all right, Amy. I thought he played with confidence,
Speaker 1: And anytime you got a guy like Julio Jones lined
Speaker 1: up in front of you, it can be a little
Speaker 1: scary when you're a young player. So did not back
Speaker 1: down from that matchup. Did not and you gotta give
Speaker 1: Russu a lot of credit that he was able to get.
Speaker 1: He mixed his coverage up as well. He played him
Speaker 1: up bump, bumping, run at the line of scrimmage. He
Speaker 1: was able to back off and read and react. And
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do to a receiver like Julio.
Speaker 1: You can't give him the same look every time. You
Speaker 1: gotta mix up your looks on him. And you had
Speaker 1: both defensive backs over their covery. And whether it was
Speaker 1: Rusu or was Sidney Jones, they both had their turns
Speaker 1: over there. I thought Rassu did a great job of
Speaker 1: just battling Julio Jones and not giving anything, giving him
Speaker 1: anything easy. And Sidney Jones as well. I thought they
Speaker 1: both did a great job of accepting the challenge. Again,
Speaker 1: when you see a guy like Julio Jones lined up
Speaker 1: in front of you and you know the quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to try to get him to football, you're over
Speaker 1: there saying to yourself, you gotta have a short memory.
Speaker 1: If he catches one, don't worry about it, come up
Speaker 1: and make the play. Be ready to fight for the
Speaker 1: next play. I thought the DBS did a great job.
Speaker 1: But at the night Obviously the last play Julio scored on.
Speaker 1: They want that back. But prior to that, I thought
Speaker 1: the DVS did a nice job fighting Julio and Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley tonight. I mean, that's another good wide receiver, right,
Speaker 1: that's true, And you know when you did. When you
Speaker 1: look at Julio, he's a guy who's gonna get his
Speaker 1: right and so there's so much you consider a strong
Speaker 1: performance on defense and in the secondary. There's different ways
Speaker 1: to look at that because Julio is one of those
Speaker 1: elite guys that's going to be productive pretty much no
Speaker 1: matter what it's like. You know, it's like Lebron, like
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his thirty points. You just want to
Speaker 1: do your best to cover the rest of the guys.
Speaker 1: Sidney Jones first career interception tonight. His career has been
Speaker 1: a bit up and down, and he's been healthy going
Speaker 1: into this year. Um did come out to I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: concussion protocol cleared, went back in m had a nice
Speaker 1: interception tonight. He's got to be feeling good about his performance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta admit I think I thought Sydney might have
Speaker 1: played his best game as an Eagle. I just think
Speaker 1: about his overall game. Such a journey for him, and
Speaker 1: obviously the interception means a whole lot that he's able
Speaker 1: to get that and give the offense the ball back.
Speaker 1: When I thought he played a physical game, he came up.
Speaker 1: He showed up in the run game. The player may
Speaker 1: have gotten a concussion on was a big, big tackle
Speaker 1: that he came up and made as a corner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't typically see corners come up and make hits
Speaker 1: like that, but it's great to see Sydney playing with confidence,
Speaker 1: playing fast, and that's what he has to do. He
Speaker 1: has to show up in all phases of the defense,
Speaker 1: not just in coverage, but you also have to show
Speaker 1: up in that run game and show that you're going
Speaker 1: to be a support force out there as an extra defender.
Speaker 1: So uh, small steps, but a step in the right
Speaker 1: direction where it's something he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: build on moving forward. Nate Gary also had an interception
Speaker 1: tonight in the end zone. Big was that for a
Speaker 1: momentum for the Eagles. That was a huge interception Falcon's
Speaker 1: in the red zone right there. Again, we talked about
Speaker 1: affecting Matt Ryan. It wasn't necessarily a sack on Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: but he felt the pressure and he's throwing off his
Speaker 1: back foot there and that's a bad throw. Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: can't make that throw. He's double covering on Austin Hooper.
Speaker 1: He's trying to force the ball in there to his
Speaker 1: tight end. Nice job of nay Jerry of catching that
Speaker 1: ball there and securing the possession for the Eagles. Three
Speaker 1: turnovers for this defense tonight. I've said, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be a good defense, you have to be able to
Speaker 1: take the ball away. And in this league, when you
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to make interceptions or you get a sack,
Speaker 1: strip fumble, things of that nature, the Eagles defense have
Speaker 1: to be an opportunistic defense, and I thought tonight they
Speaker 1: played that way. Matt Ryan put the ball in harm's
Speaker 1: way tonight and the Eagles were able to take advantage
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, definitely a lot to build on there.
Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot of the injuries tonight. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz also had to go out for concussion protocol. According
Speaker 1: to Michelle Tafoya's reporting, he was really unhappy that he
Speaker 1: had to miss some of that game. Action love to
Speaker 1: see that competitor, but of course have to make sure
Speaker 1: that he's healthy and good to go. Josh McCown comes
Speaker 1: in for a couple of plays. Gosh, I thought, he
Speaker 1: really just like ignited the momentum for this team. How
Speaker 1: great is that to have a backup with that kind
Speaker 1: of experience that can really just turn it on for
Speaker 1: the team. Now, I was huge. I mean Josh McCown
Speaker 1: being able to come in right before the half in
Speaker 1: a critical situation obviously the Eagles needing points. He's able
Speaker 1: to keep that drive alive when it's over there chopping
Speaker 1: at the bit to get back into game. Well, I
Speaker 1: love that guy. That guy just he's a fighter, he's
Speaker 1: a competitor man. He doesn't want to miss anything. But
Speaker 1: great job with Josh McCown coming in, keeping everybody settled down,
Speaker 1: running the office, not doing anything to hurt the offense,
Speaker 1: taking what the defense has given him, made some nice
Speaker 1: roles and the Eagles eventually wound up with three points
Speaker 1: out of that drive. And it takes having a guy
Speaker 1: like Josh McCown being able to come in there, because
Speaker 1: if you get a young guy coming in there in
Speaker 1: that situation, now, Doug maybe thinking just hand the ball off,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here without creating any type of
Speaker 1: turnovers and giving the Falcons the ball back. When you
Speaker 1: got a guy like Josh McCown who has eighteen years
Speaker 1: of experience, Doug can stay in the playbook and continue
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, knowing that you have a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: going to take care of the football, and that's what
Speaker 1: Josh was able to do. I know Wentz eventually came
Speaker 1: back in and we were able to get points on
Speaker 1: that drive, but that's strictly due to Josh McCown his
Speaker 1: veteran leadership and being able to come in there and
Speaker 1: be a calming force in the huddle. Yeah, McCown with
Speaker 1: some opportunity with some of the injuries that went on
Speaker 1: for the Eagles tonight. Mc collins another one of those
Speaker 1: guys on offense who was able to really take advantage
Speaker 1: of the limited depth of the receiver position, and he
Speaker 1: had a great play on special teams as well. I
Speaker 1: think this was a career night in receptions for him.
Speaker 1: I'll have to look that up, but really great to
Speaker 1: see him back and just being used so much in
Speaker 1: the offense on special teams. Yeah, another young player pressed
Speaker 1: in the action. Probably didn't expect to see the type
Speaker 1: of as many snaps as he saw the night, especially
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. But again, being a backup
Speaker 1: player in this league, you have to be ready when
Speaker 1: your number is called, and that's a great job by
Speaker 1: mac Hollins tonight and j. J Arthega Whiteside being ready
Speaker 1: when called upon. These guys were pressed in action for
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps to night and for the most
Speaker 1: part did a nice job getting open when when the
Speaker 1: ball was thrown to him. They were able to take
Speaker 1: advantage of their opportunities. Mac Hollands, a guy that's been
Speaker 1: struggling with injuries since his rookie season, happy to see
Speaker 1: him out there to night and really taking advantage of
Speaker 1: this opportunity, even though it comes at obviously the expense
Speaker 1: of the veteran guys being injured. But that's what this
Speaker 1: league is about, Amy, I mean, young guys have to
Speaker 1: step up. It's the next man, and the coach has
Speaker 1: to feel like that he's not going to be handcuffed
Speaker 1: from a play calling standpoint. He wants to be able
Speaker 1: to go in that playbook and call everything that they
Speaker 1: intended to call throughout this game plan, and he had
Speaker 1: to rely on these young guys that they did the
Speaker 1: study in that was required. They don't get all the
Speaker 1: reps throughout the week. They had to basically get the
Speaker 1: mental reps from the sideline and in the meeting rooms.
Speaker 1: And I thought both young guys Arthega Whiteside and mac
Speaker 1: Hollands were able to come in at a night and
Speaker 1: really contribute big time. Well. Last week in our pregame show,
Speaker 1: we had an interview with Charles Davis, who called the
Speaker 1: game for Fox, and he said he knew Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: was so excited having everyone healthy because that meant he
Speaker 1: was going to be able to call the game the
Speaker 1: way that he really wanted to call the game. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see what happens with this team moving
Speaker 1: forward on offense and how serious some of these injuries
Speaker 1: may or may not be. Hopefully that will be coming
Speaker 1: out in the next couple of days. But let's go
Speaker 1: back to today's pregame show. We did our Keys to
Speaker 1: the Game Dave Spidero. I'm sure he'll be talking about
Speaker 1: a lot of this on the Eagles Insider podcast, but
Speaker 1: his key was about the trenches, about the Eagles defensive
Speaker 1: line against the Falcon's offensive line. That really struggled to
Speaker 1: protect Matt Ryan last week, and of course they drafted
Speaker 1: two rookies in the first round to the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Chris Lyndstrom on ir with an injury already, and then
Speaker 1: we saw Kayla McGarry go out for part of the game.
Speaker 1: Looked pretty bad. He got carted off. I believe it
Speaker 1: was a knee injury, but he came back in, which
Speaker 1: was totally surprising because it looked really bad. How did
Speaker 1: you see how this Eagles defensive line performed against a
Speaker 1: young and banged up offensive line for the Falcons. Oh good,
Speaker 1: not great? Thought it was harder than we expected it
Speaker 1: to be on paper, given what we knew about that
Speaker 1: offensive line in Atlanta. Yeah, and Atlanta knew that they
Speaker 1: were going to have problems protecting Matt Ryan if you
Speaker 1: wanted to get the ball down the field. So their
Speaker 1: game plan tonight was really get the ball out of
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's hands as quick as possible, and when we
Speaker 1: do take our shots, so when they take their shots,
Speaker 1: they're gonna max protect and that's what they were able
Speaker 1: to do tonight. I thought, we we hit Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: we got pressure Onny not a ton of sacks, and
Speaker 1: that column again, wasn't a great performance by our d line,
Speaker 1: just a good performance, And again going up against them
Speaker 1: banged up Atlanta Falcons offensive line, you would have liked
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But I can't, I can't. I
Speaker 1: guess I can't be too disappointed because you're talking about
Speaker 1: three turnovers they were able to force tonight. They got
Speaker 1: one sack on him, and they had a couple quarterback
Speaker 1: hits on him, and because he was under durest and
Speaker 1: throwing off his back foot, I think that's what led
Speaker 1: to the interceptions. So I think our defensive line did
Speaker 1: a good job tonight. I know people are looking at
Speaker 1: the box score, they want to see a lot more
Speaker 1: tackles for losses and sacks and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: But I thought Atlanta's offense never looked like they were
Speaker 1: in rhythm. Also, I mean, this is a team that
Speaker 1: struggled to move the ball in the first half as well.
Speaker 1: And if it hadn't been for a couple of turnovers
Speaker 1: on the eagle side of the ball, maybe the Falcons
Speaker 1: don't have as many points going in at halftime. Was
Speaker 1: a ten to six. I believe it was going in
Speaker 1: at halftime, and that's the game that you're still in
Speaker 1: right without having much offensive production. So there's not many
Speaker 1: negative plays that I could point to from a defensive standpoint. Tonight.
Speaker 1: I thought being under man the fact that the offense
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot going in the first half and
Speaker 1: the defense was on the field an awful lot. I thought,
Speaker 1: the defensive line perform and we're believing well. And it
Speaker 1: did feel like things kept going poorly for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: especially with injuries and this play in that play, and
Speaker 1: yet the score was so much closer than maybe it
Speaker 1: felt like. And yeah, it was really closer all throughout,
Speaker 1: even though things didn't feel so great. We're waiting to
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback Carson Wentz, so we'll keep you posted
Speaker 1: on that. Also, if you're watching on Facebook, send us
Speaker 1: some questions. We'll do our best to answer them. Obviously,
Speaker 1: a lot to break down in this game. IKEA is
Speaker 1: as the next couple of days unfold, what do you
Speaker 1: think are going to be some of the biggest biggest
Speaker 1: takeaways from today? Can you predict what your hindsight will
Speaker 1: be about this game? Well? I think, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: as you unpacking on your radio show, and especially with
Speaker 1: fan questions coming out as well, well, everybody's going to
Speaker 1: know about one of want to know about the injury
Speaker 1: status of out Sean Jeffrey and Deshan Jackson and Dalla's Goddard.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing you're gonna want to know. And
Speaker 1: then secondly, I think you know the running game right,
Speaker 1: The running game is something that we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get going. We're gonna have to get the running game going.
Speaker 1: I thought last week we did a good job of it.
Speaker 1: In the second half tonight, just couldn't get anything going
Speaker 1: with any of the three backs that we gave the
Speaker 1: football too. And then when you get down, um, I
Speaker 1: look at I look at this game a man, I say,
Speaker 1: this is a game where you can you can you
Speaker 1: can take the loss and build off of it, right,
Speaker 1: like like win a game. If you win a game
Speaker 1: like this, maybe you don't. You don't maybe you don't
Speaker 1: get as much out of it with the win. You're
Speaker 1: just happy that you stole a game on the road.
Speaker 1: But with a loss, and in the manner in which
Speaker 1: they lost this game. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot easier to look at film. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot easier to be able to coach these
Speaker 1: guys up this week, coming off that game last week.
Speaker 1: This game will allow for humility to set in a
Speaker 1: little bit and get refocused and come out next week
Speaker 1: against the Lions ready to go at home. And then
Speaker 1: here's the other thing that I think you take away
Speaker 1: from this game is that we are always reminded in
Speaker 1: this league that any given Sunday, any given Sunday exactly,
Speaker 1: we are reminded in this league that you don't play
Speaker 1: games on paper. Doesn't matter how you stack up against
Speaker 1: one another from a statistical standpoint going into the game,
Speaker 1: you have to go out there on the field and execute.
Speaker 1: And I think when we look back in this game,
Speaker 1: people will will say, much like in twenty seventeen when
Speaker 1: they lost to Kansas City Week two, this is a
Speaker 1: game that you can say we can build off of
Speaker 1: this game because there are a lot of good things
Speaker 1: in this game from a depth and experienced standpoint that
Speaker 1: are going to help the Eagles out as the season
Speaker 1: goes along. It only counts as one loss in the
Speaker 1: in the in the L column and they'll get a
Speaker 1: chance to get redemption after this. But I think a
Speaker 1: lot of young players got a lot of good experience
Speaker 1: out there tonight. And I love the fact that Doug
Speaker 1: just called his game. You know, you know sometimes as coaches,
Speaker 1: you tend to take a peek and you say, well,
Speaker 1: I don't have this guy out there. I don't have
Speaker 1: that guy out there, so I need to call this
Speaker 1: type of game. I thought Doug just stuck with his
Speaker 1: game plan and said, we're gonna run the plays that
Speaker 1: we felt would work against this defense, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: trust these young guys to go in here to be
Speaker 1: able to execute the place. And then Carson not blinking
Speaker 1: at all, just running the place regardless of who's out there.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to bowl well from an experienced
Speaker 1: standpoint for this team moving forward. He showed a lot
Speaker 1: of resolve and even bouncing back from some tough moments.
Speaker 1: What did you see from him just in terms of
Speaker 1: that resilience to kind of come back and just just
Speaker 1: continuing to be good to see, especially in those third
Speaker 1: and long, those fourth down attempts. I mean, just a
Speaker 1: lot of grit from the quarterback. Yeah, just confirmation from
Speaker 1: where I've always felt about Carson today. He's a gamer.
Speaker 1: He's gonna fight tooth and nail all the way to
Speaker 1: the end, his players, they're gonna play for him. He's
Speaker 1: gonna continue to encourage those guys out there, and that's
Speaker 1: what your leaders have to do. And when you're the
Speaker 1: quarterback and you don't get off to a good start,
Speaker 1: you have to continue to fight mentally to get yourself
Speaker 1: back in the right place. And I thought that's what
Speaker 1: Carson was able to do tonight. Nothing was going well
Speaker 1: for him in that first half. I thought, on the
Speaker 1: second interception, it was the one time I thought he
Speaker 1: pressed tonight. It was the one time I thought, that's
Speaker 1: a throw that you know you shouldn't met. But he
Speaker 1: tried to make the throw anyway because he saw the
Speaker 1: offense was sputtering and he wanted to make something happen.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I thought everything he did tonight was
Speaker 1: what you want from your quarterback, what you want from
Speaker 1: your leader. It's not gonna always be pretty, and you're
Speaker 1: it's very rare that you're gonna play four quarters of
Speaker 1: clean football, but you could tell, or you can know,
Speaker 1: you'll know what the true character of a player is
Speaker 1: is when he faces adversity and being under man not
Speaker 1: having his best weapons at his disposal. I thought Carson
Speaker 1: hung in there and he really tried to rally the
Speaker 1: troops late in the game, and he gave us a
Speaker 1: chance to try to win this game late, and that's
Speaker 1: what you really want from your quarterback. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: friend really said it perfectly. This is no blink mentality
Speaker 1: that he just came out there and wasn't going to
Speaker 1: flinch when the game was on the line in those
Speaker 1: big moments, and especially going out with that concussion protocol
Speaker 1: and just the desire to come back in just how
Speaker 1: frustrated he was to be on the sidelines. Look, I
Speaker 1: want everyone to be healthy, but I love to see
Speaker 1: a competitor who's like, look, coach, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: in here and get the job done, especially when they
Speaker 1: were driving into the red zone there. So speaking of
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, he is approaching the podium. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look a pretty good shot on that first interception. How
Speaker 1: are you physically and what was happening? Yeah? Feel fine.
Speaker 1: You know, it's football. Got got hit a few times,
Speaker 1: but you know it's part of the game, and I
Speaker 1: feel fine. I'll be a little sword tomorrow. But nothing
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. You can check for a head injury.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, that was Honestly, that was super frustrating, you know,
Speaker 1: because I came to the sideline and I was sitting
Speaker 1: there for about five minutes and then they called down
Speaker 1: to to go look at that. So to me, that's
Speaker 1: just something you know, they got to figure out. You know,
Speaker 1: that's super frustrating when I feel fine, I understand you
Speaker 1: got to look at that and that's part of the game.
Speaker 1: But the way it took so long, and then we
Speaker 1: finally went out on the field and I had to
Speaker 1: go to the blue tent, that was really frustrating. I
Speaker 1: think the league needs looking at that six pos I
Speaker 1: think it was um and what happened in the tent?
Speaker 1: How are you handling that? I mean, I was frustrated,
Speaker 1: but I knew they had to do the protocol, so
Speaker 1: I just had to go through the concussion protocol and
Speaker 1: tell them, tell them where we were, what the date was,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff, and I was fine and ready
Speaker 1: to get back out there. How talk to you guys
Speaker 1: lost Dallas before the game, Sean and as the game,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're all awaring me. Yeah, have you ever
Speaker 1: experienced him like that? I'm always like it, that's tough,
Speaker 1: you know, it's tough. And we're not, by no means
Speaker 1: gonna make excuses. And we've always talked next man up.
Speaker 1: But you know, some of the stuff tonight you can't
Speaker 1: make up. You know, I've never seen uh, you know,
Speaker 1: guy after guy like that early in the ballgame. And
Speaker 1: but you know, guys stepped up. You know, guys stepped up.
Speaker 1: Guys were resilient. We came up a little short today,
Speaker 1: but I'm proud of the way the guys fought. Feels
Speaker 1: like he let the team down and he's taking this
Speaker 1: lost upon himself. But did you talk to him? Wouldn't
Speaker 1: I have him talked to him yet? I mean briefly,
Speaker 1: but he can't feel that way. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a team loss. We all all of this thing together.
Speaker 1: You know. We made some mistakes early. I'm in mistakes early.
Speaker 1: We got to that bounced back from and we just
Speaker 1: came up short, you know, and that's one of those games.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we can't feel sorry for ourselves
Speaker 1: because the injuries. We got to be better and we
Speaker 1: will be. You didn't look quite like yourself in the
Speaker 1: first half. Was that related to the Dean Jones head
Speaker 1: or kind of what was going on physically? You know,
Speaker 1: I felt fine. You know, I obviously got hit a
Speaker 1: little bit, but nothing nothing that I was too concerned about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just slow, slower starts, and you know, we were just
Speaker 1: trying to get dialed in what what they were trying
Speaker 1: to do against us and make some plays and you
Speaker 1: know we were just missing some things early on those lines.
Speaker 1: Was Zach Nelson also how to play that he thinks
Speaker 1: he should have made as as a leader. Do you
Speaker 1: do anything with those guys to kind of left them
Speaker 1: or help him get past those moments? You just tell
Speaker 1: him we're coming right back to him. You know that
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and guys make mistakes. Drop
Speaker 1: past here, I throw a pick, you know, I missed
Speaker 1: a play. You know, things happen. You know that's football,
Speaker 1: and uh, none of us are perfect, and you know
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna own their their mistakes and we're gonna learn
Speaker 1: from it and grow together. But you know, I told
Speaker 1: him I'm coming right back to him. And you saw
Speaker 1: that on the fourth down play he made a big
Speaker 1: catch and uh, you know he's gonna make those plays
Speaker 1: more often than not. Quarterbacks, seeing you had a sort
Speaker 1: of very demonstrative spike that was as much emotion as
Speaker 1: we've seen for you. And then I almost fell over,
Speaker 1: So I was. I was pretty pretty exciting. You know.
Speaker 1: That was just a hard drive, you know, and we uh,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them versions and everything, and um,
Speaker 1: obviously it was a slower start for us than we were, um,
Speaker 1: kind of struggling for a while. So to put that
Speaker 1: drive together, I was, I was pretty excited. I just
Speaker 1: gotta keep my feet a little better. It was like
Speaker 1: three year top receivers, like so early in the game
Speaker 1: and everything. How do you change things on the fly
Speaker 1: and you know what was kind of going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean again, that's tough. You know, you game plan
Speaker 1: all week and um, you have all these personnel packages
Speaker 1: and then they kind of all go out the window
Speaker 1: on game day. But you know, coaches do a great job,
Speaker 1: you know, and so do the guys. The guys were ready,
Speaker 1: Mac and JJ, guys were ready to step up. And
Speaker 1: I think I don't know, I believe Zach played every
Speaker 1: snap so he was ready to go. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: guys were able to step up, and coaches did a
Speaker 1: good job of making sure guys were in the right
Speaker 1: positions and hats after those guys were doing a good job. Um,
Speaker 1: Zach was pointing out that no other quarterbacking league could
Speaker 1: do that. Anybody else would have just gone down. What
Speaker 1: was God to your head? White, didn't you just go
Speaker 1: third down? Gotta down the field? You know? And I'm
Speaker 1: always gonna fight for these for these guys and for
Speaker 1: this team, and um, you know that was we were
Speaker 1: just able to make that play. Mac made a great
Speaker 1: catch the finished that and uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I think that's not just me, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys on this team and in this locker room.
Speaker 1: They're they're fighters, they're resilient, and you know, that's just
Speaker 1: a representation of that of the team on that play.
Speaker 1: So what did you see? Just overall? Smack seemed like
Speaker 1: you probably played his best game. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think he did a good job. You know, I think
Speaker 1: we asked a lot of him. You know, we'd come
Speaker 1: in and have a plan and then guys go down.
Speaker 1: So we're asking him to play the why play the
Speaker 1: Z play that you know, we're moving him around and uh,
Speaker 1: he's got to know that the playbook and the positions
Speaker 1: and then the run checks and everything. So I think
Speaker 1: he did a great job and he made some plays,
Speaker 1: and I'll see on tape how how he did on
Speaker 1: other things. But you know, I feel really confident with
Speaker 1: him out there. Of course you were, you were giving
Speaker 1: yourself up for line. What did you make of that?
Speaker 1: I got nothing. I don't know how to dive for
Speaker 1: the end zone, And yeah, it's tough. I wish I
Speaker 1: would have got in. It would have I did, but
Speaker 1: I again, I don't know. So that's frustrating, but it
Speaker 1: is what it is. You know, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear about the slow starts all week. How big is
Speaker 1: it to to find a way through that? Yeah, UM,
Speaker 1: wish I had an answer, you know, it's it's something
Speaker 1: obviously again we're always looking at um and you know,
Speaker 1: by no means making excuses. But you know, we were
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who we had out there and
Speaker 1: getting guys in the right position, and so I think
Speaker 1: the coaches did a good job of that and we
Speaker 1: just got to execute better early. And uh, we'll take
Speaker 1: a hard look at it. And I know we say
Speaker 1: that all the time, and um, that's what we'll do,
Speaker 1: and we'll learn from him and get better conversations on
Speaker 1: the sideline. When you do have so much personnel coming
Speaker 1: in and out of a game. When you basically kind
Speaker 1: of collect your thoughts and talk on the sidewalk, they're huge. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're here's those conversations, UM, getting guys lined up, Hey,
Speaker 1: here's here's the plays we're maybe coming to, and just
Speaker 1: talking to guys where they're going to be. You know,
Speaker 1: we're changing formations on the fly because of the personnel
Speaker 1: we have, so uh, those conversations are vital. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think the coaches, all the position coaches and everybody
Speaker 1: did a great job of making sure guys are in
Speaker 1: the right spots doing what they were supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And guys did a good job at that time. UM,
Speaker 1: off to watch the tape first of all. But it's frustrating,
Speaker 1: you know, it's frustrating. You know, we were uh slow start.
Speaker 1: We battled back, you know, offensively. We we did our
Speaker 1: did our thing late and we're able to come down
Speaker 1: there and uh then they then we scored, and they scored,
Speaker 1: and then we got right down there, uh and came
Speaker 1: up you know, six inches short. So for us, it's frustrating. Uh.
Speaker 1: Really proud of the guys, you know, encouraged by the
Speaker 1: way the guys fought, uh, and we're able to just
Speaker 1: bounce back from some adversity. But again, that doesn't win
Speaker 1: your ball games. And so we're gonna learn from that
Speaker 1: and be better next week. Fourth down half to Zach
Speaker 1: at the end, what was kind of like the play design?
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, obviously came up a little bit
Speaker 1: short or anything like that, but was it supposed to be? Like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I thought we executed it really well.
Speaker 1: You know, based on the coverage. We got into a
Speaker 1: certain check that really got us right to the sticks,
Speaker 1: and you know, we came up you know, six inches
Speaker 1: shorts and um, that is what it is, and that's
Speaker 1: footballing up there. Now. I saw him. I saw him,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's something that that defense does
Speaker 1: on some third down situations. And we were able to,
Speaker 1: um kind of bait Keana down there and throw it
Speaker 1: over the top. We sh I would have got it
Speaker 1: out there a little further, but um, you know that's
Speaker 1: something that we saw on tape. And once they took
Speaker 1: the time out, I ran over there and coach and
Speaker 1: I talked about it and we were able to get
Speaker 1: into that play and it worked out far. It was
Speaker 1: a much different game in terms of you were kept
Speaker 1: pretty clean and gave one this much more physical game.
Speaker 1: I know that you have the idea of longevity and
Speaker 1: your career of mine. How do you kind of balance
Speaker 1: after the game like this sort of represents itself? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of is what it is. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do everything I can, like I've said, to
Speaker 1: protect myself to get the ball out to play, uh
Speaker 1: and stay healthy. But again, tonight was was the way
Speaker 1: it was, and we battled and we fought, and um,
Speaker 1: you know I did the same and that's just that's
Speaker 1: just football, and so uh, you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I'm not gonna lose too much sleep
Speaker 1: over it. Right now, feel good, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm gonna be swordmar we got a play long
Speaker 1: playing right ahead of us too. I'm gonna be sore,
Speaker 1: but um, physically nothing nothing, nothing to concern where you
Speaker 1: go from Jones, The amper was well Claire John interception.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got the win knocked out of me
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um kind of left myself expose there
Speaker 1: in the ribs. But I feel far thank you, guys. Okay,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz after the game. Look, I have to say
Speaker 1: he had some optimism about him just there. And I
Speaker 1: also have to say, love the all black I feel
Speaker 1: like he would just fit right up here with us,
Speaker 1: with our we'll go with a great gatchbe theme tonight.
Speaker 1: Look Um, I loved his energy. I love his attitude,
Speaker 1: kind of that hopeful vibe like we kind of saw
Speaker 1: from Doug. I also loved when he said, look, it's
Speaker 1: the next man up mentality. But some of that stuff
Speaker 1: you can't you can't make up with all these injuries,
Speaker 1: he said, I had never seen that many injuries um
Speaker 1: to a position group or on that side of the
Speaker 1: ball like that before. But if memory serves me correct,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what happened to the secondary last year
Speaker 1: where it almost felt like, oh my gosh, who do
Speaker 1: we even have left it By the end of the season,
Speaker 1: that turned into a positive for this team. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think moving forward, like, if
Speaker 1: you have a week to prepare yea with a group
Speaker 1: of guys, that's one thing. But when it happens prior
Speaker 1: to the game, when when coming into the game you
Speaker 1: extract to have a full squad, and if you start
Speaker 1: losing guys and warm off. When you start losing guys
Speaker 1: after the first series, now you have to adjust on
Speaker 1: the fly. And what Carson is talking about there, and
Speaker 1: I love his answer is that he doesn't have time
Speaker 1: to sit here and say we hold on it all.
Speaker 1: Shann's not in, this guy is in, Deshaun's not in. No,
Speaker 1: he just has to run the plays that are called
Speaker 1: and trust the guys that are in there. And so
Speaker 1: that's great to see, and I think moving forward, these
Speaker 1: guys will have a better report because if you're practicing
Speaker 1: with the guys, they can look a little bit more
Speaker 1: fluid and look a little bit more and sink. So
Speaker 1: I just love the fact that as a true leader,
Speaker 1: he's not making excuses as he should, and he needs
Speaker 1: to make sure he exhibits confidence in those young players.
Speaker 1: He needs to let them know that, Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: the guys that I'm going with, I got full confidence
Speaker 1: in here. Yeah, have a lot to build on. Of course,
Speaker 1: we don't know how serious the injuries are to those
Speaker 1: other guys. We're hoping for the best there as well.
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Speaker 1: the start of the second half and the play that
Speaker 1: really brought the Eagles back into this game. And it's
Speaker 1: a huge interception by Ronald Darby third and long deep
Speaker 1: in Atlanta territory. And this is a cover zero blitz
Speaker 1: from Jim Schwartz and the Eagles defense. And what does
Speaker 1: a cover zero blitz, Well, zero blitz is when you've
Speaker 1: got zero free safeties in the middle field. There is
Speaker 1: zero help for all of your defenders that are in
Speaker 1: man coverage. So if you look across the board, for
Speaker 1: every eligible receiver for the Falcons, there is exactly one
Speaker 1: player in coverage for the Eagles. And what this means
Speaker 1: is is that the offense cannot block all of the
Speaker 1: blitzers that are coming after the quarterback because it's eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven. If you're sending six as a defense, you
Speaker 1: only have five in protection. That last blitzer is on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, the ball has got to come
Speaker 1: out quickly. If your receivers are not ready for it,
Speaker 1: or if the defenders are able to beat you to
Speaker 1: the catchpoint, that's where you can create a big play.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna let this play out, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: go over to the end zone angle and show you
Speaker 1: exactly how the Eagles were able to get to Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: because it was a really creative blitz, one of my
Speaker 1: favorites in football, a triple A gap pressure. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna see exactly how the Eagles set this up. It
Speaker 1: was really well done by Jim Schwartz and the rest
Speaker 1: of that defensive staff, really well disguise that Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: could not set the protection late enough to be able
Speaker 1: to block this up, and even if they did, they
Speaker 1: would not have been ready for You can see here
Speaker 1: pre snap you've got Nigel Brandham lined up in the
Speaker 1: A gap. So right off the bat, they're gonna slide
Speaker 1: the protection this way. So the center is going to
Speaker 1: block Nigel Bradham. You have your left guard here to
Speaker 1: block Josh Sweat, a defensive end lined up inside. Your
Speaker 1: left tackle is gonna block Derek Barnett. Now that is
Speaker 1: the zone side of the protection. They're gonna all slide
Speaker 1: that way. Now from a man side, you've got your
Speaker 1: right tackle, the backup Sambrela is gonna block Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: one on one. Your right guard, Jamon Brown, is gonna
Speaker 1: block Fletcher Cocks one on one. What you need to
Speaker 1: do now is find out the back and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Malcolm Jenkins is lined up here off the edge.
Speaker 1: The back has Jenkins man to man one on one.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen here? We're gonna let this roll. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see Malcolm Jenkins late. He's gonna really quickly get
Speaker 1: into the opposite a gap. So now we're gonna freeze it.
Speaker 1: There's Malcolm. He blitzes the back, does his job. He
Speaker 1: gets picked up. But you can see Robbie McCloud is
Speaker 1: a late inserter. He's a late blitzer coming from depth.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have no one to be able to account
Speaker 1: for this. You've got everybody else matched up one on one.
Speaker 1: You could see they've got a hat on a hat
Speaker 1: across the board. This blitzer, Rodney McCloud is on Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: He has got to get the ball out, so this
Speaker 1: blitz gets home so quick. Rodney McLoud hits the hole
Speaker 1: with such speed that the ball comes out quick. Ronald
Speaker 1: Darby is able to come away with the interception. The
Speaker 1: Eagles go on to score touchdown. Great design from Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz and that' staff. Great stuff there from Fran Duffy
Speaker 1: in the RICO Review. Ronald Darby's interception one of three
Speaker 1: for the Eagles tonight. Matt Ryan turned over three times.
Speaker 1: Really able to effect the quarterback. There on the other
Speaker 1: side of this break, we have the nominees for the
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Speaker 1: look ahead to the Eagles matchup against the Lions here
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Speaker 1: we continue to break down the game, three eight nominees
Speaker 1: for the Toyota Player of the Week. All worthy nominees
Speaker 1: Nelson Agila or Nate Gary, Rodney McLeod. Let's start with Nelson.
Speaker 1: What stood out to you about his game? I mean,
Speaker 1: he had kind of an up and down game, but
Speaker 1: some of the biggest plays tonight he really did. Man,
Speaker 1: it's hard not to think about that last Try not
Speaker 1: to think about one and think about all the good ones. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: eight catches tonight over one hundred yards. It really had
Speaker 1: a lot of big catches. I mean, Carson's important. Carson
Speaker 1: went on that fourth down play, being able to find
Speaker 1: Nelson getting behind the defense was an absolute fantastic throw
Speaker 1: by Carson and in a great catch by Nelson. Really,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate that people will try to remember the one
Speaker 1: drop late in the game, but for fourteen that was
Speaker 1: missing his top two odd receivers and Alshon Jeffrey and
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson. I thought Nelson Aglore came a big a
Speaker 1: lot tonight. Yeah. I mean, he doesn't catch the one pass,
Speaker 1: but they're not even in that situation to be that
Speaker 1: competitive if he doesn't catch the others that he did,
Speaker 1: so definitely worthy of the nomination. He did come back
Speaker 1: and catch the next one after that, which I love
Speaker 1: to see that too, that short term memory like you
Speaker 1: always want to see in the game. Talk about Nate
Speaker 1: Gary White Snake with the interception in the end zone,
Speaker 1: stopping the Falcon score and getting the test White's bickname. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I actually doing that from coach Jim Short, So
Speaker 1: that is the official and it's on I believe it's
Speaker 1: on his Instagram too, but that's for sure his nickname. Um. Look,
Speaker 1: he had to be kind of pulled back in the
Speaker 1: end zone. They're not to run out, but huge, huge interception. Yeah,
Speaker 1: us linebackers. We don't know what to do. Once we
Speaker 1: get the ball in our hands, we don't know whether
Speaker 1: to return it go down. A great job by Nate.
Speaker 1: That was a huge interception At that point in the game.
Speaker 1: Atlanta looks like they're about to go up and score
Speaker 1: or another touchdown right there, Nate Gary. Big interception there
Speaker 1: from a young player and really a young guy that's
Speaker 1: been thrust into some critical situations. I mean, Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: obviously trust him down there in that area on third Now.
Speaker 1: Nice play from Nate. Yeah, he's had a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity with that a lot, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: injuries in that linebacker Nickel defense. He's out there and
Speaker 1: he's continued to step up and evolve in this defense.
Speaker 1: Really found a nice identity for himself on this team.
Speaker 1: And let's go to Rodney McLoud of course, so great
Speaker 1: to have him back out there. It just feels right
Speaker 1: to see him back in the defensive. A couple of
Speaker 1: nice plays. I'm thinking of a really nice pass break
Speaker 1: up there on Julio, But his presence felt maybe not
Speaker 1: as much in those wow moments, but kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: in that safety role of just kind of keeping everything contained. No,
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean I thought Rodney probably, you know,
Speaker 1: he's still coming off of that injury from last year,
Speaker 1: certainly looks healthy out there. Didn't didn't seem a whole
Speaker 1: lot last week versus the Redskins. But tonight, I certainly
Speaker 1: noticed him out there on the field. And when you
Speaker 1: talk about some of the play the other guys are
Speaker 1: able to make, well, part of that is because of
Speaker 1: the job that the safety is doing back there. So
Speaker 1: when you see our Russell Douglas or Sidney Jones or
Speaker 1: Ron Darby making plays when they know that they have
Speaker 1: a safety net behind them. And Rodney McLoud And I
Speaker 1: thought Rodney McCloud showed up not only in the passing
Speaker 1: game tonight, but in the run game as well. So
Speaker 1: that's good news for the Eagles moving forward, knowing that
Speaker 1: they have their free safety. Bah. Yeah, we'll be sure
Speaker 1: to vote on your Toyota Player of the Week for
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Speaker 1: three guys. All right, it's time to put this one
Speaker 1: behind us. Look ahead to next week's matchup the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: We'll be here in Philadelphia one pm kickoff. They had
Speaker 1: an okay today today, I guess technically got the W
Speaker 1: thirteen ten over the Chargers. This one was in Detroit.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised to see this from the Chargers. A lot
Speaker 1: of offense there for them though, and still didn't get
Speaker 1: the W. Yeah, ugly game and it's early. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the box score. This looks like an ugly game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's early in the season. Amy, you know what this is.
Speaker 1: This is lack of plane in the preseason. And so
Speaker 1: Chargers look good last week. They come into Detroit this
Speaker 1: week only put ten points up against that Lions defense,
Speaker 1: a game that really looked like the Chargers had control
Speaker 1: of and the Lions were able to come out of
Speaker 1: here with a W. Not a very good Lions team,
Speaker 1: but if you let him hang around, Matthew Stafford has
Speaker 1: been around long enough that he can beat you in
Speaker 1: the end. We know the Lions have offensive weapons and
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay Marvin Jones got to watch out for this
Speaker 1: tight end that they have Iowa the league, t J Hotkinson,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. And they carry on Johnson had the
Speaker 1: only touchdown for the Lions today on a thirty five
Speaker 1: yards screenplay. So Lions not a great team, certainly not
Speaker 1: a good road team, but a team if you allow
Speaker 1: them to hang around. Matthew Stafford is a savvy enough
Speaker 1: veteran fourth quarter magic. It's like a classic Stafford thing
Speaker 1: is somehow you're just like, what just happened in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I mean, he's got and like you said,
Speaker 1: that veteran presence at under center. You really can't. You
Speaker 1: can't teach that. It's just experiencing. Yeah, it's experienced, and
Speaker 1: that's why you gotta when you have a team like this.
Speaker 1: It's important for the Eagles to take care of business
Speaker 1: and not allow this team to think they can win
Speaker 1: this game, because you leave the Lions in the game
Speaker 1: and then you leave an opportunity for Matthew Stafford to
Speaker 1: steal one from you. So, but I expect the Eagles
Speaker 1: to bounce back from this game. I hope they get
Speaker 1: healthy this week, hope we have all of our guys
Speaker 1: available to us next week. But they'll be back at
Speaker 1: the link and they'll respond from this tough loss. They'll
Speaker 1: respond from this tough loss. Of course, and where as
Speaker 1: we wait to find out about these injuries, you can
Speaker 1: of course keep it right here with Philadelphia Eagles dot Com.
Speaker 1: We'll be covering all of that. I know Eagles insider
Speaker 1: Davi Spedaro is going to be having a lot of
Speaker 1: insight for Insight Info for us and breaking it all
Speaker 1: down on his podcast as well. Tons of content coming
Speaker 1: at you leading up to the Lions game. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing some Eagles fans coming out to cheer on
Speaker 1: the Birds in South Philadelphia. And we will be right
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Speaker 1: We've got you covered all season long. We will see
Speaker 1: you next week for the Lions game. Have a good night, everybody,