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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: "You Gotta Talk About Him Being A Top 3 Corner In The League" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome to Inside the Tape. On Inside the Birds,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher, I'm with Adam Kaplan, and of course
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  Speaker 1: we're joined by Greg Cosel. He's gonna break down the
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  Speaker 1: tape as he always does, of the Eagles last game.
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  Speaker 1: We've already done the offense from the Eagles in their
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  Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty five win over the Bucks, and
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  Speaker 1: now we're gonna flip sides and go with the defense.
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  Speaker 1: And man, we talked about Jekyll and Hyde the way
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  Speaker 1: the offense was. Honestly, the defense played pretty good, but
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  Speaker 1: two shot plays Greg really turned that game on its
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  Speaker 1: axis in the second half and made it a lot closer.
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  Speaker 2: And they were weird plays. I mean, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: have them, but yeah, they were weird plays. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to those. But I think for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: the defense played pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well some cackling which is a little shoddy,
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  Speaker 3: But yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What's stepped out to you from a approach standpoint as
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  Speaker 1: far as being nick dime four to three?
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  Speaker 2: What's stud The first thing I immediately noticed was that
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  Speaker 2: Andrew mccooba was was an every down player. They did
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  Speaker 2: not do what they've been doing in recent you know,
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  Speaker 2: through the first three games where in their base defense,
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  Speaker 2: Sidney Brown played safety and Macooba only played in the
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  Speaker 2: nickel and dime. This he was an every down player
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  Speaker 2: for the first time this season. In two high structure alignments.
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  Speaker 2: He almost always lined up to the field or the
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  Speaker 2: passing strength of the offensive formation because he can match up.
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  Speaker 2: So he gives them tremendous flexibility in their coverage because
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  Speaker 2: he can match up if they choose to play man,
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  Speaker 2: he can match up to wide receivers. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: he's the passing strength safety, the field safety in their
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  Speaker 2: too high structures because if they do want to play man,
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  Speaker 2: that's where you have more receivers to you know, to
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  Speaker 2: the white side of the field. I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 2: what else stood out to me. So obviously ring all
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  Speaker 2: who they did really test, you know, Yeah, it was odd.
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  Speaker 2: I kept waiting, you know, because obviously you guys know
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  Speaker 2: I watched Red Zone on Sunday. Yeah, you guys watched
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  Speaker 2: just the Eagles game. I'm watching red Zone. Sure, watched
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  Speaker 2: both of the tape. Yeah, but they didn't really test him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I was kind of surprised by it.
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  Speaker 4: I was shocked I thought they would isolate him for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know that's funny because watching the some of the
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  Speaker 5: tape of Money, I'm like, Okay, Ringo's running with this guy.
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  Speaker 6: What are they gonna throw to him?
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  Speaker 2: And they did.
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  Speaker 5: I know he's got good length, but we've outlined his
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  Speaker 5: issues since really day one about stiffness and transition.
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  Speaker 2: You'd almost have to say that he played fine because
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't really tested.
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  Speaker 5: He held up, but now I know the run defense, Jeff,
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  Speaker 5: he took some angles, like dude, you gotta like he
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  Speaker 5: just and he wasn't the only culprit. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I know you're not grading plays that should have been
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  Speaker 5: called flags, Greg, but boy, the Eagles held some jerseys
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  Speaker 5: in that game which were not called I mean it was.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing that stood out to me was how
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  Speaker 2: good Mitchell is a study. I know, guys, I mean
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm at the point I was saying to
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  Speaker 2: my guys that you know, I think you got to
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  Speaker 2: talk about him as the top three corner in the league.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, wow, that that high.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's really good player, now, certain is he?
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  Speaker 4: And I know you don't do rankings, but.
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  Speaker 2: I think in talking to somebody who who had studied corners.
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  Speaker 2: He was not a coach, but he's someone who's close
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  Speaker 2: to it all. You know, he felt that the best
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  Speaker 2: corner in the league last year was Stingley and certain
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  Speaker 2: was second that you know. And again, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not good with those kinds of lists, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean, Mitchell is really a good player.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about him so much? What do
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  Speaker 4: you like about him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that given given how he played
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  Speaker 2: at Toledo, where he was always an off coverage corner
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  Speaker 2: and didn't really you know, match up to players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he does a great job when he matches. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about necessarily press. I'm just talking about matching up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to, you know, truly run with raw travel.
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  Speaker 2: And again they're using him as a as their matchup
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  Speaker 2: corner because he played a Booka. I mean, he played him,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The only time he really didn't is if a Booka
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  Speaker 2: lined up inside. But Booka this year has really been
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  Speaker 2: an outside receiver, not a slot receiver. And in this game,
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  Speaker 2: forty seven of the sixty four snaps he lined up outside,
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  Speaker 2: so pretty much on every single one of them, Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: was over and I don't know if a Buka, he
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  Speaker 2: might have made one catch in that situation, Jeff, if
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  Speaker 2: memory serves me correctly, But there was nothing big.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was two. But yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: two for very minimal, minimal game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and look the playdown field. I mean they got
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  Speaker 5: to knock that ball down for seventy seven. I mean
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  Speaker 5: that was a seventy seven yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Greg, We'll get into that, because that's not it seems
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  Speaker 2: like they should have but no, it's it's not really Okay, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about Mitchell had nothing to do with that.
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  Speaker 2: Were you going to show that play? Jeff? Yes, of course, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because then I'll wait till good enough.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to ask you though, while we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about Mitchell, is when you compare him to Stingley and
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  Speaker 1: certain are those guys move Do they move around to
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  Speaker 1: the best receiver week after week?
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  Speaker 2: Also, sir Tan often does Stingley not so much?
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  Speaker 1: Got it? I mean that's to me like a sign
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  Speaker 1: of the ultimate respect. When a defensive coordinator does that
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they almost have to do it too because of
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  Speaker 2: the other corner. See don't forget Kamari lassater In Houston
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  Speaker 2: is a really, really good player, so Stingley does not
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  Speaker 2: have to play every team through good receiver.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: And while Riley Moss in Denver is not great, he's
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  Speaker 2: a tough, physical, competitive dude. And you know, Sir Tan
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  Speaker 2: doesn't always have to match up to the best, but
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  Speaker 2: Sir Tan does at times.
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  Speaker 1: And Greg once again, would you you would say that
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  Speaker 1: what you saw on tape was an aggressive pressure scheme
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  Speaker 1: from Vic Fangio.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, more, I mean yeah, they played a lot
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  Speaker 2: of man coverage. By the way, they played a lot
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  Speaker 2: of man. This was not one of those let's you know,
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  Speaker 2: soft zone deals, and they had great success. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when they blitzed, they blitzed on they rushed. I should
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  Speaker 2: say this, they rushed five or more on twelve of
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  Speaker 2: Mayfield's forty three dropbacks. But they had a ton and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't chart them a ton of sim pressures. And
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  Speaker 2: all they do with their sim pressures is it's either
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  Speaker 2: Bond or Campbell. They have a very very low percentage
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  Speaker 2: of using their dbs as pressure players. They don't really
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's so funny is you remember Cooper de
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  Speaker 1: Jen's first game against the Browns last year, and they
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  Speaker 1: use them as they blitzer on a sim like maybe
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  Speaker 1: two or three. Y. Yeah, they really it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: they never went back to that way.
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  Speaker 2: And you wonder if you're going to see it at
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  Speaker 2: some point because now it'll be unexpected, it'll be something
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  Speaker 2: that it may not really prepare for.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, So Mitchell played, well, how did mccouba play overall?
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  Speaker 1: For being a true star or now where I think.
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  Speaker 2: Again, there were no you know, to me again without
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  Speaker 2: charting plays like like you know, Joe pass their safety's
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  Speaker 2: coaches doing, you know, obviously, I mean he didn't to me,
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  Speaker 2: didn't give up anything, and you know, maybe maybe he
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  Speaker 2: didn't make a ton of tackles, but I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was fine.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, by the way, Jeff coaches, Greg, you guys probably
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  Speaker 6: know this. They chart they great every single play, every play.
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  Speaker 3: It's really it's really interesting to talking to coaches over
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  Speaker 3: the years because you have a colon.
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  Speaker 6: How did sell and so play? Because well, on.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty plays that he played, here's how I grated him,
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  Speaker 3: And it's really really cool.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that, obviously, I'm exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Greig, I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to pick
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  Speaker 1: up the pace.
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  Speaker 6: All right, I'll say this, Hey, Jeff, I'll say this much.
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  Speaker 3: And we've talked about this briefly over the years with
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  Speaker 3: with Greg, when he and Jaws would watch tape together
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  Speaker 3: and it might take four hours to do a game
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  Speaker 3: for whatever it would take to there'll be some place
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  Speaker 3: to go. They would go over twenty five times sometimes
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  Speaker 3: if they were not clear and they wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: precise and not make mistake, if they didn't text the
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  Speaker 3: coach if you don't got to see it again.
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  Speaker 6: I don't. I don't feel comfortable saying this right.
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  Speaker 2: No, can't tell you how many times, Jeff, I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do a play in the matchup show. I love
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  Speaker 2: the play, and when I do a play in the
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  Speaker 2: matchup show, I literally look at all twenty two players
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  Speaker 2: over and over and again to make sure I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, missing something that makes me wrong. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure I've been wrong at times because I don't There's
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  Speaker 2: no way I can know exactly what coaches know. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes we would just I wouldn't do a
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  Speaker 2: play because as much as I might have liked to
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  Speaker 2: play and a particular concept of the play, I just
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  Speaker 2: felt like I'm just not exactly sure what that protection
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  Speaker 2: scheme is or I'm just not sure what that coverage
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  Speaker 2: is and I just don't want to be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense, all right. Well, one last question before
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  Speaker 1: we get into some film watch and one comment that
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  Speaker 1: I in the pregame show you guys might remember, said
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  Speaker 1: that my game MVP was going to be Quinya Mitchell.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've got right on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Wow, So I want to but I do
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you about the trenches. Tristan Worth came
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  Speaker 1: back to play left tackle, enabled them to play their
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  Speaker 1: normal center, the normal left guard. They're still on backups
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  Speaker 1: on the right side U and also Godwin came back
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  Speaker 1: to give him a little boosts. But how did you
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  Speaker 1: think or I'm sorry, what did the tape show mostly
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  Speaker 1: about the D line or the front the defensive front for.
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  Speaker 2: The I thought Carter was, you know, was much better
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  Speaker 2: this week, even though he might not have made an
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  Speaker 2: impact game changing play. I thought just the way in
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  Speaker 2: which he played, he was just more assertive, more aggressive
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  Speaker 2: in his movement. He just looked more like Carter. You know,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget, you can't. You're not gonna make a game
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  Speaker 2: changing play every single week. You know and defensive tackles
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  Speaker 2: can have really good games and not have stats. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was a factor. I definitely noticed Adarius Smith
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  Speaker 2: and Josh Husha who got meaningful snaps because obviously Nolan
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  Speaker 2: Smith is now out again. Maybe they didn't make a
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  Speaker 2: game changing plays, but I will say this, I would
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  Speaker 2: say that, you know, from a pressure perspective, I was
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  Speaker 2: hoping to see a little more in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: four man D line pass rush. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is probably why Vick is blitzing at
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  Speaker 1: a higher rate and simming as much as he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: because he probably he needs to create pressure that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's getting exactly what he would
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  Speaker 2: like from a four man D line pass rush right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think that's fair.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, Jeff, you just nailed it. He's telling
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  Speaker 2: us he's not by what he's question all the time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at a few clips
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  Speaker 1: on defense. A big play in this game came from
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  Speaker 1: Killy Ringo on fourth down. Greg. It was a pass
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  Speaker 1: break up along the left side.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna bring keep going forward a little, here's your
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  Speaker 2: here's your classic. H just what we're talking about. This
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  Speaker 2: is in four man sim pressure. I believe that's bad,
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  Speaker 2: is it not? Who's I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Reel it back now again, just so that people watching
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  Speaker 1: and listening can hear it. They've got they only have
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  Speaker 1: a three man line, correct.
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, well it's weird.
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  Speaker 1: I remember this because Cooper de Jene sort of looks
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  Speaker 1: like the guy. I'll let you said it out.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right, but no, but I think down below, if
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  Speaker 2: you run it, who's standing up down below?
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  Speaker 1: That is Hunt? So they have I remember this, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: because I looked at it. They have three interior linemen
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  Speaker 1: on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Right and then outside, so it's a fore man. They're
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  Speaker 2: in their four two nickel, right, they're in their four
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  Speaker 2: two nickel. It's just that Hunt is removed from the box.
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  Speaker 2: So if you just look at it quick, you think
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  Speaker 2: he's not a defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And also, Greg, those are three in those three
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  Speaker 1: guys rushing are three interior. There's no second overhang or
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  Speaker 1: out the.
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  Speaker 2: Right right right. See, and don't forget Hunt gives them
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  Speaker 2: this versatility as well because of his background as a
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  Speaker 2: safety that you know, he's got the movement ability to
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  Speaker 2: be able to you know, to do this right.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like it's a well covered play here
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  Speaker 1: with the yeah pressure and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Pressure Bought being the fourth guy coming from the linebacker
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  Speaker 2: level and Baker has to move here.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, and Ringo had Yeah, I mean he's all over
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  Speaker 5: him right there, but ring Members fell immediately.
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  Speaker 1: He was right on.
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  Speaker 2: Good job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thought, you know, it's obviously somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: a scrambled drill player. I don't unless that was the route.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna take a look at this again because
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  Speaker 1: there you have Carter Davis and but you only have
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  Speaker 1: Hunt lined up overhang and no other.
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  Speaker 2: Quote unquote, no defense, no slash defensive end type player
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  Speaker 2: here correct, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is a new I have not seen Vic do this,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he's done it once or twice, but right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he has. But yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then so and it's weird because Degene sort of
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  Speaker 1: looks like an overhang but he's just there in the slot.
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  Speaker 1: Good pressure somewhat by Carter overright tackle forces him out, and.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing This is one of those combo zone man
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  Speaker 2: hybrids because because you know they're they're matching up, but
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  Speaker 2: some some are playing man, others are not. Because look
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  Speaker 2: Godwin runs the crosser and and Campbell picks him up.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Campbell's not playing him man to man
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  Speaker 2: like the play The play call is in Campbell, you
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  Speaker 2: got Godwin man to man R So because.
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  Speaker 1: Degene doesn't follow, I think Buka, there's no Degene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in his own deal and yeah this is yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good tackle and got his hands in there and jar
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  Speaker 1: out all right. Next one is Quina Mitchell is going
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  Speaker 1: to break up a real sort of a back throw
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  Speaker 1: off the back foot of from Baker Mayfield here on
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  Speaker 1: third and seven. This is a big, big third and
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  Speaker 1: seven stop in the second quarter. So this time looks
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  Speaker 1: like the Eagles put a little more pressure with a
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  Speaker 1: stunt inside.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Oh yeah, this was one. This was on Godwin
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  Speaker 2: because what they did is, yeah, a Buka was inside,
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  Speaker 2: so he wasn't matching up to him. You know, honestly
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  Speaker 2: Godwin had it.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, Quinon took the ball out of his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, stroke they go for strong here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you see the other angle at him. To
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  Speaker 1: your point, it was a way better pass breakup than
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  Speaker 1: even looks because he uses his left hand.
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  Speaker 6: It's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Strong here and they keep ringo down below. He does
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  Speaker 2: not go over to the other side. So they're technically
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  Speaker 2: playing his zone concept here. But don't you know you
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  Speaker 2: got to match up at some point. You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to just let guys first strong on the right strong
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  Speaker 2: one side of the formation. Right, And because a Buka
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  Speaker 2: is inside this time, Mitchell does not match a Buka.
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  Speaker 2: He matches the vertical route by Godwin.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And see it's funny who's on who matches Abuka Macuba?
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the versatility that Macuba brings.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 4: Before he's on him, he's on him.
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  Speaker 6: He popped it out with his left hand. I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean while he's mid air. By the way
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  Speaker 1: he did that. When you see this view, it looks
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  Speaker 1: even prettier. And by the way, this will give us
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  Speaker 1: a good view of the pressure screen. So now you
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  Speaker 1: have Campbell. I kind of walks down here to create
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  Speaker 1: that five man front, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Campbell did that eighteen times in this game, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: times last week, eighteen times in this game. Clearly that's
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  Speaker 2: something Vick's doing. You know, I would assume that would continue.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't always rush the quarterback. Sometimes he does. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't, but it's clearly part now of what their
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  Speaker 2: defense is, right.
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  Speaker 1: And now you see Byron Young and Carter executed inside
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  Speaker 1: a TT stunt I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess, which, by the way, was what ended the game
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  Speaker 2: when he Joe Moo sacked Mayfield. It was a loaded
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  Speaker 2: front with a nice little T T stunt inside and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to watch that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Yep, I got that one. But yeah, here's the other
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: view that shows you in the middle of the air.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Look at him stretch out his left hand and interfere
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: a veteran.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: That's a veteran play right there.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Amazing. So this is the Campbell interception. Greg, you want
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: to go through this?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this this was a run around play.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is this you know there's it's not
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: really a tactical play in a strict sense.
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: Agree, you had to get rid of it at the
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: last second, and he just made a mistake.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So that was very good pressure from me. I think
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: that was just a four man rush.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: That was what I was one of those already. And
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: by the way, Godwin is wide open here. I mean,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: if blanket Share ends up on the ball, this is
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: very possibly a touchdown.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Watch Godwin put his hand up yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I mean he's running on the bottom, he's running across
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the field. Who is that way Mac.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Twenty fourth macouba. Yeah, he's open.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you'll see yeah, right there. You can't throw
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: it now, Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: He could shim yeah.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Right now if he can. If that ball is not tipped,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: maybe it's a Touchdow. I'm not saying it is, but
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: maybe it is. But it became a fire drill because
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I believe of CH's a pass rush on there zero zero.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: He kicks inside because again, as you mentioned, Campbell comes
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: down over the right edge.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's you know, he forces the initial movement.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he beats the right hack right there.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, look that's what we said in the pregame show.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: That's the side that they had. Yeah, he asked, right now,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you know what he is look good.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I know he's not put up the sack numbers, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: he looks he looks like he could still play.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he gets up field every.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Game explosive to me.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could sort of see at the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: bottom of the screen, Godwin's sort of crossing into the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: end zone now, but there's just no way Mayfield you
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: can see that probably shouldn't have thrown that ball. I
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: think that goes without saying.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I know why he threw it though, because when he
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: started to throw it, Godwin, if you if you saw
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: it from behind Mayfield, because I get I see both
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: angles in zones, he looked wide open. Now I'm not
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: saying to what you know, who knows, but you know
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the ball was tipped by blanket ship right all right, late.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: In the game second twelve, you already had set it up.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: You just talked about the overloaded front.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, well this is yeah, this is the Yeah, it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a loaded front, meaning there's three defensive linemen to one
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: side of the center. Almost always, it's not one hundred percent,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but almost always there's a stunt of some kind involved
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: with loaded fronts. And the whole key to this is
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Zach Bond. And you know why he's the key because
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: he eats up the right guard so the right guard
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: can help the stunt on the load side. Yeah, okay,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: because it's a t T stunt with Carter as the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: penetrator and with Ojomo as the UH as the looper,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: so you'll see exactly what I mean. Bond does this
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: intentionally because now the right guard has to deal with him.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Because now he becomes the fifth rusher. This this became
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: uh cover cover one with a behind a five man pressure,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: so it looks perfect freeze. And you see the right
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: guard has to deal with Bond and the center Barden
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: goes hard with Carter because it's Carter. You know you're
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: not leaving Carter alone.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Ye.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Jomo does a great job by the way of working
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: upfield first and not giving away the loop too early.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's a great point.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'll leave you.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: It was just a little bit there to show you
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what a Jomo does. He rushes as if he's going
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: straight in and not around.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look look look look he makes it even seem.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Like right, yeah, exactly, that's great.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: That's a great pass rush him get.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Low, yeah, beautiful.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Wow, he was explosive.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I know he hasn't put up the sack numbers.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Is this the long touchdown? Now?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a touchdown. So by the way, I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: did not put the other touchdown in just because it
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: was sort of scrambled drillish.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and it wasn't really Campbell's.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Got a guard down the field.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: That's this is this is the Ibuka one, right, yes,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: all right, Adam, this one's for you, Okay, you know
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: what happened here. Yeah, So what this is is this
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: is shotgun boot okay, shotgun play action boot right, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: they're running flood. Okay, So in an ideal world, you
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: want to make the throw to Shepherd who it's a
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: flood is a three level concept. There's a short route,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: an intermediate route, and a vertical route, which ninety nine
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: point nine percent of the time is a clear out route.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And that's what Abuka runs here. He runs the clear
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: out route and you can tell by his gait he's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: not even expecting the ball is going to be anywhere
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: near him, because that's the way it works flood.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: No, I wasn't doubting that. I just thought it was
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: what we'll see what the take shows.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So ideally the throw gets made here to Shepherd on
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the crosser from the backside because of boot and that's
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the throw. Okay. But what you're going to see here,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: by the way, Mitchell does a great job, but also
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Macouba sees the crosser and he knows that that's where
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the ball wants to go, so he's gonna sit and
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: he's getting ready to jump the crosser.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought he did. I thought he tried
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to jump it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that's what he did. Because and then
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you can tell if you if you go back to Jeff,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: watch booka run, go back if you can't cant to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the to the sideline, can.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: You, yeah, give me one second?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: All right here it is just watch a booka. Okay,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you can tell he's running just to clear out. He's
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: not running to get the ball. Look. Look, he's just
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: running to clear out. Look he's not even he's looking back,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you know, figuring, Okay, ball's going to be thrown. I'm
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: not really part of this play. And then all of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: a sudden he sees Baker, you know, as he's on
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and he goes, oh my god, I better run. So
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: mccouba gets caught, and yeah, if he's he almost makes
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a great play. Yeah you're right, you're right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it would have been.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat it. They they they were one of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: those plays that I mean, I don't know how they
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: deal with Macouba on this play, but I you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: he's playing here that that it is flood and then
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you're throwing the crosser.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Right right crosser on those two plays, that one and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the one we didn't show where you know, they got
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the seventy seven yard right, one hundred and fifty yards
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: on two plays, right right, So both quarterbacks really got
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: almost all their yardage on about two to four plays.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Right right. Kind of funny, right what it?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Mayfield finished with three hundred yards, so we got half of.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: It on two plays, two plays, and that's what made
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: it a game, you know, but you know it was
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it was you know, obviously it became a game. But
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you know, again, we get back to the point that
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the Eagles are four and oh they find a way
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to win these games, and they win them because you
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: know what, they know how to win. They got it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: They've got to back they don't. Let's get all the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: cliches going on.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, great stuff.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: We can all agree. Eagles defense, you know, some work
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to do in the past rush, but from top to bottom,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: make a lot of plays. And the two turnovers as
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: they have been every week where they've had at least
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: one turnover in each game, have really been the difference
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: in all of these possession games. That's gonna do it
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: for Inside the Tape on Inside the Birds Defense version
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: for Greg Cosell and Adam Kaplan. I'm Jeff Mosher, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of course we'll catch you on the next one.