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week at the league offices. That appeal denied. The suspension takes place immediately, and he is not eligible, Glenn to be around the football team, to contact the football team

until after the Eagles play the Baltimore Ravens in December. Thus, Johnson available for the final two regular season games against the Giants and Dallas Cowboys, and the not being able to be around the team, as you say, is a big factor because you want him to be able to come back and play those last two what we think will be very important division games heading into the playoffs. But you don't work out with the team, You've got to work out on your own. It's tough to stay

in shape if you're on your own. Schemes may change. It's a real kick. We knew it was coming, as you said today, but it is a real kick in the pants for this team. Yeah, now that it is official, you understand the implications and how much of a challenge it is for an offensive line that has played outstanding football, and Johnson has played the best football of his NFL career in these first four games. But he has gone.

The Eagles have some options, and we're going to talk about the ripple effect of losing Lane Johnson for much of this show. Let's get you caught up with what's happening with the Eagles concerning Lane Johnson. No media availability on Tuesday, but in recent weeks head coach Doug Peterson has talked about the right tackle situation should Johnson get suspended. No surprise for the Eagles, who are considering all of their options. Let's go to our three sixty update with

Alex Smith. Hi, everyone, I'm Alex Smith here with your three sixty update. The big news here at the Novicare Complex is that starting right tackle Lane Johnson, after a length the appeal process, has indeed been suspended ten games by the NFL due to a violation of the league's

performance enhancing drug policy. Now, last week we heard from Doug Peterson who explained what the plan would be if Johnson was suspended, and while some earlier thoughts were that left guard Alan barber would move over to the right side, the plan may actually be to start rookie fifth round pick Hollapoolavati Vitai on the right side and keep Barber

on the left. It is true. It's something that we've you know, talking with coached and watching Big V closely, not only through preseason, but you know, in in practices these last couple of weeks. M you know, again, we want to exhaust all the possibilities. And you know, Alan Barberie has been playing great at left guard, and if you if you don't have to disrupt two positions and just do one, I think, you know, there's some conversation there that we got to have. But but yeah, he's

definitely definitely in the mix. So a ten game suspension for Lane Johnson means that he would not be eligible to return two game action until the Eagles Week sixteen matchup against the New York Giants, and he would also be able to play in the week's seventeen finale against the Dallas Cowboys. But if Vitai is indeed the next man up at that right tackle spot, the rookie fifth round pick says that he's ready to go thanks to some advice that he's received from the veterans around him.

Go I get ready, he announced my job. I gotta step up. We gotta be the next man up. You know, they pen up, but they depend on I mean, so I'm gonna do the do everything I got, getting in every watching Lane and Jason Peters and then give him me tips on how to stop these guys. You know, Jason Peter's time he gets to my spot, Bean's fasten. You can you can be sure that Coach Peterson will address the Lane Johnson situation further during his press conference tomorrow.

That's at ten thirty right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and on Facebook Live now. The Eagles also made two changes to the practice squad this afternoon. You can get full details on that right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com and the official Eagles mobile app. Thanks so much, Alex Well, Glen. We've got a lot to talk about in the show. It's about the right tackle situations about

how it impacts the entire offense. And oh, by the way, the quarterback has only started four games in his career, Yes, and he started those games with pretty good protection. The offensive line has really helped Parson Wentz succeed as he succeeded. Now with all the questions at right tackle, the ripple effect is how does it affect him, the protection, the run game, everything else. How does it affect the past game?

Are they going to be able to Are they going to be forced to have Brent selling in their blocking much of the time? And I suspect they will day. Yeah, So we are going to talk about that. Eagles three sixty marches on as the Eagles prepare for their first NFC East game of this season. We'll be back in just a moment to discuss the wide ranging impact of

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Eagles three sixty. David Glenn here discussing the impact of the Lane Johnson suspension as it pertains to the entire offense. Now there are options, as Alex Smith described into three sixty update, Let's go with the premise that Hallopoli vitai Vieti Hallo polivadi Vyeti gets the call at right tackle.

Right has everybody throughout this week looks at his name on a piece of paper and tries to get it down Halla polivodi viti big v Yes, if he starts at right tackle, what does it mean, Well, it means that you only has to disrupt twenty percent of your offensive line as opposed to forty percent if you move over Barber and then you decide that you're also then you got to move in Wiznowski. You're really changing two fifths of the line. I'd rather and I think they'd

rather change one fifth if they can. You put the kid in. You see, if he can survive, you have Brent Selleck help him out on that side, and you know that's where you are. He's daily, he's a project. You know, he's a fifth round pick. I don't think they expected him to play this year. Now he's forced to do it well that they didn't expect the quarterback to play this year either, So maybe it'll be the same kind of but he was the second orall pick of the draft. And a disclaimer here because we have

not seen. The media not permitted to watch practice during the season, so we have not seen Vyeti make his practice progress. You know, we have not seen him, and I think the Eagles would not force Vieti into this situation as a starter should that be the case. Now they've worked with them practice. They knew about Lane Johnson back in August, so they've had a couple of months here to get their scenarios straight and consider their options.

And if they insert Viety, it's because Jeff Stalin believes that he can do the job now. Game number one FedEx Field Ryan Kerrigan the open of the NFC East. Yeah, that's not the environment that Big Big played at in TCU when he played in the spread offense and not the NFC and not as lowed to stadium. And it's gonna be a tough assignment for him with Carrigan breathing right over him. And I think the big challenge for him is going to be to not get motion penalties,

don't jump early, stay calm, be there. If he's able to do that, to me, that's half the battle. It also means as things go on that Jason Peters is going to have to stay healthy and play well because, as we said, the ripple effects down the entire line are there. So you're gonna have to get big play from him. You're gonna have to get good play from Kelsey. You're gonna have to have guys you can rely on right and Matt Tobin would be the backup left tackle

should something happen with Peters. And it will also impact Carson Wentz, who, along with Jason Kelsey, calls the protections and if you see a defense overloading on the right side of the offensive line, then you've got to slide your protection that way. So it's a bit more of a mental challenge for Wenz, who has not certainly had any problems with a mental part of his game. No, everything's been new to him, and everything he's been able

to ace with flying colors. This is one more challenge for the kid and Dave, based on what I've seen in the first four games from him, I have confidency he can pass any testy guests. Now. It also impacts, as you mentioned, Brent Sellek, who in effect could become a sixth offensive lineman here Yeah, they're they're gonna do that a lot, or they're gonna have to keep in Matthews to block or something like that. It certainly reduces your offensive options and you're gonna have to figure out

how to work with that. So it's a big challenge for the Eagles. There are no gimmes when you look at the rest of this schedule, as we will later in the week. I mean, it is a tough schedule. It's Washington this week, it's the great defense of the Minnesota Vikings a week later. So yet right VIETI will have to be really reducing that learning curve very quickly. Yeah,

doing it fast. Son, You're starting be ready. So you said this in the first secon, going you expected it, but it's still really kind of hits you in the gut right now. Yeah, it does because and I know the Eagles loss of Detroit, but they were playing well, the offensive line was playing well. You're really building for something. Injuries happen in the NFL and you can't project those.

But when you lose a guy on something that's not an injury for ten games, that's a real kicking up in the pants and no pay for Lane Johnson his second suspension in his NFL career. Another suspension, well that would mean a two year absence from the NFL. So really, Lane Johnson has to figure out the decisions that he's making and they are impacting the Philadelphia Eagles and certainly his career as well. So we've got about to get to here on Eagles three sixty, a look at the

NFC East in just a bit. But when we return to Eagles three sixty, head coach Doug Peterson in studio prior to the news of Lane Johnson's suspension. He'll address that on Wednesday. But Doug interest and joins me in studio to talk about the Eagles, and they bounce back here getting ready for the NFC schedule against the Washington Redskins.

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the studio, headco Doug Peterson. The Eagles three in one in a very tight NFC East and the Washington Redskins wait on Sunday. And you've been a veteran here of the NFC East Wars. What is a division game like? It's It's intense um. The week is a little bit different from a preparation standpoint. Um, you know, in order to give yourself an opportunity for the postseason, you got to handle your division. And this is our first, first

opportunity this weekend. And what do you what do you make of this team just from a very cursory standpoint center you're not deep into them yet. Well, they've got a great personnel on both sides of the ball. You know, Kirk Cousins I think as a quarterback is a very efficient guy. You think he's playing playing a little bit better now and he's got some confident Defensively, they're playing extremely well. And you know, uh, Josh Norman over there, I mean he's a guy that uh you know, uh

commands a lot of attention. I don't know where he's at and if he's matching or staying on his side and just different things that way. And Karragan is a guy that we know from from years past that can rush the passer and and do some do some great things there. So, um, they got speed Deshaun you know, you didn't know a little bit about him and what he can do and his his threat down the field. So this is another good test for us as a as a as a as a team, as a football team.

It's another road test, second one in a row. Um, and uh, in order, like I said, in order to have a have a you know, an opportunity late in the year, you got to handle your division. You came out of Detroit, I would characterize after the game disappointed by the loss, but encouraged by a lot of the things that you saw. Do you after you watched all the films, you still feel encouraged about some of the

things you saw. I still do. I like the fact that even though all the adversity that hit us during this football game, our team was able to rally. Uh. They were a resilient group. There was no panic on the sideline coaches and players, and put ourselves in a position to take the lead in this football game late in the game and still with an opportunity to win it.

And um, A lot of a lot of good things came out of this game on both sides, really all three phases, you know, I thought Caleb Sturgis, I mean, he kicked the ball extremely well, the three big kicks there for us, and especially the one before half, and a lot of positives. And so this is a game that the players when they watch it and they look at it, don't hang your heads over it. Learn from it,

and let's get better this week. Not that you wanted it to happen, but it was going to happen at some point that Carson Wentz would be staring at two touchdown deficit in the face. How did he respond in the huddle and then communicating with you, Well, he responded obviously very well. And you know it was my job too as a play caller not to get overly aggressive

with calls to still stick with the game plan. Felt like we had the ability to run the ball as well, and you'd lie some play action pass for him, and and we just methodically, you know, worked ourselves into into into into this football game and down fourteen nothing in fourteen seven, twenty one seven, you know eventually twenty one ten a half time to score before the half and to score coming out of the of the of the

locker room. I think of those ten points where we're crucial to to us getting ourselves back into the football game, and the Carson being a big part of that. Um made some made some nice tough throws, some good decisions. You know, protection was good, and then the ability to run the ball obviously gave us an opportunity to get back in this football game. I would imagine you were a bit disappointed at twenty one seventeen down you get to turnover in Detroit territory, came away with three rather

than seven. Yeah, you'd really like to get the touchdown there, especially after a turnover that deep in in in their territory and in the red zone, and that was just unfortunate. We had a shot there one to Nelson, won to DGB and and um, you know, just came up a little bit short right there, but but ultimately got some points that got us a little bit closer in the football game. But but uh, you know overall, um pleased with number one, the defense getting the turnover and then

you know, offensively getting points. After that, where do you go with the offense? Doug quarter of the season, You're what do you want to see better? What are you pleased with? Well, you know, there's a lot of positive uh you know, obviously the fact that uh uh, you know, Carson playing as well as he is, he's really utilizing his strengths and and his his ability to run. You saw him run the football a little bit more in

the Detroit game. We want to want to kind of keep that theme going a little bit with him because I think, I think when you get in tough situations, when you can utilize him as a runner, becomes becomes important. Um, you know. And then and then just keep keep coming with with our with our passing game. Uh, you know, putting guys in different it's good to have all three tight ends out there. I think it created some some matchup uh scenarios for for us and for for defenses.

And and then defensively, I mean, you know, we had opportunities even in this game to get get our hands on the ball again and and we got the one turnover, but but we almost had an interception again. So you know, there's a lot of good that we need to just keep keep harping on and eliminate some mistakes, keep the game plan simple for our guys to execute, and and uh, and just go play hard deck. How would you say

us the defense after four games playing extremely well. Um, you know, it took him a little bit in this Detroit game to kind of settle into the game, but once they did, you saw the firepower and the aggression that that they can, uh, they can impose, and and they're they're they're getting they're getting hands on the ball, they're creating turnovers, they're getting after the quarterback, sacking the quarterback.

I mean they what you saw in the second half is indicative of what our defense can do and what they what they've done all season long, and we just got to keep building on that. What do you expect when this team really digs into it Wednesday and Thursday getting ready for the Washington Redskins. I have no doubt in my mind this group will be focused. They'll be laser focused. They'll be ready to get back out on the practice field. You know, we don't play the game

on Wednesday. Obviously, it's going to take another hard week of preparation and study and practice and and uh, you know, but but I think this group is going to come back and they're going to be ready to get back on the field come Wednesday. I guess you'll learn a lot about a team when you go through a tough game, a tough loss like Detroit. You do you do and you want to see, you know, who your leaders are going to be, how your team is going to react. Um, And I saw it. I saw it all the way,

you know, even flying home. You know, the guys were on their iPads watching the watching the game, you know, making the corrections and just watching, watching the whole the whole thing unfold. And that, to me, that's the sign of a good football team, that that they're into it that way. And and they were. They were mad. I mean they were, they were more so they were more mad than they were like just dejected. I mean we're

all dejected, but I mean they were. They were ticked off and that they let this one slide again with all the adversity that we that we faced in the game. Um. And so that's why this week I think there won't be any extra motivation. They'll be motivated themselves. Well, thank you so much, Doug. Good luck on Sunday against Washington and beat the Redskins. Introducing Duncan's new cool Brew Coffee Steve Slowly and Cool Water, a small batches with an ultrue, smooth,

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duo in history. They are professional football player watchers. Become a pro fan only with Xfinity X one caller click today. One year ago, everyone making fun of the NFC. Least nobody is doing that now, Glenn, We're here to talk about the NFC East presented by Bob's discount furniture. Or look around the division and I would call the NFC beast in twenty sixteen. How about that two premature. You

may want to slow that role just a little. I mean, the division is better than people projected in, better than it was last year, but long way to goin. Let's talk about it from top to bottom, and we begin it on the Dallas top. The Dallas Cowboys are playing outstanding football here. With a tough game against the Green Bay Packers, they were very impressive against the Cincinnati Bengals. The quarterback Dak Prescott continues to play nearly flawless football.

They running back Ezekiel Elliott leads the NFL in ground yards, the offensive line getting its act together, getting it healthy, and the defense Glenn has played surprisingly well. It has well. You covered most of it, but I'll throw you a few things, and all of that is true. The thing. The thing is the offense is doing well and getting off to early leads and that's helping the defense a lot.

And one of the things the Cowboys are doing to help that mediocre defense is their second in the league in time of possession, second to the Eagles, by the way, and that with the early leads puts the defense in a good position. Their secondary, which was really seen as their week spot I think still may be, has now played against all Sean Jeffrey AJ Green and Odell Beckham Junior without allowing a touchdown pass or a hundred yard game. Pretty good pretty surprised. I didn't expect to see any

of that from this team. But the Cowboys give them their due, give the devil. It's still they're playing. Well, Let's see how they do when they go to lambeau Field this week to play the Green Bay Packers coming off a win on Sunday Night against the New York Giants, and then Dallas goes into its bye week. Of course at four and one better, Now we're all going to talk about do you stay with Dak, do you go

with Tony Romo? Your thoughts at this point, Well, they've said they're going to Romo that he doesn't lose the job. I think that Romo doesn't help them because I think that what's going to happen is Romo's gonna come in and he's a mobile. One of the things about Dak Prescott is he moves, and if Romo gets hit once or twice, I think it makes see Dak Prescott again real quick. All right, So that is a look at the Dallas Cowboys. Of course, the Eagles play at Washington.

This week's early thoughts on Washington Glenn coming off a really good win against the Baltimore Ravens, well they lost their first year. Then they have three straight wins against the Giants, the Browns, and the Ravens, and they beat the Ravens. The Ravens hurt themselves. The Ravens tried to fake field goal that didn't work. The Ravens fumbled at the goal line. But Washington wins. Their defense ranks twenty

seventh in the league. But for a third consecutive game, the defense held an opponent without a second half touchdown. So the Redskins, I think last year they finished what six and two down the stretch or something like that. Now here it is they They're nine and four in their last thirteen games. You can no longer laugh at the Residents and it'll be a great game on Sunday at FedEx Field. How about the New York Football Giants

lagging in the NFC East, struggling to score points. I look at that game on Sunday night, and I look at the sideline and I see a head coach in Ben McAdoo, who just doesn't inspire me if I'm a Giants fan. About that? About that? And he he was a candidate here, sure, and a lot of people were very excited about that, and he has had a tough time getting anything going there. Odell Beckham is average thirteen yards of catch, eli is twentieth in the league in passing.

They don't have a running back in the top thirty five of the NFL. And worse than that day the defense. They spend one hundred million dollars on that defense so far this season. Eagles fourteen sacks in four games, Washington eleven sacks, Dallas ten sacks, the New York Giants four yeah, yeah, in five. You can't buy yourself at defense. We learned that here in Philadelphia in two thousand and eleven. So that is our spin around the NFC's presented by Bob's

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right checking from santon their Bank. Dave Spernaro and Glenn McNeal Eagles three sixty on a Tuesday where the Eagles receive the news about Lane Johnson. We've discussed that throughout the show. We want to get to set up for what's happening on Wednesday, it's our Emirosso's on the menu. Look, we've got Doug Peterson meeting the media and discussing the offensive line plans, your thoughts, your guests. What do you think here? I guess is he's going to say we're

going with the kid vy Ti. We have total confidence in him and we'll see what happens. All right. Offensive coordinator Frank Reich meets me in studio to talk about the offense in the progress it's made over the first four games, and Joe di camera will be by my side. Our first look at the Washington Redskins. Amros So's the reason Philly sandwiches are so famous. Glenn, I mean, I don't know. We kind of talked about Lane at nausea. Let's talk about the Eagles and on defense. We really

never got to your takeaways from Sunday. I'd love to know what you feel about the Eagles defense. Why it started so slowly, how you avoid that moving forward? Well, there were a few reasons it started so slowly. I think one of the big reasons is they got some real port performance from Michael Kendrick out there. Kendricks out there, and I think that hurt him. I know Nigel Brandham played most of the plays in the first half, but when he was down and Kendricks was on Riddick, that

really hurt the Eagles. They weren't able to make the stops they needed to make, and I think that was a big contributor to them giving up three first half touchdowns. Second half they gave up one point eight yards of play. Was very encouraged to see him get it back there and the Eagles defense of the second half more more kind of the norm. Do you think I do, And I think more aggressive, and they got four sacks and the takeaway and they kind of got it in gear.

It's funny because I had really expected them to come off the bye as Andy's teams used to come off the battle. It didn't happen with them this week, and that was a little bit of a disappointment. I will say one thing, even as the kid through that fourth quarter interception, I thought kid Carson had a terrific game. You know, that was a little Brent far Bravado going for the whole thing. But I think he again played so well, so Heady makes the right throw, reads the defenses.

Even in the loss. I'm just so encouraged about what you get from Carson White and the big picture is a Eagles fans, you got yourself a quarterback here. Carson Wentz again, looking at two touchdown deficit in the face, not flinching. Total poise, command, maturity. Outstanding four games for him, with much more to come. Glenn Macnow returns on Thursday on Eagles three sixty. I'm Dave Spidero. We say goodbye to you. Have yourselves a great Eagles night everyone. They found them on the back