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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world. That's right over ten and a half years strong. And the Philadelphia
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Eagles dropped their first game of the season up at MetLife Stadium in New York
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to the New York Jets by a score of twenty to fourteen. The Eagles
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could not score at all during the second half. They scored two touchdowns,
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one in the first quarter, one in the second quarter. This Jets team
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was resilient. They ended up taking the win. In fact, in fact,
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folks, it is the first time that the New York Jets have beat
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the Philadelphia e They had lost the previous twelve contest they won the thirteenth meeting.
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I guess congratulations, Jets fans. I'm feeling like shit right now.
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Anyway. I'm Jeff Warren and I'm here with my good buddy Josh Schuster from
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Philadelphia soccernow dot Com and Josh Man, what a crap game this was.
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Of course, when your team loses, and especially loses the way that they
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did, it's not the best feeling in the world. But this team really
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needs to rebound from this particular loss. But I'll say this too, I
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kind of had a feeling this could happen. Feel I had this feeling over
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the past couple games where the Eagles were leaving a lot out on the field,
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and we even talked about that the last time you were on the last
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postgame show that you were on leaving a lot out on the field and just
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not necessarily closing in or closing games, especially from a red zone perspective,
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and you know, we saw it bite them in the butt. I felt
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like this was actually coming and hopefully they just got it out of their systems
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and then they can be on a new path after this. I don't know,
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what are your thoughts here? To get us started off with some of
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the themes Josh, Yeah, I'm gonna quote my my six year old son.
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At one point in the third quarter, he just looked at me and
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said, Daddy, the Jets are coming. The Jets are making it close.
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And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I mean I have I have
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lots of feelings, and not many of them are positive. You and I
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were talking beforehand that the only positive is maybe we have a punter. So
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yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's right, that's what I got. The
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other thing is I am happy I don't live in North Jersey anymore. I
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don't have to deal with any New York fans, So I'm thankful about that.
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And would you believe me if I told you that Philadelphia Sports Twitter is
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burning to the ground as we speak. Oh, I believe it. I
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absolutely believe it. Gosh. It's I think when we look at this game,
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you know, when December rolls around, January rolls around, We're gonna
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look at this game as the injury game. We're gonna look at it as
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a defensive game from both the Eagles and Jets defenses just both played extraordinary they
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did, but it was at the end of the day the Eagles offense could
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not come through. But first and foremost, before we get into the injury
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aspect of this game, which I mean, it's a theme of this game
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for sure. Before we do, though, got to say and congratulate Jason
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Kelcey starting his one hundred and forty fifth game against this New York Jets team,
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unfortunately losing it, but he broke John Runyan's franchise record for most consecutive
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games played in an Eagles uniforms, So hats off to Jason Kelcey. He
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was probably very frustrated by that right side of the offensive line that looked like
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they were they couldn't play their way out of a wet paper bag at times,
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or that they were the wet paper bag they were. Zue Opeta and
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Jack Driscoll. Because again I'm gonna mention some injuries here, Lane Johnson going
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out that was huge, huge for this offense. Again, key injuries coming
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into the game. Darius Slay was out, Jalen Carter was out, Marlon
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Tuey Telopo was out, Milton Williams was even injured in the third quarter for
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a bit. Thankfully, he came back in and again Lane Johnson ended up
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limping off the field early in the first quarter. Jack Driscoll comes in for
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him. Now apparently Lane is gonna be dealing with an ankle issue. Who
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knows how long this is gonna persist. But then you had Reid Blankenship who
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was completely blindsided in the third quarter. He goes out with a rib injury.
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Eli Rick's cornerback, he was out. Another cornerback that was brought in
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a couple weeks ago. Bradley Roby for the slot position. He went out.
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My gosh, and on the Jets side, Sauce Gardner was not playing.
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DJ Reid was not playing. Their starting cornerbacks offensive line Joe Tipman,
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he was also injured. This was a this was the injury game and how
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the going to perform. And we saw how the Eagles backups performed in this
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game. They just really weren't able to get it done. Thank god Zach
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Wilson was the starting quarterback for the New York Jets, or they would have
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just that they could have potentially have had a field day. But the Eagles
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defense did end up, you know, coming through. They did end up
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coming through, I think because at the end of the day they didn't allow
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the Jets offense to score in the red zone. They didn't. They were
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zero and three. So I don't know, how do you view the injuries
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here, Josh, in terms of what it meant for this game, what
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it's gonna end up meaning for this team as well, because some of these
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injuries are going to be persistent over these next couple weeks. Probably. Yeah.
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So, Jeff, as we talked more and more, you'll find there's
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two things I'd never blame a loss on One is officiating, and we talked
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a lot about that last time I was on I will never blame loss on
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officiating. It's always on the players to overcome it. And the second is
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thing, I don't blame injuries. You know, the Eagles aren't the only
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team that suffered injuries today. Yep. And you know, I know Philadelphia
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Twitter was burning to the ground because they weren't running the football well, friends,
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you know, they weren't even averaging one yard per carry and both starting
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corners are out for the Jets. I get it. It's not a part
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of the game plan, nor should it be a part of the game plan.
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You have DeVante Smith and AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts, who's an MVP
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candidate. I'm sorry, There's no reason to run the ball forty times today.
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It would not be a good game plan. And obviously, if you
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stand by that, you don't know anything about the Jets. They are a
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stout defensive team against the run. It would have been foolish to try to
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do it. Yeah, they had the right game plan, it was not
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executed. But going back to the injuries, both sides had him. Both
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sides had players leaving during it. The Jets were the more resilient team.
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And I'm not I'm not gonna blame I'm not going to use injuries as a
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reason why the Eagles lost. That's not giving the Jets the credit that's due.
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They literally shut down the Eagles for an entire half. Yes, and
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really the Eagles didn't even really get close to scoring in the entire second half.
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It's inexcusable. That's a whole separate thing. But the Jets did their
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job, regardless of how many backups they had in they did their job.
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Absolutely also are missing Aaron Rodgers. If we want to compare injuries, I'm
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going to say that there's a larger gap between Aaron Rodgers and Zach Wilson than
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any other position that the Eagles lost today. So that's a fair point.
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That is a very very fair point because like the other theme of this game
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is well too. And you know, you look at the quarterbacks that were
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on the field today, Zach Wilson, you look at Jalen Hurts. My
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gosh, Jalen Hurts turned the ball over three times today. Three interceptions tied
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a career high. There were four total turnovers in this game by the Philadelphia
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Eagles. The fact that it was this close of a game with four turnovers
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to zero turnovers, twenty to fourteen was the score, folks. The fact
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that it was that close, given the fact that this Philadelphia Eagles team turned
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the ball over four times, is incredible and it goes to show what Josh
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was just saying, you know, the difference, you know, and the
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separation of who Aaron Rodgers is and Zach Wilson. If there was any semblance
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of a very competent and consistent quarterback play from the New York Jets, they
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would have ran all over this Philadelphia Eagles team for sure. I mean,
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first, that first turnover I believe it was when Jalen Hurts was charged with
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that interception in the second quarter, popped out of Dallas Goddard's grasp right after
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he caught it. To look, the defender made a good football play.
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It happens, Quinn Williams, he was lucky, happened to be there catch
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the ball and gave Jalen Hurts his fifth at that point, fifth interception of
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the season. He's got seven now total after this game. Then the swift
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fumble in the second quarter that turnover. You know, it certainly wasn't wasn't
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a great thing. The Eagles had not allowed any points off of turnovers in
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this season until the second quarter when the Jets scored a field goal right before
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halftime due to that swift fumble. So it was self inflicted wounds by this
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team, h and completely inexcusable. And again going back to what I said
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earlier, Josh, I really believe that this game was coming, whether it
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was going to be this week or potentially next week, this game was coming
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because this team has been playing some sloppy football, specifically from an offensive perspective,
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and it boggles my mind because of the talent that they do have on
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this team. Are you thinking the same thing. Yeah, And when we
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get into quarterback rades, I'll kind of break down the interceptions, But I
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agree completely on the first The first one. The first one I'm not going
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to put on hurts like that's not yeah, that's not fault. It wasn't
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even put in a bad spot like sometimes when you get those tip passes.
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I can look and go, well, the quarterback didn't put it in the
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right spot. He put it in the right spot. It just was a
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freak turnover. The defender made a good football play. Like I said,
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it happens. It's the NFL. They're supposed to make good football plays.
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Why they're paid money. Correct. Certainly back to a point that you made
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earlier, I think if the Jets even had an NFL level quarterback today,
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they would have built raced the Eagles. To be perfectly honest, Zach Wilson
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is not an NFL quarterback. I wouldn't want him as my backups. He's
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not an NFL quarterback and that's not you know, it's not his fault.
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He was picked where he was. But anytime you lose the turnt over battle
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by three or more, generally it is a massive blowout. Yes, well,
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I can't figure out is is this game more of an indictment on the
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Jets or more of an indictment on the Eagles, Like, is an indictment
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on the Jets that they were plus four and turnovers and it literally took a
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almost pick six for them to win the game, or it's more of an
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indictment on Eagle the Eagles kind of like what we've been talking about and you've
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highlighted this game was kind of coming yea and what does that mean for the
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future. So could be a little bit of both. Have not figured that
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out. Could be a little bit of both here, a little bit of
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both, yeah, I think so. You know, there's a lot of
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gray in life, and there's a lot of gray in football too. There's
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a lot of gray here, folks. With this Philadelphia Eagles team. I
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have to note. We have to highlight too, the fact that Aj Brown
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was absolutely on fire. One of the highlights of this game in terms of
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the Philadelphia Eagles and their performance. He went over one hundred and twenty five
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yards for the fourth straight game. It's the first time that that has ever
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happened with an Eagles wide receiver in the history of this franchise. So congrats
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State AJ Brown and where it's everybody else exactly exactly you saw Devine Tay Smith
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dropping passes. I'll tell you, even getting back to Jalen Hurts too,
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just some very very questionable passes that he was making. He probably could have
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had three more interceptions in this game. And that's being generous. He was
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not playing good football. I felt like he was forcing it. It seemed
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like he was forcing the ball into double coverage at times. When he didn't
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need to. He's still at time this particular game. Last week, I
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thought he saw the field a little bit more. Last week was a very
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good Jalen Hurts game, and this week he was going back to basically Week
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one, where there were guys who were open on the field. He just
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wasn't seeing him. He was just honing in on that one receiver right off
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the bat. Josh, I feel like the guy has regressed, And I
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hesitate to say that because I don't. I don't necessarily think he's regressed.
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It was a bad game. Again, we saw kind of saw this coming.
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But Jalen Hurts, it's made some very bad decisions in this game.
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I think he can rebound for sure, but it's gonna be a tough week
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for him to, you know, reflect on how he played in MetLife Stadium
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for sure. Yeah, and Hurt's apologists don't come after us this week.
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You know. My philosophy is, I'm happy the man got paid. Did
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he deserve to get paid. Absolutely, But when you're gonna get paid,
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and you're gonna get paid it's a top five quarterback in the NFL, I'm
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going to evaluate you as a top five quarterback in the NFL, and I
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think that that's fair. Last week, You're right, Hurts was great.
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It was wonderful. It was probably his first MVP like game. But Jeff,
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I'm gonna tay a little bit further than you took it. Okay,
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this wasn't regression to Week one this year. This was regression to first year
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Jalen Hurts. He down the touchdown, he scored. He fumbled. Yes,
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he's lucky it was at the end zone because if it wasn't, that's
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a fumble, which is yet another turnover. And you're right, I mean
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he could have easily had I think you're being very conservative with three additional interceptions,
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right. I have never ever seen Jalen Hurtz throw into double or triple
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coverage more than I have this year. I even made the comment to my
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dad last week that we were shocked that he didn't throw into double coverage once
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last week. That's not good. I think part of it is he's trying
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to show that he's worth that paycheck, because I can see him being that
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way, right, like he's gotten this money, he's earned the bag.
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He wants to show kind of like Trey Turner, right, But what it
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took. Was everybody rallying around Trey Turner because he even talked about it.
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Yeah, he talked about the fact that he felt like he had to do
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more because of the paycheck. And I think Jalen's the same way. Both
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of them, Trey Turner and Jalen Hurts, are very competitive, both of
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them for the good and sometimes for the bad. Expect the almost perfection from
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themselves. Yeah, that's kind of where Amak is. I'll get more into
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it when we get into grades. Do you think do you? Yeah?
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No, no, do you? But piggybacking off of that, do you
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think that perhaps because of the wide receiver corps that is here, because it's
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a very talented wide receiver corps, AJ Brown, Davante Smith, even Dallas
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Goddard, he trusts them enough to be able to go up and get the
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ball at the catch point. And I'm wondering if that's part of it too.
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Again, maybe it could be both things. Because I completely agree with
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what you just said. Another part of me thinks, Okay, if I
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have AJ Brown out there in double coverage, he is likely going to be
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coming down with the ball because it's AJ Brown. And I wonder if that
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plays into it as well. I think twofold. Not to complicate what you're
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saying, Yes, I do think that's part of it, but I also
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think it's part of it because either A the scheme is not allowing other players
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to be open, or B when they are open, you have Davante Smith
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where people literally you aren't even ten yards within him. It wasn't a bad
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pass and he just can't catch it. I don't know what is going on.
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I don't know where Dallas Goddard has gone. It was nice that he
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decided to, you know, arrive with the team last week. That's great,
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but really he's been invisible and they don't have a third wide receiver.
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I like Zekias last time. I spend time talking about how incredible he was
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in terms of blocking different things, and that's great. He's the personality you
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want for a number four wide receiver. They don't have a number three.
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But at this rate, I don't want him to bring one in because they're
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not going to touch the ball. Right. Very true, and so I
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think part of it, to your point is Hurts feels like he can only
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really trust aj Brown, and that's then lending him into throwing into double and
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triple coverage when you have a tight end running wide open over the middle or
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Devonte Smith running wide open down the side and beating the corners and he just
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can't see. Yeah, yeah, it's really amazing. I mean, Davante
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Smith was targeted eleven times, believe it or not, the most on this
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team in this game, eleven targets, but he only came down with five
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balls. Why did that happen? Jalen Hurts again thrown into some double coverage.
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Jalen Hurts is not making good passes DeVante Smith or the Dvante Smith.
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Yeah, dropping some of those balls too. Aj Brown targeted nine times here,
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came down with seven balls for one hundred and thirty one yards. And
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DeAndre Swift was really involved in the passing game. He had ten targets,
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came down with eight balls for forty yards. So it's interesting to look at
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this box score and you see where Jalen Hurts really wants to get the ball
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too. I mean, look, Dallas Goddard had eight targets as well.
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He caught the ball five times for forty two yards, which at eight targets,
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that's a pretty good that's a pretty good number. I don't mind that
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number, but his ability to make plays has been virtually non existent this year.
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Last week, Dallas Gotter kind of came out of his shell a little
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bit here and kind of kind of reverted back only forty two yards on the
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day. So I don't know any other thoughts that you have in terms of
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themes, whether offense or defensive here, Josh, I'm just like, I'm
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down trodden right now. I really am. Yeah. I think down trodden
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is a good word. Yeah. I think part of it is there was
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such hope going in with the Eagles being the last undefeated team and playing the
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Jets with Zach Wilson at quarterback yep. And I think it's just a reminder
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that we're not going to celebrate. It's not going to be a party every
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week, which stinks. But super Bowl is guaranteed. Super Bowl is not
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guaranteed. NFC championship game, folks, is not guaranteed. After witnessing this
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game, not at all. Yeah, not at all, you know.
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Honestly, my last thought is, as I'm watching these cornerbacks, and we'll
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get into this with coordinators, the Eagles are really lucky that they have not
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had to play a Shanahan yet they have not had to play. I know
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we give the Cowboys a lot of grief, but that Texas style offense is
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really gonna hurt if we continue to play five to ten yards off. Yeah,
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they're just ceedee. Lamb is literally just going to run all over slant
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routes. He's not even gonna have to go deep. And that's as I
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was watching this over and over again, as we made Zach Wilson look like
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an NFL quarterback, which he is not, and we made Sam Howell right
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the last time I was on this is what we were talking about. I,
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as a South Carolina fan, watched Sam Howell for years and people sit
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back off of him every week. It's the same thing. We just makee
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quarterbacks look really good because they have the middle of the field and they're sitting
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five ten yards off. Yep, yep. Well, folks, we're gonna
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take a quick break right here. We gotta regroup before we do some before
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we do some grades here, so we're gonna be grading by unit as we
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do on our postgame shows, and then grading the coaching as well. Let's
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take that quick break. We'll be right back, all right. We are
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back, folks, we are again with our good friend of the podcast,
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Josh Schuster from Philadelphia Soccer Now dot com. Thanks so much, Josh for
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filling in for the guys this week. Very much appreciate it. And let's
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get into grades here, grading by unit, the quarterback position that we always
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start off with. I mean, Jalen Hurts is getting he's getting an F
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this week from me. I gotta I gotta give him an F. I
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mean, look, there were some good plays that he made. He was
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using his feet to pick up first downs and stuff. But like as you
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said earlier, when you're paid as much money as you are, you are
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supposed to be a top five quarterback in the National Football League, you just
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have to play all lot better than the performance that he gave today. He
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gave a failing grade performance today he gets an F. What do you give
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him? Yeah, so he's easily getting an F for me and I don't
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even think. And again, part of it comes down to the contract.
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I want to read a stat line for you. Thirty three of fifty five
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three and twenty nine yards, one touchdown in three interceptions. Who do you
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think was that today? Take a guess. I wonder if that was was
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that CJ. Stroud? No, they won mina baby. Oh yes,
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all right, I'm sorry. But if Jalen Hurts is putting up comparable to
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worse numbers than Minshew Mania with the weapons and offensive line he has, I
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don't even think an F is fair. And again he's paid as the top
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five quarterback. Please please don't come after I don't hate Jalen Hurts. I'm
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not a Minshew guy. I'm not a once guy. I'm a guy that
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just expects a top five quarterback against the Jets with two cornerbacks out to play
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it at the very least a decent game and not bomb all over the field.
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And that's exactly what happens. So Jaalen, you get an F absolute
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minus. I'm creating a great for you. There you go, folks.
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He was twenty eight to forty five, two hundred and eighty yards, six
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point two yards per attempt, one touchdown, three interceptions. He ended with
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a rating of fifty nine point five. Meanwhile, Zach Wilson ended with a
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rating of seventy three point five. Okay, I know there's a quarterback battle
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today, Yes, it really was running backs. Well let's grade them right
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now. DeAndre Swift carried the ball ten times for eighteen yards, Kenneth Gainwell
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carried the ball two times for thirteen yards, and Boston Scott carried the ball
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two times for two yards. The and Jalen Hurts as a rusher. I
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know we're doing running backs, but Jalen Hurts led the team with forty seven
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yards on eight carries total. In terms of rushing on the day, three
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point six yards per rush. You take away those debt, Jalen Hurts five
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point nine yards per carry average, and it is a pitiful, a pitiful
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rushing average. But as we've talked about earlier, and as Josh mentioned earlier
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too, passing was the end all be all. It wasn't about the running
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backs. It wasn't about DeAndre Swift in terms of his rushes. Yes,
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he did touch the ball ten times one point eight yards. It's incredible.
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That's part of the offensive line as well. It's also part of a great
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Jets defensive line too. Let's be honest anyway, running backs, I am
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gonna give them this week a D. What do you give the running backs
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this week? Buddy? So I'm gonna be a little bit kinder I'm gonna
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give him a C minus, oh, simply because the the run defense they
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were going up against is phenomenal. Maybe the only team that can match him
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is the Eagles. And it was a smart game plan again with two pinners
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out AJ Brown, DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard to pass the football and Jalen
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Hurts. But I'm not I'm not going to be super critical, so to
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expect them to average four yards of carry I think was unrealistic. I also
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think there are going to be games throughout the season where they have to preserve
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Swift. He was injured often in Detroit. If he really is the best
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running back, and I think that he is, they are going to need
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him come playoff time. Right. I don't think either of us are sitting
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here. Sky is falling. They aren't making the playoffs, so I would
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be shocked if they don't make the playoffs. They need DeAndre Swift for that.
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So I'm fine with him having a game or two here or there where
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they don't run the ball much. All right, very good receiving tight ends
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and receivers. Of course, we mentioned AJ Brown and the record that he
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put up today for consecutive games of one hundred and twenty five yards. No
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other Eagles wide receiver has done that. I mentioned some of the box score
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stats earlier from Devonte Smith, Dallas Goddard, and DeAndre Swift. For the
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most part, I think the wide receivers did what they were asked, except
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for Davonte Smith not catching some balls that were very, very catchable and it
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was not like him because when he goes up to the catch point, he's
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usually bringing that ball down with him. But I'm going to give the wide
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receivers this week a B minus. Maybe that's generous. I don't know what
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are your thoughts here? What great do you give the receivers. I'll go
25:41
with the B plus. Okay, you know, I think you highlighted a
25:45
number of things, and I mean aj Brown is doing things that literally the
25:49
Eagles organization has never seen before, right, and I need to take that
25:53
into account. But I am greatly concerned moving forward. I have been for
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a couple of weeks that that concern kind of dissipated a little bit last week,
26:07
I think because everything went so well. But now that we are six
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schemes completed, I feel like if you have concerns at this point, it's
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fair. It's valid and they need to be observed moving forward. And I
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have great concerns about the wide receiving corps slash Jalen's willingness to trust the entirety
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of the receiving corps. Yep, all right, very good. The offensive
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line, as we noted, Lane Johnson going out with an ankle injury,
26:34
Jeck Driscoll at right tackle, Sua Opetta again in at right guard in for
26:42
Cam Jurgens who is injured. It was it was a rough day for this
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offensive line. That Jets defensive line was penetrating and penetrating, and they were
26:52
getting they were getting Jalen Hurts out of that pocket, just moving him out
26:56
again. In terms of the sacks, he was sacked twice today, but
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they were disruptive and a lot of it was because of an offensive line that
27:04
just wasn't playing well. And I'm gonna give this offensive line a D minus
27:08
this week. What do you give them, Josh Man, This is the
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one grade I was really unsure of. I'm gonna go with c Okay.
27:19
I don't think it was that bad in the beginning when everybody was there,
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and then I think it just dropped off. Cliff and I think after Lane's
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injury, do you think, yeah, yeah, I want to be fair.
27:32
I'm a person that's all about fairness, and so I feel like a
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CE might be a fair grade the pre lane and post lane, and so
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I'll give him a C. Okay, sounds good. Let's move over to
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the other side of the ball of the defense will start off with the defensive
27:48
line. Again mentioned earlier, this may be known as the injury game because
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of how many injuries were on that defensive line. Holy cow, there were
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guys out there. I was like, who is this? Who is the
28:00
us play? But you know they look, they ended up getting to Zach
28:07
Wilson five times. They sacked him five times. And I do have to
28:11
mention as well, one gentleman, Hassan Reddick. Five and a half sacks
28:15
in the last three games. You know, him coming back, My gosh.
28:18
I mean, if there's somebody that needed to just bolster themselves after the
28:23
first few games of the season where it's like, where where is mister dominant
28:29
Hassan Reddick, We've finally seen him the past three games. Again, five
28:32
and a half sacks in the past three games. I'm actually gonna give this
28:36
defensive line, because I really think they helped to keep this team in it
28:41
in this game for as long as they did. I'm actually gonna give him
28:44
a B plus. What do you give them? Yeah, I'm gonna go
28:48
with C again, Okay. I I am equally as concerned that in the
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first half and it looks like quarterbacks just have all day. Yeah. But
29:03
then in the second half, all of a sudden, it's almost like they
29:06
decided, oh, hey, you know what, we should rush the quarterback.
29:08
I'm going to give him a C because the first half was a D.
29:12
The second half was a B to an A. Okay, so I'm
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going to give him a C. All right, all right, very fair.
29:18
The rushing from the New York Jets eighty nine yards four point two yards
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per carry. Dalvin Cook with three carries for twelve yards, are really not
29:29
trusting him. Breesehall twelve carries, thirty nine yards, he averaged three point
29:32
three yards per carry, did have a touchdown. So I just wanted to
29:36
throw that out there to the listeners as well. You know, with our
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grades that are a little bit different, a little bit different there. So
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just that's some context for you as you're listening and wherever you are listening at.
29:48
So the linebackers I thought was interesting this week for this Eagles team,
29:52
Josh, because Sean decide he was really mixing up the personnel at linebackers.
29:56
Sometimes we saw Cunningham and Morrow, sometimes we saw Dean and Cunningham. We
30:03
saw a lot of versatility in terms of the personnel at the running back position.
30:07
I thought the running back or the I'm sorry, the linebackers did a
30:11
really good job in this game. Nicholas Morrow with six total tackles, n
30:17
Kobe Dean with four total tackles, Zach Cunningham with four total tackles on the
30:21
day. So I'm actually gonna give them a be a straight up b.
30:25
I think the linebackers did a pretty good job and it was good to have
30:27
Nikcobe Dean back as well. I'm gonna give him a name as oken to
30:33
me. How the tight end does. Really it dictates a lot of the
30:38
grade in the middle of the field. Good point, and really the Jets
30:42
didn't do much anything over there. And considering the personnel again, if I'm
30:48
going to weigh Hurts based off of his contract that he's earned, you,
30:52
they have a number of guys that are either rookies or that they've called off
30:56
the street. And so for them to kind to shut everything down over the
31:00
middle. And let's not act like the Jets don't have weapons. They do,
31:03
right, Basically everything outside of quarterback they have. So for them to
31:10
really shut down the middle of the field, they get a name Honus for
31:11
me, all right. The secondary, cornerback and safety position. Again,
31:15
as we noted a lot of injuries, a lot of injuries. It'll be
31:19
good to have Darius Slid back hopefully. I'm not sure if it's going to
31:22
be next game, but it'll be good to have them back for sure.
31:25
Josh Joeba getting eaten away out there, poor guy. I'm going to give
31:30
the secondary this week a C minus. What do you give them? They're
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getting en f Okay, I was so generous. I'm not even going to
31:40
hold back. I get that the system is play five to ten yards off.
31:44
Yeah, but I'm sorry, like, we're so tired of it continually
31:47
getting beat and it's leading to the giving up field goals. Is okay when
31:52
your offense scoring touchdowns, but when they're not, you can't keep doing it.
31:57
Somebody has to go over and say we're not doing this anymore. We
32:02
need to press yep, and nobody's doing it. And when they're sitting back,
32:07
they're they're not making interceptions. They played Zach Wilson today, the guy
32:12
that sees amazing no interceptions. Yep, there really weren't that many pass breakups.
32:15
To be perfectly honest, the only incomplete passes were terrible throws by Zach
32:20
Wilson. Yeah, I'm sorry, you get an F you're playing Zach Wilson.
32:23
Sorry, only five passes defended. Definitely should have been more. I
32:27
absolutely agree with you. You know what I'm bring to change your grade.
32:29
I'm changing it to a D. I'm gonna change it to a D.
32:31
Not gonna go total left. I'm changing it to a D. You made
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some great points, my friend, you made great points. Let's move over
32:38
to the coaching staff right now. We're going to grade special teams first,
32:42
then defense, then the offensive side of things. Special teams. Oh my
32:46
god, Kaylee Ringo with a stupid penalty in the third quarter, running right
32:50
into a punt returner. I almost lost my mind. I scared my wife,
32:53
who is in our kitchen. We have like a we have like one
32:55
of those open concept first floors where living room, kitchen right next to each
33:00
other. I screamed, because it would. I mean, kids know not
33:04
to do what Kailee Ringo did in terms of running into the punter and then
33:07
speaking of punting, I don't know. Brittin Covey just a horrible day in
33:12
my opinion, maybe got lucky last week. He had a really good week.
33:15
Hey, now he had three whole returns for nine total yards. There
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you go, lock him in. Let's sign him to do an extension.
33:22
I mean this his last punt return josh Ith geez, oh my, he
33:28
ran right into a Jets player. He ran right into them. I'm like,
33:30
my gosh, at least at least try to juke something, please.
33:35
He just ran right into him. And then Jake Elliott missing his second field
33:39
goal of the year, thirty one yarder for about it was about like what
33:43
eight minutes and fifteen seconds left in the game could have made some sort of
33:46
a difference in terms of at least a little bit of momentum. Who knows
33:51
what would have happened if he had made that field goal, hinzight, we
33:54
can't really really know that, but special teams absolutely sucked him, giving him
33:59
a D minus. What do you give him? So this is where I'm
34:01
going to be generous. I'm going to give a c oh okay. I
34:06
think that Elliott gets a pass. I mean, he's literally won a game
34:09
earlier in the season for the Heels. I'm going to give him a pass.
34:13
He didn't even have the opportunity to redeem himself. I give him a
34:16
pass. The punter he gets an A for me, And part of it's
34:20
because we have such low expectations and punters at this point. In fact,
34:23
we don't even have one on the fifty three. We call him up from
34:25
the practice right because that's how we roll. So they get they either get
34:30
an A or a pass for me. But Covey, man, he I
34:37
think he has something on the coaching staff and just stupid penalties on special teams.
34:44
I'm sorry they get an F. So somewhere in there, I guess
34:49
I'll give it a c okay. I gave Michael clay An a last week.
34:52
Man, Holy cowboy, we have really really gone done a one eighty
34:57
here with regard to special teams, and they desire to Jeffy, you had
35:00
to lower those expectationally. All right, Let's move on to the defensive side
35:05
of the ball, Sean Decigh, it was, it was, it was
35:08
up and down. But you know, talking about Zach Wilson, the type
35:13
of quarterback that he is. You went into detail about it, Josh,
35:16
and the fact that these cornerbacks and there's still five ten yards off of these
35:21
receivers and they have some pretty decent receivers. They have weapons, as you
35:24
mentioned. So I'm gonna give Sean Decizhs. I'm gonna give him a C
35:28
minus this week. What do you give him? Oh, he's getting a
35:30
n F too. Okay, I know it sounds like the sky is falling,
35:34
but I'm sorry. Zach Wilson is the quarterback and they put up three
35:37
touchdowns where it points on. Yeah, I don't care about the injuries on
35:40
the side of the ball you are facing Zach Wilson. He is not an
35:45
NFL quarterback. I'll say it again. He's not an NFL quarterback and they
35:49
put up three basically three touchdowns worth of points on. You stop with this
35:53
nonsense off the line, and if you're not gonna adjust, I will continue
35:57
to give you an F all right offensive side of things. Brian Johnson,
36:01
Nick Sirianni This week, look, you know, we know what the rushing
36:05
situation was. They put the they put this game in Jalen Hurts his hands
36:08
to get it done up in New York, and he didn't. It was
36:13
it was bungling almost from start to finish. And I am going to give
36:17
the offensive coaching staff this week D minus. What do you give him?
36:22
I mean to give him an F two? Okay, part of me the
36:25
biggest. If I had to rank why the Eagles lost today, number one,
36:30
it's coaching staff slash game plan. Number two is Hurts. Number three
36:35
is I don't even know. I really think there's two reasons why they lost
36:38
today. Yeah, the red zone is a problem. I think we can
36:45
say six weeks. Even even when they win and they win big, the
36:50
red zone is still the issue. Yeah. And when you have Jason Kelce
36:54
who has been in the league for a long time and he's expressing frustration with
37:00
the coaching staff about the red zone, you know that we have problems.
37:04
Yes, and so today it came back to bite them. And so I
37:08
need I need to see the quarterback draws stop. Yes, Jalen Hurts can
37:15
run on his own when the pocket breaks down, allow him to run then,
37:20
but this constant running of him and him picking up five yards and sliding
37:24
needs to stop. If you want a five yard run, call a run
37:28
play. Yeah. Absolutely, You've got some weapons in terms of Boston Scott,
37:32
in terms of DeAndre Swift, you have weapons if you want to run
37:37
the ball and if the rushing attack is going to end up working in your
37:39
game plan for sure. So it was good. It was great having you
37:44
on, Josh. That's what I enjoyed about today. That's what I enjoyed
37:46
about this Sunday, getting a chance to hang out with you here on the
37:51
Zoom and as we're recording this post game show, Buddy, thanks for so
37:53
much for jumping on and filling in for the guys. I appreciate it.
37:59
My pleasure, Jeff, that's my highlight too, and I always think we're
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talking to you, so it's always good. So thank you. You got
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