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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: Where Were Breakdowns In Eagles Run Defense vs. Rams? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome back to Inside the Tape on Inside the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Inside the Tape is with Greg Cosell, who
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  Speaker 1: breaks down the tape of the Eagles last game. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Mosher alongside Adam Kaplan, and we're breaking down the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles defense from their thirty three to twenty six comeback
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  Speaker 1: win over the Rams in Week three. That's because on
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  Speaker 1: the last episode we did the offense, and so here
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  Speaker 1: we moved.
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  Speaker 2: To the other side of the ball and Greg very.
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  Speaker 1: Lopsided game because I think you can say, man, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles giving up twenty six points is not where they
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  Speaker 1: want to be, but a lot of key drives in
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  Speaker 1: which they held the Rams field goals, and then later
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  Speaker 1: in the second half you had some big third down
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  Speaker 1: and fourth down stops by Jordan Davis. So certainly a
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  Speaker 1: lot of positives to go along with some of the
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  Speaker 1: negatives that we'll talk about saying run defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the rund defense was problematic in the first half.
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  Speaker 3: Korum and Williams combined for nineteen for one oh nine.
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  Speaker 3: Their front was handled in the first half. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Davis had had a great second half on defense, not
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  Speaker 3: a great first half. Jalen Carter for whatever reason, was
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  Speaker 3: not really a factor in this game. And again when
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  Speaker 3: I say not a factor, it's not a matter of
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  Speaker 3: him making tackles, but he wasn't really a factor in winning.
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  Speaker 3: So he was not a big factor in this game,
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  Speaker 3: which is odd, but that's what the tape showed. The
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  Speaker 3: other thing that really stood out to me in this
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  Speaker 3: game was the way they used Jihad Campbell. He had
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  Speaker 3: nineteen snaps on the ball in this game, the most
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  Speaker 3: of any in the first two games. In fact, he
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  Speaker 3: had nineteen total in the first two games and he
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  Speaker 3: had nineteen in this game. So is this a harbringer
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  Speaker 3: of things to come? You know? That could be opponent based,
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. But they could not stop the run
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  Speaker 3: particularly well in the first half. They were moved off
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  Speaker 3: the ball, and that's what normally happens in the run
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  Speaker 3: game when you don't stop it, as you get moved
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  Speaker 3: off the ball at the first level. You know, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, neither back korm or Williams is necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: kind of back that's going to break a fifty yarders,
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  Speaker 3: so they were fortunate in that regard. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 3: a different back they could have given up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some longer plays, but they were handled in the first half,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, which was you know, you're not used
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  Speaker 3: to seeing that. The other thing that we talked about
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  Speaker 3: last week which did show up is Mitchell predominantly lined
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  Speaker 3: up over Adams. Adams is the static receiver in the
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  Speaker 3: Rams offense, and there were snaps where he played zero
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  Speaker 3: man where they did not have a safety to that
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  Speaker 3: side of the field who was going to help him
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  Speaker 3: out in any way. So they are really comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: Mitchells as you know, a big time corner right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I think his tape warrants that.
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  Speaker 4: Two questions off what you were talking about. So with
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Davis tech was it a technique issue number one?
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  Speaker 4: In the first half.
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  Speaker 3: I've thought in the first half he had some snaps
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  Speaker 3: or he reverted back to what we saw you know
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  Speaker 3: last year where he stood up straight earlier early in
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  Speaker 3: the game. There were a couple where he was really good,
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  Speaker 3: and then he started standing up a little bit, and
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  Speaker 3: then in the second half he came back and played
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  Speaker 3: much much better. Now.
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  Speaker 4: Campbell on the ball, was it was it a nickel?
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  Speaker 4: Was it in base any particular way that they used
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  Speaker 4: him where they put.
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  Speaker 3: It was mostly a nickel, But there were some in
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  Speaker 3: the third quarter as probably an adjustment, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: they got beat badly by the run game in the
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  Speaker 3: first half, they would put him on the ball and
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  Speaker 3: make it a six man front in base. They did
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  Speaker 3: that maybe three or four times in the third quarter
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  Speaker 3: because they needed to stop the run. That's what was
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  Speaker 3: happening in the game. But they also used him quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit as a pass rusher. You know, when he
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  Speaker 3: would line up on the ball on a five man front,
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  Speaker 3: he'd get the one on one on the tackle. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't have great success, but I think you'll probably continue
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  Speaker 3: to see more of that.
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  Speaker 1: Edge setting seemed to be a little bit of difficulty
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  Speaker 1: on Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they ran at the nickel a lot in
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  Speaker 3: this game and had success, and that's the gene. It's
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  Speaker 3: always tough to know if he's the edge setter or
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  Speaker 3: if the way you know, I don't know exactly how
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  Speaker 3: they structure that, but they clearly struggled to set the
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  Speaker 3: edge and there were a number of runs that got outside.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there was no wide guy to turn it
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  Speaker 3: back in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, notice that also, and Greg, something we talked about
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  Speaker 1: in the pregame show was that the Rams will play
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  Speaker 1: a decent amount of twelve personnel, but it feels like
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  Speaker 1: they intentionally played way more eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Personnel in this game.
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  Speaker 1: This game, yes, and so that meant they wanted the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles in Nickel surprisingly mean, because that means the Jeans
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and he's usually pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Good, right right, So they clearly you know, in this game,
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  Speaker 3: because going back a week or so, they were only
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  Speaker 3: like fifty five percent in eleven personnel. This game, much
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  Speaker 3: higher percentage. Obviously, that's clearly game plan for their opponent.
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  Speaker 3: So they wanted to do that, you know. They also
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  Speaker 3: could have felt that, you know, that they wanted Jackson
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the field, and even though they did
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  Speaker 3: initially go at him in a strict sense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they maybe they just wanted him on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the kid that they we mentioned in the
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  Speaker 1: pregame show from Texas, what was his name, winning.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty decent blocker, A slot blocker.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, it's a body on guys, you know, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: which is integral to what they do because they, as
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  Speaker 6: we mentioned in the pregame show, tons of reduced splits,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of guys tight to the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 6: and that's how they run they put bodies up and
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  Speaker 6: try and he.
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  Speaker 3: And the coup are their motion receivers. Adams is static.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, Let's talk about Vick's philosophy, because in the
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  Speaker 1: last episode we mentioned how Chris Shula, defensive coordinator for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, It's like he banged his head and thought
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  Speaker 1: he was Wink Martindale or something. He was blitzing at
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  Speaker 1: a higher rate then he normally blitzes and Vic Fangiel
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  Speaker 1: for the second straight week, Greg has blitzed at a
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  Speaker 1: fairly high rate. I think you had the numbers on
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  Speaker 1: how many five man pressures he threw.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they rushed five or more on fourteen Stafford's
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  Speaker 3: thirty four dropbacks, and Stafford had eight completions, but only
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  Speaker 3: for fifty two yards, and only three of those completions
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  Speaker 3: resulted in first downs. That's the key point. But the
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  Speaker 3: thing that I really noticed, which you know was often
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  Speaker 3: the case with Fanjo is he increases his pressure frequency
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  Speaker 3: in the second half very often. Now, don't forget they
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  Speaker 3: were down and maybe he felt he needed to create,
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  Speaker 3: but he he definitely increased his pressure frequency in the
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  Speaker 3: second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fourteen for thirty four you said fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: Fourteen out of thirty four drop backs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's forty one percent, which is way higher to
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent. So both of these defensive coordinators felt that
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  Speaker 1: they really needed to pressure.
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  Speaker 2: In this game.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'll ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: I felt that Matthew Stafford missed about five or six throws,
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  Speaker 1: not because of pressure though, maybe the greed, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: perception of it, but he just misthrows that he typically makes.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, he missthrows he doesn't normally miss and again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't know why he just missed him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there are games he never misses those throws,
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  Speaker 3: but he did miss him, you know now. But he
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  Speaker 3: did make a great throa at Adams on the forty
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  Speaker 3: four yard touchdown. There was a great example of how
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  Speaker 3: they are deployment of motion because they understand how the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles play when they're in their quarter's look. So you
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  Speaker 3: know what they did is they motioned Whittington across the
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  Speaker 3: formation outside of Adams to the quarter's side of what
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  Speaker 3: was cover six. Cover six means it's quarters to the
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  Speaker 3: wide side of the field and it's cover two to
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  Speaker 3: the short side of the field. So they motioned him
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  Speaker 3: across the formation to the quarter side outside of Adams
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  Speaker 3: because they know that the corner in the Eagles quarters
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  Speaker 3: will always run with number one vertical. So Whittington became
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  Speaker 3: number one vertical. So that means that that Mitchell basically
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  Speaker 3: ran with him. So now Adams ran his go route
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  Speaker 3: from the slot. So now he's running it on blanket ship.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the game in the high red zone
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  Speaker 3: of blankets. You made a great play. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: On the point about Stafford, there was a throw I
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  Speaker 4: point out on a postgame show. He wasn't pressured. He
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  Speaker 4: just just he just turned his body throwing it for
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  Speaker 4: no reason and the ball sailed like that's you know now,
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  Speaker 4: As Greg said, we'll never really know why. Sometimes pressure
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  Speaker 4: might be the guys that who knows. But it is
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  Speaker 4: interesting before we get started here that he goes all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden becomes some sort of a quasi pressure team.
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  Speaker 4: Why because they don't rush the passuer well enough with
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  Speaker 4: their normal with their normal guys. It's just they're not
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  Speaker 4: good enough rushing the passer. Beg's retirement, melt Williams is
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  Speaker 4: now in New England. Sweat's gone.
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  Speaker 3: It just don't you know, I don't think they've gotten
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  Speaker 3: what they've hoped for, and it could change. It's three games.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't gotten what they hope for from a Dromo
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  Speaker 3: replacing Williams, because Davis is playing a lot of snaps,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's playing more snaps than I don't know
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  Speaker 3: whether they thought he'd play. But as good as he's
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  Speaker 3: been as a run defender, and he's been very good
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  Speaker 3: through three games, he's still not really an accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Pass rusher, right right.
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  Speaker 1: Another stat I found interesting. I believe in this game
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  Speaker 1: the Rams faced third and five or longer only three
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  Speaker 1: times the entire game, which shows you how well they
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  Speaker 1: did running a ball and staying ahead of the sticks.
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  Speaker 1: Because Adam, you and I we were sort of coming
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit on the pass rush after the game,
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  Speaker 1: giving our instant reaction to it, and then when I
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  Speaker 1: went back and looked, I said, well, if you're not
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  Speaker 1: getting the offense and third and long, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to have a good pass rush. It really started
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  Speaker 1: with their run defense, not it hurts getting them in
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  Speaker 1: that kind of territory.
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  Speaker 3: Again, we're very good on third down in this game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they executed pretty well, did they not?
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  Speaker 2: I can give you the stats in just two seconds here.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Third down, the rams were three of ten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't think that were very good, correct, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But I would say most of them and the crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Things, most of them.
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  Speaker 1: Were third and five and shorter that they were executing on.
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  Speaker 1: And that goes back to Matthew Stafford missing about five
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  Speaker 1: balls that he like normally makes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he missed some throws that were very surprising.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens.
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  Speaker 1: and support the show anything else defensively from a concept
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  Speaker 1: standpoint or a player individual. Well.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I've noticed throughout the first three games,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you'll continue to see it, and I
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  Speaker 3: think it gives them tremendous flexibility is the fact that
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  Speaker 3: mccuba can match up when they do go cover one
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  Speaker 3: and teams go three by one set. He can match
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  Speaker 3: up to number three to Trips so they can play
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  Speaker 3: cover one even if number three to Trips is a
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  Speaker 3: wide out. In this game. He matched up to Adams
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  Speaker 3: one time, but he can match up to a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Who's when I say number three for people who don't
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  Speaker 3: know what that means, that's the receiver closest to the formation.
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  Speaker 3: Receivers are number from the outside in, so the most
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  Speaker 3: outside is number one, the next guy's number two, the
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  Speaker 3: guy closest is number three. So mccuba can match up
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  Speaker 3: because he first of all, he has experience playing slot
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  Speaker 3: in his college career, but he's also got the ability
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  Speaker 3: to do that. So that really gives them tremendous flexibility
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  Speaker 3: in their nickel package because they don't really play a
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  Speaker 3: lot of dying.
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  Speaker 1: Right, all right, I want to highlight something that you
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  Speaker 1: were talking about with m's motion and how it gave
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they do this to some other teams.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm waiting. I'm waiting to do a piece on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here we'll get an early app that because you're
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  Speaker 1: already teasing this on how it gets read blanket ship
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  Speaker 1: involved in coverage and so this is the Devanta Adams
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  Speaker 1: forty four.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you'll see Whittington from the top of the
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  Speaker 3: screen is gonna motion all the way across the formation.
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  Speaker 3: And as I said, Eagles are playing cover two to
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  Speaker 3: the wide side of the field. So actually this is
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  Speaker 3: cover This is I believe cover eight, not cover six.
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  Speaker 3: So so it's cover eight not Yeah. So so they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna he's gonna motion outside of Adams. So look at Mitchell.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's widening because what happens now is Whittington, based
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  Speaker 3: on his release, becomes number one and the Eagles in
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  Speaker 3: their quarters, which is they're playing to the short side
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  Speaker 3: of the field. He now Mitchell now has Whittington because
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  Speaker 3: that's the way the Eagles teach it. The corner and
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  Speaker 3: quarters has one vertical. So he's reacting to Whittington. And
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  Speaker 3: now Adams is running his round on blanket ships because
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  Speaker 3: in quarters, the safety is responsible for too vertical. So
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  Speaker 3: now blanken ship's got to play too vertical. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: They got the matchup they wanted, got the matchup they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And the episode last episode, we showed how Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: threw a ball before his receiver was open.
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  Speaker 2: And here's another example.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Matthew's letting it fly right now, trusting that
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  Speaker 1: it is going to make a play.
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  Speaker 3: Great throw, great ball. I mean that's just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just really good football. I mean you get the
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  Speaker 3: matchup you want and you know it worked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the really impressive thing is that
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Reid was you know, a yard or
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  Speaker 1: two the yeah, but he really did not could not close.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like Devanta Adams runs of four to three either.
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  Speaker 3: But no, but he's you know, he's a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Also this is he pushed off a little bit, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they although not although not as bad as
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  Speaker 3: a j Brown and his catch down.
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  Speaker 4: I remember sitting in your office many years with Jaws
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  Speaker 4: and we would talk about a penalty and you guys
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  Speaker 4: would go, oh, wasn't a pedalt because they didn't call it?
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  Speaker 3: You're right, just make me laugh. But I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: just you know, understanding how the Eagles play and getting
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  Speaker 3: like this happen in every game. Not all the time
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, just to be fair to Blankenship
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: because I don't want people to think, you know, we're
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: not ripping blanken Ship. By the way, But later in
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the game in the high red zone, you know they
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: it was off motion again. They got the Adams Blankenship
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: matchup on third and two in the high red zone
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the fourth quarter, and I'm not
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: sure if there was a block field goal that followed
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: that play. I can't remember, but Adams ran the slot fade,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: but this time Blankenship made the play.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We talked about some of the edge setting issues. This
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: was a run by Blake Korum for ten yards.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's to the side of the nickel and
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: you can see the gene right there.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So I have to ask you watching the Rams zone runs,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: do they run like mid zone because it doesn't look
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like the same kind of forty nine ers outside zone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: But normally, if it's funny, they normally over the last
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: couple of years. And I don't know if McVeigh just
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: made a change based on his sense of defenses or
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: if it was specific to what he believes Hiron Williams's
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: strength are. But they have moved away from being a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: predominant zone running team to being much more of a
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: duo type team. So this is I don't want to
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: say it's an aberration. It's not as if they never
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: run zone, but that is not their foundation as it
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: was when they had Tidd Gurley.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Right, and for those duo is when you get double.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Teams right from your double teams right in the minner
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: alignment on the defensive tackles.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's more of a be considered more of a zone concept,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: whereas gaps team where you pull someone is considered a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: man concept.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Right. But you're right.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: We mentioned that in the pregame show that the Rams
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: typically run inside.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: They run a lot like the Eagles.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Right in this game, they seem to be able to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: run kind of these mid zones and then get to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the outside and here's Korum. I think Korum turns the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: corner really quickly, maybe even a little bit more.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that you know that there's no one
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: there because you know, Degene was tight to the formation
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: inside and pretty easily taken care of. You know, it
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: appears to me on this play, I thought Gory but
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: ahead he probably should have been the edge setter, but
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: you know, because there's no one else there to really
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: set the edge.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: They had five guys to block three Yeah yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Right, Like, so so you think a Doory should come
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: down sooner here right the edge corner.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean I don't think he's misaligned, Jeff. So,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, basically, he's not gonna come down and press
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: eighty eight.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, so you know, no, I know, I just
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: went like as soon as the ball snapped and that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe it looks like he's back pedaling going to it,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: but that's what corners sometimes.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I don't, I don't. I don't view this
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: as his mistake.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: No, Okay, and you notice Korm's playing more and more
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: and more where he was a non factor last year.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks good. Yeah.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cooper really gets caught up in between here. I mean,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: maybe he should have been I don't know. Again, maybe
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it's just a good play call, but.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: It might have been guy play call against this particular front.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, four guys basically the left tackle, the tight end,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and two reduced receivers blocking alignment, and there four on
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: two and then one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Back in sixty seven? Is that the left guard? Kidded it?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Your dead itch? Yeah, he does a nice job here.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Is that Is that on Davis?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: That is Carter?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Carter. He does a nice job on Carter.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. That's a good point.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And then that's actually the tough one on one block
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: because if Carter were to beat him right across his face,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that would make it a tougher run.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Right, And I think that's the left guard.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Is that the left guard?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: That might be That might be Davis ninety's Davis? Right.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I can't say yeah, but I thought I thought I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: saw Dreads there, so I thought it was.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Jill and Garda.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you run this.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Well, that's definitely who.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: He didn't get out of the traffic first, and.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Then he's so far inside that right. Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: The corm hats some nice runs in this game.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Always carries a couple of guys with him before he
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: goes down the Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Excellent player.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't say excellent, but he he was an
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: excellent college player, and I feel like this offense suits fitting.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: He's got a little.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Bit more juice than Karen Williams.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: But I mean they just signed Karen Williams. I mean
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: going to be He's going to be the compliment.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, after they ran Todd Grilliams of the ground,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: maybe they felt like, even when you do give an
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: extension to a guy, you could.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: So maybe get more snaps because you know, Williams had
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: three hundred and sixteen carries a year ago, and he's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: not a big man.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: He's had a lot of injuries, you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Know, right, all right, good, this last one, this is
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: just the Stafford overthrow to I believe was Nikua on
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the left side.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. And I don't know what to say
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: about this. He's he's always you know, you gotta hit this.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: The Eagles blitz but they picked it up so well.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I mean the Rams really gave him all sorts of protection.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: He threw off his back foot.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, is normally this is normally pitching catch Stafford third
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: down too.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And that's where it popped into my head because you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: say it a lot, Greg, it's not.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Always pressure, it's the perception.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: He knew he was getting blitzed, and for whatever reason,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: he just kind of kind of popped it off his.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: There's no rhyme or reason to plays like this. He
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: just missed a routine throw.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one where I think he turns his body.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: This is the one I was talking about. He turns
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: his body for no reason.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: That is a look at the defense for the Eagles
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