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of the season. I guess first i'd ask you, what is your team grade for the Philadelphia Eagles. C plus trending not the way you wanted to trend. I did not think this team was going to be a playoff team before the season. I did not think this team was going to be five hundred. So they're five hundred, not getting there impressively right now. It's a gentleman's C plus. Yeah.

I'll be in that range as well. I mean, I'd love to say B minus, but it's really hard to when the Eagles have lost four of their five games here, So C plus in that range seems pretty fair. Still very much in the playoff picture, but got to turn things around and get this momentum going the other way. Football is a funny game, isn't it. It It Just you just feel it going in one direction. Oh and you know, one or two plays at the end of that game,

the Eagles win that game. We're dancing on the clouds today. Give me a team MVP, Brandon Graham. Brandon Graham, I think has really had a good year. Four sacks so far this year. He's really flourished in the Jim Schwartz Wide nine defense. He's got how many tackles for loss is nineteen hurries, ten tackles for losses, two forced fumbles, really playing as the guy the Eagles thought they had when they drafted him a few years ago. He's your MVP,

and mine would be Darren Sproules. I think he's just done things that we don't see very often at all from somebody his size. We know about the return game, a Hall of famer in that category, but to come out week after week with the touches that he's had, with the big plays that he's made, I'm going with Darren Sprowls. All right, Yeah, it's a good pick. How about players to watch in the second half of the season. I'll give you two. Can I give you two? Give

me two two right on offense. And they're guys who you saw just a little bit. Obviously. Bryce Tregs had his first opportunity to play for the Eagles. Had that one was fifty seven fifty fifty eight R reception. That's a guy you're gonna watch because if they can work speed into lineup, that's really going to help. And I think Wendel Smallwood is another guy that I want to see get more opportunity. Looks good those rare chances he gets to touch the ball. I don't think you can

continue going to Sprowls twenty times a game. The guy to watch Glenn Yes, his number eleven, it's Carson Wentz, And I want to ask you when we you know, I'm finished my soliloquy here. Yes, you're a great for Carson Wentz. But let's keep in perspective what we have here, a young developing quarterback, inexperienced coming into the season, and the things that he's done remarkable. In the first month

of the season. He's made mistakes, he's mised receivers, he's been inaccurate at times, he's had mechanical issues, But boy, I like the way that kid stands up after throwing two interceptions against the Giants on the opening two possessions and getting his football team right back in the game. This kid is unflappable. His poise is fantastic. He's got the physical skills, the mental gifts. He is going to

be a great, great quarterback. Not quite there yet, but I'm going to give Carson Wentz a solid B plus for the first half a year. He didn't leave much for me. Since you covered it all there, and I say B plus as well, it was an A plus after the first three games of the week. You've certainly seen some things that concern you a little bit. He's got to learn to have those reads. It's got to

learn to start games better. And I want to see him and this team win a game late, which he had not done so uncle B plus, he's a rookie. He's gonna look at one point you fought like, ah, he's past being a rookie. Now he's a rookie. He's a rookie. He's being asked to do a lot play like a ten year veteran with a let's be honest, not exactly imposing cast of characters around him, with an offensive line down two starters, the best of Carson Wentz

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I want to emphasize them again. One, it was so nice to see Bryce Treggs out of captivity in the game. Fifty eight yard pass. That was great. Now he only played twenty percent of the plays. I have to assume he's going to get more of an opportunity, maybe take some playing time away from Aglar, maybe from Doriel Greenbeckham. This is a guy that gives the Eagles a weapon they haven't had. Number one. Great to see him, want

to see more. Yeah, and I think his big challenge will be now that teams have a sense of who he is and what he brings to the table. They're gonna press him. They're going to prepare for the speed. What's the next trick that Bryce Triggs has up that sleeve. Can't be a one trick pony in the NFL. Agreed, okay, but that first trick wasn't all right. Number two, it was nice to see zach Ertz involved more in the offense. His numbers were pretty good. Eight catches, ninety seven yards.

That's great. He's got to be more of a plan in the red zone. They have to somehow get him the ball in the red zone. Do you know he's only got nine touchdown passes in fifty plus NFL games. He's your big tight end. Those are the guys that when you're down there, you want to be able to hit, want to be able to rumble over the goal line. Need that to become more of a party. I cannot disagree this team struggling so much in the red zone and certainly on third downs. They need to get the

football to zach Ertz. They need to get the football to zach Ertz and scored touchdowns. I agree with Clint somebody like that, or you can move around the formation and create favorable matchups. Needs to be a primary target more. And if he is a primary target, he needs to do a better job of getting open. Okay, there you go. Number three. We know and everybody has discussed how much the secondary was picked apart against the Giants, and that

was problematic. But where was the pass rush this team is? The pass rush has been very spread, a great one. It is great, not when it's not just three sacks in the last three road games, and that's a big problem. The Eagles have paid a lot of money to Vinny Curry this year. Want to see him really start producing, become more of a part of that. They've got to get that four man pass rush coming up. Now you've got Matt Ryan, you got Russell Wilson, you've got Aaron Rodgers.

In the next three weeks, You're not going to survive those games if you can pressure those quarterbacks. I am with you on this, Glenn mcnastroel, you and I agree in this much Lectrier Cox has been too silent for my liking. Fletcher Cox as well, no question about it. All right, Number four, Let's see more of Smallwood and Barner. I love Darren Sprowls, Dave's MVP for the first of the year. We all love Darren Sprowls. Darren supposed is not gonna be able to touch the ball twenty times

a game. Ryan Matthews has been put on the bench. Okay, so if that's the case, let's see these two guys, Wendell Smallwood and Kenyan Barner were on the field for just to combine seven plays against the Giants. Smallwood has a nineteen yard run early in the game, doesn't get another carry for thirty eight minutes of game time, which, by the way, he ran for six yards. Barner gets a touchdown three yard touchdown in his carry. Add those guys the offense. Let's get a little more youth and

excitement in there. Yeah, I mean, I agree with that. I will say this, Eagles are not sustaining drives and they're only I think they ran the ball twenty one times on Sunday, So the lack of sustaining drives third and shorts. The Eagles have been so poor on first and second down, creating all these third and long situations. The running game really has not had a chance to establish itself for the most part since those first three

games of the season. But I agree, when you're running around the football, add some jews to the offense, Smallwood Barner have a little bit more zuzu than certainly Matthews and Sprowls. Yez, Yeah, Davis is the most United member agreed number five. He'll agree with this one. I know we will. This is a young team and has yet to find its winning identity. The only game they really didn't have a shot against is the Washington game, where

they were just so badly outplayed. They haven't learned how to finish against Dallas, against Detroit, and against the Giants. They had the opportunity late. When they win, they win big, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, they win when it's a close game. They haven't figured out how to do it. This is Carson Wentz's stats, and I give him a B plus. She gave him an an A plus. C plus. No, Carson Wentz, I give a B. I don't think I gave him a grade. Okay, well I get him a B plus whatever. You give him.

His stats in the final drive of road games so far, with the Eagles tied or down, four for ten passing for forty six yards and one interception, four sacks minus twenty five yards, and an OW four record, that's where they really have to improve. Yeah, and it comes to a time. There there's a time, though, Glenn Win. You have to stop saying this is a young team. They need to stop they need to learn how to win. You either learn it do you either learn how to

win or you're just not a very good team. And I don't think that's the case with the Eagles at this point. I think they're a good team that needs to find ways to win. But you don't go through a whole season like this. We've gotten into four situations here where the Eagles have had a chance in the fourth quarter to tie or to take the lead, and it's time to not look at this team as a young team anymore. Got to look at this team as

one that is developing into a good team. So to become a good team you got to win in the fourth quarter. They did, all right. Those are Glenn McNeill's five takeaways from the twenty eight twenty three loss to the New York Giants. We will take a spin around the NFC East in just a bit. But when we returned, Eagles three sixty Doug Peterson, head coach in studio with me.

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to book your trip today. Head coach Doug Peterson with Me are weekly one on one presented by Wahwa and coach A Tough Game on Sunday a couple of days ago. Your thoughts after watching the film coming up short against the Giants. You know, you you come away, um, a little disheartened obviously because the loss. Uh, but then you also come away with a lot of positive from the game. Um, you know there there's a tremendous amount of plays that

that that we left out on the football field. That that uh that we're gonna get better and we're gonna learn from and we're gonna make these plays down down the road. Offensively speaking, um, and even on defense, there's there's you know, we're playing some young guys obviously, especially in the back end. And and uh, communication is everything. Understanding and recognizing formation. Same thing on offense, you know, understanding and recognizing defense from a quarterback position. But but

you take you take some of that away. The effort has been tremendous. Um. The fact that we've kind of dug ourselves a little bit of a hole to start a couple these ball games and then put ourselves in a position to win these games in the fourth quarter. Um, he is very positive, very encouraging, but you know, we just can't start that way. And uh, you know it's something the guys are keep battling with every single week. They keep fighting through it, and um, that's the that's

the encouraging part for for me as a coach. Give me a progress report, if you would please. On Carson Wentz through eight games. Carson, Carson has been doing a really really good job. You know, I gotta keep reminding myself that he is a rookie into his you know, every game is a new game, every name games a fresh start for him. And and uh, you know, just got to make sure that he that that as coaches, we're doing right by him, meaning we're not we're not

giving him too much. Obviously, started the season doing some great things and making some great plays. And he's still continuing to make make some great plays and tremendous plays, which we saw the other day against the Giants, some of the downfield throws. He's right where he needs to be. Um. You know, first year, we're putting a lot on his shoulders. Now we're asking him to do a lot and and um. But at the same time, we're you know, we're asking a lot of guys to do a lot of things.

Offensive line is it's playing playing extremely well even with injury. They're playing well. Defensively, I think, uh, you know, one of the things you see is it's it's it's a steady defense. It's an aggressive defense, you know, creating turnovers, um, you know, getting after the quarterback. You know, kind of

right where we need to be. The one thing that looking looking in these first eight games, the probably the biggest thing is we just need to learn how to finish, learn how to finish games and and have that mindset to put teams away a little bit earlier when you get the opportunity. How will Carson improve as the season goes along here the second half of the season. What do you want from him? Mechanically, vision, decision making, all

that stuff. Well, you know, obviously take these first these first eight games and really just self evaluate and um, you know, I want them to continue to do the same things. I don't want to lose any aggressiveness that we're that we're doing offensively. I want to I want to maintain that down the field mentality and uh, you know, utilize our strength. I think our tight ends had an exceptional game that's passed this past weekend to keep them

coming a little bit more. You know, Bryce was a bright spot obviously on offense, gave us a little spark down the field, you know, so we got to continue to sort of evolved that way and just utilize our strength in that in that situations and and uh, you know Carson just understanding understanding the offense, understanding progression, get kind of getting back to the basis a little bit in these next uh, these next few games, and and uh, you know, again we got a lot of football left.

Um eight games, anything's possible, still got still got a shot for the for the postseason. How do you feel about the job you've done through eight games? You know, I'm I'm I'm my own critic, you know, I'm my biggest critic. And there's things I can definitely do better. There's things that that I felt like I've I've done,

I've done well. You know, I think I think, uh, you know, calling some games these first eight games, you know, I feel comfortable doing that and managing the sideline, especially offense, defense and special teams. Um. You know, so I again, I just every every Monday, every Sunday night, every Monday, I come in and that's the first thing I look at. I look at, how how did I help our football team, you know, win or be in a position to win, and just be be overly critical in those in those areas.

Observers of the Eagles have come to know you now as somebody who's very aggressive. You've gone for it on fourth down nine times. Is that something that we're that we are now going I mean, that is what Doug Peterson is all about now forever moving forward. I think it's something that you have to you have to look at every single week. I don't think you just you know, say, hey,

fourth down, we're just going to go for it. And I mean there's times when when you got to be smart about it and understand how your team's playing at that time. And obviously in the game last week, we need we needed to maintain some drives and we had some opportunities that we've failed on and and so I look at those I'm very critical of those areas, whether it be the play called, the design, whether it be execution, whatever it is, Um, why didn't we get those those

either third downs or fourth downs? Because we need to get better in the second half of the season on third down as well. UM, so you know, I'm going to maintain that aggressiveness. I think I think it sends a message to the football team and uh, a lot a lot of confidence in the guys. Um, whether we get the fourth down or not, Um, you know we're gonna We're gonna maintain that that that style of play. What is the message that you want to send to the team. I just think that if they see it

for me that I'm aggressive. Um, it shows trust in the guys. It shows confidence in the guys, especially offensively. And then and then second, if if we don't get it and we're you know, like the game the other day, if we can stop them and make them punt, then then then field position becomes very important. So it's just it's just a confidence message that, uh, that the guys can feel that you believe in them, right, so one percent, one hundred percent that that uh, you know, I got

all the confidence in the world. Believe in one the offense, believe in the defense, special teams. But uh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna down the road, we're gonna make more of those than than we're not Doug. The Atlanta Falcons come to town on Sunday. Tell me a little bit about that football team. We know, the explosive offense. They've turned their season around here. They are just dynamic offensively. What do you see from them? You just hit it. I mean that's it in a nutshell. I mean the

off eventually, the very explosive. Uh you know, Mattie Ice as they call him, is playing extremely well. He's coming back home, so he gets a little little little little welcome back to Philadelphia this weekend. And and defensively, I know they're young, you know, a little bit on defense, not a uh, not a big pressure team. You know. Dan Quinn's got him, got him playing a lot like he was, you know he had in Seattle and some of the some of the things you're you're seeing there.

So uh, it's just gonna be again again again. A game that we have to execute offensively. Uh. One of those ball control type games. I think, and try to try to limit the amount of touches at their offense, uh has during his game. Doug Peterson one on one in studio here presented by Wahwa. Good look against the Falcons. Let's start the second half of the season off the

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game at Pittsburgh this week. Ben Roethlisberger all the rushed off of him. I think the Steelers win that game. It would be nice, Yeah, but I'm not worried about the Cowboys. They're they're playing really good football. They're very solid good. Um, here's what surprises me about the Cowboys is their defense is now climbed into the top ten of the NFL. I figured this year the defense is

going to kill ball control exactly. Yeah, yeah, I mean Ezekiel Elliott runs the ball for twenty five minutes a game. It helps the defense a lot. They've been able to do it. The kid quarterback has stood up. They were oh and one if you remember after the first game of the year and looking if they lost the Giants and who knew that they would be seven and one? Very scary? What's going on there? Yeah? Now the New York Giants have played good football. They've won three straight games.

You kind of dismissed those two wins prior to the Eagles game, but they won on Sunday, Eli manning four touchdown passes. There are some concerns with the Giants, though, justin Q their left guard out for about a month with an injury, Victor Cruz with an ankle injury as well. How good are the Giants claimed? The Giants are very streaky. The Giants won two lost three won their next two,

and I think they are aided now. I don't think they're that good, but I do think they were aided now by the schedule because the next three weeks they got Cincinnati, that's not an easy game. They were two and a half point favorite at home, but then Chicago at Cleveland. So you figure they win two of those next three games. That keeps them in the playoff hunt. Again. Their defense has held up more than I expected it too, indeed. And then the Washington Redskins with that tie coming off

their bye week. Here the Redskins with a schedule that is not It looked a few weeks ago that it's gonna be really tough with Minnesota and Green Bay. All of a sudden, it just doesn't look that tough. Um, yeah, I say they split those two. Then I think they got Dallas after that, and yeah, so I listen, the whole division is going to be interesting, and I think each of those three teams, not cleaning the Cowboys, but the Eagles, the Giants in Washington still can contend for

a wild card if it plays right. Redskins now lose Trent Williams for four weeks on a suspension that is going to hurt them. And what they need now is Kirk Cousins really kind of giving them the second half that he gave them last year. He's been putting up numbers this year, but he's been inconsistent in crunch time. Yeah and um yeah, Trent. When you we all learned that when you lose an offensive linement of that caliber,

it can really set your offense back. And of course the Eagles, the number that really jumps out at you is oh and three in the NFC's gonna be real hard to win tiebreakers for the Eagles as they look at the playoff picture in the division. Hopefully those December games when you play those three teams, come to Philadelphia, Guysley, this team here is healthy, ready and on as some momentum. And that is our trip around the NFC's presented by Bob's Discount Furniture. One segment to go here on Eagles

three sixty. We set you up for a very busy week ahead. All right, fellas, let's go out there and give them pack. Heck, let's go out there and give them the one to go out there. We're gonna really give them the business. Oh my god, let's sock it. To him. Yeah, fair and square, all right, Holy smokes. The old game just can't compete, especially when it comes to innovative energy solutions like the ones energy uses to power the Eagle. Visit pick nrg dot com today. Remarkable

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What's ahead here? What's on the menu? Segment the Eagles on this week They're back to work today, really digging in tomorrow for a very good Atlanta Falcons team, and tomorrow on the show, My Quick is my in studio co host Jeff stoutlind offensive line coach, gives us a little peek into the world of the offensive line and then press paths. We've got a myriad of players being interviewed in the afternoon, Doug Peterson in the morning. It is a busy, busy, busy Wednesday, as always, Amirosos the

reason Philly sandwiches are so famous. Glenn. On Sunday, it's the Atlanta Falcons six and three, soaring, leading the NFL and points scored. Julio Jones, the best receiver in the NFL. What do you make of the Falcons. It's a very tough match up, and you're not going to be able to stop Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and completely shut them down, which means that the Eagles offense is gonna have to keep up. You're not gonna win this game seventeen to fourteen.

So is this offense capable of putting up twenty four to twenty eight points. We've seen him do it more than that thirty The Falcons average thirty four points a game. Yeah, okay, So let's say the Falcons get twenty seven Eagles, we'll get twenty eight. There you have all right, Glenn mcnow Dave Spadaro, thanks for joining us on Eagles three sixty. We're back tomorrow. In the meantime, have yourselves are great Eagles game