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Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: What Is The Philadelphia Eagles' Offense Trying To Accomplish? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome back to Inside the Tape with Greg Cosell
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Speaker 1: on the Inside the Birds platform. I'm Jeff Mosher and
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Speaker 1: of course Greg Cosell is with us to break down
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Speaker 1: the second part of the Eagles in their sixteen to
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Speaker 1: nine win over the Lions. In the second part is offense,
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Speaker 1: and Greg, first was defense. First was not the worst.
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Speaker 1: First was the best. Now we get to offense, and
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Speaker 1: for I don't know, the second straight week, it just
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Speaker 1: does not look great.
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Speaker 2: And I'm go ahead, I'm truly confused. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 2: with you. There's I know people want to rip the
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Speaker 2: coaching staff and that's fine, but there's no way that
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Speaker 2: Nick Siriani and Kevin Petullo don't know route concepts and
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Speaker 2: route combinations. There's no way that they don't know these things.
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Speaker 2: My question is why why does this offense asent look
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Speaker 2: like a high school offense in the past game with
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Speaker 2: a quarterback that they're that they're almost playing to protect.
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Speaker 2: That's the way it looks on tape. You know, I'm
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Speaker 2: not making a judgment about the talent of Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's no judgment here. This is what the
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Speaker 2: tape shows. The tape shows a pass game that's very
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Speaker 2: remedial and elementary in its concepts and combinations. And there's
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Speaker 2: no way Nick Sirianni doesn't know these things. Nick Sirianni
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Speaker 2: was in the league for quite a while before he
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Speaker 2: even got to the Eagles with really, I mean, he
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Speaker 2: was with Philip Rivers, Okay, so he knows these things.
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Speaker 2: You know. Kevin Pittulo has been in the league long enough.
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Speaker 2: He knows these things too. You know. I talked to
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Speaker 2: coaches in the off season. You know, I've been to
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Speaker 2: training camps. All these coaches know these things, believe me.
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Speaker 2: So I'm truly more surprised and befuddled than anything else.
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Speaker 2: That's the way I feel when I watch the Eagles
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Speaker 2: offensive tape.
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Speaker 1: I am with you. I've spent the last you know,
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Speaker 1: since the end of the game till now to get
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about it. I'm really wrestling with
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Speaker 1: a lot of things, and it's we understand what the
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Speaker 1: offense is. It's been that way for years. It's probably
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Speaker 1: I would say it's struggled in the past, and we've
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Speaker 1: pointed out, but it's always peaked in Valley. It would
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Speaker 1: have some bad games followed by some really good ones,
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Speaker 1: then some medium ones, but it feels like lately this
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Speaker 1: is sort of bottom of the barrel even for this
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Speaker 1: pass offense. And the one thing that jumps out to
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Speaker 1: me is what you just said, and I really wanted
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Speaker 1: to get into it with you, is that. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not suggesting that they are not trying, but they are
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Speaker 1: not necessarily adding or it doesn't look like they've added
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Speaker 1: something to try to switch it up to help it.
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Speaker 1: You know, when we talk about the run game under
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Speaker 1: center was a radically different thing. They hadn't done that
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Speaker 1: right jumbo package. That's it. They're trying, They're doing things differently.
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Speaker 1: But to your point, I feel like looking at I
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Speaker 1: almost can call out what I think the route concepts
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Speaker 1: are gonna be versus certain coverages, because that's just what
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Speaker 1: they do. And I wonder if the mindset is we
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Speaker 1: win this way, it works, we don't turn the ball over,
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Speaker 1: so I don't care if we only but you know
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Speaker 1: that they want to be more functional.
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Speaker 2: So the question is and that's why I struggle with
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Speaker 2: the answer, because what it says to me is why
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Speaker 2: you know, Look, you know, I've made a lot of
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Speaker 2: notes on on towards the end of watching this tape
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Speaker 2: because I was just researching the Eagles, and you know
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Speaker 2: you saw it because I send it to you. You
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Speaker 2: know what they ultimately are and have to be, and
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Speaker 2: they're trying to get there. That's why they played so
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Speaker 2: much twelve personnel in this game. They're kind of searching
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Speaker 2: and groping Jeff for how to get back to what
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Speaker 2: they have to be, which is run game foundation, big play.
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Speaker 2: Passing hurts his legs a factor both by design and
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Speaker 2: off schedule. He did have two quarterback draws in this
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Speaker 2: game that mattered and got first downs. They're not a
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Speaker 2: sustaining passing team. They weren't even a year ago. The
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Speaker 2: key fact, one of the key factors is they don't
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Speaker 2: turn the ball over. But this year they've been really
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Speaker 2: poor on third down relative to they were a year ago.
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Speaker 2: They've only gained three hundred yards of total offense in
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Speaker 2: five games this year, and two of those games they
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Speaker 2: had three hundred and two yards. In today's NFL, that's
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Speaker 2: really really bad. Yeah, Barkley's had two rushes of twenty
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Speaker 2: or more yards, both in the same game. Last year
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Speaker 2: he had seventeen of them, you know, so it's it's
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Speaker 2: been bad and I just I don't have an answer
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Speaker 2: for this. I wish I did. I wish I had
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Speaker 2: a profound statement to make. But like I said, I'm
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Speaker 2: not trying to knock anybody. It's just this is what
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Speaker 2: the tape shows, right, They're just it's it looks like
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Speaker 2: a remedial, elementary offense in the past game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I can understand why players
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Speaker 1: are frustrated. I thought the offense. I want to ask
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Speaker 1: about the offensive line. I thought rum blocking. Again, I
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Speaker 1: know it's a good defensive line front. I thought Cam
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Speaker 1: Jurgens and you didn't have this in your notes, but
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Speaker 1: just watching a couple of plays that I picked out too,
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Speaker 1: maybe his the athleticism that he's normally had, I just
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Speaker 1: don't think it's there.
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Speaker 2: Well, I got hurt again too, So they did they
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Speaker 2: not disclose the injury? Have they disclosed it.
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Speaker 1: At the time of us recording this, they have not
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Speaker 1: yet disclosed the injury to my knowledge.
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Speaker 2: So so I mean, who knows if he's because obviously
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Speaker 2: Tough came in and played the last twelve thirteen snaps
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Speaker 2: of the game, and it was interesting the first play
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Speaker 2: he was in and it only gained two yards. I
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Speaker 2: think but they used him on a pull because right
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Speaker 2: now he's actually more athletic than Jurgons, just doesn't look
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Speaker 2: like himself.
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Speaker 1: Correct, and that hurts. I mean, I think that we
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Speaker 1: talk about the run game being foundational and foundational to
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Speaker 1: their run game over the years, whether it's Kelsey, whether
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Speaker 1: it's Jurgons, whether it's Dickerson playing in there is that
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Speaker 1: they run inside zone, they run duo, they run between tackles,
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Speaker 1: and if you're looking for exhibit A, they're just not
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Speaker 1: able to do that. No, Dickerson's getting better, I think
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Speaker 1: because we're not talking about him as much, but just
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Speaker 1: in general, up the middle is not where they're getting pushed.
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Speaker 2: No, So it's it's you know, the run game's not
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Speaker 2: been there. The pass game, I mean, it's never been
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Speaker 2: truly a sustaining pass game in a strict sense. But
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Speaker 2: there the big plays have not been there. I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: they had one pass play of twenty or more yards
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Speaker 2: in this game, and that was the third quarter outside
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Speaker 2: of structure play with you know, Hurts out of his
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Speaker 2: own end zone made the great throw throw and it
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Speaker 2: was a great throw to doctor would adjusted his route.
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Speaker 2: But other than that, I mean, they really don't get
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Speaker 2: much in terms of a structured pass game. You know,
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Speaker 2: they don't get much in the way of explosive plays.
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Speaker 1: M yeah, hey man, eighty five, twenty twenty five. I
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Speaker 1: guess forty years later the Eagles are trying to be
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Speaker 1: the eighty five Bears. Right, Just bully everybody that defensively
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Speaker 1: and score a few points a game and see if
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Speaker 1: that were.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're there. It's Look, the bottom line is, no
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Speaker 2: matter what you say about the Eagles, the response and
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Speaker 2: there's no way to argue it as they're eight and two,
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Speaker 2: yeah and that, and that's the mathematical equation. But true,
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Speaker 2: you know as well as I do that no one's
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Speaker 2: happy in the building about the way the offense is playing. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I joked with a friend the other day, Greg that
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Speaker 1: I think I'm resigned to the fact that the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl is going to be the Bear the Eagles and
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Speaker 1: the Broncos, and one of the teams is going to
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Speaker 1: win it five to two.
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Speaker 2: There you go, right, right right, and in the books.
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Speaker 2: But we certainly won't get a complete game because you
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Speaker 2: don't get any of those anymore either.
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Speaker 1: No, it's fact those two teams are pretty strikingly similar.
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Speaker 1: Everything very similar. Interesting. There's one last thing I did
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Speaker 1: want to ask you offensively, just from a oh the
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Speaker 1: The one positive I'm taking is that we've talked about
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Speaker 1: Hurts in the run, the designed quarterback draw on when
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Speaker 1: you go empty spread it out. There was one against
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Speaker 1: the Lion, well two against Lions, but one I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure they knew it was coming and they still couldn't
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Speaker 1: stop it. The second one because yeah, that was of empty.
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Speaker 2: And my sense was watching that play that Barnes was
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Speaker 2: deployed as a spy, but I thought he got too
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Speaker 2: aggressive and he attacked Hurts rather than controlling Hurts, and
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Speaker 2: he attacked him from one side and Hurts just you know,
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Speaker 2: ran to the other. But it was a quarterback draw anyway.
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Speaker 2: So so but yeah, they had two quarterback draws and
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Speaker 2: both of them gained you know, ten plus yards and
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Speaker 2: got first downs.
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Speaker 1: Right amazing. And then last week against the Packer or
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Speaker 1: Monday night, they had a really successful one that would
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Speaker 1: have been if he didn't fumble at the end of.
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Speaker 2: The day out.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so again, the run game has has had
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Speaker 1: its wrinkles and changeups, but still waiting for that in
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Speaker 1: the past game we'll see we'll see if it if
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Speaker 1: it's against the Cowboys or at some point soon.
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Speaker 2: I mean, who would have thought? Okay, just think of
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Speaker 2: it this way. You know, I don't play fantasy, but
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Speaker 2: I'm sure Barkley was like the number one fantasy guy
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Speaker 2: based on what he did a year ago. And right
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Speaker 2: now Barkley's the fourteenth fleeting rusher in the NFL, you know,
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Speaker 2: And who would have thought that? No?
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Speaker 1: let's take a look at some of the footage here, Greg,
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Speaker 1: and we'll start off with some positive things because there
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Speaker 1: were some good throws, some good runs that we'll get
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Speaker 1: into first. Obviously, the first one was a really nice
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Speaker 1: throw and catch between Jalen Hurts and aj Brown very
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Speaker 1: early in the game. It's an eleven yard pickup here.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember this play?
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Speaker 2: And yeah, this was third and ten on the first possession.
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Speaker 2: Came versus Alliance five man overload blitz concept. It hurts
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Speaker 2: front side. Hurts through this with really good timing. He
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Speaker 2: threw the sideline stop wrapped to Brown. Yes, sin was
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Speaker 2: an off coverage so Brown was not disrupted on his
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Speaker 2: vertical stem. He slipped, so he ended up having to
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Speaker 2: make a tough catch because he slipped. But it was
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Speaker 2: the timing was there, and it you know, it worked.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is just good football. Corners
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Speaker 2: off you throw this route, it's you know, if he
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Speaker 2: doesn't slip, it's pitch and catch, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean the ability to make this catch while you're
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Speaker 1: reaching up on your knees and getting drilled in the
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Speaker 1: back is pretty impressive.
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Speaker 2: It's a great catch.
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Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk about the best run sake one
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Speaker 1: had off a play called ninety flip, which we have
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Speaker 1: talked about. This is not John d Flippo, not that flip.
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Speaker 2: No, No, it's ninety flip.
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Speaker 1: It's a flip of direction.
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Speaker 2: I don't know everybody else calls it that. I remember
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Speaker 2: that's what the Rams called it when I you know,
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Speaker 2: with Mike Martz, and so I just that in my
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Speaker 2: mind it's ninety flip.
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Speaker 1: I like it sounds. It's a fun name. So this
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Speaker 1: works off misdirection basically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's yes, because what you're going to see
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Speaker 2: is if you run it, you're gonna see the left
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Speaker 2: guard Dickerson pull and and that's meant to control the
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Speaker 2: second level and it does look at the second level defenders,
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Speaker 2: and now it clears the edge for Barkley, so it's
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Speaker 2: a flip out to Barkley and the edge is clear.
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Speaker 1: It's a great play design. I think this is one
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Speaker 1: where you credit the play design.
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Speaker 2: Uh oh, this is a design.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know how like some passes we say
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Speaker 1: are zero read passes, this is a non blocking play.
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Speaker 1: The block is supposed to take everybody away from.
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Speaker 2: And it does. This play worked really well. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I wanted to. I didn't know if this one
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Speaker 1: stood out to you watching the play from this angle,
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Speaker 1: but obviously Jurgens is the only one who's out on
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Speaker 1: the side, and I was watching him and I just
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Speaker 1: I feel like he just didn't look at like his
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Speaker 1: normal explosion. You know, he's he's behind the play. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's supposed to be usually. I remember when Kelsey was
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Speaker 1: that he'd be out in front like mall yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah.
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Speaker 1: But even in that regard, but even Jurgens had that athleticism.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that was the first sign of me. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: maybe he's just not, you know, athletically at the level.
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Speaker 2: I'm curious when they do disclose the injury what it is,
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Speaker 2: whether it means he's out, because we now know Lane
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Speaker 2: Johnson's out for four to six weeks, so you will
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Speaker 2: see what happens with Jurgons.
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Speaker 1: All right, here we have what I thought was a
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Speaker 1: really nice throw a slant right from Hurts to aj
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Speaker 1: Brown and that get that sets up a touchdown. Barkley
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Speaker 1: gets the run and then he's not in and then
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Speaker 1: Hurts finishes it off with the with the keeper touchdown.
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Speaker 2: So this was Brown eleven yards and on second and
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Speaker 2: three on the on the second quarter touchdown drive where
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Speaker 2: it's a quick slan versus Yasin's pressman coverage off what
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Speaker 2: I call conventional bank play action, meaning it's under center.
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Speaker 2: And you see what when I say bank play action,
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Speaker 2: it's three step drop timing. That's why I call it
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Speaker 2: bank play action. This is normally not a play they
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Speaker 2: run a lot of. And the reason they don't run
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Speaker 2: a lot of this is because Hurts is not truly
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Speaker 2: a compact thrower, and this kind of play requires a
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Speaker 2: real compact delivery. But but Brown does a great job
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Speaker 2: of beating us in the passing. Liane is there because
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Speaker 2: you have the run element to it, and he puts
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Speaker 2: it on him and you know he gets it down
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Speaker 2: and it sets up the touchdown yep.
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Speaker 1: And I know that that's the read and that's the
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Speaker 1: defined read, but it is still a throw between the numbers,
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Speaker 1: between a couple of defense.
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Speaker 2: The only way you wouldn't throw it is if you
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Speaker 2: as you're getting ready to throw someone sitting there. But
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Speaker 2: it's a one read throw. You know, you're not really
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Speaker 2: I mean three step you're not reading anything three steps,
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Speaker 2: particularly when you turn your back right.
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Speaker 1: But we've seen Hurts kind of make these throws, but
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Speaker 1: on those kinds of and and that goes back to
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Speaker 1: the question, could you figure out a way to incorporate
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Speaker 1: that a little bit more into the offense?
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Speaker 2: Yep, that's good play. It's it's a really good play.
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Speaker 1: All right, So let's take a look at just a
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Speaker 1: couple of Barkley runs. This is up the middle. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he really really struggled to find space and push. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if this one will just jumped out to you,
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Speaker 1: Greg because it's a run, but we'll take a look
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Speaker 1: at it. He's gonna wind up getting dropped for minus
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Speaker 1: one on here. This is not true.
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Speaker 2: This was the run where I again I'm always leary
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Speaker 2: of talking about a running back's vision just because you
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Speaker 2: don't know, but this was a run where I thought, again,
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Speaker 2: like I said, you know, I could be one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent wrong, Jeff, and I'm saying that honestly, sure, but
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Speaker 2: I thought that there, you know, because this was a
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Speaker 2: short yardage play. Yes, yeah, this was. He only needed
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Speaker 2: one yard to get a first down if I'm not
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Speaker 2: mistaken on this moving track and if you just run it.
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Speaker 2: I just thought, I mean, look here, go back just
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Speaker 2: a little bit. If you can go back to when
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Speaker 2: he takes the ball right there, just follow that you
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Speaker 2: need one yard. When I saw this play, I thought, okay,
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Speaker 2: he's gonna go you know, inside of of sixty nine
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Speaker 2: and and you know, and inside of my Alotta and
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Speaker 2: he's gonna get you know, the yard or two or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is, right, and he just ran up the
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Speaker 2: back of Dickerson. Yeah again. You know, I don't want
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Speaker 2: to you know, Barkley's Barkley. He's obviously, you know, one
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Speaker 2: of the better backs in the league. I've never played
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Speaker 2: running backs, so I'm not going to sit here and say,
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Speaker 2: you know, but it just struck me as what there
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Speaker 2: was space there he needed one yard?
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, no, I agree with you, Dickerson. Laine really
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Speaker 1: got pushed back.
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Speaker 2: Here, Yeah he did.
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Speaker 1: Blaine must have been I think it's fair to say,
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Speaker 1: like Lane Blaine was must not have been at one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent. Obviously suffered to Liz Frank in the game,
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Speaker 1: but he already was dealing with the ankle.
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Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that this is not the last year
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Speaker 2: of Lane Johnson being like a really good player, because
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Speaker 2: there's just been times this year where he hasn't quite
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Speaker 2: been the guy we've seen who's the first ballot Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame without question.
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Speaker 1: Right now, that's fair, and so Barkley could have hit
17:56
Speaker 1: that hole too, but also zero push. I mean, they're
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Speaker 1: they're the Primmage got reset on on their side between Dickerson, Lane,
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Speaker 1: Johnson and Calcata. There's just nowhere to go on that one. Uh,
18:09
Speaker 1: here's another one. This is going to be Barkley getting
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Speaker 1: minus three. I think Jurgens just can't make the angle
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Speaker 1: block that we usually have seen him be able to make.
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Speaker 1: He just sort of gets yeah, yeah, you know, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean he he didn't. I would say he didn't
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Speaker 2: really fire off the ball there very well. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's just right now and I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to criticize him. I he's playing hurt or
18:37
Speaker 1: just not.
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Speaker 2: You know a lot of uh, one term that's often used,
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Speaker 2: you know, with offensive line play for the center as
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Speaker 2: snap to step, and it just seemed like the step
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Speaker 2: to step here was slow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, It's like he like he's falling into the
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Speaker 1: guy instead of getting a good hard block onto him,
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Speaker 1: you know. And then that that of course just played
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Speaker 1: basically gives Barkley nowhere to run right away.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it's just one of those plays.
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Speaker 2: He didn't. It didn't. He didn't look quick off the ball, right.
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Speaker 1: And then here's another one where and maybe you'll set
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Speaker 1: me straight if I'm wrong. I mean I felt like
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Speaker 1: This is the the minus eight catch from Barkley where
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Speaker 1: I think Jurgons is trying to get to Angeloni but
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Speaker 1: just doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Get This is a hard block. He's not getting there.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure any center gets there because Angeloni moved
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Speaker 2: right away. Okay, this is man coverage and Angeloni has
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Speaker 2: the back, so he's going as soon as Barkley starts
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Speaker 2: to move, Angelone's here. You watch just if you play it. Boom,
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Speaker 2: he's on. He's on his horse right now. Yeah, Jurgons
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Speaker 2: is not getting there, that's true. I don't think any
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Speaker 2: center is getting there, so this is not really a
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Speaker 2: knock on Jurgons. He's not getting there.
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Speaker 1: That's why we bring you on the show. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: certain myself, but that which is why I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get your take on that, okay.
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Speaker 2: Cause it's man if it was Zone and Jurgens, you know.
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Speaker 2: And then Angeloni was reacting rather than being proactive and
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Speaker 2: gone because look, look, Angeloni's moving the second Barkley moves. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's not getting there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and he's much faster obviously being
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Speaker 1: a small not getting there. Yeah, and poor Barkley could
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Speaker 1: us off do the Lions. They played a lot of
21:22
Speaker 1: cover three man correct.
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Speaker 2: They played a lot more man than I would have thought,
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Speaker 2: and they didn't spy regularly, which kind of surprised me.
21:33
Speaker 2: But they played a lot of man coverage in this game.
21:35
Speaker 2: I mean an awful lot.
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Speaker 1: And that's not something they typically do.
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Speaker 2: They played well. They played the highest percentage of cover
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Speaker 2: one of any defense in the league this past week.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow. Yeah, and they play man. I mean, you
21:48
Speaker 2: know they do play man. Now, it's not a surprise,
21:50
Speaker 2: but the amount they play. Think of it this way.
21:54
Speaker 2: They played with backup outside corners. Okay, because Robertson's a
21:58
Speaker 2: good player, but he's probably a slot. Ya Sin's been
22:01
Speaker 2: with a lot of teams. You know, he's the Temple kid,
22:03
Speaker 2: originally a second round pick. I mean, you know, considered
22:05
Speaker 2: a good prospect when he came out. But he's been
22:07
Speaker 2: with a lot of teams. But they're their backup corners, right,
22:10
Speaker 2: So they played a ton of man with Robertson and
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Speaker 2: Ya Sin against Brown and Smith. What does that say? Again?
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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm trying to understand this and to figure
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Speaker 2: out why they had no problem playing with their backup
22:24
Speaker 2: corners man to man against Smith and Brown, which I
22:28
Speaker 2: don't believe is a knock on Smith and Brown. I
22:30
Speaker 2: think it's more of a knock on the pass game.
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Speaker 1: Right right, I agree with you. And then so that
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Speaker 1: made me wonder about the counteraction I wanted to ask
22:38
Speaker 1: you about because the Eagles played forty snaps of twelve
22:41
Speaker 1: personnel in nineteen of eleven, so with them being so
22:45
Speaker 1: beat up, I wonder what the thought process of not
22:48
Speaker 1: trying to get a little bit more eleven personnel and
22:50
Speaker 1: make them have to put Arthur Molette out there and
22:53
Speaker 1: then Nickel, you know, just one more backup.
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Speaker 2: It's another why question. I mean, wouldn't you think that Okay,
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Speaker 2: they're playing with two backups on the outside, they're playing
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Speaker 2: with a backup in the slot. Okay, they're playing with
23:05
Speaker 2: a backup safety and Thomas Harper. Okay, I think it's
23:08
Speaker 2: Thomas's first and the Eagles didn't really throw the ball. Yeah.
23:16
Speaker 2: I mean again, it's a why I don't have an answer.
23:21
Speaker 2: People can give whatever answer they want, you know, you
23:24
Speaker 2: and I could talk about it for the next hour
23:25
Speaker 2: and we still won't know. But it's it's just very
23:29
Speaker 2: confusing to me.
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Speaker 1: I would agree, all right, Well, maybe next time after
23:33
Speaker 1: the Cowboys game, we'll have more answers or very possibly
23:37
Speaker 1: greg more questions. I know that's hard to believe, but
23:39
Speaker 1: we might even after that. But that's gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: For this episode of Inside the Tape, looking at the
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Speaker 1: Eagles offense of course, and their win against the Lions.
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Speaker 1: For Greg Cosell, I'm Jeff Mosher. Thanks for watching Inside
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