FIlm Don't Lie Presented by A2DRadio Week 7: Eagles' New Offensive Wrinkles. Also Broncos-Giants 4th Quarter Comeback!

In this week’s episode of Film Don’t Lie, we analyze the Philadelphia Eagles' offense and the major scheme adjustments (new formations, under-center snaps, and Jalen Hurts' efficiency) they rolled out. What went right for the Eagles' offense early on? How effective were the under-center plays? We dive into the tape to showcase the NEW offensive wrinkles that kept the Vikings defense guessing. 
Then, we flip to the Broncos' side. How did Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos overcome a massive deficit with an unstoppable 4th quarter comeback? We examine the Giants' collapse and what it revealed. Don't miss the key plays that led to one of the biggest fourth-quarter comebacks in recent memory.
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= Show Segments / Video Chapters =
00:00 Introductions
06:43 Eagles Defense 
13:39 Eagles Offense
26:05 Film Room: Hurts Middle-of-the-Field
32:41 Film Room: Hurts Scrambles
37:13 Film Room: Double Posts
42:38 Eagles Outside Runs
49:30 Broncos-Giants Discussion
54:30 Film Room: Bo Nix Deep Passes
1:03:45 No Huddle
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:32):
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(00:52):
need it, it's showing on the ticker for you, Pete.
A much better vibe that we have this week compared
to the last week. But we know we weren't on
last week, but in general, you know we didn't have
a show last week for personal reason. So if you're
tuning back in, thank you for for coming on back,

(01:13):
and we apologize for the week break we had. Both
of us ironically had personal matters to attend to. But
you're back at it, and neilss is saying, it's like,
it's a much better vibe this week because last week
we're coming off of that humiliating loss to the Giants,

(01:34):
and so I think that the break for both of
us came. It was humiliating. It was I'm gonna say humiliating.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But it was everything all the things that had been
festering came to roost in that Thursday night, so they did.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They did. It's just that it's against the Giants. If
it had been against any other opponent, I would have
been like, Okay, like, you know, you take the loss.
That's a needed loss, like you know with the Broncos,
like you lost because you had the flaws, And I
was just like, whatever, you just do lose, lose that game.
But like the fact that was it was against the Giants,
and I hate the Giants with a passion. I just

(02:16):
that's what makes it humiliating. And the fact that was
on prime time, Oh god. Okay. So but the thing is,
like I told you and and other and other people,
is that there's a quick turnaround for revenge. We could
get the last laugh here because this Sunday the Eagles
do face them again, and this time in Philly, and

(02:37):
we have this opportunity to wash away that Thursday loss
and and come back and play well and get that
victory against them. And the reason why I'm optimistic, and
like I said at the top of the show, again,
the vibes are much more positive because we saw it

(02:58):
for the first time. There's signs of life in terms
of this Eagles offense actually improving, like showing new things.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Emotion for the sake of which one of the players
that we're talking about. So to answer your question about, well,
not answer not so much a question, but it is
a different vibe. I think we would feel better about
I think we still feel the same way slightly even
if they lost Sunday, because there was improvement and weaknesses

(03:30):
that we've seen through the first six games of the year, Right,
I think I think that's a fair that's a fair take,
in a fair way to look at you.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I think it would have. I think it would have
depended on how they lost. Like Okay, if it was
because the defense gave up another like like thing, okay,
but if it was because the offense couldn't couldn't.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Score looking as good as it did putting up twenty
eight points. And then like you said that, if somehow
somebody the defense wouldn't been able to hold and they
and they lose that game, you can come into say, hey,
like this is outside outside of a super Bowl. This
was a statement game from jailing.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, where both both.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
AJ and DeVante. I think AJ didn't have one hundred,
but he was close.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, he had over they both have one hundred.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I mean Davonte nine catches one hundred and eighty
three yards in the touchdown aj over one hundred yards.
I think he had like five or six catches two touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Four catches one hundred and twenty one yards and two touchdowns. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
So and then we saw some things with the run
game outside zone. But that's what I'm saying, like just
from the offensive perspective, from the mindset, the sequencing, the scheming,
and it felt like there wasn't lalls or wasted drives.
I mean make a find one or two series or whatever.
But they looks like they put up They were moving
the ball efficiently all all four quarters.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
They after the first drive, they did go into a lull.
But what I will say is that it was I
don't want to I don't want to give Patulo a
pass because yeah, the play calling still wasn't like great,
but there if you look at each drive, mhm, they

(05:29):
were they were stalled because of factors outside of play calling,
you know what I mean. Like there was like the
first I think I mapped it out, so we'll get
into it. But but yeah, like there there were reasons
why each possession kind of failed after that that you
can you can kind of look at and say, Okay,
that wasn't because of Patullo here and there. It was.

(05:50):
It was just like one one thing that kind of
factored in and then it kind of killed everything, which like,
you don't want that to happen. You want your offense
able to overcome those things. But again, I'm just looking
at outside of play calling. There are things that that happened.
But yeah, we're let's we'll get into that's gonna what's
we're gonna That's what we're gonna lead off with, and
then after that we will get into that insane, that

(06:14):
crazy come back by the Broncos against the said Giants,
who will come in here. So they're coming off the
Giants are coming off of a really bad loss. So
we'll get into some of that film because that was
absolutely bonkers and I definitely want to talk wanted to
talk about that and look at what happened in the
last three minutes of that game that that made it,

(06:37):
that made the comeback complete for the Broncos. So we'll
get into that, and of course we'll end with no huddle.
But all right, So, so Eagles let's do with this,
Like what is you named the first thing that that
kind of popped out to you offensively for the for
the Eagles, because like I think we all kind of

(06:58):
agree right now the defense were not really concerned of out.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Needs, but they play sound with what they have.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, and we it's ad nauseam. Now we all know
that we kind of need an that drusher. We know
that BT's coming back. We know that outside corner is
still your outside corner two is still a thing. But
like outside of those, it's like we have no, there's
nothing new about the defense.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
So we don't from a detriment standpoint, no, from a benefit,
the Kobe go, Yeah, Kobe being playing with Bond and
now you can kind of even utilize Campbell and more
maybe off the edge or that middle of the field,

(07:44):
that linebacker crew all the way up and I would
just say, mccooba needs to stop taking so many chances.
Mccouba is he'll have two plays where you just scratch
your head and they'll have where it's just like.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I know everyone's kind of frustrated with with it, but
you know, from my perspective, I kind of like expected it.
You know, he's a rookie and he's coming in and
having to play like starter snaps, So he's going to
have his mishaps, and you know it's it's unfortunate. You

(08:21):
don't want them. I'm not saying like they're okay. What
I'm saying is like he's a rookie, they're gonna happen.
I can't really, I can't really mh, what's the what's
the phrase I'm looking for? Like I can't. I can't, Yeah,
like you can't. I can't expect him to be like
a finished product like a Kyle Hamilton or you know,

(08:44):
right off the gate and say, oh, like Earl Thomas
right like he's he's going to make his mistakes, and
he's making mistakes. I think that, if anything, I'm glad
these mistakes are being made now because it gives them
the opportunity to, you know, to work on them. So
maybe later in the year when it gets really crunch

(09:05):
time and in December and January, those mistakes will be limited.
But we know, like we see it. It's just that
at least he's offsetting them with some high impact plates,
like you know what I mean, Like it's one thing
if he's getting these negative plays but not really doing
anything else. But he's he's making these high impact plays
to kind of offset and kind of down things out.

(09:27):
So I am not overly concerned about him this whole
there is sometimes I don't know if you've seen it
or heard of it. I think it's kind of ridiculous
that there's a narrative that Reid, Blake and Chip hasn't
been good. I think that's preposterous. Like he he's been
very exactly. He's been exactly good.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
If you if you're if you're watching film and you're
I mean the defense. I don't know the defense has
been outside of the Giants game where things just got
out of hand, the defense. I haven't looked at the
defense and said like, hey, that was the reason why.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
We lost the game. Exactly. Yeah, every single day lost.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
You didn't go into the game with Carter and then
you lost Q during.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
The game, Yep, exactly exactly. So I don't I'm not
worried about the defense overall, Like are they going to
be like a top three unit like they were last season?
Probably not, but they're like a still very good defense
who I think we can rely on to give us
a chance to win every week, so I'm not again

(10:31):
like we spent already like a couple of minutes. But like,
I don't think there's anything crazy to dive into with
the defense of film wise, I think maybe the only
other thing is how John Campbell saw some snaps at
Edge because Nicobe came back, I think I don't know, Okay,

(10:52):
So I looked these numbers up. I didn't charge the
charge them myself because I didn't have time. So if
these numbers are a little off, I do apologe eyes
and you know, if you're listening, don't quote me. But
from what I understand and what I did research based
on Schumer Braid and I kind of got it off
of also Eagles, Eric made a post he he made
a cut up of all of Campbell's snaps at Edge,

(11:15):
I believe. So John Campbell played sixty defensive snaps. I
think twenty five of them were at Edge, so there's
about forty two percent, so you know, a little less
on top of his snaps from what I did see,
like not much there. Like he was as you expect.
He did a really good job in coverage when he

(11:35):
was covering the flat and stuff, so you know he's
already a great coverage linebacker, so that's not surprising. I
think as from an edge rusher standpoint, there really weren't
that many chances for him or like opportunities to really
rush the passer. From a run game standpoint, there were
You can kind of see him, you can kind of

(11:57):
see why he's not supposed to be a full time
edge rusher because with him being so white, two hundred
thirty pounds, he kind of did get pushed back and
have trouble setting the edge on stuff. So like that's
that's kind of a sad, and that's that's why I said,
like this whole conversation with him being an edge rusher
like permanently is is a little like a little not

(12:17):
there yet.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
He's he's what probably ten fifty pounds lighter in Micah.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
As as much as Micah right now because Campbell's at
two thirty. I'm looking it up right now. I think
like fifty, I mean maybe better now. Yeah, so twenty
pounds later, Yeah pounds lighter. And like uh Les Bowen
brought up a good, good point too, like everyone wants

(12:45):
him to be. Everyone wants John Campbell to be an
edge rusher, yet one of the reasons why Bryce Hoft
didn't pan out was because he's like a smaller guy.
I think I looked up his white work quick Yeah, yeah,
he listened that two fifty five. But like I don't

(13:05):
like he in terms of build, you can he is not.
He is definitely not stronger or more muscular, moreoth than
Michael Parsons, even though he's listed at five pounds heavier,
so you know that the muscle distribution is different. But
you know, like that's John Campbell is not someone you
want there a ton and you can see, you know,

(13:27):
you can kind of get a hint and why so
film wise, I think that's the only other thing to
really take away, uh from from the defensive side, but mainly,
like what we've wanted to see offensive side, Like what
when is it when we're going to reach a point
where we can see the things we've been like wanting
to see. I think it was our last show, the

(13:49):
preview Giants game, where we me and you both kind
of ran down our list of solutions for the Eagles,
for the Eagles offense, right, uh, and we kind of
wanted to start to see, you know, some of those
things be implemented and I think safe to say we
started to see some of it, and especially like the
major stuff. But before we get to that, let's I

(14:10):
talked about it before. I wanted to give like a
kind of like drive by drive breakdown of what happened
after that first possession, because, like I said, we had
that lull. We had that like you know, spurt where
in the game where we weren't moving the ball again
and I was like, same old, same olde So like
that second possession, So this is what I'm talking about after

(14:31):
that touchdown, right, So the second possession of the Eagles,
what killed it was like there was an a j
brown fall start. If you remember we I think we
were at uh, you know, second and one to third
one and then like that falls. Oh yeah, we were
going to run the touch bush and then the brown
fall start, and then after that it was that deep

(14:52):
on third down. It was that deep shot to smite
down the sideline and he kind of like I had
said this, I don't know if you had saw it.
I think he kind of miss timed his jump a bit.
He dumped a little too early. That might have factored
to it. So that dropped That's what killed the drive.
So like it's not to me, that's not play calling.
That's actually to me, in my opinion, that's bad penalty.

(15:12):
And then just an unfortunate, uncharacteristic drop by Smithy the
third possession, and uh, let's see, there was a there
was a negative. There was a loss of yards on
second down, and that's that's what killed the drive. So
you can you can kind of, I guess you can
look at it as that as play calling. The fourth posession,

(15:36):
there was a holding penalty on the first on first down,
which backed them up the first and twenty, and then
you have that third and when it was like third
and twenty, that's when Saquon got called for holding. So
that's another just self felt, self inflected when that's not
on play calling, that's execution to me. And then the

(15:58):
last one, that's when it was. That's when it was
the drive before the half and they were moving a
little bit, but then they had the sack and then
Nick was like, all right, we're just going unluckily I
don't or something. What was that?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Weren't they at the forty.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
They were like close to midfield but not there yet,
I think, I think, so what are your thoughts to that?
Because like, I think everyone was kind of surprised, knowing
Nick how he aggressive he's always been. That was like
the first time I've seen him kind of like wave
the white flag before the half. I I don't agree
with it, but I think I can kind of understand it,

(16:38):
considering how how bad the offense was or how much
they were struggling up to that point, and maybe Nick
just didn't want to make things worse.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
I think I think he had a feel that maybe
they just didn't have it and maybe it was time
for a reset.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
At that point, the game was fourteen to nine, fourteen
to six. At the six, I think I think it
was fourteen to six and they weren't getting the ball
to start the second half. Yeah, I mean, maybe he
was just tentative to not run another play and maybe
to turn it over and give the Vikings an extra possession.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
I mean that's the first time we've seen it do that.
The opposite so benefited out, Yeah, benefited that.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah. But you see what I mean that, Like each drive,
it wasn't necessarily play calling that kind of killed these things, right,
It was like it was just kind of like wounds. Yeah,
so more sets of self infected wounds. And again, I'm
not excusing it, but I'm just more of like you
kind of see it from if we're talking about improvement

(17:47):
from play calling and that's what we're kind of striving for.
I'm not gonna say that's the main culprit of the
first half struggles. I think that's it's a mix, it's
a mix of stuff. You know, it's that and again
just mistakes by the Eagles. So you know, that didn't
really concern me too much from a play calling standpoint.
But then let's get to second half, right, and that
this is where this is where things pick up, right,

(18:09):
this is where, hey, like where the Eagles are now
starting to do some things. And I think we saw
in the first half that they they were doing more
under center stuff and I was starting to I was wondering.
I was like, was this is this because of path

(18:31):
being in there? And I and my friend on Twitter,
Anthony DeBono, did reply that talk was having during practices.
He he had some issues with snaps from shotgun and
he hinted it that might have been part of the reason.
But then as when you hear the Eagles talk post game,

(18:51):
it sounded like this was the plan all along, let
them be under center more. So they were doing a
lot of under center, but then they were starting to
under center play action, and then I'll get to like
more of the other stuff like that we saw in
the first half two. In terms of outside runs, we'll
get into that later, but in terms of the passing
game under center play action, they they ran okay. So

(19:15):
out of fifty offensive plays total, they had nineteen under center.
Nineteen of those fifty offensive plays were under center. Out
of those nineteen plays, four of them were play action.
And the numbers off of those four for four one
hundred and twenty one yards total. And if you if

(19:37):
you break it down, it go, it went. The first
one was two yards, the second one was seventy nine
yards to Devontae Smith with a touchdown. Nineteen yards and
twenty one yards. So they were getting these chunk plays
under center play action, and so it's it's awesome to see.
And Pete, remember what was it. I think it was

(20:00):
the last show. You had asked me would it help
the running game if they went und some more, and
I had said no, because they have to pass out
of it and that the dominoes will fall. I think
this is the beginning of it. If they continue to
do stuff and you can see like they only did
four play action passes, but that's all you need. You

(20:21):
don't need to do it. Don't need a lot. Yeah,
you don't need a lot. Four out of the nineteen,
that's fine, and you get these chunk plays out of it.
Now defense isn't gonna have to account for that, and
as a result, therefore you're going to have more open
space than lighter boxes to account for that. So I

(20:43):
don't know, like, did you, I don't know if you
had anything.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
No, I mean when you said that, some of the
takeaways out have been two words under center, under center.
When you're in it's beneficial for to see us, to
see us jailing, to have jail and perform well under it,
using it and utilizing it. But it also may give
him some confidence to give the offense some confidence that

(21:06):
now we have these other bag of plays that we
can go to, right that maybe even out of that
you can under center, you can We saw a couple
of tosses, we saw a couple of pitches as well.
It's a different looking which you're putting on film and
once again, going into this game, the Vikings were giving
up runs, right, they were, they were they were weak

(21:30):
against the run and they were strong against the pass.
And I mean Jalen had I think he had five
incompletions three touchdowns over three hundred and twenty I think
it's three hundred and twenty six yards or something like that.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, I'll put up the passing chart now. So he
had it was nineteen twenty three, three hundred twenty six stars,
three touchdowns, perfect passer rating. And then as you can
see at the top, Jail Hurts complete all five visits
deep passes of twenty plus air yards for two hundred
fifteen yards and three touchdowns. That's a big.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Time yeah, I mean building blocks and it's and it's
crazy to say that in week seven and for a
team that's five and two, where the fan base and
most of the national medium has treated them like they're
two and five or three and four, right, But this
is just the standard that this team is held to.
And it's more importantly, as much as we feel about

(22:17):
their standard and their level of play in an overcare complex,
they hold that standard two or three times as high
and they know they haven't been playing them to that standard.
So when you have that self measuring stick for you.
You want to kind of hit that, and they know
what they're capable of. I mean, hell, look at the
run they would on in the playoffs in the Super Bowl. Right,

(22:38):
that was one of the most dominant Super Bowl wins.
That's probably probably was probably the most dominant Super Bowl
win since the two thousand Ravens in my opinion. You
can go back and look at the screw maybe and
two thousand Ravens makers.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
You're talking about Broncos Seahawks too, Broncosawks.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
So let's say where we ranked that Probably two thousand
Ravens oh one bucks that should have been us, Oh yeah, Raiders,
and then you probably put Broncos Seahawks. I mean, could
you go Broncos Panthers super Bowl fifty? I would. I
would take this over. I would take this over that.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
No, I would think it saw that because it wasn't.
It was still a close game for most of it.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Right, But also take into account the opponent. This was
the defending Super Bowl champion mm hmm. Right, So when
you look at everything, two times super Bowl defending champion,
second match up in the last three years, they beat
you all. The first matchup. I mean just from all stakes,
and I'm not the same as a Homer. It may

(23:41):
I may have to put it number two behind the Ravens.
H I mean that that Bronco Seahawks, the Broncos were,
that was an all time offense. That was an all
time offense.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, and they, I mean they that Botch snap kind
of set the tone for the rest of the game.
But yeah, yeah, if there are standards.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm thinking his name right, because like, who was the
other wide receiver on that Broncos team, Yeah, Eric Decker.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
And I forget if the slot receiver was already Welker
at that point. I think it was, Yeah, because I
remember when he went from the Patriots to Broncos. I
just don't remember what year, so I don't remember if
Welker was there for that for that Super Bowl game.
But yeah, but yeah, to your point that there there
are standards here, So I mean to be able to
do that, but like to be able to for Hurts

(24:34):
to have this kind of passing performance against this defense,
who you could argue is the is the toughest past
defense in the league, if not one of them, at
the very least not one of them. And how Flora
likes to confuse and create chaos pre snap and you know,
and you have all these people who say, like the

(24:54):
Eagles have been struggling with with those kind of things
zim pressures and and unorthodox looks from from zones, and
being able to do this is is phenomenal. I think.
I don't think we can understate it. So yeah, the
under center of play action stuff definitely was a new

(25:15):
wrinkle that you start there and you're like, this is
a step in the right direction there. I mean, it's
not perfect yet obviously, still a lot of things to
to work on still, but I think it's I think
this is a really good step in the right direction.
I hope they continue to do this because this helps.

(25:35):
This helps the offense not be predictable, you know what
I mean. We talk about predictability and looking Manilla, this
helps them not be predictable. And this is already touched
on it. This is going to have effects not only
for the passing game, but for the run game too,
And I'll get into like the outside runs that we
talked about and a little bit. But I mean, there's

(25:55):
there are there are things that doing this undercentered stuff
does help with with this, you know, with the offensive
passing offense. Now, what are the other things that you
know that I've wanted to highlight from this game? And
it touches on there. There are two things, so two
additional things. So both of them are things that I

(26:21):
have discussed ad nauseum probably for a while, but especially
going into this season, that I wanted to see Jalen
Hurts improve on. The first one is accessing the middle
of the field at a more consistent rate, like more
consistently and showing you're able to threaten that. I think
it was against the Rams in the second half where
you kind of like we saw that and then it

(26:44):
kind of went away and then now we saw this,
saw it again. So uh, that's the first one, and
I'll bring up clips. So this is this is the
third quarter, and this is gonna go to Smitty and
I have Smitty here highlighted. You can see the target
graphic over here. So first and ten and on this

(27:05):
play again look under center and this is going to
be play action, right. So what I love about this
is that as you can kind of see the I'm
gonna turn it from there, you can see from here,
especially Jalen Hurts play action, Stays stays. Now watch this line.

(27:26):
This is actually safety watching here.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
What's the key word that we we haven't seen what
he was not doing in the Giants game. But he
wasn't doing And who did they play with for the Giants?
Was the Bucks?

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Stay played with for the Giants? Broncos?

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Broncos. Look, look where he lets his ball go and
it's targeted. I guess I don't know why they have
to take the back against the wall for them to
do stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, but like, yeah, he's I like that because he's
gonna stay in the pocket. He's gonna step up. But
the patience here and he has to wait for the
safety to kind of come down. Sorry, excuse me, come
down on god? Who's late releasing? He has a slow
release into his route. So now the safety is gonna
come down. And yet got it and that's what opens

(28:12):
up this window for forse many and so Hurts, let's
it go right at the last second before the defender
can get to him. And then completion this goes for
I forget how many yards this was? Nine? Is this
nineteen yards?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Ninety yards? With the anticipation, he threw to a spot
m like he can do it. They can do it.
And to be honest, if you put more more stuff
on film like this, it's gonna make everything easier to
where you don't have to It doesn't have to be
this hard.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
It doesn't. Yeah exactly. I don't like the condensed formation stuff.
But it worked out here again and and it's it's
just good patience by hurts to see this and wait
for that safety, waiting for that safety, for that second
window to kind of open up, and then boom there
and the flag was picked up. But I don't think

(29:07):
it was a flag, so it was a good I
thought it was a good pick up. Yeah, it was
like defensive receiver initially, but they picked it up saying
he wasn't defenseless, and I thought that was the right call.
So I was like, that's perfectly fine. I don't mind that.
So you see, it was just literally like it was

(29:27):
a like a tap to his to the top and
then he goes like flying to the so he's a
he's a light dude. But uh, the second play again,
this one, this was in the fourth quarter, and you
see Davante now at the top to the to the
boundary side of the formation, and this one, I want
you to keep an eye on Hurts and his pocket

(29:49):
movement here. So play action and look at him drift back. Okay,
so we winded a little bit on here. You're gonna
see Hurts after the play action here drifts back. Now,
look at him reset. I love that he's going to
reset throw from a really good platform and base and
then let it rip. Okay, So Devonte Smith, he's coming out,

(30:12):
He's going to rewind it back again. He starts off
at the top boundary side isolated receiver and he's pretty
much just running that that that dig route.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Minnesota had a lot of blown coverages, man, but I
think fifty that was a that was a linebacker. So
like the play design against that defensive call put the
Eagles at an advantage because you have a linebacker trying
to shell out and cover a flat that's just not
even there.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Well, that's that's what we talk about. That's the case
with the Vikings usual, right, because we talk about the
the chaos and confusion that Brian Flores brings to his defense.
You know, he does these exotic things, but if you
can block up his stuff and you can properly pass protect,
there are ways for them to be had because they're

(31:03):
doing all that stuff. So if they're they're sending odd
you know, odd odd you know, rushers to the quarterback
and they don't get home, there are there are ways
to kind of exploit those holes in their coverage. And
so this isn't this is how you are successful against
Brian Flores. You kind of you have to make sure

(31:23):
your past protection is on point and then you find
the voids and you know that they are absolutely able
to be to be found. So these two throws middle
of the field again, awesome stuff by Jalen Hurts on
this offense. Keep doing that, Keep doing the middle of
the field stuff because there's so many ways for for

(31:44):
this offense to attack defenses like that, you know, and
they need to do that. Uh, any of the last
things on the middle of the field stelf before I go.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
No, no, I don't know why I took three extra days.
I'm glad. I'm glad they figured it out because it
shows that when they all come together and they are
on the same page, that the coaches can coach. Yeah,
you know, and we've heard of that, like you, there's
there's people that we we follow on.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
X that have.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Some close ties to coaches in that building. They say, like,
the coaches in that building are good coaches, are bright
football minds, and it's is not equating to what we're
seeing on Sundays. So, like I said, you got to
start somewhere and and to be fortunate enough to be
five and two and not playing your best yeah, and
not be and not being healthy.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, not being healthy? You know. Yep? All right, So
the second the second points of the passing game, I
wanted to talk about Hurts being able to scramble, get
outside the pocket, but pass world downfield instead of always running.
I needed to see improvement in that area. And they're

(33:00):
two plays, huge place where.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
The that you're gonna run is he scrambles, but he
climbs up in the pocket.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yes, yeah, so he climbs up in the pocket, first
look at that boom and then gets it. I love that.
I don't. I don't. We always talked about how his tendency,
especially earlier in his career, was to bail out the
back of the pocket. Right yep, But awesome job here
to step up and then boom outside. Now he's able

(33:30):
to He's not coming from a place of depth. You know,
he's not coming out back of the pocket, so he's
in a better place being able to see the field better.
And then as I rewinded, so you know, DeVante Smith,
he's the number one receiver to the to the field
side here at the bottom of your screen, and he's

(33:50):
running just pretty much, he's just running out and up right.
But he's going to work back and look at young
Hurt's eyes downfield. And as Smitty works back, he gets
that pick up. Phenomenal throw, phenomenal play. I mean this
was third and fifteen in the late in the third quarter, Yeah, fifteen,

(34:12):
and this picks up twenty eight yards. So again just.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
For the defense because you're getting off the.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Field yep, boom boom, and so like this is again
being able to make plays like this. And this is
both on This is both on Hurts and Simody because
you know I talked about how like when it comes
to scramble drills, these receivers a better job of working
back to back to Hurts. Right now, it's not only
on Hurts. These receivers have to be on the same page.

(34:41):
And Hurts and Smitty were on the same page. Here.
Loved it. This was I thought this was my favorite
passing play of the game. This one, to me, this
was my personal favorite.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
So I like that there's one I like a little
bit more as far as this is Jalen creating off
schedule somewhat and kudos, we'll see it in the next
scramble that you're gonna that you're gonna show the fourth
quarter one that was third and thirteen.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
So we have here. This was the list.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Is this particularly one of the things we heard is
like in the Giants game where he was kind of
under pressure, is the wide receivers in their scramble drill.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Was complete booty cheeks.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
They weren't coming back towards the ball. You can kind
of see it here aj he kind of not saying
Gottle's down. Here goes to the out spins with the hitch.
He takes it upfield to come back. You see like
he almos he almost he's setting you back up. He's like, Okay,
my play was the hitch, right, So let me just

(35:45):
stretch that a little bit and work my way back
to work my way back to my quarterback.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean so that's.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
All communication and realistically, that's all holding everyone accountable. Somebody
on film had to say, hey, like if if, if
it's not there for Dylan, like look back, see what's
going on, and if you can work yourself with work
yourself back to your quarterback, work yourself back to the ball.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Mm hmm. Yeah. And a J.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
He may have the strongest hands of any wide receiver
in the league.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
It's him. Yeah, he's in contention. It's like him. I
was up there Portland Southern Sutton. I'm gonna say Pooka
like yeah, oh Drake London, Drake London. Oh yeah, so yeah,
awesome stuff by Age. And to your point too about
like being on the same page with Jalen. That's what

(36:36):
happened on the first touchdown past where a J. It's
funny because like you can make an argument a J
didn't even really run a route, like he ran into
the same team just like whatever. But if you look
back to Jalen and Jim pointed, and you can kind
of just I told him, I said in the chat,
I was like, as this play develops, you see it happening,
like because you could see a J in the broadcast

(36:58):
view and Jalen pointing, and then the minute he points,
I'm like, oh, he's going to AJ. He's do run deep,
He's going to right the AJ. So like you could
see that happen as the belt. So good job with them.
Beg on the same page. The last Eagles film clip
I'm gonna show is the touchdown the second AG's second touchdown.

(37:21):
This is your favorite.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
So, like the throw is set up the motion to
create the space and you can kind of see it
if you'll catch it here. I don't know what the
internal signal is, but Jalen puts his right arm down,
he puts I think he puts the number three, puts
three fingers if I'm not, and he looks towards him.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
You see what I'm.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Saying, Whatever that call is, and then the throw and
it's just enough spacing to get to say, no, he
has the safety in the middlefield. It looks like that's
Harrison Smith shout out to him. He's still in the league.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
He's still in the league. Why God? But yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Throw is just right, dude.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
It's this.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
This is the type of stuff that people say Jayla
could do it, and you have those jailing truthers like
he can do all these things that you say he
can't do. We just don't get to see it on
a consistent basis, which is the craziest thing is because
it's like he's winning and it is a Super Bowl MVP.
With not playing like this consistently, some guys have to

(38:21):
play like this and they can't win with their B game.
They can't win with their C game. So that's a
testament to the team that Howie and the roster they
constructed is a testament to the coaches. It's also a
testament to jail Like because when he needs to turn
it on, he can turn it on right. So you
didn't hear anything about any discontention or bad bad vibes.

(38:43):
Listen both of your wide receivers, and I will say
this one thing, Aj and DeVante went off. I still
think they can use Johan. I think they're probably going
to incorporate more third wide receiver when Darius Cooper gets healthy,
which is crazy to say. I would love to see it.
I would love to see it. But I mean when

(39:03):
you got Alpha one at Alpha two on the outside.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
And then you got guard itself, I mean, yep, yeah
it is. But what I like about this partic because
they call double pos right. So this is a great
a great way, especially against man and get single high
uh to explot the single high safety. But this is

(39:28):
I I had tweeted this out. I said, like, this
is evidence of why spacing matters, you know, and you
know we had talked about they have to stop condensing
stuff so much and stop with so much stack alignments.
What I like here is that they are going to
so it is gonna do short motions emotion out Why

(39:49):
so now he spread out right, So now you can
kind of dictate to the defense. Okay, we're gonna do
this when you when you have stacked alignments, you can't
do that as much. So you have here he motions
the short motion. He's now out wide outside the numbers
double posts, but from him because Comitte's in the slot

(40:10):
and AG is outline. So look at so Jalen now
is winding up the throw right. He hasn't even hit
the top of his route yet. AG's not at the
top of his route. This is phenomenal anticipation by Jailen,
like you said, phenomenal anticipation. But not only that, this
is phenomenal ball placement because it goes exactly where it

(40:33):
needs to go. I mean, it's it's a window. But
it's not even the biggest window, but it goes exactly
where it needs to go. And then I talk about
route spacing because of the way that double posts is
and you have that spacing, that's what opens up the window.
But when you have these two man route concepts that
are from stacked alignments, you don't get stuff like this,

(40:53):
and you don't the egos just don't execute and run
those route concepts. Well, they run these well. So as
you can see Jalen, he has that space and he
has that window, that tight window, and it goes literally
like right where you need it to be. That I mean,
that's you. You can't get any better than that, and

(41:13):
you need to a touchdown. So it's just phenomenal stuff.
This is you have a good, good argument of this
being like the best past player.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I mean as far as a throw window anticipation, he
had a lot to be just five or six rows
this game, this one and then at the spot and
the game that it was in. Yeah, yeah, you know
what I mean, only being up to and we said
it like hey, like look at the Tampa Bay game,
things got out of control. The defense need to hold on, right,

(41:45):
Like could the offense answer and put the game away. Yeah,
you know what I mean. So this is the first
time this year that it the offense had the final
say so and they put the game away.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yep. Yeah, So awesome stuff from the passing. And again
as we continue, as we move forward, they need to
keep doing this stuff. Get more consistently middle of the
field throws, get more consistency out of hurts, scrambling and
throwing downfield. Get more consistency out of using these under
centered plays, and using play action passing, passing off of it,

(42:18):
because we see now what you can do when you
do when you run play action out of center, and
you can do the same similar things out of pistol.
Doesn't have to always be under center. Do it out
of pistol as well. You'll get similar results, you get
similar kind of outcomes and and you know, kind of
like impact. So I I love it. The other thing

(42:38):
that we talked about where we wanted to address is
the run game, the other part of the offense. We
saw in the first half they were having success I
think Dennis on Twitter, uh, Dennis Sealman, he had these
success rates while you know for the first half and

(42:59):
the second in the first half on the dropbacks, the
success rate was twenty one percent. In the second half
sixty seven percent. So we again we talked about tailor
two halves. For the passing offense, they kind of woke
up in the second half, but the run game was
the opposite. So the first half it was a fifty
percent success rate, second half it was eighteen percent. So

(43:21):
they were really struggling in the second half. But what
I will say, as I was watching the film, what
I will say, and I've been talking about how I
want them to have more runs to the outside. So
I charted. So out of out of Saque's eighteen run
plays eighteen carries, ten of his carries were outside run concepts,

(43:48):
so they were using outside zone and tosses, right, so
ten of them out of those ten, well no, yeah,
For those ten the they totaled forty three yards, which
is four point three yards per carry, and they had
an overall success rate of fifty percent, which is good.
So fifty percent success rate went running outside for the

(44:08):
game right on these concepts. It's good. Now, out of
the five successful runs, three of them were in the
first quarter when Cam Jurgens was in, So I mean
if Cam Durgons is still starting. Yeah, was that?

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Did you get an update on him?

Speaker 1 (44:26):
By the way, I haven't heard anything yet anything, so
we shall But if he's starting, that's a good sign.
So that Yeah, three three of the five successful runs
from the game were in the first quarter with Cam Durgons.
Now Taff comes in. Out of the two successful runs
after the first quarter, Taff had a good block, you know,

(44:49):
successful block on one of them. Out of the four
successful runs after the first quarter, oh no, out of
the four unsuccessful I'm sorry, out of the four unsuccessful
runs after the reporter talk, I had a bad or
miss block on three of them. So this kind of
goes to show that it was like Tak for the

(45:09):
most part, was was a big factor in the last
lack of success in the run game. And that goes
to kind of as expected. I mean, I'm not I
can't be too mad at Tough because he's a backup
center for a reason, right, He's not a starter, So like, yeah,
he's not he's not performing well, But i mean, can

(45:31):
you expect him to perform too highly? You can't get
your expectations can't be that high. So but that was
kind of what happened. Uh, but I can't. And I
said this on Eagle Stock because we were talking about
it with Less and Brinks, Like I've been saying for
them to run more outside outside stuff and Kevin Toole did.

(45:56):
It's not his fault that Tat got talk had come
in because Durgons got hurt, right, And so it was
one of those things where it's like damned if you
do danned. If you don't, like, don't run out more outside,
like you're just doing the same more predictable stuff. But
if you if you do, you're you're still at a
at a at a loss because Talf is in the

(46:18):
so like I can't blame him from that aspect, Like
I do not blame Kevin Patullo for the lack of
success of the run game this week. It's it's just,
you know, it's not his fault that Durgons got hurt,
and he was doing these he was doing what I
expected him to do. So the process to me from

(46:39):
the run game aspect, was fine. And I think that
if he keeps this up, you're going to have successful
successful run game as the season goes on, as long
as the offensive line stays healthy. So that's my takeaway
from the run game, I don't know if you had
anything to add for the running.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Mean, there were some glimmers, there were some there was
some there was some hope, and then I mean, with
the success of the passing game that they put on
film this year, this this past week, defenses made approach
on a little bit different. But they had been seeing
so you think they've been seeing heavy boxes and they
still been seeing light boxes and they still haven't been
able to execute a run the ball effectively. A lot

(47:20):
of that goes into the line player. Yeah, so, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Goes to the line play, and it's you know, I
don't I have been saying that when it comes to
the the struggles of the run game, it's not just
one or the other. It's it's both the offensive line,
you know, the injuries and the lack of execution, and
Kevin Batullo. It's two slided like it's been both of them.
It's not just one. I know that a lot of
fans want to point the figure out just one person,

(47:47):
but it's not. It's it's a it's both factors coming
into play. But it's a good thing that we're kind
of seeing the Kevin Batula do his part now, so
you know, as long as Durkin comes back, not yeah,
it's not an EPT and I think that it's it's
a good sign. This was again, far from perfect overall, right,

(48:09):
still fructrating stuff, but at least we've seen improvement. At
least there's now okay, like we're seeing these new wrinkles.
And got to give credit to Kevin Batulo, like we
have to, because okay, you had this long break after
the Thursday night football game and the loss. What are
you able to call him now? And I'm sure he
also listened to his players right too, and what they

(48:31):
want to see and what they want to do. So
good stuff. Let's just please keep it going. Please, don't
don't like hit another like block in the road, roadblock.
You know this Sunday against the Giants, we need that win.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
So yeah, I mean to distance yourself more because I
think the Cowboys not have three wins. Who knows how
long Jade is going to be out. You have a
two game leading division, like we always say the first
things versus winning your division, all right.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
And then and losing two games to the Giants. Losing
two games to the Giants does put you back a
bit because like, yeah, that's that's two losses to the
same differdent opponent. That's you know, you can't afford that.
So you kind of you have to wonder what the game.
I haven't checked yet. I don't check that stuff till
like Thursday Friday, So yeah, I don't know, all right,

(49:22):
So that's awesome. We spent fifty book of the show
diving deep into the Eagles film, but for good reason
because we wanted to see that. But I did want
to also talk about probably the headliner from week seven,
the crazy, the crazy game that was the Broncos Giants game.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
And it just Eagles are favored by seven and a
half by the way.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Okay, all right, I don't know how if I want
to get to like, I don't.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Know if that's that fans something different for Jackson Dark
this time.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
You better and Genen Carter and should be playing. So
that that But yeah, that Broncos Giants game crazy.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
The game itself wasn't crazy. The last the last four
to fifteen minutes was.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
The quarter out of this world? What is going on?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
It's it takes two fourteen that it takes a team
to execute well, but it also takes a team to
just have uncharacteristic mistakes, and then I think, what's that
what's listening to where they said, like you can tell
by the fourth quarter in that thin air, the Giants
offensive defense was just gassed. M I mean you had

(50:44):
the one you had a bounce to THEO Johnson for
a touchdown. Now and that came on third.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Now, God that if you take that away, then you're.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Probably not even there. There was some some other uncharacteristic
things that the Broncos did they have then all season.
But Giants, man, it's tough and now you have to
see kind of see how this how they bounce back
from that. But I know you have a couple of
plays from that game, especially from both Knicks.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
And yeah, because my my biggest takeaway, because you know,
we could talk about a bunch of stuff from this game,
is specifically the fourth quarter. Uh. But what I wanted
to say most of all is, you know, Bo Knicks,
he hasn't been good so far this season. I think

(51:31):
the one thing that has kind of held him back
is that he continues to not be a good deep
ball passer, right, and that add that to and then
there's other problems with the Broncos offense, which just continue
to be like red flags because like their offense hasn't
been good this year overall hasn't been good. They were

(51:53):
like like and I know that's uncharacteristic of a champion offense,
but like you kind of wonder because Sean Payton was
so adamant that bo Nicks is like the best quarterback
prospect in that draft class, right, and so high on him.
But when you watch his offense, it's like he calls
the game as if he's trying to hide Bonnicks, and

(52:15):
it's just you can't live like that. Like they most
of their offense runs through like easy passes, like bootlegs,
throws to the flat RPOs you know qub run games,
screenplays like there's it's all short stuff, and then Nix
can't hit on these deep balls, so like that's what

(52:36):
holds them, held them back. It's and it's so funny
because there were I think, uh seven deep shots that
bo Nicks took throughout the whole game. Seven The first
five were incomplete. The first five throughout the game were incomplete,

(52:58):
just misses. And this is on point for for how
no Bonnicks has been playing. However, the last two, which
came within the last three minutes of the game, were complete,
which was the one to Mims, and we'll show all

(53:19):
of these, but the thirty one yard and Mims, a
twenty nine yard to Mims, which was that play, and
then technically a third the third one wasn't. They didn't
sol NFL Pro didn't chart this as like a deep
shot because in terms of air yards it only went
nineteen yards and they charted as air yards of twenty

(53:42):
yard twenty plus, So this wasn't technically a deep shot,
but I'm going to count it as a deep shot
because it was. It was a back shoulder fadeball and
it's pretty much right around twenty yards, so like I'm
still going to technically count it. So those three deep
shots was the last three of the game for Nicks.
He hit on, he hit on, and that's what kind

(54:04):
of led to the comeback. It's just so ironic, like
how that that how it panned out in terms of
craziness of the game. And we can talk about like
the you talk about the deflection of the Johnson and tipball
that you can talk about the penalties on the Giants drive,
like the the roughing the passer and the DP I
talk about that. We could talk about so many other things,

(54:27):
but like, yeah, I want to get to these deep
balls by by Nick. So this is gonna go to
if we saw Mims, the Giants are and man coverage,
Mens is in the slot and he's gonna throw this up.
Now you can decide I would chart this. I would
consider this a good throw because Mims in terms of

(54:50):
the coverage you see the dB, I think that's Andrew Phillips.
He's pretty much he's even with Mems kind of. But like,
I don't think there's enough separation there to lead Mims forward.
I think, like maybe though, yeah, yeah, like so maybe

(55:12):
I'm wrong, But to me, I think this is a
good This is good ball placement instead of kind of
leading him forward, I have no problem. I don't think. Again,
I don't think there's enough separation for Mims to to
be led forward with the past. So I think this
is good ballplacement by uh By Nicks to hit Mims

(55:34):
on the back shoulder and Mims, who's not a big guy,
but he comes down with the ball. So so good
stuff there. And then this was on. Now it gets crazy,
all right, So this was on the thirty three seconds left.
This was after the Giants took the lead and they
missed the extra point, the huge that was the second one.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
I think that was the second one he missed during
the game.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that because he had missed something.
But so Nicks is in the slot, I mean sorry,
Mims is in the slot again. Courtland Sutton is going
to be out wide, motioning out wide. This is going
to be a dig route. Okay, So Mims is technically
the clear out. He's gonna run just a go down

(56:18):
the scene as the clear out route for for Courtland
Sutton on the dig route right, so as we see
it play out, he's gonna run up, run up, run up.
All right. So here's Nix letting this go. There's Sutton
right running the dig and this is the clear out
by by Mims.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I'm going to did he take that route too deep?

Speaker 1 (56:43):
No? This is this is exactly what he's supposed to
do because he's supposed to pull this defender. But you'll
see what happens and you'll get a better view of
it when I when I switch it to the end
zone camera. But this is for Sutton. He is one
throwing this to Soton. This is supposed to go to something,
but it gets overthrown. But Mims sees it and he's

(57:06):
he stops and comes down with the pass and you
will see it here on this angle right. So again
look how he opens it. This is this is one
to sign on them. Look at So Mims stops because
he sees the ball and he's he's great. This is

(57:29):
a head's up played by Mims. He's supposed to just
run straight. He's the clearout, but he turns his head,
sees the pass and is like, maybe I should try
catching this, and thanks thank god he did. He comes
down with it right there. Like talk about just like

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this irony or or dumb luck. But Mims does a
really good job here. Again look he's just the clearout,
he's just cleaning it out. But he turns his head.
If you can see, he turns his head and now
he sees the ball and it's like, okay, maybe I'm
just gonna catch it.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
See watches I thought I thought Mims was the target
the whole time.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
A lot of people do. But no, the concept is
a dig He's this is a it's a dagger concept.
So so Sutton is running a dig while while Mims
is the clear out, but because Mims sees the past,
he turns his ten. He's the past coming to him,
but he's just he's like, I'm just gonna catch it.
So it's so funny how that turned out like nine

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times out of ten, that's not gonna happen that way,
I guarantee you, because it's not the post to. And
then this is the last one. This is the this
is the play that gets them officially set up for
the field goal. They're gonna run Mims and some are
gonna run a switch release. So Sutton is now motioning
to the slot while Mims is outside and again switch

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release or is that Troy Franklin. I'm sorry, that might
be Troy Franklin number eleven. I he's running, yeah, yeah,
so he's running here. Sorry, Sutton is going to run
the pretty much like the wheel route here, and then
he just comes out again another beautiful back shoulder ball.
Like I said, this isn't charted as a deep pass,

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but I'm going to count as a deep ball because
it goes nineteen yards. But it's a sense. It's it's
so but Nicks hit some right Beautif this was to me,
I thought was even better ball placement than the one
to Mims for that went for thirty one yards. I
think it perfect, perfect placement where something's going to get

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it and then he comes down with it. And then,
as we all know, Giant Broncos hit the field goal,
they win the game. So sometimes it's just about luck
and it's just irony. But Nicks again this fight.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
We're curious to see what if Fangio takes from Vance
Joseph to what they did in the fourth quarter to
kind of slow the Giants down. Because just as much
as I'm not too sounds crazy, I'm not turn about
the Giants defensive line versus our offensive line because the
defensive line for the Johnson and we said this before

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the season even started, like they have four top twenty
picks and that are starting to play like it. But
I'm curious to see if they have an answer to
Jackson dark and if it's as simple as Jalen Carter
is that answer and so be it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
I think they also have to make sure they get better.
The defensive line as a whole has to play better.
They have to be more physical. I mean, it's not
like this Giants offensive line is great. The defensive line
has to do a better job of controlling the line
of scrimmage because that's gonna dictate because you know, Scattaball
killed them, so they're gonna have to really make sure

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they've limited I mean, the run game of the Giants
is what really killed the the Eagles defense. But it
starts off front and it sounds so cliche, but it
really does because that's that's how you're going to be
able to stop stop guys like like scatter Bow. And

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then because scout of Bow isn't he's not explosive, so
if if you're able to crowd him, he's not going
to be able to create as much. He's not that
type of running back or behind the line of scrimmage.
It's kind of similar. I'm not gonna say this is
not a one for one comparison. Anyone listening, don't please,

(01:01:32):
don't make it seem like I'm saying this. But you
know how Derrick Henry like the thing about him they
talk about. The way to stop him is making sure
he doesn't get a like Ford momentum or running the
start behind the line of scrimmage, force him to go
east west so that you can. You can kind of
like stop him that way, because once he gets his

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momentum building that, it's it's over right. In a similar way,
that's what we want to do scatter Bow. You don't
want him to get that momentum going forward. You don't
want him to be able to get to that second
level where he's able to use his power and strength
to really punish defenders. You got to crowd him and
and have the defensive line swarm tackle him, right, So

(01:02:16):
that's that's how you want to just control the line
of scrimmage that way, and then you got to finish
these sacks on Dark Like yep, you've.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Got Kobe putting to hide at the edge and putting
a Kobe in there his third game bat not so
much spy, but yeah, because I feel like in the
first game last two thursdays ago, as of this Thursday,
this week, two weeks ago, is they lost containment.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Yeah, and you can take the plans we're not there. Yeah,
and Bond was spying, but like you could you can
kind of see that like he was a little tired,
you know. I mean, he didn't have the usual legs
under him as he usually does. But yeah, if you're
talking about a guy who is going to spy. I
I do think Dean would be good in that role

(01:03:07):
of spying Dart because Dean is still good, like you know,
getting downhill. So I I agree. I think you know,
this is another game where you can really utilize Dean
and maybe that'll be a way to kind of contain Dart,
you know on these on these scrambled place because you've
got to finish. You've got to get You've got to
be able to finish and get him down. And the

(01:03:29):
past uh past Russe Lane integrity has to be much
better like it's it was horrible on that Thursday night.
So uh, it starts with the run game from both
Dart and scatter Bow. You've got to stop that and
then everything I think everything else will be fine after that.
So all right, no huddle, you have anything you want
to start?

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Man, listen, it's it's a crap shoot. It's it's Daniel
Jones for MVP Indiana Jones. I called it like week two. Uh,
he may finish first and then listen. Jonathan Taylor ball God,
Oh it's I mean contact every which way inside outside,

(01:04:12):
it doesn't matter. Styching for Coach of the year through
seven games, Tyler Warren maybe offensive rookie of the years
living up to everything we need to be coach is
legit man, I mean because listen, they went and they
went in l A and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Easy work for them. It was easy work for him,
my god.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Obviously out of the Cincinnati now in Indie. Not a
lot of names on defense, but the guy them playing
as a unit. Yeah, it's uh real.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
They're They're legit, They're they What I love about them
is that they are just playing so in sync. It's
like everything is meshing together and they they are. They
compliment especially on offense. They compliment each other so well.
So like I don't know if I've I've brought this
up on the show before, but like each wide receiver
has their own skill set and it's unique to them

(01:05:08):
and it compliments what everyone else does. Like Downs is
your typical slot receiver. Look, one of the better slot
receivers in the in the league. Pittman is like your
intermediate weapon, right, he runs those with digs. He's good
to those digg routes. So he's your intermediate weapon. And
then you have Tyler Warren at tight end, who's just
you scheme uhmself for him and he can he can

(01:05:30):
make plays with the ball in his hands. Donth Taylor
is are It's him and Bezon as the best running
backs in the league this year. So like Donald Taylor
is just an elite weapon at running back. Just there's
so many I'm probably missing something. Oh, Alec Pierce, Alec
Pearce has to be one of the better deep ball
guys like you literally just that's that is a specialty.

(01:05:52):
Just throw up one or two deep balls to him
and he'll come down with them, right Like that's what
he does. And so again they're all you unique and different,
but they compliment each other so well. And then Stiking
knows how to use them in that manner. And then
Daniel Jones is doing what he needs to do. He's
playing really sounding really well. Stiking is calling masterful play

(01:06:16):
calls and knows how to sequence stuff, knows how to
every week. He knows how to attack certain defenses, you know,
and cults are in place to to to exploit defenses
on each week. Uh, they're all on the same page.
They're all blocking as you know. The offensive line is
playing outstanding. Like I don't this if you were to

(01:06:38):
say who was the best team in a f C.
I think Colts would make an argue. You can make
an argument for the Colts at at least at least
being the second best team behind the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
And and that's and that's the fearful part because listen, AFC,
the Chiefs gave you a head start and you all
that up.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Yeah, yeah, now clicking, and they have received rights, so
now they're going to figure you stuff out. And now
the rookie running back Richard Smith is being utilized more so,
like yeah, you gotta give them the benefit of the
doubt too, because obviously they they've been there, done that,
so they're number one. But yeah, I would have to
give my hat to the calls of the second best

(01:07:18):
seat in the AFC. They are clicking, shout out the
stichen and them. They just I don't know how anyone
alise in the AFC is going to really as long
as they say healthy and they keep doing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
This, you got you gotta go to if you got
to go to Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
No, yeah, you have a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
You have a shot if you get them on the road.
I mean, and so you got what I think you
got the top two seeds in the AFC right now
is COLT six and one. And I want to say
the Patriots at five and two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Patriot's another surprising one. They are Drake May. You're talking
about MVP candidates.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Drake May is m VP for Fantasy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
I can tell, gosh, Drake May Baller, he is the future,
Like absolutely he is. He's that guy. So like he's
they're doing really really good stuff. Uh from mine? Is
it time to say the commanders are probably done? Because

(01:08:27):
because hold on, hold on, what's your record right now?
Their record right now in four, three and four? You
want to know their schedule, the upcoming schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
I mean, listen before you do that, all the commit
not saying the commanders are right, wrong and different. You
gotta pace they pass performance. But that money you pay
with Terry ain't doing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Jack hurt, he's hurt. And then now we're seeing they
don't have enough weapons on the outside, as we've been saying,
and and a lot of the I wish I put
out the data and the stats I don't, but like
a lot of the regression or like the regression back
to the mean that we had alluded to is happening,

(01:09:13):
like they're not as last year. I think there were
what eighty percent successful on fourth down conversions that ain't
happen in this year. These one score games that they
continually won. We see in the history of the league
when you are a team that relies on winning these

(01:09:35):
close games, winning so many of them, usually the next
year that's not the case. And the happening the schedule
for them the next three games, because you said, what
are they now? They are four and four, right, Okay,
you tell me which of the next three games. Next
three games they're winning Monday night against the Chiefs, Sunday

(01:09:57):
Night against the Seahawks, and then that's in in Washington,
but it's Sunday night. No yeah, and then uh uh.
The following one is four twenty five game against the Lions.
Those are the next three games. If I could put

(01:10:22):
money down on them now, on the money line in
each game for them to lose those next three games,
I would do it right now. I'm about to look
it up, because if I could put a parlay together
where they're going to lose each of those three games,
I would put it down they're going to be three
and seven. I think it's going to take a miracle
like close to let me be let me be a

(01:10:43):
little little nice. It's it's very little nice. It's improbable
that they come away with one win out of the
next three games. If all those teams play well how
they're supposed to play, it's very very, very very difficult
for the cameras come away with one win. And keep
in mind, like you said, Jayden Daniels, who knows when

(01:11:05):
he's hurt again? And that's another thing, haring hamstring, I
don't remember. I think it's a hamstring hamstring. There was
a hamstring hamstring. But that's another thing. He keeps getting hurt.
What was one of the knocks against him as a prospect.
He doesn't know. He takes too many hits. It takes

(01:11:28):
way too he doesn't know how to like protect himself.
So commanders are in trouble. I think pretty much like
there'll be three and seven from my prediction, and then
is that gonna be too too big of a hole
to climb out of because after that it's the Dolphins. Okay,

(01:11:52):
like they'll beat the Dolphins. I think that's international game too.
They'll be the Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
But anybody can be the tough exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
And then the next game, though you have the Broncos,
and then they travel to Minnesota and then they play
the Giants, they play US, they play the Cowboys and
then US. So their last four games are divisional games. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
For the Eagles, this is I mean, you get through
this one, then you have to buy and then verbial
ship hits the fan because you got green Bay, then
you got the Lions, and you got Dallas.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Yeah. Yeah, that that Green Bay and and Detroit uh
run on the schedule. Is that's a tough one. That's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I'm not the first one I said. I'm not too
concerned with Green Bay. I'm not at where they play
them here or they played them on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
I don't know. I think they played here in Bay.
Hold on one of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Them are here like ones on the road? Ones home?

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Let me see, I'll check. So Lions is home, Packers
is away. Yeah, it's in Green Bed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
I think the Lions. Is that a Monday night?

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
I think the Monday night is the Packers one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I might say one of those on Monday. Ones on Sunday, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Think Monday is Packers. Yeah. So you got a road
game on Monday night and then the following Sunday is
a home game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Against the Lion the following Sunday. Yeah, so they play
the Packers after the bye.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Yes, yep, okay, yep, yeah, I mean I'm not I'm
with you in terms of like out of this too.
I'm obviously more concerned against the Lions, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
I'm obviously more concerned about that one. But I'm also
not running off the Packers because the Packers are one
of those teams where any given week they could just

(01:14:01):
blow up in terms of like just everything hits. Like
the frustrating thing about them is looking at the players
they have and the coaches, they just make things harder
on themselves and for some reason they don't. They're not
playing to what they should be, you know, and that's
on everyone. Like they make these dumb decisions and they

(01:14:22):
make things they shouldn't be. It shouldn't be this difficult
for them, and they're making it difficult. So but again,
those two games I think are gonna be tough because
it's there and see North teams that absolutely have the
firepower to go toe to toe with you. They had
the talent. It's it's gonna be tough. So but we
have to we got to win this game again the

(01:14:43):
Giants first and get into the buy and see see
how things go from there. Uh anything else you got
on the docket, No, sir. Right. For those who are
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