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Ask Greg Cosell on Patreon: How Can The Eagles Fix Their Pass Pro Issues? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Hey, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, today obviously ends up being a really
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  Speaker 2: tough day. Lane Johnson, in my opinion, the best right
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  Speaker 2: tackle to ever do it.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. And I think he should be a first
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  Speaker 3: ballot Hall of Famer without any question.
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  Speaker 2: Without any question or doubt. And if that's not the case,
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  Speaker 2: then there's something seriously wrong with that process. It is
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  Speaker 2: time to get into the offense, Greg. And from what
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  Speaker 2: I saw in the game. And again, there's a million
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  Speaker 2: things broken here. I mean, we could cherry pick whatever
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  Speaker 2: we want, but it looked like their slide protections in
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  Speaker 2: terms of like how they were trying to handle the blitz.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's Jalen Hurts. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that's Drew Kendall. I don't know who is
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  Speaker 2: really responsible for that. But it looked like more often
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  Speaker 2: than not, they were just incorrect. and picking which way
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  Speaker 2: to slide protections, and it just completely wrecked any type
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  Speaker 2: of pass game that they even were trying to have.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted to just get your thoughts on if that,
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  Speaker 2: if you even know who's responsible for that with them,
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  Speaker 2: but more so is like, how can this be corrected? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what's Chris Cooper doing to try to correct this? Is
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  Speaker 2: there a fix or anything like that? Because, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was really, really bad, I thought, on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what you don't know, and so I'm just
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  Speaker 3: being honest. You don't know, number one, who's calling the protections.
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  Speaker 3: whether it's the offensive center who's new or whether it's
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts. We don't know the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's hard to know, quote unquote, who's at fault,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak. But obviously in the NFL, there are
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  Speaker 3: many teams that overload protections with more than a team
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  Speaker 3: theoretically can block.
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  Speaker 1: Based off of the routes and I guess the route
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  Speaker 1: schemes that you're seeing, are there anticipation routes here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: drawn up in this scheme?
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  Speaker 3: But what do you mean by, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you mean by anticipation routes.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess as far as like, are there opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for Hurst to hit guys within anticipation?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's built into every system. What did he get in
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  Speaker 3: the first two weeks? That's part of the NFL. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's built into every system. Then it's up to the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback to make those throws. He missed one on the
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  Speaker 3: first series to Wicks, which was basically a pitch and
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  Speaker 3: catch throw. And that's one you got to hit.
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  Speaker 4: Um, question I had, like this, this kind of looks
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  Speaker 4: like the worst offensive line in the league right now.
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  Speaker 3: Um, what's all they're playing.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, it's really hard to watch. And I
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  Speaker 4: just wondered your opinion with watching film, if it doesn't stabilize,
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  Speaker 4: are we looking like a 2012, 2020 type season for
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  Speaker 4: the Eagles offensively?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if your offensive line can't perform at some kind
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  Speaker 3: of reasonable level, it's tough to run an offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's not a profound statement. Believe me, you don't need
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  Speaker 3: me to say that, you know, right. But obviously, if
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  Speaker 3: the O-line does not perform, you're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: really difficult time.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Eddie.
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  Speaker 5: So I was actually there, and there was this play.
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  Speaker 5: And the end of the first quarter, they're at the
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  Speaker 5: 45-yard line. And it was like a play action.
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  Speaker 3: Is that an offensive play you're talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's offensive play. Yeah, I believe it was first
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  Speaker 5: and had been a 45.
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  Speaker 3: Where was it in the game?
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  Speaker 5: It was at the 53-second mark in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 5: I believe. So what do you think was the place
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  Speaker 5: to go?
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the play now. I would look at
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  Speaker 3: this play, and again, you don't know for sure. I
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  Speaker 3: think that there's a screw-up here somewhere because he's booting
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  Speaker 3: out to his right, okay? So two things normally happen
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  Speaker 3: when you boot out to your right. Number one, everything
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  Speaker 3: is working with you towards your boot. So there's, you know, crossers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everything's coming towards you or there's a throwback element.
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  Speaker 3: And neither one of those things is happening here.
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  Speaker 6: Greg, I'll probably shift it a little bit away because
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  Speaker 6: I know kind of all of our questions are probably
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  Speaker 6: pointed toward the offense and they're going to kind of
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  Speaker 6: be the same. So I want to ask you something
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  Speaker 6: about just more about the NFL and kind of what
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  Speaker 6: you see kind of kind of prognosis, something for the future.
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  Speaker 6: So I know you've talked a lot about a lot
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  Speaker 6: of teams going to a lot of 12 and 13
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  Speaker 6: personnel because it kind of makes the defense kind to
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  Speaker 6: make them stay in base. And you can't do a
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  Speaker 6: lot of different things because of having, you know, multiple
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  Speaker 6: linebackers on the field. So my question is, is that
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  Speaker 6: something that you foresee kind of going forward in the future?
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  Speaker 6: And if it is something you foresee, do you see
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  Speaker 6: the safety position kind of being more of a commodity
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  Speaker 6: so people can play more big nickel defense?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think they should. And I think they should
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  Speaker 3: study Brian Flores, who has the highest percentage of blitz
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  Speaker 3: out of base defensive personnel in the league and does
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  Speaker 3: a great job. And I think you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to start seeing that because the last thing you want
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  Speaker 3: to do if teams are going to play in their
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  Speaker 3: base offense with two tight ends or three tight ends
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  Speaker 3: is feel like you can't pressure, feel like you have
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  Speaker 3: to totally cut back on your pressure schemes and in
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  Speaker 3: a sense, play kind of a default defense.
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  Speaker 3: My question is on Rick Wallen. I'm sorry if you
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  Speaker 4: How do you see him progressing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Wallen's issue, which he had in this past game,
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  Speaker 7: Strange, strange. These games are one after the other. I
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  Speaker 7: just feel like things are falling apart here. But I
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  Speaker 7: wanted to ask a positive question. Is there anyone on
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Good question.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea where Greg's going to go here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry. Yeah, Markel Bell did not play poorly this week.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as an individual, you know. Now, again, now
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  Speaker 3: that he's apparently going to be the starter because they
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  Speaker 3: don't really have anybody else. So he'll be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: I guess Fred Johnson, if he's healthy, they could put
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  Speaker 3: of Markel Bell. He had to play in the last
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  Speaker 3: game because Johnson was inactive. Yeah, exactly.
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