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The DiCecco Daily Postgame Show: Takeaways, Insights From Eagles 28-22 Win Over Vikings · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome into this edition of to check
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Speaker 1: O Daily. It's Andrew Decheco here of Inside the Birds
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Speaker 1: dot Com.
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Speaker 2: And the Eagles improved a five.
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Speaker 1: And two on the season, beating the Minnesota Vikings twenty
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Speaker 1: eight to twenty two. And it was a game that
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Speaker 1: had a little bit of everything, but this is going
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Speaker 1: to be known as.
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Speaker 2: The Jalen Hurts Game.
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts completed nineteen of twenty three pass attempts for
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Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty six yards and three touchdowns. Wide
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Speaker 1: receiver DeVante Smith turned in a career best performance, hauling
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Speaker 1: in nine of eleven pass targets for one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty one yards and a touchdown, and that touchdown went
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Speaker 1: for seventy nine yards, which was the longest reception of
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Speaker 1: Smith's career. And aj Brown also eclipsed the one hundred
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Speaker 1: yard receiving threshold, accumulating one hundred and twenty one yards
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Speaker 1: and two TOUCHSNS on four receptions. But I thought at
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Speaker 1: the end of that game, that's where the Eagles were
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Speaker 1: really able to rise to the occasion. They get the
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Speaker 1: thirty seven yard kick return from wide receiver Xavier Gibson,
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Speaker 1: who was making his Eagles debut, which gave the Eagles
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Speaker 1: field position at the forty three with one fifty two remaining,
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Speaker 1: and then in the end, when the game was hanging
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Speaker 1: in the balance, it was Jalen Hurts on a third
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Speaker 1: and nine delivering a forty six yard dropping the bucket
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Speaker 1: to wide receiver AJ Brown and it seemed to silence
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Speaker 1: that stadium, which was pretty loud throughout the game, and
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Speaker 1: the Eagles salted away the remaining one thirty five to
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Speaker 1: improve to five and two on the season. That was
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Speaker 1: the best game that Jalen Hurts has had all season,
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Speaker 1: the most efficient, But it was about maneuvering the pocket,
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Speaker 1: which I think he did a phenomenal job in doing,
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Speaker 1: and he was decisive. He was extending plays on those
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Speaker 1: scramble drills. That's where he's most lethal. And you could
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Speaker 1: look at some of those plays, the thirty seven yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown to AJ Brown or even the twenty six yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown to AJ Brown, where not many quarterbacks are as
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Speaker 1: equipped as Jalen Hurts is to make plays outside of structure.
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Speaker 1: But again, that only happens if you have a quarterback
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Speaker 1: who is confident and capable of handling pressure up front.
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Speaker 1: And again the Eagles prove it they could do that.
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Speaker 1: Brian Flores in the Minnesota Vikings defense threw a lot
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Speaker 1: at the Eagles, a lot of different looks, but the
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Speaker 1: Eagles held tough and Jalen Hurts was able to kind
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Speaker 1: of remain unflappable in the pressure, facing the pressure and
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Speaker 1: was able to create plays down the field. That was
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Speaker 1: the big thing for me this week that I noticed
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Speaker 1: from the Kevin Patulo offense. They were more willing to
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Speaker 1: push the field, pushed the ball down the field. They
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Speaker 1: took advantage of a aggressive Minnesota Vikings defense.
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Speaker 2: The middle of the field was more.
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Speaker 1: Less wide open, and that allowed Jalen Hurts to find
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Speaker 1: Davante and aj and really start to pick apart that
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings secondary, especially cornerback Isaiah Rodgers, who had a
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Speaker 1: very difficult game against his former teammates. But the scramble plays,
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Speaker 1: that's something that the Eagles worked really hard as a
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Speaker 1: team and as a coaching staff, and they have the
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Speaker 1: personnel that makes it better.
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Speaker 2: But they went more under center.
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Speaker 1: Remember they lost Cam Jurgens early in the game with
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Speaker 1: a knee injury. He was ruled out and then Brett
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Speaker 1: Toth had to go in there and play center. So
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Speaker 1: they were doing more under center there due to you know,
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Speaker 1: it gets a little dicey if you're asking toad to
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Speaker 1: snap to shotgun and that could lead to some turbulence.
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Speaker 1: So they went more under center. And I thought this
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Speaker 1: seventy nine yard touchdown from Jalen Hurst to DeVante Smith
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Speaker 1: was such a great tendency breaker. They were under center,
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Speaker 1: they went to play action, and they hit DeVante Smith
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Speaker 1: for the seventy nine yard touchdown. It was something that
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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith and this is learned after reading some of
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Speaker 1: the quotes after the game and hearing some of the interviews.
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Speaker 2: That he lobbied for.
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Speaker 1: And the Eagles spotted its vulnerability in the Viking secondary.
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Speaker 1: So hats off to them for collaborating, communicating, and everybody
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Speaker 1: believing in the play call. And Nick Sirianni after the
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Speaker 1: game gave his offensive coaches a lot of credit in
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Speaker 1: terms of their adjustment at halftime and in game and
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Speaker 1: noting that they saw something with the middle of the
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Speaker 1: field that was going to make the middle of the
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Speaker 1: field open so that they can execute. Kind of interesting
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Speaker 1: to see how the Vikings were trying to stop the
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Speaker 1: Eagles push play, so they had outside linebacker Tyler Batty
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Speaker 1: aligning horizontal at the line of scrimmage, and then they
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Speaker 1: had defensive lineman Jalen Edmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez hovering
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Speaker 1: over both sides and positioned to go over the top.
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Speaker 2: It was close, but the Eagles still converted.
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Speaker 1: But I thought that it was really interesting to see
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Speaker 1: that kind of alignment as teams are going to try
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Speaker 1: and get more and more creative to stop what the
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Speaker 1: Eagles are so effective at in the short yarded situations.
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Speaker 1: They really really executed the sim pressure well. On the
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Speaker 1: forty two yard Jyalox Hunt interception of Wentz that.
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Speaker 2: Went for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't happen without interior pressure from Jalen Carter. But
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Speaker 1: on that play the Eagles brought Bawn and they dropped
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Speaker 1: Hunt and they were able to kind of fool Carson
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Speaker 1: Wentz in a way and jay Loox was able to
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Speaker 1: come up with the interception. Again, Jalen Carter tattoos them
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Speaker 1: coming through the line of scrimmage, splitting the double team,
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Speaker 1: but it was also a heads up play by Jalyox
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Speaker 1: to react quickly securing the football, getting upfield and finishing
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Speaker 1: the play and The pressure was also there on the
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Speaker 1: Makuba interception. So while they weren't getting home necess Sarah
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Speaker 1: Lee for sacks, the Eagles pressure was there. They forced
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Speaker 1: Wentz to roll to his right and he threw up
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Speaker 1: a dangerous throw where Quinnon Mitchell and Drew mccuba were
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Speaker 1: there covering Jordan Addison. They sort of converged and that's
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Speaker 1: where Drew mccuba was able to high point the football
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Speaker 1: and secure it. Again, the pressures were there today. They
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Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of sacks. They had just two.
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Speaker 1: Moro Jomo had one from the interior. That's his third
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Speaker 1: of the season, the most on the team.
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Speaker 2: He left the.
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Speaker 1: Game after being evaluated for a concussion. He collided there
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Speaker 1: with Keithley Ringo on a tackle. We'll have to wait
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Speaker 1: and see about him. But josh ushe got into the
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Speaker 1: sack column for the first time this season, and that's
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Speaker 1: something that going into the game, that was my bold prediction.
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Speaker 1: I had a feeling that josh Usha was going to
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Speaker 1: get home and get Wentz for a sack this week,
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Speaker 1: and that came to fruition. So now they have Patrick
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Speaker 1: Johnson with a sack, josh Usha with the sack, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: But there was also a lot of Jahad Campbell off
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Speaker 1: the edge today and I'm curios used to see what
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Speaker 1: the snap counts look like when they come out in
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Speaker 1: the morning, but a lot of na Kobe Dean at
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Speaker 1: off ball linebacker opposite Zach Bond, and you saw the energy,
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Speaker 1: the toughness, and the swagger that the defense has when
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Speaker 1: the Kobe's on the field. He brings that positive energy
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Speaker 1: and he gets downhill and makes plays. He's kind of
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Speaker 1: a just a source of I guess energy. He's always
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Speaker 1: he has this boundless energy out there and he plays
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Speaker 1: with such physicality. He made a nice play to drop
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Speaker 1: Xavier Smith on for a four yard loss in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter, and I just thought he was active. He
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Speaker 1: looked really good out there in his first defensive snaps
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Speaker 1: of the season, and because he was out there, that
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Speaker 1: afforded the Eagles the flexibility to deploy Jahid Campbell off
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Speaker 1: the edge. We talked a lot about that leading up
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Speaker 1: to the game, and while I didn't notice anything upon
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Speaker 1: first watch that stuck out to me in terms of
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Speaker 1: Jahid Campbell and his ability off the edge.
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Speaker 2: But it did.
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Speaker 1: There were no splash plays, but there was nothing over egregious.
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Speaker 1: He seemed to do a nice job setting the edge
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Speaker 1: when necessary and making some plays. But he wasn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: hurt from a ton But I'm curious to see how
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Speaker 1: that develops. And then the Eagles did lose another edge
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Speaker 1: rusher in this game, Azizo Jalari with the hamstring injury,
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Speaker 1: who was ruled out shortly thereafter, so we'll have to
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Speaker 1: wait and see what the updates are on him. But
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Speaker 1: really good individual defensive plays.
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Speaker 2: We talked about.
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Speaker 1: Jay Looks Hunt, we talked about Drew mccooper with the interception,
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Speaker 1: but Cooper dejene made a really nice play on a
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Speaker 1: second and one back shoulder throw in the left corner
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Speaker 1: of the end zone to Justin Jefferson. He couldn't have
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Speaker 1: defended it any better. He played through the catch, he
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Speaker 1: didn't panic, he didn't bail on his technique, and he
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Speaker 1: forced the incompletion. And then that drive rather than concede
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Speaker 1: a touchdown, the Eagles defense held the Vikings to a
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Speaker 1: thirty four yard field goal. Plays like that in the
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Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, it kind of it gets lost
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Speaker 1: maybe when you look at the game and its totality
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Speaker 1: and how it plays out but in the moment, that
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Speaker 1: was a huge play, and it certainly turned out to
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Speaker 1: be a huge play when you look back on some
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Speaker 1: of the different sequences in this game. We talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about mccuba with the interception and being able to
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Speaker 1: showcase his ball skills, but he does need to become.
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Speaker 2: A more sure tackler, especially in space.
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Speaker 1: He had a chance to wrap up Justin Jefferson on
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Speaker 1: a second and eleven that resulted in a forty yard play,
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Speaker 1: and that was on the heels of last week against
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Speaker 1: the Giants where Wandelle Robinson ends up getting a thirty
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Speaker 1: five yard touchdown. Macuba has a chance to get him
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Speaker 1: towards the right sideline. Cants whether it was a poor
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Speaker 1: angle or just an inability to wrap up, and those
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Speaker 1: things can't happen. Now, you do have to give him
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Speaker 1: Cuba some credit because he did exhibit some physicality and
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Speaker 1: on a play where he came down to thump running
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Speaker 1: back Xavier Scott at the one yard line following a
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Speaker 1: four yard run. Xavier Scott, by the way, I was
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Speaker 1: watching him run throughout the game. He runs with a
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Speaker 1: really high pad level, and he took some shots and
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Speaker 1: to the point where I was starting to be of
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Speaker 1: the belief that he was going to give up the
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Speaker 1: football if the Eagles struck him just right, because he
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Speaker 1: didn't really get lower burrow and he was just exposing
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Speaker 1: a lot of his tourso and you know, that might
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Speaker 1: be something to keep an eye on down the line.
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Speaker 1: But I thought he was prone to I thought the
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Speaker 1: Eagles were primed to force a fumble on him, just
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Speaker 1: based off his running style.
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Speaker 2: How about Jake Elliott.
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Speaker 1: After a strong start to the season, it was kind
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Speaker 1: of surprising to see Jke Elliot missed the forty two
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Speaker 1: yard field goal indoors. No less, one of Elliott's kickoffs
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Speaker 1: also failed to reach.
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Speaker 2: The landing zone.
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Speaker 1: Hasn't happened often to Jake Elliott this season where you've
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Speaker 1: been able to look back and identify any blemishes, But
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Speaker 1: there were a couple today. So it wasn't perfect by
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Speaker 1: any stretch. There are certain things like the penalties. For example,
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Speaker 1: the Eagles were penalized eight times for sixty four yards.
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Speaker 1: That's a recurring issue. There were moments in the game
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Speaker 1: where aj Brown on a third and one it was
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Speaker 1: a false star and then becomes a third and six.
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Speaker 1: There was a I want to say a third and
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Speaker 1: twenty because of Saquon Barkley. It was a holding penalty
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Speaker 1: that can't happen. So there were, you know, a few
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Speaker 1: plays that you can look at, look back on and
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Speaker 1: say the Eagles need to be better there. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: offensive holding it became the third and twenty and there
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Speaker 1: were drives that had three consecutive or three and consecutive
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Speaker 1: drives that had three and outs. So that's something that
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Speaker 1: they still need to become more proficient at. But I
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Speaker 1: thought the Eagles passing offense really rose to the occasion.
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Speaker 1: Jayalen Hurts with a perfect quarterback rating, uplifting the offense,
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Speaker 1: elevating the offense, maximizing his weapons at his disposal, deserves
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Speaker 1: a lot of credit for that, handling the pressure well,
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Speaker 1: being really poised and collected. Not many quarterbacks are as
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Speaker 1: equipped to go into an environment like that, and you
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Speaker 1: know all the talk leading up to a coming off
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Speaker 1: two losses, for somebody like Jalen Hurts, he thrives in
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Speaker 1: these moments. He doesn't shy away from it. So that
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Speaker 1: was really the big takeaway from today.
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Speaker 2: And how about aj Dillon being inactive.
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Speaker 1: So the Eagles went into the game with Saquon Barkley,
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Speaker 1: Will Shipley, and Tank Bigsby at running back. Tank Bigsby
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Speaker 1: got a carry on the first series for eleven yards.
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Speaker 1: His first touch is an Eagle ended up being the
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Speaker 1: longest carry that the Eagles had all afternoon. He seems
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Speaker 1: to be ahead of Will Shipley in the pecking order there.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Will Shipley, he had some really nice blitz
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Speaker 1: pickups and pass protection. There was one that resulted I
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Speaker 1: want to say it was against Eric Wilson, the linebacker,
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Speaker 1: where it resulted in a Devonte Smith's sixteen yard reception.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff there from all three of the running backs.
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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley in the Eagles running game wasn't able to
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Speaker 1: get back on track this week after it appeared like
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Speaker 1: they were. Saquon had twenty four yards on five carries
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Speaker 1: on the opening drive, but finished with just forty four
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Speaker 1: yards on eighteen carries.
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Speaker 2: Not good enough there.
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Speaker 1: I thought the Eagles did a nice job of not
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Speaker 1: feeding into running the football to sault the game away.
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Speaker 2: The passing game was working.
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Speaker 1: They hit the kill shot to aj Brown the forty
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Speaker 1: six yarder that I talked about, and they trusted the
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Speaker 1: Eagles coaching staff trusted their players to make play, to
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Speaker 1: make plays and make that play in a critical moment
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Speaker 1: instead of leaning on a running game that was very ineffective,
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Speaker 1: especially in the second half. Looked like the Vikings found
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Speaker 1: something where they were able to hone in on it.
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Speaker 1: And obviously, when you don't have Cam Jurgens in the game,
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Speaker 1: who's an effective center, a really good center, although this
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Speaker 1: season he's taken a little bit of a.
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Speaker 2: Step back, had the back.
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Speaker 1: Surgery in the offseason, but not having him in there
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Speaker 1: certainly impacted it. And then you're also asking, you know,
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Speaker 1: Jordan Mylatta other players to kind of help out to
17:36
Speaker 1: make life a little bit easier rather than having a
17:38
Speaker 1: seamless operation. But Landon Dickerson was out there and played
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Speaker 1: this week. That's expected. Whenever you see Landed on the
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Speaker 1: injury report, you get the sense that if he's on it,
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Speaker 1: he'll fight through it.
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Speaker 2: In play, he was in there and battled. So the
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Speaker 2: offensive line still working through some things. The running game needs.
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Speaker 1: To get better, but in a game where they didn't
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Speaker 1: have that to lean on, the passing game was able
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Speaker 1: to uplift it, and the defense was able to make
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Speaker 1: some key plays when they needed to make those plays
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Speaker 1: early in the game that picked six. You take that away,
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Speaker 1: it's a whole different game, but plays like that matter,
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Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz, as a veteran quarterback, made a lot
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Speaker 1: of egregious decisions early in that game that they weren't
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Speaker 1: able to dig themselves out of. And the Vikings also
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Speaker 1: weren't very efficient in the red zone. They were one
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Speaker 1: for six. They cashed in just one time. They had
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Speaker 1: a play that looked like it was going to be
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Speaker 1: a touchdown at Jalen Naylor probably should have been. It
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Speaker 1: was a tic tac call that was that was on
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Speaker 1: that Cooper Dejene drive, I believe, and it wasn't to
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Speaker 1: be and it becomes a thirty four yard field goal.
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Speaker 1: The play at the end of the game, the TJ. Hockinson.
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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about the over legislation in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: You know, some years ago, that's probably a touchdown and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't, but it was close.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was close.
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Speaker 1: But even Mike Pereira on the broadcast said it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a touchdown, but that was pretty close, and then I
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Speaker 1: just thought the Eagles did a really good job of
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Speaker 1: closing the game out and finding a way to put
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Speaker 1: the team away. The Vikings did everything that they It
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Speaker 1: didn't seem like the Vikings wanted to win that game.
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Speaker 1: It didn't seem like the Vikings wanted to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of There was that Lowell in the first half of
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Speaker 1: the Eagles offense was sputtering. They weren't able to capitalize
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Speaker 1: on that, and the Eagles were able to make them pay.
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Speaker 1: And that's what the that's what those playmakers on the
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Speaker 1: outside can do. So a lot to take away from
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Speaker 1: this game, but the Eagles put together a really complete performance.
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Speaker 1: They need to clean up some of their special teams penalties,
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Speaker 1: and I mentioned a couple of those blemishes from Jake Elliott.
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Speaker 1: But even the return game, Will Shipley had a nice
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Speaker 1: nice game returning kickoffs. There were no muffs and the
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Speaker 1: thirty seven yard or by Xavier Gibson gave the Eagles
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Speaker 1: really good field position with just under a minute fifty
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Speaker 1: to play. Minute maybe it was a minute fifty two,
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Speaker 1: and every uni complimented each other at different points in
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Speaker 1: the game.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I have the numbers here.
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Speaker 1: Bradon Man three punts for one hundred and forty six
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Speaker 1: yards long of fifty three, one inside the twenty. Will
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Speaker 1: Shipley two kick returns for fifty eight yards, have the
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Speaker 1: long of thirty three.
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Speaker 2: Xavier Gibson five for one.
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Speaker 1: To twenty eight average twenty five points six yards per
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Speaker 1: return had the long of thirty seven. That was his
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Speaker 1: first game being active after spending the first three weeks
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Speaker 1: inactive after being claimed off waivers from the Giants.
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Speaker 2: Who knows they may have something there.
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Speaker 1: He's he went into the game having returned forty four
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Speaker 1: kickoffs in his career, and I think he's shown enough
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Speaker 1: now that maybe the Eagles will lean on Shipley and
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Speaker 1: Gibson and have that kick return game rectified with Johan
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Speaker 1: Doddson still returning punts at least for the time being.
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Speaker 2: But as a return unit.
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Speaker 1: As a coverage unit, they ultimately need to be better
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Speaker 1: in avoiding some of these penalties that they've sort of
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Speaker 1: gotten away from some of the I guess some of
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Speaker 1: the intricacies of Michael Klay's unit that has made them
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Speaker 1: so proficient to start the season. They've had the block
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Speaker 1: field goal that was the touchdown, the block punt in
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Speaker 1: Tampa that Sydney brown scooped for a touchdown. They've made
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Speaker 1: some really big plays, but they're now having some untimely penalties.
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Speaker 1: And when you're a team that isn't necessarily winning with
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Speaker 1: a comfortable margin, and you have areas of the game
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Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily firing in all cylinders, you have to
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Speaker 1: make sure that every unit's doing what they can and
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Speaker 1: taking care of i should say, mastering the things that
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Speaker 1: require no talent, as Nick Sirianni likes to say. But
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Speaker 1: by and large, it was a complete win for the
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Speaker 1: foot off Eagles.
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Speaker 2: They're going to learn from that one. They're going to
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Speaker 2: grow from that one.
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Speaker 1: And one thing that I made a point of going
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Speaker 1: into this week is that the.
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Speaker 2: Temperature check was positive.
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Speaker 1: It was players looking for a solution, realizing the talent
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Speaker 1: that they have, knowing that they haven't played to their standard,
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Speaker 1: and instead of pointing fingers, instead of playing the blame game,
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Speaker 1: they wanted to get on the same page.
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Speaker 2: They had the offensive meeting.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to find an identity and find a way
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Speaker 1: to head things in the right direction. And whatever that
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Speaker 1: conversation entailed with the offense, they looked a lot more detailed,
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Speaker 1: a lot more buttoned up and cohesive than they have
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Speaker 1: than they had through the first six games. So a
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Speaker 1: lot to build on from the further foot off Eagles
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Speaker 1: from their standpoint this week, and we'll be back at
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Speaker 1: it Tuesday when the coordinators speak at eleven thirty.
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Speaker 2: We'll hear from Vic Vangio, Michael.
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Speaker 1: Clay, and Kevin Patulo and kick things off as the
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Speaker 1: New York Giants, who just beat the Eagles on Thursday
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Speaker 1: night football, traveled to Lincoln Financial Field before the Eagles
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Speaker 1: have the highly anticipated bye week where a lot of
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Speaker 1: their key players can start to get some rest.
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Speaker 2: For now, this has been to check O daily.
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Speaker 1: I am Andrew Decheko, and I'll catch you on the
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Speaker 1: next one.