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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: "Jalen Carter, I Almost Felt Like He Was Non Existent" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome back to Inside the Tape on Inside the Birds.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher with Adam Kaplan. And of course, we
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  Speaker 1: have Greg Cosell to help us break down the tape
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  Speaker 1: of the Eagles 24 to 22 win over the Commanders
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  Speaker 1: in week one. In the last show, we did the offense.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: In this show, we're going to do the defense. Vic Fangio,
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  Speaker 1: the only guy on the field who was not a
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  Speaker 1: new play caller, and he had a veteran defense there,
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  Speaker 1: guys who are familiar with his scheme. But we did see, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: the debut of Reek Woolen. We saw Jahad Campbell back
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  Speaker 1: as a starter at linebacker. What was your general takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from the Eagles, from watching the film of the Eagles defense?
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  Speaker 2: You know, a couple of things I think they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to figure out. Number one, defensively, and this
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  Speaker 2: is the hope is Grenard solves that when he's ready.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll be ready this week, but
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  Speaker 2: he'll be back. I assume shortly, if not this week
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  Speaker 2: is they don't really have a pass rusher. So I
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  Speaker 2: hate to say it, but, but things I noticed were
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  Speaker 2: probably more along the lines of things I feel that were,
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  Speaker 2: I guess they would be considered more negative than positive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think they were playing a great
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  Speaker 2: offense and the offense certainly has its own things to
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  Speaker 2: figure out with a first time young play caller and
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback who, say what you want, you know, is
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  Speaker 2: coming back and didn't play much last year at all. And, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, didn't play in the preseason. I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: if memory serves me correctly, or if he did, it
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  Speaker 2: was minimal. So, you know, I thought, I thought that
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Carter, I almost felt like he was non-existent in
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  Speaker 2: this game. I mean, I know he blocked the extra point,
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  Speaker 2: which turned out to be a big play, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about in the context of the defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there were times because the Eagles now have become a
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  Speaker 2: stunt team, particularly with Jalek's hunt. So he's on the right,
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  Speaker 2: and the Eagles line up Jalen Carter almost exclusively at
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  Speaker 2: left defensive tackle. So what the Eagles do is they
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  Speaker 2: have both TE and ET stunt concepts with Jalex Hunt.
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  Speaker 2: And what the expectation is is that the center is
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  Speaker 2: going to slide to Carter because he's theoretically their best
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  Speaker 2: interior player. And that leaves open the A-gap. We saw
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  Speaker 2: that last year at times. They had a sack of
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen last year. The exact thing happened with a stunt,
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  Speaker 2: a TE stunt. Hunt was the looper, the center went
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  Speaker 2: to Carter, and the A-gap was wide open. But in
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  Speaker 2: this game, as the game progressed, because the commanders were
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  Speaker 2: aware of it, they would start sliding the center to Hunt,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that that's where the stunts are coming from, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to open up the A-gap, and they'd
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  Speaker 2: leave Cosme, the right guard, one-on-one with Carter, and he
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  Speaker 2: stoned him more often than not. Wow, that's surprising. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say it's a concern, like, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 2: the guy can't play. But it just struck me as,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hey, you have to be a factor in
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  Speaker 2: those situations. And the other thing, I'm sorry, just one
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  Speaker 2: more thing. We saw, and again, hopefully it's not a concern,
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Dejean struggled in man coverage in this game mightily. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's a really good player. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to sit here and say he's no good, but he
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  Speaker 2: struggled in man coverage in this game against both Williams,
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  Speaker 2: the rookie, and Diggs, who's obviously just a pro and
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  Speaker 2: knows how to run routes.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So, Greg, on your point about pass rush, because the
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  Speaker 4: pressure rate was good in this game, but pressure rate,
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  Speaker 4: everybody has their opinion on it. Was it more that
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  Speaker 4: they couldn't finish or they just were out of place?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what did you know? Pressure rate is kind of
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  Speaker 2: an interesting stat, which and I'm being honest, I know
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  Speaker 2: there's so many metrics that people do now and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying they're wrong. So I hope people listening don't
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  Speaker 2: think like, oh, you know, you're crazy. But pressure to
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  Speaker 2: me is something I've got to see. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: can't go by like a pressure rate statistic where people
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  Speaker 2: say things like, well, if he's winning two and a
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  Speaker 2: half yards with a quarterback, that's pressure. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I have to see those plays. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like with a quarterback. If a quarterback can
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  Speaker 2: complete his motion cleanly at the NFL level, then that's
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  Speaker 2: not pressure. If he completes it cleanly and gets hit after,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people think that's pressure. That's not pressure.
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  Speaker 2: And I've learned from the Ron Jaworskis of the world,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people who are obviously a lot smarter than
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  Speaker 2: I am who played the position, you know, so I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always a leery when I see metrics about pressure rate.
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  Speaker 1: Understood that.
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  Speaker 2: And also Daniels is a guy that creates a lot
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  Speaker 2: of his own pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Right. He moves a lot. He moves into the, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he moves around a lot. Yeah. Hard to hold the
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  Speaker 1: blocks up that long when he's moving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. He moves around a lot when he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need to. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Adam and I did know, we said there were a
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  Speaker 1: couple times where Daniel, especially on third and long, had
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  Speaker 1: more time to throw than we're accustomed to see. And
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  Speaker 1: not just because he was running, but because he was
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  Speaker 1: in the pocket. And it just felt like they missed
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  Speaker 1: Grenard and just didn't have their normal interior and exterior
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  Speaker 1: edge burst that you would expect them to have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, on a positive note, I will say that something
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  Speaker 2: I thought was a little surprising in a good way
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  Speaker 2: to me was I thought that Nolan Smith, for a
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  Speaker 2: guy who's not big, had some good speed-to-power rushes against
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  Speaker 2: the right tackle. And Connerly. And Connerly's a first-round pick
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  Speaker 2: and obviously not a stiff. But, you know, for a guy,
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to use his arm length. He knows
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  Speaker 2: how to keep his legs clean to drive and keep
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  Speaker 2: his legs churning. Now, is he going to just shove
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  Speaker 2: guys back? No, but he moved them. He pushed them back.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Final hand is good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How about the back end? Did you notice anything in
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  Speaker 1: usage with Rick Wolin and Quinion Mitchell that might be different?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And again, we'll see if this continues, but last
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  Speaker 2: year we talked a lot about the fact that they
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  Speaker 2: used Quinion Mitchell solely as the boundary corner. Certainly as
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  Speaker 2: the year progressed, I assume there's been a change in
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  Speaker 2: the corner approach. I doubt they just did it this game.
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  Speaker 2: I assume they did it all through camp. Mitchell played
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  Speaker 2: exclusively at right corner and Wolin played exclusively at left corner.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see if that, you know, continues, but
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  Speaker 2: I imagine it would.
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  Speaker 4: That's interesting. Quinnian Mitchell, Greg, you told us in the
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  Speaker 4: pregame show that you, you talked to someone who had
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  Speaker 4: granted Eagles tape and said he was the best corner
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  Speaker 4: that this guy had seen on film. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How did he look in this game? You know, again,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't necessarily challenged a lot. Like we, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Wolin wasn't challenged a lot. There was one deep ball
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  Speaker 2: that he, you know, ran right with, I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Deami Brown. Um, and then, uh, uh, Mitchell wasn't
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  Speaker 2: really challenged a lot. You know, they did start to
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  Speaker 2: play more man in the fourth quarter. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: actually David Blogg did a really good job because he
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  Speaker 2: ran a ton of crossers. You know, we force a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these guys have to work through traffic. And
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  Speaker 2: that's hard no matter what kind of corner you are.
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  Speaker 2: You could be the best corner in the world and
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  Speaker 2: you start having to run through traffic. And that's just hard.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think they were challenged in a strict sense, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: where like the guys were throwing the ball outside and
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  Speaker 2: they had to play, you know, man to man.
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  Speaker 4: No, the one thing on that, look, McLaurin's a good player.
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  Speaker 4: But after that, you know, they had Traylon Burks inactive.
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  Speaker 4: Diggs is an older player. He's more of a possession guy.
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  Speaker 4: They just didn't have anyone who can make a play downfield.
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  Speaker 4: And then Conco got hurt. We should mention that. They
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  Speaker 4: signed to be a playmaker. Jeff, they had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of problems like that. Antonio Williams is going to be
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  Speaker 4: a good player.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked him coming out of Clemson.
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  Speaker 4: A favorite of receiver coaches I spoke with. They're probably
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  Speaker 4: the favorite slot receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very refined as a receiver coming out
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  Speaker 2: of Clemson. He's probably a slot. I mean, obviously the
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  Speaker 2: way offenses are run today, people move guys around. He's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be a boundary X, but he just
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  Speaker 2: knows how to run routes. I mean, you saw him.
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  Speaker 2: Win against Dejean when he got the ball down to
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  Speaker 2: the one yard line and they scored the touchdown with
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  Speaker 2: cross key merit on the next play. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: just knows he's, you know, he's really subtle for a
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  Speaker 2: young player. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: them know we sent you. All right, let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at a few things, as we always do on
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  Speaker 1: the tape here, Greg. Some of the stuff we look
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  Speaker 1: at just for the concept of what they're showing, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you had noted that they were doing more stunting,
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  Speaker 1: and it started pretty early on here. This is where
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  Speaker 1: Jomo and Carter have a stunt early on in the
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  Speaker 1: third and ten. Yeah, they had a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: Of tackle-tackle stunts. And I think they'll do more of that.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a Joma played 48 snaps and Davis 34.
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  Speaker 2: And again, very interesting. And I know, and Davis is
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  Speaker 2: a great run defender, by the way, he had some
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  Speaker 2: really good snaps. No question. He's a great run defender,
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  Speaker 2: but he still doesn't play on third down. He did
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  Speaker 2: not play on the final drive, except for one snap
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  Speaker 2: when they got in the low red zone, but Joma
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  Speaker 2: played the entire final red skin drive because Davis in
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  Speaker 2: their mind, look, we're not, they're telling us, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have to make this up guys. They're telling us he's
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  Speaker 2: not a pass rusher.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, they paid him a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: And in the Vic Fangio scheme, tackles are critical, as
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  Speaker 2: we've discussed before. And he is a big time run defender.
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  Speaker 2: There's no getting around that. But still, they will not
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  Speaker 2: use him yet as a pass rusher.
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  Speaker 1: And they still gave him a pretty good sizable contract
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  Speaker 1: just to play mostly two downs, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's interesting in the first game of the
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  Speaker 2: year that Jomo played 14 more snaps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is let's diagnose the stunt concept that you
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  Speaker 1: noticed here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've run a lot of these TT stunts. I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to remember what this one is. I think that
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  Speaker 2: a Jomo on this one is the penetrator and Carter
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  Speaker 2: is the looper, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it almost looks like they kind of ran into
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  Speaker 1: each other a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: The timing of it was off because you don't want
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  Speaker 2: Carter to have to sort of do a dance step
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  Speaker 2: to get around him. You want him to be able
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  Speaker 2: to really come around him with some juice and then
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  Speaker 2: generate some speed and velocity on his way to the quarterback. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that one didn't work quite as well, but it's clearly
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  Speaker 2: part of what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and that's why I just wanted to– we'll say
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Yes, Washington completed the pass. We were
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  Speaker 1: looking more.
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  Speaker 2: At the– The TT stunt.
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  Speaker 1: The TT stunt concept that we're going to see quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit there. Yeah, they just ran into each other
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  Speaker 1: in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: They were a high stunt team. Real quick, they were
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  Speaker 4: a high stunt team last year, Greg, weren't they, Eagles?
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  Speaker 2: Not super high, but, I mean, they started to do
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  Speaker 2: more of it later in the season. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to generate pressure, and they don't have a
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  Speaker 2: guy– You know, they don't have a guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's why they traded for Garnard. Right, it's Garnard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have a guy. I mean, they're hoping Jalex
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  Speaker 2: Hunt can become that, you know, and maybe he will.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know the answer to that. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they obviously traded for Garnard for a reason. For sure.
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  Speaker 2: Because right now they don't have a guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Generating pressure. Vic, I believe, blitzed at about a 22% clip,
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  Speaker 1: like something like 8 out of 35.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this was the overload. This was their only snap
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  Speaker 2: of zero, and they overloaded the pressure from the boundary side,
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  Speaker 2: and Dejean got in clean, and they forced Daniels to
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  Speaker 2: have to throw it early up top to, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Damian Brown, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: was covered well. And Wallen was covering him because, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, he played left corner. So, yeah, this was
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  Speaker 2: their only snap of zero. They didn't blitz a ton
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  Speaker 2: in this game. They had a number of sim pressures,
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  Speaker 2: four-man pressures, where a linebacker added in as the fourth
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  Speaker 2: and they would drop out of D-alignment, but they did
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  Speaker 2: not have many five-man pressures.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny because there's some stat services that have Eagles
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  Speaker 4: blitzing higher, but I know you've had disagreements on how
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  Speaker 4: you grade whether that's a blitz or blitzes or not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, different teams also categorize sim pressures differently. Some might
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  Speaker 2: call it a blitz because it is a second-level defender
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  Speaker 2: or sometimes a third-level defender. and other teams don't categorize
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  Speaker 2: it as a blitz because it's still a four-man rush. Right, right. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So the Eagles, as you told us, sent five or more,
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  Speaker 1: which is what people would call a blitz, on eight
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  Speaker 1: of 35 dropbacks, which is about 23%, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of easy.
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  Speaker 2: Including this one, which is the only snap of zero. Right.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: By zero, I mean that you can see it right
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: where you froze it, that they're matching up man-to-man to
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: each of the four receivers that are going into routes,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: and there's no– post safety, no free player. So this
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: is just pure man across the board. And that's the
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: definition of zero, right?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: You're either in man coverage or you're blitzing. And, uh,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I think they know based on the overload concept,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: but Hey, that's okay.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: And they know based on the overload concept, because someone
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: is responsible for the back in coverage, but they know
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: based on the pressure scheme, And the protection, because that's
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: what coaches do all week long, whether it's the line
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: coach or another assistant, they study every single protection concept
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: by a team and they know how they're going to
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: protect based on certain looks. So they know when they
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: overload like this, that the back, you know, has to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: stay in. Now, let's say the back decided to immediately
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: swing out. My guess is that Dejean probably would have
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: not rushed and he probably would have Right.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Followed him.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You know, taking the back. Now, maybe he wouldn't have,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: and they think that he can get there and still
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: prevent a throw. You never know how teams coach it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: But someone does have the back. Good pressure there.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: You know, and it was interesting. We did talk about
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: without N'Kobe Dean, who was Vic's favorite guy to blitz
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: from a second level or use as a sim pressure,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: who would he use? In this case, it was Cooper
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: to Gene. I think he sent Campbell a couple times, too,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: on some sims. So he's kind of. He's in search
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: mode right now, trying to figure out what the best
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: thing to do is. That was a rare zero.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Well, because you've got to generate pressure on the quarterback.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, somewhere along the line, you've got to speed
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: up the quarterback. It's not about sacks.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, a great example was the game in Melbourne.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: The 49ers had no sacks, okay? But they generated inside
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: pressure on Stafford all game and made him uncomfortable. Because
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Stafford's a guy that's going to throw it. He's not
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: going to stand there and just– Got to move her.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: But he was totally uncomfortable, and he made a lot
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: of errant throws because he just wasn't comfortable. So it's
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: not the sacks per se, but you've got to speed
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: up the quarterback. Sure. As Jaws would say, I hated
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: pressure up the middle. I hated it. He couldn't step
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: in and throw. Yeah. And you see it. I mean,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: as much as you don't want to see it and
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: you want to keep your eyes, I mean, it's right there.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: You can't help but see it. Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: He's got to throw that ball. Woolen a little bit
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: on the back, but that's okay. We talked about the rookie, Williams.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: from the slot here had a big 33-yard catch off
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a flood.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was a great example of the inability
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: to generate pressure because this was a long developing play.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: This was essentially flood. We saw that when we did
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: the Eagles offense that they had flood and it was
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: all to the same side. Here it's flood and they're
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: bringing the intermediate route from opposite. This is a bitch
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to defend. Because the receiver up top is the vertical.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: He's the clear out. So he's taking the corner with him.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Then you get the back immediately into the flat. That's
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: where Bond's eyes go, okay? He's not looking at Williams,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: who's coming from all the way on the other side.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: So Williams runs all the way across the field. This
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: is technically a high low on Zach Bond. But there's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: no way Bond is aware that Williams is going to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: be behind him. because he's going to catch the ball
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: on a third part of the field. Campbell initially looks
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: to match him, and maybe people think, oh, Campbell blew it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Campbell didn't blow it. Campbell's not responsible for outside the numbers,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: which is where the ball is caught.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: It's really well designed. I remember the first time that
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I can remember seeing Flood done like that, where the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: receiver came all the way across the field. was Sean
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Payton with the Saints back in, you know, like the 2008, 2009,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you know, because most people do flood, you know, it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: all on the same side.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You know, but when you bring someone all the way
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: across the field like that, you know, number one, you
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: got to protect. I mean, you got to protect.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I remember when the 49ers came in here in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: 2023 and kicked the teeth out of the Eagles that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we had a few flood concepts on tape that we
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: were showing, but I thought you brought the point of pressure.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you bring a receiver all the way
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: across the field, you need to have protection for that
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to happen. And the Eagles were not able to generate form.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: There was nobody around him. Nobody around him.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: The digs touchdown. How did this one unfold?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Here they're playing man coverage. It's empty. They're playing man.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: The Eagles are in a loaded front. You can see
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: three defensive linemen to the right of the offensive center.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: They're in man coverage all the way.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It's, I think it's cover one. There'll be a free defender.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It'll be, I believe, is it Efton or McCoop? It
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It's a free defender. And basically they get
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Diggs matched on Dijon. And with his short area quickness
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and the way he sets them up, he just, this
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: play is designed for Diggs. Yep, right there. Because look
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: at the other two routes out of the bunch. One's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: going into the corner up top, and the other's crossing
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the field. This play is designed for digs. It's basically
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like a back running an angle route. He's just doing
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: it from the line of scrimmage. Yep.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Turned into pitch and catch.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dajin had a couple ones that he struggled with
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: in the game.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: And he was pretty upfront about the way that he played.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: It had to be better. All right, this last one, Greg,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: is the two-point conversion that was failed. I got to admit,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I know we don't love to criticize play calls and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: coaches because they all are doing it for a reason,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: but your game's on the line and you're putting it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: in the hands of a guy who barely touches the ball.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I'm not going to go there. I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: just going to say that if Ojomo doesn't make this
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: great play, he walks into the end zone. So Ojomo just,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: my guess is, you guys listen to the stuff after
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the game, right? When guys talk, I don't. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I think a Jomo saw Bates start to cross and
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: he thought, you know, and he followed him. He knew
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: that something was up because he was going to cross.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: You know, he sees him now because look where Jomo
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: comes from. He spins off of that. Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I think what he said was he saw the pulling
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: lineman 76.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Something was up there.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: It made him. Yeah. If he just stays where he is. Okay.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It's a walk-in touchdown. Look at this. There's it's a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: walk-in touchdown. Yeah. There's no one there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, we can rip the– it's easy to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: rip the play call, but it's a walk-in touchdown.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's fair.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Look, look, watch it from here.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he attacks upfield first, and then he sees
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that line. I think it's the lineman that he saw first.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's the lineman.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And then he's like, that must be for a reason.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: See, he's– yeah, he saw– we also looked at Daniels
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and the way that he was.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So, if a Jomo's not there and he's back where
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: he started, right, it's a walk-in. There's no one else there.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Right, he saw it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So it's easy to rip the call, which I'm sure
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: everybody's doing. Oh yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Commando fans are not happy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the player that they're flipping it to. I mean,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I get it. He's the tight end. And if you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: had somebody else offset there, maybe it's more of a key,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: but yeah. But it was a great play by a
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Jomo to come off that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a look at the Eagles. So your overall takeaway,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is there some things to work on? the gene man
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: coverage got to get around and.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: They didn't see if teams, and I know they played
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Tennessee this week and they have all kinds of issues
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and we'll end up talking about that in the pregame show, uh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: later in the week. But, um, uh, you know, so
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Tennessee might not be, you know, a test case for
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: what the concerns are, but then they play the bears
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the next week. And, you know, the bears amazingly enough,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I think they scored a few points on Sunday. So Now,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: they won't score 59 against the Eagles, but still.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I would bet, and we all, even though we don't
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: hang out with him because he's not that kind of guy,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: but I would bet that Coach Fangio was not thrilled
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: with this performance overall despite the victory.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's plenty for him to work on with
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: his crew. And again, you're right. We'll talk about that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Titans game on the Inside the Verge pregame show later
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: this week and into Saturday morning. Greg, thank you. Great
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: tape breakdown as usual. And that's going to do it
• 27:20
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• 27:23
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