Eagles 360: Looking Past The Bye

thank you. It's gone for months and it's to promote awareness of men's health issues. I'll tell you more about it as actually November it begins. Well, I want to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles coming off Sunday Night's lost in Carolina, a tough one, and everything that could have gone wrong for the Eagles kind of really went wrong. The offense never got in gear, the defense giving up two hundred and four rushing yards. Glennon I didn't see

that part of it coming. I didn't see that part of it coming either, because they've been so stout against the run all year. Carolina actually was a lot better offensively than I thought. What are you gonna do about it. The Eagles did not tackle well. You know, Chip Kelly called its death by self inflicted wounds. It really felt like death by a thousand paper cuts. Because you go back, Dave,

you look at so many of the plays. You look at, you know, the eight passes that were dropped, You look at the mistakes that were made, the poor tackling on the Carolina touchdown. This was one that I honestly, you know, I'd predicted Carolina to win. But it just hurt the way the Eagles lost it because they just played so poorly. And the Eagles were right there after Ryan Matthew's touchdown run and once again could not get a fourth quarter, to control a fourth quarter in a big moment on

the road. We saw it in Atlanta, we saw it against Washington, We saw it Sunday night against the Carolina Panthers. This Eagles team unable to get over the hump. And that's the difference, Glenn, between a playoff team and a non playoff team. You have to win games coming from behind, taking control of the momentum and keeping it. And the Eagles not able to do that. Now they haven't been able to do that. They still have that opportunity, and you know you're not going to do this every week.

You have the buying out, which is good. You got Dallas playing against Seattle, which is a tough one for them. Then you go into Dallas that becomes that must win again that we talked about, and then the schedule gets a little bit easier after that. But yeah, sooner or later, the Eagles have to have one of those character wins. Right the Giants was terrific, but it wasn't that tough. The Giants were due for loss. Eagles are going to have to have one of those signature, character come from

behind wins. And we'll see what happens in the next nine games. We've got a lot to get to Today on Eagles three sixty, a look at the NFCA, we take a spin around the world of fantasy football. But next up, Glenn's got some takeaways and he's going to share them with you from the Eagles loss on Sunday night when Eagles three sixty returns. 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

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a loss number one. I was surprised and pleased that the offensive line kind of survived without Jason Peters. Now down the end, they did give up five sackson down the end, Carolina was just setting in the rush because they knew what was going on, But the Eagles were able to run the ball and able to keep it going even without him. That said, the biggest news over the next week and a half is going to be how is Jason Peterson. Is he going to be able to come back? Yeah? Agreed, I mean the Eagles the

run game has shown signs of life. Ryan Matthews the big touchdown run. But when there's one injury, you are going deep into depth that is really not there. Dennis Kelly comes in and plays right guard, Matt Tobin moves to the left tackle position. It's a question that we've asked for the entire season. Where are the young players

coming up? Josh Andrews one of those players. He was the only available player addressed had there been another injury, And that offensive line is always going to be a concern. They're one injury away from really shaking things up. And you know, Peters is the third oldest offensive lineman in the league, so it's kind of a real touch and go, and he's expected to be okay for Tuesday when the Eagles returned to the Novacare Complex and start training. All right,

So here you go, number two. Speaking of the running game, The running game is back those first few games. I guess the first four games it was terrible. They're averaging three point two yards. They are now since then averaging over five yards to carry. They've run for five hundred and twenty one yards in the last three games. It's working. I want to see it more, you know. The big question is why is it? Why are we getting none enough? Ryan Matthews. I don't want to see less de Marco Murray.

I do want to see more Ryan Matthews. But I think before the season day we were all geared up for that great running game we're getting. We're finally getting it now. I don't. I disagree because the Eagles aren't getting it in the red zone. And that's the difference the Eagles. Okay, that's a fair point. The red zone. The Eagles z of two in the red zone on Sunday Night, once again red zone wos. The numbers are actually down from last year, and that is a problem

for this football team. You cannot rely on field goals and you're in games. These games are decided by four points, by seven points, and Sundays a late field goal makes at eleven points. Eagles need touchdowns, not field goals. They must improve in the red zone. Don't disagree. All right, here you go number three, considering all the problems you're having with the wide receiver corps, and you are having problems with a wide receiver corps. Maybe Miles Austin has

something left. He had four catches the other night. He led the team in that he played sixty of the plays. I didn't think when they signed Miles Austin that you were going to get a whole lot. We'll see you, but I think you're starting to see something from Miles Austin. He's got a little bit late. Yeah, move the chains receiver, not that explosive player that you want to. I really hope personally that Nelson Agilore, the number one draft pick,

returns from the bye week healthy. He's stated an overcare complex. He's getting that treatment done on a high ankle sprain, and the Eagles need somebody to get down the field. We are seeing Jordan Matthews just get crunched in the middle of the field. The Eagles must stretch the field with more options. Josh Huffnutt consistent. I think it's Nelson Agilore in the second half of the season who needs

to emerge off of that. What is really true is this is a passing league and this is a deep ball league, and they got to try it, and they got to try it more. You know, half the time when you throw the ball deep, you're going to get the past interference call. Anyway, they got to do it all right. My number four kind of circles back to somewhere you were before, which is they're meeting their goal

with takeaways. They got three takeaways again this week, as they did the week before in the week before that, and that's great, but you got to convert them from more than field goals. I'm getting into your issue about the red zone. Takeaways are terrific and I think twice two of those three times they got the ball to start to drive in the Carolina half of the field. That's great. All props to the defensive backs and made those interceptions and the big you got to score, and

they had been doing that previously. In the opening six games Eagles, it turned sixteen takeaways into fifty four points. That was second most in the NFL. On Sunday night, just six points off those three takeaways, and obviously you want more. You want to be able to strike after a change of possession. Eagles just unable to do that against the Edie came back to cost them. But I but I like the way the defense is hawking and

just has that mentality of taking the football away. All right, number five, it's the most obvious thing, but nobody says it. You may have said it. The Panthers are really good, and we went into we always watched the game within the vacuum of our own team. What did our team do? We don't really look at the other team unless it's a divisional opponent that we know so well well. The Panthers haven't lost a game yet. Their defense kind of reminds me of the Baltimore defense from a few years ago.

They fly around Keeklely, flies around the linebackers. I do think although he didn't have a great game, Cam Newton's getting close to superstar. We never considered them among the elite. I think they've won ten regular season games in a row. Yeah. Yeah, And they have a game against the Indianapolis Colts this week and they are eleven a playoff game for sure

in twenty fifteen. So those are Glenn's five takeaways. Now we can stop talking about the Carolina Panthers, and look ahead to the final nine games and now those game James pivotal as the NFC East continues to be wide open. When we returned Eagles three sixty, we talk about the NFC East and the Eagles need to make a move, and they need to make a move during this bye week and it could happen. Eagles. Watch as Seattle beats the Cowboys and you feel a little bit better about things.

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Eagles three sixty. Time now to talk about the NFC East. The jumble continues as a herd of turtles moving toward the finish line. Here, let's talk about the teams. Dallas. This week they lose it New York. They play Seattle. They are still reeling without Tony Romo, Matt Castles, the quarterback Jays Bryant may return. I'm not sure how much

to a difference it makes Eagles benefit from this. Yeah, I mean, Matt Castle is better than Brandon Weedon, but Guido Murkins was better than nice way to pull that one out of the strike here in nineteen eighty seven. There you go. I knew you'd get them, so, yeah,

he's better. But the Cowboys are messed. Aaron McFadden kind of you only had a good game, but I don't trust in him, And I think the Cowboys are such a mess with everything that's going on with Greg Hardy, with everything that they allow to happen in Jerry Jones. I think the Cowboys are sunk this year, and then they will lose to Seattle, and then the Eagles get to go and play there. All right. The New York

Giants in the catbird set, if you will. In the division this week, now, the Giants, coming off that big win against Dallas, they go to New Orleans, a slightly a resurgent New Orleans Saints team having beaten Atlanta and beat in Indianapolis in the Dome. I kind of like New Orleans in this game. I think that that multi purpose game that Drew Brees throwing the football, running game has come alive. We'll give the Giants defense quite a bit of fits. Well, the Giants can't defend the pass.

The Giants can't sack the quarterback, so that's going to really help you. When the Eagles beat New Orleans, it's because they got to Drew Brees. I don't think the Giant's gonna be able to do that, so that will really help. The Giants are an up and down team, they will be all year. If good ELI shows up,

they can win. If not, you saw what happened here, I will reluctantly agree with you that they lose to the Saints to draw the division a little bit closer, and then the Giants after that are at the Buccaneers and then they have the Patriots, so they're going to be win loss win law yeah. Now the Washington Redskins. Now, I watched the game from my hotel room in Carolina, and it was impressive once again, as Kirk Cousins marches this Washington offense down the field last minutes of the game,

four touchdown wins the game. Washington or races at twenty four to nothing deficited against Tampa Bay. And whether you like to believe in them or not, they have not quit under Jay Gruden. They're on a bye week, they're going to get healthy, they're playing hard football, and they are still in the race in the NFC. Yeah. Yeah, who would have thought the three and four, which is exactly what the Eagles are Now they get some quiet and calm going into the bye and all the tumults

you have down there. One thing that could impact that Ryan Carrigan got hurt in that game. Hurt his hand. It's unclear whether he's going to be back to play after the bye. That's a huge part of any success they're going to have. So you have to watch that injury. And they are actually expecting Carrigan to perhaps not miss any time after this retreats cast them up and throw them out there. We'll see and the Eagles, of course, hosting Washington the day after Christmas and then finishing the

regular season at New York. Those two games certainly could be pivotal, you agrade, ninety seventy still takes us division. Boy, he's sure looking like that. I thought it would. I thought it would get to ten. See, in my mind, Glenn, the Eagles win the next four games, which is not implies that's actually going to come up in my bold contentions. It is not. It is definitely not impossible, right, And that's six and four, and then you never know, they

win the next four games. Dave, that's seven and four. No, that's seven and four. Yes, you're right, all right, Glenn mcnow, Dave Spidero here, we're gonna take a look. Now if the world of fantasy football, when we return to Eagles three sixty fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent and more on car hurts. Yeah, everybody knows that. Well, did you know they're playing cards with Kenny Rogers? Gets old pretty fast? You got to window hold, no wind, fold them,

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No roadside assistance, not today, but always on call. So wherever your journey takes you, Triple A helps you get there, so everyone's a winner. Start your journey at TRIPLEA dot Com. Is Eagle three sixty David Glenn here. While the Eagles are on the bye week, the world of fantasy football range is on. We've got you covered. Alex Smith and Joe Dolan our Fantasy Spin. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and welcome to another edition of Fantasy Spin presented by bud Light. I am joined as I am every week

by Joe Dolan, the managing editor of Fantasy Guru dot com. Joe, let's jump right into it. Let's first things first, talk about the Eagles obviously on a bye this weekend. So for fantasy owners out there who have the Eagles on a bye, who are some names that they can turn to to fill in. Well, I thought it would be best, Alex if we went through and picked a guy out at each position. Maybe if you're really struggling. This is

week eight. This is the time of year when teams are on by, injuries are starting to add up, and you need to start about start thinking about making a push to the playoffs. And when it comes to fantasy right now, you might only have four or five weeks left in the regular season, so you have to be really smart with the decisions you make. But because of injuries and because of bye weeks, you've got some tough decisions to make, and you might have to go to

some lower end guys. So to start it off at the quarterback position, I chose to go with the fake Alex Smith, the one who is playing quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. Right. Yes, definitely an impostor, and if you've watched Alex Smith play this year, you would certainly think so. However, he's almost certainly on waiver wires because his level of play hasn't been great this year. In London, he gets to match up with a Detroit secondary that just gave up a big game to Teddy Bridgewater, who

certainly wasn't putting up big fantasy numbers up until Week seven. So, Alex Smith, even though you might be lacking some weapons, the hope is he gets Jeremy Macklin back this weekend. He would be somebody I would be considering at the quarterback position if I needed to fill in for this week, Joe. Another place to look is at running back in when you look at the New England Patriots, it's kind of puzzling because one week it'll be Legarrett Blunt, one week

it'll be Dion Lewis. Where do you look at? What do you look at with the Patriots right now? Is there a running back that you can rely on there? Well? I think there is and that's Dion Lewis. But the question is is he going to play on Thursday night coming off a short week missing the last game in Week seven against the Jets. But the Patriots have told you is they are a game plan offense and just because Dion Lewis was out didn't mean they immediately game

plan Lagarrett Blonde into their scheme against the Jets. They knew it wasn't going to work, so they didn't play him who they did play was James White, the second year running back out of Wisconsin. Now, while he wasn't anywhere near as productive as Dion Lewis has been, I would point out that the Jets are one of the

best defenses in the NFL. James White played sixty five center the snaps against the New York Jets in Week seven, and if Dion Lewis misses Week eight, I think James White has some outside shot at flex value in a PPR if he's going to get that level of snaps again. Joe moving on to the wide receiver position, give me a nigh or two that you're looking at out there. Well, Number one, the San Diego Chargers are really bad and

they're going to be playing from behind. Look, this is a team that was down four touchdowns to the Oakland Raiders and garbage time production. Philip Rivers came through for you with Danny Woodheen, maybe a little bit of La Darius Screen. But a guy who I've seen dropped in quite a few leagues is Stevie Johnson. He missed a couple of games with injury, and he's going up against the Baltimore Ravens at Week eight this is a really

really poor secondary, a very beatable secondary. If Stevie Johnson's out there, understand that the Chargers are a really bad football team right now, are giving up a ton of points and are going to need to score a ton of points moving forward. So I think Stevie Johnson is a guy who's worthwhile if he's out there on your way of a wire. And finally, at the tight end position,

you're looking at a young tight end from the NFC North. Yeah, a lot of people wrote off Eric Ebron as a boss after a really disappointing rookie season, But the fact of the matter is a tight end is a position where rookies very very often struggle. It's unbelievable what kind of numbers these guys put up as rookies and get better in their second and third years. And Eric Ebron is certainly following along with that trend. He had a big game in his first game back against the Minnesota

Vikings in Week seven. He has a positive matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs in Week A in London. He's a very important player for Matthew Stafford. And keep in mind that the lines just fired their offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi. I think they're going to be able to stretch the field a little bit more. I think new offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter is going to understand throwing the ball down the field is really what's going to help Matthew Stafford out, and Eric Ebron is going to be a

huge part of that. That will wrap things up for this week's edition of Fantasy Spin, presented by bud Light Our thanks to Joe Dolan, the managing editor of Fantasy Group dot com. Be sure to follow Joe on Twitter at fg Underscore Dolan and listen to him on Serious XM Fantasy Sports Radio. Alex and Joel, thank you so much. We've gotten more to go here on Eagles three sixty. We will be back in just one moment and set you up for the Eagles and our week ahead. A

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the download. Offers are updated weekly and you can receive a free sandwich just for downloading the app. McDonald's. I'm loving it, David Spidero Glenn mcnell Eagles three sixty our final three sixty of the week. We return after the bye, but we are going to have more content for you the rest of the way. Our Amirosos, What is on your menu. I'm hungry for some memirosos. What's on the menu for you Eagles fans on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. The rest of the way, Brian Westbrook and I break

down the Eagles position by position. Chip Kelly joins me in studio to talk about the team at the bye three and four. The Eagles up down all around in this twenty fifteen season, and Glenn will give us five bold predictions for the rest of the season this week. But we as you know, Amirosos like to ease you with some appetizers. Right, Let's give me a little bit. Now, give me one. There you go. Here's number one. DeMarco Murray is still going to rush for a thousand yard

this year. That is bold. It is bold. I think right now he's on pace for about seven hundred and fifty, somewhere between seven hundred eight hundred. I still do believe that he is going to get more adjusted to this offense. I still do believe that he's going to have a couple of one hundred and thirty hundred and forty yard games and he's going to have a thousand yards. That is if that is a preview of what to come, that is, can't miss. They're not all that optimistic, right

all right? For Glenn mcdowm. Dave Spidero, we thank you for joining us here on Eagles three to sixty. Have yourselves a great Eagles Day