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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: "I Think They've (Eagles) Kind Of Lost Their Identity" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, welcome to Inside the Tape on Inside the Birds,
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  Speaker 1: and of course it's Inside the Tape. We got our
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  Speaker 1: man Greg Cosell with us to break down the tape
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  Speaker 1: of the Eagles game. I'm Jeff Mosher alongside my Inside
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  Speaker 1: the Birds co host Adam Kaplan and Greg. We are
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  Speaker 1: for the first time this year, not breaking down a
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  Speaker 1: weird Eagles offense, but an Eagles loss. And we will
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  Speaker 1: start with the offense as it's kind of cool to
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  Speaker 1: start with. Had some pop pass game, it's anario and
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  Speaker 1: then like this year, it quickly there. So let's just
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  Speaker 1: start off. You've you've seen the offense. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions people have about play calling, coordinator, quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers, rhythm, all of that. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you from last week when you said it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to understand what the Eagles are trying to accomplish offensively.
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  Speaker 1: What is your thought now after watching the team?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the big picture question is I think they've kind
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  Speaker 2: of lost their identity. I mean, Barkley had five carries
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  Speaker 2: in the first half and he had one carry in
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  Speaker 2: the second half in a game in which they were
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  Speaker 2: winning through three quarters. So I think look They've obviously
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  Speaker 2: not run the ball as well this year as they
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  Speaker 2: did a year ago, no question, we understand that. But
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  Speaker 2: this is a team that's built to play that way,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's the way they have to play
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  Speaker 2: to be successful. So they're going to have to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to get back to what they need to be.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line is, and I know this is so
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  Speaker 2: hard for people to understand because they're Super Bowl champions,
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  Speaker 2: and we automatically associate super Bowls with the quarterback being
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  Speaker 2: this transcendent figure that is absolutely special in every way,
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is that's not who Jalen Hurts is.
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  Speaker 2: Is very good at certain things, but there are limitations
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  Speaker 2: that I don't want to say force, that's not the
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  Speaker 2: right word, that dictate that you have to play a
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  Speaker 2: given way and you can be successful, very successful playing
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  Speaker 2: that given way, but you can't really with any consistency
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  Speaker 2: step outside of playing that given way.
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  Speaker 3: And so their identity would be back to and Hurts
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  Speaker 3: as a part of that, as we all know, and
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  Speaker 3: they've got to be a team that could run the
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  Speaker 3: ball effectively and without them able to do it this
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  Speaker 3: season and now we've been through five games, Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: kind of with you guys, particularly Greg, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they're like, and we'll get into what the tape
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  Speaker 3: looked like from structurally and what you thought of everyone's performance,
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  Speaker 3: but I just don't know it. After five games and
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  Speaker 3: they are four to one. Somehow where this offense could go.
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  Speaker 3: Greg's they have the talent around.
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  Speaker 2: Them, well, the offensive line, and again that's sort of
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  Speaker 2: the elephant in the room because for the last two
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  Speaker 2: three four years they were arguably the best offensive line
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  Speaker 2: in football, and this year they've not been and they've
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  Speaker 2: they've struggled. And now Dickerson, I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be out, you know, for any extended period
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  Speaker 2: of time, but he only played twelve snaps this week.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Jurgens has basically now admitted that he doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: great because of his back is still bothering them, and again,
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  Speaker 2: every player wants to play. This is no knock on
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  Speaker 2: Cam Jurgens. I mean, you got to give a guy
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  Speaker 2: credit that this is his profession, this is his job.
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  Speaker 2: But he's obviously not playing at the same level that
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  Speaker 2: he did a year ago. I mean, on the one
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  Speaker 2: run that Barkley had in the in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: Jurgons just got driven right back into him. And you
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  Speaker 2: know they're not running the ball now your point is
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  Speaker 2: correct at him when they're playing well, Hurts is a
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  Speaker 2: major part of the run game. That's a strength of
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is he's a major part of the run
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  Speaker 2: game and he dictates how defenses have to play. But
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  Speaker 2: they didn't really do any of that in this given game.
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  Speaker 2: And if you prevent him from scrambling, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: into the details of that, because I thought Vance Joseph
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  Speaker 2: just gave a a just a professional masterpiece in how
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  Speaker 2: to do certain things to keep Jalen Hurts from running
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  Speaker 2: at scrambling not running scrambling. Then you know, very often
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  Speaker 2: the pass game is not you know, is not there
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  Speaker 2: the way you'd like it to be. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Hurts had one run in the first half and it
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  Speaker 2: was a kneel down at the end of the first half,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and a couple of times he tried to scramble,
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  Speaker 2: he ended up just being run out of bounds behind
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, which gets charged as a sack,
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  Speaker 2: even though it wasn't an official sack the way we
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  Speaker 2: see it, but that's the way it gets charged.
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  Speaker 1: So Greg that's we made this point on the inside
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  Speaker 1: the Birds pregame show for everybody didn't hear it that
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  Speaker 1: not only do the Broncos have a deep and talented
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  Speaker 1: pass rush, but they have a pass rush plan as
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  Speaker 1: far as how to deal with a player like Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts and not letting him escape the pocket. What did
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  Speaker 1: you witness?
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  Speaker 2: Look, Vance Joseph literally decided he wanted to play man coverage. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to play man coverage, that means you
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  Speaker 2: have to do other things. Because in the normal way
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  Speaker 2: of playing man coverage, if you're just rushing the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the way most teams would, then you're giving
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  Speaker 2: lanes to the quarterback. So you have to decide, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play man, what else am I going
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  Speaker 2: to do? So what they did is they played a
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  Speaker 2: higher percentage of man coverage, but they match that with
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  Speaker 2: spy and underneath the rat concepts. And what a rat
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  Speaker 2: concept is for people that don't know, is where maybe
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  Speaker 2: they rush three and they drop two guys out and
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  Speaker 2: they're basically almost zone players. They're called rats. I got
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  Speaker 2: that phrase from Peyton Manning, and you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little more than I do. So you know, they just
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  Speaker 2: kind of sit there and they have eyes on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of just one guy, which is the spy,
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  Speaker 2: which they did as well, and they did it with
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  Speaker 2: a good athlete of Benito, but they would have two
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  Speaker 2: guys sitting there and you know that minimizes the running
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  Speaker 2: now and then when they did play man and rush four,
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  Speaker 2: they clearly did it with what we call the mushroom rush.
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  Speaker 2: They had a guy who just kind of didn't really rush,
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  Speaker 2: but he just made sure that Jalen couldn't go forward.
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  Speaker 2: You know, So they they did a number of things
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  Speaker 2: while playing man coverage, which they obviously felt they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, Greg, it's in fact, Chuck mcgonnald's in front of
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  Speaker 3: our show, Chuck Pugonalds, w want to talk about rack
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  Speaker 3: covered Jeff remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I do. I do, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Greg.
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  Speaker 3: What I found interesting about this because each week and
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  Speaker 3: they're they're trying to get a rhythm and trying to
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  Speaker 3: get they're trying to figure out who they are, what
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  Speaker 3: they want to be right right, they come out and
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  Speaker 3: Jeff matching the RPOs hey fans have been calling for
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  Speaker 3: it brought it hurts from an Acri standpoint. First half
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  Speaker 3: pretty good, But the tape always tells you something. Greg
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  Speaker 3: as we all know, what did I tell you about
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  Speaker 3: the past game? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: In the first half? Yeah, I I you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it was. Again, people might look at the
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  Speaker 2: numbers and think, oh, Jalen had one of his best
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  Speaker 2: games of the year. I don't think he played very
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  Speaker 2: well in this game, and I don't think he saw
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  Speaker 2: things very well. You know, one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: he does struggle with and again this is not the
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  Speaker 2: first team to do it, but it's the nature of
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  Speaker 2: games and any given you know, if you have something
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  Speaker 2: you don't do well. And by the way, this is
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  Speaker 2: not I don't want people to listen to this and think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't like Jalen Hurts. I could talk about this
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  Speaker 2: with a ton of quarterbacks in the league that certain
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  Speaker 2: things they don't do well, and in any given game
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  Speaker 2: it could crop up depending on how the game plays out.
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  Speaker 2: But one thing Jalen is not really good at and
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  Speaker 2: other teams have done it, of course, is he's not
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  Speaker 2: very good when the picture changes pre snap to post snap,
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  Speaker 2: because he's essentially a primary read quarterback, and when it's
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  Speaker 2: clean and he can just get rid of it and
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  Speaker 2: play in you know, some sense of rhythm. He can
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  Speaker 2: be very good. But when the picture changes, which there
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  Speaker 2: was one sack I think it was the split sack
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  Speaker 2: between Benito and I forget who else it was. I
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  Speaker 2: think it might have laid in the first half, was
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  Speaker 2: a great example of Joseph changing the picture pre snapped
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  Speaker 2: to post snap. And you know, when I saw that
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  Speaker 2: play live, I was I actually felt a little pride
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  Speaker 2: because that was my film piece in the matchup show
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  Speaker 2: for this particular game, is showing how the Broncos do
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  Speaker 2: that in addition to then getting pressure on the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, this is something that they do. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, hearts tends to get stuck in the pocket
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  Speaker 2: and then he looks to run. Now, there are many
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  Speaker 2: times that happens, guys, and he runs for twenty five yards, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it turns into a great play. But
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  Speaker 2: in this game that didn't happen. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I think we get used to the fact that Jalen's
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  Speaker 2: just gonna make those plays every week, and he makes
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  Speaker 2: them enough, by the way, that's a strength of his game.
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  Speaker 2: He makes them enough that we just assume that that happens.
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  Speaker 2: So when they don't happen, you know. And he didn't
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  Speaker 2: really have any runs in this game, any scrambles, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so they those didn't happen. Now, just to get back
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  Speaker 2: to your question, Adam, I mean I noticed it right
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  Speaker 2: from the second play of the game. Okay, you know
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  Speaker 2: they well, they called a play and it was it
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  Speaker 2: was a curl route to Brown. This was the design,
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  Speaker 2: I know, the play. It demanded an anticipation throw in
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  Speaker 2: his own window. Brown was open. You know, you have
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  Speaker 2: to throw it just before he turns. You can't wait
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  Speaker 2: till he turns around. But that's not the kind of
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  Speaker 2: throw that hurt sees. He doesn't see the game that way,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And you know I said to myself as
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  Speaker 2: soon as I saw that, I said, oh boy, I
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  Speaker 2: hope it's not one of those games. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: just didn't see. He doesn't see that, do you.
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  Speaker 1: I think the the way they came out with the
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  Speaker 1: r p os and THEO was to create those designed reads. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the defense that expected to play the blitz a lot
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  Speaker 1: and play man.
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  Speaker 2: From from the past game perspective, and r PO is
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  Speaker 2: a non read. I mean, it's it's a non read.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's you know right, I mean you know
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  Speaker 2: you you know well, because if you're deciding to to
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  Speaker 2: not give the ball to the back, that's because you
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  Speaker 2: just saw the guy move out of where you're throwing it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really a non read once you decide to
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  Speaker 2: throw it.
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  Speaker 1: Right. I felt like he was able to get Goddard
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  Speaker 1: on a funer of them that helped them move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've done that all through the years. How many
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  Speaker 2: times have we seen that where he just hits got
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  Speaker 2: it out in the flat like that, he turns it
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  Speaker 2: up and sometimes he gains eight, sometimes he gains fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean how many times you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: he gains twenty five. You know, we've seen that many
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  Speaker 2: many times. Now. One thing which we've talked about numerous times, guys,
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  Speaker 2: and they did it on the second possession, and they
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  Speaker 2: did it really really well, is they went no huddle,
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  Speaker 2: and they were no huddle almost the whole possession, because
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  Speaker 2: when do they normally go no huddle when they have
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  Speaker 2: a good gain or a first down. So the drive
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  Speaker 2: started with an eight yard pass to Brown for a
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  Speaker 2: first down? Okay, didn't start with that, That's what I
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  Speaker 2: guess that.
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  Speaker 1: Was the class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they went no huddle pretty much. I
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  Speaker 2: think the rest of the drive. I made a note
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  Speaker 2: of that that they just went no huddle for seven
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  Speaker 2: consecutive plays and they had a lot of success. And
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about the fact that they did that a
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  Speaker 2: lot last year with great success. We haven't seen this year,
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  Speaker 2: and they didn't really come back to it, Jeff, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, selectively here and there, but not with the
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  Speaker 2: same frequency they did on that second drive.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just wonder, if they're first down, what's the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of success failures in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Rented them inefficiency? Inefficiencies is probably a good word for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, because one question off the no huddle, what
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  Speaker 3: you've noticed with hers, because just watching it at home,
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  Speaker 3: seems like he's so much more decisive when when they're
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  Speaker 3: going faster, he just he gets it out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one thing that no huddle normally does not one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent. There's nothing one hundred percent in football what
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  Speaker 2: it normally does because the defense doesn't really change personnel.
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  Speaker 2: But even if they do, there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time for them to check and adjust and talk to
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  Speaker 2: one another and communicate because you don't know when the
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  Speaker 2: ball is going to be snapped at him. So pretty
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  Speaker 2: much you feel as an offense that you're getting a
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  Speaker 2: somewhat predictable defense, you know, based on film study, and
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  Speaker 2: that allows your quarterback to be more decisive because in
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  Speaker 2: his mind, he knows what he's getting. He's not waiting
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  Speaker 2: to see what he's getting. He's not seeing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people move, so he kind of knows what he's getting.
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  Speaker 2: So and again, normally in no huddle, you're not throwing
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  Speaker 2: the ball forty yards down the field. Everything tends to
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  Speaker 2: be quick rhythm. It's not a lot of reads. It's
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  Speaker 2: get the ball out. Let's keep the chains moving, Let's
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  Speaker 2: keep the tempo moving. You know, that's the whole point
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  Speaker 2: of no huddle.
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  Speaker 1: Greg, if you're an Eagle fan, that's sort of trying
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  Speaker 1: to pick up the pieces even though they're four and one,
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  Speaker 1: they're fine and look for a bright side out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Is it s fair in your mind to say, well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you're not going to face a defense
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  Speaker 1: like this that is as deep as it is in
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  Speaker 1: the pass rush and a coordinator who's got a Patrick's
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  Speaker 1: tain along with it to be able to play man
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  Speaker 1: coverage on the back end. There's just and this is
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  Speaker 1: why the egos win a lot of games even when
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  Speaker 1: they don't look so great offensively, is because le Broncos
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  Speaker 1: are pretty good and they have a good right marriage
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  Speaker 1: of personnel and coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, certainly they're a really good defense. To my
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  Speaker 2: way of thinking, just having been around a lot of
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  Speaker 2: coaches in my career, I would personally think that that
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to think like that, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to think. I don't want you know.
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  Speaker 4: To me, I don't think the coaches meeting today is ah,
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  Speaker 4: we played a really good defense, so what we we
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  Speaker 4: weren't really good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's the way you want to think.
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  Speaker 1: No, I asked that you don't know about them, But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 4: That obviously they're playing a really good defense. But then
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  Speaker 4: you have to have a plan for playing against that
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  Speaker 4: defense and breaking it down. You want to you should
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  Speaker 4: be going into that game thinking, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 4: scoring thirty five today, not hey, we'll be lucky to
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  Speaker 4: score twenty. I mean, you know, they're really good. And
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  Speaker 4: maybe when the coaches are lying in bed, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because they don't sleep a lot, you know, on Thisturday
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  Speaker 4: nights before games.
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  Speaker 2: They know in their mind that, oh, this is really
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  Speaker 2: tough defense. But you don't want to be presenting that like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, this is going to be a really hard
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  Speaker 2: day at the office today.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you want to feel like you have a
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  Speaker 4: plan that can attack and break down the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the best defense in the world.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: So, But you know, once we have access to the results,
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  Speaker 4: can we sit here and say, yeah, that's a really
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  Speaker 4: good defense and they struggled, and might they not struggle
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  Speaker 4: against the giants on Thursday night?
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  Speaker 2: You know? Sure? I mean they could come out Thursday night.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, sometimes when the team has a
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  Speaker 2: short week because they don't practice other than classroom and
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  Speaker 2: walk throughs, sometimes they just go back to Staples and
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  Speaker 2: they end up playing better. And we'll discuss that when
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  Speaker 2: we do our pregame show. But you know sometimes that happens.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. All right, let's let's get into some film, because
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  Speaker 1: I think I've got a butt a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: everything to show everything that you've talked about so far. Greg.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those where I just made a
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: note to myself where were hurts his eyes? Because I
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: don't know how he's coached on this play, but you
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: can run it. I remember the play now, and the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: thing is is they're playing man clearly up top okay,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and no one runs with cal Katara. And again, because
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know how he's coached, he might have been
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: looking at the man coverage and seeing Okay, those two
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: routes are taken away. It gives a clear sense of
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: man and maybe at that point he decided, you know what,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come back to the other side of the
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: field and and and you know, take take the easy throw.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to sit here and say he's wrong.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: It was just me questioning, Okay, how is he coached?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: And where were his eyes? Because clearly they busted the coverage.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And again, you can't go into a play thinking they're
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: gonna bust coverage. But but cal Katara is running, you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a crosser and no one even reacts to him at all. Yeah,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know. So, Yeah, it's just a matter
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: to me. Where were his eyes? I I don't know
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the answer to that question.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think this view shows you really to
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: illustrates your point. Here's the matter.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: But I'm talking about the deeper the deeper route by
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: cal Katara. Nobody picks him up.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, let me go back to that. Oh there he
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is on the.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Left, he's he's playing, he's at the f position.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, look at cal Katara, he runs the crosser,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: he releases you see him where he at the thirty
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: nine yard line. No one, no one picked him up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: That's correct, You're right, absolutely.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Where asked why did he check it down?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Again, because he came off, you know, he looked
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to the right right away, and my guess is he
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: saw the man coverage and figured, okay, those two guys
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: are not really although in the past, very often if
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: he had man coverage with Round running the vertical route
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: up top and I know that's hertan, but that's irrelevant.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: That's arguably one of the top three receivers in football,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and he's your guy. You know. Again, that hasn't happened
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: this year, so I can't I can't tell you why
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: on that, you know, But but I again, that's a
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: good I don't know how he's coached here, but I
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: just that was the question I asked myself.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: They got.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: But here's the thing, though they got, they got what
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: they wanted. I mean, they got a guy want eighty
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: one's wide open. Eighty three us too. But if eighty
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: one was wide open a coverage bus, that ball's got
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: to come out, I would think.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But to Greg's point, Adam, at the forty right now,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: aj Brown has the slightest step and this is a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: ball that hurts typically.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: No, I mean I I got the deep ball that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: he threw to Donson that was ruled out of bounds.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That was one of the best deep ball throws I
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: think I've seen all the year from any quarterback.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so this one, he had a couple options
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and obviously Barkley on the dump off.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's the question. Sometimes I ask myself with
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Jalen and and I don't have an answer. And it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: not a knock on jail, and I just asked myself,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: where were his eyes? You know, I just that's what
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: because I don't know, I don't know how he's coached.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I also wonder too, if if he wanted Granson, is
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: now the time to pull a trigger While the two
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: linebackers are going in the opposite direction.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Granson's not ready yet. See, he's waiting to cross. He's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: waiting to cross kind of right in front of Jalen.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, so I mean maybe you could
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: you know, again, it's a positive gain.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Now they do get the ball down into the red
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: zone on that on the same possession, So it's the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: same possession.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Right, And this was the no huddle possession. It was
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: a really good drive.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yep. So what do you see here on this play
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that I believe where Dotson kind of comes open on
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a on a curl here at the top of the screen.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see the play again and look just so
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I can remember it in the detail that I want to. Oh, yeah,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: this was this was a double glance to the field. Okay,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: it's double glance. Everybody runs this. You're really throwing this
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: ball off the slot defender, not the outside defender. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: basically once because if the slot defender ends up playing
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: zone and delivers Smith here I think that's Devanta in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the slot, right, he ends up delivering Davanta Smith to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: someone else and sits there. Then you obviously can't throw
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the glance to Dotson. But you know when you look
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: there and you see him start keep going run inside,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: which is pretty evident, you got to make that throw
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: right there. You got to make that throw.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets the ball right around the five or
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: six right here, and we're talking about Dotson at the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: top of the screen here. He might he certainly has
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: momentum to take them at least into the inside the five, right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: So I mean, if you go back to the beginning
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of it, Jeff. You'll see how quick he comes off
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: of it, and then it just becomes he runs and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I think this was one of the plays. I don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: know if this was one of the sack plays where
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: he runs or if he needed a couple of yards.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: But sid, Sid keep going boom, he's off now again,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know why he's off right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And by the way, I know it's just one yard,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter, but could you throw the ball
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out to the back of the end zone here so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you don't lose a yard on a sack? Maybe he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: thought he was yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I mean again, these are just things that go through
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: my mind. You know, maybe the coaching staff thinks, hey,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: he did the right thing that you're uncertain as to
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you know, and we know he's a risk averse quarterback,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and that's you know, when they're playing Eagles football, that's fine.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: They don't turn it over. You know, they run it great,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: their defense is great. You know, he's a risk averse quarterback.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So they may feel that, hey, that's okay, he keep
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: seeing the game. It does get if you don't turn
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: it over. But I mean, look, you could make the argument, well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I don't you know that Obviously their offense wasn't great
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: in this game. I'm not sitting here saying it's great.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But you could make the argument in this game that
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: if their defense played the way it normally does, that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they win this game maybe seventeen ten or seventeen thirteen,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and we're having a different conversation even though the offensive
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: performance would have been exactly the same.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think we can talk about that a lot.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Even last year, right, the Bales out offense and everybody's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: talking about winning Eagle style and not really you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: picking apart in the inconsistency.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, one could argue this was that this game
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: was Eagles football until the fourth quarter, right, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: very much so.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And hey, you know what, when you win twenty at
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: twenty one, every once in a while, you're not going
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to pull one.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And that's why, you know, Look, coaches, from my experience
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: with coaches, okay, and I've done this a long time
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: and talked to a lot of coaches, coaches don't necessarily
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: they when they talk to the media, of course they talk.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You know, if you win a game, It's like Brian
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Callahan and Tennessee, Hey, he's going to talk about, Hey,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: we want a game. So and so played great, everybody's good.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: But that's not the way they're talking when they're meeting, right,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: you know, that's just the reality. We all know that, sure,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you know, and that's we hope that the Eagles are.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: You know, the offensive staff is kind of getting together
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and talking this through and trying to figure out, Okay,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: we got three days, you know, we need to get
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: our offense together here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Right, all right, So we've got cueued up. The very
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: next play, after he ran out of bounds, it's going
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to go to DeVante Smith in the left corner of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the end zone. It feels like the coverage was good,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: but a better throw at least might have given DeVante.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I mean again, now you're dealing with another play that
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I remember this play very well. I mean, I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: that a precise throw here is a touchdown. Now again,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: is it wide open? No? But you're in the red
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: zone so very often it's just match up football because
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: they're playing man. So you're not necessarily going to get
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: a guy who's just running free, right, I mean, if
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you see it from the end I don't know if
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you have this play from the end zone sure, maybe
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you just took it from the sideline because from behind
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you can kind of see him behind Hurts that is
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you have that, that's okay, But
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the point is it's not wide open, but he does
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: create a little separation and if you put the ball
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: right out in front of him here, you at least
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: have a chance.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean he made two plays in that game,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: one that got negated by a penalty that were amazing. Contestant,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you do that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, just think back to last year, that long
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: touchdown against Cincinnati with Jordan Battle right on him when
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: he went up and got it, you know, I mean
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you know that this needed and he's got a clean
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: pocket here. There's no there's no issue here. Oh yeah yeah, throw.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: It all right. So that was that drive ended in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a fuel goal. It was not you know, the touchdown
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't there. But then on their third possession, Greg, they
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: start to heat up a little bit.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: It's just the long pass to DeVante. Yes, and as
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: he read this perfectly, because it's a three by one set,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: DeVante's the boundary acts. So in a three one said,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: what normally happens because they're not playing man, you can
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: kind of see that by the look right now that
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be man. Everybody's softer. Okay, it
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a man look. So if it's not if
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: it's not man, and it's it's a two shell coverage.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: As soon as they don't change, as soon as there's
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: no rotation post snap, you know that the safety to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the boundary is going to peek inside because he's a poacher.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: He's looking inside. So now you know you've got Devanta
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Smith one oh one. So he read this perfectly. DeVante
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: goes vertical, he gets a step on Moss runs a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: great route. You see Devanta right there, the way he
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: leaned inside to create separation and stack him. This was
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you'll see it if you run it. Right right there
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: he leans and then now he stacks him. This is
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: just precision route running. It's beautiful. This is the way
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you teach it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: It's because if you see, I think someone got pushed
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: back right before it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Ye, pushed back a little bit to to hurtz.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But that's a great throw.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: You can't throw any bad. Night can't hand it to
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: him any better.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: In then, by the way, if we remember the down
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in distance is third and fifteen here fifteen. Yeah, I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: do wonder, I do wonder. Oh maybe it was more
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, I do wonder if two weeks ago
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: against the Rams, when they twice ran the ball up
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the middle of sa kuon Barkley made the Broncos think
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that they weren't going to take a shot here at
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: all and just maybe hand it off.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Pretty much every time Jeff on third down along they've
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: been they've been giving up the down, just handing it off.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: This is like, right, they're actually being aggressive. Right hey,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's the great picture, Jeff. Right now
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: with DeVante, you happen to stop it right at the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: right spot. You can see him starting to lean to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the outside and that allows him, as we use the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: term on vertical routes, to stack u at them. And
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: now now Moss is behind him and that's beautiful ball
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and you can't do any better than that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: And of course the very next play, I believe he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: puts up a beautiful ball to Aja. You reference this,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it's going to be defensive pass interference.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But you like this play, Yeah, I mean this was
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: on certain you know, this is one of those calls.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: They want to be aggressive now, so they go slug
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: o Certan. Obviously he doesn't bite, you know, this is
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: one of those bank bank plays. But he threw to
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the outside. It's back shoulder put in the right spot.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Did he communicate with him?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Do you think that I thought he did? Right there?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, again, I don't know their system,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: but he clearly looked to him and did whatever that means.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And I think he probably did that because he saw
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the single high and he absolutely knows that there's no
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: way the safety can be involved in this throat.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Right, and then did the little three step pump to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get the safety office a little bit and bam right right.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: So then of course that sets up this.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: This is beautiful because this is an unbalanced line. This
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: is a specific red zone play, and just so people
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: understand what an unbalanced line is, what they did is
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: they brought Lane Johnson over to the left side. He's
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: in between I guess Toath is in the game now.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: He's in between Tath and U may Alatta and it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Granson who's technically in the right tackle position. So they
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: what they did is they forced the Broncos. They probably
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: knew exactly what the reaction would be and what happened
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: here is is they got Singleton matched on Goddard and
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: there's a natural rub element to this play as well.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And this was pitching. I mean, it's executed. This is
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: just a great design, great throw. Everything about this play.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: You couldn't you couldn't ask for a better Jeff.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: This is something that they clearly have not put on film,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: because this is not that it's tough to stop that anyway,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: but this is something like, you know, you start bringing look.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: At Singleton, He's like, there's two tight ends over here.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Look at them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: They didn't do that crap in practice.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well done there.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: It's also the kind of play you don't have to
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: practice one hundred times, right, you know. Yeah, all right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: So later in the second half they're gonna they're struggling
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit and kind of came out of it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: This is the first possession of the third quarter. He's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: gonna get Davante on a twenty one yarder here.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is just you know, they
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: it's two by two and Davante's in the slot to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the to the field, so there's space and he runs
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a great route. He beats McMillan. Who's a good corner.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I love the tempo. Davante's such a good route runner.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I just love the tempo of his route. You know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: he didn't hurry, you know, be quick, but don't hurry,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: you know John Wooden, And it's beautiful. He doesn't hurry
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and boom he beat sticks him to the outside, creates
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a separation, clear passing window. I mean, this is pitch
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: and catch. Yeah, I like to throw to be actually
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: had a little further, so you should have been yes,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Bill Walts probably would have said, let's do it again.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, gosh, those films with Bill Walsh.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like you said, that's the one I saw.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: He goes do it again, right right?
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And and Montana explained, or maybe it was he Steve
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Young that No, you may think this is a great pass,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: it's not. It's got right here right, you want you
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: got to keep going forward.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Nothing but the play design was there. Might you had
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: to match up, you know, Davante's so good at that,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and it was that was pitch and catch, all right.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So the very next play, why does this wheel succeed
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: so much? Greg to seequon Barkley.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Oh well, first of all, they're in man coverage, okay,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: and you can kind of tell it's man coverage. Now
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: they're in no huddle now, So the one thing we
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: don't know is is jail and just letting everybody know
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: what the play is or is he changing something? And
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: people who say they know that for sure unless they
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: spoke to a coach, don't know, you know, because I
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: heard people say, well, he changed the play. How do
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you know that they're in no huddle. He might be
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: just telling everybody what the play is. I don't know
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the answer to that. The point is, though it's a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: beautifully designed play, it's it's a great it's a great
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: man beater because what you have is man car And
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: by the way, it's what we call a one by
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: three set because Goddard's up top and the three wide
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: receivers are too trips to the field, so they have
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Barkley offset to the boundary side. So because of the formation,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the linebacker in Nickel pretty much he's matched on Barkley
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and it's Singleton and he's a nice player, but he's
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: not going to run with Barkley. This is this is
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: great design, and actually it's it's what they do. I
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: forgot they blitzed here. So Singleton is actually behind the
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: eight ball to start because he's coming from the other
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: side of the formation because Strenad blitzed. So now Singleton
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: is caught, but it's a stutter fade, and Singleton stopped
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: his feet and once he stops his feet, he's done.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, we don't sometimes we don't appreciate
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Barkley enough for being able to do this in the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: open field as kind of a route runner. But he
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: does put a nice little uh as you mentioned, the stutter.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: And this is everybody runs it for people who watch
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: other teams, like for instance, if you watch Monday Night
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Football Week one, when Aaron Jones caught a touchdown pass
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: from JJ McCarthy, it's the same stutter fade. It's the
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: same play, the same rack concept. If you can get
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: a back on a linebacker like this, you'll take this
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: every time. Yep, this is beautiful.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And that was the first play, all right, So that
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: was a look at you know, it's started off with
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: some of the things that could have been better. We
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: ended it with some of the things that were really
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: good with the Eagles offense. I did want to take
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: a look really quickly at some of those sacks we
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: were discussing, and not the ones where he ran out
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of balance, but the ones that he was actually sacked.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: This is the one I think you referenced earlier, Greg,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: with Benito and Allen combining on a sack.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Ye.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've got a six man front right here.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: It's a loaded front to the left of the center
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: of Jurgens, and then they've got the two. They're in dime,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: so it's probably Barren and Singleton on the ball opposite
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the load. So it's a six man front. So you've
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: got to react to the six man front. You got
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: to deal with it. I mean, you can't guess who's
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: gonna come and who's not gonna come. You got to
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: be able to block six. So what do they do.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: They drop out and then they rushed for I believe.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: So if you want to run at Jeff, yeah, So
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: they're going to drop out and they're gonna play actually
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: cover two and the middle hole defender is actually going
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: to be the post safety who's going to drop down
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: because it's a longer yarded situation. So they play cover two.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: And now you know the whole idea here is for
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: your quarterback to get stuck, to not feel like he
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: has you know, within the timing and structure and rhythm
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: of the play, call that he has a throw, which
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: is exactly what happened. This is very common in the
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: league now there's a ton of six seven man fronts
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: where people drop out. It's late coverage rotation. It's really
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: hard to decipher. And then you get stuck in the pocket.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And then he tries to run out of the pocket
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: and he gets run down by Benito and Allen yep.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And if you notice there something we talked about last week,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the way they rush the outside edge. Guys stay to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the outside of the tackles, so they give Hurts that lane.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Look now they rushed up the middle, yep.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: And then the stunt up the middle right.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look at ninety eight John Franklin. Meyer's probably
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: recognized right away. Oh boy, I think there's a lane there.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I got to get back to that, to that spot. Look. Yeah,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: see you can tell he almost that the mental gears
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: were working there. He kind of knew I better get
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: back there, right.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Those guys were pasted up front.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: They gave him fits. I'm trying to run.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: He barely ran the game, but they just they did
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: not give him much in terms of lanes.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Right, this is another third and fifteen in the third quarter.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: This time, this one's gonna be Benito.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this one, I recall, I wasn't sure watching
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: this one if there was truly a defined throw for him.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Here I can go back and look at the other
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of you to see if their throw.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: If memory serves me correctly, because it's third and long,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: they're going to rush for you know, no need to
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: blitz and be crazy. They're going to basically play Let's see,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: it's two, it's cover six. They're playing quarters down below
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and two up top, so it's cover six and Singleton's
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: running running the middle hole.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, theoretically, do you want to just dump it's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: third and fifteen, you're trying to play it safety, just
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: dump into your running shack.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I mean, yeah, you probably do. I mean,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: but again he didn't.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got he took a He took a few
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: big shots in this game that were so usually hurts
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: can like get sacked without taking a dead on hit.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And once again, even though you saw that it was
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the edge goes inside.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, gun, Jeff, And so what happened was is Benito
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: went inside of my alta and then my alta sees
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: the long stunt by I think it's Franklin Myers, perhaps, yep,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: and so he So the stunt worked perfectly because then
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: my alta came off Benito to react to Franklin Myers. Right.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: This one's McMillan, right, he's the nickel.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: I believe this was perfection. Okay, this one you can't
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: pick up. Okay, people might you know, think well why not?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I think I I yeah, I'm just gonna read what
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I typed here and then we can run it just
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: so people before they see the play. McMillan sack on
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: third and thirteen early in the fourth quarter came on
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: four man sim pressure from initial seven man front look
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: with both Ufanga and McMillan part of the pressure from
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: each edge. Broncos dropped into cover three and the Eagles,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: based on their protection call, had no one to account
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: for McMillan because they're coming off both edges here. This
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: this is is just beautiful. But they got a seven
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: man front here, yep. I mean you know this is
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: this is really and because it's double mug ninety nine
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: point nine percent of the time in double mug, the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: backsteps inside, so Barkley actually does a really good job
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: in recognizing when those two guys in the double mug drop.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He then tries to pick up Hufanga coming from his side,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: but there's no one to pick up McMillan. There's m
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: try to get them, yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Right, And for those just double mug means that the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: linebackers right up in the a gaps over the center.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It looks like they're coming straight down.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: And two guys on each side of the gap.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: And then they wind up dropping into a coverage and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: then drop into four man rush cover three.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It's a four man rush. It's pure cover three.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was when I watched You really see
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it from here?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's there in dimes. So it's Barren and Singleton
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and they're on each side of the center. And the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: way this works if you freeze a first xf is
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: obviously they're starting to fall out. But ninety nine point
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: nine there's only two ways to block this. By the way,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: you either have to have a full line slide in
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: which you're going to ask your back to block a
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: defensive end, or the center takes one of those guys,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: and the back takes the other, which is what ninety
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: nine percent of teams do. Okay, So now Barkley, his
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: eyes are inside as they should be, and as soon
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: as he sees forty nine and twenty three drop at
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: whichever one he has. It turns out he was going
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: to have Singleton because look look at Jurgens. He goes
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: to his left, so he was going to take barn.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: So so now Barkley does the right thing because he
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: senses Hufanga coming off, but there's no one to pick
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: up mcmill. Yeah. Now people might say, oh, what do
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: you mean Stein didn't block anybody, but go back. I
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: just want people to understand here, but pre snap, because
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: of the seven man front, Steen has fifty two, Johnson
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: has zero, and you can't. That's that's the way this
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: is mapped out. So just because fifty two ends up
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: dropping as well, if I'm not mistaken, does he end
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: up dropping or zero?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I think yeah, he drops, Sue Yeah, yeah.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: But Steen, Now could you argue, oh, Stean should have
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: got zero and Lane Johnson should I mean, that's really hard,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: that's really really hard. It's it's it's just a tough deal.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your favorite phrase. You can't change a protection
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: while you're in the middle of I.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Mean sometimes you can, you know, maybe you can have
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: a slight reaction. It's not an adjustment, it's a reaction.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: But you know, that's just hard. But there was technically
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: no one to account for McMillan.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought that was actually a really well sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you don't blame somebody, you give credit to the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: For Vic Fangio does it all the time, and we
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  Speaker 1: say credit Vic Fangio. He threw a simor he threw it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: And doing this a long time, and he's really good
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: at this.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very very good.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Let me squash real quick, because people have asked us,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: how did you notice bread Tooth at all in this game?
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I really didn't, and I wasn't studying him, but he
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: didn't stand out in a bad way. He is good.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I generally thought protection was pretty good given how much
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: you know they were doing upfront, and like what we
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: just showed, it wasn't like Jillen Hurts he never had
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: time to throw the ball. I mean, I thought he
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: was protected fairly. Well.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the bottom line for me is they've got to
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: find a way to get their run game working because
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: in the first half in a game that theoretically they
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: were controlling, even though the score might not have indicated,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: you know, they were playing, they were controlling. I mean,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: the defense was playing well, you know, they moved the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: ball to some degree. Barkley at five first half carries
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and Hertz had something like twenty two or twenty three
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: dropbacks are called past plays. That's they can't really play
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: like that, no doubt.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: All right, So that is a look at the offense
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: in the next episode, will go into the Phillies. I'm sorry,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the Eagles defense after that, as they have a quick
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: turnaround before they played the Giants Thursday night. For Greg
• 43:42
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