Speaker 1: After keeping the game close in the first half, the
Speaker 1: Eagles were undone by four total turnovers in the second half,
Speaker 1: including a pick six that was returned to the house
Speaker 1: by linebacker Dion Buchanan, as the Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles forty to seventeen on Sunday Night Football. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the postgame show presended by Rico here
Speaker 1: on philip Delphia Eagles dot Com. I'm Chris McPherson and
Speaker 1: alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese and I we all
Speaker 1: wanted to see how would the Eagles respond going against
Speaker 1: a team that had won seven straight games in the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Some people would say that this was maybe
Speaker 1: the best team from top to bottom in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: even with the Carolina Panthers being undefeated. But after backedback
Speaker 1: wins over in New England and Buffalo, how would the
Speaker 1: Eagles respond? Was still so much to play for, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles again held up their end of the bargain
Speaker 1: for most of the first half, but just came out
Speaker 1: flat in the second half, outscored twenty three to seven,
Speaker 1: undone by four turnovers as Arizona dominated with forty seventeen
Speaker 1: victory that improved to twelve and two on the season.
Speaker 1: They clinched then NC West Division title. Yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. The final score of my ping Chris certainly
Speaker 1: isn't indicative of the way most of this game was played.
Speaker 1: To night nippin Tuck in that first half, I thought
Speaker 1: that really the turning point is right before the half
Speaker 1: Eagles fourth and one. You could take a field goal there,
Speaker 1: or you go for it on fourth down. I like
Speaker 1: the aggressive approach there from Chip Kelly going forward because
Speaker 1: I think you need to score points in order to
Speaker 1: beat to the team like Arizona. Play was not executed.
Speaker 1: They gave up penetration to the right side of the offense,
Speaker 1: Matthews get stuffed in the backfield, and I think that
Speaker 1: sort of took a little bit of air out of
Speaker 1: the team, gave Arizona confidence. And then for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to come out in the second half not score on
Speaker 1: that opening drive, give Arizona the ball back. They put
Speaker 1: points on the board, and then things began to unravel
Speaker 1: a little bit. Turnovers there and the third quarter really
Speaker 1: is what blew this game out the way that it was.
Speaker 1: But I thought the Eagles for the most part. They
Speaker 1: came into the game gained, ready to go, ready to play.
Speaker 1: You just against a team like Arizona, you can't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over four times. You just cannot turn the
Speaker 1: ball over four times. And the Eagles were old and
Speaker 1: two in the red zone. You gotta score touchdowns when
Speaker 1: you're in the red zone. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: key fourth and one play in the second quarter. This
Speaker 1: is whatever everyone's going to be discussing over the next
Speaker 1: twenty four hours or so. I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: do like the aggressive play call. Do you think that
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly should have had Demarca Murray in the game.
Speaker 1: As Demarca Murray this season, as the NBC graphic showed,
Speaker 1: was a perfect twelve or twelve on third or fourth
Speaker 1: and one situations on the air, Yeah, but the only
Speaker 1: problem there, and I get it. You know, he hadn't
Speaker 1: touched the ball yet. So with Ryan Matthews and Darren
Speaker 1: Sproles being the guys that have already touched the ball,
Speaker 1: I'm perfectly okay with him giving the ball to Ryan Matthews.
Speaker 1: He had to bocal the carries in the first half.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray was cold. There's no talent with that type
Speaker 1: of penetration, DeMarco Murray doesn't pick up that first down either.
Speaker 1: I think that was more to do about the blocking
Speaker 1: up front and not executing up front with the blocking
Speaker 1: than they had to do with who was carrying the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan Matthews just didn't have a chance to
Speaker 1: get going because there was penetration on that right side.
Speaker 1: So Murray did get a few steps in the first half,
Speaker 1: but didn't touch the ball until mid away through the
Speaker 1: third quarter of this ball game, something that had coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly. I'm sure we'll discuss well if his press conference,
Speaker 1: and will also hear from quarterback Sam Bradford and have
Speaker 1: some All twenty two analysis from NFL Film senior producer
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. Now, like, coming to the game explosive place.
Speaker 1: That was going to be a big facet of what
Speaker 1: the Eagles were going to be able to do from
Speaker 1: a defensive standpoint, but all of a sudden, injuries really
Speaker 1: hampered the secondary. They lost Byron Maxwell to a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: they lost Eric Road to a concussion. So at one
Speaker 1: point during the course of the game you had players
Speaker 1: like EJ. Biggers, Jaln Watkins out there in fact, there
Speaker 1: was a snap where you had those two along with
Speaker 1: other defensive backs such as Chris Maragos and Ed Reynolds,
Speaker 1: all on the field at the same time. And this
Speaker 1: was already the most explosive opportunistic offense in the entire
Speaker 1: National Football League. So that, combined with the personnel that
Speaker 1: was on the field. That being said, ike I was
Speaker 1: quite surprised by the fact that the running game was
Speaker 1: so successful that David Johnson had that big run, that
Speaker 1: over forty yard touchdown run, which it seemed like the
Speaker 1: entire team had a chance to be able to stop them.
Speaker 1: And to me, I thought that was very discouraging seeing
Speaker 1: that that play take shape here because you figure the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense has been good against the run for most
Speaker 1: of the season. However, on that play, it seemed like
Speaker 1: all the energy was at out of the stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Listen, when you're facing the team
Speaker 1: like Arizona, you don't have to pick your poison. They
Speaker 1: can beat you through the air and they can hurt
Speaker 1: you on the ground when you start to pay too
Speaker 1: much attention to their passion attack. And that's what Billy
Speaker 1: Davis and his defense came into the game. Game planning
Speaker 1: for take away, the deep throws, take away, the big plays,
Speaker 1: the X plays, the Arizona loves. You even noticed on
Speaker 1: some plays Arizona was still throwing the ball down the
Speaker 1: field deep even though there was dub run triple team
Speaker 1: coverage there, because that's just what they like to do. Now.
Speaker 1: The disappointing part for the Eagles defense was that they
Speaker 1: couldn't stop the run with a six man front. And
Speaker 1: to me, you know, when you have your linement upfront
Speaker 1: taking on blocks, two gapping, your linebackers got to make
Speaker 1: the plays. Your linebackers have to scrape, they have to
Speaker 1: get all blocks, and they got to get downhill. You know,
Speaker 1: you get to play like this. This play can't happen.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't have a running back run through
Speaker 1: eight guys on your defense that had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make a stop and they did another. You see guys running, buying, sliding, overrunning,
Speaker 1: bouncing all tackles. See, players don't happen like this unless
Speaker 1: players are missing tackles. Those guys were in position. That
Speaker 1: was a what a forty seven yard touchdown run? That
Speaker 1: should have been a six seven yard game, I mean,
Speaker 1: and then you go back and you play again. You
Speaker 1: know again, you see right there, guys overrunning to play.
Speaker 1: The running back just refuses to go down, and you
Speaker 1: see a bunch of guys lunging, not bringing their feet,
Speaker 1: not running through the tackles. And that's when you get
Speaker 1: big runs. You know, when you're playing a team like
Speaker 1: Arizona and you can't take away everything. I thought the
Speaker 1: defense did a decent job against the passing game, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole this offense to two hundred and fifty something
Speaker 1: yards throwing the ball, that's a pretty decent day. But
Speaker 1: the running game is would hurt them. That's what's so disappointing.
Speaker 1: Because him into this game, you figured, we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to contain those X plays as much as possible. Make
Speaker 1: sure the guys that John Brown, although he had a
Speaker 1: few drops, that he doesn't beat you deep too many times.
Speaker 1: Then Michael Floyd, the one handed castle that he made
Speaker 1: against Jala Watkins that set up David Johnson last third. Look,
Speaker 1: that was a beautiful play. Give him all the crey
Speaker 1: in the world. You try to limit those plays as
Speaker 1: much as possible. But you figured coming into it, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take away the run game. That was not going
Speaker 1: to be a factor. Chris Johnson has a broken leg.
Speaker 1: He's out until at least the playoffs. So you have
Speaker 1: the rookie in there, you figured, okay, could you contain him. Well,
Speaker 1: it obviously wasn't a chance for the Eagles or the
Speaker 1: opportunity for the Eagles to do that on this evening,
Speaker 1: so they were not able to stop him, giving up
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards in the first half, three toll touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He also had a couple of receptions, so he hurt
Speaker 1: you in the past game as well. So for as
Speaker 1: well as the Eagles did trying to contain the likes
Speaker 1: of Larah Fitzgerald, who really didn't go off in a
Speaker 1: big way like he hasn't a pass against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: John Brown, Michael Floyd. It was guys like Daniel Fells
Speaker 1: who had a big reception early in the game, and
Speaker 1: of course David Johnson the big story there, not just
Speaker 1: on the ground but in the air as well, getting
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards and scoring the three touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really do believe the biggest story here is David
Speaker 1: Johnson controlling the clock, picking up first downs, big runs.
Speaker 1: I mean, wee we've seen this run defense sort of
Speaker 1: collect itself over the past couple of weeks and get
Speaker 1: back to playing defense the way we become a customed
Speaker 1: to watching them play this season, and tonight they took
Speaker 1: a major step back. And I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was just too much focused on the passing game and
Speaker 1: not enough respect for David Johnson back there as a
Speaker 1: running back, or they didn't maybe they didn't think the
Speaker 1: Cardinals would commit to the running game as much as
Speaker 1: they did tonight. But that's the difficulty of defending this
Speaker 1: offense is that they have weapons everywhere, and they don't
Speaker 1: mind putting it up or putting it on the ground.
Speaker 1: They'll take the points wherever they can get them. And
Speaker 1: tonight and certainly appeared as if there were some salt
Speaker 1: spots in the Eagles run defense, and credit the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals for basically recognizing that and sticking with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's really what it boil down to, is that the
Speaker 1: Eagles tried to stop the running game tonight, what a
Speaker 1: six man front, and they just couldn't get done with
Speaker 1: the linebacker playing the inside. So the Eagles lose forty
Speaker 1: to seventeen. Now the challenge for the Eagles is on
Speaker 1: a short week. They're gonna play the Washington Redskins on
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Football the day after Christmas, and the division
Speaker 1: still hangs in the balance, but it is a must
Speaker 1: win game for the Eagles. If they win the final
Speaker 1: two games, they win the division. But it's so tough
Speaker 1: to even think about that right now. After seeing the
Speaker 1: performance that we saw here on the field tonight. We're
Speaker 1: gonna set it now to Lincoln Financial Field. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from the head coach in just a little bit, but
Speaker 1: first let's get Eagles inside. Dave Sparrow's reaction to the
Speaker 1: Eagles lost to the Cardinals. A seventeen to ten halftime
Speaker 1: deficit quickly got out of hand for the Eagles in
Speaker 1: the second half on Sunday Night and they lose to
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals forty to seventeen, Arizona rolling to four
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three total yards of offense. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just the passing game that killed the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: Rookie David Johnson one hundred and eighty seven rushing yards,
Speaker 1: three big touchdowns. Eagles defense couldn't get off the field
Speaker 1: the entire night. As for the offense, Sam Bradford three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one yards passing two touchdown passes, one
Speaker 1: to Zach Ertz one to Jordan Matthews, who had a
Speaker 1: big game, but the Eagles turning the football over three
Speaker 1: times in the third quarter that led to twenty one
Speaker 1: Arizona points. Bradford intercepted twice to go along with those
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes. The Eagles defense decimated by injuries, with
Speaker 1: starting cornerbacks Byron Maxwell and Eric row kode from the game.
Speaker 1: It just all went the wrong way for the Eagles
Speaker 1: against a very good Arizona team that clinches the NFC West.
Speaker 1: The Eagles now face their first true must win game
Speaker 1: of the season on Saturday night when Washington comes to town.
Speaker 1: The Eagles trailing Washington by one game in the NFC East,
Speaker 1: Eagles are six and eight and facing an absolute win
Speaker 1: or this twenty fifteen season will not end in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: As for DeMarco Murray, two carries, three yards, a total
Speaker 1: non factor in this football game. All right, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Dave, and I think you succinctly said everything
Speaker 1: that needed to be put right there. The Eagles losing
Speaker 1: forty to seventeen. We're waiting to hear from head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly at the stadium. He should be come up
Speaker 1: in just a few moments. But to start the game off,
Speaker 1: like the Eagles wanted the coin toss, and it's usually
Speaker 1: you don't want to complain about the decision they make,
Speaker 1: have to win the coin toss, but knowing that Arizona
Speaker 1: strength his offense to give them the ball to start
Speaker 1: things off, what did you think of that decision? Well,
Speaker 1: I've been saying since Chip took over here. You know
Speaker 1: it's following on dead fears. I've always felt this is
Speaker 1: a offensive oriented team, so why not put your strength
Speaker 1: on the field first if you get the opportunity too.
Speaker 1: So I've always been in favor of if we win
Speaker 1: the tallis we should take the ball. But I understand
Speaker 1: getting the ball in second half wanting that ensuring yourself
Speaker 1: that extra possession in the second half. If you happen
Speaker 1: to be down, he gives you an opportunity to sort
Speaker 1: of get back in the game. And that's sort of
Speaker 1: the way this failed. But the moment's leading right up
Speaker 1: the halftime where we decided to go for go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down instead of taking the three, That
Speaker 1: could have been two opportunities there to put points on
Speaker 1: the board. So, you know, I get it. Chip likes
Speaker 1: to have the ball in the second half. First, I
Speaker 1: understand it, But I've always been in favor of if
Speaker 1: you win the toss, put that defense on, I mean,
Speaker 1: put your offense on the field, go down there and
Speaker 1: score points early. Set the tone. Yeah, set toe for
Speaker 1: the course of the game. The Cardinals got the ball first,
Speaker 1: they went down the field seventy eight yards and eight
Speaker 1: plays and David Johnson scored the first of his three
Speaker 1: touchdowns of the evening to put the Cardinals up and
Speaker 1: put the Eagles in the early hole. Plus it also
Speaker 1: take some of the air out of the crowd as well.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. You want to play off that error?
Speaker 1: Do you want to play off that emotion? The fans,
Speaker 1: I think wanted to see what the Eagles would do tonight,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately they just weren't up up to their task. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to me. I was over there earlier.
Speaker 1: The electricity was in the building prior to the game.
Speaker 1: You know, we knew what type of barometer this was.
Speaker 1: With Arizona coming in as a very good football team.
Speaker 1: He wanted to see exactly where the Eagles stacked up
Speaker 1: against the upper echelon teams and it was a blackout tonight.
Speaker 1: And like I said, that first half, you know, they
Speaker 1: were going total total with him. I thought the defense
Speaker 1: played well in the first half. Fletcher Cox played well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's say it to leak facer field where
Speaker 1: head coach Chip Kelly is set to address the media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know we had Ryan and there he's two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty pound back. I thought we were gonna get
Speaker 1: it on fourth and one, ballut bounced outside of the
Speaker 1: DBS and um, it's kind of the game. We don't
Speaker 1: get it there. Um, you know, you look back at
Speaker 1: that kind of hindsight. But I thought, in terms of
Speaker 1: making the call that that we were going to get
Speaker 1: the you know, it's fourth and one. We think we
Speaker 1: can pound it up in there. We got two tight
Speaker 1: ends in the game, part of receiver over to handle
Speaker 1: the dB and then you know, pound it up in
Speaker 1: there and see if we can get the first time.
Speaker 1: How much for an asteris do you give the defense
Speaker 1: because they were playing a couple of men down recommendations? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately there are no asteris. You know, everybody's
Speaker 1: hurt at this point in time during the season, and um,
Speaker 1: you know we got to make do the biggest disappointments.
Speaker 1: We just didn't tackle well, you know, and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's really where I look at it. The defensive we
Speaker 1: went and tackle well. In offensive, we return the ball over. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, those are the two things. But uh, every
Speaker 1: game counts and there are there are no asteris that
Speaker 1: you can say, Hey, we had some guys hurt. Everybody
Speaker 1: has guys hurts at this time of year or so.
Speaker 1: We return it was a one score game and he
Speaker 1: turned it over three times. The score return over two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we you know, and we were moving the ball too,
Speaker 1: you know. The first one was a play action pass, um,
Speaker 1: and it just looks like we got beat around the
Speaker 1: left side. Uh, and Sam stepping up in the pocket,
Speaker 1: but just didn't have time. Um. On Ryan's look, we
Speaker 1: had a run that we you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: creased him and we're moving it again in positive artist.
Speaker 1: I thought we moved the ball, um. But against this team,
Speaker 1: I think they've had one turnover in the last three
Speaker 1: games themselves. Um, they had one penalty today, they had
Speaker 1: no turnovers. You know, against a really good team like that,
Speaker 1: especially a really good offensive team like that. You can't
Speaker 1: turn the football over like we did and uh and
Speaker 1: expect to come out on top. So we're happening on
Speaker 1: the fourth Cardinals first touchdown with Johnson Brandon look, liability
Speaker 1: had a sell the package that got in there, Lady Nikold,
Speaker 1: was that right call there? I'd have to look at
Speaker 1: the film on the fourth and one went, who's called
Speaker 1: the time out? That you changed the look between what
Speaker 1: was there before and then to play you were in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we went in motion and we brought a guy across.
Speaker 1: So we started off in a double's formation and we
Speaker 1: motioned to a trips formation. So you know, the original
Speaker 1: look we were in was doubles when we came out
Speaker 1: of the when we came out of the time out,
Speaker 1: so I had to Sam Bradford play. And what happened
Speaker 1: on the fixed six, I thought Sam played well, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think again, I think we've got to hold.
Speaker 1: We got to catch the ball better for him. I
Speaker 1: thought he threw the ball well tonight he got hit um,
Speaker 1: but he stayed in there and delivered the ball um.
Speaker 1: I think he got flushed from my standpoint on the
Speaker 1: on the interception, got flushed and then just to it
Speaker 1: behind Ryan who was who's running the A three chip
Speaker 1: that was running through the flats. Look, they got the
Speaker 1: ball behind him. Going forward, how we give a concern
Speaker 1: going forward with how to do starting quarterbacks? I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta go with who's who's available. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't get to you know, call a time out and say, hey,
Speaker 1: give us a couple more days to get ready here.
Speaker 1: And but it's at this point in time during the year.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been fortunate, we have been healthy. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know at the corner spot. We lost Nolan
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, you know, so now we're we were and
Speaker 1: then you lose one in three basically, so now you're
Speaker 1: down to number four and number five. But you know
Speaker 1: that's what we got to do. And um, you know
Speaker 1: that's just part of the game at this point in
Speaker 1: time during the season. So well to the first question,
Speaker 1: what was the plan with the mark Ville tonight? The play?
Speaker 1: Where were going to rotate the running backs? We didn't
Speaker 1: run the ball as much as we wanted to run
Speaker 1: the ball, but we rotated those three guys. We only
Speaker 1: played three tonight. Did he know that he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: a certain point? He had only did tap one. I
Speaker 1: didn't see him in the fourth quarter, so that's a
Speaker 1: question for him. Do you only expect him to get
Speaker 1: light too? You know, I expected us to run the
Speaker 1: ball better, So I mean obviously the more carriages you have,
Speaker 1: the more you can distribute that so again, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you get behind, it turns into a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a throwing game. So um, that's that
Speaker 1: kind of that's where kind of happens in those games
Speaker 1: you mentioned tackle on what was the problem there? I mean,
Speaker 1: I have to look at all the film, but I
Speaker 1: know we did not tackle well. You know, I know
Speaker 1: he's a big back, but we did not do a
Speaker 1: good job tackling him tonight, And in the games where
Speaker 1: we haven't been successful defensively, it's come down to that.
Speaker 1: We didn't tackle well against Tampa Bay. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought in the last two weeks we have tackled
Speaker 1: well in the defensive side of the ball, but today,
Speaker 1: just looking at it, until you really look at the
Speaker 1: film and discept what the issues are, I just know
Speaker 1: flat out we didn't tackle. We didn't tackle well. Should
Speaker 1: if there's a big goal between is where your team
Speaker 1: is where Ruce's team is right now? There was tonight.
Speaker 1: So is the big picture something you talk to the
Speaker 1: team about now that the fact that you have two
Speaker 1: games left in the windows two you get to the
Speaker 1: postseason waits more if we win that one. So it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter about two, matters about one. So you know,
Speaker 1: we don't take care of business on Saturday, then there's
Speaker 1: nothing to really, there's not a second game to even
Speaker 1: talk about. So all right, there's head coach Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: addressing the media Lincoln Financial Field following the Eagles loss
Speaker 1: here on Sunday Night football to the Arizona Cardinals. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear a little bit later from quarterback Sam Bradford,
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Speaker 1: alongside former Eagles linebacker ike Reecee Chip Kelly not really
Speaker 1: a man of two many words after this disappointed loss. No, No,
Speaker 1: when you have a loss like tonight, and obviously it's disappointing,
Speaker 1: coach is not gonna have a whole lot to say,
Speaker 1: you know, because obviously he's keeping his emotions under control.
Speaker 1: He has to be frustrated with tonight's with tonight's loss,
Speaker 1: but he also knows that they have two football games
Speaker 1: left to play, so it's only so much you can
Speaker 1: do about tonight's game. They got to get back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board asap. They played next Saturday night, so
Speaker 1: that's one less day of preparation, so they probably he
Speaker 1: and the rest of his coaches that are more thanlikely
Speaker 1: going to head over here and get ready for the
Speaker 1: Red Skins start in the night. Quarterback Sam Bradford was
Speaker 1: under siege pretty much the entire night. Four turnovers all
Speaker 1: in the second half. One of them, of course, was
Speaker 1: a fumble by Ryan Matthews, but two interceptions, one return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown by Dion Buchanan. The first fumble was
Speaker 1: a sack trip by Marcus Golden who came off the
Speaker 1: edge against Jason Peters and got Sam Bradford from behind.
Speaker 1: But Bradford showed some toughness and he was able to
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket and make some good throws at
Speaker 1: times some clutch throws. The problem was, I just felt
Speaker 1: like he was under a barrage of pass defenders throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the entire night. Yeah, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, Chris thought I thought it was his best
Speaker 1: game as an evil, you know. I thought he stood
Speaker 1: in there, he took some he took some big shots tonight.
Speaker 1: I thought he delivered some pretty good throws. You know,
Speaker 1: for the first game, I saw him fit throws in
Speaker 1: the tight places, in the tight windows you know you're
Speaker 1: talking about. He almost completed seventy percent of his throws
Speaker 1: the night for three hundred and sixty yards. And I
Speaker 1: know he has the three turnovers, the two interceptions that
Speaker 1: throw right there to bread selling. You know that throw
Speaker 1: are going to be put one place and on the
Speaker 1: back shoulder that that's where that throw had to go.
Speaker 1: How many times did he stand in the pocket waiting
Speaker 1: for guys to get open and then take a big
Speaker 1: hit while he was delivering the throw tonight? So I
Speaker 1: thought Sam Bradford had his best game. It's unfortunate that
Speaker 1: it ended up in a loss for him, So he
Speaker 1: certainly won't view it as his best game as an Eagle.
Speaker 1: But when you just look at it from a pure
Speaker 1: quarterback performance standpoint, again, you don't. You can't erase the interceptions.
Speaker 1: They happened, but there were plenty of other throws where
Speaker 1: he displayed a big time arm, big time helpness and
Speaker 1: really looked like the quarterback that everyone hoped he would
Speaker 1: be when they brought him here, and against a very
Speaker 1: good defense. There's always going to be opportunities to make
Speaker 1: plays against the defense that blitzes as much as Arizona blitzes.
Speaker 1: Because you're gonna get man to man coverage on the
Speaker 1: back end. You just have to trust your wilde receivers
Speaker 1: and put the ball up there. But to stand in
Speaker 1: the pocket knowing you're gonna take big hits and still
Speaker 1: deliver those throws. I thought Sam Bradford played his best
Speaker 1: game well. He got went down on the one shot
Speaker 1: early in the game, and I think we all held
Speaker 1: our breast thinking, did he get this shoulder injured again?
Speaker 1: It was something wrong? There was he gonna be out
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time. He missed one snap
Speaker 1: and was back in there to help out the offense.
Speaker 1: Some big performances by some of his past catchers. Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews a career high in receiving yards tonight, had the
Speaker 1: big touchdown even though the game was over by that point.
Speaker 1: But after the struggles that he's had over the last month,
Speaker 1: it was good to see him get more involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really was. And you know what I saw and
Speaker 1: now I saw more throws down the field at least
Speaker 1: attempt wise, and then Jordan Matthews needed to come back
Speaker 1: and have a big game. He's been batting on battling
Speaker 1: a little bit of a back issue here the last
Speaker 1: week or so, and to see him out there to
Speaker 1: night making tough throws over the middle. This catch right
Speaker 1: here is big play early in the game to lay
Speaker 1: it to a field goal for the Eagles. But you
Speaker 1: know that's a tight window. Sam put that ball in
Speaker 1: and then to run after the catch, that's what we
Speaker 1: want to see yards after you catch the football, I thought,
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthew, that's a huge throw from Sam Bradford. He
Speaker 1: had to allow Matthews to clear that second level of defenders,
Speaker 1: knowing that he had a defensive lineman coming right down
Speaker 1: the middle that he was gonna get a clean shot
Speaker 1: on him, and he laid that ball in there, right
Speaker 1: in the bread basket. Matthews touchdowns. That's half his yards
Speaker 1: right there. That's an eighty yard that's almost an eighty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown throw right there. But and then it came late,
Speaker 1: but still the throw the standing in the pocket of
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, and then you got to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: You got to catch the bar when he's thrown to you,
Speaker 1: and that's what Matthews did the night. With two games
Speaker 1: left to go in the season, that's a welcome sight
Speaker 1: seeing Jordan Matthews get back on the horse. I liked
Speaker 1: him getting involved in the game early. He had two
Speaker 1: third down conversions on the first drive and that you
Speaker 1: could tell that it was gonna be a night where
Speaker 1: he was being more involved in the offense. That with
Speaker 1: this Cardinals attack where they blitz almost fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the time, there are gonna be some opportunities in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field for him to be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage to get some yards, and he was able
Speaker 1: to do so, also taking advantage in the middle zach
Speaker 1: Ertz another big game for him. Second touchdown is in
Speaker 1: three weeks. Definitely good to see him get going and
Speaker 1: being the big part of the offense that I think
Speaker 1: we all expected him to be, but of course he
Speaker 1: came along solely at the start of the season due
Speaker 1: to that core muscle surgery. But almost eighty yards once again,
Speaker 1: eight receptions and the touchdown. Good to see that he's
Speaker 1: involved in attacking the middle of the field as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And you knew coming into this
Speaker 1: game the Cardinals have been vulnerable to tight ends all year,
Speaker 1: so I kind of figured zach Ertz would have a
Speaker 1: big role in tonight's game. And you're starting to see
Speaker 1: the chemistry built up between Bradford and zach Ertz. I've
Speaker 1: always said a tight end as a quarterback's best friend.
Speaker 1: You need a safety value. You need someone that you
Speaker 1: can go to when you're in trouble. The tighteness who
Speaker 1: the quarterback typically looks for. And zach Ertz is finally healthy,
Speaker 1: completely healthy after that surgery had coming into the season,
Speaker 1: and it's starting to show on the field, and that's
Speaker 1: what you need. So it's great to see that take place,
Speaker 1: the chemistry on the field that'll set it. Now back
Speaker 1: to link and find the field quarterback, say Bradford meeting
Speaker 1: with the media. Just a bad play in my part,
Speaker 1: you know, just gotta find a way to just throw
Speaker 1: that ball in the dirt right there. Scared the crowd
Speaker 1: knocked out of mere shown there, just kid play. Just
Speaker 1: took another shot on that shoulder. And yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been such a plus four or five weeks or ever.
Speaker 1: Plenished it something of a Researchence just the first part
Speaker 1: of the season. Is this sort of a step down
Speaker 1: or do you feel like just a couple of plays
Speaker 1: here and there tonight? You know, I think we did
Speaker 1: some really good things. I mean, that was a really
Speaker 1: good defense that we played tonight. You know, I think
Speaker 1: they're top five in the league in total defense, and
Speaker 1: you know, we made some plays. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: like they shut us down all night. You know, we
Speaker 1: just had too many self inflicted wounds to really do anything,
Speaker 1: you know, to not get points before halftime. It's frustrating,
Speaker 1: you know. And then in the second half, you know,
Speaker 1: the fun boy I had, I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be a really big play, if not a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: that's a turnover, then we turn it over the next possession.
Speaker 1: And when you're playing a really good offense and a
Speaker 1: really good team like they are, you just can't afford
Speaker 1: to do those things. Um yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: like with any injury, I think, um, you know, you
Speaker 1: take it, hit on it, it's not fully recovered and
Speaker 1: it's vulnerable. I guess. But first half, what were you
Speaker 1: guys able to do? It seemed like you guys are
Speaker 1: pretty much had a good rhythm kind of for the
Speaker 1: first half of what was working for you guys. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we just had a good mix of some
Speaker 1: things going. Um. You know, I thought we had some
Speaker 1: nice runs. We also had some nice kind of uh
Speaker 1: you know, run pass options that they were giving us,
Speaker 1: just some quick game um. But you know, I thought
Speaker 1: we had a pretty good balance and you know, made
Speaker 1: some plays in that first half. What are you surprised
Speaker 1: to depart you get involved? Um. To be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure how many time too. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I guess that is a little bit surprising. But
Speaker 1: you know, we've been rotating our backs for the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and I think that's just kind of
Speaker 1: been the plan. And what's the mood of this team
Speaker 1: like now? I mean, I know you went last till
Speaker 1: you're still in the playoffs, but you know, when you
Speaker 1: match yourself up against an Arizona and you cat this
Speaker 1: short of be able, it's the new play um. And
Speaker 1: I think everyone's a little bit frustrated after the way
Speaker 1: we played tonight. Obviously we thought that we were taking
Speaker 1: steps in the right direction and then you know, really
Speaker 1: kept ourselves in the game, you know, up until I
Speaker 1: don't know midway through the third fourth quarter and then
Speaker 1: just kind of collapsed. But you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: the good news is, you know, we've got to have
Speaker 1: a short memory. You know, we've got to learn from
Speaker 1: this one and get ready for Saturday because it's coming
Speaker 1: quick and the next two games are really important. Um
Speaker 1: nor all right, quarterback Sam Bradford briefly addressing the media
Speaker 1: following the eagles forty to seventeen loss at the hands
Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals. And I think he said the
Speaker 1: right thing there at the end. They sell two games
Speaker 1: of play. It's a matter of having short memory, putting
Speaker 1: everything to the side, and focusing what they have to
Speaker 1: do over the next two weeks to get wins over
Speaker 1: Washington and the New York Giants. We're gonna take a
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Speaker 1: back to the postgame show presented by Rico here in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Now it's some time for a
Speaker 1: little All twenty two analysis. We talked about how zach
Speaker 1: Ertz had a nice game attacking the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: He got the Eagles their first touchdown of the evening
Speaker 1: of twenty two yards strike from quarterback Sam Bradford. So
Speaker 1: let's welcome an NFL Film senior producer, Greg Cosell to
Speaker 1: unveil exactly how it happened. The zach Ertz touchdown tied
Speaker 1: the game at the time at ten ten. Let's look
Speaker 1: at the play, and this is exactly what Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: speed tempo offense sometimes can do to a defense. Because
Speaker 1: the thing you should notice, there's only ten defenders on
Speaker 1: the field. We're not going to count them all out,
Speaker 1: but there's only ten defenders on the field because the
Speaker 1: Cardinals ran a player off who shouldn't run off the field. Now,
Speaker 1: let's look at the design of the play. You're going
Speaker 1: to see Selik right here. He's going to run what
Speaker 1: we call kind of an over route. You're going to
Speaker 1: see earts. He's going to run out and then break inside.
Speaker 1: Now what this does, Selik's over out will eat up
Speaker 1: this safety. So what you get is you get ERT's
Speaker 1: running his route on an outside leverage player Tony Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Right here. Let's clear the screen and let's watch this
Speaker 1: develop right here. Look what you get. You're getting this
Speaker 1: safety react to Selik that opens the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: You see Tony Jefferson right here reacting to Art's vertical
Speaker 1: stem outside and then Ertz will break back inside. He
Speaker 1: has won right now because of Tony Jefferson's body position.
Speaker 1: So let's clear the screen. Let's run this play. Beautifully
Speaker 1: designed play. I guarantee that would have worked with eleven
Speaker 1: defenders on the field. Girts touchdown. Thank you very much, Greg,
Speaker 1: and the full All twenty review will be available on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com tomorrow morning, I should say later
Speaker 1: on this morning, as it's past midnight here on the
Speaker 1: East Coast. Let's take a look at the playoffs scenarios
Speaker 1: facing the Eagles, and really it comes down to next
Speaker 1: Saturday night where the Eagles have to win. It's an
Speaker 1: elimination game for them. They cannot afford to lose to
Speaker 1: Washington if they hope to win the mcast. Yeah, sets
Speaker 1: up great. I mean, you have these this game at
Speaker 1: home against a divisional foe, a revenge game for you.
Speaker 1: They beat you down there in Washington earlier season. You
Speaker 1: get a chance to play them for the second time
Speaker 1: in your house, and so you got to take care
Speaker 1: of business. It's at home, it'll be in primetime again
Speaker 1: and then you go up against another Fox divisional foe
Speaker 1: the week after that, whom you've handled pretty well over
Speaker 1: the past couple of years in the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: So I know Tonight's lass. It's very difficult to swallow.
Speaker 1: You certainly didn't want to lose it by giving up
Speaker 1: forty points tonight. You certainly expected a better showing. But
Speaker 1: it was always going to boil down to beating the
Speaker 1: red Skins next week. Even had the Eagles won tonight,
Speaker 1: they still needed to beat the Redskins next week so
Speaker 1: that they don't go into that final game of the
Speaker 1: season needing to win. And so that game is at home.
Speaker 1: It'll be in front of our fans. It'll be at home.
Speaker 1: Eagles got to take care of business. Everybody will be
Speaker 1: in a good mood because of the holidays. It'll be
Speaker 1: to day at the Christmas Hey, it's playoff football. See,
Speaker 1: it's playoff football from here on out, the playoffs for
Speaker 1: the Eagles starting out. Because they lose next week, they're out.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's take a look at the NSC playoffs standing.
Speaker 1: So the Panthers undefeated at fourteen and oh, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: wrap up the NSC West Division title. With the victory tonight,
Speaker 1: they're twelve and two Packers pretty much selling into that
Speaker 1: number three spot this point at ten and four, Washington
Speaker 1: in first place getting the win today over Buffalo thirty
Speaker 1: five to twenty five, and Seattle probably one of the
Speaker 1: next year of hottest teams, you know, after Caroline, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Seattle is coming up there. They're not gonna win the division,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be the five seam most likely, and
Speaker 1: they will travel to whoever wins the NC. So if
Speaker 1: the Eagles can pull off the division title over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, Seattle will most likely be the
Speaker 1: team coming into town. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta take it
Speaker 1: the Redskins first. Take it, of course first. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you this is a hot Redskins team. They don't
Speaker 1: play that well on the road. They have one win
Speaker 1: coming last week. I believe it was against Chicago on
Speaker 1: the road. But Kirk Cousins is playing good football right now.
Speaker 1: They got Deshan Jackson back finally healthy. He had another
Speaker 1: big day today. So it's a divisional opponent. The Redskins
Speaker 1: know if they win next week, they basically clinch the NFC.
Speaker 1: So for all intents and purposes. It's a playoff game,
Speaker 1: so the Redskins defeared the Eagles earlier this season, so
Speaker 1: the Eagles must win the revenge game on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and we'll have complete coverage now. On Monday, make sure
Speaker 1: that one is for head coach Chip Kelly's day after
Speaker 1: press conference at one pm, and then Brian Westbrook will
Speaker 1: be in studio with Dave Spidero for Eagles three sixty
Speaker 1: at five pm. Let's gonna do it for us here
Speaker 1: on Philadelphias dot com on the postgame show presented by
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Speaker 1: Eagles night.