Postgame Show: Eagles Lose 22-33 Against the Las Vegas Raiders

Listen in as Gabriella DiGiovanni, Fran Duffy and Ike Reese discuss the Eagles’ Loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. Also hear from Head Coach Nick Sirianni, DB Rodney McLeod, DE Fletcher Cox, TE Dallas Goedert and QB Jalen Hurts at the podium.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Are Eagles fans coming onto the postgame show presented by
Rico and Gabrielle d Givanni here with three and Duffy
and I grease guys. The Eagles headed out to Vegas.
It was a huge opportunity right getting back into that
wind column the road is where the Eagles picked up
their two wins of the season. It was time to
grab hold of this season and make some changes, and
it did not go their way. Yeah, look disappointing. I mean,

(00:25):
coming off for extra days off rest, ten days rest
after that Tampa Bay game on Thursday night, I thought
I would see the team come out and play with
a little more energy, playing with a little more attension
in detail, really just ready to go, having been taking
advantage of those days off. I love the first drive
when the game kicked off. I mean, a nice mixture

(00:45):
of running passed there, some play action there, getting the
ball to mouse Sanders moved the ball down the field
with no problem. And then it seemed like everything stalled.
And then you got to a point in the middle
of the game where some of the old habits that
have hurt them this season started to create, which is
the self inflicted wounds, not being able to extend drives
or keep drives going. And you know, when you're on

(01:08):
the road, you don't have a large marginal era. You
don't necessarily have to be perfect, but you got to
be close to perfect when you're on the road, particularly
playing a team like the Las Vegas Raiders sitting at
four and two now five and two, and there are
a lot of ways to look at it, but at
the end of the day, this was a sloppy game.
Whether it was the mistakes on offense, mistakes on defense,

(01:28):
this team just could not recover from some of those mistakes.
Not enough players on offense, too many players on defense.
We'll get into some of the reasons why, but just
not a good effort coming off what was essentially in
mini bye week after last Thursday night. I think what's
frustrating sometimes watching this team try to execute is that
they are capable of putting together a drive like we
saw in their opening drive. I mean, you saw the

(01:51):
balance that Eagles fans have been wanting to see out
of this offense. You saw Jalen Hurts under center, which
was great, Miles Sanders got going, you found Dallas good
or which we were hoping to see a big game
from him, so they're capable. But after that drive, I
felt like the game felt very disjointed. I felt like
everybody was on different pages. There was a lot of miscommunication.

(02:11):
And then, like both of you said, it's those self
inflicted wounds that if you can't clean those up, now
you're going down a slippery slope of how do we
dig ourselves out because now we're getting into some dangerous territory. Well,
and I know everybody will look at this game, and
we always start with the offense, right. We want to
know how many points did we score, how many touchdowns
did we score, what kind of game plan did Nick
Sirianni put together, how did Jalen Hurts play out there?

(02:34):
And believe me, there's plenty to go through there on
that side of the football. But I got to look
at the defense. I mean the defense. I thought today,
while they were able to keep the explosive plays down,
I just thought we couldn't get off the field on
third down. Yeah, we couldn't even force a third down
in there for a large portion of the game, and
Derek Carr just looked too comfortable sitting back there. I

(02:54):
think at some point of complete the sixteen or seventeen
straight passes. The only incomplete pas as he had it
was a tipwall interception. We just didn't put the Raiders
offense in a position where they were uncomfortable. They seem
to have the down and distance in their favor pretty
much throughout the game. To me, like third down is
a way we can kind of tell the story of

(03:14):
this game. You look at defense, you like you mentioned
like the first possession, Beagles are able to get off
the field. You get that interception on third down by
Avante Maddox. From that point, on three possessions, this goes
into the third quarter, the Eagles didn't force a third
down on defense, not a third down stop a third down,
There was no third debt. That means that they were
moving the ball so well on first and second down
that they didn't even see a three come up on

(03:36):
the sticks. And then you get past that. The next
drive they got a third down play, but then they
were able to go for it on fourth down they
score a touchdown along the screen past to Brian Edwards.
So defensively, you couldn't get those third downs. You have
those long drives where you know, I think the goal
is to make them work the field, make them stretch
the field. But it's not it's not hard for the
for the offense at that point. And then you go
to the other side and look, just looking at the

(03:58):
first three quarters offensively, on third down, it starts with
a scramble drill that Jalen Hurts was able to convert
on a run play. You had an incompletion on a
screen pass knocked down at the line of scrimmage. You
had a third down run on a third and long,
You had a sack, an incompletion that resulted in that
Kelsey penalty, another scrap scramble for an incompletion, and then
a fumbled snap on the goal line. Yeah, that's a
lot of bad plays on third down where the Eagles

(04:19):
could not stay on the field. And I think defensively,
this Eagles team has seen a lot of these high
power offenses, and I think they've done a very good
job of eliminating that downfield threat. They did against Patrick Mahomes,
Tom Brady. They even did a very good job against
the San Francisco forty nine ers. So they were able
to do that again today. But the Raiders just said,
all right, you want to take that away. Well, We're
just gonna run the ball. Now. This was a Raiders

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team coming into this game. They were averaging just over
three yards per carry, and they were running the ball
up and down the field. Yeah. I thought for a
quarter and a half, the Eagles defense did a nice
job right at seven to seven, and we still got
a football game, right, Nothing is too out of wack,
No need to abandon the game plans coming into the game.
But then midway through that second quarter, the Raiders started

(05:04):
extending drives, they started picking up those third down, they
started getting those intermediate passes, and I just felt like
the Eagles defense, we were on our heels at that point.
I mean, Derek Carr thirty one to thirty four today
never really seemed to be flustered back there in the pocket.
Even without his biggest weapon, Darren Waller not playing today,

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they seemingly were able to get the ball out wherever
they wanted to and pick up those five, six, seven,
ten yards at a time, Whereas we needed to get
them in a third and long situation and allow our
defensive line to pin their ears back and get after
Derek Carr. We never made the Raiders frustrated with Dincon
and dunking the ball down the field. That's that's sort

(05:45):
of our philosophy. Especially for explosive offenses. They usually become
impatient and they're gonna try to get the ball down
the field, and it has resulted in turnovers for us.
But today I thought the Raiders just operated at such
a comfort level that it's just hard to stop an
offense when you never get them out of their rhythm.
And at the end of the day, defensively, not enough

(06:06):
negative plays, not enough stalemate plays. They had to force
some of those thirdain longs, and there just wasn't enough pressure.
Like you said on Derek Karr had a lot of time.
He was very calm in the pocket, and his offense
kind of operated reflecting how he was doing in the pocket.
He didn't have to do much, you know. I mean,
they were moving the ball up and down the field,
no problem. But I think another thing that the Eagles

(06:26):
really struggled with, which has been the theme unfortunately up
until now, is taking advantage of those opportunities. And if
you even look at the situation that they weren't they
were in. They weren't expecting Darren Waller to not play,
but he wasn't so take advantage of that. They faced
that against Tampa Bay they were without Gronk, against San
Francisco they were without their two starting corners, and they
still cannot capitalize when a team is missing key players

(06:50):
to really use that to their advantage. Yeah, and another thing,
I mean, listen, the defense deservedly deserves part of the
blame here and not being able to get the Raiders
the third down and get off the field. We looked
at some of Jalen's numbers in that first half. I mean,
your offense has to be able to extend drives. Your
offense has to do your the offense of the defense

(07:12):
has to play complimentary football. And that's really what has
hurt the Eagles the last three weeks. There's not enough
complimentary football being played. The defense plays well for a
while and the offense doesn't pick it up until late
in the game, like they were able to do today.
If you pick up first downs in that first half,
then maybe your defense is a little more fresh out
there on the field and they can get after Derek Carr.

(07:34):
I just thought today the offense just stalled too much
in the first half and the defense can never put
the Raiders in a position, whether that Raiders had to
play outside of their comfort zone. And that's the thing
is that we're gonna point to that opening drive. It's like, wow,
you know, the offense really looked like it was moving well.
But you had a lot of plays on that drive.
And so you saw two passes to Davante Smith's. You
saw Dallas Goddard on a play auction scheme, we saw

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Miles Sanders, we saw Kenny Gainwell finished the drive with
a touchdown, a bunch of different guys touching the football.
When you go four and out, when you go three
and out, when you go five and out, all of
a sudden, when a lot of footballs go around, the
balls hitting the ground too often, just yeah, just not
able to sustain offensive success. So I have a question,
and I don't know if it's gonna be tough to
answer right now just watching the game once. But Sirianni

(08:18):
talked a lot this week about adjusting more quickly, right,
seeing what the defense is giving and adjusting. But when
you can come out and assemble a drive like they
did to start, there's nothing to adjust yet. Now, obviously
the defenses can catch on to what you're doing and
seeing what you're doing successfully, so the defense might start
to adjust. But it felt like after that opening drive,
the play calling after that didn't quite make sense. I

(08:41):
don't know if that's that's accurate to say, but I'm
just kind of confused in trying to understand, you know,
when when the emphasis and the concept is to adjust
more quickly, there wasn't anything to adjust yet. Yeah, I mean, listen,
and when you're in game. I'm sure that's why these
coaches get paid the type of running they do. It's

(09:03):
not easy to adjust on the fly, but it's what's expected.
But then when you do adjust, you also have to
execute right, so the players have to go out there
and execute what's being called at that time. It'll be
interesting to hear coach speak about it after the game,
about those adjustments and things that he saw that the
Raiders were doing defensively and what he tried to do
to attack that or counter what they were doing. I thought,

(09:27):
for a large part, until we've gotten to the helter
skelter part of the game, the running backs and the
tight end seemed to be an area where Jalen wanted
to focus get into football, and I thought we made
it more of a commitment today to run into football
and for those of us that want to throw the ball,
throw the ball, throw the ball. Well today I thought
there were times where running the ball was exactly what

(09:48):
we needed to do. To me, it was just when
we got in the second half of the game, our
defense couldn't get the Raiders off the field, and when
Derek Carr is having the type of success he's having,
because here's the thing they had. I think they had
the ball three out of four possessions. The Eagles got
the ball once before hand time, but the Raiders were
able to pretty much keep the ball from the end

(10:11):
of the second quarter to the beginning of the third quarter,
and they put together some long drives where they were
able to get points at the end of those drives
and the Eagles were not. And the other big thing,
just going back to your initial question about the offense too,
I think when you look at that second drive was
when Miles Sanders got hurt, right, So all right, you
can take some time, got to recollect. After that third
drive they had trouble protecting. There was the third down

(10:31):
stacked by Yonick and Gockway. There was pressure on Jalen
Hurts and some of those pass attempts before that. The
next drive was the fourth one. That was the Kenny
Gainwell fumble on the first play, So right there, bang
bang bang, three drives where the offense doesn't sustain success,
but for different reasons. Then you come back out of
the locker room. That was the five plays, three penalties
drive right so right right off, right off back. Different reasons,

(10:52):
lack of protection, ball security, the injury to Miles Sanders,
and then the penalties, all different reasons why the offense
doesn't have success. But that's part of the reasons why
they're not having a lot of sustainably to move the football.
Right now, that's five drives in two quarters and has
some change, right I mean, that's it's hard to play
football like that in today's game where everything is catered

(11:14):
towards the offense. You have to be able to extend
these drives or put points on the board. And to
france point, when Miles goes out in that second series,
I don't know what that does to the game right now,
because it seemed as if Miles was a big part
of the game plan coming in and while we all
like what Kenny does out of the backfield, I don't
know if giving him the ball repeatedly is where he's

(11:37):
at right now. He's almost more of a third down
scatback able to catch the ball out of the backfield.
And then that fumble before halftime, Man, that was that
was crucial because that gave I keep almost saying, ok, yes,
he gave Vegas the possession right there, and another opportunity
to put points on the board before the half and
get the ball coming out of the locker room. Well,

(11:57):
in a point you made earlier, it's it's been kind
of too little, too late, you know, the fourth quarter
of the Eagles somehow start to string things together offensively.
Of course, you have to consider that the defense probably
is not exactly not a full speed at that point.
But you look at the first half the Eagles and
the Raiders went into halftime, the Eagles had just eight
first downs, the Raiders had fifteen. They end the game

(12:20):
it's about equal twenty two to twenty three. But that's
because the Eagles started to produce really heavy at the end. Again,
we touched on how the defense kind of will lay off,
but what's it going to take to start to establish
this offense to produce at the level it's been producing
in the fourth quarter because you look at some of
these scores and it's it's not really indicative of what

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the game looked like. Yeah, and the coaches know that
as well, and so do the players. The players understand that.
And I mean the positive you want to take out
of that, obviously is that the players don't quit. They
contain to fight and contain a play hard. But we
all know that's more due to the opposing teams defense
would rather give you yardage underneath. As long as you

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eat up the clock, you know it's gonna take you
longer to catch back up in the game. And we
know the Eagles have been able to benefit from that.
They took one away from Carolina playing that way, and
they almost got their way back into this game against Vegas.
I just think you just can't. I don't want to
say you have to play perfect in the first half,
but you almost do. Because they're such a young team

(13:23):
and there's so little room for era with this football team.
You can't have the small things to have setbacks. You
can't have the left guard pulling and hits the snap
that causes you a fumble right down there when you're
getting ready to put points on the board. You can't
have Kenny Gainwell fumbling the ball right before the half
to give Vegas an opportunity to put more points on

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the board. You have to eliminate these small things. And
every game this team play is gonna be nip and
tuck for the most part. I don't expect us to
go out and blow anybody out, so we're gonna to
fight tooth and nail pretty much through the entire game.
The Eagles have to give themselves a chance in the
second half to win these football games. It is tough sledding,

(14:04):
climbing at hill down double digits week in and week out.
It's just it's a it's zaps the morale from the
team every time they look up at the scoreboard and
it's like, oh my god, we're down by fourteen points again.
Here we go. We gotta start fighting again. So when
you eliminate the small things making a fourth quarter game,
I think we'll have a better chance to win some

(14:26):
of these games in the end. And I want to
go back to a point that Dave Spernaro made over
on the Kickoff Show before the game with myself and
Amy Campbell talking about the need to start fast for
this Eagles team. They haven't had a halftime lead since
Week one against Atlanta. And when you think about the
way that this defense is built, like it's all about
preventing the deep, the explosive plays, right, and you know
we're gonna give up some of the small chunks. Well,

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if you are playing with a lead, now, the opposing offense,
they they're feeling a little bit more pressure to try
and push the ball downfield. If it's a neutral game
script or you know, the offense is playing with the
lead now, well, now all of a sudden, yeah we're okay,
we're the football, We're okay with you know, take what
you're giving us. And also the defensive line can't pin
their ears back and go, so the defensive philosophy, if

(15:07):
you're playing from behind, it becomes a little bit tougher
to be able to execute that consistently. Well, and I
think kind of point two, this team is not quite
built for that yet, right, Patrick Mahomes can come from behind,
Well maybe not, but you can go from behind. Josh
Allen can come from behind. Those are teams that are
built for those scenarios, and the Eagles are not quite there. Yet.
So that's why they have to put their best foot

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forward right out of the gates so that they're not
playing from behind and constantly trying to dig themselves out
of the hole that they inevitably put themselves in. UM.
I want to talk a little bit about the offensive line.
We saw another combination today as Lane Johnson made his return,
So Jordan Milatta now moved back to the left side
at left tackle. Now. Kind of the the pro to
Jordan Mailatta not having really much experience playing football is

(15:52):
that you thought, you know, his versatility would then allow
him to play both sides. A lot of times you
get guys out of college and they played right tackle
for four years. To switch him to the left side,
you could have some growing pans. He struggled a little
bit more today, but there was also a lot of
pressure and I think the Raiders did a really good
job in attacking that offensive line making it really difficult
for the young guys across that line. Yeah, and you know,

(16:14):
I want to continue to give Jordan my lot of
credit for being able to fight through that mcl spray.
You know, I've had that in the past, and you know,
depending on your pain tolerance, you may be able to
play with it, but it doesn't mean it's not bothering
you out there on the field. So for a big
man like that, I can imagine that thing stiffens up

(16:34):
on him from time to time. And you get a
guy like Yannick and Gokway in front of you, he's
a guy that get I mean, you're talking about all
pro level type of pass rusher. Good experience for Jordan
going up against today. Yannick has some good pass pressure
on Jalen out there. But I think, like you said, Allam,
moving from right to left isn't necessarily easy to do,

(16:55):
but Jordan, because of an athlete that he is, he
has the ability to do it. I just don't think
that Nie is completely one hundred percent healthy. Yet he's
gutting it through, he's fighting it through for his teammates
to be out there with them. But that thing can
stiffen up on you at any point. And I think
the other thing to remember too, you know, we kind
of point to all the all the time that this
is only Jalen Hurts. Is what his ninth start today

(17:17):
or say, you know ten or something like that. It's
the same thing for for Jordan. My Alatta. All right,
right now, this is a guy that has not played
a ton of football. He started a handful of games
last year in the middle of the season, but then left.
He missed a couple of games here this season. So
the Eagles gave him that contract extension, not just for
the player that he is now, but for the player
that he's going to become. And so when you're going
up against a front four that has Max Crosby and

(17:38):
Yannick and Goquay, You're gonna have some bad snaps. That's
just reality. When you're a young tackle, right and you
have to have these games, you're kind of baptized by fire.
You're you're you're putting the thick of it. And he's
only going to grow from the experience that he had today.
It's not like the Eagles lost because of jorinding my lotta.
Of course, we've just seen him play better games. Blake,
he said, he's dealing with a lot too. And when
you have guys shifting around, it's just another offensive line combination.

(18:00):
It's been the story of the past few years here
in Philadelphia. It's not an easy thing to do. Yeah,
and I'll tell you, having a quarterback that is mobile
and moves around as much as Jalen does. Sometimes you
don't know where he's going to be at and you're
blocking angles. So it's something that they'll continue to work
at and get better at. But the fact that lane
is back in there, I think eventually we'll see that

(18:23):
line started to start to solidify itself once again. Yeah,
I think so, and again going up against a defensive
line that we talked about it on Eagles Game Plan
this week, right because that they've blitzed less than anybody
in the league, but they were one of the top
five pressure teams in all of football because of the
play of those two two defensive events in particular, there's
definitely a lot of pressure, a very dirty uniform for
jale and hearts today. But something we talked about last

(18:45):
week on the postgame show with Dave that I want
to talk about again today. We discussed the idea of
identity and we were hoping as the week's build we
would start to understand more of the identity of this team.
I don't think we got any more answers. I feel
like we're in the same position and that we were
last week. Well here's what I think their identity is
right now. It's a young team that's still trying to

(19:06):
grow as a team together. And when you have young
players that have yet to really establish themselves as individuals
in this team, in this league, it's hard to come
together as a collective unit and have that identity. You know,
I think back, as I've done quite often this year
with this team, back to Andy's first year in ninety nine,
and we had to play a lot of football games

(19:28):
close to the vest I mean, we had to hope,
you know. Jim Johnson used to say to the defense,
can't give up twenty. Yeah, we got to keep everybody
under twenty and our goal was seventeen. But we knew
if we kept them under twenty, we would have a
chance in the fourth quarter for Donovan to make a player,
for Chad Lewis to make a player, for Duce to
make a play. And really it came to fruition for

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us in two thousand and If you go back and
look at a lot of those games that we won,
and we won eleven of them that year, well a
lot of them were won in the teams in twenty
one to seventeen and twenty to thirteen type of football
games because it's an offense. We still didn't have an
identity as an offense. I mean, yeah, we knew what
our best players could do, but as far as having

(20:10):
the identity that the coach wanted them to have, they
didn't have it yet. And so when Nick Sirianni is
asked about the identity of the offense and Jalen's asked
about that, and the reason why we get the answer
that we're still developing that identity, it's because the identity
that is there is not the one that they want,
and right now it's the identity of a young team

(20:30):
that shows flashes but also still makes mistakes that costs themselves.
And once they're able to clear their hurdle, then they'll
be able to establish the identity that Nick Sirianni saw
their envisions for the football team. But right now they
just they it's too many times where the youthfulness of
the team comes up and bites them in the foot. Yeah,

(20:51):
it's well, we talked about a little bit earlier where
you know, I went drive by drive and it's like,
all right, well, penalties, it's just the protection falls on
the ground, fumbles, drops, rample, drilled quarterback position, right where.
It's just a lot of reasons. And when you have
a lot of youth, a lot of those reasons are
gonna pop up when you have to remember it's a
lot of youth and a new head coach, you know.
I think people forget that it's not the same players

(21:12):
that we're playing in twenty twenty. Some of them, of course,
but whether that be injury or they're no longer in
the building, it's a new coach taking over players that
have essentially never played together. I mean a lot of
the guys, the playmakers that you see on offense, whether
it be the wide receivers, the quarterback, and some of
those offensive linemen, they weren't in the roles that they
are now in. And I think that gets forgotten sometimes

(21:33):
that there's a lot of moving parts. It's not just
the youth of the football team. It's a new head
coach coming in and trying to put all of these
pieces together, yea and come up with something. I would say,
coming off the Kansas City game, right, we're just looking
at the offense and how they perform. I thought the
Kansas City game may have been Jalen's best of his
tenure as an NFL player. And then when you look

(21:56):
at the offense, I just love what I saw from
a play design, standpoint, explosive plays. They ran the ball
in that game, But the three games since then, it
seems like the offense for three quarters can't move the football.
I mean, I know they moved it late against Carolina,
they moved it late against Tampa, and we saw today
they moved in late against Las Vegas. But to start

(22:17):
the games off, we have to do a better job
of coming out sharp. I mean, whether it's the play calls,
whether it's the execution of the play calls, but coming
out of the tunnel starting the game. It was great
to see we got a touchdown on our opening drive,
but we got to be able to extend that. You
gotta keep that going. And after that opening drive touchdown,

(22:38):
it just seems like we fell off as an offense. Yeah,
just looking at that opening drive, and it started with
the incompletion of Davante Smith. But you had Miles Sanders
run plus eight, Miles Sanders run plus five, got it
on the play action plus twenty four Sanders again for nine,
Sanders for seven, Sanders for one, and then you had
the game well touchdown so mixing a lot of different concepts,
a lot of different guys carrying the football, touching the ball,

(22:58):
different ways to get guys the ball, and they were
able to move the ball and eventually reach the m zone.
And from a viewer's perspective, you watched the game like
we watched most games this season, and it's winnable, right,
Like it was winnable, just like the Tampa Bay game
was Kansas City, San Francisco. They're all winnable football games.
You know, the Dallas game was an outlier in the

(23:19):
in the situation, but I don't think today it was
any different than what we've seen in weeks past where
it could have been one. Yeah, and those and those
are the frustrating losses, right, those are the ones when
you're riding home on that plane, you're like, my goodness,
you know we came out and did what we wanted
to do early. Well, why can't we keep that going? Right?
And again it's something you got to keep going back

(23:40):
to practicing the small details. Watching the film, you know,
when you have a belief and a formula that you
believe works for success, the important thing is sticking to
that formula. You know, I go back to Andy again
early in his coaching tenure. When a lot of decisions
that he made early in his coach tenure, people with

(24:01):
question on the outside, well all of us on the inside,
he would always reassure us with this close keep doing it,
I'm telling you, and when we break through, it's going
to be a beautiful thing. And so you just got
to go back to the drawing board, keep working, don't
switch up a bunch of things. We don't need to
start pointing fingers. And you know, everybody feeling as if

(24:21):
they need to try him win the We're gonna head
over to Vegas. We're gonna hear from coach Siriannie. Yeah, ankle, Um,
So he don't. I don't know exactly. I gotta obviously
get more information. I don't he just have an X rays. Uh.
I don't think it was broken or anything like that.
But Um had an ankle injury. Wasn't able to return. Obviously,

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when you lose a good player like him, that's tough.
H he was he was running the ball pretty well.
But uh, yeah, we'll see he's gonna be. I gotta
get more information. But I don't think no, no, because
we still wanted to be able to run the football.
I thought we did a good job running the football,
but still wanted to be able to do that and
just next man up. It's I mean, you can't excuse me,

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you can't just abandon it when one guy goes out.
It's got to be next man up. Um, you make
some adjustments. But uh, it didn't. It didn't change how
we were we were calling it. When we got down,
it did a little bit, but uh, as soon as
he went out, we weren't down like that. Yeah, when
you ever time, anytime you lose like that, Uh, you know,

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everybody's got to look theirselves in the mirror. And it
just wasn't good enough execution. It wasn't good enough play
calling on both sides of the ball. Um, we just
weren't good enough. Um. And that starts with me. I mean,
so everything's always going to start with me. Um. I
just wasn't good enough. And and everybody else followed suit. Uh,
something that we saw in the scheme that they had

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felt good about it. We didn't feel like we were
getting good we were getting enough stops in the first
the first half on defense, wanted to be aggressive. I'd
do it again. So because because our chart said go
for it there, all right, so it's fourth and three,
fourth and four. We would have been aggressive and we

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would have probably went for it right there. I had
already I had already accepted it the penalty. Um. And
then they went down and then they hit a third
and thirteen. We can't give up a third and thirteen.
So again I can't. I can't tell you exactly how
a team's gonna play it offensively. Um, always like how
aggressive they're going to be in that scenario. Um, I
felt good about like accepting it. I know they I

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know they converted. We ended up getting to stop after that.
But um, yeah, I just was playing it like I
was playing it like I would go for it in
that scenario. So I thought third and thirteen would be
better third and fourteen or whatever you said. It was,
fourth and four would be better than fourth and four. Yes, yes,
So because Cleet said he I didn't accept I said, Cleete,

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I accepted it. Then they started running the putting team on.
I mean, hey, the timing of that, and so it
always looks worse too, obviously when when they can bird
on third and thirteen. So, um, but I gotta stick
to what I believe in right there, and uh again
I thought fourth and four or fourth or third and fourteen.
I'd rather have him in the third and fourteen. Yeah,

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we need to challenge more. Um. It's so it starts obviously,
always starts with us as coaches being able to put
them in positions to make place. So we have to
call defenses that are going to allow them him the
defenders to challenge more. Um. And then our defenders got
to challenge more. Again when when someone's ninety one or
ninety two percent or whatever is, everyone's got a piece
of that um. And so we just got to be

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able to challenge more. And that's defensive scheme. And then
obviously as play and tip, yeah, of course, yeah, everything
every product that's on that field is a product of
you know, my name's on it. So, um, I'm able
to talk to him throughout the game, say say what
I want, say my piece right there. Again, they're the
ones that are watching the tape all week. I mean

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I get to watch a little bit defensive tape. Obviously
I'm doing all my homework as offensive of coordinator. Um,
so but you know I'm making suggestions here here and there.
But they're the ones that have watched the tape. A
part of me of the tape all week. Um, you know, again,
anytime like when you're playing these good quarterbacks. Again, I
got a lot of respect for Derek carr Um, and

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you're giving up this high percentage. Yeah, I mean that's
the same thing we talk about in offense. Anytime you're
not playing what you gotta make. You gotta make changes,
you gotta adapt, you gotta move. And so I don't
want to say you have to make a completely different
philosophy switch, but we gotta do. We gotta do different
things that help our players out. Absolutely, it was like

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fourth and it was less than a yard. I felt good,
like we've been pretty good on quarterback sneaks. And I
felt really good about Jalen. I know we got stopped
on the on the goal line on the one on
a quarterback sneak, but um, I felt pretty good about
how strong he is getting it getting it there. And
so I feel like I know we were I know
we were in our own territory. What was it thirty
one or thirty two, thirty I think it was twenty nine.
I felt good about it because of how much how

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short it was and I just felt good about the
play go ahead I did. The play before that play
was the play before was a sneak. We got stuffed, right,
they jumped over top of the pile. They had good penetration.
You could see their linebackers. I mean, it's always easy

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to say that after the fact, right, why not do
this or why not do that? But like the play
before that, the linebackers were shooting downhill, Crosby came somebody
jumped over top, Crosby came through. Jaalen got hit, So
I also want to protect my quarterback and not get
him hit. And like when they know we're in a
sneak position, really a flukey play on what happened. I
believe it hit. I think what I was told to

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me on the sideline and what they said in the
box was it hit Driscoll's hand when he was pulling
on a power play. I haven't really seen that happen
too much. It felt good about the play call because
Jalen didn't just drop that snap. It looked like he did,
but he didn't. So hey, it didn't work. So when
play doesn't work again, that has to go to me first,
and I take responsibility for that. Again like it was

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so a little bit of it. Jeff was like, I
felt like so the second drive we had I believe,
correct me if I'm wrong. We were backed up, okay,
and we got our our goaling backed up is to
get at least to the twenty yard line. Again, everybody
wants to go ninety nine yards. I get it, Yes,
the goals will score first, but we got ourselves out
of that hole, and we just so we got two
first downs or I know we got to the twenty.

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We ended up having the punt and then our third possession.
I think we got one or two first downs and
had the punt. So those drives stalled out. So but
really not having having the only three possessions and then
we got the one and we fumbled on it. But
having three possessions, it's just felt like we weren't in
a groove. Um. So again, that's a that's a full
team sport, right Obviously, it's being able to get the
football back because you felt good about your first drive

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and being able to get into a group some of
those situational football things like backed up, play play and
play into that. So um again, uh, not an excuse,
but we just we have to we have to sustain drives. UM.
And I think one of those ones we had a
penalty that brought something back and so again it was
a self inflicted wound. I could be wrong there, that's
what I thought happened, but there it goes. Yeah. UM,

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you know, so we just again we want to be
able to we want to be able to run it.
We want to be able to run Jalen with with
some of that stuff. UM. And we want to be
able to hit play Action Pass, to play our play
Action Pass game that meshes up with it. I think
that's always a staple that we want to be able
to do. UM. Again, anytime you're not you're not executing right,
you still always you gotta go. And you got to
look at the look at the tape, and you got

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to look at what you do and you gotta make
it the adjustments. Um. But there's no secret. We really
want to be able to run it. We want to
be able to play action off of that. UM. We
want to be we want to be really good in
situational football. I'm not sure what we were on third
down today, uh, but red zone we gotta finish. We
gotta finish on all three right there. Um, But that
that's where that's where I'm at with our office. He

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got stepped on his ankle, got stepped. I know he
was not he was just getting evaluated and we were
being safe there. He was getting looked at after the
after the Again, I have to watch the tape. We
went off, we went against some good pass rushers. Um,
I think we gave up two sacks. But he I
thought he I thought he played solid again. But I
gotta go watch the tape. It was nice to have
him back out there. Um. You always feel good about

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your right side. And when number sixty fives out there,
I think, yeah, yeah, I think we got everybody in
our in our building that we need to be able
to do. I got so much confidence in our guys.

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I love our I love our team. Um. Again, that's
what we're gonna say after, you know, after things go wrong,
and we're gonna expeccept that responsibility. If we want our
players a second responsibility for mistakes that they make, we
have to start here first. And I'm always going to
look into marry like we scored twenty two points. Not
good enough on my part. Derek Carr was ninety one
percent not good enough on Jonathan's part, and then let's
go back and fix everything from there. Um, you know again,

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I think so, I mean, I do. I believe so again.
We just still got to get him into some situations
where he's staying in the pocket. We got to be
able to move him enough to be able to hit
some some things down the field. Um, I did you know.
I got to go and look at the tape. I
didn't think he I thought he played probably average to
above average today if I had to, if I had
to just say anything right now, But yeah, I think

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that he can make all the throws, um and make
and make them accurately. Is he gonna have like, so
what how many times we pass the thirty four and
so you're gonna have some mis throws in thirty four
and thirty four attempts and and so he's gonna always
you're gonna have some on there and look at him like, gosh,
I want that one back. But that's any quarterback, you know.
And so I believe he is. I had a lot

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of confidence in Jim. All right, thank you guys, Thanks everybody.
Now that was head coach Nick Sirianni. He's taking the
blame as the head coach. That's usually how something like
that goes. But he said wasn't good enough on his party,
said wasn't good enough on Jonathan Gannon's part, which makes
me want to talk a little bit more about that defense.
In the past five games. You look at how many
points that they've given up. Okay, thirty three today, twenty

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eight against Tampa Bay, eighteen against Carolina, forty two versus
Chiefs in forty one against Dallas. That's not too good.
So when you the defense now goes into their meeting
rooms this week and they're looking at film, what do
they need to do? We're gonna actually head right back
over in here from Dallas. Goddard. Yeah, the first drive,

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you know, we executed everything that was called very well.
We had a you know, we had the first fifteen
or whatever, you know, they were just all working. Then
later on throughout the game it was just, you know,
we didn't execute as good as we needed to. We
had a couple of penalties, you know, a turnover here
and there, not getting that onside kick. Um, you know,
the ball just buzzing balls on our way today. Um. Yeah,

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Losing a player like Miles us always gonna be tough
for a team. But you know, I don't think anybody
batting an eye. Uh, Kenny came in there, Boston came
in there. You know, we got great players all around.
Who was ever in there. I think we're confident with Yeah.

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I think it's just a little bit. You know, everybody
in the locker room, you know, we don't want that
to happen again. You know that sucked last year. Um.
I think just everybody, the lead leadership on this team,
I think you know, we're gonna go back into work
and uh, you know, continue to get better each and
every day. Um, you know that's all you can do.
Get better every day, come to work and get better.

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And that's what we're gonna do. And we're gonna go
out there next week and compete, and uh you know
eventually we're gonna get in that win column and we're
gonna start wrong. Yeah. Um, the coaches just talked. You know,

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it's just the same thing. Every day. We gotta get
a little bit better each and every day. And if
we keep doing that, you know, we're just it's it's
gonna come around and everything's gonna be all right. Um.
But yeah, like you said, you know, we ran the
ball and these guys we knew what they were gonna
do defensively. And you know, we started off the game
doing with a great drive. You know, we just gotta
be able to convert and keep drives going later on

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throughout the game. You know, we're we're really close. Uh.
The only thing that's really missing is just execution. You know,
it's just little things set us back. You know, we
had a big run that gets called back for a
face mask. Uh, we have we fall start on a
third and three. Um, it's just little things like that

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that we need to you know, clean up. You know,
we talk about them all the time and I feel
like they're happening less and less. But those are the
things that we need to clean up and make sure
that aren't happening. So we can consistain the drives, we
can stay on the field, we can keep the defense
off the field, and you know, put more points up.
What evidence we have, the film that we watch every week,
the plays that we see people make just about make

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you know, we can hit that one to quiz the
deep one. Um, It's just it's just little things. You know.
If there's you know, someone makes the wrong goes the
wrong way, makes the wrong play. Uh. You know, it's
it's just we're just close, um, you know, and it's
hard to see unless you watch the film and go
and see the holes that are there for the running,
see the passes that are there for everybody. Uh see.

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You know, just we have a really good team here.
We just haven't put it all together yet. Um. You know,
I don't think the Eagles fans are ever gonna lose faith.

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M you know, they might boo us, they might do
all that, but most of the time when they're doing us,
we don't give a reason not to boo us. UM.
You know, Philadelphia have some of the most passionate fans
there are. UM, so they're going to continue to support us. Um.
But like you said, you know, we gotta start winning. Yeah,

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we knew the onsite kick was happening. H You know,
I've seen Jake run that play a million times and
every time, you know, that last bounce just doesn't pop
up like it did today. And those are just little
things where the ball doesn't bounce our way, which everything
a little bit soever. Um. You know, it's one of
those things that it's gonna be great if we get it.

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If not. You know, it's dogmentality. We gotta go out there.
The defense has to go off there on a short field,
which sucks for them, but um, you know they just
have have a dog mentality go out there and you know,
compete every play man. It's just not honestly, it's not
what I'm you know, what has been Um. I mean
obviously just got to play what's being called. And uh,
you know when you show used to playing so aggressive,

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I mean the last however many years you know I've
been playing and uh, you know, just it's just changed,
so you can't be as aggressive. He's kind of gotta
play what's being called. Play how you are. Just there's
just plenty of ways they're taking advantage of you know,
they're you know number one, Um, they're no. I mean

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we've got so many so much tape on film, well
whatever on film and done for us. It's you know,
just uh, you know, just a little things, you know. Um,
just I think we just got to be more aggressive.
And uh, you know, up front, I think that starts
with me. Um and you know, sometimes i'm aggressive when
I'm sometimes when I'm too aggressive, we kind of take
me back to my old ways and uh, you know,
it hurt us sometime and help us sometimes. Yeah, it stream.

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You know, I don't get paid to play strings and
get played the you know, sack the quarterback, um playing
the backfield tackle. I don't get played to play I
don't get paid to play strings. We get a stream,
We get streamed all the time. Just get out of
stack and run to the football. I mean, it's like

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I just said, Man, it's again. You know, it's it's
times where you know, I'm aggressive and it's good for us.
Time I'm aggressive and it hurt us. But in the
grand scheme of things, you know, you just gotta you
gotta play what's being called. You know, I'm an aggresive player,
and that's how I made my living playing in the backfield.
And you know, splin double teams and I'm not used
to you know, double teams just standing on me two

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three yards down the field. I mean, that's that's just frustration.
And when you get frustrated and you get tired, you know,
six seven hundred pounds leaning on you, you know, you
want to do something about it. And and obviously he's
a player that being a player that I am, you know,
you can only take so much and I'm gonna do
someth about you. I'm gonna be aggressive, of course. Um.

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Just one of them things where you know, I wasn't
mad at Nick, It wasn't mad at anybody. It was
just one of those deals where honestly, you know, I
didn't as a player, I didn't kind of agree with
what was called on the defense. Um, so you know,
I just kind of let my frustration go and you
know as part of the game when I got confidence
in everybody, you know, I mean they brought just coaches

(42:00):
staff here for a reason. Mister Larry believing his coach staff.
I'm pretty sure he met with everybody before he hired him,
and uh, you know it was everybody's first year. UM,
so you know, you know, we all learn him. You know,
I'm pretty about the year because even heard ye stay thinking,
you know, from the years. But absolutely, I mean think
anybody's being being in the league ten years, um and

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played at a really high level for for you know,
nine and a half of them. Um right now, it's
just you know, for me, it can be frustrating. It
is frustrating, and you know, um, you know it's the
biggest thing for me is to stay a pro state professional. Um.
You know I got to see on my journey, So
you gotta stay, you know, stay being a leader to
try to keep everybody up. I don't think it's my

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job to talk to the coaches about scheme and anything
like that. You know, I think that the biggest thing is,
you know, the coaches, you know, they're here to coach us,
and you know, we gotta play. What's called play was
being called. And you obviously as a player, um, you
you know they know, the coaches and you know all
these assistants spend so much time you know, game planning. Um. Um,
So you gotta just buy into what's being called getting

(43:07):
rid of the ball quick. I mean I think y'all
just watch the same game I watch. Um, you could
go out and get a stop watching. You just see
how the ball is going quick. Um. And uh, you
know at the end of the day, Um, you know
he was, he was on fire. You know, we didn't
get to him. We didn't hit him enough to disrupt him.
We did hold the ball, we did hit him, UM,
got him a fist spot um. And so that's what
you want. Of course, we make some adjustments, but you know,

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you make adjustments a half time, like like every game.
I don't think there's any specal adjustments. I think us approach.
You gotta take the adjustments and run with it. I
think that's for the locker room. Got absolutely. I mean
we have conversations all the time. We have conversations during

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the week. You know, we know who we are. UM.
I think for us, it's just you know, sticking together. UM.
Not let anybody, not let anybody priors priors a part
in the locker room. You know, I could of a
damn with the outside of stink. I know, you know
it's sixty three. You haven't many guys in the locker
room who are on Fletcher Cox next question, are watching them.

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I think Jones job is to call the game. Our
job is to guard an execute to play. So we
can't use that as an excuse one. There's no disconnect.
I mean we're a team. We all in the locker
room together. UM. We you know, we win together, we
lose together. We all battle, um, and we got to
find a way to win. Thank you, Thank you, Dallas

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Goddard Fletcher Cox. Their messaging was similar in that they're
all confident in the guys that they have here, um,
but obvious frustration and and there's gonna be a lot
of looking in the mirror whether you're Fletcher Cox or
you're a rookie, of course, but Fletcher Cox has the
experience on his side. You know. Obviously he's won a
lot of football games, he won a Super Bowl, but
he's also played seasons where it hasn't always gone so well.

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And so I feel like this locker room is going
to have to depend on guys like him, especially when
you lost guys like Brandon Graham and Lane Johnson hasn't
been available in the past few weeks, or you lose
guys like Brandon Brooks, you lose that veteran presence that
is able to kind of fill in the gaps when
things aren't going well. Yeah, I think Fletcher feels like

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a lot of fans feel. I mean I noticed it
not only in Fletcher's his voice, you can see his
facial expressions there. I mean watching Dallas Goddard, he didn't
necessarily enjoy being up there at the podium. And it
started with the head coach, Nick Sirianni. And you watch
him and you listen to the tone that he uses
when answering these questions. There's frustration there, and it should be.

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It should be because these guys put a lot of
hours in. They put a lot of work in, a
lot of film study in, and the only way you
can cash in and get your worth is by getting done.
That's that's the business that we're in. That's the only
thing they know is the end results. Right earlier in
the season, it's fine to say we're a young team
and we're growing and we're close. But these losses start

(46:11):
to pile up and you get to the middle of
the season, frustration starts to set in. And I think
they're at a good level, meaning that this is the
type of intensity that needs to go into every practice,
every meeting session. And what I mean by that is
all right, the laughing, the joking, the plan all the
stuff you do when you're winning football games. Maybe it's

(46:32):
tying to buckle down a little bit and let's stop
having to answer the same questions each week, because really
that's where the frustration comes from, because if you're doing
the same thing week out the week and then they
have to get up there and answer, whether it's the
head coach or the leaders of the team, it becomes
difficult to explain what's going on and at least to
keep a positive mindset when the things are happening every week.

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Now we start to look at why it's happening every week,
and the last thing you want is a splintered locker
room fingers being pointing at one another. You want them
to first hold each other accountable. So I say that
to say that intensity that I wouldn't be surprised if
there's a sort of meeting of the minds with the
leaders and the players on his team, even if you

(47:17):
just need players meeting only like that may be something
that can help bring these guys together, because right now,
the leaders of the team are tired of answering the
same questions over and over when the results have been
the same each week. And I do think it's important
to clarify the difference between guys pointing fingers and just
have it trying to have constructive conversations. It can come

(47:38):
off the same. Right now, in the heat of the moment,
just after a disappointing loss, you're on the road. You
know you've got you know you've got a frustrating flight back,
a long flight back. So these guys are going to
be frustrated, kind of in the heating moment right now.
But those conversations that Ike is alluding to, that's what
happens Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday leading into next week's game. We

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have to remember when we saw Dallas Goddard up there.
He's your new tight ends. Yes, you know, zach Ertz
is gone, and he immediately needs to now step into
the role that zach Ertz held on this team, which
was a massive role. It's a huge responsibility that Dallas
is now taking on on the field and off the field.
He's the third most tenured offensive starter. That's Lane Johnson

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and Jason Kelsey ahead of him, and that's it. Yes, yeah,
young offense, and so you're gonna need his leadership on
that side, and obviously Kelsey and Lane Johnson are going
to do their part as being the leaders. I just
wanted to touch back on those those conversations that can
that can happen within the players, the player meetings, and
like Fran was mentioning, it isn't necessarily a call out

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session where there's a bunch of screaming and yelling going on. No,
it's it's a coming together and saying listen, we need
to stop saying my bad, that's on me. Let's get
it fixed. Believe me, I've been a part of those meetings.
And when Brian Dawkins says that's enough of them, my bads,
it's enough of them, my dad, that means he doesn't
he doesn't want to hear anymore. That's on me now.

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It means fix it, don't keep making the same mistakes.
And that may be what this team needs. And there's
nothing wrong with that because it's coming from a place
of First of all, you're talking about somebody like Fletcher Cox,
who is a pillar with this franchise. I mean, he's
one of the all time greats to everywhere this uniform.
So when he speaks, it's gonna verberate throughout the meeting

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room and throughout the locker room, and he's gonna need
guys like a Darius Slay to be right there with him.
Eric Wilson's your first year, but you're an experienced guy.
Need you to step in there and also have a voice.
And on that side of the football, it's the type
of thing, it's the type of thing that can bring
a team together, especially a young team. And this isn't

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just for this season. These are the type of things
that can help you build the type of team unity
and camaraderie that you're gonna be that you're gonna need
to have to have sustained success. That's why we were
a able to have five, six, seven, eight years of
the level of play that we had. It's because those
older guys grabbed us younger guys up by our bootstraps

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to cut you off. We're gonna hear from Ronnie McCloud. Uh,
we weren't able to take his first reads away. Honestly,
we weren't able to disrupt him in in the pocket.
And it goes hand to hand. We talked about this,

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you know as a defense and UM, secondary and D
line work hand to hand. Uh. You know, we have
to do our job in the back seven to a
lot of those guys that have opportunity UM and understanding, uh,
fishing quarterback like Derek Carr. We have to you know,
create some indecision. We have to take away his first
reads to give you know, our D line opportunity. Uh.

(50:53):
And you know we failed to do that today. I
just think it's uh just execution. Uh. You know, I
think the games that we've won this year, we've created
negative plays, and so today we didn't create many. And

(51:16):
you go again to the offense and a quarterback like
Derek Carr. Uh, you know, you don't you put yourself
in a bad position. And so we have to figure
out ways to create more negative plays. Get them behind
the sticks, get them off track or rhythm, and um,
you know that's that's on us as players at the
end of the day. We got to find a way
to do that. Uh, find a way to you know,

(51:36):
be aggressive within you know, the calls, um and within
the scheme. I think we gotta we have to look
at this film and be critical ourselves as a whole. Uh,

(52:01):
you know, first as players myself included, and then you
know as coaches as well, to figure out what's best
for you know, this team and what's going to allow
us to win games. That's what's most important, is just winning.
And I can't. I don't have an answer right now.
I wish I did, right And so that's where we

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got to look at this film and and and and
you know, we have to find ways to get better. Um,
we got to figure it out fast. We can't keep coming,
you know, back in here after the game and feeling
the way that that we have and being satisfied with
just you know, having great effort. Uh, it has to
translate over into wins. And uh, you know, I know
the guys in that locker room were committed. Uh you know,

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we had we all had a conversation and guys are
ready to just come back on Wednesday, ready to work
and ready to put ready to fight, ready to get
this team back on track. No, that's just as a team.
You know this, you know three phases man. Uh, and
so we always obviously break it down the locker room,

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but we we understand, uh what's ahead. And you know
there's a lot of resilience amongst a lot of players
in this group. I know we want to win, and
so we have to go back and fight. We got
to grind, We have to be more details and execute
that at a higher level in order to win. That

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was myself really just you know, challenge guys and asking
guys that you know, are you committed you know what
I'm saying to to making this run um and if
you are come come winsday, ready to work, that's it.
It's just it's just part of just breaking it down. Um.
After the team you know we usually prayer and you
know one guy, uh, you know, selection speak um, and

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so you know, just kind of some things up. Uh.
And and so best thing is, man, we got an
opportunity next Sunday to turn this thing around. No, not
at all, not at all, man, um, not at all.
I feel like we we all are playing at you know, work,
We're showing a lot of effort on the field. You know,

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we're practicing well, um, but you know on Sundays we're
coming up short. And so you know, it was simply put,
it's just, man, just how do we get better individually
and that's going to carry over and help us collectively,
you know, to be able to win games. It's the
marginal air is very small in this in this game,
and you can't you can't make mistakes, and so we

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have to eliminate those mistakes. We have to be where
we need to be. Uh. And I'm speaking defensively because
that's all I can speak on. And then you know
the rest of take care of yourself. Just give ourselves
a chance to win. Tim's running out, Tim's running out.
You know, we're at a point in the season where
we're two and five. M We of course we didn't

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want to be in this position, but honestly, Tom is
running out and we have to make a stand and
we have to make a push. And so I just
felt like it was it was that time, you know,
it was just in my heart to say that. And
and I know at the end of the day, man,
we're gonna come back. We're gonna respond the way we should.

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I just I just called what's Uh, I just play
what's what's called? Honestly, and you know, uh, we just
have to find a way to to live out the play, um,
and understand that as players, man, we make the plays
come to life, regardless of what's called. There's a lot
of situations where you're never in a perfect call right there.

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There's no such thing as a perfect call. But you know,
as players, we just have to bring those plays of
life and execute, like I said, the effort that show, um,
the way that you know we go out and practice
each and every week, Uh, the way the guys prepare. UM.

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I feel confident in that on the way that you
know we're still staying together. Uh. There aren't any guys
that I've gone rogue and and and you know that
are being selfish in anyway, right, we're still holding strong,
We're still supporting one another. So that allows me to
have faith and believe that things would be all right. Yeah,

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I mean, I mean Clay actually pointed it out during
the week. Uh came in and said, I think, you know,
we have something here and if coach gives us the
green light, we're gonna go ahead and run and execute it.
And we did it at practice, Jake, Uh, you know,
made a play during practicing. They felt it was it
was a time to make that call, and honestly, we

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were right there. Um, you know, we just came up
a little short. But um, I think we prepare well
and and you know, just just unfortunate that we didn't
get that. Get that one side, okay, but it was
there though. Get out job. Yeah, I believe in myself

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to go out to exquan. That's something that I haven't
done to get enough job of doing. Clearly, you know
we've been losing games. Um, I mean putting ourselves in
positions to do things, you know, just kind of missing
it off. Um, And that's something we have to be
better at. And that's something we have to be better at. EXQ.
We believe in ourselves we believe in the coaches, were

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believe in everything we have going on here in Philadelphia,
and it's just a matter of putting it together and executing.
And that's something that we we we've yet to do
on a consistent basis, and really, um, consistency it wins
in this league. I mean, that's all. That's that's what
we're all striving for. You know, he's he's a big

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time player, you know. And UM, he was definitely getting
the rolling and getting active early in the game. And
um for him to go, Um, you know we're missing
a player like him. UM, that's not saying you know,
we know we have confidence in Boston and and Kenny
g So, Um, it's kind of happened that way person series.

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That's and you're running the ball back. What did you know?
It's about the operage pretty much run the same stuff
throughout the whole a game. Um, that's what they did.
They came out there and there you know, a football team,
but they they're good at They practiced a thousand kicks.

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They're a team that's got a thousand kicks in the
what they do, Um, and they play what they play well.
You know, I think offensively, Um, for for our execution,
our details. It's something that has to be better, simply
has to be better. Um, it's time. You know, FU fumble, Snap,

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I didn't secure it. Um you know did it? I guess,
So I'm not gonna out of them. You know what
I'm saying. To touch my hands, I didn't catch it. Um,
touched my hands. I didn't catch the ball, regardless of
whatever it is, you know, and honestly, you think about

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all this stuff, all the stuff that goes that may
go wrong, all the stuff that may not look right
or Chris, but whatever it is, UM, you know, I
have to be better and make it right. I have
to be better and make it right, UM, because I
know I'm capable of that. My coaches know I'm capable
of that, UM, and playing at the high level all
the time, in the midst of little things that may

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go wrong, in the midst of maybe something that's broken
up front or um, you know, the little things that
go wrong. A guy I can make it right. There's
something I have to do. UM. I have to do
a better job of that and doing it consistently. UM.
And that's what I'm striving for. We're striving for. We're
striving for victories. We're striving for winning. Um, you just

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have to be better rocks for the walkers. You guys
feel like I ain't no crossroads. UM. You know we're
gonna stay together regardless. We're gonna stay together because we believe. Um.
I said this whole time. I believe in the midst

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of whatever whatever it is or whatever's going on, we believe.
I believe. Um. It's just a matter of putting it
all together. I said it. You don't really I'm tied
us in it, but I believe. I mean, you gotta
be patient with it. Um, continue to work, you know
what I'm saying. Keep your faith in and keep your

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faith in your grind, keep grinding, head down, go to work,
you know, to turnover way. Nothing little thing that personally,
I mean, it's it's you know, it's striking to fire me.
Um to fix it. You know. UM, it's a It's

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only a loss if you don't learn from it. UM,
And you got to learn from it. You know what
I mean. When we see the little things pop up,
whether it be a sack or you know, fum bull
or um, little things that just crushes you know. I

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look back and could have had more awareness on that
third down. That's that's the opportunity where I can extend
the drive. You know, probably gonna take a hit, UM,
probably kild a doll for like I did the first
third down, I converted on my leg with my legs UM.
But it's it's there's things that I that I have

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to learn from and I am learning from UM one
of them when I ran You're third and four. You know,
getting better every days our process, that's what that's what
we believe in, UM, and that's our jobs. That's what

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we do. We strive to get better every day. We
put the chips in every day. UM. We attack it,
you know, and visibly. It may not be the results
that you expect or maybe you inspire for, but we're
gonna keep our head down and keep working. I believe,
I believe wholehearted back. It's that consistency. It's that consistency

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UM playing out a high level UM at a consistent
basis and doing it UM all the time. You know
what I'm saying. I know this is the NFL. Everybody
everybody's got talent. UM. Every everybody can go out there
and ball. But UM, when we when we when we
when we eliminate the self inflicted wounds, um, and the

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things that are self imposed. You know, we're gonna roll
area where you need consistency, making the plays when the
plays are there for me to be made, making the
plays when it doesn't look too nice. Still finding a
way to get it done. Um, So got another week,

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another opportunity. I put the twenty four hour rule on
this one as well. I mean, we'll we'll move on forward.
We got it. We got a big one in Detroit
Areas quarterback Jalen Hurts. We talked about leadership before we
heard from him, and he's going to play a huge
role as well. But he's also trying to learn what

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it's like to be a leader in the NFL. Obviously,
he was very good at that in college. He's a
lot of experience. But this is a whole new ball game. Yeah,
it definitely is for him. But I think he's built
for it, and I think the offensive makeup is I
think it's in a good situation for him. You know,
he is a young guy. Most of the players on
the offense or young guys, with the exception of some

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of the offensive lineman, but he also has the help
of lane Johnson. He also has the help of Jason
Kelsey to help him be a leader on that side
of the football. He's gonna have to get out there
and answer the tough questions. The message that he sends
out to his teammates is a message of togetherness, continuing
to work, and he continues to believe in them as

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they believe in him. It's a lot to put on
a young player's shoulders, but I think he's built for it.
He has the temperament and the mentality that I think
it's just going to make him even a stronger leader
as he continues to go. But you also have to
get better as a player to be an effective leader, right,
I mean, because after a while, if your play doesn't

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match that leadership, it kind of falls on deaf ears. Yeah,
I think that that's the big thing is that we
all feel pretty comfortable that Jalen Hurts has those intangibles
to be able to weather this kind of a storm.
But as I alluded to, just getting better on the
field that will go a long way as well. Well.
The bright spot from today that we've touched on throughout
the show was that opening drive by the Eagles offense.

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So earlier today, Fran was able to break down that
touchdown by Kenny Gainwell in today's RICO Review. Well, this
week on the RICO Review, I want to take a
look back at the Eagles opening drive on offense where
we saw five runs from Miles Sanders before he left
the game due to injury, and we saw Kenny Gainwell
put the cherry on top of this drive with this
touchdown drive in the red zone. Let's see exactly how

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this came to be. The Eagles come out in a run.
Look thirteen personnel, one back, three tight ends on the field. Again,
one back, three tight ends, That equals thirteen personnel. This
signals run to the defense and look at all of
these black jerseys down in the box. Now, this plays
right into the Eagles hands because on this play, what
they're doing is they're gonna lift the coverage. With four

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vertical routes. You're gonna get one wide receiver Quez Watkins
working vertically. You're gonna get all three tight ends releasing
vertically down the field. And what does that do? It
opens up all of these underneath defenders. Again, the Raiders
playing with their base defense. Three linebackers out in the field,
three linebackers, by the way, who have struggled to cover
here in the twenty twenty one season. And what does

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that do? When you put stress on those players in space,
you can win some matchups at the second level with
the running back. And that's exactly what the Eagles hope
to do here. We're gonna let this run for a second.
What you're gonna see from Kenny Gainwell is he's gonna
release to the sideline then break inside. This is called
a Texas route. And look at all of the space
that Gainwell is running into. And at this point it's

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now just gonna become a foot race. He's gonna race
all of these underneath defenders, the safety, the three linebackers,
and he's just gonna race into the end zone. You
can see now Jalen Hurts is gonna let go this football.
He hits Kenny Gainwell and stride inside the ten yard line,
and the rookie races for paved dirt touchdown. Eagles. They
take an early lead in this game thanks to the
run game and then getting Gamewell involved down in the

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red zone on a Texas route by expangging the coverage,
taking advantage of the matchup really good opening drive from
this Eagles offense in the first half. Now is your
chance to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week.
Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of
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at a brand new Toyota. All right, our three nominees,

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here we go. We talked about him earlier. Dallas Goddard
Jalen Hurts finds them there he is three receptions for
seventy yards. Awesome to see Dallas Goddard taking those snaps.
Next up, jay Von Hargrave, if he's no stranger here
to the Toyota Player of the Week. And lastly, Avonte Maddox.
He was nominated last week and he came up with
the i NT today. All Right, guys, what do you

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think those three? Wow? Three very worthy candidates. Javon Hargrave.
I think he'll in the year with the most Toyota
player that week win before it's all said and done,
so we don't have to give him the one this week.
I gotta go with Dallas Goddard agree. I mean, come on, man,
it's National tight Ends Day. I've only heard that a
thousand times a day, so yeah, I heard about him

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tight ends day, so yeah, I would have to go
with Dallas. Although nice interception from a body. Yeah, nice
interception from Avontae and he's he's kind of stacking games
upon the game. Now, the last couple of games we've
seen number twenty nine a lot. I think you gotta
go with eighty eight. He had a number of really
impressive receptions. He just catches the ball so easily. It
was really really impressive on the move. I'll go with
Dallas Goddard as well. All right, well, let's keep this

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tray moving, shall we. Jamison nightcap. Looking ahead to next week,
the Eagles are on the road again to Detroit. Now Detroit,
they are struggling quite a bit this year. They are
oh in seven, but hey, do you give the Rams
again from most of today this afternoon in La. Let's
not forget Jared Goff is now the quarterback out in
Detroits and the Eagles will face them big notch up

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on Sunday. I think it's a huge opportunity. We talk
about opportunities a lot on the show, and this is
a big one for the Eagles. Yeah, and I'll say
this right now. The Eagles had better take the Detroit
Lions serious when they head to the Motor City, because
Detroit has played well the last few weeks. They've lost
some tough, close games, but they are getting better week
by week. And just like we view the Lions as

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a great opportunity in a winnable game for the Eagles
on the road, well, guess what Detroit is thinking to themselves,
This may be our best opportunity to get a win,
get our first win or the season at home. So
I say that to say expect a great effort from
the Lions and therefore you need to prepare this week.
Is if forget about what their record is, you need
to go out and get a w this week. And

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I will say the big thing just watching that Lions
team over the last few weeks, I know that continued
here today against the Rams. A lot of their offense
has been dining, dinking and dunking with Jared Goff to
those running backs and to tight end TJ. Hockinson. DeAndre Swift,
Philly native going up against his hometown team for the
first time in his career. He had a sixty three

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yard touchdown on a catch and run today. He has
been busting screens. He leads the NFL in yards after
catch at this point in the season. So that is
an area that we know the EAGs are gonna give
up some of those underneath throws, they're gonna take them.
So the Eagles have to be ready to rally and
tackle against the law. And let's not forget it's the
National Football League. Anything is possible on any given Sunday,
and the Eagles have to have that mentality going into

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this week. You can't look at that record and think
this is We're not in that position to do so
right now. You can absolutely not. So it's a big one,
but we're ready for it. That'll be one o'clock next Sunday.
We will be here for the kickoff show at twelve fifteen,
and then three of us back on the desk post
game immediately following the game. I'm Gabriella di Givanni for
Franz Deffy and I Greece. We'll see you next time.