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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: "This Was A Coverage Game (For the Eagles)" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Inside the Tape.
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Speaker 2: On Inside the Birds, I'm Jeff Mosher with Adam Kaplan
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Speaker 2: and we're breaking down Eagles tape. So that means we've
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Speaker 2: got Greg Cosel with us here to break down the
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Speaker 2: Eagles defensive tape against the Broncos in their twenty one
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Speaker 2: to seventeen loss. A very strange game, Greg iy with
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Speaker 2: My impression was the defense played fairly well, obviously up
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Speaker 2: until the fourth quarter, but they were on the field
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Speaker 2: quite a bit as the Eagles I believe lost time
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Speaker 2: of possession by a lot in this game they did.
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Speaker 3: I think the Broncos had the ball for over thirty
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Speaker 3: four minutes and ended up running seventy plays, which is
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Speaker 3: too many. Yeah, if you're a defense, it's too many.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: What did you notice from a tape study? Because every
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Speaker 2: week we talk about Vic Fangio's philosophy. Is he gonna blitz,
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Speaker 2: is he gonna go into zone? Is he gonna sim
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Speaker 2: is he gonna extra man pressure? What was his general
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Speaker 2: philosophy against the Broncos offense?
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Speaker 3: This was a coverage game. He didn't really He certainly
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Speaker 3: didn't rush five or more. There were no snaps of zero.
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Speaker 3: Only six of Nick's forty three drop backs did he
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Speaker 3: rush five. There were obviously some four man sim pressure
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Speaker 3: concepts steps, but this was a coverage game, not a
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Speaker 3: pressure game. Now he always when he feels he has to,
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Speaker 3: he always increases his his blitz frequency in the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 3: because four of the six to five man pressures came
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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. But for the most part, the
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Speaker 3: game plan was not to rush five. It was to
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Speaker 3: play coverage.
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Speaker 5: We greg, we know Ringo was a starter, not a
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Speaker 5: surprise at least to me. But do we see Dejeene
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Speaker 5: at all at corner where he just strictly Nickel.
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Speaker 3: Dejeene played some corner, but they didn't.
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Speaker 1: Play only in base right, only in.
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Speaker 3: Base Yeah, got it? Yeah, And look, I made the
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Speaker 3: point that five Eagles defenders played every snap. It was Bond, Dejeene,
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Speaker 3: Mitchell blanket ship in Macouba. So for the second game
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Speaker 3: in a row, Mkooba played every snap and Campbell played
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Speaker 3: every snap but three. The guy that that was interesting
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Speaker 3: was Ojalari, who I thought showed up.
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Speaker 4: In this game.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'll take it fun.
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Speaker 4: Wow, thirty four snaps, that's a lot. So give us
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Speaker 4: an idea. You mentioned Ojelaie, what did he look like
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Speaker 4: to you?
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Speaker 3: I thought you saw. First of all, he's got ridiculously
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Speaker 3: long arms, and they really show up when you just
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Speaker 3: watch him move. That was one of the selling points
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Speaker 3: when he came out, because he's not tall relatively speaking,
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Speaker 3: but he has really long arms. I thought he had
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Speaker 3: some he showed some speech to power. I thought he
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Speaker 3: showed some quickness. I kind of liked the way he played,
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Speaker 3: you know, I thought he I thought he.
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Speaker 4: You knew he was out there.
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Speaker 3: He had a really good pass rush on third and
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Speaker 3: eight in the second quarter when he hit Nicks on
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Speaker 3: his delivery resulting in an incompletion, you know, with that
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Speaker 3: rip move. You guys, I'm sure remember that play. And
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Speaker 3: you know, I just thought he played well. I thought
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Speaker 3: he you know, you noticed that that he was out
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Speaker 3: there playing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Fun fun fact for the Eagles, Ojelari's arm length it
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Speaker 2: was actually the same for the first four weeks of
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Speaker 2: the season too.
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Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, that couldn't get him active and
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Speaker 1: onto the field.
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Speaker 2: But uh that It's always a mystery to me when
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Speaker 2: a guy doesn't play and then in his first game
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Speaker 2: he plays like almost like thirty three percent of the
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Speaker 2: snaps here with Hunt and with with Zadarius Smith circle.
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Speaker 5: Jeff, he showed up so well, and I know that
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Speaker 5: this is the first time he plays. He played that's
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Speaker 5: a lot so that look, yes, we know their pass
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Speaker 5: rusher has not been good enough, but that's a good
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Speaker 5: sign for him. And you would now he's going to
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Speaker 5: against his former team this week. He's got to be
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Speaker 5: active every week. There's no reason after what he did
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Speaker 5: here that he won't be active.
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Speaker 4: Has to be act.
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Speaker 2: We'll see, we're going forward. I would agree with you,
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Speaker 2: Killie Ringo. Greg, how would you evaluate his first.
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Speaker 4: Start, second start? Right?
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Speaker 3: Didn't he started last week?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 1: Second start?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, first as not a guy because the other
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Speaker 2: guy's injured.
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Speaker 1: First as this year as you're just a starter.
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I mean again, they didn't necessarily go after
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Speaker 3: him hard, you know. I thought that, you know, the
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Speaker 3: one play that kind of shows why he was a
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Speaker 3: fourth round pick and one of the reasons he's struggling
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Speaker 3: and probably not certainly not seen by the Eagles as
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Speaker 3: a full time starting corner was that frank On twenty
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Speaker 3: yard play on the first play of the third possession,
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Speaker 3: where you just saw the core stiffness. I mean, and
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Speaker 3: he was unable to stop. You know, he had to
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Speaker 3: chop his feet, he had to gather his body. That
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Speaker 3: was one of the main issues coming out of college.
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Speaker 3: That's been an issue, you know, throughout his his Eagles tenure.
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Speaker 3: That's one reason he's not a starting corner. He just
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Speaker 3: he's stiff in his core, and you can you can
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Speaker 3: work with that to some degree, but you can't make
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Speaker 3: him all of a sudden a smooth, loose athlete.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: It's like a guy who runs a four right's not
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Speaker 3: going to be a four to four guy, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you can probably get him a
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Speaker 3: little better, but at the end of the day, that's
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Speaker 3: his body type and that's who he is.
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Speaker 2: Interesting second half, Greg fourth Quarner, the bow Knicks to
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Speaker 2: Courtland Sutton connection really came on after not really having
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Speaker 2: much in the first half.
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Speaker 1: What changed there? What did you see?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's funny. There were a couple of times he
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Speaker 3: beat him just one on one versus Mitchell, and Mitchell
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Speaker 3: had good coverage and he just you know, it was
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Speaker 3: it was good versus good, and Nicks made good throws
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Speaker 3: and Sutton, who's big and physical, went up and got
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Speaker 3: it and Mitchell was right there. You know. Obviously the
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Speaker 3: big big play was that was the third and fifteen,
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Speaker 3: which was not man coverage. They were playing cover six,
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Speaker 3: which means they were playing quarters to the short side
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Speaker 3: of the field, and that was, you know, a great
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Speaker 3: anticipation throw by Nick's hitting Sutton on the coral route
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Speaker 3: and Mitchell was not in good position on that play
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Speaker 3: and then Blanket Ship missed the tackle and it became
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Speaker 3: thirty four yards. But those other plays you're talking about,
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Speaker 3: the man plays, you know, Ston's a good receiver and
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Speaker 3: Mitchell's a really good corner and they won those. You know,
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Speaker 3: first that happens. You can't really that's not a case.
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Speaker 3: You know again, what are we gonna say now? Not me,
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Speaker 3: but I'm just talking generally. Oh well, Mitchell's no good.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it happens really good. It's the NFL,
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean it just they were good throwers,
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Speaker 3: good catches, and Mitchell was right there. It wasn't like
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Speaker 3: he was. He actually got beat worse on the second
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Speaker 3: play of the game where the ball went right through
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Speaker 3: Sutton's hands.
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Speaker 4: Yes, first, speaking of that, I I they threw it
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Speaker 4: a lot.
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Speaker 5: They threw it twenty one times with knicks and he
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Speaker 5: had well less than one hundred yards.
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Speaker 4: It seemed to me, Greg, you tell us what you thought.
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Speaker 5: I thought it looked like the Eagles defense was mostly
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Speaker 5: under control here and in control the first half.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Eagles defense, I mean played well. I mean
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Speaker 3: they didn't. You know, they didn't give up much in
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Speaker 3: the run game. In the second half. They were a
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Speaker 3: couple of runs to the two, the seventeen yarder and
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Speaker 3: the thirteen yarder by Dobbins where the exact same play
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Speaker 3: in which the Eagles were just moved off the ball.
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Speaker 3: They was really well blocked and they got moved one
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Speaker 3: of them. Carter simply got just driven out, which doesn't
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Speaker 3: happen very often. And by the way, they didn't slide
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Speaker 3: to Carter just as a normal course of events in
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Speaker 3: this game. I'm sure you guys noticed that. You know,
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Speaker 3: they did not do that. There were plenty of times
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Speaker 3: they led miners of block Carter one on one, and
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Speaker 3: he didn't do a bad job. I mean, Carter beat
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Speaker 3: him a couple of times, not badly, I mean got
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Speaker 3: near the quarterback, but he didn't kill him by any means.
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Speaker 3: So again that's a Sean Payton thing or an O
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Speaker 3: line coach thing. But that's what they chose to do
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Speaker 3: and it didn't really hurt him.
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Speaker 2: So does that mean they had more protection on guys
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Speaker 2: like Joemo and Davis because they weren't sliding to cart Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is interesting, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really fascinating.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, I'm sure if they were here,
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Speaker 3: you know, the coaches, well, they wouldn't tell us anyway,
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Speaker 3: but if you gave them truths here him, they'd probably
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Speaker 3: have a really good answer and we'd go, Okay, that
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Speaker 3: sounds great. But I mean, that's what the tape showed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, funny I thought.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I hate the phrase out coach because everybody
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Speaker 2: just says, well, the winning.
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Speaker 1: Team got that right.
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Speaker 2: I know it throwing around, but I do think the
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Speaker 2: Broncos coaching staff, both offensively and defensively, had a good
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Speaker 2: plan and executed at times.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. But the other thing I love Jeff is when
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Speaker 3: I read and I there's one particular reporter in Philly
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Speaker 3: who shall remain nameless because it's that's not the point
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Speaker 3: of saying this, but every time the Eagles lose, he
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Speaker 3: says that the you know, the Eagles didn't make the
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Speaker 3: right adjustments. And I'm thinking to myself, you wouldn't know
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Speaker 3: the right adjustment or the wrong adjustment if it hits you.
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Speaker 4: In the face. You know, we don't.
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Speaker 3: I sit here and watch tape and unless the adjustment
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Speaker 3: is blatant like where it's you know, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: looks something's really different, because I mean, I've heard Peyton
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Speaker 3: Manning say he didn't make one adjustment at halftime in
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Speaker 3: his career. You know, I've heard Phil Simms tell me,
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Speaker 3: and I know Phil very well tell me that. You know,
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Speaker 3: we didn't make adjustments at halftime. All we really decided
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Speaker 3: was that, hey, we like these plays, let's keep running them.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, yeah, I mean, you know.
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Speaker 1: You're right, You're right.
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Speaker 2: Like last week, it was obvious for us, right with
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Speaker 2: Todd Bowles, he blitzed a lot in the first half.
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Speaker 3: Its blizz in this side of way. What we don't
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Speaker 3: know is if that was part of a game plan
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Speaker 3: to begin with, then it played out exactly the way
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Speaker 3: they thought it would play out. That's what we don't know.
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Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent right about that.
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Speaker 4: Good stuff.
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Speaker 2: All right, Let's take a look at some of the
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Speaker 3: So it's funny you're starting with this play, Jeff, because
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Speaker 3: this is just what I was talking about with the ringo,
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Speaker 3: and I think you can really see it clearly. This
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Speaker 3: was a twenty yard completion to Franklin who's down at
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Speaker 3: the bottom of the screen in a plus split and
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Speaker 3: look at Franklin just attack him vertically, and Ringo has
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Speaker 3: to turn and start to run because he doesn't want
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Speaker 3: to get beat vertically. Now again, some might say different
11:53
Speaker 3: coaches have different approaches, So I don't know how they
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Speaker 3: teach it at the Eagles. But some might say he
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Speaker 3: turned to run too soon. Some might say not, you know,
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Speaker 3: that's that's a coaching thing. So no one's right or
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Speaker 3: wrong on that. But if you can go back a
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Speaker 3: little bit so people can see it in true motion,
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Speaker 3: because you want to see. Look how long it takes
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Speaker 3: him to stop. Look how he has to chop his
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Speaker 3: feet and literally gather his body to stop keep going.
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Speaker 3: You see, he has to chop and literally gather. And
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Speaker 3: that's just core stiffness. Like I said, you can work
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Speaker 3: on that to some degree, but you can't make him,
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Speaker 3: you know, a smooth, elusive athlete. He's just that's not
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Speaker 3: how he's building.
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Speaker 5: What we were told Greg, we asked after the draft
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Speaker 5: because that was the one big nugget we got is
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Speaker 5: he had major stiffness in his lower body, a trouble transition,
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Speaker 5: and can you get rid of it? I think Jeff,
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Speaker 5: Between Jeff and I, we talked to over two dozen
12:45
Speaker 5: people over three years. Not one said you can get
12:47
Speaker 5: rid of it. They say, kind of what you said,
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Speaker 5: You could work on it, maybe get a small percentage better,
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Speaker 5: but you can't get rid of it. And the pro
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Speaker 5: personnel people know this around league, so it's going to
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Speaker 5: be in the report.
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Speaker 3: Well that's why he was you know, look, I do
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Speaker 3: a ton of draft work, okay, and you guys know that.
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Speaker 3: And am I going to get guys wrong like everybody does.
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Speaker 3: Of course, that's just human nature. But you know, because
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Speaker 3: he was the number one recruited corner coming out of
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Speaker 3: high school in Arizona, and because he played at Arizona
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Speaker 3: at Georgia and I believe had the big interception when
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Speaker 3: they beat Alabama in the championship game, you know, people
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Speaker 3: just automatically assume he's a first round pick. And when
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Speaker 3: I watched his tape, I said to myself that he's
13:28
Speaker 3: not going to be a first round pick, you know,
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Speaker 3: And I said, I'd be surprised. I said, if he
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Speaker 3: is drafted, it would be day too late. He'd be
13:35
Speaker 3: that kind of guy. And then of course he gets
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Speaker 3: drafted in the fourth round. And I just got ripped
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Speaker 3: by everybody because it's Georgia, you know, you know. But
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Speaker 3: I mean again, it's no knock on Ringo. He is
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Speaker 3: what he is, and he's still in the league, and
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Speaker 3: who knows, he may play ten years in the league,
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Speaker 3: and that would be awesome. And it's those kinds of guys,
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Speaker 3: not that they care what I think, but it's those
13:54
Speaker 3: kinds of guys that actually have great respect for because
13:57
Speaker 3: they just keep working and working and working and they
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Speaker 3: end up for a long period of time. My guess
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Speaker 3: is he could be one of those guys, but he
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Speaker 3: just doesn't have the traits to be a starting corner.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: So this is the blitz.
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Speaker 1: This is the Cooper de Jan blitz. I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to show it really quickly.
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Speaker 3: But now go back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go back a little bit to the start
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Speaker 1: of the play.
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Speaker 3: So here's my point. There happens to be motion on
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Speaker 3: this play as well. So if he does not motion,
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Speaker 3: because look at Dejene, as soon as he motions, he
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Speaker 3: clearly communicates. Okay, so we don't know what he's communicating. Now,
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Speaker 3: maybe he would have blitzed anyway, because it appears that
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Speaker 3: Mukouba is coming down and he may have been coming
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Speaker 3: down anyway, and we know that they match him up
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Speaker 3: to wide receivers, so that may have happened anyway. But
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Speaker 3: he blitzes and he gets picked up by the back
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Speaker 3: and he beats the back and he causes what.
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Speaker 4: I thought this was a fumble.
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Speaker 2: But what I know right right, the replay showed like
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Speaker 2: if you really slow it down, it didn't look like
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Speaker 2: his hand moving.
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Speaker 4: That's its incomplete.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'll tell you what, I really loved this
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Speaker 2: play going through this play because literally last week we
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Speaker 2: were talking about, yeah, he did this in his debut
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Speaker 2: last year against the Browns. VIC called it up and
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Speaker 2: hadn't since, and then all of a sudden, you get
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Speaker 2: it again.
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Speaker 3: Yead, No, this is and he and he just ate
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Speaker 3: up ate up the back there. That's Harvey, I believe.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: All right, this is another. This is a third and
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Speaker 2: eight sack right here.
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Speaker 3: This is Ojeli.
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Speaker 1: Wow, his back I meant, I meant a pressure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: his pres.
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Speaker 4: Look at him dip that's impression.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you have this from the end zone,
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Speaker 3: but you can really see the inside rit move.
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Speaker 1: That's the left tackle Garrett holes is pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: I will say there was some pressure around the right
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Speaker 2: side as well.
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Speaker 1: Also, I do believe I have this.
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Speaker 3: There we go, you'll really see it. First of all,
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Speaker 3: he's able to kind of clear his outside shoulder just enough.
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Speaker 3: He can use that that inside arm to rip look
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Speaker 3: look right, keep going. So he cleared him and boo,
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Speaker 3: there was arm under and there was some force with
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Speaker 3: that too. You could see he really wound up without
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Speaker 3: losing any speed.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Jeff, on your point earlier, he's had time to
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Speaker 5: save up his energy. He hasn't played very honestly like
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Speaker 5: he came out, and he brought it good for him
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Speaker 5: many Adam.
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Speaker 3: If I recall, I don't you know again he came
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Speaker 3: out a number of years ago, you know, three four
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Speaker 3: years ago?
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Speaker 4: Was it?
16:30
Speaker 3: But I thought his arm length, if I remember correctly,
16:32
Speaker 3: he was in the thirty five inch range was now.
16:35
Speaker 4: I have to look.
16:35
Speaker 5: I think I know it was over thirty four, which
16:37
Speaker 5: is yet ackle arm lengthe and remember he's about six
16:39
Speaker 5: too on a quarter.
16:40
Speaker 3: I know he's not tall.
16:41
Speaker 4: That's the that's the crazy thing he is.
16:45
Speaker 5: It's funny, Jeff and I were training camp a number
16:46
Speaker 5: of times, and Andrew Cheko is you know, you know Andrew,
16:51
Speaker 5: Greg and we all said it. We didn't see it
16:53
Speaker 5: from our lari like now because he kind of figured out, okay,
16:56
Speaker 5: this is why he's not playing.
16:58
Speaker 4: But he's put himself on tape. This looks good.
17:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I should have been a left
17:03
Speaker 3: tackle because you know my dress shirts are arm only
17:06
Speaker 3: thirty four to thirty five, so I should have been a.
17:08
Speaker 4: Lot our mine.
17:09
Speaker 3: But I don't think.
17:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're six? Are you still six three? I know
17:14
Speaker 4: men shrink.
17:15
Speaker 3: Well, I used to be six four, but now I'm
17:17
Speaker 3: about sixth grade?
17:18
Speaker 4: Right, So do you know what you're serious in all? Seriously?
17:21
Speaker 4: Do you want your life was? Was? No?
17:23
Speaker 3: I don't because I never you know, I was?
17:24
Speaker 4: You were thirty two? Not too bad.
17:27
Speaker 3: I knew what my forty time was in college?
17:29
Speaker 4: Though, did you break five?
17:31
Speaker 3: I was four to eight? Really, we got measured my
17:34
Speaker 3: freshman year in baseball four eight.
17:36
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm sure.
17:37
Speaker 2: Hey, if your arm length is the same as o Jelaris,
17:40
Speaker 2: if you shrink two more inches in the next ten years,
17:42
Speaker 2: which you know probably is gonna happen to you, then
17:43
Speaker 2: you'll just look like just like Ojeli exactly.
17:46
Speaker 3: I looked exactly the same.
17:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you're gonna make his coin. But
17:50
Speaker 4: that's a different story.
17:51
Speaker 2: No, no, all right, now we got I think this
17:53
Speaker 2: is this is another third eight Greg and we see
17:55
Speaker 2: Zadarius Smith, and I guess with Vic not sending as
17:59
Speaker 2: much extra man pressure, he was using more athleticism games
18:03
Speaker 2: things like that up front.
18:04
Speaker 3: Oh no, they they did a good amount of stuning
18:07
Speaker 3: in this game. I was and maybe that's because he
18:09
Speaker 3: didn't add another body to the pressure and they did
18:12
Speaker 3: a really nice job with it. This is a really
18:14
Speaker 3: good job. This is the sack by Smith. They did
18:17
Speaker 3: a t stunn as I recall on both sides here,
18:20
Speaker 3: and because see you know what the key to this
18:25
Speaker 3: is the temple Campbell. Hod Campbell steps up to grab
18:31
Speaker 3: the eyes of the center, so the center can't be
18:33
Speaker 3: involved on the other side. And now he just stays
18:36
Speaker 3: to that side, so there's no one to really play
18:39
Speaker 3: Smith when he loops around because the guard, the right
18:42
Speaker 3: guard goes inside with that's probably Jayalen Carter.
18:46
Speaker 2: Right there, So that takes the center right and.
18:51
Speaker 3: Then the center just stays to that side. And because
18:54
Speaker 3: the guard Miners is not going to take his eyes
18:56
Speaker 3: off Carter, he just is not in position to deal
18:59
Speaker 3: with Smith.
19:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was fantastic and this is.
19:02
Speaker 4: A slowly here.
19:04
Speaker 3: Campbell does a really good job. It's all he needs
19:07
Speaker 3: to do. He just needs to grab the eyes of
19:09
Speaker 3: the center.
19:10
Speaker 1: Because Vic does this a lot.
19:11
Speaker 2: He walks that linebacker up late and acts as if
19:13
Speaker 2: that guy's a late comer, but he's not. He dropped
19:16
Speaker 2: and that that just helped take the side exactly what.
19:19
Speaker 4: Watch what is it Wattenberg? Who's the center or is
19:22
Speaker 4: it that Palkowitz guy?
19:24
Speaker 5: I forget the guy's name anyway, Watch sixty look to
19:28
Speaker 5: the left and he's beat.
19:29
Speaker 4: I mean that's what happens. Yeah, it's great, ye I.
19:32
Speaker 3: Think it is. Then there's no one knowing he gives
19:35
Speaker 3: him the middle. You get the clean loop through the
19:38
Speaker 3: a gap.
19:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, the desired reaction that was actually more of a
19:42
Speaker 2: schemed up. I mean, zidarious Smith's athleticism showing through there.
19:45
Speaker 2: But all you have to do is run through an
19:46
Speaker 2: alley and sack the quarterback.
19:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you still have to show some some short
19:51
Speaker 3: area burst in a little bit of bend and then
19:53
Speaker 3: closing speed. I mean it's not not every guy can
19:56
Speaker 3: do that.
19:56
Speaker 5: But Jeff right when Wattenberg the center looks then they've
19:59
Speaker 5: got them like, that's that's a great point you guys
20:02
Speaker 5: made about Campbell.
20:03
Speaker 4: That was really good stuff.
20:04
Speaker 5: By the way, real quick, before we go on, how
20:06
Speaker 5: you think Campble's been doing so far?
20:07
Speaker 4: Could we keep it being asked about them?
20:09
Speaker 3: You know, this was the first game where I thought
20:11
Speaker 3: that Bond and Campbell did not stand out. You know, again,
20:15
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean they're not good players. Okay, but it's
20:18
Speaker 3: just and by the way, no one's great for seventeen games.
20:22
Speaker 3: It's just too hard. I mean, you know, look what
20:25
Speaker 3: happened last night in Buffalo. I mean you know, it's
20:27
Speaker 3: just these things happened. You know, there's seventeen games. No
20:30
Speaker 3: one's great for seventeen games.
20:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just you know, this is the NFL.
20:35
Speaker 3: You know, people need to understand that it's just the
20:37
Speaker 3: hope when no one's great or your good players aren't
20:40
Speaker 3: necessarily great, that you can still win the games. You know,
20:42
Speaker 3: that's what you hope for. But no one's great for
20:44
Speaker 3: seventeen games.
20:45
Speaker 5: Wouldn't you Because I know what you told us, and
20:47
Speaker 5: when you watch a preseason tape for us, you were
20:49
Speaker 5: pleasantly surprised, would you say is certainly I would say
20:54
Speaker 5: he's had a schedule based on what I Yeah, Campbell.
20:57
Speaker 3: Campbell, well I still noticed this. I'm in an athletic movement,
21:01
Speaker 3: you know, I think. I said to one of my
21:03
Speaker 3: guys after I'd watched like four plays, I said, man, Campbell,
21:05
Speaker 3: I just loved the way he moves.
21:07
Speaker 4: I mean, he's yeah.
21:08
Speaker 3: But you know, sometimes you just don't make dominant plays
21:11
Speaker 3: or great plays, you know, every game, it just doesn't happen.
21:16
Speaker 4: All right.
21:16
Speaker 2: So this is what we references before Greg, the third
21:19
Speaker 2: fifteen throw where Mitchell really isn't in a great position
21:24
Speaker 2: as you highlight it to.
21:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the coverage here, it's what we called cover six,
21:27
Speaker 3: which means it's cover four to the short side of
21:29
Speaker 3: the field and cover two to the wide side of
21:31
Speaker 3: the field. So they're going to work to the short
21:33
Speaker 3: side of the field here, and it's an empty set,
21:40
Speaker 3: and you're going to see that Mitchell's retreating. And look
21:45
Speaker 3: at by the way, look at when Nick throws this ball,
21:48
Speaker 3: Sudden hasn't even really turned yet, you know, and he
21:52
Speaker 3: puts so he throws it with great time and great anticipation,
21:55
Speaker 3: precise ball location.
21:57
Speaker 2: See, he rows it before Mitchell even slips, So he
22:00
Speaker 2: couldn't have anticipated a slip there.
22:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mitchell becomes out of a position because of that,
22:06
Speaker 3: and he can't really react. And then Blanket I mean,
22:09
Speaker 3: worst case Blanket Ship's got to make that tackle right there.
22:11
Speaker 3: It's still a first down, but it's not thirty four yards. Yeah.
22:14
Speaker 2: I don't think Blankenship has tackled really well this year
22:17
Speaker 2: for whatever reason. It just and again we talked about
22:20
Speaker 2: not having CJ next to year. I don't know what
22:21
Speaker 2: that means for him and how he plays, but I think.
22:25
Speaker 4: This was a throw.
22:26
Speaker 3: This was see, this was in this situation. This is
22:30
Speaker 3: you've got to turn it loose. I mean you can't
22:31
Speaker 3: sit back there and wait and you can't throw the
22:34
Speaker 3: check down. I mean, this is when you gotta turn.
22:36
Speaker 3: You gotta turn it loose. You gotta trust it, you
22:39
Speaker 3: gotta you know, you gotta trust everything. You gotta trust
22:42
Speaker 3: what you're seeing. You gotta trust your receiver. You this
22:45
Speaker 3: has to be in anticipation throw. First of all, he
22:47
Speaker 3: doesn't know Mitchell's gonna slip. So if you'll wait, then Mitchell, Mitchell,
22:51
Speaker 3: you know, drives on the route. It's incomplete.
22:53
Speaker 2: Yep uh, And I believe that's set up this very
22:56
Speaker 2: next play to Evan Ingram here.
22:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can.
22:59
Speaker 3: I look to this play a lot, and I've seen
23:01
Speaker 3: this kind of thing a lot, and I've always tried
23:03
Speaker 3: to figure out where the tight end in this route,
23:07
Speaker 3: in this concept fits. And my sense is it's the
23:10
Speaker 3: third read. That's my sense. I could be wrong because
23:13
Speaker 3: I think with the boot action, if if the back
23:18
Speaker 3: and I think it's baby.
23:19
Speaker 4: Here or.
23:22
Speaker 1: You might be right about that, yeah, Batty.
23:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if he's wide open, baby, yeah, he's
23:27
Speaker 3: the three number. I think if he's wide open, he's
23:29
Speaker 3: throwing it to him and then I think he's looking
23:32
Speaker 3: for Franklin crossing, you know, but because of Franklin has
23:35
Speaker 3: to you know, do a little jig there to get
23:37
Speaker 3: by the rusher, and then I think he comes. This
23:40
Speaker 3: is my sense of it. Like I said, I could
23:42
Speaker 3: be wrong, but I think it's the third read.
23:45
Speaker 1: Yeah. M Carter almost had him too twice.
23:49
Speaker 4: That's a I mean, that's a heck of a throw.
23:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a well designed play to have their
23:54
Speaker 2: third read be there for that.
23:55
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've seen the Rams do that for years
23:58
Speaker 3: and years and years where it's actually the four thread.
24:02
Speaker 3: But yeah, because you could tell Nicks is not looking inside,
24:07
Speaker 3: he's looking outside the.
24:09
Speaker 1: Right yep, and then he comes back in.
24:12
Speaker 3: Now you know he's going to be there, but he's
24:14
Speaker 3: not looking to him first, right.
24:17
Speaker 2: And then this last one would be I think this
24:20
Speaker 2: is the Sutton on the final drive that gets them into.
24:22
Speaker 1: The Eagles territory where he gets sixteen yards.
24:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was just just this was just a fade.
24:28
Speaker 3: This was just Nix and Sutton beating really good coverage
24:32
Speaker 3: by Mitchell. I mean, you know you sometimes you just
24:35
Speaker 3: got to tip your hat and say that's a good play.
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Speaker 1: Twenty one and up.
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Speaker 2: Did Mitchell Do you think Mitchell was a little bit
27:07
Speaker 2: out of position on that because it seemed like, I.
27:09
Speaker 3: Think off the snap, he just got a little too
27:12
Speaker 3: caught up inside. Yeah, and then he then he was
27:16
Speaker 3: a little covering mode, but he kind of recovered. I
27:18
Speaker 3: mean he got there, yeah, I did get his arm in,
27:22
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, close.
27:25
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's true. That was what I wound up
27:27
Speaker 1: be in a big play. I actually thought they were
27:29
Speaker 1: gonna want U scoring a touchdown.
27:30
Speaker 3: Not The first play of that drive was interesting. I
27:32
Speaker 3: didn't write it in my notes. I thought bononn actually
27:35
Speaker 3: got caught inside on that first play. It was an
27:37
Speaker 3: eleven yarder, which kind of I mean, that's the play
27:40
Speaker 3: where you as a defense you want to stop him
27:41
Speaker 3: and make it you know, second along right away and
27:44
Speaker 3: then you convert on you get eleven yards on that play,
27:47
Speaker 3: and offensively, you're feeling pretty good now that Hey, now
27:50
Speaker 3: we have a drive going.
27:53
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that is a look at the Eagles defense.
27:55
Speaker 2: I thought more positive and negative. But they were on
27:57
Speaker 2: the field quite a bit there. And then obviously, as
27:59
Speaker 2: we just Nicks made some really nice throws there in
28:02
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter that were very meaningful throws. Short turnaround
28:05
Speaker 2: for the Eagles as Thursday night, they have gotten the
28:07
Speaker 2: New York Giants up in the meadowlands.
28:10
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it.
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