Eagles 360: Fixing The Flaws

the Novicare Complex. And let's be honest because it is a very sobering time here at an overcare complex knowing that this is the final week of the season, which remarkable feeling after kind of all the high expectations going into the regular season, after a fine, fine preseason, outstanding preseason, and probably set the expectations way too high for this football team with so many new pieces needing to gel throughout the course of the year. But hey, at one

point this team was four and four. They were not able to get it done down the stretch and the Redskins game on Saturday night just showed some of the same problems that we've seen throughout the course of the season, from drops, an inconsistent play on offense, to too many breakdowns on the defensive side of the football, especially in third down situations when a play was needed to be made.

So the same storylines reared their ugly heads once again, and that's why the Eagles for the second straight ear Dave are on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoffs, and for the second consecutive season, the Eagles eliminated by Washington. The playoff hopes of the Eagles dead once again, and we'll look ahead to two thousand and sixteen in due time. Today we want to talk specifically about this Eagles team and what has gone wrong

in twenty fifteen. Later on, Brian Westbrook will join us via Skype. Right now, however, well Chip Kelly meeting the media on this Monday, Alex Smith covers it in our Eagles three sixty Update. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update. The Eagles are back at work here at the Novocare Complex as they get set for the regular season finale against the New York

Giants on Sunday. Today we heard from Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, and one of the first topics that he addressed was the Eagles defense as they struggled against the past against Washington on Saturday night, and according to head coach, one of the most frustrating parts about this defense is that every week it seems to be something different, as you can't pinpoint just one problem where the team has been inconsistent or like I said earlier in the Arizona game,

we got the ball run on us, you know, and Johnson they did a really good job and running the ball on us. In this game. We did a good job in the run defense, where we didn't we didn't do a very good job at all in the past defense, especially versus their tight ends and their running backs. So it's it hasn't been the same consistent theme. So there's not one thing to say, Hey, we need to If we fix this, we're gonna be good. We're gonna be good.

It's and that's the frustrating part, you know. It's it's it's that's the part to degravate him, to be honest with you. After the game on Saturday night, quarterback Sam Bradford expressed that he wants to be here in Philadelphia next season and moving forward, and while his contract is up after this year. Kelly said that it's no surprise to him that Bradford wants to be back here as an Eagle. I know where Sam stood the whole the whole season, and I know we know we're on the

same page in terms of where we are. It's just we don't negotiate during the during the season with anybody. So that wasn't a hey, we don't want Sam back. That's just the way it is. You know, we players shouldn't be worried about a contract while the season's going on, and that'll be something we'll address after the season. But that may be news to you guys, it's not new sauce that Sam is happy here. So six and nine is certainly not where the Eagles thought they would be

through fifteen games here in the twenty fifteen season. But according to head coach Chip Kelly, even though things haven't gone the way the team has hoped, this still isn't a bad football team. Yeah, it didn't go away, But I don't think we're a bad football team, not by any stretch, you know. And I can point the plays and I think we're not consistent that we need to be consistent. I don't think we've done a good enough job as coaches and putting them in position to make place.

But I don't think that, you know, we need to revamp this entire cope of guys, because I think we've got some really, really good guys that'll wrap things up here From the Novacare Complex, be sure to stay tuned to Philadelphia Eagles dot Com throughout the week for all the latest coverage, including our live press conferences from coach Kelly, Sam Bradford, Damiko Ryans, and Malcolm Jenkins. Thanks so much,

Alex Chris. Interesting little side note here, if the Eagles lose this game, this is kind of a battle for London. The loser of the game on Sunday goes to London to play the Rams next year. The winner of this game on Sunday plays a road game in Seattle next season. Have that correct? That's correct? So either way you're traveling, The thing is you don't want to back into a London game, so to speak. Now it would be a road game either way. So the Eagles don't lose a

home game, which is very important. But it's been a long time since the Eagles that played internationally. You've covered the Eagles and some of these nineteen well I believe, yeah, certainly so definitely a different flavor there. But I want the Eagles and on a high note and beat the New York Giants, and that's going to the offseason a down, right. That's kind of the way it works in the NFL. You play to win the games and that is the

objective here. The players report back to the Novercare Complex on Tuesday, and there's site set on the New York Football Giants. When we return to Eagles three sixty, we've got allowed to get you. We're gonna talk about the defense. We're gonna talking about it, but first we're gonna talk about Sam Bradford. Now, has he done enough in your minds to win a contract here with the Philadelphia Eagles? Is he the player around which you build for this

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former Eagles running back Brian Westbrook. Brian, Happy Holiday's, Happy New Year to you and yours. Happy holidays guys, Thank you very much. We are we are anxious to speak to you now. You've gone through these seasons before. First, the mindset of a player heading into the last week of a season, well, it's all always tough as a player because you put so much time and energy at being focused on winning football games, and you still want

to invest that time and energy. It's just a little bit harder knowing that you're not playing for a playoff birth. I think it's a coach's job at this point to understand that he has to express to his players you're not only playing to represent yourself or your family, but you're also putting your tape together. The same type of

conversation that you have in the preseason. You're putting your tape together for the thirty one other teams including you have to include ourselves as a team too, and you're trying to represent yourself on that tape because you never know what happens in the all season. All right, Brian, we have a couple of players, a couple of positions we want to go through first, starting with quarterback Sam brad for the last six games as quarterback rating at

ninety five. He's throwing the football very well. He's been tough in the pocket, he's showing mobility, he's been a leader. Bradford, Does he stay? Does he go? What do you do with Sam Bradford and the quarterback position? I think in the NFL it's hard to be successful as a team if you continue to change quarterbacks year after year. I think Sam has improved enough that he should be given another chance to come back. Fulfilling an entire off season to figure out how to become a better player, to

get healthy, all those types of things. He's done well enough to fulfill that all season be able to come back as a starter next year. Bright, where have you seen the most improvement in Sam Bradford's game from the start of the season to now, well, I think he's become a much more decisive thrower. I think he's much more accurate. I think the guys depend on him for his leadership a lot more than they did early in

the season, and that just comes with time. And you know this thing here, it's hard to find franchise quarterback throughout the league period, and only a few teams have them. I think they had the buildings in the beginnings of a franchise type of guy in Sam, and if he can continue some of those things that he's gotten better at in the off season, I think he'll be fine the season comes. So how does it work with players? What is the process once this season ends between now

and when free agency begins in March. Well, for a player, you want to take a little bit of time off, make sure that your body gets completely healthy. And for Sam, coming off the ACL the year before, he probably he really hasn't had an off season where he can focus on just getting better and perfecting his game. Most of his off season kind of like mine, are usually dealing

with trying to get healthy from the previous season. But I think this year he'll spend some time of getting healthy, but he'll spend a majority of his off season just perfecting his game and truly becoming a better quarterback and understanding schemes a lot better. And if you can use that continuity from the things that he learned from the early partner this year to the end of this year and into the off seasons to get better, he'll be

a much better quarterback by time August comes around. Where does the business side of things fit into into this? How does it work in terms of talking to the team getting things all buttoned up before March? It is something that happens right away. Does a player want to get away from the game for a few weeks and let things settle generally what happens there, Well, that's the tough part of things for Sam, his agent, and probably for the team. I think the team should want to

bring Sam back. I think Sam, just from his comments the last couple of days, he wants to come back, and I think his focus probably is going to just make sure that he locks things up pretty quickly. Of course, his agent is going to try to go out there and look at the different teams and find out his value. But I think if Sam kind of drives his thing with his agent and with the team that will ensure his ability to get back to the Philadelphia Eagles pretty quickly.

B West Bradford posted a career high in terms of passing yards Saturday night against the Redskins. But the one thing that probably could help the Eagles even more would be better production from the wide receiver position. What have

you seen from the outside guys. We know Jordan Matthews has been very productive in a slot, but what about the outside guys like Josh Hoff, Riley Cooper and the rookie Nelson agilor Well, the truth is, when you look at outside receivers across the league, the good ones, they have a combination of speed and the ability to catch the football as well as separation. I think this year we struggled with I think Aguil he has his speed, Huff has a speed. Riley Cooper is not blazing fast,

but his speed is good enough. They struggle with getting the separation and catching the football. And so for them, part of catching the football is getting the separation, which kind of goes hand in hand. If you get that separation, you're a little bit more open. You'll do a better job of catching the football. So I start with that.

I think Aguilorea as a rookie as well as Huff, they have to find out how to begin to use their body in how to get that separation that means stemming the defender up, giving them a headshake, things like that, and being able to run better route And I think they have that ability in this offseason would prove big for both of those players, Huf as well as Aging Lord. If they can run much better routes, crisper, more accurate routes, get the separation that they need one in one on

one coverage, they'll become much better players. That they remain the way that they are, they're not gonna be very good players in the NFL. Bryan focusing on Nelson, how much of a jump can a player make from year one to year two in this offense? Well, you know, Chris, the truth is, up until the last couple of years, rookies and especially at the wide receiver position, have not made a major impact until you run into guys like Beckham Junior up there in New York, guys that were

able to do it at a young age. But it wasn't you know, up until recently that guys took a couple of years to develop, and I think, agu Lord, he has a speed, he has all the talents. Is this going to take some time for him to put those things together into one total package. And that could come in this offseason, that could come in the following year. But I think his experience this year will help him

grow and to become a better player next year. And most people say the most growth that players have is usually between their first year and the second year. Brian, moving on to tight ends, zach Ertz has been really productive of lates. Brent Selik another year of good blocker, physical guy, strong leadership, veteran. But he's up there in age. They've got Trey Burton who's developing. As you look at the tight end position, is it a priority moving forward

to upgrade? Do you think zach Ertz can get to that really elite level that the Eagles have kind of been hoping he would get to. I think zach Ertz is a fantastic player. I think they should lean on him a little bit more because he has that playmaking ability. He could run similar routes to Jordan Reed and we just got a big dose of him this past week

in Washington. I think when when I look at this position, I think Brin Sellick, who has done great for the Eagles for a long time, blocking, just doing whatever the coaches need him to do. He's done a great job.

I think Chip Kelly probably wants to move forward and get a younger guy in there that can be much more of a passing threat, that can be a little bit more athletic, and that's probably means saying goodbye to a great player in Eagles history, and Brent Selley tray Burton hasn't had a lot of time as far as ability to play, so they probably just come with another tight end, probably a younger guy, as they move forward. All Right, Brian, we're gonna ask you to hang in there.

We're gonna take a little break on Eagles three sixty, and when we return, we've got more to talk about. We're gonna talk about the offensive line, which has been an issue the entire season, and the running back position, well, we thought going into the year that it would be just a playground of opportunities. Instead, it has been really, really tough for running backs coach Duce Staley to work in to Marco Murray and Darren Sprowles and Ryan Matthews

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I don't understand. We are back as Eagles three sixty. Dave Spidero Eagles insider, along with Chris McPherson, joined on Skype by Brian West, performer Eagles running back, current Hall of Fame out here in Philadelphia. And we've got some pieces of the offense that really have just not come together this season. Let's begin with the offensive line and the mess that really is upfront. We knew going into the season if the guard positions would be something to watch.

Letting go of Evan Mathis and Todd Harriman's and using Andrew Gardner and Matt Tobin on the right side, using Alan Barber on the left side hasn't worked out to the way the Eagles wanted. Jason Peters made the Pro Bowl his six thousand Eagle, but a lot of injuries. Has not been vintage. Jason Peters probably hasn't been vintage. Lane Johnson certainly hasn't been the best of Jason Kelsey either. As you look in the big picture, Brian Westbrook, what do you see with this offensive line? How do you

get it back to the twenty thirteen level? Well, I agree, a lot of guys have struggled on that offensive line, and the best offensive lines in the league have continuity. We talked about it at the quarterback position, but it's staying's true to form at the offensive line position. Probably

even more so. You have five different guys that need to be going in the same direction at the same time, and the longer that you can keep those guys doing that, of course together, of course they're much better at that. And so I think offensively, you spoke the truth there. Dave Lane Johnson has to play better, and I think he can. The two guards that they struggled all year long, I think they're gonna try to replace those guards moving forward here. Jason Peters has to find a way to

get healthy. If he does get healthy, he's still could be one of the better left tackles in the game. And Jason Kelsey. I think in the all season this is important for him. He has to gain a little bit away, get a little bit stronger, so that at the point in the middle of that offensive line he

can still be productive. And I think Chip Kelly has to be very very careful how they use Jason Kelsey as tar as him pulling the things like that, because with the weakness that guard the guard position, will Jason Kelsey pulling interior defensive line were able to penetrate that offensive line early on in the season, and that set their running backs back and whole life a whole lot early on in the season, and that doesn't allow you to establish a run game. Bryan, let's get your take

on the running back situation here in Philadelphia. The Eagles made a significant investment to get to Marca Murray as well as Ryan Matthews in free agency. Obviously, they have Darren's roles in the fold as well, and then Kenyon Barner, who's progressed and risen the ranks to be a part of the active roster and has earned some playing time

throughout the course of the season. Now, are the struggles for the running backs a case of the offensive line not being able to produce the blocking needed or the he'ld not being able to find the right way to utilize all the backs in this offense. Well, it's tough, and I think with the struggles with running backs across the league usually are a combination of both of those things. Of Course, you need that push upfront with the offensive line.

And it doesn't matter what running back you have, the best one or the worst one. If you don't get good offensive line play, you'll never would be successful as a running back. So the offensive line, the guys in the trenches play a big part in the success of a running back. And then you know, as far as the rotation of guys, I think, truthfully, Darren Strolls is not a fifteen carries a game type of guy. He's not even a team carries a game type of guy.

He can give you a spurt here and there, but I wouldn't count on him as being a regular part of my running back rotation. Moving in the future, I think Ryan Matthews could be a guy that I can lean on for twelve or fifteen trades a game, provided that he can stay healthy. Unfortunately, but even before he left San Diego, he hasn't been completely healthy for stretches of his of his career, And so you worry about

that Demarca Murray, his style just doesn't seem to fifness offense. Um. He's much better suited for a downhill running game where he can get keep his shoulders square to the line of scrimmage. That will fit his style much better. Um. And so when I look at that group as a whole, we have some holes in that group. Really. Ryan Matthews is the only guy I think you want to sprinkle

in a little bit of Kenyon Barner there. But I think you still have to go out and get another guy, especially especially if you make a decision to move de Marca Murray on right, it's interesting to say that I wonder that you know you're not gonna get rid of to Marca Murray. I mean, the contract is not one that allows pretty much unless you have some sort of

Houdini move here. The question is with DeMarco Murray, do you scheme the offense to fit him or is he going to be just another really expensive afterthought in the Eagles offense next year? Well, he's not going to give you very much on special He's not going to give you anything on special teams. So either if your chip and you spend all this money on him, I'm going to figure out this all season how I could get

him involved in the game. How I can make DeMarco Murray, who was a league leader last year in rushing yards, involved in our offense. And so I'm going to spend a much of my all season majority of it trying to figure out what's the best move for him, because this has to for this team to be offensively successful, they need a running game and you have one of the game's best in your backbuield. You have to figure out how to match your scheme to the personnel that

you have. That's one of the coaches toughest jobs, either in this offense or any offense across the NFL. How do you feat fit yours Eames to master personnel that you have. I think chim Kelly can figure that out. I think it's gonna it's gonna be a lot different in the offense will look a lot different than it has the last couple of years. The Eagles fifteenth in the NFL in rushing offense and DeMarco Murray forty five point two yards rushing per game. Nobody nobody saw that coming.

We've got a lot more to get to here. On Eagles three sixty, Brian Westbrook stays with US Dave Spidero along with Chris McPherson, and we're gonna talk about the defense next. It has been a really tough road for coordinator Bill Davis with one game to go. When you get away from smartphones and video games and tablets, it's amazing what you can really plug into this season. Shop the brands you love, plus thousands of items on sale, Mountain Sports, at Goal, all things sporting good. We're going.

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Brian Westbrook. Now we are talking about an Eagles defense that statistically and when you watch it, that just does not get the job done. Eagles among the league's worst in just about every single category. We begin with our conversation on the defensive line. Fletcher Cox a Pro Bowl and hopefully an All Pro kind of season, but not enough. The run defense poor, the pass rush sporadic, but still brand.

It seems like there are some pieces in place up there, if he can get some help around the defensive line. You're right, I think there are some pieces in place. I think Benny Logan, I think he can play. I think Cedric Thornton could play. And I think both those guys have enough of that that dog inside of them to be aggressive run stoppers and players up front. Fletcher Cox, of course, is the Bell Cow those those front three right there, and so I think those three are good

enough to win in the NFL. Truthfully, you're bringing bare and things like that. I think you can win with those guys. We need more production from our outside linebackers, quite frankly, Brandon Graham and Cornor Barman. They have to find a way to get pressure on the quarterback. That means you need more a better rotation. That means they need to be able to come out of the game from time to time. That means your reserve linebackers have

to play much better. We really haven't gotten much for Marcus Smith and we don't have any other outside linebackers, and so that forces Brandon Graham and Connor Barmin to play an awful lot of the game, and you just it's just hard to play defense that way. So their production went down. If we are able to find an edge pass rusher this off season, that would definitely help that defense. B West, how much do you think it hurts the Eagle's defense the fact that they're on the

field for so many snaps. It's been a reoccurring theme for the past couple of seasons. When you look at the depth on this defense, how much do you think it hurts having to be out there for snap after snap, drive after drive to the point where you're almost playing another full game by the end of the season. Well, Chris, just look at how good this defense was earlier on in the season. You're talking about one of the top

ten run stopping defenses in the league. In just over time, guys wear down, teams wear it down defenses fatigue, and when you're playing forty minutes consistently for game after game after game, of course it wears on your defense. Of course, it makes those guys much more susceptible for injuring as well as fatigue makes big plays even more likely for an offensive team, and so defensively, being on the field that much time definitely has an effect on your team.

That's one of the things that many coaches across the

league are trying to guard against. They don't want their defense on the field because that means that other team's offenses on the field, and so coach Kelly has to take a good look at how many plays his defense is on the field and how much time his defense is on the field for next year, Ryan inside Linebacker, We thought going into the season that Demiko Ryans would get back to health and that Michael Kendricks would take the next step and the Kiko Alonso would be, as

Chip Kelly describes him, a three down linebacker, and then the Eagles could bring third round draft pick Jordan Hicks along slowly and he could learn the ways of the NFL. And turns out that Hicks the most valuable player perhaps on this Eagles defense. Kiko Alonso has been unable to really contribute much at all. Michael Kendricks has not taken the next step, and Demiko Ryans looks like he's on the wrong side of thirty here. What do you do

with the inside linebacker position? Yeah, I think you have to find another guy. I think Demiko Ryan's You're right. He is aged and father time is undefeated, and he's had a couple of injuries coming off the achilles. Is just hard to compete at that position coming off as many injuries as Demikos has faced. When I look at Kendricks, I'm talking about all the athletic ability in the world, and he's just not able to be in the right place at the right time to make those plays. I mean,

he's there, he misses tackles. He's in the wrong position in the past sets, and he's allowing receivers tight ends to get inside of him. He's just not playing very disciplined football. Kiko Alonzo, I still believe can be a decent player. We haven't seen that yet from him, and I believe that he needs a total offense offseason, just like saying Bradford to not work on getting healthy, but work on perfecting his craft and then we'll see what

type of player he is next year. And you know the Hicks, I think he came in to play well. We'll see some more of the rookie next year, but they definitely need another guy that can anchor the middle of that defense. You're talking about teams that are able to run the ball right up the middle of your defense. When you're bringing substitute defensive lineman and you have those linebackers in there, you can't compete. You're allowing teams to

run the ball four or five yards and carry. That's not any defense that gives up for five yards to carry will be in trouble down the road. That makes your safeties come up closer to the line of scrimmage, which makes it easier for teams to pass the football on year as well. Brian, you mentioned there schematically the stress that the coverage aspects has put on the cornerbacks

there because the safety is having to come up. How much pressure added pressure do you think it puts on the corners on the outside because of the fact that there's been struggles in the middle of the field in terms of coverage this year. Well, Chris, it definitely takes a lot of It puts a lot of pressure on those guys. Even having Malcolm Jenkins come up into the

slot puts a lot of pressure on those guys. I mean when when you talk about it Malcoel Jenks being in the back of the secondary and the normal safety position, that's a position of strength now that everyone knows exactly where it to be because he can line you up and you know that Malcolm Jenkins is really in the middle of the field. When you bring Milchael Jenks up into the slot the check the slot receiver, you bring

Marigos in or Reynalds in, that weakens your defense. And so anytime that they do that, I always was concerned whether that defense was gonna be more susceptible to big players down the field, and as it turned out, it definitely was. Byron Maxwell has to become a better player, and I think Nola Carroll went healthy, has to become a better player. I think I was surprised by Eric Row.

He competed all season long after getting beat up by Calvin Johnson, and I think his played the last couple of weeks gave the coaches as well as himself some confidence that he could play on this level at the cornerback position. No. One Carroll will be an undrestricted free agent, Walter Thurman will be an undrestricted free agent, Byron Maxwell will return, and Brian we got the description of Byron Max. We watched him in Seattle. Long tall Chip Kelly said

he was a physical cornerback when he signed him. What do you do with Byron Maxwell? How do you get him back to that level where he may not be a Pro Bowl player, but he certainly is a help to the defense. Yeah, you know, I don't know that he's a physical player at the point, meaning on the line of Scrimma is not allowing guys getting off. He doesn't have overwhelmingly great speed for catch up speed, and so as a defensive coordinate you have the very smart.

How you use them. You put him in zone situations. And the problem that I've seen with Bayern Maxwell is this is when he has inside leverage, he gives that up pretty quickly or he gets beat on the outside. He doesn't have the makeup speed to catch guys. I've seen him in the off position and he's given up the slant. So Billy Davis a defense for it. They have to figure out what's the best position for Byron Maxwell,

really for any any cornerback. And the same thing that I said about Demarca Murray put into him in places and schemes that he can be successful. That's the same thing you have to do with their cornerbacks. Put them in schemes in places that they can be successful, and you have to figure out what's those guys strimps. Right now, I'm not sure what the strengths of Byron Maxwell are really or the defense twenty ninth in rushing yards allowed, twenty eighth in points per game, twenty six in yards

allowed this season, and the red zone. Yeah, really a disaster for the Eagles. We've got one segment to go here on Eagles three sixty when we return, we talk about a strength of twenty fourteen that hasn't quite played to that level. Still good, but not dominating. We talk about special teams when Eagles three sixty returns. Catch Holiday cookie cheer on the tip of your tongue with Duncan doughnuts Holiday cookie flavored coffees from two to six pm.

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that in twenty fourteen ranked first in the NFL. According to Rick Gossen of the Dallas Morning News in a comprehensive study, they will not rank first Brian Westbrook in twenty fifteen, but they've been pretty good. And Donnie Jones, Eagles punter, has been outstanding. Donnie Jones has done a great job. In this game. You had to play field position from time to time, and Donnie Jones has done

a great job. But just booming some kicks. I'm not sure exactly what gaming was, but Sam Bradford took a big zack on third down and enforced and went backwards lost ten to twelve yard flowd and Donnie Jones boomed the fifty five yarder which made it almost impossible for that team to drive the field. And so I think he's done a great job of putting the defense in great positions as well as protecting the offense for some

of the mistakes that they have made. Right, What do you think of Darren Scrolls from the punt return standpoint? One of the league leaders, once again named to the Pro Bowl for the second straight year. How important was it for him to come off his strong twoousand and fourteen campaign and bounce back and have two more punt return touchdowns here in twenty fifteen. You know, I always laugh when I when I see teams kicking the ball to Darren Spros. I'm like, well, you know, the offense

strogs from time to time. Why would you ever give them any any type of momentum, any chance to be successful, especially with Darren Spros back then one of the best returns in the last ten to fifteen years. You know, I think he did another another good job on special teams. I'm like I mentioned, I'm shocked that teams still continue

to kick the ball to him. I think Dave Fifths, the special teams coordinator, continues to do a good job to get the core group of guys ready to play every single week, and that includes Darren and his ability to return punts has been incredible again this year. Brian. Caleb Sturgis has done a pretty nice job coming in replacing Cody Parkey. Both under contract next year. Do you see a kicking competition for the job there? Probably will it be a competition, depending on how Parky comes back

from injury. Sergis has done a pretty decent job. I don't have a problem with him. Of course, he missed a couver early on, but he's been pretty consistent as of late. You know, for a kicker, you'll throw a competition in there and go from there, all right, Brian Westbrook. Always everybody dismisses the kickers like they're not part of the team. Kick Brian Westbrook, Happy new year to you. Thank you so much for your great work this season,

and we will talk to you in the offseason. Head should be a very interesting one for the Philadelphia Eagles. Thanks guys, Take care all right, Brian Westbrook, Chris mc pherson, Dave Spidero. I think that's gonna be actually a competition at kicker? Am I crazy? Does anybody cared to talk about? No? Obviously it's not the priority from a need standpoint, but I think Calp Surgies has acquitted himself nicely after some

early season struggles. But to me, Cody Parkey, especially with the long distance field goals and how clutch he was for the Eagles last season, But of course you have to see how does he come back off the injury? Is the same kicker that he was in twenty fourteen as opposed to what he was at the beginning of twenty fifteen. So what's ahead for us this week? What We've got something for you? Here our Amrosso's on the

Menu segment. On Tuesday, glennmac Now joins me in studio his five takeaways from Saturday night's loss to Washington Joe Dole in a final fantasy spin. Did you win your fantasy football championship? Are your fantasy football guy? Yeah? And we take a look around the NFC East. Washington wins the division. The Eagles and the Giants play for second place.

As we talked about earlier, the winner of this game plays at Seattle next season, and the loser plays in London against the Saint Louis Ramps and then the Dallas Cowboys. At this point with a top five draft pick, potentially the third pick in the draft, really struggling, but they're looking ahead to the NFL Draft. For Chris McPherson, Dave Spidero, we thank you for joining us here on this Monday on Eagles three sixty. Have yourselves a great GOS death.