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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: "Hard To Understand" What Eagles Offense Is Trying To Accomplish · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Inside the Tape. On
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  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds, I'm Jeff Moser. I'm with Adam Kaplan.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we're joined by Greg Cosel. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: break down all the tape of the Eagles game against
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, a game, by the way, that they won
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  Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty five on the road in a
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  Speaker 1: place that they've had a lot of difficulty winning. And
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start with the offense in this part one,
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  Speaker 1: and part two later in the week we'll get into defense,
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  Speaker 1: because Greg, everybody wants to know about the offense and
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  Speaker 1: what in the world can happen for two weeks in
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  Speaker 1: a row that an offense could look so good in
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  Speaker 1: one half and so dormant in another. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: have all the answers as to why that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a you know, to be honest, it's a hard
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  Speaker 2: question to answer. But you know, I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously they were a Super Bowl championship team and
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  Speaker 2: their four or no, but I think we do know
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  Speaker 2: that as a team offensively, they're not really a big
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  Speaker 2: passing team. You know, we've talked about this, even going
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  Speaker 2: back to last year. I think Jalen Hurts had eight
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  Speaker 2: or nine or ten games in which he did not
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  Speaker 2: throw for over two hundred yards. Now, we've talked a
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  Speaker 2: lot about the fact that his scrambling, his design runs,
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  Speaker 2: they are absolutely critical to what they do. He had
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  Speaker 2: a twenty nine yard scramble on the first possession, which
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  Speaker 2: basically set up the touchdown. You know, those things really
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  Speaker 2: really matter to them. But if you're looking, if people
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  Speaker 2: are looking for reasons and think that all of his
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  Speaker 2: sudden they're not a really good passing team, that would
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  Speaker 2: be the furthest thing from the truth. They've not been
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  Speaker 2: a strong week to week passing team going back to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl year. So you know, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: this week was sort of hit rock bottom. When the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback goes oh for eight for no yards in the
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  Speaker 2: second half, that hits rock Bob. But it's not as
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  Speaker 2: if this is a team that throws for three hundred
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  Speaker 2: yards every week and all of a sudden they just
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  Speaker 2: fell off a cliff. That's not the way it is, right.
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  Speaker 3: I would ask you this question. First half, Hurts very
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  Speaker 3: accurate through for one thirty. It seemed like more you know,
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  Speaker 3: just watching it initially, what were your thoughts just on
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  Speaker 3: the first half of the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Overall, well, I thought the passing game was good. I
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  Speaker 2: thought they were well prepared for the five and six
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  Speaker 2: man pressures, really well prepared because Hurts got the ball
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  Speaker 2: out quickly and beat it. You know, those throws don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be twenty yard throws. I mean there were
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  Speaker 2: some really good examples where he just got it out. Look.
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  Speaker 2: There was first play of the game was a six
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  Speaker 2: man pressure. Hurts quick throw to Barkley twelve yards and
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  Speaker 2: the avoided flat beautiful first possession they win zero at
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  Speaker 2: a nickel Dennis got cleaned through the A gap. Hurts
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  Speaker 2: it a quick slant to Smith for nine yards. Dean
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  Speaker 2: played with a big cushion. It was it was pitch
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  Speaker 2: and catch. So Dennis, even though he was clean through
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  Speaker 2: the A gap, was not a factor, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: know it was. They just handled it extremely well. They
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  Speaker 2: were absolutely prepared for it. And then there were some
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  Speaker 2: other plays which were not blitzes. I mean, he had
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  Speaker 2: got her on the scene twenty two yards, which was
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  Speaker 2: the exact same play of the as the got her
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  Speaker 2: thirty three yard touchdown versus the Rams week three, and
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  Speaker 2: they ended up getting the exact same coverage, so it
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  Speaker 2: worked out perfectly, you know. So, and the Calcatara sixteen
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  Speaker 2: yard are on the same drive was a busted coverage,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can leave alone. But I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: did they did good things. It was clear that the
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff and Hurts and everybody on the offense were
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  Speaker 2: well well prepared for the five and six man pressures
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  Speaker 2: that changed in the second half because they didn't do
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  Speaker 2: five and six man pressures. They switched up and they
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  Speaker 2: did a lot of four man sim pressures, which is
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  Speaker 2: a totally different deal than her five and six man pressure,
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  Speaker 2: and the response to it is has to be totally different.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel like watching the tape, Greg that the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles did a poor job responding to that second half
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  Speaker 1: adjustment through either route concepts or were they just not
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  Speaker 1: in sync as an offense, because there's a difference.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was both of those things, Jeff. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they really worked hard to try to get
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  Speaker 2: the ball to aj Brown in the second half, in
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  Speaker 2: particular when he had six or seven targets. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that there were a couple of times where
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  Speaker 2: Hurts I think forced him, forced the ball to him
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  Speaker 2: when the ball should have gone somewhere else. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jalen almost threw a pick on one of them to
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  Speaker 2: Aj on a sit route just off to his right,
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  Speaker 2: which should have been picked off. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think what you said is correct. They were both of
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  Speaker 2: those things. The offense did not. I didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was very rhythmic. It wasn't. It didn't present a
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  Speaker 2: lot of clean, defined reads, which I think has been
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  Speaker 2: an issue throughout the first four games here and there.
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  Speaker 1: To get back to your original point, the Eagles have
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  Speaker 1: never been at least last year, especially if they were
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  Speaker 1: not a passing team. But we would always say it's
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  Speaker 1: because they are a running team and they run the
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  Speaker 1: ball exclusively, and now they're not running the ball explosively,
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  Speaker 1: And do you think that has impacted their pass offense
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  Speaker 1: or do you just think overall, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: what did you see on tape in that regard why
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  Speaker 1: they're not running the ball well offensively?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say the same things that you normally
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  Speaker 2: see that when the team doesn't run the ball well,
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  Speaker 2: is there's not a lot of space. I looked again
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  Speaker 2: because I knew we'd be talking this evening at Barkley
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  Speaker 2: and his yards before contact and it's one point eighty seven,
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  Speaker 2: which is among the worst league. And believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: that the team that's really at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: league of the forty nine ers, which is even more amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But but you know, there's there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: space for Barkley. I mean, there's just not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of space. And we're not saying he's not a great back.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the point at all. There's you know, you
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  Speaker 2: do need at some point to get past the first
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  Speaker 2: level of the defense, and you can't always do that
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  Speaker 2: on your own. In fact, very rarely do you do
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  Speaker 2: that on your own. So you know that's not happening,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, so it it the the offense is yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not being sarcastic at all. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: is what the tape shows. They can't run it very
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  Speaker 2: well right now, and there's no consistency to the way
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  Speaker 2: they're throwing it. So it's it's I was having this
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  Speaker 2: conversation with my guys on Matchup today as we were
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  Speaker 2: just watching you know, everybody's watching different tapes and we're
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  Speaker 2: just talking ball. You know that Adam's been here, he
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  Speaker 2: knows you just talk ball as you're watching tape and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really a very very difficult thing to figure out,
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  Speaker 2: quite honestly. I mean they're four and oh. Okay, there's
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  Speaker 2: only two four and oh teams in football right now,
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles and the Bills. Okay, they're a super Bowl champion. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: last year was different. Barkley, you know, rush for over
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  Speaker 2: two thousand yards, and you know Jalen was was very
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  Speaker 2: good when he needed to be very good. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: they can't run it and they can't throw it very well,
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  Speaker 2: and they're four and oh. It's a very difficult equation
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  Speaker 2: to try to figure out.
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  Speaker 3: And Greg, when I see it first half, like Hurts
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  Speaker 3: had and the rhythmic, that was kind of what you
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  Speaker 3: were saying, they were all in sinc but too long
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  Speaker 3: Hurts seemed to be in fake sick.
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  Speaker 4: It all worked. It just was beautiful and it come
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  Speaker 4: out so flat.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is they were also if you looked at them,
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  Speaker 3: throw on first down, which we all love.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 4: I love that because talking to coaches over there, they
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  Speaker 4: love to throw the first down. Coach che've talked to
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  Speaker 4: over theres love to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just thought it was beautiful and Hurts was in
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  Speaker 3: a rhythm and then second half they come out trying
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  Speaker 3: to run the ball wasn't working Hurts.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you talked about the three throws which were
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  Speaker 4: kind of forced.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just.
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  Speaker 4: There doesn't seem to be any kind of rhythm between
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  Speaker 4: one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Or the other.
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  Speaker 3: Right when you think they've got the thing Solf right there,
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  Speaker 3: there's been this riddle of the passing game. The second
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  Speaker 3: half comes and I know you and sitting in with
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  Speaker 3: you over the years NFL films, I think it would
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  Speaker 3: like because you always want to know, like what are
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  Speaker 3: they trying to accomplish? Right Like when you watch tape,
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  Speaker 3: do you say, Okay, I think I have an idea
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  Speaker 3: of what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: Do you say, like, what do you say when you
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  Speaker 4: look at the tape like that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's hard to understand that, to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you right now, and I think that you know again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure if Kevin Patulo was here, he'd say, exactly,
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  Speaker 2: you know what the plan is, because every coach has
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  Speaker 2: a plan. So this is not a knock. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit here and say I know
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  Speaker 2: more than Kevin Pittu. I don't do that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you guys know that, you know, I just when I'm watching,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's individual plays, you know. And obviously
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  Speaker 2: they hit the god Are twenty two yards which they
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  Speaker 2: got the right coverage again for the play call. The
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  Speaker 2: Calcataro was a bust. You know, they had some cool
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  Speaker 2: red zone concepts. The thing that's saving them they've had
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  Speaker 2: eleven trips into the red zone and they've scored eleven touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: That is what's saving them. I mean, that's remarkable that
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  Speaker 2: they've done that. Now, some of that is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is the touch push. But you know what, it's legal.
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  Speaker 4: It counts thet they got there.
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  Speaker 2: They got there exactly. Now they don't get there a
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  Speaker 2: lot relative to other teams. But the point is when
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  Speaker 2: they get there, they score touchdowns. But you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: then there's in you know, there's usually individual it's a combination.
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  Speaker 2: Let me put it this way, and I'm trying not
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  Speaker 2: to just ramble, but this is the way my mind
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  Speaker 2: is working about the egos offense. I don't make of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a combination of no rhythm and individual
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  Speaker 2: plays like for instance, the Vida Veas second sack, which
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  Speaker 2: came on third and eight and their third third quarter possession.
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  Speaker 2: They used the spy for the first time. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: use the spy in the first half, but they used
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  Speaker 2: the spy for the first time. It was reddick. They
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  Speaker 2: rushed three and they played kind of two man coverage
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  Speaker 2: behind it. McCollum undercut Brown on the dig route where
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  Speaker 2: clearly Jalen wanted to go with the football that got
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  Speaker 2: taken away. I thought he clearly had got it as
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  Speaker 2: a checkdown in the flat. I don't know what you
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  Speaker 2: guys thought when you saw it. I thought he clearly
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  Speaker 2: had got it for a checkdown and it was third
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  Speaker 2: and eight, not third and fifteen. So again, I can't
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  Speaker 2: answer why he didn't throw it. I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: reason for that. Maybe he didn't think he had him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's you know, but then he gets sacked. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, it's a combination of no rhythm. And
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  Speaker 2: then you can look at individuals as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, many of these plays you reference were going to
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  Speaker 1: take a look at in a second. But I do
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you because you watch every team definitely,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess one thing that makes them the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: a very fascinating case study, because it's like we're all
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  Speaker 1: sort of fascinated right now in a curious way of
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  Speaker 1: how they can be so up and so down. Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, you go play the Chiefs. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs blitz and you know exactly what Steve Spagnola was
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  Speaker 1: going to do, and yet they did not perform well
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  Speaker 1: as an offense right against it. You know, Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: is going to blitz, and you perform great against it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's mind boggling to me that the two
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  Speaker 1: concepts you know are happening, you can do really well
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  Speaker 1: worse one and not the other. And they're both good teams.
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  Speaker 1: I know, personnel is different, so that can change, sure something.
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  Speaker 1: But and then the Rams they never blitz, But then
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  Speaker 1: they do blitz the Eagles a lot more so than you're.
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  Speaker 2: You're used to they normally do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then that sort of confused them, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they wake up in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: It is they are just a mind boggling team too.
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  Speaker 2: But they woke up in the second half with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of individual plays, you know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 2: they get Aj Brown on individual plays, not on I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously the God or they they got the right the
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  Speaker 2: right play call for the right defense and it looks beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: as as as the same route this week looked beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess when you don't see up to this
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  Speaker 2: point is you don't see a lot of sort of
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  Speaker 2: rhythmic route concepts and combinations that present the throw. You know,
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  Speaker 2: and and by the way, that's when that happens. You know,
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  Speaker 2: people say, oh, great quarterbacking. Yeah, I mean, obviously the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback has to make the throw. But that's what you
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  Speaker 2: want to see from the coordinator. You want to see.
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  Speaker 2: You want to see route concepts and combinations that particularly
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  Speaker 2: against zone. Okay, which and by the way, the Bucks
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  Speaker 2: play more zone than man where you know it's clean.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Hey, the route concept, whether it's two man,
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  Speaker 2: three man, whether it's half field, full feel whatever it
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  Speaker 2: is that, hey, there's the throw within timing of the
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  Speaker 2: drop and everything. You don't you're not seeing that right now.
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  Speaker 2: You see it just rarely, but you're not seeing it
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  Speaker 2: as a foundation.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's a core of the fan base
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  Speaker 1: that is in the middle that sort of would agree
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  Speaker 1: with our conversation here where they're so there's the extremists
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  Speaker 1: which is smaller. The extremists are either in one camp
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  Speaker 1: or the other. It's either fire Kevin Patulohi's stinks, or
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  Speaker 1: we won the super Bowl last year like this, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if we if it looks right, we'll be fine,
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  Speaker 1: which is neither. Neither is a fair way to look
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  Speaker 1: at it. In the middle, everybody just seems to want
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  Speaker 1: to be like, yes, we're winning games this way. It's
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  Speaker 1: looking a little odd. We seem to make plays when
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  Speaker 1: I say we had the Eagles. This is the fan talking.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that there's that. But we remember
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a lot of analysts who we all respect
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  Speaker 2: saying things like is this sustainable? But you know, no
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  Speaker 2: one can answer that, By the way, that's.
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  Speaker 5: An unanswerable you know, it's a free conversation to have,
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  Speaker 5: and it's fun to talk, Paul, you know, but no
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  Speaker 5: one can answer that because the reality is therefore and
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  Speaker 5: oh so you know right now they've played four games,
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  Speaker 5: they win them all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're playing a tough Denver team this week,
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  Speaker 2: which we'll talk about later in the week. Obviously, a
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  Speaker 2: team that's really good rushing the quarterback, and that sometimes
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  Speaker 2: does it with blitz and sometimes not. It depends on
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  Speaker 2: the opponent. So we don't know what Vans Joseph will
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  Speaker 2: think when he plays this week. We don't know the
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  Speaker 2: answer to that. But but there's no way in the
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  Speaker 2: building they're thinking, boy, we're playing great offensive football. We
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  Speaker 2: all know that that's not the case.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty yards per game?
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  Speaker 2: Passing for thirty eight yards per game, second worst in
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  Speaker 2: the league behind Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were bad. They were low, I should
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  Speaker 1: say last year, but it was never I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was that low. I think there were more like
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  Speaker 1: one seventy to one eight right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, again, they also had a back rush for over
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  Speaker 2: two thousand yards, I mean, and right now they don't
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  Speaker 2: have that, right. You know, the golfs had explosive plays.
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  Speaker 2: Adams talked about this one hundred times. We all know it.
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  Speaker 2: You know that every offensive coordinator talks about, let's get
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  Speaker 2: explosive plays. Believe me, you're just as happy with a
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  Speaker 2: sixty yard Barkley touchdown run as you are with a pass.
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  Speaker 4: Right five yards and more. You want explosive run is
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  Speaker 4: five yards and more. John D.
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  Speaker 3: Phlippo was total set one hundred times. I can't even
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  Speaker 3: get that now, Jeff, we sent it back to you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the puzzling thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy who had the most explosive run was
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  Speaker 1: aj Dillon in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Which was right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, man, there you go. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So let's take a look at some clips. I want
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  Speaker 1: to start off with early in the game when they
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  Speaker 1: come out, well, they and it's Greg's point where it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they had good rhythm and good sequences.
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  Speaker 2: They had and clearly had a plan. They had a plan,
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  Speaker 2: which you know makes sense. That's what you're you know,
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  Speaker 2: they know everybody knows Todd Bowles. You're coaching, you're playing
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  Speaker 2: against Todd Bowles, not necessarily against their personnelity.
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  Speaker 3: You know it's coming. You know it's gonna be pressure.
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  Speaker 3: They handle it very well. Hurts. One thing is positive.
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  Speaker 3: He started handling the blitzwell, at least in this first
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  Speaker 3: half day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're gonna rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna look at that one second first with pusive
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  Speaker 1: this is the first third down that the Eagles face.
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  Speaker 1: It's third and eight. I'm sure you will call this
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and it's going to go to Devonte Smith for sixteen
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Do you recall this play?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I think I do remember the play? Hold on. It
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: was third and eight, first possession. Was this the one? Wait?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: This isn't the quick slant to Smith for nine yards
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: third and eight on first possession? Isn't it? No?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it is the six teen yardlie okay, go ahead. Yeah,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: but oh my bad, it was nine my fault.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is all right, let me start this over.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Three to one, all right, Greg, this is the first
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: third down of the game where Hurts is gonna hit Devontae.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And to your point, they were well prepared for the blitz.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So what do you see the Bucks doing here?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Here, the Bucks are gonna go zero. They're gonna
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: go zero, They're gonna rush six. Now again, there's different
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: ways teams play zero on the back end, but this
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: is clearly a zero presentation. And uh, they're playing off coverage.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So Jamal Dean is the corner down below. You can
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: see him cheated to the inside. He's trying to take
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: away the inside, which is what you try to do
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: with zero, but he's so far off that he can't
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: really impact this slant route and Hurts season immediately gets
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the ball right out. This is totally rhythmic, and he
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: hits Smith on the slant and he gets a first down.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So it's you know, boom, it's easy. This is pitch
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and catch, right. But now they were clearly prepared for that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: You know, Yalen knew exactly what he was looking at.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Right, and then a couple of plays later, he's going
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to find Dallas Goddard, I believe, for an eight yarder.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, well, I think they got the match up
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: here they wanted to with got Her because that's a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yayadi Abbi dropping out, because this is another blitz. This
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: is this is a single high blitz. This is this
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: is a zone pressure because they have to match up.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: But it's technically a zone pressure, so you have to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: match up. You can't just let receivers run into areas
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: and not match up. But they got exactly what they wanted.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They got got Her a really good tight end on
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: ya Yaddabby, who's a nice athlete, but he's really a
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: he's a line of scrimmage edge player. So you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: it worked out perfectly, and Jalen knew it immediately, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: they blocked it up enough so that the ball could
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: come out and boom. You know, that's that's just good football.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Right And then of course after a long Jalen hurts scramble, which.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And this is just a highly schemed play that they
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: probably put in this week because we haven't really seen
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: it before, or or I can't remember seeing it before.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys have seeing before by
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the Eagles. I'm not saying I've never seen it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: These are typically like plays like this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they might have run it for the first time
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: in practice, but these are usually something that you've gotten
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the back of your playbook that you're going to run
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: and you just fight it at some point.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, this this is cool though, This is so cool.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I love it. I think Zach Berman, I love Zach Berman.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I think he asked Nick why he chose this game
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to run it, and you know Nick was not going
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to volunteer, you know, the kind of information of why
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it was this time. But that was a diamond diamond
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: formation on top the screen you see. I think Cat's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: cam Lattu.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, the closest to the formation.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Right, who did play a role in this game.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: That's a cool play. Yeah, I mean it's clearly. You know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: we see teams like the Chiefs the Lions do all
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: this cool kind of stuff when they get into the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: red zone. This is just another really it's really.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: See for years with the shovel pass. Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Right, So they get off to a really good start,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: they get a down on their first drive, they don't
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: they go through it out in the second drive. But
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: then the third drive, Greg, it seems like they're back
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at it, and Goddard was really big for them as
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: far as you know, beating the blitz.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Far here's the price go back a second. So they
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: got the one against the Rams last week. AJ Brown
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: was just split outside of god right at the snap.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Here he does short burst motion to get outside of him.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: But it ends up being the same thing, and they
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: do that intentionally. It's into the boundary. They get covered too,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: because why do they want to throw the scene into
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the boundary Because the passing strength is to the wide
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: side of the field, and so the Mike linebacker I
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: think here it's Dennis is going to open up to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the wide side of the field away from Goddard scene.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So this is Jalen sees this immediately. He knows what
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: he has. You know, when you see this, you just
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: go this is sweet. I mean, this is just the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: way it's supposed to be.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: This is the rhythm, this is the rhythm we're looking for.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the way.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: It's a good job. Yeah, he got it out.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He you know, Greg, I thought he was very decisive
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: and first half that this is what you want from.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Him, and he doesn't hold onto it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Absolutely really well timed throw because since they're rotating to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: it with that safety up top, he didn't. He wasn't
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: as deep as he might normally be. So if he
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: had waited a millisecond longer, you know, that might not
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: have been complete god, or might have taken a shot there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: It's perfect time to throw. This is just really good throw.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: That's really good.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: By the way, it's the numbers and not a blitz,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: just a four man rush.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: That's right to cover two behind a four man pressure.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: All right, So they're continuing to move the ball. Now,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this is the busted coverage. I believe that you alluded
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to that you're going to see Grant.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Because he runs the shallow cross or does he not?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: He does?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah? And and and everybody down below is they're playing
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: man come back, yeah, cover someone busts. I don't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: whether uh Smith, you know, Tekey Smith who ends up
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: tackling him, who didn't have a man down below was
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: supposed to stay low or if the player up top,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know who that is, probably the corner. It's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: probably you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Know, right, isn't twenty seven McCullum.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: McCombs down below. He's the left corka. Yeah, you're corner
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: up top. I don't know if he was supposed to
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: run with Calkatara or if Tyke Smith was not supposed
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: to run out the way he ran out, But somebody
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: made a mistake, gotcha.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So that's a busted coverage. But you know, we've seen
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Hurts not throw that match pattern, but he did see
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it and he threw it. And the Eagles are continuing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to move the ball, and so the next play you're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: gonna get twenty I believe this is twenty yards here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is the this is where he
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: runs left, makes a second reaction, great throw to Smith,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: who this is big.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: This is what I talked about Jeff post him. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: love how he kept his eyes downfield. I know he moved,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: but he still kept him downfield.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: And also DeVonta Smith did a great job of adjusting
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: his route to mirror Jalen. This was this was just
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: good all around football right here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: This is a sim right because it looks like they're
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: gonna come with I think they.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Well they they're in a double mug. They have both
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: linebackers there they drop out. No, it's not Yeah, just
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: a fore man, but it's not it's not a blitz, right,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: they're playing cover three. They're playing cover three.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Here, downfield look, downfield.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: War and Smith does a great chapter justin yeah, give
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: you a place to throw the ball.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: As he's throwing the ball, it looks like he does
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a nice job yelling here of resetting his feet and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: not just right there. You see that little like quick
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: step that he took and was able to throw.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: So that was a nice job of adjustment.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: But yeah, really, this good thing about is he had
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to be aware of Morris in twenty one. He knew
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Smith was running away from whoever it was, but he
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: had to be aware that Morrison that he wasn't going
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: to slide inside and be in positioned to intercept that ball.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: So he had good eyes here, really good eyes. Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Right, And then I wanted to bring your everybody well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The next play is then the shovel touchdown to Godard
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And so again we're talking about play design and showing
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: things that are fresh and new, what.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You want to see. I mean, you know, in the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: low red zone. You know, if you're not going to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: do any of this stuff, here's what you end up
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: with in the low red zone. If you don't want
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to do, you know, these kinds of things, be a
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: little creative. You either have to run the ball in
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: which we know they can and they have well they
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: certainly could last year with both Barkley and Jalen, or
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: you go with one on one fade type throws. Or
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: your quarterback has to be so quick with his reads,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: his timing, his anticipation and his ball location. And quite frankly,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: we all know that Jalen that's not truly the strength
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: of his game. Okay, so they're at the five yard
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: line and they come up with another you know, kind
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: of cool play. I mean, we've seen this many times.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's not like they just came up with this, but
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you're looking for these kinds of things. It's well done.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yep. They obviously sucker everybody into giving the ball to bar.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Here you have the tight end and the left guard
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: ball or the right guard pulling, and there's a shell
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: by the way, nice blocking by steam. If everybody can
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: keep your eyes fifty six on that, I'll rewind it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I thought he did a pretty good job there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Continuing really really well done stuff. Quarterbacks love this stuff
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: because he's now got two touchdown passes, and he didn't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: have to do much to get that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Quarterbacks lover fantasy, by the way, it's fantastic.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: For see Steam finishes the block the entire way. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: like it, even though the runners already in the end zone.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I just just like that toughness out of a guy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So the last one is late in the second quarter.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: He's gonna hit a j. Brown.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: This was just another view of the last touchdown that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we'll run through really quick, but late in the quarter.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: This might have been the last time Todd blitz threw
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles through a huge blitz right Jalen Hurts because
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it was I believe third down again, it's late in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the corner.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It was nine yards on third and five. It was
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: another zero pressure. This time Winfield was clean through the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: C gap. Brown bat Marson on the quick slant and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Hurts got him the football. I mean you see it
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: up top. Marrison's playing press man boom. J I mean,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Brown as a master at this kind of stuff. They
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: win zero. Jalen knew what he had and he hit him.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Now, the amazing thing on that one was I feel
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: like there were some routes just like that in the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: second half that he just didn't hit the same way,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and why we will never know. It just didn't happen.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: That's why it's so hard. I mean, like I said,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the only not the two things were done in the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: second half that were not done in the first half.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Number one, as I said, they switched up a lot
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: of their pressure concepts to more four man sim pressures
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: as opposed to five and six man pressures. And number two,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: they started using the spy tactic.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So did you mentioned the spy on the Vita A sack? Greg, Yes,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: all right, well let's take a listen second Vita A
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: sack not the first one, correct? I think this is
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the one.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: It's Reddick is the spy. You probably should know something
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: is up pre snap go back because Reddick is lined
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: up as a stand up three technique, which he rarely
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: lines up as. So that should be an alert that
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: something is going to be different, a pre snap alert
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that something's going to be different.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, for those who are listening or don't know through that,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that's he's lined up over tyler Stein right, stand up position.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: We used to call that the joker a little bit,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Right, So he's the spy.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Look at him. Wait, he's spying on her. Yeah, that's interesting.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Threeman pressure and see the key here is what they're
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: playing on the back end because keep going Urts wanted
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Brown on the dig up to Dagger Dagger. It's an
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: inside vertical and a dig underneath it. But because they're
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: essentially playing kind of a two I don't know if
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: they call a two man, but it's a two man
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: concept and mccollin does a great job of undercutting the
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: route so the throw is.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Not there right top of the screen there.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, see, I think this is the one where
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I thought he could have thrown it in the flat,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: but once he didn't. You know. Now again, I don't
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: know what's in his head.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But if he just gets the ball right here to Berkley,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get at least a you know, if not
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a first down.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I think, because he's facing that way, I think he
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: could get it to Goddard. You know, longer he waits,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the less it's there. But again, I don't want to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: sit here and say he should have shouldn't have. I
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: don't know what's in his head. You know, maybe he
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: still thinks Brown's gonna beat him inside he's gonna have
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a lane I don't know, or a passing window, but
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: he didn't, and then he gets sacked.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: All right, all right. Then we have a throw where
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I think you are alluded to this, where A J.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Brown is at the top of the screen, and I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: swear we have played a play like this at least
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: three or four times last year, once against Cleveland that
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: stuck out where it's one of those plant and throw
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't throw.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the player you're talking about, like you
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: would think that he should throw this ball.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, keep going, and just a four man rushed because
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, they've stopped blitzing and bam right there
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: at the six because it's right now now.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he thought, because it's a zone
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: look all the way, I don't know if he thought
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that the defender over Goddard was going to slide into
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the passing window. Again, only Jyaln could tell you when
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: he's not going to tell you. He's not going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: tell us or the world, so you know, because it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: clearly his own look. So if you want to give
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: him the benefit of the doubt, he could have thought
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: that that defender over, got her, was going to pass
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: him on, you know, match Barry delivered, passed him on
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and slide into the window.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, that makes sense, and I can understand it. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: we say one thing he does well is he'll either
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: o yeah, he'll get rid of it. He winds up
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: running here, doesn't get the first down. Oh he does,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: get that, right, he got the first right, all right?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: So in the second half, he throws the ball to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: aj Brown three straight times.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yep, as you mentioned, this.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Is the first of the three. I think it was
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It was like the first possession of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is the fourth quarter for sure, yep.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: First and then so.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean this is actually very good coverage.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's a complete you know.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: The one thing people have to be aware of too,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: is this is three step drop timing. So you know,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: if somebody thinks, oh, look down below, someone's open, that's
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: not relevant to the play. It's three step drop timing.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: And he's looking to his left so that the ball's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: got to go to Brown or he's basically got to move.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you don't you're not working from
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: one side of the field all the way to the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: other side of the field in three step drop timing right.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Now, why do you call that? Well, is it a blitz?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: It's no, it's still a four man pressure. It was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: first time. M Yeah, it feels like they wanted something
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: short in an absence of a row.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Go back a sec this. It looks like they rotated
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: to cover two. Let me see, Yeah, it's cover two invert.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So what happened is is Morrison can sit. He's the
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: he's the right corner because Dean got hurt and Morrison
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: came in and played most of the played thirty snaps
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: or so is he can sit on this route because
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: he's got help over the top because they rotated to
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: cover two invert. The invert part was down below where
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the corner McCollum became the deep haf defender, but up
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: top it's normal cover two. And so what you're looking
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: at here is the fact that Morrison can sit because
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: he has a windfield as the as the deep safety
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: playing over the top of him. So again, I don't
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: know if Jalen recognized or didn't recognize it. That we
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: can't answer. But because Morrison could sit, the throw was
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: not clean.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Got it and this is the very next app.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And this is the one where he runs the sit
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: route and he thinks he has him because it looks clean.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: But the Bucks react really, really well, so.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: You would say this is just as good coverage as anything.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Well, he thinks that that the the slot. Is it
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the slot or is it Smith, who's who's best.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Becomes the number one on that side, So yeah, Brown
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: is still on the slot.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm talking about Tykey Smith, who's the guy that
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: all intercepts. There might be Tykey Smith who who kind
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of expands. He Jalen probably sees him expanding and thinks
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that he's not going to be a factor in the throw.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I mean he would have had to
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: complete that if the ball had to come out like
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: about a half a second quicker.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: It's just too hard.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It's always a reason why guys make throw I mean
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time. You know, every once
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: in a while there's a true head scratcher, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: But when you walk through these plays and then I
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: hope people understand that that's what I do, you know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to sit here and say, oh
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: my god, Jalen, you're an idiot. What are you doing?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: First of all, I never talk like that about players.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: You guys know that. But I mean there's always a
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: reason why a guy can theoretically see you throw as
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: a viable throw. You know, it's and I'm just trying
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: to present both sides, yep. And they just wanted to
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: show him trying to go to AJ Brown. Now this
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: is on a three man rush the very next play,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: and there's a spy again.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: There's a spy right right, So I wonder if he
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: thought more were coming because this is still early and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the Bucks haven't completely called off all the blitzer yet
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: because it's this is the fourth quarter. Now, they haven't
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: blitzed that much. My fault.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, three man rush stop.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: And actually Morrison, you know, he does a nice job here.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I mean he's kind of on it and plans and
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: drives and he does a really nice job.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes, by the way, Jeff, you got
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: to give the defense credits like they want to. They
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: want to crush Hurts or the offense cortera, that guy
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: made a great play.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: That's why we do this because we want to show
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it's not always play calling, it's not always the quarterbacks lousy.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you go and you go up against a good
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and the Bucks have a good defense, and they've been
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: playing good defense, and but I mean you can look
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: at it and say their rhythm, their timing was off
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: on those first three plays as well, and sometimes you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: see them make that play and it's there or.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: More in breakers.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I think that's something with that AJ Brown, who's been
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: incredible it in his career. We've talked about it. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: don't know how many times with the the bag eight
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: place Greg from with the Titans. We've seen the Eagles
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: do it a little bit, but that's something that I
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: think it's almost impossible to stop on Aj with because
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: of the way he's built.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: The dB always struggles to defend it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's the way we started this. It's just
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: hard to figure guys. I mean, I I was, I'm
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: being honest. I I you know, for a quarterback to
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: go oh for eight with no yards in the second half,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: it's hard to figure that we can go over you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: as we did. We went over a number of plays,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: and you go over each and every single play and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: there's a reason for each and every single play, but
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: it's you know, you just don't see that I mean,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you know you don't see oh for eight for zero?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and real quick, just from Saquon Barkley. This
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: is a first and ten and the third quarter. Some
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of the things you said, you just don't either understand
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: or know what the concept is. Is this what you
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: call split flow, Greg, where you have both tight ends
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: aligned on different sides of the line of scrimmage.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Well, that in and of itself isn't split flow. Split
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: flow is where you take someone from one side and
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: he crosses the formation as a blocker. That split flow.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think that happens here.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: No, that didn't happen here. I just wanted to make
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: sure I differentiated.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's not yet.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what I noticed here is that you have seven
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: right five offensive line, two tight ends against a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: eight guys in the box. They're under center. I don't
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: know if the play has got to be changed in that,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: but you're you don't. You're at a blocking I would
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: think disadvantage and less.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Well, he now move goes across the formation. Yes, so
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: that is is that then considering let's let's see the
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: rest of the play. Yeah, that's that has a split
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: flow out.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: It did, all right, that's right. But my point is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you have seven blows and you didn't manipulate the numbers
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: very well in this year, and you just had a
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: free rusher. If you know, there's nothing Suon could do
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: at that point. I changed it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: That's not on you know. And again, you know, we
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: don't know, we don't know their check system there, We
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: don't know all that stuff.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Correct. I just felt in my head like maybe someone
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: could change the play there, but who knows. I mean,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: they have to see that they're running into a mathematical discipline.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it should have been changed, you know.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: All right, So this one, Jurgens, I want you to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: keep your eye on because this was another This was
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a run that did not do well for Saquon and it.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Looks like he.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: He's usually good at those angle blocks right where you
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: turn and block the guy, but he did not get
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: up there and cover Servasier.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Is that his name. Yes, he's got to make that block.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That's his guy. And the thing is he doesn't have
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: to make a great block. He just has to he
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you know, cut him off, you know. Yeah, But here's
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the other issue. Go back, go back, look at the
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: way this is blocked. Why is Barkley cutting this back inside?
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Great point? Great point?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Look at that. Why is Barkley cutting this back?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I thought, why didn't he just go to keep going
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to the left.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if Barkley prior we wouldn't have even noticed
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: that halt.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It was yep. Right for the middle.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: We did talk about easy pressing a little bit. Uh,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: this one is a pull. You have the left guard
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and the tight end pull to the right.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: So Dickerson is the kickout blocker, and uh, who's is
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Who's the tight end Goddard?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I think that one's Goddard on that side to see
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: that he's the rapper. Yeah, yep, he's the rapper. And
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: then yeah, it looks it looks like Dennis gets off
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the block too easily from its calcuaterra.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so this is a guy getting off the
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: block because if you freeze it now, but just if
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: you froze it right as kal Katra is just starting
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: to make contact, that looks pretty good. It looks like
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: that that the rapper godd is going to get up,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: you know, and maybe have no one to block because
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: you might get the crack block by Devanta Smith. I
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: think that is on Tige Smith, and this looks like
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a you know, it might be a good game. Maybe
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: not a touchdown, but you know, a good game.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Right, And all he needs is a sliver. We've seen
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: him turn a sliver. Yeah, but cal Kata didn't hold it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: So we've now seen he got kal Katar.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Jeff lost this guy, he had him, and then Dennis
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: got off of him.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: So people are asking, what's the deal, Well, it's not
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: We've seen a mathematical disadvantage. We've seen Jurgons not pull
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: off an angle block. We've seen cal Kata not pull
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: off an angle block. I'm not seeing Barklay not hit
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a hole that was clean, right, And now we're gonna
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: see Jordan Malatta on a run, who I believe is
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the culprit here if this is.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: The correct run, Yes, I missed him, missed him.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's five different.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: All these things sort of snow ball. That's the thing,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, when things are great, everything looks great,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: and everybody does, you know, play as well. When they
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: start to snowball, Guys who never expect to have a
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: bad rep, Like when does my Alata look like this?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: In the run game very rarely, right, right, I mean,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: so it all just starts the snowball and you.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Can tell us about Jurgens and differs are not quite
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: what they were last year. That's still the case in
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: my opinion.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And then on this last one, you're gonna
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be three in because this one, I believe,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Look at it's twenty two personnel, you got two tight ends,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: you got your fullback, thirty six lots to so you're heavy.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: But watch the right guard Tyler.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Stein here, I got right by him.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Jeez.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so it's not what they do. That's
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: my point is it's just not one thing here, a
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: lot of things.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: It's never one If anybody listening, you know, people listening
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: should know.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: It's never one thing, right, definitely not.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he even can. The way the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: other guard is pulling to person here, Greg, it's it
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: seems like it's hard for I don't know. There's a
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: lot of traffic because it looks like Dicker Simmonstein basically
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: run into each other.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah well yeah, yeah, I mean, first of all, what
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: happens here is who is that over? Uh Steen? It's
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: probably a guy? Is that the Simmons kid, who I
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: didn't know much about. He's more of a one tech
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: game here.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, Gains got hurt by the way, Greg, Gaines
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: got hurt in the game.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was Simmons.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, And that's it. You know, that's a tough block.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's because he's he's got to hit
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: him and move him right away so that there's room
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: for the pullar to get.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Passing right and even lots who can't get there in
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: time to get Simmons off.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: So it's funny.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Greg, after your comments earlier, I'm like, all right, we'll
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: see you know if we see it now, I see
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: it everything you were saying. You're trying to figure out.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: The offensive line is not playing anywhere nearly as well
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: as it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Did last season. I'm not saying Barkley's been perfect.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: You show to play that Barclay didn't just didn't hit
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: the hole and the holes are not as big as
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: it used to be. But Greg, you have that stat
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: whereas four yards before contact last ye, which is incredible.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: It's right now, so you talk about less than two
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: yards before contact.
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  Speaker 4: That's an offensive line issue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's why I really picked those plays. I mean,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: those plays all jumped out, but I wanted to say
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: it's all something. But I definitely think with those five clips,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: three of them are on offensive line. So I think
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing you can isolate right now and
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: say what's different.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: All I'm just not playing as well, you know, And
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: I think we have to be careful about, you know,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: picking out like one good play, you know. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: watch the Eagles ideally get better on offense than just
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  Speaker 2: picking out one play. Like let's say they let's say
• 45:09
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• 45:11
  Speaker 2: beat Denver twenty to seventeen. Okay, just throwing that out,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: but their offense is still not great, but they hit
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: a player two. You have to be careful about then
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: saying okay, they're back.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: The back because their individual plays, which.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: That's actually why I like doing the sequence the way
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: we did it with both Pertz and Saquon to show everybody,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: all right. So that is a look at the offense,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: some of the good things you saw against the Blitz,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: some of the bad things you saw in the second
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: half from the running game. In the next episode we
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: will do the defensive side of the football. A lot
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: more positives there, all right. So for inside the tape
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: for Greg Cosel and Adam Kaplan, I'm Jeff Mosher. Thanks
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: for watching. We'll catch all on the next one.