Eagles 360: November 29

Financial Field, ready to go. The Eagles were not. Yeah, I don't think they came out prepared to play last night the way that we're accustomed to seeing playing at home. You know what we see from our home team where we're here is our defense come out on fire, getting out there to quarterback, forcing turnovers. Last night, we didn't see any sacks, we didn't see any turnovers. That's where we lost a football game. And we are going to talk about that. Interesting that you start with the defense,

and I agree with that. The Eagles offensively just six possessions until the final two minutes of the game. They scored on three of those six possessions. You like that percentage, right, but not enough against the Green Bay Razor sharp quarterback by the name of Aaron Rodgers. On this Tuesday, the Eagles try to turn the page a bit and look ahead to the Cincinnati Bengals. Doug Peterson met the media earlier today. Alex Smith has our Eagles three sixty update

with the very latest. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith here with your three sixty update. The Eagles are coming off of a twenty seven to thirteen loss at the hands the Green Bay Packers last night at link In Financial Field, and the Eagles are now five and six with five games to play here in two and sixteen. Today we heard from head coach Doug Peterson on what his messages

to this team for the final five games. You just find out who who who's gonna put forth the effort, Who who's gonna you know, who's gonna, you know, sort of man up as they say, and uh and take pride in in in their in their jobs and their profession. And that's coaches and players and and that's not all listen, that's not a not a threat or anything like that.

That's just that's just because that's what happens teams, teams in our situation right now, even though you know you're still on the maybe on the edge of of getting to where you want to be at the end of the season, you can kind of go the other way.

And and uh, it's not to put any added pressure on anybody, But at the same time, I don't want people to just start tanking it, you know, in the last last half of the you know, the last month of the season, and the Eagles only offensive touchdown of the night came on a Carson Wentz QB keeper in the first quarter. I though the second overall pick did throw an interception later in the game, Coach Peterson did

like what he saw overall from Wentz. I mean, I thought he played, you know, um outside of a couple of plays, I thought he thought he played he played well, you know, and being able to manage the number of um, you know, formation adjustments and things that we did with with a young group, getting those guys lined up, the communication, getting getting us in and out of you know, runs and passes and protections and one of his better games

that he's had here recently. From from that standpoint, and finally will close things out here with an injury update from coach Peterson, who said that Jordan Matthews, who left last night's game with an ankle injury, he should be good to go for Sunday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals, as should running back Ryan Matthews, who missed Monday night's

game with a knee injury. As for right tackle hollapool Vadi Vitai, he is still probably week to week and we'll have to see whether or not he is able to suit up this weekend. But for a complete injury update and everything else you need to know from coach Peterson's press conference, stay right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and the official Eagles mobile app. Thank you so much, Alex. And you know, look, Brian, Eagles are two and six. After that three and those start and Doug Peterson has

to find a way to stop the bleeding. What does you do? You know, when you talk to the leaders of your football team and you say, guys, listen, we've been here before, We've been in bad situations before, but we have to change something up. We just can't continue to do the same things, make the silly mistakes, penalties, all those types of things and think we're just gonna win football games, especially going on the road this week.

You can't continue to do those things. If something doesn't change, we'll get to continue to get the same results, and that's losing football games, and nobody wants that. Yes, we've got a lot to talk about here. He's got a lot to say about the Monday Night laws to the Green Bay Packers. We'll talk about the offense. We'll look ahead in a bit, but when we return to Eagles three sixty, we're gonna start on the defensive side of the ball where the Eagles just had no answers for

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third downs, which add to the carnage. Brian, what are you seeing from a defense that in the last couple of weeks here no sacks, no turnovers, big plays allowed. It has been a difficult here for the Eagles. I think six sacks in the last five games. Well, we always have said that this team, especially on the defensive side of the ball, is gonna win or lose a game with their front four, and I think coming into this football game, we needed to get pressure from our

front four. We didn't get that. We needed to get contained from our front four. We didn't get that. Too many times in this game, Aaron Rodgers was allowed to just sit back in the pocket and pick apart our defense. The one thing that I saw as I watched it, it looked like Aaron Rodgers was playing seven on seven. He was allowed to just stand back there no pressure. When he wanted to roll to the left, he rolled to the left. When he wanted to move to the right,

he moved to the right. Our defensive line has to play much better. And I think we mixed some blitzes in there, but they never got home. And so if we want to get pressure on our quarterback, if we want to find a way to win defensively, it starts with our front four. And I think when you add blitzes in there, they have to get home because your secretary guys are counting on you to get there to

slow things down. On Green Bay's first drive, a third and one play and Aaron Rodgers run to bootleg and he has all sorts of yardage to go sixteen yards he gained, and I thought as Brandon Graham crashed in and lost contained, I thought this could be a really tough night the Eagles trying to make big plays instead of playing smart discipline defense. When you cycle about discipline defense,

you talk about mistackles, that's not that's undisciplined defense. You talk about penalties all sides, personal foul, that's undisciplined defense. And these are from veterans. We have to find a way to fix those things. And I think it starts with Dub and Jim's wortz, like, we're not going to stand for this. If you're making those types of plays, you have to sit on the bench for it just

a little bit. Hopefully get your head into the game because you can't continue to allow those things to happen, because you lose football games that way. Interesting statistic here against the Seattle Seahawks, Eagles allowing one hundred and forty nine yards after the catch. On Monday night one hundred and forty eight yards allowed after the catch to the Green Bay Packers. The defense is springing some leagues. Brian Westbrook, and you mentioned the front four. It has been a

collective drop. Fletcher Cox no sacks since Detroit Vinny Curry one and a half quarterback sacks this season after stigning the big contract a Connor Barwin just four sacks and really struggling off the edge. And now we see offensive lines paying a lot of attention to Brandon Graham and his production is going down. You know, if I'm Jim Schwartz, I'm gonna start running some games, some stunts, tackle and

end stunts. I'm just gonna try to do something different to get these guys jump started with the pressure because right now they're not winning their one on one battles. Flesser's Cox, we will continue to get a double team. That means three guys on that defensive line, Logan Barrowin as well as Graham. They're one on one. They have to find a way to get home. Blessure Cox has to be more of a dominant player on the defensive front. He got paid like one of the best defensive players

in the game. He has to start playing like that right now if this defensive front wants to play better. In this segment, we also talk about special teams. Not a whole lot to report. The Eagles kickoff return game for the first time all season, got dominated him and they didn't get the ball to the twenty yard line. Annie Jones two punts inside the twenty. Caleb Sturgis two of two on his field goal attempts, including a fifty yard or so. That's maybe the bright spot of this night.

It was not a lot, a lot very light silver. Yeah, yeah, very not a very bright spot kind of evening for the Philadelphia Eagles. When we returned to Eagles three sixty, we're going to talk about the offense. Yeah, there were some troubles there the offensive line coming into the game with a new starting look, no Ryan Matthews and then later in the game no Jordan Matthews. How did that impact what Doug Peterson and Frank Reich wanted to do. We'll talk about it next. This portion of Eagles three

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Philadelphia falls to five and six lost to the Green Bay Packers on Monday night, and we are now talking about an offense that started out the game the right way, a wonderful eighty one yard drive engineered by a perfect Carson Wentz on the drive and answer to the Packers opening drive prime and then the Eagles, Yeah, it's just not enough couple field goals and that's all your wrote. I think on that first drive you mix in a lot of run attempts as well as short quick passes.

DGB did a great job of catching the football, getting his body inside of the defender and allowing some room in space for Carson Winston put the ball in small windows. I think we got away from that attack later on in the football game. We got away from the run game. Only fourteen run attempts. But anytime that you go into a game you're expecting to have sixty five to seventy five plays, when you only have fifty eight plays, that

hurts you. That really affects the way that you run the football as well as passes, and kind of an indictment of where the Seagle's offense has been all season against Green Bay zero plays of twenty five yards or longer and that's the third time this season that that has happened. The lack of chunk plays, Brian, as we know, really catching up to this football team as a defense. From the defensive side of the ball. You're saying, let's

make these guys go eighty yards every single time. And if they can't get those chunks plays, those big time plays plus twenty plus thirty plays, it's almost impossible to do that repeatedly game. I mean serious at the series. It's just just not doesn't happen even with Vetteran offensive lines and running backs and quarterbacks. For us, our window of opportunity is so small. We can't continue to put

ourselves in that position without having those big plays. We need him from somewhere and we have to win the special the special teams battle as well. The field position battle plays a big part in too. That we didn't win that battle either last night. We have to find a way to change things up. Just a video, a short term problem last night. Brandon Brooks hospitalized during the day. He is now out of the hospital and likely to play on Sunday against Cincinnati. So Isaac Siyamalo played the

right guard position and I think played pretty well. But then let's talk about Nelson Agilor and your thoughts on Nelson and the decision to make him inactive. How might that help him in the big picture. I think Doug is going to help this kid. I think the decision not to play him is definitely going to help him in the long run. It's football is a stressful, stressfle sport.

It's just you have to perform. You have to compete every single week, and you're truly competing for your job every single week against the best guys in the business at what they do, and it's just stressful. And I went through it, a lot of other players went through it. And sometimes when you don't deal with it well, you're going to funks and you're just not able to get

out by yourself. But the thing that I think Doug has done for Nelson has saved them because now he had a chance to see how other guys do it. Now the pressure wasn't on him. Hopefully, he comes back against Cincinnati and finds a way to help and impact this football team. Because he has talent, he has to be able to use that talent on the field to help this team win. One game is enough to clear the mind and lower the stress level. I sure hope it is. I mean, I think Doug is going to

allow him to play this week. I sure hope that one game is enough just to get him back on track. He needs to be an impact player on this team, those big players that we're looking for. He has the ability to make those plays. He hasn't made him in the past. We haven't seen him. He has the ability. Now we need to turn potential into actual reality. And if he's able to do that with the week off, that have helped this team. And Brian, when you look at his offense, you know five games left here, Ryan

Matthews with a knee injury. We don't know when he's going to get back in the lineup. There is some uncertainty upfront. Vitai is still out at right tackle. So, boy, the Eagles are really challenged offensively. The art challenge. I think when I look at that last the game yesterday, we knew Carson Wentz was very accurate, especially early on in the game. We saw some other things from him. I think he looked very athletic running the football. He

made some guys missing space. I was impressed by that. But you're right, we have challenges. We need those big plays. I think we have to be more committed to our run game. And if we do those things and play well, we can't make any mistakes. We don't we don't have even that room for era. If we play well, we don't make any mistakes, I think we'll at least be

in the game from an offensive perspective. And the truth is, the Packers did to the Eagles on Monday night what the Eagles did to the Atlanta Falcons a few weeks ago. They played keepaway and they did it very very well. So the Eagles offense again six possessions in the first fifty eight minutes of the game, three scores. You like that fifty percent rate of scoring, but just thirteen points not enough points. You're used to getting ten to twelve

possessions per game. I think they ended up with seven, and that's just not enough. That's the same a couple of things that your defense is not getting off the field, which with thirty seven thirty five minutes of time of possession for green Bay, that's obvious. That also is saying that your offense needs to stay on the field a little bit longer converting on third down, which they did

pretty well. They were forty three. It's tough when the other team is seventy one percent though, that's the problem. So a very very bitter loss to the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. But as we all know in the NFL, another week beckons and on Sunday, the Eagles go to the Cincinnati Bengals, struggling themselves a Super Bowl contending team in the eyes of many before the season. The Bengals three seven and one. We'll talk about that

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deal instead of going to NFL ticket exchange. Till the tickets from one fan to the other. We'll see it the game, all right, yes, sir, all right, appreciate it. Well. The Cincinnati Bengals are the opponent on Sunday, the Eagles trying to get back on the winning track against a team that has really really fallen by the wayside in the AFC this year. Brian, the Bengals are three seven and one. They're not going to have a j Green, a superstar wide receiver. They're not going to have their

do everything running back Geo Bernard. They are going to committo this game like the Eagles. On a down note, with a lot of questions. Anytime you're playing the wounded animal and their house. You have to be very, very cautious, and this is a game that the Eagles. Then you can't overlook any game. We're not good enough to overlook any team. At this point, we're going on the road where we've really struggled to play football. But I think this game is truly solely about the Eagles. Can you

eliminate the mistakes? Can you? Can you play era free football? Can you line up and run football plays and execute those plays. If you can do that, then you can win this game. There's no doubt about it. But we've struggled to do those small things, and now we go into a situation where we have to do it if we're going to get a win. You knowing about this Eagles team, When they start strong and take a lead,

good things happen. But they haven't shown as every call the ability to come back and win a football game. That's what happens when you have younger teams, guys that haven't played long enough together. They just don't understand that it's time to come back. Who do you look at? Who do you throw the ball to? What is that guy?

Who is that guy that you look at? And say listen, we know it's third and three, we're throwing the football to you, or we're handing the football off to you, or we know this guy on the defensive side of the ball is going to make the play. Because of so many miss tackles on the defensive side of the ball, so many penalties on offense, we haven't found out who that player is. They have to play together a little bit longer right now. We don't have that go to guys.

So Sunday a matchup of two teams below five hundred, but different situations. Marvin Lewis established in Cincinnati, could be in a bit of trouble out there with his season. They're having Doug Peterson, of course, just starting in Philadelphia. Both teams needing to put some pieces around their quarterback and the Eagles looking for some success on the road. They've lost a five in a row on the road this season, need one in Cincinnati to make December an

interesting one here for the Philadelphia Eagles. We've got one segment to go here on Eagles three sixty, and we're gonna talked to Brian about what's ahead and what happened to him on Monday night. Merril, Reese and Jeremiah try to go into the team's Hall of Fame. But before the action on the field. At halftime, the Eagles held a private ceremony with well, not too private. There were about two hundred Eagles fans there, but it was very, very cool. We'll show you what it's all about when

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you set up with what's happening on Wednesday. Here are Emirossos on the menu preview. We've got a good one for you. On Wednesday, Doug Peterson head coach, very candid interview in studio with me. We've got Mike Quick taking his first in depth look at the Cincinnati Bengals and the players and the coach meeting the media on a very busy Wednesday. Emirosos the reason Philly Sandwiches are so famous. Now. On Monday Night, Eagles had their Hall of Fame night.

Merril Reese Jeremiah try to go into the Hall of Fame. This guy's already there. We all know that. Twenty fifteen in Ductee Brian Westbrook and at the Novicare Complex late afternoon, Jeffrey Lori, chairman CEO of this football team, handing out Hall of Fame jackets to the thirteen Hall of Fame members who were able to make it to Philadelphia on Monday. It was a very cool ceremony and those jackets, Brian, are sweet. I was wondering at first, I thought we

were going to hand out Kelly Green jackets. But mister and Lorrie just did a great job of giving us these Black Wizards felt type of jackets. They were nice, they were grave, jackets, had a little emblem on it. It was perfect. I'm proud this is This is a great organization, and as a player I understood it, and even as an alumni at this point, you understand even better because I went to San Francisco, I understand how

they treated their guys or ex players out there. This is an absolute gold standard of organizations in the NFL. I'm so proud to be a part of it and good to see all the guys. Donovan and I'm just telling Ray great guys that we have Maxie Bonn. These guys have played it. They Bill Bill mean Bill Berg, I mean these dogs be Harold Carmichael, Eric Allen. These are great guys to be around, hearing some of these football stories. Just guys talking football. This that's the thing

that we always missed. We don't miss it on the field as much. We missed the guys talking football, just hanging out watching the game together. I wish we can do it every week. I actually thought it was fun on the field at halftime, I am see the ceremony inducting Jeremiah and Merrill and hearing the players behind him. It was like, come on, let's go, Come on, Trot, come on, come on, Merrill, come on. I never saw I saw Trot crying and I saw Merrill given the

fist pump Man. It was cool. Merril was so excited. I'm excited for Merrill because he's like a little guy with a big voice. I can appreciate that. Anytime you see the axe man, who was the model of consistency but intimidation and just meanness cry, it makes you want to shed a tear. It was a very very cool ceremony. Unfortunately, the Eagles didn't follow up on the field, but bounce back time in Cincinnati on Sunday. Brian Westbrook, Dave Spidero,

thanks for joining us here on Eagles three sixty. I'll be back tomorrow. Until then, have yourselves a great Eagles Day.