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ITB Postgame Show: Are The Eagles Officially Cooked After 17-Point Loss To Cowboys? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Inside the Birds post-game show. I'm Jeff
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Mosher with Adam Kaplan. And after what looked like maybe
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: a promising and encouraging start, a four-play scoring drive by
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: the Eagles, what happened was when they played the Cowboys
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: on Monday night, it was a lot more of the same.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: From the third quarter on, except, Adam, a new wrinkle,
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: the absolute implosion of Vic Fangio's defense. The Eagles lose
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: 38-21 at home to the Cowboys tonight. They now have
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: five straight losses for the first time since 2016. And
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: those were not good times. And Adam, I think at
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: this point might be worth retiring the whole, well, you
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: can win a bad NFC East because the way things
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: are going, the Eagles can't win a game. So a
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: lot's going to happen with this franchise in the next
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: few weeks.
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got the trade deadline coming up. And I'll
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: be very interested to see who or what the Eagles
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: do there. Because you have a team that is imploding.
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: They don't really do anything well except for their kicker
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: and punter are great. Jake Elliott is 21 for 21.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: He's five for five in field goals. He only has
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: five field goal attempts, which is embarrassing. Can't get the
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: ball close enough for him to kick it. And then
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: he's 16 for 16 on extra points. And Braden Mann's
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: a stud. I mean, he's one of the best punters
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. But like we've said this season throughout it,
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: it's not good when the best part of your team
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: is your kicker and punter. That tells you how bad
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: you are.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, I suppose if they had
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: won this game and showed more improvement and a good defense,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: then you could have that discussion about, well, you know,
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: you got more, you got two more NFC East games
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  Speaker 2: coming on, on the horizon here. You can get yourself
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: back in. I don't really know what the rest of
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: the season becomes. Has it become more learning about Tanner McKee?
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's set to be a free agent. There's
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: just so much uncertainty around the franchise. So all we
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: can do is look at it. one game at a time,
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: but I definitely thought we could go two ways here
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  Speaker 2: going into this game. We could discuss, yes, the idea
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: of getting some healthier guys back, improving, and putting yourself
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: in a position to surprise people and contend, or if
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: you lose, I think the discussion is now, like, where
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: do you go from here? And I think that that's
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: what's going to be facing the Eagles for a couple
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: of weeks now. Because now the point is, okay, what
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: if you can beat the Giants or Commanders? You're still...
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: you don't look like a team that can really compete
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, there was a subject of,
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: I think last Friday's football for one of the last Thursday,
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: last Friday with Mike Gill, we talk about buy, sell
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: or hold. And I went over the scenarios about what,
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: what will happen over the next three weeks. We'll ultimately
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: decide what Harry Roseman does. If they go like two
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: and one, they're hanging in the NFC East.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: He may hold.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: If they lose three in a row, they may sell.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: which is not really how he wants to do. But
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: he alluded to it when they talked about the Cam
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: Juergens trade, about they've got a bunch of contracts defensively
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: that they're going to look to extend.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: And you can't extend everyone.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: There's going to be sincere interest in Mauro Ojemo getting
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: closer to the deadline. Now the question is for him
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: and the Eagles, what could they get for him if
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: they decide they want to trade him? Because it's going
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: to be, nothing is impossible in the National Football League.
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: I've learned this the hard way in terms of bringing
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: players back, but the pain of bringing players back and that,
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: that contracts 30 million plus a season.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: There's other things you can't do.
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: So you want to bring someone back who you're not
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: planning on it because of the cash, cash commitment and
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: then the cap and how, and then the Delane Johnson situation,
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: who's going to be on the roster because of the
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: cap problems that it would cost if they, if they
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: put them reserve retired.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. There's just, there's so many things that we didn't
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: know when the season started.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Neither did they. And neither did the Eagles for that.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to scramble, you've got to figure
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: it out, and you've got to have vision as you
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: brought this subject up. There are a lot of ways
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  Speaker 3: it could go, and I know Howie historically does not
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: like to, whatever you want to call it, bail on
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: the season or look towards next year. But you have
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: to be a realist.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: You just have to be.
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: When you're in a power position and you run the show,
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: you've got full personnel control. Not every GM has that,
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: by the way. Some don't, but he's got the whole show.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: You know, it's humiliating when you, you felt good about
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: the roster and the drafts we've talked about the last
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  Speaker 3: two have been a little shaky, but there's plenty of
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: talent here. And then you mentioned the Juergen situation, which
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: he decided to, Lane Johnson's situation, Dickerson gets hurt. All
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  Speaker 3: these injuries, which you could not have seen happen, that
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: you have to, you have to take a broader look
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: and say, okay, where are we at? As you set
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: it up, Where are we going, and what's the best
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  Speaker 3: course of action? That's where they are here. This is
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: not 2020, end of the Doug Peterson era. This is
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: a good base of a young roster. Some players have
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: to be better. Some players they thought would be better,
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: like Jihad Campbell. So as you set it up, they're learning.
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: But moving on here, this is not an easy decision,
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: one way or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where they're at.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: I did talk to Saquon– well, everybody talked to Saquon
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Barkley after the game, one of the few guys who
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: was there to talk. And I asked him quite at
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: the end. I said, hey, I know you dealt with
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: this in New York. How are you going to handle
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: your name coming up in trade discussions? And not just you,
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: but it might be, as you just mentioned, Adam, other
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: guys like a Joe Moriquo and things like that, guys
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: who may not have been through it the way he
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: was in New York. And I thought it was interesting–
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: his answer was interesting because because he said what you
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: would expect someone to say at first about funneling it
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: out and you can't control it. Um, but then he
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: hadn't had this long pause and he said, I don't
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: sense from anyone that that is even going to happen.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: Meaning a fire cell that people are going to get
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  Speaker 2: pawned off. He's like, it feels, he said his sense
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: and he, it was interesting to use that word because
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: that means someone has communicated with you or you're reading
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: the tea leaves from someone. So I made sure to
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: follow up and I said, do you get that sense
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: from up top, like upper management? And, you know, he's like,
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: I just, I feel like that's not going to happen.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: So that I thought was interesting. I wonder if all
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, whatever messaging has been going on in
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: the Eagles, we'll have to start to change a little bit.
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: So at least you're being honest. with your players or
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: maybe the Eagles have something else in mind, who knows?
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: But I, I did want to ask that to Saquon
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  Speaker 2: because I know he went through that in New York
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  Speaker 2: and it can, that can be a tough thing for
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: the next few weeks. If you're a recall and if
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: you're more of a Jomo, right? The uncertainty of, am
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: I going to be here in a week or two?
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, they just, you mentioned this perfectly, right? The
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: shock to them to probably see Cam Juergens traded, you know,
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: five weeks into the season must've been pretty interesting. I
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: know Jordan Maialata was, was taken aback by it and
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  Speaker 2: he was, Honest about that. That's surprising. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 2: everybody of value might be thinking over the next two
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: or three weeks. And unfortunately, when that happens, we've seen this.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: It reflects in the play. I mean, you get uncertain guys.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: Now you're trying not to get hurt. Now you're trying
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: to preserve whatever value. Rick Wollin's going to be a
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: free agent next year. So even if he does get traded,
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: he's going to want to make sure he's healthy and fine.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: So it's definitely something fans should watch out for and
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: just kind of observe and hear the quotes coming out
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: of the locker room over the next week.
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  Speaker 3: So on what you just brought up, that's where you
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: get worried in the back of players' minds, self-preservation, protection.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like the word quit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They have too much respect for Sirianni, but Moro Jomo's
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: on a walk year, okay?
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: Rick Wallen's on a walk year, and obviously last night's
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: game was not very good for him. And then you've
• 8:11
  Speaker 3: got guys like Cooper Jean, who the Eagles will look
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: to extend, who's not coming off a good year so far,
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: He's dropped off significantly. It's so interesting.
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: And Jalex Hunt, who the Eagles have liked from day one,
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  Speaker 3: not having a great year, clearly was playing with an injury.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. There's a lot of moving parts here.
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: We'll get through it over the next couple weeks. We'll
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: explain to you as we hear things from around the
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: league about who teams are calling about. and so forth,
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: and who's going to be available. Theoretically, anyone's available for price.
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Eagles weren't looking to move Cam Jurgens
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: at all, but when someone offers you a two and
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  Speaker 3: a five for a guy who's a declining player, you
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: make that trade immediately before they change their mind.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. That's an outlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But they're in kind of a crossroads here. Five losses
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: in a row, as I sent it back to you.
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  Speaker 3: Not what I would have believed.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. Let's talk about the offense first, because
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: there were definitely some Some pretty good– some signs. And
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: I think it started right away. You could tell the
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: difference with Drew Kendall at center and Landon Dickerson at
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: left guard. Landon still– and I think as the game
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: went on, Landon again had some issues with pass protection
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: or guys getting on him. But from the start, you
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: could see there was energy. And they moved the Cowboys
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: off the line of scrimmage, and you got Saquon getting
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: a good running game. But unfortunately– I can't believe I
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: heard Saquon say this. I went back and listened.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: He– he had that big 29 yard run on the
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: first drive.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: He was actually disappointed that it was that open and that,
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: because you saw him and burst through the hole and
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: get like, kind of yanked a little bit from behind.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: And that's where his back started. He started to feel
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: it in his back because he's obviously favoring still the
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: hamstring a little bit. And he actually said, you know, I,
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: I was hoping that, was trying to say I was
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: hoping we'd be like more methodical I could grind it
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: out get in the not like a big explosive run
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: like that because that wound up hurting and he I
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: you know he didn't reveal what his pitch count was
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: but it's clear after that it was clear he wasn't
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: going to play the full game and then even after
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: that long run he was limited even more and you
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: saw him on I don't know if you got to
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: see it he was on the bicycle So it was
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: like one step forward, but two steps back because that
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: would be it for their explosive runs.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: So Barkley, by the way, only played 10 snaps. Very
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: productive on the 10 snaps. The fact when the camera
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: panned to him, he was pointing to his head about
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: being smart. He pulled himself out of the game. He
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: was going to be on a reduced play count anyway.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: But Sirianni did say they thought he'd be able to
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: play more. He wasn't going to play his normal snaps,
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: but Sirianni talked about it after the game.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: And you know what?
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: Damian Pierce has shown he could play in the league
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: as a backup. We've talked about it from day one.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: You can question the fit for the zone scheme. There
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: are a couple of them where he ran himself into
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: the blockers where he didn't hit the hole that was there.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: A little bit of a wiggle, so it's a decent
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: find for them. But Elijah Mitchell, he had to return
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: kicks because Covey got hurt, knee injury. But that hurt
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: their return game.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Offensively, that first drive was so good. So good.
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: But the thing that was troubling, Tanner McKee really regressed
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: as the game went along. That was very, very troubling
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: He is a very bad mechanical flaw, which we saw
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: in training camp in OTAs. And the one to Darius Cooper,
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: not the one that Cooper dropped the first pass.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: Wormburner, he threw where there was no one around him, okay?
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Cooper was wide open over the middle. Good route, okay?
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Running over route.
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  Speaker 3: McKee, he doesn't sink his throw up with his feet,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: and the ball dies. This happens way too much. This
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: is on coaching as well. It's got to be cleaned up.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Got to be cleaned up. It's bad.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: It's not the overstride that Carson Wentz had, which would
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: make the ball sail and go way off.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: But he did not have a good game.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: No, I agree. As the game went on, he did
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: not have a consistent enough game. I love that you're
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: pointing out the pass that he missed because I didn't
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: like that whole sequence even from a coaching standpoint, to
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: be honest. So this is about two and a half minutes,
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: I want to say, before halftime. And at that point,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: the Eagles, I think, are down three, if I'm not mistaken.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: And my thought was, Adam, that Whatever the Eagles do here,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: they cannot let Dallas have the ball back. They're not
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: playing great defense. And if you go three and out
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: and punt, all Dallas needs is two passes to get
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: into Brandon Aubrey range because, you know, very few kickers
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: can do what he can do, but he can do that.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: And they went three and out because McKee missed the
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: first down pass. And then I think the second out
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  Speaker 2: pass to Lemon was a little behind and dropped by Lemon.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think– No, no, that was a bad pass.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: That was not– It was a bad pass, but it
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: was in his hand.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: No, but he had to reach back. Aikman talked about
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: it clearly as a bad throw.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, sure, sure, sure. I was just wondering if
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: he could have got it anyway, but either way.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: He had to reach back, and two guys crunched on him.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: And then he also– he missed Hollywood Brown. That was
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: way off.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: Now, what we don't know, and we'll ask Greg Cosell
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: this when we watch Inside the Tape, was Hollywood not
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: explosive on the play?
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Did he not get separation? Yeah.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: There's a reason why Hollywood's not really playing until this game.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. But that sequence there was brutal, right? A
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: bad throw– two bad throws in a row. Then you're
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: third and long. You can't convert that. I think he
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: threw short of the sticks, which he did that several times.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: That bothered me. And then what do they do? They
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: punt it back to Dallas, who goes down the field
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: in like four plays, kick the field goal, and now
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: they go into the halftime up by six instead of
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: by three because– you came out passing three straight times
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: in a row. I thought that was bad clock management.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: I get it. They were behind by three. That's me.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: That's not a huge deal. And my other issue was this.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I thought pass protection, like you said, was– Fairly decent.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Really good, actually.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Once they realized it, because most of the game was
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: quick game, quick game, which I understand they've had issues
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: up front. Once the game kind of settled in and
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: you realized you had decent pass protection, this is one
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: of the worst defenses in the NFL you're going against.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: You've got to drive the ball a little bit, but
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: everything was, like I said, there was too many passes
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: short of the sticks, too many crossing routes for five yards.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: It was just... I mean, his yards per attempt was
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: under seven. I mean, against one of the worst pass defenses.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: I just thought that there were opportunities they needed to
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: take to try to strike the ball down the.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Field, and he didn't.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, the thing that was troubling is he had
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: mostly really good pass protection. And it's hard because you're
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: not getting the all 22 when you're watching the game.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: But there were plays there to be made. Now, understand something.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: They only had four receivers. Covey would have been the
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: emergency fifth as a slot receiver. He got hurt early.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: So they only had four guys, and one of them.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Is Hollywood Brown, who really hasn't played, and Elijah Mitchell,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: who got on the board in terms of a target
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: and a catch, but he's been a factor. Darius Cooper
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: did not shine. Again, as he did against Jacksonville, led
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: them in total snaps at receiver. Didn't get the job done.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: His first drop, I mean, you can't drop a pass
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: like that. I mean, it's right in his hands. No
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: one even around him.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: That was the other thing.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: They had a lot of execution errors.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Man, when you get protection like this against a defense
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: as you brought up that's so bad, Dallas' defense is
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: really bad.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Not bad. It's really bad. Awful. With a more competent quarterback,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: if Hertz is playing, they're putting up 35 to 40
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: points in this game.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Adam, I couldn't believe how wide open some guys were
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: in the first quarter. I'm third and like five, third
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: and seven. I was like, does Dallas not even know
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: where to be? I mean, there were just so many
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: wide open guys. Good job by Sean Mannion. He definitely
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: schemed up some good crossers. A tunnel screen with offensive linemen.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: How about that? What a concept, right? Yeah, no, there
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: was some good schematic stuff that Mannion did to get
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: the ball out quickly, but Unfortunately, it was like few
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: and far between and I just faded away. It just
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: became the Eagles offense in the second half of run
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: to a brick wall, run to a brick wall, go
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: to third and long and complete a short pass and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: then putt. That was unfortunate.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was the past target group. Lemon's touchdown was nice.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: It was physical in the play.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Very good thing.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: But I was expecting I know they're starting for backup.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: They're playing for backup receivers.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: But you would want them to take this opportunity against
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: a terrible defense to shine a little bit more. And again,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: McKee did not play well.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: But the one positive takeaway is the pass pro was
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: really surprisingly good. You know, we went in not knowing
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: how Dickerson would play. And we we talked about how
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: they needed his size, getting Kendall back.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: That helped.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, they were more competent and the running game.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Until they had the throw because they didn't have a choice.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: They were so far behind.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: The running game was actually very effective. So there's some positives.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: But there's so many players out. And we'll get to
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: defense later. I mean, Wicks with his ankle injury. Smitty
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: has had the same string problem since the first week
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: of August. Obviously, they could have won the game had
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: they had both guys.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Wicks has actually been a pretty good, nice surprise. Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: But the backups did not. The quarterback. The backup receivers
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: did not get the job done, period, end of story. Absolutely.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: One last thing on pass pro before we move on
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: to defense. I do want to take it with a
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: grain of salt because, A, we just talked about how
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: bad Dallas' defense is. Their pass rush isn't good. They
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: didn't come after the Eagles the way Jacksonville and Carolina.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: They did not put the whole 6, 7, 8 guys
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage, try to break down the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: protection schemes. They kind of played it conservatively. Yeah. I'm
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: still not 100% sold that this pass pro is that good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: When they play the commanders, who will do all that
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: stuff at the line of scrimmage, we'll get a better
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: idea of whether they can block it up when they
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: don't exactly see it coming. Dallas was pretty telegraphic. They
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: felt comfortable.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Kudos to them.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: They said, we're going to rush four mostly. Every once
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: in a while, Overshawn came on a blitz, but it
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: wasn't like anything crazy. He would just come up the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: eight gap. They didn't do anything that would really, that
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: we've seen bother the Eagles in the past in terms
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: of breaking down or making offensive linemen not know where
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the rush is coming from. So improvement there, but still
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: remains to be seen. So this hit me when I
• 18:44
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• 18:49
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  Speaker 2: your energy options. Defense. I just, you know, I don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: know where to begin. I just, I don't understand. Like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: what happened to Cooper DeJean and Reek Woolen? Even Quinion
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: gave up a few, although he played well. I'm not
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: going to. not going to crap on him. I mean,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: every once in a while, you're going.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: To get hurt. I mean, he stayed, he, he left,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: he came right back, you know?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Right. All right. How much money are they paying to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: their two defensive tackles, Carter and Davis to sit there
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and get no pass rush and get steamrolled in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: run game?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Like what is their run?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Their run fits were so embarrassingly bad and good job
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: by ESPN to show it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: The gaps that they gave up.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: And then the, the linebackers running into, uh, Offensive lineman
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and not getting the ball carrier.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It was hard to believe. Javante Williams is a nice story.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Not explosive at all.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He's a good back. Like his yards per carry.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: It's misleading. He's decisive and he's got great vision. But nevertheless,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: he looked good.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: There was not one part of their defense that was effective.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Pass rush horrendous. Tackling horrendous. Gap control horrendous. Coverage horrendous.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: The thing is, because they led for a majority of
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the game, they didn't have to throw very much. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: when Dak had such time to throw the football, had
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: this game been closer, and remember, they put up 38.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Dallas could have put up 50.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Had Hurts played and the weather was perfect.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: The first half was a fun, I know for the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Eagles fans, they weren't happy that the Eagles were down six,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: but it was actually interesting because both defenses were horrendous.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And there was offense, and then.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Just defensively, and I'm interested to hear Fangio talk this week.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And he's usually very honest.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And he'll just say, when he takes a shot himself,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: he'll say, you know, that was a terrible play call,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. But as you said, trying
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: to figure out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: What they were trying to do. Because they gave up
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: so much space and the communication on the back end
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was horrendous again. This is not the first time we've
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: seen this. Their communication is terrible in the back end. Terrible.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: It was very bad. Surprisingly bad. And I'll tell you this.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You're right when you say it could have been worse
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: because I didn't think Prescott was very good in the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: first half despite the fact that he had years to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: throw the ball. I mean, he missed four or five throws.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that either a he normally makes or b.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe kind of a year.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: The lamb one i mean it can point it out
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: that's a touchdown like what yeah you're talking about the
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: one where he fell down right where he caught it
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: and fell and it would have.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Been a touch but the pat like dac was off yet.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: He had so much time to throw it's just a
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: it was a very odd game yep to have so
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: many points for two two bad football teams 59 points
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and there were so many there were so many points
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: left on the board but I just wish– I mean,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Javante Williams had a great game. This– Goodson, the backup,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: who took over from Malik Davis, who's out for the season.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, he had some quality runs. It's like, man,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: they're making everybody look good in this game.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: They really are. I don't– I was going to ask
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: you this because you may have seen ESPN talk about it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It looked to me like the Cowboys ran some gap
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: in power. They were moving offensive linemen. And, you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: we know they were throwing the extra offensive lineman, Broderick Jones,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: on the field for a jumbo. package, but it seemed
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to me that they had some success kind of pulling
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: and trapping guards and tackles and getting guys, those guys
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: out into not all the time, but every once in
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a while I would see like a guard kind of,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: or a tackle pull up the middle and clobber Jihad
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Campbell and just create space because most of those runs
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: were right up the gut. Like you said, Williams isn't flashy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: He just gets downhill really quickly and then makes one
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: cut and he's off. And then he picked up yards.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: The holes that he had, It was stunning to me,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and I'm interested when we do the Inside the Tape
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: show on defense, was it structural or was it the
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Chicago Bears game when guys were playing hero ball?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: When the Bears had 200-yard rushers in the first half
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: last year, was it Black Friday?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Because I'm very interested to see whether they were doing
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: their job the way it was taught. By the way,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Vic will call them out if they weren't. And I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: know the reporters will ask them what the hell happened.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And then Rick Wolin, it's just ball location, not good.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: He's got, as we talked about when the Eagles signed him,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: he has an issue throttling down because of the way
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: he's over 6'4. He has trouble doing that. All you
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: want to do is get him in it. You want
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: a receiver out of breaks quickly. He just can't stop
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and start quickly. It's why usually tall corners, they drop
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: in the draft. But that's a problem. Because you have
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: to ask yourself on defense, right? And yes, Grenard played hard.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: He didn't play a lot. And you look at it
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: and you say, okay, what do the Eagles do? What
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: did they do well on that side of the football
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Anything?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe, but that's.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Where they're at. And I'm a little surprised, given how
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Vic has turned up the blitz rate the last two weeks,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that he's I don't know what the numbers are. We'll
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: find that out for inside the data and inside the tape.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: But he did, even if his blitz level was over 20%,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like anything like the last two weeks in
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: terms of bringing guys late, bringing guys from blindside, you know, dropping,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: sending three, dropping two. He had some three-man rushes in there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't understand this. You were blitzing
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: everybody the last two weeks. I get that Dallas's offense
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: came in struggling, but you're not stopping them right now.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You need to like, make something happen here. And it
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: just felt like then he didn't want to do that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: This is really interesting.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: When we look at snap counts, this, I don't know
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: if this has happened since Ojomo became a starter.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So D tackle snaps, right? The Eagles had 68 snaps
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: on defense. Jalen Carter played 87%, 59 snaps, Jordan Davis,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: 44 snaps, 65%. And Ojomo only 35, 51%. To the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: point where, did Jomo get hurt? Well, he did.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: He had that injury. Was it the last game? What's
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the game where he was jumping off sides a little bit?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He got hurt. I think that was against the Panthers. Yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: he got hurt early. Bart Young played a lot.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He had 26 snaps, 38% of the snaps.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: So Hunt didn't play a lot. He started, but he
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: only played 25 snaps, which is 37%.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Trotter, by the way. Campbell out-snapped him. Trotter. only played
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: 35% of snaps, which was 24. Yeah. Campbell, 37 snaps, 54%.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, again, is their starting safety now. This is
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: another thing you can't know. Like, Fangio went from like, well,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: maybe when he was asked about playing safety this season, well,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: maybe later in the season, but it's not now.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Or maybe in two weeks.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Things change.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Guys got hurt. And honestly, defensively, no, Joe almost had
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a good season.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Until this game.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: But there's no one's really playing other than a Jomo
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Carter spotty games. Really good. Not so good. That's the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: thing with Fangio right now. Who could he hang his
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hat on? So to speak. Okay. This guy, I know
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it's going to get the job done. Don't see it
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: right now. Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Not one single person. How, how many snaps to Grenard
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: wind up playing?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: He didn't play a lot.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: 29 snaps, 43%.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: He clearly is not himself.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: A complete non-factor. He's been hurt. Remember he had the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: surgery last December. Yeah. Shoulder surgery, the pectoral strain, ankle injury.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: He's nearing 30 years old, man. This is what happens sometimes.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And they're, they're just a mass unit, both sides of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the football. It's, it's hard to get through it, but defensively.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Right now, and they play Washington in Landover, Maryland, Sunday night.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Washington's coming off their bye without Terry McLaurin. Can you,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Can they beat a very average offensive line?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: As you said, what's Vic going to do? He's trying
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: to bring more heat, but they're not getting home.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't. And, boy,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: that Grenard, just going back to the Grenard for a second,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: it's very rare that Howie– it's hard to even say
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: he made a mistake. It's just he's losing this. I mean,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: not only did the Vikings are the vikings undefeated but
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: their defense has been incredible they're blitzing at the highest
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: rate you've ever seen in.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Your life yeah i mean.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: They are feeling no ill effects of losing jonathan granard
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: meanwhile the eagles can't get him on the field i
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: mean it's it's a disaster i mean yeah you can't.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: You can't that's not like he he as Vic talked
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: about it, he, he's lifting weights and he gets a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: pec strain.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And he gets an ankle injury. Right. What can you do?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: No, the only thing you can kill him for is that,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy was, had a history of injuries and.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Lower body.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: He pointed out when they traded for him. I remember
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: you saying that. I knew about the shoulder. I'd forgotten
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that he had also had lower body injuries. And now
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: you're seeing what happens sometimes when you trade for a
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: player with an injury history.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's nobody's fault. It just happens. Yeah. It,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is their team, they've earned their
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: five losses in a row.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: And the thing that's so disappointing is that guys are
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: getting an opportunity to be– Ebba Keddie has been okay.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: You know, Kenny Moore's playing. But, you know, Campbell is
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: a starter. He's not getting the job done like he
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: needs to. And it's– you have this favorable schedule here,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: and they're not taking advantage of it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Like, it's there for the taking. Washington's a bad football team.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: They're bad.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Poorly coached, too, unfortunately. I mean, I liked him.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Not good.
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  Speaker 3: They're another team that doesn't do anything really, really well.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: The quarterback's doing all he can. Yep.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And it's to the point, and they barely beat Washington
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in Week 1. You just don't know. And being done with.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Defense now, the biggest disappointment to me in this game
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: was other than their defense was awful. But McKee had
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: such a wonderful opportunity against a terrible defense.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I know he's playing with backups at receiver. man, I
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: look forward to doing the inside of the tape show with,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: with Cosell. Cause I really want to see.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: What he meant.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: And look, and you were at the game cause you
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: get that whole view and you saw it. I expected
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: way better from McKee. You could, you could make backups
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: look better when your quarterback plays better.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Sure. That's the point. I mean, yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Look at the Niners up until they're lost to Atlanta.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: They've had no wide receivers, but they've had a good
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: pass pro. They've had a running game. You know, I mean,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you just, Yeah, I'm disappointed. You got to drive the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: ball a little bit more. You do have a first-round
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: pick at wide receiver who was having a nice game.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You do have a veteran Hollywood Brown. It's not like
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you were with three rookie undrafted free agents, and one
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: of them who is an undrafted free agent, Cooper, has
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: been pretty good. He was invisible, too. They did not
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: try to get him involved in the game plan. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: Now the question is, the question is, is are they
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: getting open? Because remember, your two starting receivers are out,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Smith and Wicks. They knew that going into the game.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: By the way, as a backup quarterback, you're working a
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: lot with these guys.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: So why can't you get them the ball? Now, you've
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: got a young quarterbacks coach from Parks Frazier who's never
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: run a room fully before. He's not been the guy
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: to run it as a quarterbacks coach. So technically, he's
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: really got to work on McKee. He's really got to work.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: This is what we know about McKee. He's more talented
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: than he showed. but he's also for the naysayers on McKee.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're getting what you felt that he was, just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a guy, just a backup guy with an arm, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: mechanical flaws, very inconsistent. And the thing that you're wasting
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: is really good pass protection.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: And you can't, and you said it earlier, you nailed it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Dallas gives up so much space and you can't take advantage.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: You took advantage in the run game, Hell, if Saquon
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: was healthy, they might have.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Had 300 yards on the ground.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: And you know what's great? Jerry Jones, the 85-year-old general
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: manager owner, or 84. I don't want to get it wrong.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's 84. But he was Mr. Oh, we have
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to stop the run. We have to stop the run.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: He trades for Kenny Clark. He trades for Quentin Williams,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: trades away to the Niners, and they can't stop the run.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Good job, Jerry. Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: There you go. Good job. Really rough.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Well, that's going to do it. We will, of course,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: even in this short week, have this game covered completely
• 34:48
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• 34:51
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• 34:54
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• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and our friend Barrett Brooks, his special guest, will have
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of great things to say. But that's going
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: to do it for this episode of the Inside the
• 35:04
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• 35:07
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