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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest running you know, blah blah blah,
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you know, the freaking drill. Here. The Eagles fucking lost to the
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Seattle Seahawks twenty to seventeen out in Seattle in the I don't even know.
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I didn't get a chance to see the Dallas game, the second Dallas game,
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because I was on vacation with my family. Thank God I didn't see
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it because I was reading some of what was happening during that game. Now,
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this crap Eagles now ten and four on the season, and it's just
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we saw crap in this game, you know what. We saw some good
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things here and there too, but guess but the crap beat everything else.
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Drew Locke beat Jalen Hurts. He had a better game than Jalen Hurts.
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We're gonna get into it week fifteen here on this Eagles postgame podcast. I'm
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Jeff Warren. I'm here with my good buddy from philadelphiasoccernow dot com, Josh
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schuster Man. Josh, Buddy, First off, thanks so much for jumping
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on filling in for the guys, But man a, what a piece of
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crap game. I texted you prior to the first quarter, even starting that
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there were three things that I was gonna be looking at in this game.
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Did the defensive coaching alterations work? Two? Was the team able to run
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the ball effectively like they should have against the Seattle Seahawks? And posted on
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threads how I wanted to see the Eagles rush for over one hundred and thirty
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yards, you know, and did they better do that? And three?
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Did we see more cohesive play in the trenches or was it just more of
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the same? So I don't know to answer those questions. Did defensive coaching
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alterations work? No, they didn't. Are they able to run the ball
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effectively? You know what? They were one hundred and seventy eight total rushing
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yards in this game, but it still wasn't enough to beat the Seattle Seahawks
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defense. And do we see more cohesive play in the trenches or was it
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more of the same? It was kind of the more of the same.
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You know. It's amazing to me that they only sacked Drew Locke twice and
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only had three quarterback kids. This defense absolutely stinks of this Philadelphia Eagles team.
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We're going to get into that more. We're certainly going to get into
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this offense. Shit, I am so exhausted from watching this game, Josh
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Man, what are you thinking here, buddy? And thanks again for joining
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us man, Jeff, It's always a pleasure. I mean, I guess
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really. The only thing I have to say is, I've always found in
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life the best philosophy is when your quarterback has to take a entirely separate flight
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from the entire team and it is taking multiple COVID tests, it's always better
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to throw the ball more than it is to run the ball, especially when
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you're averaging four point seven yards per carry. I just I think that's a
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solid game plan. And so I am completely in shock that they wound up
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losing this game. I don't even know, I told you, I don't
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even know what to say. Frustrating, embarrassed, I don't even know.
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Fraud is actually probably the best words, A great word mine. That's actually
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that is actually a word that I texted one of my friends, my friend
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Jim, right before you and I jumped on, I said, frauds.
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They don't deserve a championship at all this season, and before the record.
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I've held off on saying it. Tonight's the first night i've said it.
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I'm sorry when Drew Locke beats you. I don't want to hear anything about
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being the number one seed for the majority of the season. I don't want
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to hear any of that. And I had told you before we had started
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recording. I don't want to hear anything about injuries. Gino Smith did not
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play tonight beat you. I don't want to hear about Sleigh. I don't
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want to hear about Hurts being sick. I don't want to hear any of
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this. Yeah, you got beat by Drew Locke on a game winning drive,
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and your quarterback, Jalen Hurts, who has been you know, over
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the years, has shown tremendous pocket presence that is gone this year. Absolutely,
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And to be throwing at the sidelines and deep bombs when you have three
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timeouts is just unacceptable. It's unacceptable. Yep. Yeah, and so tonight
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I really put this loss on coaching and on Jalen Hurts. You can't be
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making those throws. I'm not even sorry. I can't be making those throws
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if you're a top five paid quarterback. And I've been consistent in saying this,
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Jeff, if you're a top five paid quarterback, I'm going to hold
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you to that standard. And honestly, this year you have not been a
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top five paid quarterback. Yep, you're absolutely correct, because I'm thinking Aboutalen
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Hurts his career thus far, and I was reflecting Josh on what was being
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said during this past offseason after the twenty twenty two season. Look, I
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think Jalen Hurts is awesome. I love him. I love him being under
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center for the Eagles and what he's done for this franchise thus far in his
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very early career. But again, we kept asking ourselves this offseason, you
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know, how can Jalen Hurts get better? Is it even possible? After
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the twenty twenty two season, we kept being told his ability to see the
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field and his ability to make good decisions, it's only going to improve.
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That hasn't happened, folks. It hasn't happened. And this particular game here
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in Week fifteen absolutely showed it. We have not seen it all. It
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is safe to say at this point that he has regressed in terms of his
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play from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. The decisions that he's making.
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He is not seeing the entire field. There are wide receivers opened still
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here in Week fifteen that he is not seeing or deciding not to throw the
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ball to for whatever reason, same crap that we were seeing honestly Week three,
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week four this season as well, Jalen Hurts. It's it's absolutely mind
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boggling how NFL players can regress. Sometimes we're seeing it. We're seeing it
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right here with him too. And I also want to say too really quick.
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The defense stinks. And I mentioned at the top, did the defensive
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alterations or coaching alterations work? No, they obviously didn't. Because the longest
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touchdown drive that the Seattle Seahawks had this season was their very last drive of
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the game, where Drew Lock won it for them on a twenty nine yard
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touchdown pass to Jackson Smith and Jigba. The Eagles defense and their coaches failed
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in the biggest way possible in one of the in one of the biggest moments
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of this particular sea as the playoff implications. They knew what the implications were,
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and they failed big time. Jalen Hurts failed, the coaches failed,
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the defense failed. This is a floundering team at this point. You know,
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it reminds me of that reminds me of that Pittsburgh Steelers team from a
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few years ago that won all those games and they just absolutely collapsed at the
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end of the season. It's just it's really sad to see as fans.
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And you sent a text to me, Josh before we jumped on. You
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just said sports sucks. You know what, Sometimes sports just really sucks.
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Man. That's my found enlightenment for our time here. Sports suck. God,
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what other things do you have here, buddy? Yeah? I really
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don't put this on the defense, to be honest, if you only give
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up twenty points in the NFL nowadays, with how everything is slanted toward the
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offense, that's a good point. Yeah, I really don't. Yeah,
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Well I don't stand is how you're averaging again, you're averaging four point seven
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yards per carry, and you decide you're going to continuously throw screens that lose
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yardage over and over and over and over again, and you have Vante Smith
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as one of your lead blockers on screen. Yes, why why I don't.
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Again, I'm not giving the defensive pass, but if I got to
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give percentages out In terms of why the Eagles lost this game, seventy percent
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is on the offense and thirty percent is on the defense. Yes, you
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brought up a great point. This was the longest drive they had all season
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for Seattle. But at the same time, they only gave up twenty points.
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They gave up three touchdowns, which is nothing nowadays with the offense that
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this team has. They were only missing one offensive lineman. Everyone else from
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this team was healthy and ready to go and dressed. There's no reason why
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they could not score three touchdowns and three extra points. And also, why
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are we taking deep shots down the field when we have Jake Elliott and again
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three timeouts. Jake Elliott can kick it from almost the fifty yard line.
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Yeah, they were almost there and they decided to deep vomit down the field.
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Why. Yes, Ah, so many questions, I mean, so
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many questions, you know. And I thought during the first half. I
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thought the first half of this game was like, Okay, you know,
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the Eagles are not coming out some sort of dominant team, but they were
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controlling a decent amount. And maybe that was the defense that you're talking about,
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Josh. Maybe it was the defense that was actually controlling things a little
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bit more heading into that half, because like there, look they had ninety
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right, the Eagles offense had ninety rushing yards on twenty three total carries,
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you only had seventy nine yards passing. It hurts through the ball seventeen times.
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You only completed nine of them. But they were placing an en pphasis
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on rushing the ball. But here's where here's what I'm talking about with the
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defense. Seattle's offense in the first half only twenty six rushing yards, that's
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all. They had sixty four yards passing. So to your point, yeah,
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you know what, the defense was really helping to set a tone during
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the first half. But you know what, the one thing that Matt Patricia
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couldn't fix at the end of the day, and we saw it time and
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time again, was poor tackling. My gosh, Sydney Brown, there is
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no reason for him to be out there. And look, I know their
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depth in the defensive backfield is a problem, it's an issue, but it
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was extremely frustrating how many first downs the Seattle Seahawks generated in this game because
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of mistackles. And I guess you just can't fix that overnight. Maybe these
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guys are being too aggressive trying to get to the point of the attack.
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But my gosh, the mistackles were absolutely enraging. And look, when the
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Eagles actually got a three and out on the Seattle Seahawks first drive of the
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game, I was like, Okay, you know what, they are really
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gonna be set in the tone here, you know, because they were making
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plays. It wasn't Drew Locke starting the game messing up or anything like that.
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It was good defense. And uh. And it goes to show because,
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like like we were talking about, you know, in our text messages
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too, there was some man press coverage going on and then they got completely
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away from that. The Eagles defense decided, you know what, we're not
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going to stick to what was working for us. We're gonna go right back
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to some soft zone coverage. And man, it's just it's so enraging.
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I don't know if you want to pick it up right there, my friend,
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Yeah, Jeff, you brough out a point about miss tackles. It's
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more than that. It's miss tackles behind the line of scrimmage. How many
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times tonight I can think of at least or occasions, most of which were
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in the first half where they had whom it was Walker, whomever it was,
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metcalf behind the line of scrimmage and missed the tackle. Yeah. I
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can't remember a game where I have seen so many mistackles behind the line of
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scrimmage and it turns into a six seven yard game. It's just absolutely amazing.
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Yeah. One of the things that we've talked about previously is time of
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possession. Yeah, and I've said before the time of possession doesn't mean a
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whole lot to me, and tonight's proof of it. The Eagles had the
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ball for more six minutes more for the game. Yeah, Yeah, doesn't
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matter. They lost exactly really quick. Why they lost Why two horrible turnovers
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by Jalen Hurts alutely through two interceptions at really bad times. Yes, they
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may have been deep bombs down the field, but it didn't change the fact
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that really when those interceptions took place, they didn't need to be bombing it
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down the field. And now Herts is on pace to be turning the ball
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over at least once again. That is not good. They were working on
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turnover drills this past week, not necessarily interception drills, you know, and
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people were saying if people were saying online, Oh, this is so embarrassing
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for the Eagles quarterback, you know, a top five quarterback in this league.
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Well, folks, you know what the Eagles third down efficiency in this
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game? They were nine of sixteen, not bad at all. What did
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it get them in the end, A whole lot of nothing. It's a
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big l at this point. Meanwhile, the Seattle Seahawks their third down efficiency
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six of fourteen. Eagles defense didn't do that bad of a job. They
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certainly weren't what we have seen over the course of the past few weeks for
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sure. And this brings home the point of what Joshua just saying that it
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was Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts ended up losing this game for this team.
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Time of possession Eagles thirty two minutes and fifty eight seconds, Seattle Seahawks twenty
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seven minutes and two seconds. The average yards per play in this game five
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yards per play by the Seahawks, four point seven by the Eagles. As
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I've mentioned a number of times on this podcast, whoever wins yards per play
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usually ends up winning the game. And it's just amazing how there was three
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hundred and twenty one total yards by the Eagles offense to two hundred and ninety
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seven total yards by Seattle, and a lot of a lot of those yards
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came on the on the final final drive of the game. God, it's
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so fucking enraging. I didn't even know there were good There were good things
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in this game too, but I don't even feel like talking about I feel
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like a child. We don't need to talk about good things. I will
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add it was a lot of the same in the sense that once again,
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on third and eight plus yards to go, once again, the Eagles defense
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cannot end it. So yes, they may have had less than fifty percent
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in terms of completions, but they were four of five on third and eight
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plus. Yep, that's a problem. The only stop they got on third
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and eight plus was the first time, and it was against or was when
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they were pressed up against the line. It's the only time. If you
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remove that time, for the rest of the game, they went one hundred
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on third and eight plus. That's unacceptable. And that's something we've seen all
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season long. Yep. We've seen it all season long, for sure,
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and you know to perhaps you know, end our discussion before we go to
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the go to our first or our only break here, Josh is you know
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I mentioned at the top two I wanted to see if we saw more cohesive
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play in the trenches or was it more the same, And I really kind
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of think it was more of the same, especially from the defensive standpoint.
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Like we were saying, you know this, the loss of this game isn't
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necessarily on the defense. But again, this is a defense that while they
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did have five tackles for a loss and I mentioned earlier, only two sacks,
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three quarterback hits. I mean, this is this isn't some powerhouse offensive
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line that the Seattle Seahawks have had. I think it's the third worst in
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the NFL. Yes, I mean having Brandon Graham out there, Fletcher Cox
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out there, those veterans, it's great for the younger guys in terms of,
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you know, teaching them the ways of the NFL and the game itself.
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But man, I mean Jalen Carter, he had a sack in this
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game. Fletcher Cox had a sack in this game as well. I think
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he did right. It was Fletcher Cox and Jalen Carter, But the fact
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that these guys just aren't getting to the quarterback week after week it's really becoming
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a problem from a defensive trenches standpoint, because it's really it's keeping the defensive
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backs. You know. Sometimes I feel like they're on an island, you
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know, because they're not a talented group of folks back there. And I
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think the lack of the pass rush, the lack of really being able to
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control much in the trenches, at least from a pass from a pass rushing
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standpoint. Look, Kenneth Walker. He had nineteen carries for eighty six yards,
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four point five yards per carry and a touchdown. He had a pretty
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good game. There were a number of times where he was stopped behind the
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line of scrimmage. But defensive trenches, I'm still seeing more of the same.
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Offensive trenches kind of still seeing some more of the same as well.
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Thought it was a decent game from the offensive side of the ball in terms
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of the trenches. And we're gonna get to our grades in a bit.
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But I don't know what are your thoughts here in terms of trench play,
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because that's supposed to be the Eagles bread and butter. That is supposed to
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be the foundation of everything with this Philadelphia Eagles team, the trenches, and
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then you build from there, and I'm not seeing it happening. Yeah.
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No, I mean, honestly, you know, Josh Sweat got that contract
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extension. He's had two good games this year, Yeah, tonight, if
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it weren't for that one play that, Let's be honest, he got lucky
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that they snacked the ball when they did, when Seattle did, because otherwise
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it would have been yet another false or yeah, off side on the defense.
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He had one tackle tonight and it was the tackle for the loss.
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Where's he been? Yep? I mean I can go through in terms of
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all of these things. Shack Leonard, right, they just brought him in.
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You and I can both agree that really anything, you and I may
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have even been a defensive upgrade at linebacker from what the Eagles have. Yeah,
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Jack Leonard recorded four tackles tonight. That's it. I mean, I
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don't even have I don't even have words to express the disappointment I have in
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this Eagles defensive line. You're going up against the third worst offensive line the
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way, who had to rotate in two players. So when I say I
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don't want to hear anything about injuries on the Eagle side, Seattle had more
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players out and more starters out, so I don't want to hear any of
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that. So you're going up against only three regular starters of the literal third
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worst offensive line, and you're only able to get two sacks. That's embarrassing,
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especially with the amount of money that they've invested in a defensive line.
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Yeah. Absolutely, it's embarrassing for sure. All Right. With that being
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said, let's take a break here. We are gonna be back in just
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a bit. We're gonna get to our grades. I can't imagine they're gonna
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be stellar. Let's take that break to pay some bills. We'll be back
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in just a bit. All right, we are back, and again we
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are with our friend Josh Schuster from Philadelphia soccernow dot com. And Josh,
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let's get into these grades. Jalen Hurts this week. I am going to
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be giving him a D minus on the day. I don't know if that's
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fair, but given what happened down the stretch, two interceptions in the fourth
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quarter. Look, I do think that that he did make some good plays
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throughout the course of this game as well. And but in terms of the
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grade, when it really does matter, especially when you're up by four points
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in the fourth quarter and you're just making bad decisions. We talked about it
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at the top of the show. He's getting a D minus for me.
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What do you give him? Yeah, he gets an AS. Okay,
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I have I have no sympathy. If you're not feeling well, don't play.
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I'm sorry. Like you barely completed fifty percent of your passes. You
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had two absolutely horrible picks. Yeah, and your pocket awareness is just miserable.
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The guy I don't want to. I'm not giving him a pass.
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You're a top five paid quarterback. If you don't feel well enough, don't
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play, because, honestly, I don't know if Marcus Mariota would have been
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better tonight. Yeah, I'm just being honest. So you get eno F
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from me. Like I I'm going to continue to hold you to a top
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five paid quarterback standard. If you were on a rookie deal, my grade
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would be different. But you wanted the bag, you got the bag,
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you get the grades that go with it, You get an F. All
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right, let's move to the running backs. DeAndre Swift carried the ball eighteen
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times for seventy four yards four point one yards per carry. Kenneth Gainwell six
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carries for twenty one yards three point five yards per carry. Look, they
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didn't have Boston Scott involved. As we've mentioned and as many folks have on
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the social media's out there, Rashad Penny still inactive after they signed him during
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the offseason for some unknown reason. It's absolutely perplexing, but only two running
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backs in this game. I'm actually gonna give them a bee. I think
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they did everything that they needed to do to help this team win a game,
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but in the end it wasn't enough. I'm going to give them a
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bee. What do you give them? I'll give the running backs outside of
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Gainwell in a. I refuse to give Gainwell any decent grade. I know
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I've been consistent. He started off well right, Like I even text you
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like obviously the Eagles know that I'm on post game tonight because they're determined to
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use Kenny game. Well, I'm sorry. He ended the game with three
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point five yards per carry and he started off with almost seven, right,
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So that means they figured something out and the Eagles coaching staff continued to use
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him. Overall, the Eagles running backs get an A. They averaged four
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point seven yards per carry. They should have run the ball more. All
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right, they get an a yep, all right, sounds good. Well.
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Jalen Hurts was the leading rusher on the team, thirteen carries for freaking
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eighty two yards, two touchdowns. You know, like it's like those were
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the good part. Those were some of the good plays that he had.
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You know, then again, not a rush, not a running back.
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Not a running back. So let's move to the receiving tight ends. Wide
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receivers here total one hundred and forty three yards only eight point four yards per
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reception. Aj Brown was targeted ten times. He caught the ball five times
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for fifty six yards. Davonte Smith caught all five balls thrown to him for
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fifty yards. Dallas got it, was targeted nine times, only came down
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with four balls for thirty yards. Julio Jones was targeted once, caught a
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ball for six yards, and for some reason, Quees Watkins was targeted on
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the first interception of the game in the fourth quarter. There that Jalen Hurts
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through. Whenever you throw the ball to Quez Watkins, you're not gonna have
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a good result. We've seen that time and time again. Anyway, I'm
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going to give the wide receivers this week a B minus. What do you
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give them? All right, I should say receiving corps. I'm gonna give
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him an A. Okay, actually, I mean, Jeff, unless my
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memory is wrong, it's not like they had drops right when they were targeted
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and they didn't catch it. It's a bad pass. It's a good point.
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I'm going to take my grade. They literally caught everything by them that
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Julio Jones catch. I mean, yes, it's only one, but it
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was critical for a first down. Yeah, right, Like I'm gonna give
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them an A Okay, all right, I'm gonna give the an a minus.
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You convinced me because you're absolutely correct. Didn't really see any drops.
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Didn't see any drops in this game. So all right, let's move to
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the offensive line of you know, Jason Kelcey, which was bizarre. Okay,
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let's talk about this. Jason Kelcey with yet another penalty, Yet another
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penalty here, and it looked like a phantom penalty. It really did.
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I was really really baffled by it. I mean, and I think the
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Eagles actually would have had another touchdown since they were inside the five yard line.
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It was a tush push situation. Jason Kelcey false start there. It
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was just really bizarre. Didn't look like he really did anything to warrant the
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penalty. This isn't me crying or anything, folks. That's not it by
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any stretch of the imagination. The Eagles did have another touchdown, would have
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been interesting to see where the game would have gone, just in terms of
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momentum. However, I don't know This Eagles offensive line. I think did
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a pretty good job overall. I'm gonna give them a B plus. What
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do you give them? I'm gonna give them an A. Okay, Hurts
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wasn't sacked. Hurts a number of times try to extend the play, which
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oftentimes holding calls are are called. There wasn't any of those tonight. I
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give the offensive line and A. They're playing in Seattle, one of the
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hardest places for an offensive line to play in terms of sound. Yeah,
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get an A. Okay, all right, sounds good. All right.
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Let's move over to the defensive side of the ball. We talked about the
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defensive line. Man, Dude, they are It's D minus for me.
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I'm not gonna give give them a complete F, but it's D minus.
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It's just it's getting really concerning the fact that they're just not able to get
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pressure on quarterbacks and get into the backfield. And like you said, with
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the defensive signings and the amount of money that these guys are being paid,
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it's just it's it's ridiculous, it really is. I'm giving them a D
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minus. What do you give them, Josh? Yeah, again, you'll
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find I'm consistent. You know where you invest your money is where is where
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I'm going to give the hardest greats. So that would be quarterback, it
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would be offensive line and defensive line. You have. I believe they are
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the highest payroll in terms of defensive line going up against one of the lowest
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payrolls and the third worst offensive Sorry no, yes, offensive line for Seattle.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. Like, the only reason you get a D
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minus is because you were actually able to get two sacks. You should have
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had way more than that, and Drew Locke had all day to pass,
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and so you get a D minus. Okay, you're lucky. Yep,
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there you go. Linebackers, I'm giving them a C minus this week.
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Look, I think Nick Morrow had some decent and key tackles in this game.
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You mentioned Shaq Leonard, I mean only four tackles one that was solo.
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He and look, he's new to the team. I don't want to
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give I don't want to make that type of excuse for him. He's been
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around for a long time here. But uh, you know, they weren't
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knocketting anybody socks off by any stretch. So I'm gonna give him a C
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minus this week. What do you give the linebacker corps? Yeah, I
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kind of want to do incomplete, but I'll give him a C. I
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mean, you're you're using patchwork, and I'll give him a C. Okay.
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Next week. The grade would be different if the results were the same.
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The grade would be different because they've had more time to work together.
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But I'll give him a C okay. Defensive backs, Oh boy, up
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and down, really up and up and down throughout this game. They made
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some good plays here and there, and then uh, you know, James
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Bradberry, My gosh, it's a looking like that contract was just not a
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great contract. You know. I think when we reflect on this past offseason,
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it's just not as good as I think us Eagles fans a lot of
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us thought that it was that it was I just think, you know,
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hindsight being twenty twenty. We were all loving so many of these signings.
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You know, we're like, oh my gosh, Bradbury and Slagh, what's
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gonna happen with them if they're not going to be around? Oh my gosh.
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But I think this offseason may go down as one that's a disappointment.
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And certainly with regard to James Bradbury and his play, We've certainly talked about
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Sidney Brown earlier, how he's just he shouldn't be on the field. He's
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just unplayable at this point. Lots of mistackles. So I'm gonna give them
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a C minus this week. What do you give the defensive backs? I'm
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gonna give him a C. And the simple reason is this, they are
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playing some younger guys because you know, slays out in different things. The
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Blitz wasn't used often tonight, hardly at all. Yeah, correct, But
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one of the times it was used was on the last touchdown path where they
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decided in their infinite wisdom that it was a great idea to leave Bradberry in
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single coverage against it. It doesn't matter any of the wide receivers from Seattle,
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they are all better than whoever the Eagles put out in the defensive backfield.
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Yeah, why they decided to do that, I don't know. So
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I'm gonna give them a seat because they probably could have played better. But
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at the same time, the main fault is not with them, It is
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with the defensive scheme and I don't even know what was going on there.
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Yep, all right, let's move to the coaching. Special teams. Actually
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gonna give special teams an a. Gonna give him an a. Jake Elliott
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making a twenty seven yard er, made all his extra points. Brandon Mann,
29:41
he had a sixty one yard punt at one point. He got a
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good bounce on that one, but he averaged forty nine point six yards per
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punt. You have Britain Covey on three punt returns, averaging ten yards per
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return. He's having one. He's one of the best punt returners in the
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league, and he you know, the special team actually put this team in
30:00
a decent position. I'm giving him an a this week. What do you
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give them? Yeah, they get an A. I mean how he has
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a lot of faults this year, and these are really coming to light towards
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the end of the season, especially in this three game stretch. But one
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of the things he was smart about was waiting on a punter, and I
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think they have a punter. Ran has been fantastic week after week. He
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seems to do the job that needs to be done, and so the special
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teams get an A. I mean, they aren't even a concern for me
30:30
moving forward. And Covey, I mean, he averaged ten yards to carry
30:33
to night. But again it comes more down to the situational awareness, right
30:37
that we've talked about. He's not taking terrible fair catches and he's returning a
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decent amount, So yeah, they get an A. Yeah, he's not
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flubbing punts either, which is great to see. We've seen that in the
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past and he's not doing that this year. So all right, moving over
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to the defensive side of things, you know, I'm gonna get I'm gonna
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give the defensive coaching a D minus this week just based on my other grades,
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and I just think the continual I mean, this was a ten and
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three team and it was so bizarre with regard to the defensive alteration that they
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made in terms of Matt Patricia, and of course it's going to be talked
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about at nauseum this coming week. However, there's just problems with the personnel.
31:18
There's problems with the scheme, as you just mentioned, Josh, there's
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just problems with the coaching in general, and there's not much that could be
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done about it at this point in the season as we're looking toward Week sixteen.
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So I'm gonna give them a D minus for Sean de sign Matt Patricia,
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what do you give them? S Okay, I mean they knew the
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personnel going in this week. I mean slay head surgery, you know,
31:42
towards the beginning of the week. I don't want to hear anything about that.
31:45
They get an F. They are not putting their players in successful positions.
31:51
And all I need to say is that Drew Locke led a game winning
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touchdown drive, not a field goal drive, a touchdown drive. Yeah,
31:57
you get an as Yeah, all right. I talk about not putting your
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players in a good position, and I think we're seeing that from an offensive
32:05
standpoint too, to be honest with you, I mean, and we're certainly
32:08
seeing it. I don't know whether it's the coaching with Jalen Hurts as well,
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or just him continuing to not have that pocket management that we have been
32:16
hoping for. But in terms of the offensive coaching, Josh, I'm gonna
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give him a D. I'm gonna give him a straight up D. For
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Brian Johnson and Nick Sirianni. What do you give him this week? F
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all right? Your quarterback wasn't feeling well. Yeah, you opted to pass
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it more than to run it. And by the way, you had a
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lead for the majority of the game until the last drive. Yeah, you
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get an fonder you're only able to put up seventeen points against one of the
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worst run defenses in the league. Yes, you get an F. Seems
32:52
pretty arrogant, doesn't it. You know, we have a quarterback that's sick.
32:55
We're still gonna play him. And I know he's being paid a lot
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of money. He's being eight tens of millions of dollars this year. But
33:01
still seems pretty arrogant. Yeah. Again, averaging four point seven yards per
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carry and you decide that you're gonna pass it more. Yep, that's on
33:10
you. You get an F. There's no other grade in my opinion.
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Yeah, you get an F. All right. I mean, hey,
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that's a great way to end this Eagles postgame podcast. Here week fifteen,
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Again, the Philadelphia Eagles, losing to the Seattle Seahawks by a score of
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twenty to seventeen. Eagles are now ten and four on the season, second
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in the NFC East. Josh Schuster from philadelphiasoccernow dot com, Buddy, thank
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you so much for joining us this week here on the postgame show. I
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know we gotta get going here, but man, I don't know it's gonna
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be It's gonna be an interesting week for sure. Man. Yeah, I
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don't really have a whole lot of confidence left in winning every game. Yeah
33:51
the rest of the season. Yeah, those New York Giants games, they're
33:52
no gimmes. Yeah, I mean they can't stop anybody and having a hard
34:00
time putting on points. That is not a good recipe to beat even the
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Giants. So great, Yes, yay, fun alright, folks, that's
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gonna do it for us. You all take care and we'll catch you next time.