Eagles Postgame Show

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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome to the postgame show, presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella
di Giovanni, joined by friend Duffy and I Greece. Well
fellas the undefeated run came to an end here tonight,
thirty two to twenty one the Washington Commanders win in Philadelphia.
It's not the way that we wanted to see that
first loss hit the board this season, but it happened.
That's what happens, and it was more likely to happen
than not to happen. It was just a matter of

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how it would look. And I'm a little surprised at
how rusty we looked out there to night, taking care
of the football, doing things that we hadn't done the
previous eight weeks of the season. This looked like a
team that hadn't played in eleven days. A lot of
stuff they need to clean up, a lot of things
they need to go back to the drawing board to
work on. But like you said, Ella, you know the

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talk of being undefeated and going seventeen and old. Now
you can erase that and get back to the drawing board.
And even though you may think at times that you
are dotting all the eyes, crossing all the teas. When
you're paying attention to details prepping every week. It's only
a human nature to go nine weeks without losing the
game that sometimes you may overlook some things and you

(01:32):
may get a little relaxed. So I think this is
a great teaching moment for this team to sort of
have them sort of reu they can go back, recalibrate,
and then get ready for the rest of the season. Yeah.
I think the reality is is that one of the
hallmarks of this team through the first ten weeks of
the season has been that they do not beat themselves. Well. Tonight,
they beat themselves seven penalties for seventy five yards, penalties

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in all three phases of the game. No one is
safe here in this one because the defense they had
some keep penalties. That one down the stretch a killer
for this team. Special teams had at least two penalties
that I can think of off the top of my head.
Four turnovers on offense. You lose the turnover battle for
the first time. It's a lot of the things that
Nick Sirianni has pointed to and say these determined wins
and losses. Tonight and determined a loss, We're gonna check

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in with Eagles insider Dave Spider, who joins US from
Lincoln Financial Field. Dave, we just started talking about the
turnover battle. Through the first eight games of the season,
the Eagles committed three turnovers four just tonight. What went wrong? Well,
I mean, let's look at each one of them. The
first one the Jalen Hurts interception, I mean, a perfectly

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thrown ball that in good coverage that A J. Brown
didn't come up within. The defensive back made a great
play on. Then Dallas Goddard gets face masked, very cleared
everybody but the officials and loses the football. That was
a really tough one that led to three Washington points.
And then of course with Quez Watkins there, you know,
Careless made a great catch, perfectly thrown ball, great play,

(02:58):
great design, great everything. And then Quiz got up and
just didn't feel the pressure from the backside. And that
one was really the real real killers. So, I mean,
you cannot be sloppy with the football. We talked about
it before the game, how the signs around the novacare
complex of affirmation of the importance of ball security. The
players know it, the coaches know it. The Eagles had

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been historically great at it through eight games, and you
knew it would catch up with him at some point,
and tonight was a night. So Washington is the first
team to beat the Eagles this season. Did they create
some type of blueprint for teams store to face the
Eagles coming down the stretch? Yeah? No, Actually I think
Houston did last week because the Houston Texans ran the
football very effectively and then worked off of play action.

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And as ike reason I talked about in the press box,
it's a copycat league, and Washington came in here and
did the exact same thing. The Eagles ran nineteen offensive
plays in the first half. It was twenty to fourteen,
but it shure felt like more Eagles offense just didn't
get into any sort of rhythm in the Eagles defense.
I don't know what the final numbers were with the

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third downs, but at one, I mean it was just
ten of thirteen and eleven of fourteen. I mean it
was just the ability to run the football. Taylor Heineke
in third and short situations got the short passing game.
Going play action passing nullified the Eagles pass rush, and
you know that is your formula to beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles must stop the run and Jonathan Taylor awaits

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on Sunday and not to find in the far distance.
You know, Derrick Henry and the way the Packers can
run the football, I mean, Giants run the football at
Cowboys run the football. That is what the Eagles are
going after face. In these final two months of the
regular season, the Commanders finished twelve for twenty one on
third down. Like you mentioned, back to your regular routine

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Sunday football coming up against the Colts. But it is
a bit of a short week yet again here for
the Eagles. What does this week gonna look like? Dave, Yeah,
I think that's actually a good thing because I know
the Eagles are stewing. I know that they're stewing over
the last play when Heineke took the knee and two
players kind of slid into him. It's certainly from my
angle on the sidelines here, didn't look like it was
anything egregious. I mean, there were some plays that's clearly

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the officials did not see tonight and replay bared it out.
But that's just the way the NFL is and that's
human error and you gotta live with that. More importantly,
the Eagles have to get back to a as France
at protecting the football, minimizing the penalties, and then defensively,
they have got to get off the field on third downs.
And what was really, I guess the most concerning, not concerning,

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but surprising, the way Terry McLaren just ate up the
Eagles in the first half and through the game. I
mean he was opened a lot of this game. After
the Eagles shut him down in Week three. I was
surprised at that. I didn't think Washington had the firepower
to put up that many points in his game, but
they did. And the Washington Enters are very much a

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playoff team at this point in the NFC. What a division.
There's not gonna be any gimmeas down the stretch for
the Philadelphia Eagles, mclauren had eight receptions for one hundred
and twenty eight yards. And I knew you'll be delivering
Eagles and all they need to know postgame. As you
start to collect your sound from players in the locker room,
that locker room's gonna be really interesting. Ella. I think that,

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certainly after the first loss, and it's gonna be a
pretty peeved locker room. It'll be interesting to see if
the tune into Eagles Insider podcast incident reaction in just
a couple of hours. That was Eagles Insider Dave Spidera,
and we're gonna bring it back here to the desk
Terry McLaurin. Let's just keep going with that conversation. Eight
receptions for one hundred and twenty eight yards. He was
not only catching basically everything thrown his way, but the

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yards he was able to gain after the catch is
really what burnt the Eagles defense. Yeah, and a little
surprised that at the some point you didn't get more
press coverage for Terry McLaurin because it wasn't much vertical
throws to Terry. A lot of it was crossing the field,
so you get either it's a sleigh or Bradberry in
that sort of chase position. Terry McLaurin is gonna beat

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you there. And it starts with how well Washington ran
the football on early downs, and they hit you with
that play action or those boot plays. And now you
don't have the second level defenders underneath Terry McLaurin to
sort of help out the dbs who are sort of
playing over the top. When you get those crossing routes,
the dB has to be wary of is he gonna

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go over and then try to beat me deep or
does he keep going over? So that's where he's relying
on those underneath guys, those linebackers. The problem was, I
thought Washington ran the football so well. You got the
linebackers sucked up on the run an awful lot, and
those middle routes were open all day for Heineke, Terry
McLaurin and even Samuel's and sometimes. Yeah, it just hurt

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that so many of the world third down that was
the pivotal point in this game. I mean, yeah, they
finished twelve to twenty one. As you mentioned, just looking
even through the numbers, they started twelve or fourteen on
third down, which some of those players were just so
so crucial, and a lot of it went to Terry
McLarin Curtis Samuel had a crucial one early in the
third quarter as well. So I think when you look
at just third inability to get off the field on

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third down, even looking at the numbers, Brian Robinson finished
eighty six yards on the ground three point three a
carry like that, that's not terrible if you're looking at
it grand scope, but just the way that they were
able to gradually move the ball down the field and
then those very timely throws with those yards after catch,
they killed this team. Well, here's the problem. When you
have the defense on the field for that long, they're

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gonna get gas. And I understand in the defense the line,
there's a rotation there, but I mean in the first
half they outplayed the Eagles. They were on the field
for twenty three almost twenty four minutes, as opposed to
the Eagles offense being on the field for just over
six minutes. I mean, ken is a massive disparity between
the two. Yeah, and you can say with the offense
they could help out a little bit by picking up

(08:41):
first downs. But there's a couple of circumstances there where
the defense just have to get off the field. There's
a quick score when the defense gets the sack and
the Forest fumble, so that puts the defense back on
the field, as it didn't take long for the offense.
You gotta get off the field on third down, you know, friends,
exactly right, Those final numbers are misleading when you look
at the third down converts from Washington twelve or twenty

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one wouldn't make it would make it seem like it
wasn't that bad. But the fact that it was twelve
or fourteen to really go from the first three and
a half quarters of this game really was the telltale
sign for me that the Eagles were getting worn down right,
and you can get a little help from your offense.
They can extend draws. Certainly, they need to pick up
first downs, we understand that. But as a defense, you

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have to pride yourself when you get to third down,
it's time to get off the field. It was far
too many times where Washington was able to stay ahead
of the sticks and get in third and short situations,
and it didn't force Taylor Heineke to sit back there
and win the game. He actually was playing from under control,
as if okay, we can run the ball or we

(09:42):
can hit him with the boot, and he wasn't uncomfortable
enough for me tonight. Taylor Heineke, Yeah, I think at
the end of the day, I mean, that's the thing
is that the Eagles came out first drive gets extended
because of the roughing the kicker penalty. Luckily they come back,
they get the sack fumble, so that's a four play
drive to start the game for Washington. But they come
back sixteen plays in our thirteen plays on the next

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drive eleven, then sixteen six to close out the first
half of that long fifty eight yard field goal. Then
they come back out of the locker room with a
thirteen play drive. I mean it's four drives. They all
go for over eleven plays. That's draining for a defense
and that's tough to rebound from. The offense could not
get into a rhythm. The offense even when you looked
at it in the small sample size. They were two
for three on third down, that a couple of touchdown

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drives in that first half. They just could They were
not on the field long enough to be able to
sustain all that offense. The defense just could not get
off the field this week. And as locker Brandon Graham
said that Taylor Heineke has added a spark to this offense,
and you saw that here tonight. This was a different
team playing than we saw in Week three. There was
more confidence. They were playing with a lot of confidence.
And when you think about what the Eagles defense was

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able to do to Carson Wentz in that offensive line
in week three. That just wasn't happening tonight. They weren't
always winning in the trenches, and that's where it has
to get done first. Yeah, and you got to give
Washington a little credit. They came in and I think
what you're gonna get it is the game plan from
these teams coming up next is we can't try to
outscore the Philadelphia We can't try to win a shootout

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against his team, and maybe that their best defense is
trying to keep the Eagles offense on the sideline, and
so you're gonna get running the football you saw it
out of Houston, try to win the time of possession.
Tonight's game plan to me from Washington was let's keep
that Eagles offense on the sideline as long as possible
and stick with the run, even if it's only three

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yards at a time. Because that's really the difference in
the first game they played against Washington in this game
is that the first game they tried to come out
and win with Carson Wentz's arms and that offensive line
couldn't protect. Tonight, they said, you know what, if we
keep this game close, we get it to the second half,
who knows what's gonna happen. Let's put the ball and
Brian Robinson and Gibson's hands, and if we need to

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throw the ball on third down, you give Taylor heinike
easy throws, smart throws to where he can keep the
ball out of harm's way. Because he threw over a
couple of overthrows out there night. It could have been
picked off as well. He finally got intercepted late in
the game, but I thought there were some other throws
there that if we had someone in the right position,
it should have been an interception. They didn't want to
win by Hinnicks throwing the football until he had to

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throw the football. It's not Jamison nikecap yet. They're not
at that point of the show. But I got news
for us right now. That's how the Colts won that
game yesterday is that they went out and they said,
you know, we're gonna run the football at Jonathan Taylor.
He had his best day rushing over the entire season.
We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna play ball control.
It was a lot of quick throws. Matt Ryan throw
through two passes past fifteen yards yesterday. They all they

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wanted to do was dink and dunk, run the football,
control the clock, played good defense, and they go out
and they get a win. And Jeff Saturday's debut as
the head coach, I think we know what the formulas.
That's exactly what they were gonna do here next Sunday
out of the Lucasoil Stadium. We're gonna keep chugging away here.
But be sure to go into the Facebook comments for
our Ask Ike segment. You can ask any questions you

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may have and we will air them right here on
the show for Ike to answer to the best a
prisability in France. Right, and Dave and I were talking
about this during the game. It's a copycat league. So
when the team sees something on film and they see
that it's successful against their upcoming opponent, then they're going
to implement that into their game plan. And if you

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look at Indie next week, not to move past this game,
but it's what's coming up next. When you look at
the type of running backs, whether it's Green Bay with
Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon or you get King Henry
in three weeks when they faced Tennessee, that's what this
defense is going to get until they proved that they
can stop the run and tackling was something that mistackles

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we saw in the last game against the Houston Texas
showed up a little bit again tonight. We have to
with that second level get off blocks. Are linebackers. I
love their athleticism, I love their toughness. We got to
do a better job of hitting, shedding the blocks, and
bringing the ball carriers down. Yeah. I think that the
big thing just going back and watching this will be

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exactly what happened with those run plays. They the long
play on the ground eleven yards. This isn't like last
Thursday night where you saw the running back Damian Pierce
bust out that thirty six yard or in the first
quart in the first quarter, and you got a bunch
of miss tackles. It was just death by a thousand
paper cuts. It was plus three, plus four, plus five,
and all of a sudden, the Eagles were behind the
sixth A bunch of those conversions in that first half,

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third and two, third and three, third and one, and
they're running for two, they're running for three, they're running
for four and moving the chains. That's that's tough way
to live as a defense. And we talked about this
during the week on the Eagles game plan. The different
ways that Washington tries to run the football. You know,
they rarely fire off the ball and put a hat
on a hat. You're gonna get the Jets sweeps. You're

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gonna get Curtis Samuel in the backfield. You know, he
converted the one into round play for first down. So Washington,
you knew that's the type of running game you were
gonna see today. In their backs, they're two backs. They
aren't explosive runners, so they're more north south runners where
they aren't gonna make people miss. They just gonna try
to plow forward, and that can be frustrating to a defense.

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I'm telling you, it reminds me of the playoff game
we played against Green Bay in three to fourth and
twenty six game and being out there against Naji Dadmnpord
and those guys your mon Green Yeah, and I was
out there and place of Carlos Emmons. That was a
long day for your boy. Yeah, that was a long
day for your boy, only two hundred and twenty pounds.
They kept running those big guys over there at me.

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And I'm telling you, you're out there and you're saying
I'm taking on these blocks. I'm fighting, I'm doing everything
I can and it's still just not enough, and that
it was just one of those days. And that's kind
of the way tonight went for the Eagles. I will
say good news for your part. No one remembers the
fact that you've been beat off at the point of
attack everyone, because I still have nightmares. I have a

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question for you guys. Tonight, did we see the absences
of Jordan Davis and a volunteer Maddox. Yeah, I mean
especially Jordan Davis, you know, the big fella. If a
team is gonna run, especially a team like Washington, you know,
it's one thing when you have, you know, those speedbacks
to like to get to the outside, but when you
have two plowing runners like Washington has, you know they're

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gonna run between A, B and C gaps and that's
what Jordan Davis makes a lot of his hey inside there.
So yeah, I think anytime you get a big fellow
like that who eats up blockers, he doesn't necessarily need
to make the tackle, but it allows the other guys
to make tackles around him. So you know, I'm not
gonna use that as an excuense, but it's certainly it's

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part of an explanation at the big Fella is not
out there. Yeah, Terry McLaren, he got targeted five times.
A couple of them were in the slot on third down.
And we talked in the kickoff show Ella about how
good a Vante Maddox was in that Week three game
down in Washington. He was so so good in that game.
Helped lead to a bunch of coverage sacks of Carson Wentzon.
So yeah, I think losing a Vante Maddox maybe it
didn't hurt Grand Scope, but I think when you look at,

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especially on third down a couple of those plays, I'm
sure you would have loved to have number twenty nine
in there in the slot. All Right, we've been ask
that question. Who we got? What do you think the
Eagles should focus on moving forward? Like, Well, I think
you get back to doing what's been successful for you
all year. This team is eight or eighten one. Now

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it's their first loss, and you're not going to scrap
everything you've done to help you get to eight. No,
So now it's really more about going back and fine
tuning things. You know. I do a lot of reflecting
on the show because watching the games you get sort
of those flashbacks. So when we lost to Pittsburgh in
two thousand and four, it was arguably our worst game
of the season. I mean, the defense we got Jerome

(17:35):
Bettters ran through us on defense that day. And it
wasn't that all of a sudden we became a different team.
It's just that we weren't doing the things that we
had done the prior seven weeks of the season that
helped us to be successful. So I guarantee those players
in that locker room they have an empty feeling in
their stomach right now, because, first of all, they're prideful,

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and not in a bad way, meaning that they're prideful
in the way that they detail their work. And so
that wasn't dam out there on the field tonight. That
doesn't exemplify what this Eagles football team has been about.
And so they're not gonna be happy with what they
put on display on national television. So I don't think
you have to do a whole lot of of preaching
and coaching. Turn on the film and you show show

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these guys what they look like prior to this game
versus what they look like tonight, and that's all you'll
need to do. I was gonna ask you from a
player's standpoint. Obviously, everyone knows, like the film is the film,
everyone knows what happened here on the field tonight. But
what was the messaging from Andy Reid from Coach Reid
after that? Was it more of a positive light or
was it hey, like, you know, he kind of got
in it and reamed you guys, Yeah, he got it

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to us because because here's the thing, it had been
a couple of games prior to that loss that we
kind of you know, we had to go to overtime
to be Cleveland, and yeah, you know, we played in
Chicago and that was like a six point game, and
these are teams that they shouldn't have been close games.
So we knew we had been teetering on a law somewhere,

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and so coach read they Yes, he let us have it,
and he let let us know that this is how
easy it can be to lose this thing. And that's
all you needed to do. Went out the next week,
put forty nine points up on the Dallas Cowboys on
Monday Night, didn't lose another game until we set the
players to find it. Two weeks of this season, all right,
you were talking about Andy Reid. We're not gonna hear
from Nick Sirianni. He joins us at the podium. From now,

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I did not. Um, it kind of went right from there.
They called it and then uh we were right into
plan again. I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Um. Hey,
that's that's not what lost us the football game. So
I'd have to watch it on tape again. I kind
of I saw it live. I kind of looked down
the field. Um, but they got a tough job, and
you know, I'll look at it and um, but that's

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not at all what lost us the football game. Game. Yeah, shoot,
I mean that's pretty pretty simple, right. The three turnovers
lost us the game. The time possession loses you the game. Um,
it was we lost it together, offense, defense, special teams, coaching.
We lost it together. That's what lost us the game.
What did you think of the Dallas godder? It looked

(20:12):
like he was based mass on that lay. Did you
get an explanation there? There's a long stoppage. Um, you
know I didn't, Um, you know, he we had we
got to have better ball security there. Um. We take
a lot of pride in how we protect the football.
We were obviously loose with it. That's how they got
it out, and uh defense did a nice job of
stopping him right there, so we held him three. Um.

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You know, looking at my decision on that, I thought, um,
you know, I know he made the one at the
end of the first half. I didn't think that was
easy for him, thinking about the line of where you
know he kicked it from and where the ball was
right there. Obviously second second thought, then you know he
made it, So I should have accepted it. He misses it,
then you know, that's the way it goes. Uh, you know,

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so I had to be convicted with the decision. I
was um, and he made it. But as far as
you know, whether it was a face mask or whether
there wasn't a face mask, it's hard for them to
see at that time. I get it. Um, we got
to protect the ball better and we didn't do it.
We didn't do a good job at that all game, Like,
we were loose with that football and it came out
and they got it. I know it's hard to tell

(21:17):
in the moment, but it was this big reception fifty
yards and obviously Saint Jose was able to get it
now from behind? What did you see there? Um? You know,
that's something that we talk about and we think about that.
You know, they're you're you're susceptible getting up off the ground.
You know, you want to teach him to be aggressive,

(21:37):
and you know if you can't, he's not see him
behind them. They get off, They get up off the ground,
maybe run for a touchdown. But we also are aware
that the defense is taught to take a swipe at
that ball when you're getting up off the ground kind
of the same way as when you're going to the ground.
The ball is not um is loose sometimes when you're
that way, and so, um, hey, we got to do
a better job of coaching that. Um. We got to

(21:59):
think of a drilled it to do that. We talk
about it, um, but obviously we didn't execute it today.
And so as a coach, you put yourself in that
situation first and you say, how do I fix that?
And so we'll have to do a drill where we're
getting up off the ground protecting it and if there's
bodies around us, we gotta stayed down there in the ground.
And so, um, you know, like I said, we talk
about it, but I didn't put Quis in that scenario

(22:20):
and drill and drill, so um, well we'll get better
from this as coaches. I know Quis will get better
from as well players the game, that this was a
lost opportunity, that you're had an any opportunities still win
this game, and just yeah, I give them a lot
of credit. I always I think that's a I think
that's a good football team. I have a lot of

(22:40):
respect for for coach Rivera, and uh so I don't
I don't ever like to say, you know, we lost it.
You know they they played, they played and they and
they and they played well. Um, but we know that
we made mistakes, right, we made uncharacteristic mistakes. And it's
a both. So it's a bothan like you're not pleased
with you know, they I'll give them all the credit,

(23:01):
but to know that that we didn't play our type
of game. We made mistakes we had made we had penalties,
we had uncharacteristic fumbles, we threw an interception. Um, you
know we it just and you know we didn't we
didn't do a good enough job. There's some things back
that we want as calls, and like I didn't do
a good enough job coaching this week, and so, um, yeah,

(23:23):
you feel you feel upset because you lost the game
and you made a lot of mistakes. Um, we made
We made a ton of mistakes. Uh. And that loses
your football games in this league. You turned the ball
over like that, That loses your football games in this league.
Some of them, some of the calls on you say,

(23:44):
you know what one I think, I think, like like
whether the calls were bad or whether the calls were
good or whatever it was. I think when you're when
you play, when you play the way we did tonight,
when you play the way we did on all three phases,
you know, like offense, defense, special teams, coaching. Right, when

(24:06):
you when you play like that, it does seem like
you're you're it seems like everything's going against you. You
create your own luck. And we played like crap. We didn't,
we didn't do a good enough job and we we
wouldn't and uh, and it feels like things go against you.
Those those plays, those those scenarios that happen when you
when you play like that, get magnified, right the what

(24:27):
if it whether it was the right call or wrong call.
And so we made our own luck today. And uh
and we and it was bad when you think of
the run defense and when the adjustments in the second
half focus on the running. Yeah, I think the second half,
I thought the defense coaches did a nice job of, um,
you know, adjusting and held them to really well, I

(24:48):
mean really three points there. I mean because the offense
we fumbled gave him a free three right there and
then obviously the last play of the game. So I
thought the defense made some you know, hats off to
our defense coaches making the adjustment the halftime. But it
can't it can't be. It can't be that long before
we make our adjustments and we gotta we gotta do
it even quicker. Now with that being said, um, they

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were you know, they were five yards on first down,
two yards on second down, or three yards on second down,
and then they were converting on third and I mean
they had twenty one third downs. That's a lot. And
uh so they stuck to their game plan. Um. I
respect that. Um, you know, Scott Turner did a good
job of calling it, and they stuck to their game
plan and uh, you know, kept us on the field

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for an awfully long time. But I do think the
adjustments that we made were good, but you know, we
can't start off flat. We can't. We can't uh let
them get twenty and then go in and then and
then and then go from there. So uh, we gotta
do even better. Um, you know. And sometimes when the
offense is you know, I think we had one where
we turned it over so was the defense was out

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there a lot and that's hard too. And so it's like,
like I said, I'm not it's a full team game.
Like if the offense goes uh, I think we went
a three drive, we had a couple big plays and
we threw an interception, like they're making those adjustments right there,
and then they went right down and and and scored
off of that off a ninety yard It wasn't right.
They took the ball all the way down the field.

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And so you know that that I want everybody to
understand that. It's like, yeah, we got to make those
adjustments and I'm saying that, but they didn't have time too,
because we didn't. We didn't keep the ball on offense.
And that's why it's it's a team game. Like we're
we've started ain't no together. We lost this game together,
and we're gonna move on together and uh, and we'll

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get better from this. Were you concerned? I mean you've
got Jonathan Taylor, a Derrick Henry coming up. I'm only
worried about Jonathan Taylor at this point. Yeah, you didn't
do very well against Roe of the teams to be
year at Phillies Hills since you lost Jordan Davis. I mean,
how do you how do you address that and getting
it Obviously we'll have to go look at this tape
and and you know we we we um look at

(26:58):
this tape and see what what went down on this game,
knowing that, Hey, when you show the show that a
team attacks a place, we're gonna see it again, right,
and then we're gonna see that. We're gonna see that again.
Um and so uh well, we'll work like crazy to
get it fixed. Uh and that and we understand that that, Um,
we'll be the narrative of you know, how to beat

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us and uh and we'll and when we got we
got to own that and we got to fix it
and we and we will pretty much right what I
just said to Elliott, Hey, we started dating. Now together,
we lost tonight together, we move on together, and we
pick ourselves up together, and uh and because we lost
this game together, and we truly lost this game together,

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and uh, you know, uncharacteristics things that we did and
uh and let's get better from this limping after that
first reception a little bit, was he okay, you see it?
I mean he kept he kept playing and uh, you
know he toughed out. You know what he was, what
he was going through right there. Um, and so you know,

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I got a lot of a lot of respect for
that that he was able to tough that out and
be out in the field, because he demands a lot
of respect out there, I think, I mean, we still
want to be able to give him a football and
I know he didn't get it as much tonight, and
it shifted to you know, Davante a little bit more
and Quiz made some plays. But um, yeah, they did

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a good job. They did a good job taking them away.
All right, Thanks, thank you, Sirianni saying we all lost
this game, which is true all three phases of the game.
If you want to look at it from a coaching perspective,
every person on that football field is responsible for tonight. Um,
we've talked so much about the defense because we saw

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them primarily the most on the field tonight, but for
the offense, they did have opportunities. So what did we
learn from the offensive side of the ball when they
were given opportunities and they just couldn't capitalize. Well, I
thought in the first half they found it hard to
find a rhythm. Right, they score quickly, but they didn't
get enough possessions in the first half. So, well, how

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do you run the football? So everybody claimed, don't even
ran the football four times in the first half. Well,
they were only out there for six raising the first
half and you had fourteen points. So it's impressive that
you get fourteen points with the limited time that they
were out there. I just think the offense was just
disjointed tonight and from that point they were playing catch
up for the most part, and I think it got it.

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And then with aj being banged up a little bit,
I'm sure that had a little bit to do with
some of the play calling, because if you just look
at some of the routes, even the ones they went
to Davante outside of the deep when the quais late
in the game, which you get another blown coverage from Washington,
a lot of these passes were intermediate pass and Aj
after the deep ball to him, they got picked off

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by the way, very good pass from Jalen Hurts. I
didn't realize Aj had that in his hands for a
split second and the safety was able to get it
out of there. I just think AJ being banged up
and not having a ball out there enough in the
first half just really through the offense off kilter. Yeah,
I think when you look at it, look the Eagles offense.
They start the game off with two touchdown drives you

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mentioned the first one on that short field after the
sack fumble. Then they go nine plays, but after that
you get a turnover, you get the interception, two three
and outs, then you get a touchdown drive to start
the third quarter, and then you've got a fumble, a fumble,
and a three and out. So a handful of three
and outs and there the three turnovers. That tells you,
all right, well, that means you're giving the ball back

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to Washington's offense very very fast. The defense was already
struggling to stay or to get off the field, and
it was like, I think that Nick Sirianni put that
perfectly in that press conference, that those problems feed each
other when you've got the offense that is struggling to
sustain drives and a defense that is struggling to get
off the field. Well, now both problems are starting compound,
and then you've got a forced multiplier there and a

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reason why you lose this game. Yeah, and Eagles have
done a great job, if not the best job of
any team this year, playing complimentary football. Yeah, they couldn't
play implementary football tonight because I didn't think the offense
had the opportunity to be out there as much as
they would have liked to have been. So for me,
I go back to that defensive side of the ball.
You got the way they've been playing this year. They've

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either been opportunistic where they're taking the ball away giving
our offensive short field, or they're getting off the field
on third down and it allows the offense to do
what they do best. I thought tonight had more to
do with Washington play a keepaway from our offense, and
then they when Washington finally took the lead, I thought
the offense played catch up ball from that point moving forward.

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It's just not the way that they've played all year.
So now they're playing a brand of football that they
that they're not accustomed to because you're playing from behind
in the second half. And I think we've been at
our best when we've been able to dictate from an
offensive standpoint what your defense is going to do. We
didn't get into another third and short situations where we

(31:55):
extend jobs going forward on fourth down. All the things
that we've watched the first eight weeks of the season.
This Eagle's offense too, I didn't think they had the
opportunity to do it as frequently tonight, and I personally
would put that back on the defense, saying we need
to get off the field to give the offense the
ball back. Speaking of the defense, Brandon Graham, the captain
of this team, he spoke to reporters just a little

(32:17):
bit ago in the locker room. Here's what he had
to say, because it looks like, do you know what, Uh,
we want to learn from it, and we just want
to make sure that we remember this feeling because we
could we only gonna lose if we beat ourselves. And
so we was out there, UMU Washington came out and
they came ready to play, and so that's all I'm
gonna give all credit to them, because they made us

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they made us really you know, earn it today and
so um for us, I mean for them, you know,
it's credit to them, you know. And so I'm ready
to see how how we bounce back from this. And
I know we're gonna bounce back. I'm already ready just
to you know, get the word usually pretty good on
third down. This is where it's gonna start when the
Eagles re enter the Nocare Complex tomorrow morning. It starts

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with guys like Brandon Graham. There's no denying the culture
that is in this locker room and what we've seen
through the first eight games of the season. But how
is that culture going to show up tomorrow morning after
their first loss of the season. We're soon going to
find out. Yeah, And I trust the leadership on this team. BG.
That's one Fletcher, Jason Kelsey, Lane Johnson, Jalen Hurts at

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the quarterback position. These are guys that put their hard
hat on every day to come in here and get prepared.
And that's tonight's game. It's like a slap in the
face for everybody, right it wakes you up and it's like, Okay,
we aren't unbeatable. Now we can get back to the
drawing board, put our hard hat on, and get back
to proving people wrong again. I don't have any concern

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as to whether or not this will linger into next week.
These guys will come in tomorrow or Wednesday. I would
be surprised that not in tomorrow. To get prepared to
get an early start on this Indianapolis coach team, because
it's been great winning football games, and it's been a
great feeling. So now you get the first taste of
what a loss feels right for this group together in

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the twenty twenty two Eagles, and I guarantee they don't
like it. So they know that they're a good football team.
And again, you don't want one loss to turn into
two losses. So you get back in there and you
get you get to work tomorrow. And to your point,
there's a there's a saying in coaching that everyone's got
a good culture. When you're winning, your good culture shows
up after losses. What does your team do when you

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face that adversity both mid game and then after a
loss like this, And we'll see, we know the leaders
in that locker room, but this is that first test
is what does that twenty twenty two team look like?
When they face that first loss. And to me, I
think just looking at the way this team can rebound,
that could show up in a lot of the different
a lot of different ways. But guys like Brandon Graham
that are willing to stand there, face the music and say, hey,

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this is what this team is going to do. I
think that he said it best. They were gonna make
us earn this. As bad as this felt for the
large majority of this game, he did not feel good
watching this game. I'm sure it didn't feel good down
on the sideline and for the guys that were between
the lines. But for as bad as that felt, this
is a one score game. Heagles had the ability to
win this game multiple times in the fourth quarter on
both sides. Just could not make that play that would

(35:08):
have sealed this victory. And so as bad as it was,
it was right there for the taking. Washington made them
earn it with the way that they played. The Eagles
just couldn't make the plays on accounted I mentioned what
big setting the kickoff show at his locker this week.
He said, this team has a lot of hope. He said,
They're not just gonna lay down because they lost the
first time. This is the NFC East, and there's a
lot at stake in this division, especially the way the

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other teams have been playing. And he was exactly right.
They didn't lay down. They came out playing confident, inspired football.
They were on the road and it looked like they
just didn't care. You mentioned ella about the NFC East.
It's the second time they played Washington. Yeah, so you
get another opportunity to look at this offense seven weeks
later or six weeks later, and you say, Okay, these
are some things that we did the first time. They

(35:51):
didn't work well for us. Let's try something different this time.
They're a much different team than they were in week
three when you had Wentz back there at the quarterback position.
Because when you have a guy like Carson at the
quarterback position, it's so tempting to want to sit back
there and just throw throw, throw, throw throw. He has
the big arm, he can make those throws. So as
an offensive coordinator, you're salivating at what you at the

(36:12):
potential he has. When you get a guy like Taylor
Heineken there, you play the game closer to the vest.
You're a little more measured in taking those chances. You
don't necessarily want Heineken to go out there and win
the game for you. You just don't want him to
put him in a position where he loses it for you.
So they've been playing games closer to the vest over
the last four or five weeks since he's been out there,

(36:34):
getting back to running the football and letting their defense
try to play a little better. And that's what they
did tonight. The Eagles realize now that they aren't invincible,
and so you don't really understand that until you lose
your first game of the season and they're the last
team in the league to lose a game this year,
they can go back to being the hunted. Right when

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you're undefeated everybody, you're gonna get the best from every
team you face. I don't care what they're record is.
They want to be the first team to beat the
last unbeaten team. And the fact that you play at
Washington for a second time as a divisional opponent, I'm
not surprised it was a much closer game. I'm just
surprised that we didn't play our best football. You can

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almost accept the lass when you feel like you did
your best. The Eagles, no, man to man, they didn't
play their best brand of football tonight. And I think
this is a formula, as we talked about earlier in
the show, that I think other teams are going to
try and replicate, especially when if you have trouble along
the offensive line, which look, the last time the Eagles
played this team, they sacked the quarterback nine times. So
they're going into this game saying, you know what, we

(37:37):
probably shouldn't drop back on every single drop out. We
showed every single pass play that's not in our winning
formula for us as a football team. So when you
look at the drives where they were able to sustain
offense move the football, they had nine out of thirteen
players on that second drive, we're runs six out of eleven.
On the next play or next drive, we're runs ten
out of sixteen on the next touchdown drive, were runs
nine out of thirteen on the next touchdown drive, we're runs.

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They wanted to run the football, control the clock, make
those timely passes for tat Taylor Heineke, they can't. He
came through when he needed But that was a formula
that they're gonna try and see whether that was able
to work for them tonight. Indianapolis, they're gonna try and
replicate that here on Sunday. And what it does to
the Eagles is it puts more I don't wanna say pressure,
but it puts more of a premium on them to

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take advantage of their possessions. You know, teams are gonna
try to shorten the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. When
you look at the remaining opponents, you don't feel threatened
by their offenses to go put up thirty points on you.
So what a team is gonna want to do is say, okay,
let's shorten this game as best we can see it.
We can get it into high teams, low twenties. That's

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gonna give us a chance to win. And it keeps
that Eagles offense on the sideline as much as possible.
So it puts the Eagles because they don't have as
many possessions, right, you gotta take advantage of the possessions
when you get out there. Because teams like Washington are saying,
I don't mind having a twelve play four team play
drive that eats up seven minutes on the clock, even

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if it leads to a field goal. That means your
offense isn't on the field scoring touchdowns against US. And
if we look up at halftime and the score is
fourteen to teen or seventeen to fourteen, they're happy about
that because they know they have a chance in the
second half. It's all math and like statistics and probabilities
at that point. If I tell you going into a
game that, hey, you've got to score points on five

(39:24):
drives and you'll only have eight to do it, as
opposed to if you have twelve to do it, you
feel better if you've got twelve drives to do it.
And that's exactly how teams are gonna want to play
the Eagles. They want to keep Jalen Hurts in that
offense off the field as often as possible. But here tonight,
even though they only had those limited amount of opportunities,
still didn't make good enough enough of those, and that
was that. That's the big thing I think offensively is
you will look at some of these missed opportunities. What

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I say, three three four and outs are three three
and outs here in this game, plus the turnovers. That's
tough to be able to win football game that way.
And to your point, even though the Eagles were dominated
in time of possession at night this deal was a
one score game eight. You know Dallas Goddard that fumbled
misface mask, called every boy the officials. But the Eagles
had the ball there, only down by two, when an

(40:07):
opportunity to go down and go ahead by kicking a
field goal, score a touchdown. The Eagles defense do a
great job holding Washings into a long field goal. Your
Washington credit. They made the field goal. Now we got
a five point game. Jalen hurts perfect pass to Quiz Watkins.
He hits him deep. I don't fall Quiz for getting
up and trying to finish the play because I was
sitting there saying, you haven't been touch get up getting

(40:28):
the end zone score. But when you hit the ground
and pop back up, you almost lose sight of where
your defender is. And it's just unfortunate. He's able to
hit him from the back and poke that ball out.
And there's the last opportunity, legitimate opportunity the Eagles had
to potentially go ahead. Because up until that play, I
kept saying to myself, they're gonna find a way to

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win this game. They'll overcome adversity. Everybody's wanting to see
this team, see how they bounce back from adversity. It there.
If they're behind in the fourth quarter, which they hadn't
trailed in the second half of all year, how they respond.
So I would say this, even though this game on
paper looks like Washington completely dominated, I will take a
silver lining from it that the Eagles battled all the

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way to the end of this game, and not until
that unfortunate penalty late in the game. The Eagles may
have gotten the ball back again with one more opportunity
to score, So at least they did fight the entire game.
Right tackle Lane Johnson spoke with reporters in the locker
room just a little bit ago. He spoke about the
response this team is going to have. We'll respond, Uh,

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we got some good teams coming up. The coach are
coming in re energosh. So now you can learn a
lot from losses. Um you know, we've lost plenty around
here in the past few years. But um, you know
where those losses we learned and ground from it. So
that's what I expect us to do with another leader
of this football team, a leader who has won a

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lot of football games in Philadelphia but also has faced
a great deal of adversity. Just today was the first
sample of adversity in the twenty twenty two season. What
did we think about the play of the offensive line.
I know it's some things that we're gonna you're gonna
need to take time when you go back and watch
the film, But just first glance, what did we think? Uh?
I don't think Jalen was under a ton of pressure tonight.

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I just I look at the offensive line and I say, well,
you would have wanted to run the football, but they
didn't get enough possessions out there. They certainly showed that
in the second half. Yeah, when they got going running
the football, I thought the offensive line played much better
than they did the last game against Houston. Now, the
Houston game, I was a little concerned. We gave up
a few sacks there, But I thought joined my lot
of played well tonight. Um, I'm not correct. Did they

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not get a sack tonight that Washington get thet Well,
they got a sack on the final possession of the
final three out the final three, You're right, that's right.
They did get one late in the game. So yeah,
when you look at it that way, and that's the
strength of this Washington team is their defensive line. So
I thought, I thought the offensive line held up and
really played. Had a nice bounce back game from the
Houston game where I thought Jalen you know, got hit

(43:01):
once too alten in the Houston game. Yeah, even if
you just look at from a number standpoint, Miles Sanders
finished fifty four yards rushing four and a half yards
per carry. Jalen Hurts had four point seven yards to carry,
Kenny gainwell seven yards to carry. So offensively, from an
efficiency standpoint on the ground, they were able to move
the ball, but from a volume standpoint, obviously the yards
just not there, just because it was a non factor

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in the first half with only twenty offensive place. We
all know the outside noise going into this about can
the Eagles go seventeen and oh can they be undefeated?
Well that has now been put to rest. But the
follow up discussions to that from the outside is then, okay, well,
when they drop one, how do they respond? Can they
keep it to one game and not let it spiral?

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All that at the time is just kind of talk, right,
But now we're going to actually put that to the
test this week. How do they respond? Of course, Lane
Johnson didn't seem too concerned about the way that they
will prepare and respond on Sunday. But it's a legitimate
question when you our face with adversity for the first time,
what is Sunday going to look like from this team.
I'm anxious to see it, I really am. And fran

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you mentioned it earlier. Yeah, chemistry and culture is great
when you're winning and no one is losing and you
don't have to point a finger at anybody, so that
this group of players teammates haven't had to face that
sort of adversity just yet, and so I'm anxious to
see what they look like Sunday because I'll be honest
with you, I didn't think they were going seventeen and old.

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And if the goal is to win it, all is
to win a championship. And I don't know if you
can fully buy into whether or not you have the
team to do that until you've seen them go through
a little adversity. So while they work every day and
work every week to win every game, I totally understand
that they should. As an observer and a fan of

(44:49):
the team, You're like, Okay, well, let's see how we
bounce back if they lose a game. If they happen
to lose a game, so you can see whether or
not these guys are going to stick together. They're gonna
fight together. Do you come back next week and you
put on a much better performers. Like I said about
the team, we had a No. Four. We lost the Pitchburgh.
It was an embarrassing game. The quarterback and wide receivers
on the sideline, back and forth and following each other around.

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And one guy doesn't want to be bothered. And that
was all the talk we heard all week. Oh it's
about the crumble. And I knew till he'd come here.
And and then next year we're gotta put up forty
nine points against the Dallas Cowboys. That's what we went did.
That's how we responded. The difference is the majority of
that team had played together and experienced adversity together. This

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is a new team. It's a lot of new faces.
So I got believe that they'll bounce back and handled
this very well because I lived the leadership on the team,
starting with the head coach, trickling on down to the players.
But if I'm just as a fan of the team, yeah,
get the loss out of the way. Now let's see
how we respond to it. Yeah, we've already heard from
Brandon Grant, We've heard from Lane Johnson, We're gonna hear

(45:52):
from Jalen Hurts here in a little bit. And what
is one of the one sayings we know from one
of the other leaders on this team, from Jason Kelsey.
He says this, and he's more spaking about Hey, winning
an individual game, winning one game, it's not about who's toughest,
who's toughest the longest, And yeah, that works in an
individual game, but it also works over the course of
a season. Who is toughest over the long spot, over
the long haul. This is a team that's not trying

(46:13):
to win games in November. They are trying to win
games in January and eventually in February. So it's all
about how do you respond to this? Can you shake
this off? You know who was the only other group
of people that are just as upset about the Eagles
losing this game. I don't think the cults are too
happy that the Eagles lost this game, coming in with
a week full of motivation, going out to Lucasoil on

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Sunday afternoon. So I think ultimately, look, the Eagles, we
have those good feeling about the people in this building, players, coaches, organizationally.
They're gonna shake this off and be right back on
track here next week. Speaking about another leader on the team,
Darius Slay took to Twitter. Let's see what he had
to say. Tough one today, we will be back spoken
like a true leader, Darius Slay. He was targeted a

(46:57):
lot tonight, James Bradbury, I feel we didn't hear his
name as much, but those wide receivers Terry McLaurin really
specifically had a great night against the secondary that's been
able to lockdown basically any receiver in the NFL so far. Yeah,
and we may not be privy to the exact scheme
that was being played tonight, technique whether you want to

(47:17):
press a guy or be awful guy. You know, I'm
not used to seeing Slay, you know, have people throw
at him just not. I'm just not used to. But
Terry McLaurin. It's the reason why they call him scary Terry.
He is a very good wide receiver and they were
able to get the ball to him tonight. I think
that's something Slay will take personal right as something Slay

(47:39):
certainly he takes pride in his technique and his work
out there on the field, and sometimes you just got
to tip your cap to your opponent. And what was
different about this game tonight is that we didn't do it.
We didn't do a lot of blitzing tonight, so the
ball didn't come out all right, I gotta interrupt you guys,
the man of the hour. We've been waiting for him,
quarterback Jalen Hurts at the podium. L what can you

(48:08):
and the team learn from a from a game like this? Yeah,
I think it's the It's the same message that's always
been delivered um after our wins, same message delivered after
our losses. You know, controlling the things that we can
come out here today we didn't do that. We didn't
do it and today goddess, So you know, there's it's

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very important to control the things that you can. Controlling
your ball, security, um, knowing where the operation the players
supposed to go, and just execution. Those are all things
that we control and we have to do a better
job of that. Constitution, struggle software, you guys, struggling exec
that I'm just the overall lack of detailing execution. And today, Goddess,

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you know, I think They're been games in the past where, um,
you'd hear us say maybe leaving money on the table,
opportunities that we didn't take advantage of, advantage of. And
I look at this game and I say, we were
repeat offenders of that and today of goddess, you know,
and something we have to learn from. It's something we

(49:17):
really already know. It's just something that we have to
fix and ultimately control the things we can. And then
we got to on the field six minutes to change
in the first half hour. Frustrating first of the laws
and to be parked on the sideline for much of
that time. And then secondly, it doesn't make it hard
to get into a rhythm as the game goes on.
It's not the best feeling. Um. But I think again,

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you know, you have different teams that have different approaches
to how they want to go about the game, and
they did an excellent job on offense, executed at a
high level. I think for us offensively, um, I don't
think we were executed good enough. You know, we turned
the ball over. I don't know how we weren't efficient
enough nothing. It wasn't enough, you know. And it's a

(50:02):
lot of reflection being happy being held right now. And
I think it's an opportunity for us to to grow.
So it's another opportunity for us to grow. That is
you know that that's the same message. Did a lot
of stop at the serious jail and were learning execution.
So there was the last two plays when we got sacked.
It we just we just had to sack has some penetration,

(50:23):
try to make a play. UM got sacked and then
we play before personal Um again another another misque up front.
UM had an issue had to you know, black lack
of detailing and what we were doing. Did you get
to look at the play with the Dallas face massage? Yeah,

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you know we can. We can go out day for
we can go out there about that. You know, I
think in reality, I think UM, in the end, it's
about us doing the things that we can UM and
controlling the things that we can and I think tonight
we weren't. We weren't doing that at the high level,
you know, and Todair goddess, you know, and then it
doesn't get you until it gets you and to their goddess.

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So you know what we learn from it, We move forward,
you say, to just lost far more what they here
what you get to yourselves. So it's on us. It's
a great football team. They're world coach. I think, um
with the uncharacteristic that's the word we're using, the uncharacteristic
mistakes that we've made, things that we haven't really done

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all year in terms of our formula for winning football games.
You know, when we go out there and turn the
ball over like that, UM, not so good things happen,
you know, So we have to do a better job
as a team. Everybody attention to detail, our focus coming
in to practice, UM this week with a with a
different type of hunger and going out there and playing

(51:53):
our best ball. That's the challenge every every week. When
you mentioned speaking other opportunity, I don't know afternus the game,
but do you bosses that way is that they can
have like avert your value because they cause you guys
to buckle down and to get back on details and
things like that. They they say, you know, my message
to them this morning and before the game, ironically they say,

(52:17):
hungry dogs running faster and you know when you when
you win, they say, it's it's hard to keep that hunger.
And I think this team is in a position and
now we can dictate how we want to respond to
this adversity, UM, this obstacle in our way. You know
what it's done. It's done. So there's definitely so what

(52:39):
not what mentality? And I know my mentality moving forward?
I know, um, my attention to detail in terms of
my preparation and how they'll look moving forward. I know
my eagerness to play to the standard, um moving forward.
I know I know what that is. So I know
how this team respond and I have confidence in this

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football team. You have a short week and you can
get right that guy. You gotta play the you play
the cards you're dealt, you know. Um. And I think
this is an opportunity for us to learn a lot
about ourselves. You know. It's uh, it's just so wasn't
out with mentality? Pretty super lun that you don't have

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to talk about being seventeen at all? Now that's all
for for you. I mean I wasn't entertaining it at all. Um.
You obviously want to win all the games you're playing,
you know, and tonight wasn't wasn't our night, you know. Um.
I think in terms of like I said, the message
for me is control of things that you can. And

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when you do that, you gotta you gotta pretty good
opportunity to be victorious in the end. So how do
you do it? You know, you you prepare, um, the
attention to detail, the energy you have, the approach, the
mentality towards it, and ultimately playing the other you know,
playing together after the phone, next play next, plain you

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know what I like I said, we had opportunities. We
had opportunities day. I mean, hey, I'm sitting there on
the sideline. They they're giving us these opportunities. UM, they're
trying to let us win this game, you know. And no,
we didn't take advantage of the opportunities when we had,
Like I said, we turned the ball over very un
characteristic mistakes. UM. And those are things that I know

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that UM, every individual in the locker room take personally,
and we're eager to fix and we're eager to have
another opportunity two. UM, express ourselves on the field. So
we gotta we gotta definitely, um lick this one and
look ourselves in the mirror after this one. UM, take

(54:53):
the steps we need to take, I mean, acknowledge the
things that we need to fix and fix themist. You know,
the first eight games, you guys were I think plus
fourteen in the turnover margin. Did you think that pace
was sustainable or did you think something like this could happen?
So it's about the standard, you know, the standard. I
think every every football team pop worn their high school, college, NFL.

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They preached to protect the ball. UM, they preached to
score touchdowns. They preach all these great things because it's
football one on one fundamentals, you know. And you that
they played a great game to night. That's a that's
a really good opponent we played tonight and they showed
up that they played well. You know. And in terms
of us controlling the things that we can control with

(55:37):
our ball security, UM, no one. You know, the operation
of what we're supposed to do where we're supposed to
be UM and doing it with the right detail and fundamentals,
that's something that we can control. UM. So that is UM.
That'll be an emphasis this. It's a lucky game, your
zero chances to make the play, but it's a double coverage.

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How do you view it? Yeah, happens. I think it happens.
Jaeling to your point of winning and being able to
maintain that hunger, you feel like that was something that
was happening. Kind of looking retrospect, maybe it wasn't at
the level that it happened. I think in the end,
it's about how you respond, regardless of what's in front
of you. How do you respond to this scenario? How

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do you respond to that scenario? How do you respond
to the joy, the feeling of joy? How do you
respond to the feeling of pain? Um, I got a
good feeling. How we respond? Thanks our right, Eagles fans.
Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player

(56:43):
of the Week. Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash
Toyota Player of the Week to cast your vote and
get a chance at a brand new Toyota. But before
we get to all that and get to those nominees,
fran I know you broke down earlier in the show
Eureka review. What do you got for us? Yeah, so
we want to take a look back at Jalen Hurts
first touchdown pass that happened on the second drive of
this game, and that is going to be our Rico

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review here tonight. And I think the big thing is
we talked about this on the Kickoff show, Ella is
what we're kind of the changeups. What are the wrinkles
that we would see from the Eagles offense, not just
off the extra week of rest here, some extra time
ten days since that Houston game, but also second time
facing a similar opponent, seeing the Washington Commanders here in
week ten after face them in week three. Well, we

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got that answer on this play. Let's go to the
film because, well, I remember in that first game, empty
sets were such a big part of the Eagles offense,
and you can see these empty sets here Jalen Hurts
in the low red zone, no one in the backfield
with them. Now, there was a play in the low
red zone against Washington in Week three where Jalen Hurts
took the snap, dropped back and took off on a
QB drop. Washington faced it. We saw some other teams

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trying to deal with this as well. That has been
a play that has been in the Eagles playbook. So
when they get down into the low red zone, what
are some changeups you can do off of that? We
can let this play for a second. You're gonna see
Jalen hurt Is gonna take the snap and it looks
like QB draw except then he pulls up. Look at
what those linebackers did. This was essentially a play action
fake with no running back in the backfield. Because those
linebackers they attack the line of scrimmage thinking QB run,

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qb run, qb run. Dallas Goddard is going to slide
behind those linebackers. It is a little pop, a little
pop pass in the red zone. We can let this play.
Jalen Hurts hops up in the air, throws this over
the top to Dallas Goddard and it's a touchdown there
for the Jalen Hurts there in the low red zone.
Outstanding wrinkle from this Eagles offense from the coaching staff.

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Really good changeup off of a fastball. Again, when you
get those low red zone plays, it's a high leveled situation.
Really good game planning there from the Eagles coaching staff
using a changeup off of a play they showed in
the first match up. There, the Eagles get on the
board there in the second drift of the game. I
was Sola friends Thunder for his RICO review because I
was going right to Toyota Player of the Weeks. I

(58:55):
wanted to break down our three nominees. As your reminder,
you can vote on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com slash Toyota
the Player of the Week to cast your vote. Now,
let's get into the nominees, starting with the defense, CJ.
Gardner Johnson. That's his fifth straight game with an interception,
number six on the night. Next up, we have jay
Von Hardgrave again. Just a great night for jay Von
hardgravee upfront. And then of course DeVante Smith on his birthday.

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Scoring a touchdown seems to be the thing for him
on his birthday. He's got to get a touchdown. What
do we think Slim Reaper's birthday? Gotta give it to
DeVante Smith? Right, two targets on third down, both of
them were converted for first downs. He gets the touchdown
grab on his birthday. He had a fire outfit coming in.
I mean that's not had the best outfit I've ever seen.

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You were his birthday outfit today? Yes he does, sir,
Yes he did. I think it's gonna be DeVante Smith.
That would be my vote for Toyota player that we have.
All Right, Eagles fans, get your votes in. We're gonna
move on to the Jamison nightcap, looking ahead to Indianapolis
on Sunday. We're back to regularly scheduled programming here at
one o'clock Sunday game Eagles football. They hit the road
playing the Holts. It's been an interesting year, to say

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the least in Indianapolis. Frank Raik obviously out as their
head coach. Jeff Saturday first time head coach ever taking
the job. He did get his first win this week
they defeated the Raiders. Who will play quarterback. It looks
like perhaps Matt Ryan, he was benched earlier in the season,
Jeff Saturday put him back out there. He is your vet.
You gotta stick with Matt Ryan. But a big task
for the Eagles. Like we mentioned, they are coming off

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of a loss, but also on the flip side of
that as the coming off of a loss. So it
could be a dangerous game for the Colts. Yeah, no
doubt about it. I think the Eagles won't have any
problem getting motivated, getting motivated this week and paying attention
to detail. That's what a loss will do to you.
If anything, this game, Nick Sirianni is going back home,
so he'll be answering questions about that all week and

(01:00:47):
what's going on, So he's not to do a great
job of making sure that he blocks out all that
nonsense that they'll want to talk to him about this
week about making a return trip to Indianapolis. These players, though,
they're gonna be folk. I'm ready to go. Whether it's
Matt Ryan or Sam Ellinger. They want to get this
bad taste out of their mouth. So I don't have
any problem worrying about the players being ready to go

(01:01:08):
next Sunday. Yeah, it's been a decent amount of time
getting ready for the Colts in the last few days
and certainly coming into today. I just want to see
what this offensive identity was going to be. You had
a first time play caller. Obviously, no Marcus Brady their
offensive coordinator, or no Frank Reich their head coach. So
what was the identity going to be? On offense? We
hit on it earlier in the show, heavy dose of
the run game and a lot of quick throws from
Matt Ryan. The ball got out really really fast. Now

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on defense, not a lot of mystery there. Gus Bradley,
that coaching staff, they are well entrenched there. We know
the identity of a Gus Bradley defense. They're gonna play
a lot of single high at extra man in the box,
roddniy McCloud is playing good safety ball for them as
the strong safety close to the line of scrimmage, so
you'll see a familiar face there. But it's going to
be a lot of Cover three, a lot of Cover one,
not a lot of blitz. It's gonna be a four

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man rush. You're gonna know what to expect here from
this Gus Bradley defense on Sunday out in Indianapolis. We
will have you covered on the kickoff show at twelve
ten MPM right before that one o'clock kick in Indianapolis.
But for now, the Eagles moved to eight and one
tonight and they're gonna go for nine and one next week.
Thanks so much for tuning in to Eagles fans, and
as always, go Birds.