Eagles 360: No Time To Waste

You've been through those kind of games. What did you see? Yeah, I saw a football team that just didn't look like themselves. They didn't come out sharp yesterday. They didn't come out with a lot of emotion. And that's not the type of a game that you're expecting from a Philadelphia Eagles football team. Or I'm expecting some excitement. They win ahead and scored in the first series, and so I'm expecting this team to be jumping all over the place, and

we didn't see that yesterday. It kind of surprised me. Defense giving up five hundred and twenty one total net yards to a Tampa Bay offense that had scored four touchdowns in the previous three games. Effort has been questioned, Brian, we wonder about that, Chip Kelly saying no, that's not an issue. Players saying no, that's not an issue. The good news, if there is any, is that the Eagles are back on the training field getting ready for Detroit

on Thanksgiving Day. And so the question really too, Brian, you've been out there, you've been in the locker rooms, you've gone through these experiences. How do you change the mindset in four days? Well, the tough part is that your experience a game like that, and it makes you question a lot of different things. The good part is that they have a game in four days, and so now you you're gonna go back in, you watch the film, you try to correct all the mistakes that you can correct,

and now you have a game right outterwards. And so that's probably the saving graceful this football team. I think that's something that they should be looking forward to. And I know you don't want to hear it, but the Eagles just one game out behind the New York Giants in the NFC, six games to play, We've got a lot to get too. In the show today, We're gonna rehash what happened on Sunday from our perspective, look ahead a bit to the Detroit Lions as well. First, let's

get your caught up on everything happening today. Eagles back on the field. Chip Kelly meeting the media. There are some updates to be had. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update. The Eagles don't have much time to dwell on yesterday's defeat to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as they have to get set for

the Thanksgiving Day match up with the Detroit Lions. Before practice began today, we heard from Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, who spoke about the issues the Eagles defense faced in the Russian game. I think when you look at the game specifically, and I'm not just go back to the other games, but it was four runs, you know, four runs I think for one, I know, but those four runs were the big and we've not done that before.

We've been people have have hit us for six, seven, eight, but we haven't had runs break and get out the backside, you know, and go for the distance that they want for. And that's uh, you know, that was the thing in terms of that we got we got to do a better job tackling. We've got to do a better job in our fits in terms of where we're gonna be

in gap defenses. Meanwhile, inside the Eagles locker room, we heard from players on the challenges of facing a short week, but how that might actually be a good thing as the Eels look to move past that loss. I mean, yeah, I think so you can't really dwell on anything. You have to really get after some of the corrections and move on because you play a game four days later and so you really, like you said, don't have time to waste and you start to move on to the

next game plan. Right now, we're just trying to shake it off and get ready for these lines. But we only got a couple of games, I mean a couple of days, and it's all mental this week, and we just got to make sure we know what they're gonna throw out. As I mean, you have to learn from your states and move on. You know, you can't dwell on it. We can't point fingers. You know, we have a game in three days, So that's how we look at it. Now. Just try and get the mistakes corrected

and just focus on Detroit. After facing Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson on Sunday, the Eagles get another tough test and Calvin Johnson on Thursday. Inside the locker room, we heard from Eagles defenders on what it will take to neutralize Megatron. He's different, I would say, just the fact that you know he's fast. You know, a lot of the bigger receivers and not as fast. You know, probably run out good four five. Calvin runs four to three, you know, and you don't see a lot of receivers

to kind of keep it the way he does. And you know, for him being a big body guy, you know, he's still able to move, getting out, getting getting in and out of his breaks, and uh, no staffers looking for him. So he's always in the conversation of the best receiver in the league. And Um just as his bill being that fast and that tall and that big, UM's obviously something big kound of pable. I'm office Cortner.

I'm gonna do anything I can to get him the ball. So, like you said, you'll move them around as much as you can. Uh And like I said, as it goes on a situation in the game, down and distance whatever it is their play calling. It may be a short week, but that means that it is a jam packed week of coverage here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. So we should just stay here for the latest updates, including all the latest injury news here from the Novacare Complex. Thanks

so much, Alex. When we return, we'll talk about some defense. There's a lot to talk about there. But next up on Eagles three sixty. Look at the Eagles offense that started, as Brian said, so well, drive right down the field, and then not much of anything happened. Well for the Eagles, We've got a lot to talk about when Eagles three sixty returns. If you're the guy from the Operation game, you get operated on. It's what you do. True. If you want to say fifteen percent of more on car insurance,

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twelve thirty. We'll have our coverage beginning at eleven thirty right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. The offense up first. Here Mark Sanchez making his first start of the game, first start of the season on Sunday, and the first drive it went well enough. He looked like he was in a great tempo, got the football out quickly accurately.

The Eagles moving with confidence after the bizarre opening to the game where DeMarco Murray fumbled, Tampa Bay picked it up, they fumbled it, Eagles get the ball back and Brian, they moved down the field like you hope they would, and you thought Marks has something going on here. Yeah. Mark Sants has looked good to begin the game, to start things off. The problem has been throughout his career is that he likes to throw the ball to the

other team. And so when you're talking about making sure that you are staying on the field or at least punning, you can't turn the ball over. Mark Sants has really had that problem throughout this career. What's interesting with this offense is that they are just not getting the football out to the weapons. And Chip Kelly talked about it

earlier today. Josh hoff catches a pass, a great catch and run for a touchdown, and then he wasn't targeted for the remainder of the game, and Chip said that's because of the way that the Tampa Bay defense was covering Huff in that instance where he had the touchdown catch, he was in man coverage. Then after that it was too deep zone and that kind of preclude you from throwing the football to the wide receivers instead of attack in the underneath areas. Sounds like to some the defense

dictating to the Eagles offense. Yeah, what I would like to be able to see is Chip Kelly's innovative offense be able to dictate to the deepense, making sure that you can't take away Jordan Matthews. You can't take away Josh Shuff, you can't take away those outside receivers that you count on so much. And so if I'm an offensive guy, I'm saying, listen, I don't care what defensire running. I have play designs. I have different things that I can get the ball to the guys that I need

to get to ball to my playmakers. Unfortunately, we didn't see a lot of that yesterday. What did you see in terms of the play calls yesterday? The design of the offense, Well, I think a lot of the players, just like Chip Kelly normally does, they're repetitive. They continue to happen over and over and over, and Unfortunately, better defenses, defenses that have players that can make plays like Lavonte David and Kwan Alexander. Those guys can make plays, Gerald McCoy,

they can make plays. They can also digest offenses, and so you have to have some type of variation. You have to have some type of something that can just change the pattern that you normally have. You saw that a little bit on the screenplay. That was probably the FID the sixth screenplay that they had ran all game long. And so now Lavonte David, he's timing things up, he's understanding the pattern and he's able to jump on the ball and kest his pick six. Sam brad for Mark

Sanchez Thursday. What's your thoughts on that if Bradford's healthy. I would go with Bradford only because I think the players feel like Bradford gives them give them a better chance sometimes. At some point yesterday I got the feeling that the players were waiting for the others shoots to drop with Mark Sanchez and they're waiting for that intersection

just because they kind of notice history. I think that they believe a little bit more and Sam Bradford, so I would try to give him a chance if he's healthy enough to play. How much can a game plan change Brian from a Sunday game to a Thursday game. You know, there isn't much time in the meeting rooms, there's not much time on the training field, so what can you do to add wrinkles formation wise, play call

wise that might be able to spring a big play. Well, yeah, that's the tough part because this is a short week and you don't want to overload your guys and at some point they're not executing some of the plays and the designs that we have already, so adding more stuff is probably going to hurt them more though more so than help the guys. And so you try to perfect your skills, perfect the things that you do well. Right now. For the Eagles, unfortunately, it's just not very many things.

So as troubling as the performance from the Eagles offense was on Sunday, with three giveaways and really nothing going after that early touchdown to Josh Huff, the defense had its own troubles. And when we returned to Eagles three sixty, we'll talk about a defense that for so much of the season has kept the Eagles in games. On Sunday though, a Tampa Bay offense that has scored just four touchdowns in three games prior they had a field day at

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Jamis Winston five touchdown passes, four in the first half, five hundred and twenty one total night yards, ten of sixteen on third down conversions, one of one on fourth down. Tampa Bay did what it wanted to do offensively, gaping holes for Doug Martin. He tied a record set by Jim Brown and then Emmett Smith most rushing yards against the Philadelphia Eagles. Amazing. Yeah, So what did you see from the defense? Yeah? Well, I saw a defense that

didn't play their scheme very well. I saw a defense that we're not in their gaps what they like they should have been. I saw a defense that just didn't understand what they needed to do. And then at the point of attack, they weren't the tough, physical heart in those defense that I've seen earlier in the year. And that's going to be a problem, especially if you're not playing your gaps properly. You at least have to try

to find a way to make a play. You can't miss tackles, and you can't be kind of soft at the point of attack. Tons of miss tackles, tackles where the Eagles would have some penetration opportunities for tackles for loss.

And then all of a sudden, maybe not the thirty yard game, but a three four five yard game, positive yardage that kept Tampa Bay in manageable situations, and then the Buccaneers just so good converting on third downs, and then Winston getting time to throw the football looking down field, big targets. We've talked about that all last week, Brian. The Eagles secondary did not match up well physically in terms of just playing physical football against Vincent Jackson and

Evan Mike Evans. Well, it's a tough matchup for those guys. Any any quarterbacks in this league. It's a tough matchup with those two guys about six five. I think the key to the game, I thought going into the game was getting pressure on Jameis Winson, making sure that he never got comfortable in the pocket, making sure that as a rookie you're seeing ghosts, all those types of things. We never quite got to him the way that we

should have. I know Thurman had the one sack, but I think we should have did a better job of getting to Jameis Winson trying to disrupt him at some point he had five touchdowns. We have to get to the quarterback, especially if we're gonna allow them to run the ball up and down the field. And you got Megatron waiting on Thursday. How do you match up against Megatron? You double them, I mean the only way that you know.

So this is the thing. Going into this last game against the Bucks, I thought, Okay, we can handle we can handle Doug Mark. We don't have to worry so much about him, but we have to stop Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson. Unfortunately for us, we allowed the Bucks to be two dimensional. I think what we have to do against Detroit is make them one dimension. We can't allow the running game to get going, but then we had to be able to double Calvin Johnson if anything right.

There's also the pride factor here, and this Eagles defense has been questioned by the media, by the fans in the day since the game for their efforts, for their passion, for their physical play. Do you expect to see maybe a different mentality from the defense on Thursday? Well, of course, if I'm Billy Davis, I'm going into that defensive room, and the first thing I'm saying is everybody's questioning you.

We brought you guys here for a reason. We expect better play from you, but we at least give me something. Show me some effort, show me some pride, show me that it that you all have that that made you start us on this football team. I think that's one thing that you can control. You can control your effort, you can control your pride. Maybe you're in the wrong gaps, maybe you're not doing the right assignments, but the effort is one thing that you can't ever shouldn't be ever

be questioned and for this defense. It's been questioned this past week. I think the one thing that we should expect from this defense a pride for group, a pride for defensive line, a collective group of guys that can play hard those football I think these guys come out and play hard on Thursday. We'll talk about that a lot more in the next segment. The Eagles a place on Thanksgiving Day against Detroit. Of course, Chip Kelly saying there will be no personnel changes between now and Thursday's

game unless Sam Bradford gets healthy. But nobody will be bench. Nobody's gonna be cut. So the Eagles will try to regroup from within and get back on track in the NFC East. I know it sounds absurd, but the Eagles still just one game away from the New York Giants. We'll talk about team character, team resilience, team leadership up next on Eagles three sixty. It's game day in America. Across the country, fans are watching football in a whole new way. To join the league, we pick a team

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Eagles coming off a huge win against the Dallas Cowboys in overtime, coming back to Lincoln Financial Field for two games against last place teams at the time, the Miami Dolphins the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and we thought this is the time to make a run. Yea, Eagles didn't make a run. What's I tell you? It's telling me that we have some things that we probably need to fix. We have some personnel issues that we probably need to address.

But also yeah, when we start questioning things and you have guys talking out in the media, I think we as a coach, you have to gather this team together one more time and say, listen, we still have a chance. We're still you know, our goals, they're still there, and as bad as it's been in an outside and we have to come together as a team and play collectively much better as a unit. That's what I would do if I was a head coach here, Brian doesn't come

from the head coach. Is there's something when you were in that room that you wanted to hear from the head coach or is it something that you kind of just looked in the mirror and said, I need to do better. I need to be a better football player. I can't worry about the outside. I can't worry about the guy next to me. It's on me to help make this team better. Well, I think it's a combination of both of those things. First, I want to hear

from the head coach. Then at some point the players have to say, you know what, I don't really care what the coach is saying. We're brothers, We're in here together. We've been here since August with training camp, We've gone through all the mini camps, and it doesn't matter what the coaches. We have the ability to go out through the field and put our brand of football on the tape on the field every Sunday, even Thursday this week. I think it's really incumbent on the players to make

sure that they handled their business. A lot of the coaches to handle their business, but the players have to handle their business as well. When it happened in two thousand and eight after the Eagles lost in Baltimore, Johnovan McNabb gets benched in the Eagles prepared for the Thursday game against Arizona Cardinals. What was it like in the locker room? Did leaders like yourself step up and dressed the team wasn't done in a more collective quiet basis?

Was Andy Reid more visible? What happened? Well, Andy Reid didn't change very much, but he expected He let us know that his expectations from us were much higher than what we actually put on the field. But what the players did on the practice field was the real thing that spoke volumes. Those mediocre efforts, they weren't acceptable. Those guys not running balls out, they weren't acceptable. Drop passes,

those aren't accepted. To sol The thing that has to be done in practice by the team, not necessarily the coaches, but by the team is they have to strive for perfection every single day in practice, and if they're not perfect, then you have to do it again. That's what the team should be striving for. That's what the team should be looking forward to doing. And if they don't do that, the nerd actually fooling themselves thinking that they're going to

be better than they were. That was a five to five and one team heading into that Thursday night game, and this guy had four touchdown runs. It was a good game. Ah yeah, humble Pie and the Eagles ended up going to the NFC Championship Game. So stranger things have happened. We've got one segment more on Eagles three sixty. We're gonna talk about the bounce back physically after a tough game on Sunday. We'll be right back. Duncan's new sweet black pepper Bacon sandwich. We've doubled the slices of

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after you, friends are upset. Not a pleasant feeling in the building. Better to play on a Thursday and out of town this week, you think much better, much better. You want to get back on that field as quickly as possible because you have to right this ship. You have to figure out a way to make this thing right. You had a great chance and a great opportunity to the last two games, and you kind of spoiled in to waste those opportunities. Now you play on Thursday, in

front of everybody, everybody's watching. You have a chance against a team that's not very good, that's not playing very well. They won a couple of games, there's still not a talented team, and so for the Eagles, you have to come out strong, start fast, and finish strong. If you're able to do that, then you have a good chance of winning. How do you get your body back physically, I know it's such a tough, tremendous toil on Sunday. Yeah, a lot of ice baths, some massages, things like that.

You have to do everything you can, eating healthy, just doing the right thing. Get in the training room and get with the doctors and get what the trainers. Make sure that you're one hundred percent healthy or as close to one hundred percent that you can be for the game. And they're gonna be story just like your story. So you should expect the same type of thing. Every game means everything your feelings on the importance of this game, Brian.

Anytime that you lose two games in a row, that next game, that next opportunity that you're able to get out in the field to try to win a game. You want to show all those things that you weren't able to show those last couple of games. The effort, the emotion that the satisfaction of making big plays, a collective group effort. That's what you want to put on the field on Thursday, Detroit on Thursday and then at New England, Buffalo at home. I mean it is a

it is a tough schedule. When you look at the last month of this season, it is very difficult for this football team. Well, if they want to make it to the playoffs and they want to win those games, they have to come together as a team. And now I think they have an opportunity to do that. But it's it's gonna be a tough row. That's how it goes in the NFL. Yeah, and if nothing is ever easy, and certainly has not been easy for the four and six Eagles this season. Our Amrosso's on the menu segment

for you What's Ahead on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Glenn mac Now joins me in studio on Tuesday for Eagles three sixty is five takeaways from Tampa Bay at Philadelphia and then we take a trip down fantasy Lane fantasy football season heading toward the playoffs with Steen Who's Hot, Who's Not? With Joe Dolan. A lot more coming up on Eagles three sixty on Tuesday. Brian Westbrook, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We've got a lot to get to this week. We're

we've got to shows on Tuesday and Wednesday. Full coverage of the Eagles and the Lions on Thursday as well. Thanks so much for joining us. Everyone have yourselves a great Eagles Day. Back to