Speaker 1: Welcome to the postgame show, presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella
Speaker 1: di Giovanni, joined by friend Duffy and I Greece. Well
Speaker 1: fellas the undefeated run came to an end here tonight,
Speaker 1: thirty two to twenty one the Washington Commanders win in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: It's not the way that we wanted to see that
Speaker 1: first loss hit the board this season, but it happened.
Speaker 1: That's what happens, and it was more likely to happen
Speaker 1: than not to happen. It was just a matter of
Speaker 1: how it would look. And I'm a little surprised at
Speaker 1: how rusty we looked out there to night, taking care
Speaker 1: of the football, doing things that we hadn't done the
Speaker 1: previous eight weeks of the season. This looked like a
Speaker 1: team that hadn't played in eleven days. A lot of
Speaker 1: stuff they need to clean up, a lot of things
Speaker 1: they need to go back to the drawing board to
Speaker 1: work on. But like you said, Ella, you know the
Speaker 1: talk of being undefeated and going seventeen and old. Now
Speaker 1: you can erase that and get back to the drawing board.
Speaker 1: And even though you may think at times that you
Speaker 1: are dotting all the eyes, crossing all the teas. When
Speaker 1: you're paying attention to details prepping every week. It's only
Speaker 1: a human nature to go nine weeks without losing the
Speaker 1: game that sometimes you may overlook some things and you
Speaker 1: may get a little relaxed. So I think this is
Speaker 1: a great teaching moment for this team to sort of
Speaker 1: have them sort of reu they can go back, recalibrate,
Speaker 1: and then get ready for the rest of the season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the reality is is that one of the
Speaker 1: hallmarks of this team through the first ten weeks of
Speaker 1: the season has been that they do not beat themselves. Well. Tonight,
Speaker 1: they beat themselves seven penalties for seventy five yards, penalties
Speaker 1: in all three phases of the game. No one is
Speaker 1: safe here in this one because the defense they had
Speaker 1: some keep penalties. That one down the stretch a killer
Speaker 1: for this team. Special teams had at least two penalties
Speaker 1: that I can think of off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Four turnovers on offense. You lose the turnover battle for
Speaker 1: the first time. It's a lot of the things that
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni has pointed to and say these determined wins
Speaker 1: and losses. Tonight and determined a loss, We're gonna check
Speaker 1: in with Eagles insider Dave Spider, who joins US from
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field. Dave, we just started talking about the
Speaker 1: turnover battle. Through the first eight games of the season,
Speaker 1: the Eagles committed three turnovers four just tonight. What went wrong? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's look at each one of them. The
Speaker 1: first one the Jalen Hurts interception, I mean, a perfectly
Speaker 1: thrown ball that in good coverage that A J. Brown
Speaker 1: didn't come up within. The defensive back made a great
Speaker 1: play on. Then Dallas Goddard gets face masked, very cleared
Speaker 1: everybody but the officials and loses the football. That was
Speaker 1: a really tough one that led to three Washington points.
Speaker 1: And then of course with Quez Watkins there, you know,
Speaker 1: Careless made a great catch, perfectly thrown ball, great play,
Speaker 1: great design, great everything. And then Quiz got up and
Speaker 1: just didn't feel the pressure from the backside. And that
Speaker 1: one was really the real real killers. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you cannot be sloppy with the football. We talked about
Speaker 1: it before the game, how the signs around the novacare
Speaker 1: complex of affirmation of the importance of ball security. The
Speaker 1: players know it, the coaches know it. The Eagles had
Speaker 1: been historically great at it through eight games, and you
Speaker 1: knew it would catch up with him at some point,
Speaker 1: and tonight was a night. So Washington is the first
Speaker 1: team to beat the Eagles this season. Did they create
Speaker 1: some type of blueprint for teams store to face the
Speaker 1: Eagles coming down the stretch? Yeah? No, Actually I think
Speaker 1: Houston did last week because the Houston Texans ran the
Speaker 1: football very effectively and then worked off of play action.
Speaker 1: And as ike reason I talked about in the press box,
Speaker 1: it's a copycat league, and Washington came in here and
Speaker 1: did the exact same thing. The Eagles ran nineteen offensive
Speaker 1: plays in the first half. It was twenty to fourteen,
Speaker 1: but it shure felt like more Eagles offense just didn't
Speaker 1: get into any sort of rhythm in the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the final numbers were with the
Speaker 1: third downs, but at one, I mean it was just
Speaker 1: ten of thirteen and eleven of fourteen. I mean it
Speaker 1: was just the ability to run the football. Taylor Heineke
Speaker 1: in third and short situations got the short passing game.
Speaker 1: Going play action passing nullified the Eagles pass rush, and
Speaker 1: you know that is your formula to beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Eagles must stop the run and Jonathan Taylor awaits
Speaker 1: on Sunday and not to find in the far distance.
Speaker 1: You know, Derrick Henry and the way the Packers can
Speaker 1: run the football, I mean, Giants run the football at
Speaker 1: Cowboys run the football. That is what the Eagles are
Speaker 1: going after face. In these final two months of the
Speaker 1: regular season, the Commanders finished twelve for twenty one on
Speaker 1: third down. Like you mentioned, back to your regular routine
Speaker 1: Sunday football coming up against the Colts. But it is
Speaker 1: a bit of a short week yet again here for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. What does this week gonna look like? Dave, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's actually a good thing because I know
Speaker 1: the Eagles are stewing. I know that they're stewing over
Speaker 1: the last play when Heineke took the knee and two
Speaker 1: players kind of slid into him. It's certainly from my
Speaker 1: angle on the sidelines here, didn't look like it was
Speaker 1: anything egregious. I mean, there were some plays that's clearly
Speaker 1: the officials did not see tonight and replay bared it out.
Speaker 1: But that's just the way the NFL is and that's
Speaker 1: human error and you gotta live with that. More importantly,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have to get back to a as France
Speaker 1: at protecting the football, minimizing the penalties, and then defensively,
Speaker 1: they have got to get off the field on third downs.
Speaker 1: And what was really, I guess the most concerning, not concerning,
Speaker 1: but surprising, the way Terry McLaren just ate up the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the first half and through the game. I
Speaker 1: mean he was opened a lot of this game. After
Speaker 1: the Eagles shut him down in Week three. I was
Speaker 1: surprised at that. I didn't think Washington had the firepower
Speaker 1: to put up that many points in his game, but
Speaker 1: they did. And the Washington Enters are very much a
Speaker 1: playoff team at this point in the NFC. What a division.
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any gimmeas down the stretch for
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, mclauren had eight receptions for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight yards. And I knew you'll be delivering
Speaker 1: Eagles and all they need to know postgame. As you
Speaker 1: start to collect your sound from players in the locker room,
Speaker 1: that locker room's gonna be really interesting. Ella. I think that,
Speaker 1: certainly after the first loss, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: pretty peeved locker room. It'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: the tune into Eagles Insider podcast incident reaction in just
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. That was Eagles Insider Dave Spidera,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna bring it back here to the desk
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin. Let's just keep going with that conversation. Eight
Speaker 1: receptions for one hundred and twenty eight yards. He was
Speaker 1: not only catching basically everything thrown his way, but the
Speaker 1: yards he was able to gain after the catch is
Speaker 1: really what burnt the Eagles defense. Yeah, and a little
Speaker 1: surprised that at the some point you didn't get more
Speaker 1: press coverage for Terry McLaurin because it wasn't much vertical
Speaker 1: throws to Terry. A lot of it was crossing the field,
Speaker 1: so you get either it's a sleigh or Bradberry in
Speaker 1: that sort of chase position. Terry McLaurin is gonna beat
Speaker 1: you there. And it starts with how well Washington ran
Speaker 1: the football on early downs, and they hit you with
Speaker 1: that play action or those boot plays. And now you
Speaker 1: don't have the second level defenders underneath Terry McLaurin to
Speaker 1: sort of help out the dbs who are sort of
Speaker 1: playing over the top. When you get those crossing routes,
Speaker 1: the dB has to be wary of is he gonna
Speaker 1: go over and then try to beat me deep or
Speaker 1: does he keep going over? So that's where he's relying
Speaker 1: on those underneath guys, those linebackers. The problem was, I
Speaker 1: thought Washington ran the football so well. You got the
Speaker 1: linebackers sucked up on the run an awful lot, and
Speaker 1: those middle routes were open all day for Heineke, Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin and even Samuel's and sometimes. Yeah, it just hurt
Speaker 1: that so many of the world third down that was
Speaker 1: the pivotal point in this game. I mean, yeah, they
Speaker 1: finished twelve to twenty one. As you mentioned, just looking
Speaker 1: even through the numbers, they started twelve or fourteen on
Speaker 1: third down, which some of those players were just so
Speaker 1: so crucial, and a lot of it went to Terry
Speaker 1: McLarin Curtis Samuel had a crucial one early in the
Speaker 1: third quarter as well. So I think when you look
Speaker 1: at just third inability to get off the field on
Speaker 1: third down, even looking at the numbers, Brian Robinson finished
Speaker 1: eighty six yards on the ground three point three a
Speaker 1: carry like that, that's not terrible if you're looking at
Speaker 1: it grand scope, but just the way that they were
Speaker 1: able to gradually move the ball down the field and
Speaker 1: then those very timely throws with those yards after catch,
Speaker 1: they killed this team. Well, here's the problem. When you
Speaker 1: have the defense on the field for that long, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get gas. And I understand in the defense the line,
Speaker 1: there's a rotation there, but I mean in the first
Speaker 1: half they outplayed the Eagles. They were on the field
Speaker 1: for twenty three almost twenty four minutes, as opposed to
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense being on the field for just over
Speaker 1: six minutes. I mean, ken is a massive disparity between
Speaker 1: the two. Yeah, and you can say with the offense
Speaker 1: they could help out a little bit by picking up
Speaker 1: first downs. But there's a couple of circumstances there where
Speaker 1: the defense just have to get off the field. There's
Speaker 1: a quick score when the defense gets the sack and
Speaker 1: the Forest fumble, so that puts the defense back on
Speaker 1: the field, as it didn't take long for the offense.
Speaker 1: You gotta get off the field on third down, you know, friends,
Speaker 1: exactly right, Those final numbers are misleading when you look
Speaker 1: at the third down converts from Washington twelve or twenty
Speaker 1: one wouldn't make it would make it seem like it
Speaker 1: wasn't that bad. But the fact that it was twelve
Speaker 1: or fourteen to really go from the first three and
Speaker 1: a half quarters of this game really was the telltale
Speaker 1: sign for me that the Eagles were getting worn down right,
Speaker 1: and you can get a little help from your offense.
Speaker 1: They can extend draws. Certainly, they need to pick up
Speaker 1: first downs, we understand that. But as a defense, you
Speaker 1: have to pride yourself when you get to third down,
Speaker 1: it's time to get off the field. It was far
Speaker 1: too many times where Washington was able to stay ahead
Speaker 1: of the sticks and get in third and short situations,
Speaker 1: and it didn't force Taylor Heineke to sit back there
Speaker 1: and win the game. He actually was playing from under control,
Speaker 1: as if okay, we can run the ball or we
Speaker 1: can hit him with the boot, and he wasn't uncomfortable
Speaker 1: enough for me tonight. Taylor Heineke, Yeah, I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I mean, that's the thing
Speaker 1: is that the Eagles came out first drive gets extended
Speaker 1: because of the roughing the kicker penalty. Luckily they come back,
Speaker 1: they get the sack fumble, so that's a four play
Speaker 1: drive to start the game for Washington. But they come
Speaker 1: back sixteen plays in our thirteen plays on the next
Speaker 1: drive eleven, then sixteen six to close out the first
Speaker 1: half of that long fifty eight yard field goal. Then
Speaker 1: they come back out of the locker room with a
Speaker 1: thirteen play drive. I mean it's four drives. They all
Speaker 1: go for over eleven plays. That's draining for a defense
Speaker 1: and that's tough to rebound from. The offense could not
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm. The offense even when you looked
Speaker 1: at it in the small sample size. They were two
Speaker 1: for three on third down, that a couple of touchdown
Speaker 1: drives in that first half. They just could They were
Speaker 1: not on the field long enough to be able to
Speaker 1: sustain all that offense. The defense just could not get
Speaker 1: off the field this week. And as locker Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: said that Taylor Heineke has added a spark to this offense,
Speaker 1: and you saw that here tonight. This was a different
Speaker 1: team playing than we saw in Week three. There was
Speaker 1: more confidence. They were playing with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 1: And when you think about what the Eagles defense was
Speaker 1: able to do to Carson Wentz in that offensive line
Speaker 1: in week three. That just wasn't happening tonight. They weren't
Speaker 1: always winning in the trenches, and that's where it has
Speaker 1: to get done first. Yeah, and you got to give
Speaker 1: Washington a little credit. They came in and I think
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get it is the game plan from
Speaker 1: these teams coming up next is we can't try to
Speaker 1: outscore the Philadelphia We can't try to win a shootout
Speaker 1: against his team, and maybe that their best defense is
Speaker 1: trying to keep the Eagles offense on the sideline, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get running the football you saw it
Speaker 1: out of Houston, try to win the time of possession.
Speaker 1: Tonight's game plan to me from Washington was let's keep
Speaker 1: that Eagles offense on the sideline as long as possible
Speaker 1: and stick with the run, even if it's only three
Speaker 1: yards at a time. Because that's really the difference in
Speaker 1: the first game they played against Washington in this game
Speaker 1: is that the first game they tried to come out
Speaker 1: and win with Carson Wentz's arms and that offensive line
Speaker 1: couldn't protect. Tonight, they said, you know what, if we
Speaker 1: keep this game close, we get it to the second half,
Speaker 1: who knows what's gonna happen. Let's put the ball and
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson and Gibson's hands, and if we need to
Speaker 1: throw the ball on third down, you give Taylor heinike
Speaker 1: easy throws, smart throws to where he can keep the
Speaker 1: ball out of harm's way. Because he threw over a
Speaker 1: couple of overthrows out there night. It could have been
Speaker 1: picked off as well. He finally got intercepted late in
Speaker 1: the game, but I thought there were some other throws
Speaker 1: there that if we had someone in the right position,
Speaker 1: it should have been an interception. They didn't want to
Speaker 1: win by Hinnicks throwing the football until he had to
Speaker 1: throw the football. It's not Jamison nikecap yet. They're not
Speaker 1: at that point of the show. But I got news
Speaker 1: for us right now. That's how the Colts won that
Speaker 1: game yesterday is that they went out and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna run the football at Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 1: He had his best day rushing over the entire season.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna play ball control.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of quick throws. Matt Ryan throw
Speaker 1: through two passes past fifteen yards yesterday. They all they
Speaker 1: wanted to do was dink and dunk, run the football,
Speaker 1: control the clock, played good defense, and they go out
Speaker 1: and they get a win. And Jeff Saturday's debut as
Speaker 1: the head coach, I think we know what the formulas.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what they were gonna do here next Sunday
Speaker 1: out of the Lucasoil Stadium. We're gonna keep chugging away here.
Speaker 1: But be sure to go into the Facebook comments for
Speaker 1: our Ask Ike segment. You can ask any questions you
Speaker 1: may have and we will air them right here on
Speaker 1: the show for Ike to answer to the best a
Speaker 1: prisability in France. Right, and Dave and I were talking
Speaker 1: about this during the game. It's a copycat league. So
Speaker 1: when the team sees something on film and they see
Speaker 1: that it's successful against their upcoming opponent, then they're going
Speaker 1: to implement that into their game plan. And if you
Speaker 1: look at Indie next week, not to move past this game,
Speaker 1: but it's what's coming up next. When you look at
Speaker 1: the type of running backs, whether it's Green Bay with
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon or you get King Henry
Speaker 1: in three weeks when they faced Tennessee, that's what this
Speaker 1: defense is going to get until they proved that they
Speaker 1: can stop the run and tackling was something that mistackles
Speaker 1: we saw in the last game against the Houston Texas
Speaker 1: showed up a little bit again tonight. We have to
Speaker 1: with that second level get off blocks. Are linebackers. I
Speaker 1: love their athleticism, I love their toughness. We got to
Speaker 1: do a better job of hitting, shedding the blocks, and
Speaker 1: bringing the ball carriers down. Yeah. I think that the
Speaker 1: big thing just going back and watching this will be
Speaker 1: exactly what happened with those run plays. They the long
Speaker 1: play on the ground eleven yards. This isn't like last
Speaker 1: Thursday night where you saw the running back Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: bust out that thirty six yard or in the first
Speaker 1: quart in the first quarter, and you got a bunch
Speaker 1: of miss tackles. It was just death by a thousand
Speaker 1: paper cuts. It was plus three, plus four, plus five,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Eagles were behind the
Speaker 1: sixth A bunch of those conversions in that first half,
Speaker 1: third and two, third and three, third and one, and
Speaker 1: they're running for two, they're running for three, they're running
Speaker 1: for four and moving the chains. That's that's tough way
Speaker 1: to live as a defense. And we talked about this
Speaker 1: during the week on the Eagles game plan. The different
Speaker 1: ways that Washington tries to run the football. You know,
Speaker 1: they rarely fire off the ball and put a hat
Speaker 1: on a hat. You're gonna get the Jets sweeps. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get Curtis Samuel in the backfield. You know, he
Speaker 1: converted the one into round play for first down. So Washington,
Speaker 1: you knew that's the type of running game you were
Speaker 1: gonna see today. In their backs, they're two backs. They
Speaker 1: aren't explosive runners, so they're more north south runners where
Speaker 1: they aren't gonna make people miss. They just gonna try
Speaker 1: to plow forward, and that can be frustrating to a defense.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it reminds me of the playoff game
Speaker 1: we played against Green Bay in three to fourth and
Speaker 1: twenty six game and being out there against Naji Dadmnpord
Speaker 1: and those guys your mon Green Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: out there and place of Carlos Emmons. That was a
Speaker 1: long day for your boy. Yeah, that was a long
Speaker 1: day for your boy, only two hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: They kept running those big guys over there at me.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, you're out there and you're saying
Speaker 1: I'm taking on these blocks. I'm fighting, I'm doing everything
Speaker 1: I can and it's still just not enough, and that
Speaker 1: it was just one of those days. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of the way tonight went for the Eagles. I will
Speaker 1: say good news for your part. No one remembers the
Speaker 1: fact that you've been beat off at the point of
Speaker 1: attack everyone, because I still have nightmares. I have a
Speaker 1: question for you guys. Tonight, did we see the absences
Speaker 1: of Jordan Davis and a volunteer Maddox. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: especially Jordan Davis, you know, the big fella. If a
Speaker 1: team is gonna run, especially a team like Washington, you know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing when you have, you know, those speedbacks
Speaker 1: to like to get to the outside, but when you
Speaker 1: have two plowing runners like Washington has, you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna run between A, B and C gaps and that's
Speaker 1: what Jordan Davis makes a lot of his hey inside there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think anytime you get a big fellow
Speaker 1: like that who eats up blockers, he doesn't necessarily need
Speaker 1: to make the tackle, but it allows the other guys
Speaker 1: to make tackles around him. So you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna use that as an excuense, but it's certainly it's
Speaker 1: part of an explanation at the big Fella is not
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, Terry McLaren, he got targeted five times.
Speaker 1: A couple of them were in the slot on third down.
Speaker 1: And we talked in the kickoff show Ella about how
Speaker 1: good a Vante Maddox was in that Week three game
Speaker 1: down in Washington. He was so so good in that game.
Speaker 1: Helped lead to a bunch of coverage sacks of Carson Wentzon.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think losing a Vante Maddox maybe it
Speaker 1: didn't hurt Grand Scope, but I think when you look at,
Speaker 1: especially on third down a couple of those plays, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you would have loved to have number twenty nine
Speaker 1: in there in the slot. All Right, we've been ask
Speaker 1: that question. Who we got? What do you think the
Speaker 1: Eagles should focus on moving forward? Like, Well, I think
Speaker 1: you get back to doing what's been successful for you
Speaker 1: all year. This team is eight or eighten one. Now
Speaker 1: it's their first loss, and you're not going to scrap
Speaker 1: everything you've done to help you get to eight. No,
Speaker 1: So now it's really more about going back and fine
Speaker 1: tuning things. You know. I do a lot of reflecting
Speaker 1: on the show because watching the games you get sort
Speaker 1: of those flashbacks. So when we lost to Pittsburgh in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, it was arguably our worst game
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean, the defense we got Jerome
Speaker 1: Bettters ran through us on defense that day. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't that all of a sudden we became a different team.
Speaker 1: It's just that we weren't doing the things that we
Speaker 1: had done the prior seven weeks of the season that
Speaker 1: helped us to be successful. So I guarantee those players
Speaker 1: in that locker room they have an empty feeling in
Speaker 1: their stomach right now, because, first of all, they're prideful,
Speaker 1: and not in a bad way, meaning that they're prideful
Speaker 1: in the way that they detail their work. And so
Speaker 1: that wasn't dam out there on the field tonight. That
Speaker 1: doesn't exemplify what this Eagles football team has been about.
Speaker 1: And so they're not gonna be happy with what they
Speaker 1: put on display on national television. So I don't think
Speaker 1: you have to do a whole lot of of preaching
Speaker 1: and coaching. Turn on the film and you show show
Speaker 1: these guys what they look like prior to this game
Speaker 1: versus what they look like tonight, and that's all you'll
Speaker 1: need to do. I was gonna ask you from a
Speaker 1: player's standpoint. Obviously, everyone knows, like the film is the film,
Speaker 1: everyone knows what happened here on the field tonight. But
Speaker 1: what was the messaging from Andy Reid from Coach Reid
Speaker 1: after that? Was it more of a positive light or
Speaker 1: was it hey, like, you know, he kind of got
Speaker 1: in it and reamed you guys, Yeah, he got it
Speaker 1: to us because because here's the thing, it had been
Speaker 1: a couple of games prior to that loss that we
Speaker 1: kind of you know, we had to go to overtime
Speaker 1: to be Cleveland, and yeah, you know, we played in
Speaker 1: Chicago and that was like a six point game, and
Speaker 1: these are teams that they shouldn't have been close games.
Speaker 1: So we knew we had been teetering on a law somewhere,
Speaker 1: and so coach read they Yes, he let us have it,
Speaker 1: and he let let us know that this is how
Speaker 1: easy it can be to lose this thing. And that's
Speaker 1: all you needed to do. Went out the next week,
Speaker 1: put forty nine points up on the Dallas Cowboys on
Speaker 1: Monday Night, didn't lose another game until we set the
Speaker 1: players to find it. Two weeks of this season, all right,
Speaker 1: you were talking about Andy Reid. We're not gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Nick Sirianni. He joins us at the podium. From now,
Speaker 1: I did not. Um, it kind of went right from there.
Speaker 1: They called it and then uh we were right into
Speaker 1: plan again. I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Um. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what lost us the football game. So
Speaker 1: I'd have to watch it on tape again. I kind
Speaker 1: of I saw it live. I kind of looked down
Speaker 1: the field. Um, but they got a tough job, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'll look at it and um, but that's
Speaker 1: not at all what lost us the football game. Game. Yeah, shoot,
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty pretty simple, right. The three turnovers
Speaker 1: lost us the game. The time possession loses you the game. Um,
Speaker 1: it was we lost it together, offense, defense, special teams, coaching.
Speaker 1: We lost it together. That's what lost us the game.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the Dallas godder? It looked
Speaker 1: like he was based mass on that lay. Did you
Speaker 1: get an explanation there? There's a long stoppage. Um, you
Speaker 1: know I didn't, Um, you know, he we had we
Speaker 1: got to have better ball security there. Um. We take
Speaker 1: a lot of pride in how we protect the football.
Speaker 1: We were obviously loose with it. That's how they got
Speaker 1: it out, and uh defense did a nice job of
Speaker 1: stopping him right there, so we held him three. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, looking at my decision on that, I thought, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I know he made the one at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half. I didn't think that was
Speaker 1: easy for him, thinking about the line of where you
Speaker 1: know he kicked it from and where the ball was
Speaker 1: right there. Obviously second second thought, then you know he
Speaker 1: made it, So I should have accepted it. He misses it,
Speaker 1: then you know, that's the way it goes. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: so I had to be convicted with the decision. I
Speaker 1: was um, and he made it. But as far as
Speaker 1: you know, whether it was a face mask or whether
Speaker 1: there wasn't a face mask, it's hard for them to
Speaker 1: see at that time. I get it. Um, we got
Speaker 1: to protect the ball better and we didn't do it.
Speaker 1: We didn't do a good job at that all game, Like,
Speaker 1: we were loose with that football and it came out
Speaker 1: and they got it. I know it's hard to tell
Speaker 1: in the moment, but it was this big reception fifty
Speaker 1: yards and obviously Saint Jose was able to get it
Speaker 1: now from behind? What did you see there? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: that's something that we talk about and we think about that.
Speaker 1: You know, they're you're you're susceptible getting up off the ground.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to teach him to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: and you know if you can't, he's not see him
Speaker 1: behind them. They get off, They get up off the ground,
Speaker 1: maybe run for a touchdown. But we also are aware
Speaker 1: that the defense is taught to take a swipe at
Speaker 1: that ball when you're getting up off the ground kind
Speaker 1: of the same way as when you're going to the ground.
Speaker 1: The ball is not um is loose sometimes when you're
Speaker 1: that way, and so, um, hey, we got to do
Speaker 1: a better job of coaching that. Um. We got to
Speaker 1: think of a drilled it to do that. We talk
Speaker 1: about it, um, but obviously we didn't execute it today.
Speaker 1: And so as a coach, you put yourself in that
Speaker 1: situation first and you say, how do I fix that?
Speaker 1: And so we'll have to do a drill where we're
Speaker 1: getting up off the ground protecting it and if there's
Speaker 1: bodies around us, we gotta stayed down there in the ground.
Speaker 1: And so, um, you know, like I said, we talk
Speaker 1: about it, but I didn't put Quis in that scenario
Speaker 1: and drill and drill, so um, well we'll get better
Speaker 1: from this as coaches. I know Quis will get better
Speaker 1: from as well players the game, that this was a
Speaker 1: lost opportunity, that you're had an any opportunities still win
Speaker 1: this game, and just yeah, I give them a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. I always I think that's a I think
Speaker 1: that's a good football team. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for for coach Rivera, and uh so I don't
Speaker 1: I don't ever like to say, you know, we lost it.
Speaker 1: You know they they played, they played and they and
Speaker 1: they and they played well. Um, but we know that
Speaker 1: we made mistakes, right, we made uncharacteristic mistakes. And it's
Speaker 1: a both. So it's a bothan like you're not pleased
Speaker 1: with you know, they I'll give them all the credit,
Speaker 1: but to know that that we didn't play our type
Speaker 1: of game. We made mistakes we had made we had penalties,
Speaker 1: we had uncharacteristic fumbles, we threw an interception. Um, you
Speaker 1: know we it just and you know we didn't we
Speaker 1: didn't do a good enough job. There's some things back
Speaker 1: that we want as calls, and like I didn't do
Speaker 1: a good enough job coaching this week, and so, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you feel you feel upset because you lost the game
Speaker 1: and you made a lot of mistakes. Um, we made
Speaker 1: We made a ton of mistakes. Uh. And that loses
Speaker 1: your football games in this league. You turned the ball
Speaker 1: over like that, That loses your football games in this league.
Speaker 1: Some of them, some of the calls on you say,
Speaker 1: you know what one I think, I think, like like
Speaker 1: whether the calls were bad or whether the calls were
Speaker 1: good or whatever it was. I think when you're when
Speaker 1: you play, when you play the way we did tonight,
Speaker 1: when you play the way we did on all three phases,
Speaker 1: you know, like offense, defense, special teams, coaching. Right, when
Speaker 1: you when you play like that, it does seem like
Speaker 1: you're you're it seems like everything's going against you. You
Speaker 1: create your own luck. And we played like crap. We didn't,
Speaker 1: we didn't do a good enough job and we we
Speaker 1: wouldn't and uh, and it feels like things go against you.
Speaker 1: Those those plays, those those scenarios that happen when you
Speaker 1: when you play like that, get magnified, right the what
Speaker 1: if it whether it was the right call or wrong call.
Speaker 1: And so we made our own luck today. And uh
Speaker 1: and we and it was bad when you think of
Speaker 1: the run defense and when the adjustments in the second
Speaker 1: half focus on the running. Yeah, I think the second half,
Speaker 1: I thought the defense coaches did a nice job of, um,
Speaker 1: you know, adjusting and held them to really well, I
Speaker 1: mean really three points there. I mean because the offense
Speaker 1: we fumbled gave him a free three right there and
Speaker 1: then obviously the last play of the game. So I
Speaker 1: thought the defense made some you know, hats off to
Speaker 1: our defense coaches making the adjustment the halftime. But it
Speaker 1: can't it can't be. It can't be that long before
Speaker 1: we make our adjustments and we gotta we gotta do
Speaker 1: it even quicker. Now with that being said, um, they
Speaker 1: were you know, they were five yards on first down,
Speaker 1: two yards on second down, or three yards on second down,
Speaker 1: and then they were converting on third and I mean
Speaker 1: they had twenty one third downs. That's a lot. And
Speaker 1: uh so they stuck to their game plan. Um. I
Speaker 1: respect that. Um, you know, Scott Turner did a good
Speaker 1: job of calling it, and they stuck to their game
Speaker 1: plan and uh, you know, kept us on the field
Speaker 1: for an awfully long time. But I do think the
Speaker 1: adjustments that we made were good, but you know, we
Speaker 1: can't start off flat. We can't. We can't uh let
Speaker 1: them get twenty and then go in and then and
Speaker 1: then and then go from there. So uh, we gotta
Speaker 1: do even better. Um, you know. And sometimes when the
Speaker 1: offense is you know, I think we had one where
Speaker 1: we turned it over so was the defense was out
Speaker 1: there a lot and that's hard too. And so it's like,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm not it's a full team game.
Speaker 1: Like if the offense goes uh, I think we went
Speaker 1: a three drive, we had a couple big plays and
Speaker 1: we threw an interception, like they're making those adjustments right there,
Speaker 1: and then they went right down and and and scored
Speaker 1: off of that off a ninety yard It wasn't right.
Speaker 1: They took the ball all the way down the field.
Speaker 1: And so you know that that I want everybody to
Speaker 1: understand that. It's like, yeah, we got to make those
Speaker 1: adjustments and I'm saying that, but they didn't have time too,
Speaker 1: because we didn't. We didn't keep the ball on offense.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's it's a team game. Like we're
Speaker 1: we've started ain't no together. We lost this game together,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna move on together and uh, and we'll
Speaker 1: get better from this. Were you concerned? I mean you've
Speaker 1: got Jonathan Taylor, a Derrick Henry coming up. I'm only
Speaker 1: worried about Jonathan Taylor at this point. Yeah, you didn't
Speaker 1: do very well against Roe of the teams to be
Speaker 1: year at Phillies Hills since you lost Jordan Davis. I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you address that and getting
Speaker 1: it Obviously we'll have to go look at this tape
Speaker 1: and and you know we we we um look at
Speaker 1: this tape and see what what went down on this game,
Speaker 1: knowing that, Hey, when you show the show that a
Speaker 1: team attacks a place, we're gonna see it again, right,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna see that. We're gonna see that again.
Speaker 1: Um and so uh well, we'll work like crazy to
Speaker 1: get it fixed. Uh and that and we understand that that, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll be the narrative of you know, how to beat
Speaker 1: us and uh and we'll and when we got we
Speaker 1: got to own that and we got to fix it
Speaker 1: and we and we will pretty much right what I
Speaker 1: just said to Elliott, Hey, we started dating. Now together,
Speaker 1: we lost tonight together, we move on together, and we
Speaker 1: pick ourselves up together, and uh and because we lost
Speaker 1: this game together, and we truly lost this game together,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, uncharacteristics things that we did and
Speaker 1: uh and let's get better from this limping after that
Speaker 1: first reception a little bit, was he okay, you see it?
Speaker 1: I mean he kept he kept playing and uh, you
Speaker 1: know he toughed out. You know what he was, what
Speaker 1: he was going through right there. Um, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: that that he was able to tough that out and
Speaker 1: be out in the field, because he demands a lot
Speaker 1: of respect out there, I think, I mean, we still
Speaker 1: want to be able to give him a football and
Speaker 1: I know he didn't get it as much tonight, and
Speaker 1: it shifted to you know, Davante a little bit more
Speaker 1: and Quiz made some plays. But um, yeah, they did
Speaker 1: a good job. They did a good job taking them away.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, thank you, Sirianni saying we all lost
Speaker 1: this game, which is true all three phases of the game.
Speaker 1: If you want to look at it from a coaching perspective,
Speaker 1: every person on that football field is responsible for tonight. Um,
Speaker 1: we've talked so much about the defense because we saw
Speaker 1: them primarily the most on the field tonight, but for
Speaker 1: the offense, they did have opportunities. So what did we
Speaker 1: learn from the offensive side of the ball when they
Speaker 1: were given opportunities and they just couldn't capitalize. Well, I
Speaker 1: thought in the first half they found it hard to
Speaker 1: find a rhythm. Right, they score quickly, but they didn't
Speaker 1: get enough possessions in the first half. So, well, how
Speaker 1: do you run the football? So everybody claimed, don't even
Speaker 1: ran the football four times in the first half. Well,
Speaker 1: they were only out there for six raising the first
Speaker 1: half and you had fourteen points. So it's impressive that
Speaker 1: you get fourteen points with the limited time that they
Speaker 1: were out there. I just think the offense was just
Speaker 1: disjointed tonight and from that point they were playing catch
Speaker 1: up for the most part, and I think it got it.
Speaker 1: And then with aj being banged up a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that had a little bit to do with
Speaker 1: some of the play calling, because if you just look
Speaker 1: at some of the routes, even the ones they went
Speaker 1: to Davante outside of the deep when the quais late
Speaker 1: in the game, which you get another blown coverage from Washington,
Speaker 1: a lot of these passes were intermediate pass and Aj
Speaker 1: after the deep ball to him, they got picked off
Speaker 1: by the way, very good pass from Jalen Hurts. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize Aj had that in his hands for a
Speaker 1: split second and the safety was able to get it
Speaker 1: out of there. I just think AJ being banged up
Speaker 1: and not having a ball out there enough in the
Speaker 1: first half just really through the offense off kilter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think when you look at it, look the Eagles offense.
Speaker 1: They start the game off with two touchdown drives you
Speaker 1: mentioned the first one on that short field after the
Speaker 1: sack fumble. Then they go nine plays, but after that
Speaker 1: you get a turnover, you get the interception, two three
Speaker 1: and outs, then you get a touchdown drive to start
Speaker 1: the third quarter, and then you've got a fumble, a fumble,
Speaker 1: and a three and out. So a handful of three
Speaker 1: and outs and there the three turnovers. That tells you,
Speaker 1: all right, well, that means you're giving the ball back
Speaker 1: to Washington's offense very very fast. The defense was already
Speaker 1: struggling to stay or to get off the field, and
Speaker 1: it was like, I think that Nick Sirianni put that
Speaker 1: perfectly in that press conference, that those problems feed each
Speaker 1: other when you've got the offense that is struggling to
Speaker 1: sustain drives and a defense that is struggling to get
Speaker 1: off the field. Well, now both problems are starting compound,
Speaker 1: and then you've got a forced multiplier there and a
Speaker 1: reason why you lose this game. Yeah, and Eagles have
Speaker 1: done a great job, if not the best job of
Speaker 1: any team this year, playing complimentary football. Yeah, they couldn't
Speaker 1: play implementary football tonight because I didn't think the offense
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to be out there as much as
Speaker 1: they would have liked to have been. So for me,
Speaker 1: I go back to that defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: You got the way they've been playing this year. They've
Speaker 1: either been opportunistic where they're taking the ball away giving
Speaker 1: our offensive short field, or they're getting off the field
Speaker 1: on third down and it allows the offense to do
Speaker 1: what they do best. I thought tonight had more to
Speaker 1: do with Washington play a keepaway from our offense, and
Speaker 1: then they when Washington finally took the lead, I thought
Speaker 1: the offense played catch up ball from that point moving forward.
Speaker 1: It's just not the way that they've played all year.
Speaker 1: So now they're playing a brand of football that they
Speaker 1: that they're not accustomed to because you're playing from behind
Speaker 1: in the second half. And I think we've been at
Speaker 1: our best when we've been able to dictate from an
Speaker 1: offensive standpoint what your defense is going to do. We
Speaker 1: didn't get into another third and short situations where we
Speaker 1: extend jobs going forward on fourth down. All the things
Speaker 1: that we've watched the first eight weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: This Eagle's offense too, I didn't think they had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it as frequently tonight, and I personally
Speaker 1: would put that back on the defense, saying we need
Speaker 1: to get off the field to give the offense the
Speaker 1: ball back. Speaking of the defense, Brandon Graham, the captain
Speaker 1: of this team, he spoke to reporters just a little
Speaker 1: bit ago in the locker room. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say, because it looks like, do you know what, Uh,
Speaker 1: we want to learn from it, and we just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that we remember this feeling because we
Speaker 1: could we only gonna lose if we beat ourselves. And
Speaker 1: so we was out there, UMU Washington came out and
Speaker 1: they came ready to play, and so that's all I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give all credit to them, because they made us
Speaker 1: they made us really you know, earn it today and
Speaker 1: so um for us, I mean for them, you know,
Speaker 1: it's credit to them, you know. And so I'm ready
Speaker 1: to see how how we bounce back from this. And
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna bounce back. I'm already ready just
Speaker 1: to you know, get the word usually pretty good on
Speaker 1: third down. This is where it's gonna start when the
Speaker 1: Eagles re enter the Nocare Complex tomorrow morning. It starts
Speaker 1: with guys like Brandon Graham. There's no denying the culture
Speaker 1: that is in this locker room and what we've seen
Speaker 1: through the first eight games of the season. But how
Speaker 1: is that culture going to show up tomorrow morning after
Speaker 1: their first loss of the season. We're soon going to
Speaker 1: find out. Yeah, And I trust the leadership on this team. BG.
Speaker 1: That's one Fletcher, Jason Kelsey, Lane Johnson, Jalen Hurts at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. These are guys that put their hard
Speaker 1: hat on every day to come in here and get prepared.
Speaker 1: And that's tonight's game. It's like a slap in the
Speaker 1: face for everybody, right it wakes you up and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we aren't unbeatable. Now we can get back to the
Speaker 1: drawing board, put our hard hat on, and get back
Speaker 1: to proving people wrong again. I don't have any concern
Speaker 1: as to whether or not this will linger into next week.
Speaker 1: These guys will come in tomorrow or Wednesday. I would
Speaker 1: be surprised that not in tomorrow. To get prepared to
Speaker 1: get an early start on this Indianapolis coach team, because
Speaker 1: it's been great winning football games, and it's been a
Speaker 1: great feeling. So now you get the first taste of
Speaker 1: what a loss feels right for this group together in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Eagles, and I guarantee they don't
Speaker 1: like it. So they know that they're a good football team.
Speaker 1: And again, you don't want one loss to turn into
Speaker 1: two losses. So you get back in there and you
Speaker 1: get you get to work tomorrow. And to your point,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a saying in coaching that everyone's got
Speaker 1: a good culture. When you're winning, your good culture shows
Speaker 1: up after losses. What does your team do when you
Speaker 1: face that adversity both mid game and then after a
Speaker 1: loss like this, And we'll see, we know the leaders
Speaker 1: in that locker room, but this is that first test
Speaker 1: is what does that twenty twenty two team look like?
Speaker 1: When they face that first loss. And to me, I
Speaker 1: think just looking at the way this team can rebound,
Speaker 1: that could show up in a lot of the different
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. But guys like Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: that are willing to stand there, face the music and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is what this team is going to do. I
Speaker 1: think that he said it best. They were gonna make
Speaker 1: us earn this. As bad as this felt for the
Speaker 1: large majority of this game, he did not feel good
Speaker 1: watching this game. I'm sure it didn't feel good down
Speaker 1: on the sideline and for the guys that were between
Speaker 1: the lines. But for as bad as that felt, this
Speaker 1: is a one score game. Heagles had the ability to
Speaker 1: win this game multiple times in the fourth quarter on
Speaker 1: both sides. Just could not make that play that would
Speaker 1: have sealed this victory. And so as bad as it was,
Speaker 1: it was right there for the taking. Washington made them
Speaker 1: earn it with the way that they played. The Eagles
Speaker 1: just couldn't make the plays on accounted I mentioned what
Speaker 1: big setting the kickoff show at his locker this week.
Speaker 1: He said, this team has a lot of hope. He said,
Speaker 1: They're not just gonna lay down because they lost the
Speaker 1: first time. This is the NFC East, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot at stake in this division, especially the way the
Speaker 1: other teams have been playing. And he was exactly right.
Speaker 1: They didn't lay down. They came out playing confident, inspired football.
Speaker 1: They were on the road and it looked like they
Speaker 1: just didn't care. You mentioned ella about the NFC East.
Speaker 1: It's the second time they played Washington. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: get another opportunity to look at this offense seven weeks
Speaker 1: later or six weeks later, and you say, Okay, these
Speaker 1: are some things that we did the first time. They
Speaker 1: didn't work well for us. Let's try something different this time.
Speaker 1: They're a much different team than they were in week
Speaker 1: three when you had Wentz back there at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Because when you have a guy like Carson at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, it's so tempting to want to sit back
Speaker 1: there and just throw throw, throw, throw throw. He has
Speaker 1: the big arm, he can make those throws. So as
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator, you're salivating at what you at the
Speaker 1: potential he has. When you get a guy like Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineken there, you play the game closer to the vest.
Speaker 1: You're a little more measured in taking those chances. You
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want Heineken to go out there and win
Speaker 1: the game for you. You just don't want him to
Speaker 1: put him in a position where he loses it for you.
Speaker 1: So they've been playing games closer to the vest over
Speaker 1: the last four or five weeks since he's been out there,
Speaker 1: getting back to running the football and letting their defense
Speaker 1: try to play a little better. And that's what they
Speaker 1: did tonight. The Eagles realize now that they aren't invincible,
Speaker 1: and so you don't really understand that until you lose
Speaker 1: your first game of the season and they're the last
Speaker 1: team in the league to lose a game this year,
Speaker 1: they can go back to being the hunted. Right when
Speaker 1: you're undefeated everybody, you're gonna get the best from every
Speaker 1: team you face. I don't care what they're record is.
Speaker 1: They want to be the first team to beat the
Speaker 1: last unbeaten team. And the fact that you play at
Speaker 1: Washington for a second time as a divisional opponent, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised it was a much closer game. I'm just
Speaker 1: surprised that we didn't play our best football. You can
Speaker 1: almost accept the lass when you feel like you did
Speaker 1: your best. The Eagles, no, man to man, they didn't
Speaker 1: play their best brand of football tonight. And I think
Speaker 1: this is a formula, as we talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the show, that I think other teams are going to
Speaker 1: try and replicate, especially when if you have trouble along
Speaker 1: the offensive line, which look, the last time the Eagles
Speaker 1: played this team, they sacked the quarterback nine times. So
Speaker 1: they're going into this game saying, you know what, we
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't drop back on every single drop out. We
Speaker 1: showed every single pass play that's not in our winning
Speaker 1: formula for us as a football team. So when you
Speaker 1: look at the drives where they were able to sustain
Speaker 1: offense move the football, they had nine out of thirteen
Speaker 1: players on that second drive, we're runs six out of eleven.
Speaker 1: On the next play or next drive, we're runs ten
Speaker 1: out of sixteen on the next touchdown drive, were runs
Speaker 1: nine out of thirteen on the next touchdown drive, we're runs.
Speaker 1: They wanted to run the football, control the clock, make
Speaker 1: those timely passes for tat Taylor Heineke, they can't. He
Speaker 1: came through when he needed But that was a formula
Speaker 1: that they're gonna try and see whether that was able
Speaker 1: to work for them tonight. Indianapolis, they're gonna try and
Speaker 1: replicate that here on Sunday. And what it does to
Speaker 1: the Eagles is it puts more I don't wanna say pressure,
Speaker 1: but it puts more of a premium on them to
Speaker 1: take advantage of their possessions. You know, teams are gonna
Speaker 1: try to shorten the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. When
Speaker 1: you look at the remaining opponents, you don't feel threatened
Speaker 1: by their offenses to go put up thirty points on you.
Speaker 1: So what a team is gonna want to do is say, okay,
Speaker 1: let's shorten this game as best we can see it.
Speaker 1: We can get it into high teams, low twenties. That's
Speaker 1: gonna give us a chance to win. And it keeps
Speaker 1: that Eagles offense on the sideline as much as possible.
Speaker 1: So it puts the Eagles because they don't have as
Speaker 1: many possessions, right, you gotta take advantage of the possessions
Speaker 1: when you get out there. Because teams like Washington are saying,
Speaker 1: I don't mind having a twelve play four team play
Speaker 1: drive that eats up seven minutes on the clock, even
Speaker 1: if it leads to a field goal. That means your
Speaker 1: offense isn't on the field scoring touchdowns against US. And
Speaker 1: if we look up at halftime and the score is
Speaker 1: fourteen to teen or seventeen to fourteen, they're happy about
Speaker 1: that because they know they have a chance in the
Speaker 1: second half. It's all math and like statistics and probabilities
Speaker 1: at that point. If I tell you going into a
Speaker 1: game that, hey, you've got to score points on five
Speaker 1: drives and you'll only have eight to do it, as
Speaker 1: opposed to if you have twelve to do it, you
Speaker 1: feel better if you've got twelve drives to do it.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly how teams are gonna want to play
Speaker 1: the Eagles. They want to keep Jalen Hurts in that
Speaker 1: offense off the field as often as possible. But here tonight,
Speaker 1: even though they only had those limited amount of opportunities,
Speaker 1: still didn't make good enough enough of those, and that
Speaker 1: was that. That's the big thing I think offensively is
Speaker 1: you will look at some of these missed opportunities. What
Speaker 1: I say, three three four and outs are three three
Speaker 1: and outs here in this game, plus the turnovers. That's
Speaker 1: tough to be able to win football game that way.
Speaker 1: And to your point, even though the Eagles were dominated
Speaker 1: in time of possession at night this deal was a
Speaker 1: one score game eight. You know Dallas Goddard that fumbled
Speaker 1: misface mask, called every boy the officials. But the Eagles
Speaker 1: had the ball there, only down by two, when an
Speaker 1: opportunity to go down and go ahead by kicking a
Speaker 1: field goal, score a touchdown. The Eagles defense do a
Speaker 1: great job holding Washings into a long field goal. Your
Speaker 1: Washington credit. They made the field goal. Now we got
Speaker 1: a five point game. Jalen hurts perfect pass to Quiz Watkins.
Speaker 1: He hits him deep. I don't fall Quiz for getting
Speaker 1: up and trying to finish the play because I was
Speaker 1: sitting there saying, you haven't been touch get up getting
Speaker 1: the end zone score. But when you hit the ground
Speaker 1: and pop back up, you almost lose sight of where
Speaker 1: your defender is. And it's just unfortunate. He's able to
Speaker 1: hit him from the back and poke that ball out.
Speaker 1: And there's the last opportunity, legitimate opportunity the Eagles had
Speaker 1: to potentially go ahead. Because up until that play, I
Speaker 1: kept saying to myself, they're gonna find a way to
Speaker 1: win this game. They'll overcome adversity. Everybody's wanting to see
Speaker 1: this team, see how they bounce back from adversity. It there.
Speaker 1: If they're behind in the fourth quarter, which they hadn't
Speaker 1: trailed in the second half of all year, how they respond.
Speaker 1: So I would say this, even though this game on
Speaker 1: paper looks like Washington completely dominated, I will take a
Speaker 1: silver lining from it that the Eagles battled all the
Speaker 1: way to the end of this game, and not until
Speaker 1: that unfortunate penalty late in the game. The Eagles may
Speaker 1: have gotten the ball back again with one more opportunity
Speaker 1: to score, So at least they did fight the entire game.
Speaker 1: Right tackle Lane Johnson spoke with reporters in the locker
Speaker 1: room just a little bit ago. He spoke about the
Speaker 1: response this team is going to have. We'll respond, Uh,
Speaker 1: we got some good teams coming up. The coach are
Speaker 1: coming in re energosh. So now you can learn a
Speaker 1: lot from losses. Um you know, we've lost plenty around
Speaker 1: here in the past few years. But um, you know
Speaker 1: where those losses we learned and ground from it. So
Speaker 1: that's what I expect us to do with another leader
Speaker 1: of this football team, a leader who has won a
Speaker 1: lot of football games in Philadelphia but also has faced
Speaker 1: a great deal of adversity. Just today was the first
Speaker 1: sample of adversity in the twenty twenty two season. What
Speaker 1: did we think about the play of the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I know it's some things that we're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: need to take time when you go back and watch
Speaker 1: the film, But just first glance, what did we think? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't think Jalen was under a ton of pressure tonight.
Speaker 1: I just I look at the offensive line and I say, well,
Speaker 1: you would have wanted to run the football, but they
Speaker 1: didn't get enough possessions out there. They certainly showed that
Speaker 1: in the second half. Yeah, when they got going running
Speaker 1: the football, I thought the offensive line played much better
Speaker 1: than they did the last game against Houston. Now, the
Speaker 1: Houston game, I was a little concerned. We gave up
Speaker 1: a few sacks there, But I thought joined my lot
Speaker 1: of played well tonight. Um, I'm not correct. Did they
Speaker 1: not get a sack tonight that Washington get thet Well,
Speaker 1: they got a sack on the final possession of the
Speaker 1: final three out the final three, You're right, that's right.
Speaker 1: They did get one late in the game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look at it that way, and that's the
Speaker 1: strength of this Washington team is their defensive line. So
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought the offensive line held up and
Speaker 1: really played. Had a nice bounce back game from the
Speaker 1: Houston game where I thought Jalen you know, got hit
Speaker 1: once too alten in the Houston game. Yeah, even if
Speaker 1: you just look at from a number standpoint, Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: finished fifty four yards rushing four and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Jalen Hurts had four point seven yards to carry,
Speaker 1: Kenny gainwell seven yards to carry. So offensively, from an
Speaker 1: efficiency standpoint on the ground, they were able to move
Speaker 1: the ball, but from a volume standpoint, obviously the yards
Speaker 1: just not there, just because it was a non factor
Speaker 1: in the first half with only twenty offensive place. We
Speaker 1: all know the outside noise going into this about can
Speaker 1: the Eagles go seventeen and oh can they be undefeated?
Speaker 1: Well that has now been put to rest. But the
Speaker 1: follow up discussions to that from the outside is then, okay, well,
Speaker 1: when they drop one, how do they respond? Can they
Speaker 1: keep it to one game and not let it spiral?
Speaker 1: All that at the time is just kind of talk, right,
Speaker 1: But now we're going to actually put that to the
Speaker 1: test this week. How do they respond? Of course, Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson didn't seem too concerned about the way that they
Speaker 1: will prepare and respond on Sunday. But it's a legitimate
Speaker 1: question when you our face with adversity for the first time,
Speaker 1: what is Sunday going to look like from this team.
Speaker 1: I'm anxious to see it, I really am. And fran
Speaker 1: you mentioned it earlier. Yeah, chemistry and culture is great
Speaker 1: when you're winning and no one is losing and you
Speaker 1: don't have to point a finger at anybody, so that
Speaker 1: this group of players teammates haven't had to face that
Speaker 1: sort of adversity just yet, and so I'm anxious to
Speaker 1: see what they look like Sunday because I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I didn't think they were going seventeen and old.
Speaker 1: And if the goal is to win it, all is
Speaker 1: to win a championship. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can fully buy into whether or not you have the
Speaker 1: team to do that until you've seen them go through
Speaker 1: a little adversity. So while they work every day and
Speaker 1: work every week to win every game, I totally understand
Speaker 1: that they should. As an observer and a fan of
Speaker 1: the team, You're like, Okay, well, let's see how we
Speaker 1: bounce back if they lose a game. If they happen
Speaker 1: to lose a game, so you can see whether or
Speaker 1: not these guys are going to stick together. They're gonna
Speaker 1: fight together. Do you come back next week and you
Speaker 1: put on a much better performers. Like I said about
Speaker 1: the team, we had a No. Four. We lost the Pitchburgh.
Speaker 1: It was an embarrassing game. The quarterback and wide receivers
Speaker 1: on the sideline, back and forth and following each other around.
Speaker 1: And one guy doesn't want to be bothered. And that
Speaker 1: was all the talk we heard all week. Oh it's
Speaker 1: about the crumble. And I knew till he'd come here.
Speaker 1: And and then next year we're gotta put up forty
Speaker 1: nine points against the Dallas Cowboys. That's what we went did.
Speaker 1: That's how we responded. The difference is the majority of
Speaker 1: that team had played together and experienced adversity together. This
Speaker 1: is a new team. It's a lot of new faces.
Speaker 1: So I got believe that they'll bounce back and handled
Speaker 1: this very well because I lived the leadership on the team,
Speaker 1: starting with the head coach, trickling on down to the players.
Speaker 1: But if I'm just as a fan of the team, yeah,
Speaker 1: get the loss out of the way. Now let's see
Speaker 1: how we respond to it. Yeah, we've already heard from
Speaker 1: Brandon Grant, We've heard from Lane Johnson, We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Jalen Hurts here in a little bit. And what
Speaker 1: is one of the one sayings we know from one
Speaker 1: of the other leaders on this team, from Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 1: He says this, and he's more spaking about Hey, winning
Speaker 1: an individual game, winning one game, it's not about who's toughest,
Speaker 1: who's toughest the longest, And yeah, that works in an
Speaker 1: individual game, but it also works over the course of
Speaker 1: a season. Who is toughest over the long spot, over
Speaker 1: the long haul. This is a team that's not trying
Speaker 1: to win games in November. They are trying to win
Speaker 1: games in January and eventually in February. So it's all
Speaker 1: about how do you respond to this? Can you shake
Speaker 1: this off? You know who was the only other group
Speaker 1: of people that are just as upset about the Eagles
Speaker 1: losing this game. I don't think the cults are too
Speaker 1: happy that the Eagles lost this game, coming in with
Speaker 1: a week full of motivation, going out to Lucasoil on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. So I think ultimately, look, the Eagles, we
Speaker 1: have those good feeling about the people in this building, players, coaches, organizationally.
Speaker 1: They're gonna shake this off and be right back on
Speaker 1: track here next week. Speaking about another leader on the team,
Speaker 1: Darius Slay took to Twitter. Let's see what he had
Speaker 1: to say. Tough one today, we will be back spoken
Speaker 1: like a true leader, Darius Slay. He was targeted a
Speaker 1: lot tonight, James Bradbury, I feel we didn't hear his
Speaker 1: name as much, but those wide receivers Terry McLaurin really
Speaker 1: specifically had a great night against the secondary that's been
Speaker 1: able to lockdown basically any receiver in the NFL so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we may not be privy to the exact scheme
Speaker 1: that was being played tonight, technique whether you want to
Speaker 1: press a guy or be awful guy. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not used to seeing Slay, you know, have people throw
Speaker 1: at him just not. I'm just not used to. But
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin. It's the reason why they call him scary Terry.
Speaker 1: He is a very good wide receiver and they were
Speaker 1: able to get the ball to him tonight. I think
Speaker 1: that's something Slay will take personal right as something Slay
Speaker 1: certainly he takes pride in his technique and his work
Speaker 1: out there on the field, and sometimes you just got
Speaker 1: to tip your cap to your opponent. And what was
Speaker 1: different about this game tonight is that we didn't do it.
Speaker 1: We didn't do a lot of blitzing tonight, so the
Speaker 1: ball didn't come out all right, I gotta interrupt you guys,
Speaker 1: the man of the hour. We've been waiting for him,
Speaker 1: quarterback Jalen Hurts at the podium. L what can you
Speaker 1: and the team learn from a from a game like this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's the It's the same message that's always
Speaker 1: been delivered um after our wins, same message delivered after
Speaker 1: our losses. You know, controlling the things that we can
Speaker 1: come out here today we didn't do that. We didn't
Speaker 1: do it and today goddess, So you know, there's it's
Speaker 1: very important to control the things that you can. Controlling
Speaker 1: your ball, security, um, knowing where the operation the players
Speaker 1: supposed to go, and just execution. Those are all things
Speaker 1: that we control and we have to do a better
Speaker 1: job of that. Constitution, struggle software, you guys, struggling exec
Speaker 1: that I'm just the overall lack of detailing execution. And today, Goddess,
Speaker 1: you know, I think They're been games in the past where, um,
Speaker 1: you'd hear us say maybe leaving money on the table,
Speaker 1: opportunities that we didn't take advantage of, advantage of. And
Speaker 1: I look at this game and I say, we were
Speaker 1: repeat offenders of that and today of goddess, you know,
Speaker 1: and something we have to learn from. It's something we
Speaker 1: really already know. It's just something that we have to
Speaker 1: fix and ultimately control the things we can. And then
Speaker 1: we got to on the field six minutes to change
Speaker 1: in the first half hour. Frustrating first of the laws
Speaker 1: and to be parked on the sideline for much of
Speaker 1: that time. And then secondly, it doesn't make it hard
Speaker 1: to get into a rhythm as the game goes on.
Speaker 1: It's not the best feeling. Um. But I think again,
Speaker 1: you know, you have different teams that have different approaches
Speaker 1: to how they want to go about the game, and
Speaker 1: they did an excellent job on offense, executed at a
Speaker 1: high level. I think for us offensively, um, I don't
Speaker 1: think we were executed good enough. You know, we turned
Speaker 1: the ball over. I don't know how we weren't efficient
Speaker 1: enough nothing. It wasn't enough, you know. And it's a
Speaker 1: lot of reflection being happy being held right now. And
Speaker 1: I think it's an opportunity for us to to grow.
Speaker 1: So it's another opportunity for us to grow. That is
Speaker 1: you know that that's the same message. Did a lot
Speaker 1: of stop at the serious jail and were learning execution.
Speaker 1: So there was the last two plays when we got sacked.
Speaker 1: It we just we just had to sack has some penetration,
Speaker 1: try to make a play. UM got sacked and then
Speaker 1: we play before personal Um again another another misque up front.
Speaker 1: UM had an issue had to you know, black lack
Speaker 1: of detailing and what we were doing. Did you get
Speaker 1: to look at the play with the Dallas face massage? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know we can. We can go out day for
Speaker 1: we can go out there about that. You know, I
Speaker 1: think in reality, I think UM, in the end, it's
Speaker 1: about us doing the things that we can UM and
Speaker 1: controlling the things that we can and I think tonight
Speaker 1: we weren't. We weren't doing that at the high level,
Speaker 1: you know, and Todair goddess, you know, and then it
Speaker 1: doesn't get you until it gets you and to their goddess.
Speaker 1: So you know what we learn from it, We move forward,
Speaker 1: you say, to just lost far more what they here
Speaker 1: what you get to yourselves. So it's on us. It's
Speaker 1: a great football team. They're world coach. I think, um
Speaker 1: with the uncharacteristic that's the word we're using, the uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: mistakes that we've made, things that we haven't really done
Speaker 1: all year in terms of our formula for winning football games.
Speaker 1: You know, when we go out there and turn the
Speaker 1: ball over like that, UM, not so good things happen,
Speaker 1: you know, So we have to do a better job
Speaker 1: as a team. Everybody attention to detail, our focus coming
Speaker 1: in to practice, UM this week with a with a
Speaker 1: different type of hunger and going out there and playing
Speaker 1: our best ball. That's the challenge every every week. When
Speaker 1: you mentioned speaking other opportunity, I don't know afternus the game,
Speaker 1: but do you bosses that way is that they can
Speaker 1: have like avert your value because they cause you guys
Speaker 1: to buckle down and to get back on details and
Speaker 1: things like that. They they say, you know, my message
Speaker 1: to them this morning and before the game, ironically they say,
Speaker 1: hungry dogs running faster and you know when you when
Speaker 1: you win, they say, it's it's hard to keep that hunger.
Speaker 1: And I think this team is in a position and
Speaker 1: now we can dictate how we want to respond to
Speaker 1: this adversity, UM, this obstacle in our way. You know
Speaker 1: what it's done. It's done. So there's definitely so what
Speaker 1: not what mentality? And I know my mentality moving forward?
Speaker 1: I know, um, my attention to detail in terms of
Speaker 1: my preparation and how they'll look moving forward. I know
Speaker 1: my eagerness to play to the standard, um moving forward.
Speaker 1: I know I know what that is. So I know
Speaker 1: how this team respond and I have confidence in this
Speaker 1: football team. You have a short week and you can
Speaker 1: get right that guy. You gotta play the you play
Speaker 1: the cards you're dealt, you know. Um. And I think
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for us to learn a lot
Speaker 1: about ourselves. You know. It's uh, it's just so wasn't
Speaker 1: out with mentality? Pretty super lun that you don't have
Speaker 1: to talk about being seventeen at all? Now that's all
Speaker 1: for for you. I mean I wasn't entertaining it at all. Um.
Speaker 1: You obviously want to win all the games you're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, and tonight wasn't wasn't our night, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: I think in terms of like I said, the message
Speaker 1: for me is control of things that you can. And
Speaker 1: when you do that, you gotta you gotta pretty good
Speaker 1: opportunity to be victorious in the end. So how do
Speaker 1: you do it? You know, you you prepare, um, the
Speaker 1: attention to detail, the energy you have, the approach, the
Speaker 1: mentality towards it, and ultimately playing the other you know,
Speaker 1: playing together after the phone, next play next, plain you
Speaker 1: know what I like I said, we had opportunities. We
Speaker 1: had opportunities day. I mean, hey, I'm sitting there on
Speaker 1: the sideline. They they're giving us these opportunities. UM, they're
Speaker 1: trying to let us win this game, you know. And no,
Speaker 1: we didn't take advantage of the opportunities when we had,
Speaker 1: Like I said, we turned the ball over very un
Speaker 1: characteristic mistakes. UM. And those are things that I know
Speaker 1: that UM, every individual in the locker room take personally,
Speaker 1: and we're eager to fix and we're eager to have
Speaker 1: another opportunity two. UM, express ourselves on the field. So
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta definitely, um lick this one and
Speaker 1: look ourselves in the mirror after this one. UM, take
Speaker 1: the steps we need to take, I mean, acknowledge the
Speaker 1: things that we need to fix and fix themist. You know,
Speaker 1: the first eight games, you guys were I think plus
Speaker 1: fourteen in the turnover margin. Did you think that pace
Speaker 1: was sustainable or did you think something like this could happen?
Speaker 1: So it's about the standard, you know, the standard. I
Speaker 1: think every every football team pop worn their high school, college, NFL.
Speaker 1: They preached to protect the ball. UM, they preached to
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. They preach all these great things because it's
Speaker 1: football one on one fundamentals, you know. And you that
Speaker 1: they played a great game to night. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a really good opponent we played tonight and they showed
Speaker 1: up that they played well. You know. And in terms
Speaker 1: of us controlling the things that we can control with
Speaker 1: our ball security, UM, no one. You know, the operation
Speaker 1: of what we're supposed to do where we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be UM and doing it with the right detail and fundamentals,
Speaker 1: that's something that we can control. UM. So that is UM.
Speaker 1: That'll be an emphasis this. It's a lucky game, your
Speaker 1: zero chances to make the play, but it's a double coverage.
Speaker 1: How do you view it? Yeah, happens. I think it happens.
Speaker 1: Jaeling to your point of winning and being able to
Speaker 1: maintain that hunger, you feel like that was something that
Speaker 1: was happening. Kind of looking retrospect, maybe it wasn't at
Speaker 1: the level that it happened. I think in the end,
Speaker 1: it's about how you respond, regardless of what's in front
Speaker 1: of you. How do you respond to this scenario? How
Speaker 1: do you respond to that scenario? How do you respond
Speaker 1: to the joy, the feeling of joy? How do you
Speaker 1: respond to the feeling of pain? Um, I got a
Speaker 1: good feeling. How we respond? Thanks our right, Eagles fans.
Speaker 1: Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player
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Speaker 1: we get to all that and get to those nominees,
Speaker 1: fran I know you broke down earlier in the show
Speaker 1: Eureka review. What do you got for us? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we want to take a look back at Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: first touchdown pass that happened on the second drive of
Speaker 1: this game, and that is going to be our Rico
Speaker 1: review here tonight. And I think the big thing is
Speaker 1: we talked about this on the Kickoff show, Ella is
Speaker 1: what we're kind of the changeups. What are the wrinkles
Speaker 1: that we would see from the Eagles offense, not just
Speaker 1: off the extra week of rest here, some extra time
Speaker 1: ten days since that Houston game, but also second time
Speaker 1: facing a similar opponent, seeing the Washington Commanders here in
Speaker 1: week ten after face them in week three. Well, we
Speaker 1: got that answer on this play. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: film because, well, I remember in that first game, empty
Speaker 1: sets were such a big part of the Eagles offense,
Speaker 1: and you can see these empty sets here Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: in the low red zone, no one in the backfield
Speaker 1: with them. Now, there was a play in the low
Speaker 1: red zone against Washington in Week three where Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: took the snap, dropped back and took off on a
Speaker 1: QB drop. Washington faced it. We saw some other teams
Speaker 1: trying to deal with this as well. That has been
Speaker 1: a play that has been in the Eagles playbook. So
Speaker 1: when they get down into the low red zone, what
Speaker 1: are some changeups you can do off of that? We
Speaker 1: can let this play for a second. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: Jalen hurt Is gonna take the snap and it looks
Speaker 1: like QB draw except then he pulls up. Look at
Speaker 1: what those linebackers did. This was essentially a play action
Speaker 1: fake with no running back in the backfield. Because those
Speaker 1: linebackers they attack the line of scrimmage thinking QB run,
Speaker 1: qb run, qb run. Dallas Goddard is going to slide
Speaker 1: behind those linebackers. It is a little pop, a little
Speaker 1: pop pass in the red zone. We can let this play.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts hops up in the air, throws this over
Speaker 1: the top to Dallas Goddard and it's a touchdown there
Speaker 1: for the Jalen Hurts there in the low red zone.
Speaker 1: Outstanding wrinkle from this Eagles offense from the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Really good changeup off of a fastball. Again, when you
Speaker 1: get those low red zone plays, it's a high leveled situation.
Speaker 1: Really good game planning there from the Eagles coaching staff
Speaker 1: using a changeup off of a play they showed in
Speaker 1: the first match up. There, the Eagles get on the
Speaker 1: board there in the second drift of the game. I
Speaker 1: was Sola friends Thunder for his RICO review because I
Speaker 1: was going right to Toyota Player of the Weeks. I
Speaker 1: wanted to break down our three nominees. As your reminder,
Speaker 1: you can vote on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com slash Toyota
Speaker 1: the Player of the Week to cast your vote. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get into the nominees, starting with the defense, CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson. That's his fifth straight game with an interception,
Speaker 1: number six on the night. Next up, we have jay
Speaker 1: Von Hardgrave again. Just a great night for jay Von
Speaker 1: hardgravee upfront. And then of course DeVante Smith on his birthday.
Speaker 1: Scoring a touchdown seems to be the thing for him
Speaker 1: on his birthday. He's got to get a touchdown. What
Speaker 1: do we think Slim Reaper's birthday? Gotta give it to
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith? Right, two targets on third down, both of
Speaker 1: them were converted for first downs. He gets the touchdown
Speaker 1: grab on his birthday. He had a fire outfit coming in.
Speaker 1: I mean that's not had the best outfit I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: You were his birthday outfit today? Yes he does, sir,
Speaker 1: Yes he did. I think it's gonna be DeVante Smith.
Speaker 1: That would be my vote for Toyota player that we have.
Speaker 1: All Right, Eagles fans, get your votes in. We're gonna
Speaker 1: move on to the Jamison nightcap, looking ahead to Indianapolis
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We're back to regularly scheduled programming here at
Speaker 1: one o'clock Sunday game Eagles football. They hit the road
Speaker 1: playing the Holts. It's been an interesting year, to say
Speaker 1: the least in Indianapolis. Frank Raik obviously out as their
Speaker 1: head coach. Jeff Saturday first time head coach ever taking
Speaker 1: the job. He did get his first win this week
Speaker 1: they defeated the Raiders. Who will play quarterback. It looks
Speaker 1: like perhaps Matt Ryan, he was benched earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday put him back out there. He is your vet.
Speaker 1: You gotta stick with Matt Ryan. But a big task
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Like we mentioned, they are coming off
Speaker 1: of a loss, but also on the flip side of
Speaker 1: that as the coming off of a loss. So it
Speaker 1: could be a dangerous game for the Colts. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I think the Eagles won't have any
Speaker 1: problem getting motivated, getting motivated this week and paying attention
Speaker 1: to detail. That's what a loss will do to you.
Speaker 1: If anything, this game, Nick Sirianni is going back home,
Speaker 1: so he'll be answering questions about that all week and
Speaker 1: what's going on, So he's not to do a great
Speaker 1: job of making sure that he blocks out all that
Speaker 1: nonsense that they'll want to talk to him about this
Speaker 1: week about making a return trip to Indianapolis. These players, though,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be folk. I'm ready to go. Whether it's
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan or Sam Ellinger. They want to get this
Speaker 1: bad taste out of their mouth. So I don't have
Speaker 1: any problem worrying about the players being ready to go
Speaker 1: next Sunday. Yeah, it's been a decent amount of time
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Colts in the last few days
Speaker 1: and certainly coming into today. I just want to see
Speaker 1: what this offensive identity was going to be. You had
Speaker 1: a first time play caller. Obviously, no Marcus Brady their
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, or no Frank Reich their head coach. So
Speaker 1: what was the identity going to be? On offense? We
Speaker 1: hit on it earlier in the show, heavy dose of
Speaker 1: the run game and a lot of quick throws from
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. The ball got out really really fast. Now
Speaker 1: on defense, not a lot of mystery there. Gus Bradley,
Speaker 1: that coaching staff, they are well entrenched there. We know
Speaker 1: the identity of a Gus Bradley defense. They're gonna play
Speaker 1: a lot of single high at extra man in the box,
Speaker 1: roddniy McCloud is playing good safety ball for them as
Speaker 1: the strong safety close to the line of scrimmage, so
Speaker 1: you'll see a familiar face there. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of Cover three, a lot of Cover one,
Speaker 1: not a lot of blitz. It's gonna be a four
Speaker 1: man rush. You're gonna know what to expect here from
Speaker 1: this Gus Bradley defense on Sunday out in Indianapolis. We
Speaker 1: will have you covered on the kickoff show at twelve
Speaker 1: ten MPM right before that one o'clock kick in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: But for now, the Eagles moved to eight and one
Speaker 1: tonight and they're gonna go for nine and one next week.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in to Eagles fans, and
Speaker 1: as always, go Birds.