Post-Game Show: Eagles Lose 26-23 In OT

the Eagles up by three in overtime. So up twenty to seventeen, Ike, you figure the Eagles are in prime position. They've been winning these close games all season long, starting with the Thursday night kickoff special against the Falcons and then last week against the Colts, where it took a hail Mary at the end to finally put the Colts away. So Eagles up three in overtime, and let's just go through the plays real quick. Titans get fourth and fifteen,

Taiwan Taylor gets a first down conversion. Mariota faced with a fourth and fourth situation, Sidney Jones commits a past interference penalty a third and nineteen, Mariota scrambles and make it fourth and short, and the Titans thought about going

for the field goal to tie it. However, they brought back Mariota on the field and he dumps off a screen pass to Dean Lewis to get the first down, and of course, the touchdown pass to Corey Davis, who had explosive plays all throughout the course of the game, to give the Tennessee Titans a twenty six to twenty three win in overtime over the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles

drop to two and two on the season. We're going to hear from head coach Doug Peterson, quarterback Carson Wentz and will have plenty of reaction in the next hour or so. Ike your initial thoughts on a tough day for Eagles fans, especially when you lean on this defense to come through in big situations like this, especially on the road, and they don't get the job done. Well.

You know, Chris planning in this league for nine years, watching this game for a long time, you know you're gonna plan enough of these close ball games that you're gonna get your fair amount of wins, but you're also going to take some tough losses. And the Eagles through four weeks this season, have found themselves in these tight games where they've had to come up with big stops late in the game, and to their credit, they've been

able to walk away with the w twice. But today they were bitten and it was just far too many

mistakes at the end of the game. You mentioned a lot of the crucial down in distant situations where they're in the eagle's favor but for whatever reason, they can't find their way off the field orbit whether it's a holding penalty or you know, being where it's third and nineteen, fourth and nineteen and Marcus thirty nineteen, Marcus marriol To scrambles for seventeen yards and really puts themselves in a position to decide to go for it on fourth down.

Gotta give Mike Raybell a lot of credit. I know a lot of coaches at home in that situation, the field goal fourth and two. But in today's game, and you probably got Doug Peterson the thank for this, and in today's game, coaches are going for it on fourth down. I mean, there are so many rules other than advantageous for offenses that you're almost better off taking a shot

at it, especially in a fourth and two situations. So the Eagles just confined themselves a way to get off the field late in the game to sort of seal this victory. Way too many mistakes. Defense once again sort of jekoin hidish on the road versus being at home. You know, we talked about explosive plays. You know, this Tennessee Titans offense, this is the best they've looked all season long. I mean not They had two touchdowns coming into this game. In three games they had scored two touchdowns.

So this offense was pedestrian. Um, you're talking about Marcus Mariola with a banged up hand. Um. They showed early that they were going to throw the ball. So if the Eagles had any inclination that they were gonna come in here and focus on stopping the run, the Titans didn't even try to really run the football today. They decided they were going to attack this secondary and there

were big plays to be had all day. Eagles fortunate a couple of times, even on that final drive that they eventually got scored on, the Titans had somebody wide open down the middle. He dropped the ball. Yeah that right there should have been the ball. Gave me figure that this young team trying to emerge should have been able to not overcome that they did. Yeah, they were able to. I mean, and they had several of those

plays where they dropped the ball. Mean Corey Davis who caught the game winning touchdown, he had at least three drops today that would have resulted in big plays for the Tennessee Titans offense. You just look at this defensive hours and we got to figure out a way to tighten up our coverage. You know, uh that you can't rely on the pass rush all the time to get

there to the quarterback and get sacks. With a guy like Marcus Mariota, who has athleticism, who has the ability to move around extend plays with his legs, you're gonna have to have your secondary hold up. And through three games or two games on the road, I should say we've been shredded through the secondary. I mean, Marcus Mariota over three hundred and forty four yards passing, Are you

kidding me? He guys probably hasn't thrown for that many yards in two years, you know, almost seventy percent completion percentage. Like it was just too easy for the Titans passing a one point all right, Mariota had the interception late in the first half, picked up by Vonte Max, led to three points for the Eagles. Mariota completed his next fifteen passes. There was not incompletion until overtime. The entire

second half, Mariota was perfect and that's why. Look when the Eagles got ahead with that Alshon Jeffrey touchdown and took the seventeen to three lead, I said, this was exactly where the Eagles need to be because the Titans have not shown the explosive playmaking ability, the ability to come up with those chunk yardage plays in order to come back in a shootout type gate. I mean, they beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, to their credit, but they wanted by a score of nine to six. Okay, this team

has just been finding ways to win. And you figure if the Eagles get up early, especially on the road where they have the bug a boo about, you go to the Tampa Bay game, you go back to the Super Bowl of last year. The defense has not been the same on the road, so you figure seventeen three, they're not going to be able to run the ball. You're putting the ball in Mario's hands That's exactly what the Eagles want to come into this game. But as you said, Ike, the Titans game planned to say, we

can't rely on the run. The Eagles have the best run defense in football. We're not gonna win with the ground game. Quite honestly, it seemed like every time the Titans offense got into a rhythm, you know, with Dion Lewis, with Taj Sharp, with Taywan Taylor, all of a sudden they would give the ball Derek Henry and they would set themselves back. Yeah, Okay, that seemed like they the one bugaboo for the Titans offensively. It was every time they gave the ball at Derek Henry, that's what slowed

them down. So they put the hand the ball in the hands of their playmakers and they were able to come back take the lead. And again, look the Eagles found a way to fight back. Okay. DeAndre Carter had the amazing punt return forty one yards put them inselves in position for the Jake Elliott field goal that sent into overtime. Jgi Wendell Smallwood move the ball methodagally and overtime got the field goal. You figured, Okay, the Eagles

bounced back, they got the lead in overtime. Again, let's give it to the defense, Let's put on their shoulders and let them bring home the victory and come back to Philadelphia three and one. But that was not the case. As again, the Eagles got Mariote in down in distant situations that were advantageous for the Eagles, and they were just not able to seal the deal. It's just gonna come down to one play, and this is the type

of game we're at the end of the year. However the Eagles finished, this is the one they're gonna be kicking themselves in. Okay, because the difference between three and one at the quarter pole verse two and two, it's massive. Dallas one. Today they rallied to beat the Detroit Lions.

Cowboys are two and two. So as much as everyone's making fun of Dallas and the offensive struggles there with big d third two and two and right there with the Eagles, so as much as the Eagles have been able to scrape by, they're at that same mark right now. Three and one. Two and two is such a huge difference, and you're just digging yourself a hole and making much tough for as you get into the meat of the schedule, which which is gonna be very tough beginning next week

with a rested Vikings team that's they're gonna be. Their season is should be on life support. Life support at this point. Okay, they need to come with the whip. So the bottom line the area is the Eagles digging, digging themselves a hole and not able to get a win in a very winnable game on the road today against Tennessee. So Ike, we'll go through. Let's go through your your three takeaways. And I think you kind of

touched on the one already with the past defense. Just what have you seen differently from when the Eagles are at home as compared to one they're on the road. Well, obviously you got the crowd noise behind you. When you're playing at home, they're feeding off the energy of Lincoln Financial Field. That sometimes can rattle quarterbacks when you come in here and makes it hard for them to communicate, and the defensive line they get a chance to pin

their errors back. So that's certainly an advantage for the Eagles when they're playing at home. It just seems like when they're playing on the road, we don't play as aggressively from a secondary start, We're not We're not necessarily getting up challenging these wide receivers, fighting them for the football at the point of attack. You know, when the ball is there, fifty fifty balls, you gotta be able to get the get the ball out of the wilde

receiver's hands. And it just doesn't seem like our secondary is very good at doing that, and particularly our corners. And when you look at whether it's Sidney Jones, whether it's Jalen Mills, or whether it's Ron Darby, you know you're gonna be tested. The Eagles defense is hard to run against. So some teams are coming into the game with the idea of we're not gonna even try to run the ball today, except for when we have to run the ball, we can move the ball easier through

the air against this team. Tennessee average thirty three carriers. Yeah, most of the NFL yeah, and said we're not gonna do that. That's their m And maybe you could say Mariota has been injured. They were down there. Their top three offensive tackles one point. But still the mL of this offense has been run the ball through Henry and

Lewis through the first three games of the season. Yeah, they take their chances throwing it up against Jalen Mills and Ron Darby, and we just we gotta take it personal, man, We gotta take we gotta take umbrush to the fact that you're not gonna keep targeting me over here. You're not gonna keep throwing the ball over here. We need to get some turnovers, You need to get interceptions, things of that nature to sort of discourage opposing teams offenses

for trying you. Because they're so stout upfront with Fletcher and Hellodi Nada and Brandon and all those guys. The teams are saying the easier path to moving the football is through the air against this team. As long as we either max protect give our quarterback enough time to throw it, or we get the ball out of our hands quickly, we're gonna be able to move the chains through the air. And the Eagles have to recognize this and it's not going to get any easier each week.

This is a passing league, So teams are gonna throw the football against this Eagle secondary. We saw it coming down the stretch last year and they just need to do better. I mean, they need to do better. The guys that are out there are the guys that are going to be playing. Those are your three best corners. So there isn't some sort of magic potion that Jim Schwartz can go to and pluck somebody off the beach that's going to do a better job. He's playing his

three best corners. And you know, i Vante Maddox is a young, up and coming guy who got a chance to get out there today and had a nice interception, had a nice play, but he also got lost in coverage and his man was wide open on a overthrow that could have ended the game and overtime as well. So you know, there's some things that are mixed up in the secondary. We gotta get fixed, all right. So

we're gonna hear again. We're gonna hear from head coach Doug Pearson and quarterback Carson Wentz and just a little bit first, we're gonna bring you Look, we were listening to the Sports Radio ninety four WAP broadcast Merril and Mike here in the studio in overtime, and they did an outstanding job of capturing the action and making us feel like we were there in national Tennessee. We're gonna bring those sounds to you in our Meryl Cam feature

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All right, thanks again to Sports Radio ninety four w IP for allowing us to bring you Merrill Cam there with Merrill and Mike, So we went through the first of your three takeaways. Like, and that's the explosive plays allowed by the defense. Let's go to the offensive side of the ball and start up front where the line just has not protected as well since the beginning of the season. In my opinion, going back to when Nick Foles was a starter, today that protection was an issue

once again. Yeah, officsive line protection was a huge problem for the Eagles the day and like you said, it's been that way for the last couple of weeks. Carson went since his return. Sacked nine times five last week, four more to day, hit countless other times under the rest, plenty more opportunities for Tennessee to come in there and sort of rattle Carson a little bit in the pocket. And I can't necessarily put my finger on what the exact issue is because you have all five of your

guys in there, everyone's healthy. We're just not doing as good of a job as we've done in years past of protecting the quarterback. And they're too good up front. You're talking about four Pro Bowl players to all Pro players, and a Hall of Fame to be player in Jason Peters. There's no reason that the Eagles offensive lines shouldn't be doing a better job of protecting their quarterbacks. And I

don't care how tough Carson is. The more you hit a quarterback, the more rattled he's gonna be in the pocket, and the more that he's gonna start either getting rid of the ball too soon or holding on to it too long. That's just the effects, the cumulative effect of hitting a quarterback, and that's what defenses want to do. So offensive line need to do need to pick up their pick up their play when it comes to pass protecting list. Excuse me there, It's not just the offensive line,

it's the running backs as well. When you when when when, when you're in pass protection, you're right, it's not just the offensive line who have to block. When you're getting extra rushes in there and you got either a tight end part of the protection or the running backs or part of the protection, the running backs have to be on the same page with the offensive lineman. And it started last week with the Coats. What teams are gonna do is you're gonna get four guys rushing you straight.

You're gonna get these loopers, these tes and et stunts where they're trying to get you to pass defensive linemen off and confusion. They're trying to get an advantage in a one on one matchup and two often a day when Dale Smallwood was caught back there not blocking someone because he was confused on who to block and that led a free rusher to come in. So, yeah, when you're talking about pass protection, it isn't just the offensive linemen.

It's the running backs that when you are a part of the protection, you must know who to pick up. What scary is with these schemes we saw it last week with the Colts. You see it again toy with the Titans. And you mentioned those loopers and those delayed blitzes and delayed rushers. That's something I think teams are going to see and say, you know, this is something Eagles not being able to handle. And you don't know whether it's a communication, if it's just not knowing the

rules and responsibilities on each play. And again, like I just mentioned to you, it's not just the offensive line, it's you know, that's where I think missing Darren Sproles comes into play in a big way because he's so good in pass protection. But across the board there, you know, I just don't know if those five guys the stars are just playing as well as they did last season.

You know, maybe it takes a week, you say after the Colts game, it takes a little bit of time for the team to adjust to blocking for Carson Wentz. But you figure Carson Wentz guy's feedback, he's adjusted to playing in the pocket all right. Now he has another week of practice with these offensive linemen. You knew you're gonna see these types of blitzes and pressures from the Tennessee Titans today. But the problem is, you know, once again, and actually you know, we're gonna hear from the head

coach and see what the issue was himself. Let's set it to Nashville. As Coach Pearson address up the media, you can say you gave a wink that you had and let go. What is the next step here, Well, it comes down to, first of all, you have to, as I said in that locker room, you have to hate this feeling more than you enjoy winning. And it comes out each guy. I'm starting with myself, and I look at myself in the mirror and make sure that I'm doing everything I can to prepare this football team

for each weekend. And effort obviously is always there. And we have to we have to look at the film quite honestly, and and and it's all fixable. The things, the things that were the mistakes we're making are all fixable. Um, whether it's a you know, a coverage element being out of position or you know just uh, you know, a holding when we're on the perimeter offensively, we can't do you know, it's just things that we can correct and practice during the week. And and that's that's what we

have to do. Very offense to school lead. You know this road stuff with defense. I mean we're talking about talking about exactly. Um, it's something scenario that that we've we've got to I've got to look at it this week and and uh, you know, because we are schedule is set up, we're home away, home away, so we you know, we're gonna be on the road just as much as we are you know, playing at home. So um, it's something that uh, you know, we understand I think

where we are as a football team. And uh, you know, nobody's gonna feel sorry for us, you know, with the injuries or you know, there's no excuses, so we don't feel sorry for ourselves. We just got to continue to work and and and keep getting better. But the last play of the first half, you run our running play with I think it's like eleven second blocks from the

clock from the ten yard lines. The block process, get the first down, burn the time out, and then have maybe eight seconds to start taking shots to the end zone. Do you preach to your guys you know that penalties it's so good you address with and how frustrated these APLA gys have started it. It seems like it's in every game and really feels like you're beating yourselves in those situations. Yeah, I mean, the penalties are are are

racking up and can't can't happen. We've got to we've got to eliminate those and and uh, you know, it's just it's something we do look at you know, I look at it here in the next couple of days and and uh before we get ready for the next opponent, and try to put a finger on it and just keep keep coaching the guess that's all we can do. If you just keep coaching them out of it. It seems like our hands are basic work pressure this year as he has as particularly with the Blitz. We'll give

them credit. I mean, that's it's a pretty good front. We knew that going in. You know, it's a good defense. Um, so I give them a lot of credit. Number one, number two. Again, we'll look at the film, we'll make we'll make our corrections. It's a couple of guys got edged a couple of times. Uh, you know, we got to make sure that our backs and you know, there's there's a cohesiveness with that all that protection. It's not

just one guy or two guys. You know, it could be could be the offensive line, could be the quarterback, could be the coverage, and so we just have to address it. And uh, um, you know, we pride ourselves and picking up the pressure, picking up the blitz, and we'll get back to that. And uh, we just as a situation again where we were just a little out of position. Um, and again credit them. It's a great

play obviously, fourth and fifteen. You know. Um, it's a fixable situation obviously, and uh we'll we'll get it corrected with the whole movie parts of the defensive backfield. The last a couple of weeks, he could change this week. Uh do you expect a little bit that there's gonna have to be a growing together process for that? I think I mean a little bit. Yeah, there's gonna be. There's gonna be, um you know, some communication issues that we gotta we gotta address. There's gonna be you know,

moving parts, moving guys around. Um. You know, it's very similar to offensively with you know the amount of injuries. You know, with the running backs and receiver group, there's moving people around and moving parts and and again it's it's something that um, you know, we'll continue to address, continue to work. We don't make excuses for it. Next man up plays and we we coach him up and getting ready. Pretty offense. Yeah, he was. He was excited

to watch him play today. He was aggressive, he attacked football, kind of a spark for the offense. It was great to see him back and and uh keep him coming. Was he honest down counting to see this game goes? With how much table? I just wanted to see how the game unfolded with him, How is how he was with his you know, because he missed a couple of days there and just wanted to make sure that he was, you know, strong, you know as the game went. He

felt really good as it went. As it went, CLU on the interfa over time they stopped get the man zone here? What was the issue those two situations? Well, a couple of times uh, you know again we stopped ourselves. Whether it was just execution, um, maybe a penalty back this up just to touch a sack something something negative happened um and and it just it just got us out of our rhythm. It seems like we got down

there fine. Um and and the and they you know, Tennessee bowed their neck and and and kept us to three, much like our defense has done, you know for the first month of the season, you know, um and and again it's uh, you know, we pride ourselves and in the red zone obviously we've been we've been pretty good there. Um and and we just got to continue to work. Feeling loss like this, it's less likely to snowball because when you guys went through last season, doesn't have any

bearing at all, has no bearing, has no bearing. Those guys in there are sick to their stomach right now, and u um, they they they take it. They take this. This, This hurts, This stings. Losses like this staying and uh um, it's something that we use is fuel for you know, our emotion and moving forward. It's uh, you know, we try to go one to know every week. That's our that's our main objective. And it starts in practice when

we come back together on Tuesday. But I guess do you think that your experienced last season makes it less likely that this loss were turning into something and next week through will you get back? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not it's not going to snowball that way. Yeah. It At times it seems wavering a little bit more responsibility years when your shoulders day, I gotta get us

back in the middle of the highway to ye. I mean yeah, a lot of it falls on my shoulders, you know, preparing this football team during the week, mentally, physically, how we practice all of that. Um. But the one thing that that this team is has learned through resiliency and is just the ownership of just doing their jobs.

Keep do simple better, you know, and and uh, just focus on their task and their job and and that's coaches and players and uh you know, um, I tell them all the time it's a you know, it's so it can be a simple game if if you keep it simple, do you eliminate turnovers, you eliminate penalties and just go execute? Um, you know. Um, And that's where we're at. The job is to be a huge problem. And then they weren't so much last year, kind of

backing out, who what are your jobs? Is there anything that you can attribute the too or maybe to unsettle the position of the movie just um, you know, maybe just lack of focus at the time. You can count to a lot of things. But um, number one thing is we got to make sure we do catch the football and and uh, we just continue to work. Thanks. Thanks, yes, all right. Pearson addressing the media at Nissan Stadium in Nashville following the eagles twenty six to twenty three overtime

loss to the Titans. The main takeaway from that was everything is very fixable. The goal now is just to rebound and be one and oh next week, not to allow this to linger or snowball, because again, the Eagles are not used to being in this situation where they're coming back from losses like this. You go back to last season, they lost that Week two game to the Kansas City Chiefs. Steamrolled through opponents on the way to that.

I think it was nine straight wins they had before losing out in Seattle, and then all of a sudden, you know they're in the pole position for the postseason, losing a course at regular season finale, which didn't matter when he came to standing. So the Eagles two and two, and let's get to the third of your takeaways, and Doug touched on it at the end of his press conference. Al Sean Jeffrey's return. So we've talked about the explosive plays allowed by the defense. The pass protection was by

the offensive line. But the bright spot here for the Eagles is the offense getting back Alshon Jeffrey number seventeen or wasn't it great to see number seventeen out there? Alshan Jeffrey making his twenty eighteen season debut today and he did it in a big way. Eight catches off of nine targets, got a touchdown in there, over a hundred yards receiving. This offense was missing a receiver like

al Shan Jeffrey, the big play guy guy. Even when he's covered, you can still throw the ball up to him and he'll be able to go up there and get it in that fifty fifty catch radius that he has. So and in my opinion, you can tell the effect he had on the offensive passing game in general. I mean, I don't know if Mike Vrabel had zach Ertz on his Fantasy Football League team or not, because no one covers zach over the middle of the field all day.

In part that's because you need to apply extra coverage to Alshan Jeffrey on the outside, so that allows zach Erst to do what he was doing in the middle of the field. Even Nelson, who had twelve targets, only caught five of them, but the fact that he had twelve targets let you know that. You know Carson Wentzon is gonna spread the football around. Having a big body like Alshon Jeffrey back at his disposal is only going to help improve this offense is scoring. This was the

best team in the league in the red zone. It hasn't looked that way through four games this year. They've struggled a little bit. They've scored some touchdowns, but there they too often have to settle for field goals down there. And I think as the weeks go on, you're gonna see that red zone scoring touchdown percentage go up because having a big body like al Sean, along with Zach Erst, then you throw in Dallas Goddard, it's gonna be difficult for teams to defend those guys. Give Tennessee a lot

of credit. I believe they were the number one red zone defense in the league when it comes to passing coming into this game, so they typically don't give up a ton of points, but I thought we had some opportunities.

Having Alshon back is only going to increase those. The big thing with al Sean is the toughness he brings the swagger he brings to the offense as well, because going to this game, he had the one full practice with the shoulder injury on Wednesday, and all of a sudden he's on the injury report with an illness, missing Thursday and Friday, and then there were reports of it was gonna be a game time decision because of something that had been going around the building and they didn't

know from a health standpoint how he'd be able to hold up. But you know, he just brings it at a dimension. You mentioned the size, the catch radius, the ability in the red zone, the explosive plays, but there's just an attitude that he brings to this offense. And it goes back to when he signed as a fridge in last year and there are all the sayings of

how he's going to win the Super Bowl. He probably meant it when he was with the Bears at the time, but still he followed through on his words and won

the Super Bowl here with the Eagles. And then tell him that the offensive players before they start of this season that the twenty eighteen campaign begins with Atlanta and needs to end in Atlanta, where the site of Super Bowl fifty three is so definitely having that attitude that playmaking presents back in the offense is going to bode well for the future as a team moves on, because again, not all is for lost here. The Eagles are two and two, and it's a very The instant emotion and

from the game is it's very it's very depressing. It it's very it's very upsetting because of you've seen the Eagles pull these games out. And you know, when Doug Pearson said that this is the new norm, you were thinking about long term winning success. You weren't thinking it was gonna be thrilling, nailed by yours each and every week. But the Eagles have been finding ways to win those games and you're just not accustomed to them losing in

a fashion like this. So the key is going to be can the Eagles bounce back from a very tough loss on the road. I guess, look, give the Titans credit. This is a team that's leading to AFC South. They handled the Jacksonville Jaguars, who had just come off of beating the New England Patriots. Paste of the Patriots basically, you know, in Jacksonville came back. The game was in Jacksonville and the Titans lost their starting quarterback early in

Blaine Gabbert. Mariota, who doesn't have full strength in his arm, is able to lead the team just enough to get the victory and then they welcome the Super Bowl champs. You figure coming off an emotional divisional matchup, they might not be up for the game, but no, this was a litmos test for them to showcase that they are one of the better teams and that they are emerging and thriving with Mike vrabel as a new head coach there. So tip of the captain Titans, big win for them.

The Eagles, you know, not able to take care of business, not able to get that eighth straight win, agains an AFC South opponent there, but you know it was there for the taking for the Eagles. They had the leading overtime,

and you looked at the numbers very similar. But as we transition to the turning points of this football game, and there are plenty in this one, even in the overtime itself, just in the in the second half there the Eagles had the lead and the Harold Landry, rookie defensive end now at Boston College, comes off the edge gets a strip sack on Carson Wentz, Derek Morgan recovers and that allowed the Titans to climb back into this ball game. So again, the Titans were down seventeen to

three after Alshon Jeffrey's touchdown in the third quarter. However, they were able to fight back and led the game twenty to seventeen before the Eagles tied it up to send it to overtime. Yeah, that was a huge turnover. I mean, those are the things that you can't afford to have happened when you're on the road. I mean, those are the things that home teams thrive on. And

so get the Titans defense a lot of credit. They came up with the big play, and going up against the team like the Eagles, they knew that they were gonna need to have a short field from time to time to sort of help their offense out. And they couldn't have come up with a bigger play than that one there. To get that sad forced fumble against Carson Wentzon, you're already in scoring position. That was a huge momentum swing for that Titans, for that Titans team, and they

really got the Titans crowd into the game. And here's the thing that I'm guaranteed the Eagles are starting to find out. You are defending Super Bowl champions. That means you are the big game on every opponent's schedule, especially when you go on the road. You are the big game. You see how Tennessee celebrated after that win. I bet you they celebrated more after that win than they did after beating Jacksonville last week nine to six. Because when you knock off the big dog, it validates you as

a team. So beating the Eagles, Tennessee look at themselves like, okay, we are a good football team. At three and one. We just beat the world champ. So the Eagles have to get used to getting everyone's best shot every time you line up on Sunday. And I'll tell you, though, I look at this game and I say I have respect for Tennessee. Coming into this game, I thought they were a very good defense. The Eagles, at least offensively, are slowly but surely getting better. We ran the football

well today, over one hundred yards rushing. I thought Jedgi ran the ball hard. Win Delle Smallwood when he had the ball in his hands, he ran the ball hard. So we're starting to get this offense clicking on all cylinders. We just gotta get our defense together. Carson over three hundred yards against that Titan secondary. That's pretty impressive to do. When you look at Malcolm Butler or Dory Jackson and the other corner. I think of Logan Ryan out there.

That's pretty good. And you gotta safety and Beers and Kevin Byard. So throwing for three hundred and something yards, that's a good sign for this offense. Having al Sean back in there, that's certainly a good sign. Jagi his first game in a couple of weeks over one hundred yards rushing for the Russian attack today. Good things on offense on the road there, and you have all your horses. Yeah, the running we're still yeah, you're still not even a

full strength. No corn Clement, no Darrence bros. You can get them back. So for you, like what was your turning point? So for me, they're second half that Derek Morgan fumble recovery of the after the Harold Landry strip sack. For me, you know what was your turn? I think the big play in overtime Marcus Mariota scramble on third

and nineteen. I mean you get that big sack on Marcus Mariota, and you're thinking, okay, they're out of field goal range as well, and to allow him to run for seventeen yards and really put his team in a position to decide to go for it on fourth down.

I thought they went from winning the ball game there or a desperation hill Mary passed at the end there to basically give in Tennessee whichever they wanted, whether they wanted to kick the field goal and played for a time, which would given the Eagles the ball back and the chance to win. Mike Rabel and the new Doug Peterson Ara decides to go for it on fourth down. They pick they pick up the fourth down. Next thing you know, a couple plays later, game is over. So third and nineteen,

that's what you want. Every defense wants that, every defensive coordinator wants that. And to have the quarterback scramble for seventeen yards. I mean, he really was their best runner today. Marcus Mariota was. The other guys didn't do anything out of the backfield, And I thought that was the turning point. And if you had to account for him come into this game. Yeah, that's the biggest thing, because you talk about, you know, Derrick Henry and Dean Lewis, but Marioda is

very much a huge part of that as well. And you know, the Eagles with that upfield, aggressive style, attacking defensive line, they knew they had to be disciplined in their gaps. But even then, at times the play will break down and Mariota will have room to run, and he was able to take advantage on a few opportunities. But again, you look at that overtime fourth and fifteen situation, Taywan Taylor makes the catch fourth and four, Sidney Jones

as the passenger for Aarons. You mentioned the third and nineteen, which at first the Titans actually sent out Ryan suck up their kicking. Yeah, figure at least tie. Then they're like, wait a second, it's close enough here that if we're

gonna do this, let's do this right. And you know, getting back to your point about the Titans validating themselves from this win, and it's gonna it's gonna be a weird feeling for Eagles fans because we're not gonna care about the AFC South, We're not gonna care about these al conference matchups really down the line. But the Titans. You have to feel good because they are three and one and they've beaten two of the final four teams from last season. Okay, so doesn't matter. Yeah, but it

doesn't matter. You know if at this point, you know, we were looking, you know, straight in the eye of a two to one on one record, and certainly you wouldn't want the tie, But you know that's helped the Eagles in the past. It's better than a loss. And you go back to that two thousand and eight campaign which ended with a run to the MC championship game in Arizona. They got the tie that year that helped

them get in the playoffs. And with the way the league is one this year, it's already been several ties. So I can only imagine towards the end of the year that half a game is gonna help or hurt someone. It's gonna make a different get in the playoffs. Yeah, it's gonna make a difference. But again, you know, when it comes to the standing, it's still early. But at the quarter turn, you're hoping that if you came out of at three and one, that that kind of was

was for me the goal. Okay, obviously you want to be four though, you'd want them to win them all, but if they could have been three one coming out that you would have felt really good about. All Right, we're gonna send it back down to Nashville, Carson Wentz set to address the media. Three you playing there a

little I guess you kind of even throw it away. Yeah, Um, they covered us, they had us covered, and um, a little miscommunication there as well, and I just try to try to throw it away and keep it our field goal position and take the field goals else January back. It's a smart but things are going to take time to develop. Looked like in the second half you would kind of getting going, but not dealing dish and pour

it out. Frustrating. I mean, it's frustrated to obviously come up short, especially as an offense when we had chances. You know, we had chances to finish in the end zone. You know, at the end of the game, finishing the end zone in overtime. Um, we just didn't executing the red zone the way we wanted to. And um, you know, you could look around all sorts of plays from the game and then the day, we just didn't finish as an offense and as a team either offense put it

all together, do you think. Um, you know, we'll have to watch the tape, especially this week, But UM, I think overall, I think we're hurting ourselves too much. Um. You know, I think it's something little here, here, here or there, and um, those little things kind of add up, you know, whether that's penalty, whether that's miscommunication, misassignments. You know, obviously we're making physical mistakes too out there. Um, But at the end of the day, I'm not I'm not

too worried. Um. It's a frustrating one, but it's when we can learn from and bounce back from. It's part of the game. It's part of the game. I watched the film and see, you know, obviously there's time to hold on the ball too long. There's miscommunications and protections that we can get called right. And at the end of the day, we got to watch a film and regroup on that. You expected. I wouldn't say more than that.

More than we expected. You know. It seems like we get blissed quite a bit as an offense, and that's kind of in their DNA. They like to mix it up quite a bit. And uh, I thought that's what they did to that play at the end of the first path. But was that something who was kind of back to when you ran set us wrong? There? No, that was a play called Carson. What do you say to Nelson obviously had a game? What do you say or to kind of get him? Yeah, I mean I'm

not too worried about him. You know, he's a guy that that we rely on, that we trust, that I trust, you know, I don't lose confidence. Um, guys make mistakes, you know, I miss throws, Guys drop balls, align this box. You know, it's it's part of the game. And um, obviously it's something that we got to clean up for all of us. But um, I'm not worried about it. What was does message when you dressed you guys at the game? And we just gotta regroup. We gotta regroup.

Obviously we're a quarter of the way through, sitting at two and two. Uh, not quite where we want to be, but you know, we got a long way to go yet. So um, we just gotta keep keep staying together. And there's a lot of things we got to clean up. You know, I think we're right there. We just gotta um clean up some things and finish finish up some drives as an offense. Still those shoulder cats a strong you know, really have much guy. I mean it's great.

I mean it's great to have alstro I'm back out there. You know, a guy that can make contested catches, can make plays for you. Give give the offensive spark. You saw it out there today. We still just came up short though. What was the chess match like kind of identifying over the protection for But they're sitting yeah, I mean, I mean they do a good job, you know, hats after them. You know, we study all week, try and watch the film and then um coming here and they

mix it up a little bit more, do something new. Um, that's kind of how it goes every week. So you know, hats after them. I'm doing some things really well. Um, and we got to be better. Things that you can do to kind of you know, show up balls for what you do. See things that we're not expecting to James Uppers News. Yeah, I mean we got to watch the tape. Honestly, I'm not one hundred percent sure where some of the breakdowns were or what all happened, so

we gotta watch the tape. Was pretty pet there. Um, the best of the war, did Jordan, what was going through your mind? Yeah? Yeah, I was just frustrated. You know, I wanted to win the game, you know, I wanted I didn't want to settle for a field goal. I didn't want to settle for overtime. I was just frustrated that we came up short a lot of third downs. Wow, how big your problem was that? Yeah, I mean that's tough.

You know, that's a man shoot. Those are things that kind of had up, whether it's penalties, whether it's the negative plays. Um. You know, they did some good things um to kind of you know, and some of the nakeds and stuff they blitzed right into it kind of um set some good play calls on and uh, we just gotta say ahead of the chains. We can't keep putting ourselves in those situations. It's hard to hard to

convert in those downs. Thanks you guys. It's a lot of doing the off season about say, you guys are gonna have a coal so back last year. I get everybody's best seeing that things come easy to get ye, I mean yeah, we fully expect that, you know. And at the same time, this is NFL. Anyone can beat anyone.

Any weekend. We got to bring it every week and we can't just keep having these simple mistakes that we sometimes, you know, you just want to sweep under the rug, but those little things can kind of creep up and bite you. And I think that's what happened today, Thanks quarterback Carson Wentz addressing the media and just expressing his disappointment about not getting the job done. And I believe it was Ruben Frank who asked the question at the end of the press conference and like, this is what

you've been harping on. The Eagles are going to get the best from teams each and every week because they have that Super Bowl championship label attached to them. And we saw that once again here today with the way that the Titans were celebrating. It was just so it was so tough listening to the broadcast because basically we would hear the play, you know, the radio feed right before you would see it during the Fox telecast, and you could just hear the crowd react when Corey Davis

scored the touchdown No. One that Tennessee got to win in overtime. Yeah, tough loss, obviously, you know, they these guys, they fought and these are the type of losses that you ride back on that plane. Man, you can't let it go. You can't. You can't let it go, especially when you know you had a seventeen to three lead, you're up on this team. It seems like you got everything rolling. You come out in the second half, you get a touchdown, you seem like you got everything clicking

on all cylinders. And I know the defense in particularly those guys, they pride themselves on being able to stand up and do their part, and so to allow Tennessee to score twenty unanswered points and then the big you know, third and fourth down conversions, those are the ones that when you get on that bus to head to the airport, you don't have plane to come back here to Philly tonight, they'll still be thinking about it. They'll be thinking about the first thing when they wake up in the morning.

Because these these games, you know the old cliche, you only get sixteen of them, right, and so you want to make sure every time you get an opportunity to play, you leave everything out there on the field. You do your best, and you know, sometimes you gotta tip your cap to the opposing team. Now, today it's a little bit of half and half. You can tip your cap to Tennessee because they earned the victory. They made the

big plays when they needed to. But as a deepense, you're saying to yourself, we had them where we wanted the man, you know, they were one dimensional. That's how we like to play against teams, making them one dimensional and to give up those big conversions, those explosive plays. I know, those are the type of plays that they just eat at you defensively. You know what was eating at me was seeing Mike Rabel on the sidelines going back to the Super Bowl thirty nine. Oh no, you

don't break that up. But as we probably have mindares, I'm gonna have nightmares, and it made me think of he scored a touchdown of that game. Okay, Patriots beat the Eagles. It's it's like he's personally got the Eagles number for whatever reason. So for one head coach to the other, Devin Curse. We worked on that play all week. Man, you knew that play was coming. So now you're gonna be on your car ride home thinking about that. So for one head coach perspective to the other, let's go

to our interview. The legendary Mike Quick. He was in the booth. Now he's outside the locker room speaking one on one with head coach Doug Peterson. Coach, First of all, let's talk about the issues you're having with projections Carson sex five times last week, four today. Um, what's happening with that? I really think you can attribute it to about three different things. Um. It could be the offensive

line just getting beat. It could be the defense obviously with their rush lanes, and uh, maybe the coverage on the back end. And sometimes, uh, sometimes we put a sack on the quarterback. And we know, we know, as active as Carson can be, UM a lot of times you know, with him scrambling and getting out of the pocket, sometimes he goes down, and you know, it's just things that we've got to continue to address. We continue to work.

We pride ourselves and picking up whether it's a blitz or a game up front and try to get better. What's most disappointing to you about this law? It's hard fought and certainly no lack of effort. It's never the lack of effort. Um. Probably the biggest thing is how we kind of kind of let them back into this

football game. We had an opportunity to really I think kind of put them away there in the third quarter when the offense went down and scored and and it kind of felt the tides changed just a little bit and had a chance to I think just kind of almost win the game at that point, and we let them back in it with a touchdown drive and then I think they scored three their three last possessions there in the second half, and um, we were fortunate to

tie it up and got over time. But you know, that's kind of the thing that that's kind of glaring right now, and we just got to go back to work on Tuesday and I'll get ready for the next one. You started the game with the vertical passion game, deep shot took to Nelson down the field. Well, there's something that that you saw in your preparation there that it was two things. One, it was something that that I had seen and we had seen as a staff and kind of based on formation and how they were going

to come out play it. And then two, um, it's just my mindset going into this football game staying aggressive in the passing game. I honestly quick I felt like, you know, the first couple of games, maybe because of our injury situation or whatever. It was just uh, um, you know, maybe maybe not feeling myself just a little bit. And and I really wanted to give the offense an opportunity. And a lot of that's on me as a play caller,

so I take responsibility on that. And so that therefore, this game for me was was about I wanted to attack a little a little deeper down the field and take shots, and and we had opportunities. With Nelson, we had opportunities. I think, you know all Sean played extremely well down the field. The tight ends played well. So it was good to see. You mentioned Sean. How important is he to this office? What difference did he make

today for this office? Well, you saw it. You saw the big, physical receiver out there, and uh, that was really good to see. The touchdown catch was it was a thing of beauty. Uh you know, a couple just hitch route, slant routes, I mean just just putting the ball in on a big frame target like that and his catch after or run after catch. Um, it's just it was just a there's a shot in the arm for the offense and it was great to see him out there. Thanks coach. Good look next week, Thanks Quick.

Interview is always there from Mike Quick and head coach Doug Pearson. What's interesting about doing this show, like is the emotion is so raw and real because it's literally we hear and see that game winning touchdown catch by Corey Davis and it's like, all right, we're on. So it's like you don't even have a chance to sell. We don't get that, you know, twelve minute rest period that the players get before they have to talk to

the media. So as you start hearing interviews, you know, hearing what you're saying, if you have a time to start thinking through things, and you know, one small silver line I'll take out of this right now is the Eagles are two and two. The two losses though, okay, one is an ALF Conference foe, okay to Tennessee. It's not going to impact you to NAC standings. The other loss, it's a Tampa Bay Tampa Bay. I think fitz magic

is over the wheel spell off. Yeah, okay, we all expected that to happen at some point, you know, but it looks like it's finally happened. Jamis Winston went back in today, So who knows what the long term product nosis is for the Buccaneers, but it doesn't look like that they're gonna be able to sustain the high rated play that they had those first couple of weeks of

the season. So when you're looking at potential tiebreakers, at least the two losses at this point don't appear to be with teams that's going to impact you from that regard. So yeah, yeah, and listen the conference lass. You always know the conference record record comes into place, does it

comes into play? But you know two and two, Uh certainly would love to be four and oh three and one, but two and two, will you know, you lick your wounds, get back to the drawing board, and get ready for an even desperate Minnesota Vikings team coming in here next Sunday. So it's the NFL, man, it's not college football. You know, you don't get to play Apalanchian State, you know, once a week, although they beat some pretty good ball clubs all but in the NFL, you gotta come ready to

play every weekend. So they'll watch the film on this. You know, you keep some of the good throw away some of the bad. Better come back ready to play against the Vikings next Sunday. All right, We've got a whole lot more come up here on the post game Show presented by Rico, including all twenty two film breakdown, Cursey of Fran Duffy and Grey Cosell, and we also

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treat you and your money with respect. Learn more about how our respect adds up at Santon dair by visiting Santon Dairbank dot com. Alright, so not a bad day for a couple of guys with local ties to Nashville and Tennessee. Derek Barnett players college football Tennessee. Grew up there, had a nice game, some penetration, got in the backfield

tackle for loss there, you know. Continuing his strong early season, how wide receiver Jordan Matthews okay, returning to the lineup last week against the Colts and contributing with a big play touchdown. Nice to see it, even though I'm still getting used to seeing that number eighty on him like I expect every time I see eighty one, I think it's him, it's Kamar Aiken. So but still called his first ball today, Yes he did, but still Jordan Matthews.

Nice for him to get involved in the offense here, Yeah, big time. And it's great to see Jordan back and then obviously playing at Baronderbilt getting a chance to go back home where he went to school, lad and get a nice touchdown there. It's great for Jay matt It's great for you know, he and Carson best buds mix up in coverage there. I don't know if Butler thought he was gonna have some help over the top, but it wasn't there. And it's great read by Carson and

just dropped it right in the basket. And it's nice because you know, Alston Jeffrey had the big players. You know, zach Ertz has been reliable, but you need other guys. You need other guys to diversify this offense. So great job by Matthews by bringing that to the table. So for more insight, as I just talked about the play breaking their own defense. Let's get an All twenty two review our RICO review courtesy of Fran Duffy and Greg Cosell.

Take it away, guys. All right, so the Eagles are down now three nothing late in the second quarter and they get a big touchdown here from Carson Wentz to Jordan Matthews and Greg. This really just goes back to what you and I talked about on the Eagle Eye and the Sky podcast this week about the staple coverages

of Mike Vrabel. In this Tennessee Titans defense. One of the things they love to do is play quarters coverage on the background for everybody here, explain what quarters coverage is in layman's terms and what we're gonna see from the Titans here. Quarters or cover four is basically what we call an umbrella coverage because you've got four defenders, the two corners and the two safeties, who are essentially deep players, each responsible for a quarter of the field.

Hence the name quarters. That's what quarters coverage is. Now. There are certain ways you can attack quarters coverage based on the responsibilities of the safeties and the corners, and the Eagles on this particular play that touchdown to Jordan Matthews did an outstanding job of attacking and breaking down the coverage. Guys, So tell us, well, what is the key here that makes this play go? Well, when you have two receivers to one side, the way this works

is there's Jordan Matthews, there's Dallas Goddard. Now keep in mind because each defender and let's stay to that side. The top side of the field, fran So, which you have is Kenny Vaccaro. He's the safety right there. He's responsible for the inside receiver of the two receivers. Goddard. If he starts to run vertically at Kenny Vacaro, that's attacking Kenny Vaccaro's quarter of the field, so he's responsible for him. At the same time, George Matthews when he

attacks vertically, Malcolm Buller is responsible for him. That's his quarter of the field. So what you can do is you can put this defense in a bind because it's still at its core a zone coverage. So corners tend to play with what we call outside leverage, meaning Malcolm Butler will play outside of Jordan Matthews giving up the post because he can potentially get help from Vacaro. But when you attack Vacaro with Dallas Goddard and let's run it now and see how this works. After that explanation,

you'll see Goddard's running vertically right about here. See he's ran vertically, Oh a good, what ten twelve yards? So now Kenny Vacaro basically locks him up as if it's man to man because Goddard ran vertically far enough that they needed now to match up man to man. But what did we say on the outside. Now you have Jordan Matthews running to the post. The safety's gone and it's an outside leverage corner, so there's no one that can help Malcolm Butler here the post is clean and

this hey, maybe the Eagles anticipated quarters coverage. We don't know that, but they got it. And if you run this play out, this turned out to be a classic quarters beater because there's no one over the top. And the reality was in the first half, Carson Wentz was throwing the ball exceptionally well. He couldn't have handed it to Jordan Matthews any better than that. Yeah, I think you look at Carson and last week things were a little bit slow. He's getting at us into the speed

of the game. He came out of the locker room here on Sunday against Tennessee just on fire. Everything was on point, the timing, the rhythm, the accuracy and ball playsment just outstanding. McDonald's crowd partner of the Philadelphia Eagles. Great stuff there from Fran and Greg and you can check out the entire all twenty two review tomorrow morning on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and the f one last note on the play like it just shows once again

why it's important to have different players step up. Because Zach Kirtz, you know, dominating the middle of the field, sucking up the coverage there, you have multiple players thinking that he's going to be the go to guy opening things up, and then those guys, when I have the opportunity, have to take advantage. You have Delson Aglore who had a couple opportunities come as way wasn't able to capitalize

a rare off day for him today. But nonetheless, it's great to see that the stars, the guys like Ertz and Jeffrey are able to help make plays happen for the guys like Jordan Matthews. Yeah, it's great to see Jordan take advantage of the player, right, you know, you're only gonna get so many opportunities in this offense. You know, Jordan, his second time around as an eagle, you aren't going to get the targets that you used to get when

you were here. That the offense has many more weapons in it, so when you get those few opportunities, you have to take advantage of it. So it was great to see that Jordan was able to do that great read by Carson. He saw the middle of that field wide open and laid a nice ball out there for Jordan to run under. Very disappointed in the Rico review they didn't get into the business tie celebration tightening of the time. Yes, there, you know, throwing to old school

a little bit there, back to twenty sixteen. So, but it's funny you mentioned that when Matthews was here before the first iteration, he was the offense. He was the offense. He got high volume percentages. You know, the ball was thrown to him frequently outside of the slot. So he's working more on the outside now, you know, to help this receiving corps. That's just trying to you know, kind of band aid things together after losing Alshan in the early part of the season and Mike Wallace as well

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at a brand new Toyota. So the first nominee Zach Ertz going over one hundred yards. It seemed like early on, especially that first half, every time Carson Wentz through the ball it was headed to number eighty six and he delivered fourteen targets ten receptions for one hundred and twelve yards.

Just another excellent outing from the Pro Bowl tight end. Yeah, Zach doing what he's what We've become accustomed to watching him do every week, which is catch just about every pass Carson, Nick Voles, doesn't matter, Nate Sutfield, whoever throws it to it, Zach is going to catch it. Really establishing himself as one of the top three tight ends in the NFL. I'll put him right behind Gronk and Travis Kelsey and he's on their heels. He's on his

way to another Pro Bowl, no question whatsoever. So number two up the return. I'm number seventeen. I didn't realize this. He had nine targets, eight receptions, Yeah, over one hundred yards as well, so two one hundred yard receivers and one touchdown there in the third quarter, which at the time we thought played away. But again you got the contested cash ability, the explosive playability, that swagger back as Carson Wentz gets to his big play guy. I want

to say his go to guy. Urts is more of the go to guys, but Jeffrey is the guy who when you need something big to happen, that's number seventeen. Yeah, And I can't remember the last time we had a wide receiver go for one hundred yards. I know Zach has gone for one hundred yards, and I know Corey Clinment went for one hundred in the Super Bowl, But when's the last time we had a wide out Tory Smith Okay, yeah, I knew. It's been a while since we had a wide out go for one hundred yards.

So it's great to have al Sean back in the line up, another big target security blankets, so to speak, that Carson can rely upon just like that reception right there, Just put the ball on that bag shoulder, and the big fellaw who's who's Who's a basketball enthusiast as well, knows how to go up and get and knows how to go up and get the ball. That's what you have. You have that with Arts, you have that with Jeffrey.

Just go up and get the rocks. So last, but not least, say number eleven himself, okay, under durest throughout the course of the day, still completed two thirds of his past attempts for three hundred and forty eight yards with two touchdowns. You know, just the ball looks crisp coming out of his hands. Reading things I thought much better. The pinpoint accuracy I thought was more prevalent this week. This is you know, after last week everyone was asking

how long before number eleven? Is number eleven again? And we saw the main tenants to make sure you felt good about him moving forward. I felt that it came to fruition more this week, even in a losing effort. Yeah, it could have very easily had four hundred and seven yards passing. I mean he had a couple of balls out there dropped. I thought he looked a lot more

comfortable this week. It's his second game back. This guy, we can sometimes take him for granted, but you know, it's great to have him back in the saddle and he's doing what we've become accustomed to watching him do. This is what he does. I'm no longer surprised by three hundred yard passing games. I'm more surprised when he doesn't throw for three hundred yards. Love the fact that that completion percentage is up in the mid sixties, where it needs to be, and there's something added to the

all day that. I was happy to see the long ball. You know, Doug talked about himself calling plays that's dialed up to go down the field. It was good to see that back in the offense. This offense will look even even crispy or even better as the season goes along, as Carson gets used to these guys. He's still only his second game back. It's still only his second game back, so wait till he has three, four or five games under his belt. He'll be back to planning at that

MVP level in no time. You mentioned the completion percentage that much more impressive considering they were taking more shots down the field today from the jump. They wanted to establish those explosive players. They didn't hit on it early with Agilore, but they were able to do so later on in the game. And you've seen the highlight multiple

times there of the touchdown to Jordan Matthews. So the Eagles are now two and two and they will welcome the Minnesota Vikings in a rematch of the NFC Championship Game next Sunday at the Link. It's going to be a nationally televised game four twenty five pm. And the Vikings have had a few extra days to rest and they certainly need it because they are one two and one. Talk about an odd record coming into the showdown. After losing a shootout thirty eight to thirty one to the

Los Angeles Rams on Thursday. The Vikings preseason darlings to contend for the NFC. You won't say that they're out of the picture, but their season will be on life support if they're not able to beat the Eagles next week. Yeah, a couple tough games for the Vikings early in the year. No shame in losing to the Rams on the road on a short week, but the Vikings to play to a tie versus Green Bay when I really thought they

outplayed Green Bay in Green Bay. But they only come out of that game with the tie, and then they overlook the Buffalo Bills heading into that game against the Rams and the Bills handing them ill. So that's that's obviously a bad loss there that the Vikings want to get a two straight losses. They're certainly going to be coming in here trying to fight to keep their season alive. The Eagles are gonna need to match that desperation of

the Minnesota Vikings when they come here. Andy Filippo, former quarterbacks coach red zone coordinator, certainly is familiar with our personnel, much like Frank Reich was last week. No question, the thing for me will be can the defense, which has been outstanding at home, the best in the league at home over the last two seasons, can stay up to

that level. Knowing the of Kirk Cousins and Dalvin Cook coming out of the backfield, and Kyle Rudolph at tight end, Stefan Diggs and am feeling so many weapons across the board, It's really gonna come down to can the defensive line win the matchup, and can the secondary be more aggressive knowing that Kirk Cousins is gonna have to get the ball out of his hands asap to not take the hits. So it's gonna be a fun matchup. Oh yeah, So

for you before we sign off here file thoughts. What's going to be the big topic on with Ike with a John Marks Tomorrow Sports Radio ninety four WP afternoons. I would imagine the defense. I would imagine the defense. I'm sure some may feel Doug may have taken his foot off the gas when they got up seventeen to three. I don't think that was the case. I just think we needed to capitalize in the red zone. They moved the ball down the field. We just wind up kicking

field goals instead of scoring touchdowns. But I think the defense in those waning moments of the game, having the Titans backed up third and nineteen, fourth and fifteen, that'll be the topic of discussion. Get in that situation that should be game over, especially with this defense. The other thing I will say with the offense, they came out in the second half and then that long seven and a half minute drive should have worn out the Titans from that point and it wasn't able to finish them off.

The Heels were able to get the seventeen to three lead, and he figured that should be game over, especially considering the defense with the big lead, Tennessee's not being able early in the season to come from behind and put up points in a hurry. And then lastly, you figured that the Titans would wear down defensively. It just didn't happen to turnover. Brought him back to sackless Wentz where they got the ball right down and Mariota eventually ran

in for the touchdown. That's what brought Tennessee back to life. That big play right there is really what sort of gave them hope that they could because you could look at Tennessee during that game, they were lifeless. I mean until that big play today, got that sack forced fumble, they were lifeless. I was figured, you know what, great effort held them good for a half, but it's just not going to be. These are the Super Bowl champs and this is why. And Carson Wentz is catching the

fire alshon Jeffreys back. Plenty of excuses, emotional game for them coming off the uh, you know win over Jacksonville at a lot of things could have gone against Tennessee's favorite, but again they scored seventeen straight, got it to overtime. After the Eagles tied it with the elite Jakeleen field goal, Tennessee fell behind in overtime and multiple times you know, should have had the game, should haven't finished, shouldn't finished,

but just could not seal the deal. So that's gonna do it for us here on the Postgame Show presented by Rico of complete coverage of this game throughout the night on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com and the app. Make sure to download the Eagles Live podcast Dave Spandero with instant reaction from Knee Sound Stadium in Nashville. And we'll have a whole lot more coming up for you tomorrow, including Doug Pearson's press conference at noon live on all

of our channels. So for everyone here at the Philadelphia Eagles and former linebacker Ike Greece, I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame Show presented by Rico. The Eagles fall twenty six to twenty three and overtime, everyone, you know, take some solos and the effect the Eagle is still two and two and the sun will rise tomorrow. Good Night everyone,