Post Game Show: A Tough Way To Go Out

by Rico. We're gonna go to FECs Field. We'll have Chip Kelly's press conference along with Mark Sanchez's press conference, and we might as well Ike start with Mark Sanchez. The theme of the season here for the Eagles, the Alpha and Omega, comes down to turnovers, and the Eagles started this game Mark Sanchez lost a fumble, Washington was able to convert into an early field goal for three

nothing lead. The Eagles tie game twenty four. Twenty four fourth quarter, Sanchez is leading the team down the field. They're right around midfield. Third down pass attempt to Macklin is intercepted by Bashaud Breeland and it gives the Washington team a short field to work with as are able to mosey undown accept the easy Chip Shop field goal for Kai Forbath, who kicks him the twenty six yarder

to give Washington it's fourth win of the season. Yeah, Chris, I mean, you know, just just very disappointing when you look at the execution of the team today, knowing what was a stake, knowing that they had to basically come in and not allow this Washington Ridskins team to hang around. Don't give them any confidence, don't give them any belief that they can beat you. And the Eagles made just enough mistakes today to keep the red Skins in the game.

You talked about the early fumble by Mark Sanchez where he was sacked. I can't necessarily blame him for that. He was just he was sacked so fast by Ryan Carrigan. But then the penalties, the penalties, Chris, to me that that's the big story of the day. How many times did penalties either staller drive or keep a drive alive for the red Skins or staller drive for the Eagles.

Just far too many penalties to overcome. And then you saw the final interception for Mark Sanchez who was really having a pretty good day, you know, taking what the defense was giving him. You know, he was getting the ball out of his hands quick for the most part of the day. You look at his numbers, thirty seven to fifty three, seventy four, that's those are pretty decent numbers. A couple of touchdown throws that he had, and he had really stayed away from the big mistake he really had.

You know, you're watching the last two games versus what we saw today. This was a completely different Mark saying chess. In my opinion, he was just a little errand with that last pass, uh, they went, they went into the hands of the Shard Brelan. But certainly can't put this at the foot of Mark Sanchez the blame for this loss. I look at the penalties, and I look at miss field goals by Cody Parker. I know he's not one hundred percent. He's been automatic for you pretty much this season.

But bottom line, as you lose by three and your kicker missed two makable field goals, uh, you know, and one came after a big turnover coming out of a half. They gave the Eagles great field position. They went three and out and didn't missed the field goal, so it wasn't so much what the Redskins did. I don't want to take all the credit away from the Restkins because they made a few plays, but I don't think they made enough plays to where you could say they deserved

to win this game. This was more of what the Eagles did to themselves, not playing sort of a clean game in which they needed to play. They sort of We talked about this in the beginning of the game, whether or not you're gonna avoid playing down to the level of competition. I would say they played down to the level of competition to day, just with the the mental eras uh. Some of the executions defensively allowed to Sean Jackson to get behind you several times. For big players,

you just can't have those things. And then the one critical era at the end of the game, the interception by Mark scint Sanchez when they were going down for possibly the game winning scorer. Um, it's just disheartening considering that what was on the line and where this team was just three weeks ago Thanksgiving, seems like it was last year. The way they performed against the Dallas Cowboys and moved to nine and three, sitting at the top

of the NFC East. Yes, yeah, you're exactly right, and it just the team has not looked like they looked on Thanksgiving since Thanksgiving Day, and this is one that depending on what happens tomorrow in some of the games. You know, the door hasn't been completely shut on the post season hopes, but we need a lot more help, and more importantly, the Eagles need to get back to

playing Eagles football. I mean, we had twelve games prior to the last three where they looked like they were at least one of the top five teams in the whole National Football League. In the last three weeks, they have not resembled any such thing. Ike Well said on every point. So let's lay out the playoffs scenario for the Eagles. I know it's hard for Eagles fans to here at this point, but at nine and six, they cannot win a wild card. That is out of the

picture at this point. They can still win the division, but Dallas must lose out and they played tomorrow against Indianapolis, and they played the same Washington team in week seventeen. The Eagles go to MetLife Stadium next Sunday to play the Giants, They of course have to win that game. If the Eagles and the Cowboys finish tied, yes the Eagles would win the NFC East, but certainly that's not what's going to be on Eagles fans minds at this point.

Thinking that this was kind of the easy stepping stone leading into that Week seventeen game, I think most Eagles fans figured, Okay, they'll take care of business against Washington because the one thing, and you mentioned this like, is that the East Eagles teams and the last two years with Ship Kelly, they've taken care of the lesser opposition.

And on the Kickoff show, we had a stat where the Eagles have lost just two games to losing teams, and they were both last season to the Giants, who finished last season at seven to nine, and the Minnesota Vikings late in the year. Outside of that, you look at all the losses prior to today, all five of them were against teams that were five hundred the San Francisco forty nine ers or above, and they were all

the top teams in the NFC. That's the one reason that the Eagles could have finished with eleven wins and still not made the pluffs because they will have lost all the tiebreakers within the conference after sweeping the AFC South teams that they played this season. So the one number that stands out to me, they're like the penalties. Thirteen penalties over one hundred yards given up of three yards.

There you look down numbers because it's hard to really parsed this game and say, how did the Eagles lose this game? Yes, they had a couple of turnovers. Yes, Cody Parker, who had been automatic all season long missus two key field goals. But the penalties right there is what stands out to you the most. Yeah, Yeah, the penalties are the biggest thing. And that's uh, the Eagles are one of the more penalized teams in the league.

That shift for some reason. That's just not like a Chip Kelly coach team, you know, is his coach that pays a lot of attension to detail and make sure that that that his players are paying attention to detail and pre snap. Uh you guys, that the guys have to be locked in and keyed into what they're supposed

to be doing. And it was just far too often to day there were so many penalties Chris that you you were almost expecting a penalty after every play the way this referee crew was calling them, and a couple of them were if he calls you know, the rough and the quarterback. A couple of those two that happened that led to a Redskin scoring drive. I don't think those were rough and the penalty type of plays, but when the referees call them, they're not gonna overturn them.

That's not something you can go back and review. But the bottom line is is that they allowed this team to stick around with their sloppy play, and once the Redskins game confidence, thinking that they could win this game, it was hard to turn it off. You know. I thought the interception of RG three would be the one

to seal the Redskins fate and it wasn't. It was not, you know, and it was a you know, their defense came out and got a big, big turnover on that next drive to eventually put them in position to kick the game when it field goal. Watching those last couple of minuts like very similar to watching that Saints playoff loss back in January, where the Eagles offense left the field in position they were winning that game. They were tied here today, so you figure, Okay, if they can

just get to overtime, they'd be in good shape. Of Course, you didn't want to see it to go overtime, but nonetheless, then the Saints took over. They got the kickoff return, and they had the easy drive to get the field goal. Here, Washington great field position because of the interception. They get the big pass play on the first play after that, and then it's at that point just setting up shop,

getting four baths as close as possible. Let me ask you this, and we were kind of talking about hearing the studio watching the last couple of minutes here, what would you have done from a time management perspective clock manager perspective there in terms of would you have allowed Washington to score the touchdown to try to give their team the ball back? How would you have handled that?

Would you have done anything different there? Yeah? I would have, Chris, and listen, it's easy for me to sit here in the warm studio and be a Monday morning quarterback or a Saturday evening quarterback. After the you know, the facts have already displayed themselves. But yeah, I look at that situation very similar to the Super Bowl when Green Bay was playing to dever Broncos and the Green Bay Packers

allowed to rail Davis. I believe it was to go in and score a touchdown late in the game, just so that they would have an opportunity to get the ball back. And that's that's something and I would have thought about obviously, Chit was trying to hold them there for the field goal and try to say some time there, but it didn't work out that way. Yeah, I would have tried to allow them to go into the end

zone and scope, but that's easy to say. You know, most coaches don't want to give up a touchdown at that point there, and they feel that they hold them to a field goal, they're going to get the ball back with a little more time. The penalty, I believe it was that gave the Redskins. I believe another down allowed the Redskins to run that clock down a lot further than they should have had the Eagles been able to get off the field, even if the Redskins had

scored or kicked the field goal. It's like I said, it's easy for me to sit here in the studio and in second guests that in place Saturday evening quarterback. But the bottom line is you're in desperate mode at that time, when in all reality, it shouldn't not have come down to know, it really shouldn't not have come down that this is a three and what eighteen three and eleven team, sorry, three and eleven team that had

no business being in this game. But it's a divisional opponent that's planned at home, that's planned for a little pride. And once they hit on a couple plays early, I thought RG three gained a lot of confidence and the players, the players, I think gaged confidence as well, and they knew that they were in a dog fight from that point one. At the same time, halftime fourteen to ten. Eagles. Yeah,

McCoy rushing the ball tremendously in the first half. Eagles had some tough sledding, but they finally seemed like they were grounded. They finally seemed like they were taking control of the game. Open kick off the second half, Andre Roberts fumbles, Eagles recover. You think at that point, all right, where Eagles are gonna stomp them, you know, stomp the

throats of Washington and put this thing away. Cody Parkin misses the field goal, and then from there it just seemed like they were just not able to seize it and then all of a sudden. It's another thing that was going on throughout the course of the the season, another theme. Here Eagles fall behind by a double digit margin and have to work their way back. They were able to do so to tie the game, but they couldn't just

get over the hump there at the end. But you bring up a great point there when you force a fumble coming out and half and you're up about four already, you have an opportunity to go up twenty one to ten there. And now the red Skins, as a losing team, are gonna be sitting on that sideline saying, oh, here it comes, Here comes the avalanche of points and yards, and uh, all right, we're gonna send it to Fax Field. Here's Chip Kelly. You had two turnovers and thirteen penalties. Hey,

you're not gonna win a football game that way. I mean, we put them on, left him on the field too many times on third down where we got penalties to extend drives. You felt like you had to stop. But thirteen penalties and two turnovers isn't gonna win football game in this league. Feel like your team, I mean delaying losses and they come out with that. Yeah, I thought, you know, you battle back and you end up tiying the game twenty four UM. But we didn't do enough

good things to win obviously. Thirteen penalties missed, two field goals, two turnovers not enough to win a football game. I was on the other side and I knew it threw it behind. It looked like he threw it behind Jordan. I don't know. I think they were bringing they were bringing a blitz. I don't know if he had a chance to set his feet and throw the ball, but I know the ball was behind Jordan, not being able to sif that was big. You know, you want to

come away with points. Obviously, you start off. It's a good momentum swing. Malcolm makes a nice play on the kickoff cover we get we get the ball out there, you think you're at least coming away with three UM. You always want seven in those situations. But you know, that's kind of what the game was like all night. Was there any consideration given it? Just no. We didn't talk about that. Now. He was clear, he was one hundred percent. He kicked all week in practice, So I

don't think it's got anything to do with that. I just think he missed. It looked like he missed in the same spot every time, even though one he made, it looked like he pushed it to the right. So some of those people, you try to get some help over the top, you know, um, in certain coverages and and uh and get matched up with them. But I thought, you know, we felt like our corners could stay with them. But obviously they didn't and he had a good game. I just needed to get someone else in there and

see what he could do. So put no one in there and then brought fletchback and Dime. So yeah, a lot, they played a lot. They played very deep in coverage and played off of people. You know, they they were down a couple of linebackers. I think, you know, we felt like Zach could exploit them in there a little bit. And that's you know, he had a really big game against those guys, kind of operating giving us the ball in the middle of the field a lot, and that's

what you know, that's what we took. But um, you know, couldn't didn't convert the red zone. Um miss those two field goals offense. If he didn't get it done, you m we got one game left. We're gonna go get ready and get focused for the New York Giants, and got to win that game, and then there's a lot of other things that have to happen besides that that we have no control over. But the only thing we do have control over is getting ready for New York.

So I thought he played well in this game up until that turnover, you know, the one that Kerrigan stripped them. I don't think he saw him coming, um, coming around Lane. But besides that, I thought he threw the ball well. Um, but you can't turn the ball over in a critical situation like that. The struggled about three sacks and the first at what was going on there? Adjustments, Um, I think Jeff made a couple of adjustments up front. We got beat on a couple of twists just passing things off.

I think he made some good adjustments and things settled down a little bit. I think uh Lane did a better job getting used to what Ryan was gonna do to him. Um. He's really a dynamic pass rusher as we all know. Um. But I thought I thought as a game when along those guys did a good job. You see, Jackson had his second straight. You can back to your original decision to really soon. Now I'm thinking about the football game. Is this not the first time

you stood here talking about turners? And now is this team laughing disappointed? No, they're not lacking discipline. We're just not doing the right things doing a football game. But don't think they're lacking discipline. There was ye got stopped in the second half. Yeah, we didn't get a good push up front. Didn't look like you look like we got knocked back a little bit. Um. And obviously, if you're gonna win games like this, you gotta you gotta convert on third down like that, and you know we

knew it. Um. I don't think there was anybody coming for you, but we just didn't a real good push up from Did you consider going for it after that on fourth down? Though? I mean we were in we were normal field goal range. That wasn't It wasn't like it was a long kick that we were attempting at that point in time. So at the end of the half, what's up the decision? A very small fuel goal. Yeah, it was too far out. We know pre game where

he was gonna go. We had to get the ball inside of the thirty five yard land were inside the thirty five so now because if you turn the ball over there then they get a shot. So I think he did a good job of reading the quarterback size and understanding where he was trying to do. I think a lot of times r G three was trying to look him off, you know, as the high safety below.

He played a lot of man free coverage, and then you got to do a good job of reading the quarterback and react him back on that playoff thought he did a good job. Now, Belly's up in the box. We talk on the headset. You know, I knew what was gonna go on. So second game you have to spend a lot of bullets just getting back into it ties just so to maintain that sort of littlementum. Now, I mean, that's what you that's what you gotta do.

You know, when I think of out of it we created, we put ourselves in a hole, you know, and the with the penalties and um, you know, extending drives and that that's on us. But you know, you can't sit there and say, hey, we expended too much energy getting back in the game. We we had the ball at the end um driving put ourselves in a situation to win, and we didn't do it. We didn't. Next, you had

some tough one on one situations last week too. Was there any thought to making sure he had safety helped out here against Sean? Now? I mean we we we had a game plan going in, you know, and felt like we could match up and obviously didn't work. I think their linebackers were really banged up. You know, they didn't have any I think Perry Raley was the only guy that was that's been a normal guy from Keenan Robinson, their number one cover guy had been out, so we

felt like that was something we could exploit. Inside, we went into the decision to keep Fletcher and that kind of starting spot up until the latter stages given up. His troubles are less. What went into it. Yeah, we talked about it and felt like he was the best guy to give us a shot on on on those rough and answer commies in terms of yeah, I mean, I just saw the replay in the stadium, So it

doesn't matter when I think I'm not in charge. So thanks, hes all right, Chip Kelly leaving the podium follow when the Eagles twenty seven to twenty four loss at the hands of Washington. Chris McPherson ikeris here. We're gonna hear from quarterback Mark Sanchez in a little bit will react to what Kelly said after this quick break here on the postgame show. I sept to Philly. I sept the Philly. You'll step up Philly, the bus, the trolley, the trade

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the postgame show presented by Rico. Uh like your thoughts on what Chip Kelly had to say that as press confidence, I'm sorry, just very emotional. I'm sure like most Eagles fans are, yeah at this point. So well, you know about giving help to Bradley Fletch or any of the corners with number eleven out there, de Sean Jackson, I guess they felt confident going into the game that they

would be able to, you know, marginalize Deshan's effectiveness. Uh, without you know, giving a whole bunch of help to h to either the corners out there. And that's that's a dangerous that's just a dangerous philosophy to go into a game when with Jackson as one of the wilde receivers, because against the secondary, they've seen on film that if nothing else, teams are going to take their shots down

the field against our corners. You know, we have a tough time at times playing the football in the air. And when you get a speed guy like Jackson, if you don't get a jam on him at the line of scrimmage, I mean he does this to some of the top corners in the league. I mean, you know, all pro corners in the league. He has the ability to do these sorts of things. And you know they tried to adjust later in the game, but it was

just too late. I've always said about the Sean Jackson, He's never gonna hurt you with the volume of catches that he could possibly have in a game. It's always going to be the type of catching is. And he had two big ones today. I think two fifty yards Today they're really shortened the field for the red Skins. They were able to score the very next play off of the second fifty yard catching. If I'm not mistaken, I think they scored a touchdown off of his first

fifty yard catch. So you know, the effectiveness of having a guy like Jackson in your lineup is is that you don't have to work ten, twelve, fifteen plays to score if you're able to hit him in one of

those deep balls. And you would have liked to have seen, you know, our defense do a better job, if of nothing else, keeping the ball in front of him and making Washington earn everything, because I believe if you force RG three to go, you know, eight, nine, ten plays, twelve plays more often than not he's gonna make a

mistake in there somewhere. But when you give them drives of three and four plays, because you allow one of these big plays to Deshaun Jackson, it really allows for RG three to operate in his conference zone where he doesn't have to do a whole lot. Sean Jackson four catches one hundred and twenty six yards on today. Robert Griffin the third not monster numbers, But like you said, if you want to have him beat, you have him do it with his arm. You figure he's not going

to be someone who wants to run the football. Your estimation on how he performed it, it seemed like that you saw some fundamental mistakes in the first half. You saw the interception in the second half, and like you had said, you thought maybe that would be the undoing of him. Maybe that's the point where he unravels and is not able to rally the team. But after they got the short field from the interception, he didn't have to do a whole lot. After day, you know, I'm

pretty sure his confidence was shaking. That was a terrible read by r G three, as Nate Allen was shaded towards the side of the Shan Jackson, and they had single coverage on the backside with Pierre Garson and Carrie Williams. That's where the throw should have gone because Nate Allen had already gotten over the top. But again they get the ball back off of an interception from the Eagles on that final drive, and he doesn't have to make a ton of big throws there. They run the ball

down the field goal range. R Williams doesn't make the tackle and Pierre gar soon is able to run after the catchyest. So again you didn't make it very difficult for him. Just two hundred yards passing a hundred yards rushing combined. Uh for the red Skins today. I thought the defense played well in spurts. You know. The biggest thing for the defense in my mind, was that they had critical penalties at times when you just couldn't have pennies.

Whether it was jumping offsides or whether it was adding fifteen yards to a bogus rough in the passer call that happen and several times, not the last one that they called on Vinny Curry. I can understand. You take a swipe and you hit the quarterback in the helmet, then call yeah, they're gonna call that one, but the other two on Brandon Graham and I think Vinny Curry was the other guy. I just didn't see it, you know, I just didn't see where it was rough in the passer.

And those were fifteen yard plays that were added to the end of plays, big time, big time plays. You had guy jump offsides on third and one. I think it was Fletcher shocks that. I think it was the four or five penalties that they had today on third down, they gave the red Skins first downs and allowed them

to extend their drives. That's why it's unbefuddled by trying to describe how the Eagles defense performed, because you look at the numbers, and numbers aren't that bad, right, But of course you're gonna look at, say the final drive, defense needs to step up and make a play. There were some times throughout the course of the game where they need to make a play. Run defense pretty much stout as usual, held Alpha Morris who under a hundred yards.

He did have the touchdown in the first quarter, but outside of that, they were able, to the most part to contain the Washington run offense. And you figure, well, if you do that and forced Robert Griffin a third to throw the football. You're going to be in good shape to win the game, and the Eagles were in position to win the game up until the final drive

offensively where they turned the ball over at midfield. But as you said, like when you look at the penalties and just sloppy execusion at certain points, it's really really tough to say, well, Eagles offense did a great job because there were times again when hey, the offense is going to struggle, you need to step up and make something happen, and they were unable to do that. So we're gonna take a quick commercial break here on the

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Are I send it back to FedEx Fiel, We're gonna hear from the quarterback Mark Sanchez. It's ten wins and uh. Other than that, I mean, we can't control anything on the outside, so just focus on we can control and um and move on. They were seems like they were taking away to do stuff that you had a lot of stuff on the n Yeah they played, uh they played pretty sound in the back end. Um, But like I said, we moved the ball. I saw some four

hund or something yards offense, which is great. Um got Cooper rolling two big touchdown catches, really really good catches too, especially the second one, and then Urtz just went off. Man, he had such an awesome day. So, um, you know, it's it's too bad that that kind of stuff happens on a day that you lose the first position. In the second hand, Oh of course, you know, and we got to put ourselves in a in a we can't

put ourselves in a better position. You know, coming out of halftime, Malcolm makes a great and now we got to go capitalize, and you know, it just didn't happen. So that's too bad. We needed to get some points. There have some wins, but now for in a row. A lot of times they said each other quarterback, but that you know, you gotta you gotta win games. Um, the head coach and the quarterback. You know, we're the only ones who keep a record. Um, so that's that's

the the goes with the territory with this position. But um, you know, they've been three really tough games and this one came down to the wire and we just came up a little short have you Have you known that you know we're gonna get a quarterback pretty much first episode, I had no idea. I mean, it just we take a week to week, so there's a week to week thing. I mean, every week is a week to week thing.

You know, we're just going trying to go one and oh and unfortunately these last three we let him slide. You guys, I miss here a little late till the interception. You yeah, I mean we uh, I knew people were gonna come free, and so I'm trying to anticipate where Max's gonna be, and you know, I'm getting the guy in my face and trying to throw it to him and just kind of miss it and guy made and unbelievable play. Would have been a great throwaway. And we

get a fourth down and we're still rolling. So it's really too bad. You guys get close to find you had all the moment America again and then they go back down to school a second after the pick. The ups and downs the highest and lows. I think for the last two minutes of the game. How to flaving? Is that? How difficult is that? I mean, it's tough to tough to swallow you know, you want to get a win, especially with, like I said, some of the

outstanding performances we had. Um, you know, it's really too bad when that happens and then we lose. You guys tie the score in the middle. Yeah, what happened now? Trying squeeze it into earths? I mean it's they they ended up dropping eight, so, um, just trying to get a quick one over the middle to him, and they converge on him pretty quick. I gotta see the film see if he really got a hand on it. He came over and was just I gotta catch it. I gotta catch him. That's just the way he is. He's

an awesome guy and wants to catch every ball. So um. You know you can appreciate that as a quarterback, but you know he'd like to get it there even sooner or maybe move on. But I think they dropped eight, so they were gonna have five underneath. Anyway, when you put up that kind of those kids and numbers, I'm talking about, how do you? How do you say? How do you? I mean, we lost. That's the most important thing is winning the game, whether I throw it for

fifty yards or five hundred yards. I mean We got to get a win, So that's the most important thing. You don't really worry about stats till the end of the year when you know the seasons months gone. And hey, that was a really good game he might have had. Well, that's all well and good, but we want to win. Thanks all right, Mark Sanchez leaving the podium at FedEx Field. Welcome back to the post game show your thoughts on sanchez performance. Overall, ran the offense efficiently, but just had

that one buggaboo at the end of the game. Yeah. I really did think that that Mark did a nice job of taking what the defense was giving him, you know, the risk, and surprise me with how much coverage they decided to play against the Eagles offense today as opposed to what Jim hazlet has done for the most part this season, which is basically sending the farm after any quarterback. And they didn't really do that until late in the game, and that really forced Mark Sanchez to get rid of

that ball sooner than he wanted to. He had a little bit of happy feet because on that final series, and it was all because Jim Hazlitt started to blitz him a lot more on that final series. But prior to that, I thought he did a nice job but just taking what the defense was giving him. You want to leave zach Ertz open, Okay, I'll keep hitting him for the five ten yards, twelve yards, Okay. You wanted to playoff Roley Cooper and give him the hitch route, Okay,

I'll keep throwing it to him. And that's pretty much what he did. He did a nice job of swinging the ball to his backs at times. There are a couple throws in there that he wishes he could have back. There were some guys downfield that you would have liked to have possibly seen him pull the trigger on. But I don't say this if you as a quarterback, if you aren't confident you can make that throw, I don't

want you making that throw. And so he stayed away from the big mistake where he put his team in the hole and until that final drive again, the sack force Fumal, I don't think that was on Mark Early in the game, Lane Johnson was beat right off the snap by Ryan Carrigan, But the interception late I think was a direct result of Jim haslet dalling up the pressure on those first few players prior to that last play, and I think Mark, because he hadn't seen a ton

of pressure all game, started to rush himself a little bit and that throw was off target, as was a throw I believe a player too earlier that could have been intercepted by Ryan Clark when he to get the ball to zach Ertz versus a Blitz. So, mum, I don't play this this loss at the feet of Mark Sanchez. I certainly don't do that. I don't think he's the reason that they lost the game today. His interception on

the finals drive is what everyone will talk about. But compared to the way he played against Seattle and Dallas, I thought this looked more like the Mark Sanchez we had seen in the Tennessee game, the Carolina game, that first Cowboy game, as opposed to what we've seen the last two weeks. Who would be your player of the game, Like, as we start to get your final thoughts, it would have to be a toss up between either Rolly Cooper or zach Ertz. I thought, I thought Cooper. This this

was Cooper's best game of the season. It really was. And it's not that his numbers will jump off the screen at you. But I thought every just about every past that was thrown to him, he made the catches the end zone, you know, not the second touchdown at the first one. The second one I thought was a nice little over the show to catch that he made there to secure the ball, so you can only catch

him if they throw him to you. I thought Raley had a real nice game, and that's it's been a while since we've been able to say that about Riley Cooper. Do you think Dallas will lose tomorrow? I think that's a very good chance they'll lose. And I listen, they watched this game today. They know if they win the mall, it's over. You know, they basically clinch the NFC East and they're in I believe. So will they make any difference to the players though, I mean, of course it does.

Of course it does if you can get it clinched this week, as opposed to going into the final week and having to go on the road against the team that's already beat you. Oh and by the way, watching how they just played against the Eagles, the Cowboys are the red Skins true rival, and you best believe they'll be emotionally ready to go next week for that game.

So I think today's results puts the Cowboys in a position where they're gonna go out there and definitely trying to take care of business at home against the Indianapolis Coast, although they're a much better team on the road. The losses, all four of the losses have come at home at Jerry World this season, so I hope they lose them all. Certainly, I'll have on Andrew Luck Jersey, where's our where's our colt?

We're gonna bring with me too, Yeah, have all type of cold stuff hanging up in the house, will be rubbing those horseshoes for good Luck to say at least like marry Christmas. Happy all this to you? Hell, can I have a married Christmas. I'm gonna get out of here, but Merry Christmas to you, see you back. Merry Christmas to everyone else out there in the Eagle. Definite. We're gonna take a quick break here on the post game show for any boy. Rico's time to bring great co

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residence of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Rico, the official Documents Solutions partner of the Philadelphia Eagles, Welcome back to the postgame Show presented by Rico. Look, we did a little bit of luck after today. No, you need no luck, that's what you're really saying. No, we need lots of luck. No, think about it. I'm you've lost me already. Greg. Come on, we need tons of luck. Who are they playing tomorrow? Cowboys? Colts? Cowboys? Right? Yes,

you need Andrew luck to shine? We do. Okay, go ahead, need tons of luck. There you go, that's all time. There you go. You know this. That's why I'm holding I think the Cowboys will win tomorrow. Um, why do you think I'm holding this helmet? I don't think they will. Going on the record, I believe I am on the record. I want to make sure. Well, I don't want this to be you know, uh, you know, dip atone the water type thing. I mean, if you're gonna go for it,

I'm gonna go for it, go for it. Excellent. I think the cold I think tomorrow You're bright up everyone's spirits so and mine included. Well, there you go. I saw you were getting a little sad during the last segments. Smack, and you know, I just wanted to brighten your day. Thank you very much. Great. It's the holiday season. It is the holiday season. So greg initial thoughts, you know,

it's crazy. What my initial thought is watching the game was I was amazed at the defense the Redskins chose to play, because the Redskins played into the only thing Mark Sanchez really does well, which was throw the ball in the middle of the field at about eight to twelve yards, and I was really surprised that they in a sense let him do that. They played almost all zones for pretty much all of the game until that final drive they rushed three numerous times, and they gave

up the eight to twelve yard area. And I was really watching the game. I was just totally we were talking about it. I was just really really surprised by that because those are the throws that Mark Sanchez can make well, and he made them well. And the thing is all we come as his game. You talked about Jim hasletitzelitzey Blitz, and you just figure they're going to bring the house. Sometimes they do. Jim Hazlet is very

game specific. There are games in which he will attack, attack, attack, and there are other games where he will play a ton of zone. And obviously he chose to do that. Hey, he had a reason for it. You know, maybe he felt that if he forced Mark Sanchez to run to eleven, twelve, thirteen plays that at some point he'd make a mistake. There is a track record. But it was interesting to me that he chose that because he really allowed Sanchez to be a very efficient player for a large majority

of the game. The Eagles had a sixteen play, ninety four yard tuss drive in the second quarter and that was I say on the halftime report with like Greece, I thought that was a drive that was gonna be the season saver right there. Yeah, there's you know, to me, there were a couple of things that standing. You know, you can talk penalties all day. I don't do penalties, because what are you gonna you were cringing off off camera? Yeah,

what do you what they call? Yeah? I mean, and you guys talked about it already, but I think it's it was really a critical part of this game the second half, the beginning of the second half. That was a chance to go up by two scores, and you know, the Redskins RG three. To me, he's certainly not a comeback quarterback at this point in his career, and that was a chance to go off twenty one to ten. You get a really bad play by Andre robertson a

really good play by Malcolm Jenkins. You're right there, you were inside the twenty. You're in the red zone on your first offensive snap. You need a touchdown, and I think a good team or a team ready to take that next step into the playoff scores a touchdown there. They just got the field they missed the field goal, they got no points, and then Washington came back out of touchdown so it was a ten point swing right there.

What did you think, Greg, And this is something you pointed out while watching the game about the Eagles and the way they utilize the tempo in this game. Yeah, that was another thing. You're right. I'm glad you mentioned that because this was not the speed tempo that we're

used to seeing. How many times did we comment that the playclock got to twelve or eleven or even under stan got to under ten, And yes, they ran a ton of plays, So maybe it seems like a mood point, but it's not because you get used to playing a certain tempo and that's the way you play, and that's the way you're most effective because that's what you practice.

And they really weren't playing that tempo. And I don't know why, We won't know why, We may never know, no, and he may not tell anyway, but they certainly were not playing at the same speed tempo that they normally do, or they haven't in recent weeks. Do you think that Washington did anything on defense to take away Lashawn McCoy in the second half. McCoy had sixty nine right rushing yards in the first half, was not as effective in

the second half. Obviously you saw how good stances was and work in the past game, especially with zach Ertzwood a franchise record fifteen receptions. But so you look at the final numbers across the board and you say yourself, did Washington mix things up? They do something different? Did they just say did they go back to the Week three match him and say, you know, we're not gonna let McCoy beat us. If we're gonna lose to this Zegal team, it's gonna be Mark Sanchez. I think a

couple of things happen. I think, first of all, it was evident to Chip Kelly and everybody we just talked about it that those eight yard throws were pretty consistently there, and you're going to take an eight yard gain every single snap if they're going to give it to you. And then then what happened is the second half progressed, is they got down, and I think that removed McCoy as viable an option as he was in the first half. So I think the combination of those two things limited

McCoy's touches. Would you say, at sixteen in the first half, sixty nine in the first half, but how many I wonder how many carries because he had fewer carries I think in the second half clearly, But I think that that was it. They were able to throw the ball very effectively. The Redskins kept giving them those throws, and why not take them? Certainly that's the case. He average five point three yards were carrying the first half, finished with four eight eight yards total on twenty two carries.

And I were talking about the Eagles defense, you know, I have a hard time trying to characterize the performance right for all, because some of the numbers you say, you're pretty I think their third down numbers were tremendous. The Redskins were not good on third down in this game, you know. But then all of a sudden, you look at the penalties, you look at the man points, the fact that they allowed them to drive down on the final drive of the game and get the winning points.

You say to yourself, it wasn't certainly a dominating performance Alfred Morris was. I'd have largely in check outside the one touchdown the first half. But I think the players will remember, of course, are the two big ones to Deshaun Jackson, you know. And it's so interesting when you watch the Eagles defense on film. Obviously, Bradley Fletcher has been beaten this year. Carry Williams has been beaten this year. But the Eagles don't play man to man with no

help on every snap. Sometimes it appears that way because guys get beat but you go through the tape of all these games and there's more often than not they have really excellent double team concepts. It just has seemed that they've been beaten by specific, big individual plays. And those two fifty yarders were obviously killers. That last play that got them in field goal range was just what an eight yard throw to Pierre Garson and then he made a great move on Carrie Williams and turned it

up field. That's a tackle that has to be made right there, and then they're not in field goal range and you don't know what's going to happen. I made it a great point that DeShawn Jackson is not a volume receiver. He's not a guy that's going to get a ten catches a game. So how do you game plan differently for a guy like that? Where you obviously are aware that the home run ball could be coming at any time, But how much of your resources do you dedicate to try and to avoid make it. And

that's a great point. Do you allocate two people to play sewn on every snap? Now, after the game today, I'm sure fans are saying, absolutely, that's what we should have done. But you know, when you go into a game, if you do that, you're limiting your options defensively. So I certainly understand Bill Davis's point. I mean, it was like last week with Dez Bryant. They had some really good defensive concepts with double teams both Brian Witten, and

it worked really effectively. My guess is if you look at the film, there'll be some really good concepts in this game. But the times they did go man to man with a single high safety, two times they got burned. And those two plays they're fifty plus yrd places their chunk plays. They finally Eagles, Nate Allen particular picked up on getting the interception where you saw him shade over to the side because it was a bad throw too.

Bathro under threw him as well. But still nonetheless give Nathan credit that as to realize that you know a lot of times RG three pretty much predetermined where he was probably going with the ball. They were able to take advantage, which is not enough time to one. That's an understatement to say the least. So we're gonna take

a quick commercial break. We're gonna look ahead to tomorrow's matchup between the Colts and the Cowboys, and then we also hear from defensive corder Bill Davis, so maybe he will explain exactly what the game plan was for taking on RG three Alpha more end to Shawn Jackson. But you never know, you know, we have this is a tease. We're trying tease viewers to stick with us, So make sure you're stay tuned for more here on the postgame

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Novocare the power of physical therapy. Okay, welcome to back to the postgame show presented by Rigo Chris McPherson alongside Greg ho Sell by virtue of the Eagles loss Detroit has clinched a spot in the playoffs. As the playoff picture begins to unfold here, So we are, as we said, going to send it to FedEx Field down and landover. We're gonna hear from defensive coordinator Bill Davis, who's going

to break down the Eagles performance on defense. Again. It's one of those things where you look at the numbers and you say yourself, all right, overall, not that bad. Some hurtful penalties, some costly penalties, as you said, Greg, some good performers on third down, but too many big players in the end, and that's why the Eagles end up on the losing side of the twenty seven to

twenty fourth score. Here's the Eagles defensive coordinator Bill Davis, but led to just decide, you to see, just hes gotta beat for the second time vertically, and uh I wanted to do just get him up, get him out of there for a second, catch his breath, get his perspect Fiven and uh trying no one in there, Try someone else. You feel like that's just where you guys need to be at at this point. I mean, it's it's happened last two weeks so often at him two

weeks in a row. He's at two bad weeks. I was hoping to get out of that slump, and uh, you know didn't. They went at them deep and they made the plays on him. So I made a switch a trend for what you're seeing, what he's doing that keeps leading to this or not doing. No, it's just vertical ball. We gotta play better. You know. There's different techniques that he misses on each play, but they're all different, not the same one every time. You can never be

a confidence crisis at that position, for sure. Absolutely, that's that's the number one thing you need. I think Fletch is a good corner, just he's lacking confidence right now. They're making some plays on him and um, he's in a slump. So we'll give no one shot. We'll give no one shot out there, and uh, you know the fletch take a step back. You guys kept them alive a lot on third down with penalties. Yeah, we can't

have those. Manute that many third down penalties and think we're gonna you know, we can get off a field with making the plays what they have twenty percent on third down and we shoot ourselves at the football. The penalties you can't have and think you're gonna win games in the NFL. How do you stop that? Though? I mean it's every penalty was different, you know, I don't know the exactly what which ones are right and wrong. It doesn't matter they were called so they Uh, we

just gotta play with more discipline. I mean, that's that's what the penalties are. You know, just some are Uh something just happened with that many. You gotta played more discipline. Did you feel like somewhere wrong? I have no idea. You can't. There's so many things you're looking at the officials interpretation at the time. I'm looking at coverage and they call roughing and passion i'd even said, you mean you maintain your confidence in Bradley Fletye last few weeks? Sure,

looking back now, acts, performances, excuse your decision. I don't regret anything. No. I make plans based on what I see and make decisions on what I see, and I don't regret one minute of it. He uh, like all players, you gotta give him a shot to get out of a slump when or in a slump, or you just end up bailing on everybody every every time one play goes bad. You can't play all that way, build confidence

that way. So made the switch when I thought it was time to make a switch, and you know, unfortunately it didn't work out. It's Safe's its safe to say he's gonna start. I don't know. I have no idea, no idea. We'll make those decisions later. Could you see anything practice Bill this week? Or if I saw something in practice, I wouldn't have played him. I mean, guys, it's it's your cornerback in the NFL, and you got the guys running vertically on you. Sometimes they made plays,

and they made plays in fletch. So there's nothing you see in practice that shows you that he's a good player right now, his confidence is down here. They made some plays on him, So we made a switch. You've talked so often in your two years here about how the defense going forward, getting better, getting better. These last few weeks, do you feel like that has stopped as a defense, Yeah, we haven't got better in the last

few weeks. I mean we got back in the game twice now and twice uh, you know, they got back in it. So, uh, we got a lot of work to do. You know, we got to take a hard look at all positions. It makes sure that we're putting guys in the right position to win. Look at the calls, look at the scheme, look at the players, look at all of it. We Uh, we can't shoot ourselves on footo penalties like that. You can't beat yourself in the NFL.

That's first, you can't beat yourself. They get a good enough players on the other side, they're gonna beat you without you helping them. But you have good enough talent in the second absolutely, yes, we do. Yes, we do. We have enough talent. We've played well at times and just lately we haven't had we have made the play. What was your reaction to the personal found by Kerry Williams on the I didn't say it, didn't say it at all. Mad. It happened because we were off the field.

I was looking for you know, I didn't even see the flag and all of a sudden happens we're back on the field. Loads of things you can't do. We got have to have the discipline and we've got to get ourselves. We can't shoot ourselves on the foot like that. Fresh legs, absolutely not. We're in better shape than most teams we play. We're not tired legs. You know. Balls all right. There's defensive coordinator Bill Davis Gray, you have some interesting remarks. Listening to him talk, I know everybody's

gonna be discussing the player, Briley Fletcher. He got beat on those two verticals. Why don't you give him help every time? It's just not possible. It's not something that you it's twinning the NFL smack. It's big boy football. Sometimes you have to play. You have to line up and play man coverage and no matter what kind of corners you have. I know, fans right now, I think Bradley Fletcher is no good and obviously he's not playing well right now. And yes, he's probably lost some confidence.

And we saw the replays on some of those touchdowns and his technique, as Bill Davis said, was not very good. But you have to line up and play man to man coverage in the NFL, and this defense is predominantly a man based defense. That's what they taught from day one when Bill Davis came here two years ago. So that's what the Eagles play. And you can't change your stripes now. No, No, they've least sixteen, you know, your next last game of the season, of the regular season.

That's what you are. You can't drastically change the scheme just to say, oh, you know, everything's bad, because then you'll be out. You'll mess something else up. Starting corners in the NFL have to play man to man on meaningful snaps in almost every game. That's the way it is. The Gold beat a couple of times. Unfortunately it costs him tonight. So and now, do you agree with the sentiment that they've been keeping Fletcher out there because he's

better than Nolan Carroll. Nolan Carroll came in and well, could you think anything otherwise? Do you think a coaching staff intentionally puts out a player they think is a lesser player. I would certainly hope not. No, they don't. Don't forget. They want to win two and their jobs are always on the line too, So coaches do not put out players they think are lesser players if they have a better player on the bench. It doesn't work

that way. So he obviously benched him today because I'm sure that his confidence was a little bit shot and he's not been playing well. But they obviously believe Bradley Fletcher is their best corner or second best corner if they think Kerry Williams is better. But he's one of their two best corners, their best option to start exactly exactly well or another all right, So we need a little bit of hope, little optimism. Tomorrow, Dallas plays Indianapolis

in Jerry World. If Indianapolis wins and Males cross Manfaorys win, Indianapolis win, that means the Eagles still have hopes for the postseason. They will still need to win against the Giants and needs more help, but nonetheless there's a sliver hope with the Eagles. Give us a quick preview what you expect. Andrew Luck has been putting up MVP type numbers.

Big question to me is whether the Cowboys would be able to get to him with a pass rush because the offensive line for the Colts has struggled for us of this season. So how do you look at this matchup here? Well, the Colts are really an Andrew lux team pretty much. If you look at their entire team, their offense, other than Luck is really not that strong. Their old line has struggled all the year. Luck's been hit more than any quarterback in the league. They don't

really have a consistent run game. They have a good group receivers, but not a great group group of receivers. T Y Hillton's tremendous. I think Reggie Wayne is sort of on the back end. He's on the back nine right now and he's outs. Yeah, I mean so yeah. So what do you think of the rookie Dante Moncrief. Well, I really like Dante Moncrief and I think next year it'll be a big time player. We need a big time player from them tomorrow. He's been Defensively, the Colts,

they play a lot of man. That's probably the best part of what they do in defenses. They play man really well on the outside with Greg Toller and Vonte Davis, but their front seven has just been okay. If I'm the Cowboys, whether yeah, you have DeMarco Murray or whether it's Joseph Randall, to me, I'm playing the way I've played all year. I'm running the ball. I'm playing what has essentially become cowboy football. That's what I'm doing, and you have to live with that, and that's I think

they could beat the Colts that way. But I think Andrew Luck is the wildcard because Andrew Luck is obviously emerging as the best jung quarterback in football, and I don't think there's any question about the fact that he is the best jung quarterback in football and he's capable of winning games by himself. You mentioned DeMarco Murray. He had hand surgery. He is expected to play. I think he's pretty much told everyone in the organization that he is going to play. How do you think that affects

the standpoint? From all right, he'll be able to hold the ball with the one hand, but if you're trying to do stiff arms catch the ball. And he was an effective receiving weapon against the Eagles, So how do you see that working out? You know again, I don't know you tell true the injury, but I do know that it will have an impact because he will not be able to carry the ball in that arm it's his left hand, right ring. He will not be able

to carry the ball. He will not be able to step farm, he will not be able to use that hand to fend off defenders. And he's really much more of a sort of inside power runner than anything else. He's not really an out. They run a lot of outside zone, but he's not really a get to the edge burner. He's really kind of a bruns and confined spaces. So it'll be interesting to see how he's impacted. And we don't, by the way, we don't even know how

much he's gonna play. He may get out there and they may decide after five carries so that he can't. He can't do it because the last thing they want to do. Of course we want them to do this, but the last thing they want him to do is fumble to football. I wouldn't mind seeing a few goes tomorrow, to say the least. So the Eagles, okay, so they need the Colts to win. Let's say it happens, Yes, Dallas would play Washington, yep, same team we just saw

in Week seventeen. The Eagles will play the New York Giants, who have seemed to come to life thanks to the electric rookie Odell Beckham Junior. How impressive you've been by performances. I loved him coming out. I'm not surprised. I think you know the Giants Eagles fans remember the game, which I think was Week six, if I'm not mistaken right around there. Well, that was Beckham's first game, but the

Giants were still a work in progress. They had a new offense, and the offense has gotten incrementally better every single week. It's a different Giants offense. The big problem the Giants have is they can't run the ball, but their pass game has gotten incrementally better every single week and now it's it's a meaningful threat, even though they don't have big time receivers other than the emergence of Beckham. Seems like he makes sure does, he sure does, and

he's explosive. But the Giants defensively, they've had so many injuries and they're not very good. That's the concern. So all back on an impressive season, even though he pretty much. Most missed all of training camp, preseason, early part of the season. Like you said, that Eagles game, that Black Sunday game was the debut for Odell Beckham. The run game, Rashad Jenks been banged up. He hasn't been reliable for the Giants of like Andre Williams doesn't. He's a straight two.

He wouldn't be hard for the Eagles to defend with their run defense, which is really good, which would be so different as compared to the last month with all the running backs that they faced. But the one thing is you hope that it's meaningful for them. You know, this is a very interesting obstacle for Chip Kelly. You know they've lost three straight games. Now you have to try