Post-Game Show: Looking At The Loss

so many layers to under wrapped to this game. But the first thing I'll start, We'll take the immediate emotion coming out of this game, and for me, it's gonna be missed opportunities, and it's gonna be especially at the ends of the both halfs of this football game. You look at the end of the first half where the Eagles got the ball with seven teen seconds left, Chiefs

just got a field goal to take a lead. You figure, Okay, if Doug Piers, who wants to kneel on the ball, go into halftime, he gets the ball to start the second half, you could be like, Okay, that's fine. You could understand it. It's what most coaches would do in that situation. They're running play to run play to Darren Sprowles gets a chunk yardage. Then they go deep to zach Ertz. Terrence Mitchell lecorback puts the ball up in

the air, accidentally doesn't know where it's at. Zach Ertz great frame of mind, is able to catch it, run down the siline almost scores says that what should be a field goal for the new kicker, Jake Elliot chip shot misses it three points left right there. End of the game here about two minutes left. Eagles go down to get the Nelson Agiler touchdown to get within the touchdown. Trey Burton gets the on side kick recovers it for the Eagles. The team has one last shot. They go

to the end zone. They had an opportunity there but not able to get it. They'd all their big guns out there on the field, al Sewn Torrey Smith not able to get it. Obviously not a high percentage, but to me, just missed opportunities. And when the Eagles come out of this game, there's a lot of things to feel good about this football team, like, but you feel like that they had the opportunity to win this one on the road today. Well, I mean just another step

in the growth of this football team. I mean going into a hostile environment like Arrowheads Stadium. I played out there a couple of times. I know how loud it can get out there. They played well for three quarters three and a half quarters, couldn't finish the game. That's what they're learning to do as a young football team that's learning to be consistent. And when you're going to place like Earlhead, you look at the bottom of the graph. We just had it up there a second ago. To me,

those were the two telling factors. Two for five in the red zone. You gotta get touchdowns instead of field goals, missed opportunities there. And then two turnovers. I mean the Chiefs didn't turn the ball over at all. We turn the ball over twice. The Chiefs get ten points off of our turnovers. To me, that's the difference in the

football game. I mean, when you look at this thing, the Eagles are gonna feel sick coming back home to Philly because this is a team that they went toe to toe with and match them big play for big play, defensive defensive stand for defensive stand. The Eagles deserve to win this ball game to a degree, but in the end, you can't make mistakes like they had on the road turn the ball over. Give the Chiefs credit. They took

advantage of it. They capitalized on it. When you're going to a place like Arrowhead, you gotta play nearly a perfect game. You gotta play nearly a perfect game. The ten points they gave up on the turnovers, plus the miss field goal right before the half, that's thirteen points right there the Eagles should have had on the bat and I'll add four more points because on the opening drive the Eagles did get a field goal Jake elliotts first in the NFL, but Carson went through a perfect

ball of Torry Smith spot off. The defender should have had it. You know, you're talking about the red zone. Not able to convert two or five. That's one of the miss opportunities there. So right there, that's another four point. So you look at you tire, you up seven team lost points there for the Eagles on the field, and the scores twenty seven to twenty. If even if the score end of twenty seven to thirteen, the anyone have been that much closer because this was a tie ball.

Nine minutes, nine minutes left to go, and then how about the irony of the go ahead score in this game coming from Travis Kelsey a fifteen yard reception off a shovel pass. It's just like Andy Reid just digging the elbow in there. Be like you saw this a few times. You know it was caught at some point and he unveiled it at the clutch moment there. But you make a great point there, Ike, as we're gonna hear from Doug Pierce, we'll hear from Carson Wentz just

a little bit. You make a great point about the development of the two teams where they're at. The Chiefs are at the point where they're contending, They've been to then FC Championship game. They're they're eye in the super Bowl. This is to them, this is the peak for them. They're trying to break through and get to the Super Bowl this year. Okay, if they've gone toe to toe

with the best in the AFC. They went to Foxboro Week one and stunned the defending champion Patriots in a game where I think everyone's said, you don't go on the road to the team celebrating the title and beat him in that Thursday and I kick off of handily too, and twenty one nothing. They won in the fourth quarter. And this is another game. You know, when you look at the Chiefs of these first two games, they dominated

the games in the fourth quarters. They finished strong, and that's what the Eagles were not able to do on this day. So the Eagles made great strides last weekend that went over Washington. You get the one on the road, start off good in the division. You know, be a team that's beat five straight times, all great things to accomplish there. But this was a litmuscess for the team because I thought that this team could play with the Chiefs, and they did. Like you said, they were a toe

to toe right there. You know, body blow for body blow. You know, even the big players they were matching each other, just didn't have enough to get over the top. And when you just add up the little mistakes one by one, that's gonna be the difference. It's not gonna be so much one big play that really made the difference. It's just little things that accumulate over the course of the game that if you don't take advantage of them, they're gonna come back and bite you. Yeah, no doubt about it.

Just mistakes mishats. It really allowed the Chiefs to stick around. I thought the Eagles for the most part, did a great job of dominating the game really in the first half. It's just the scorer wasn't indicative of the way that they were playing in the first half, and it was due to some of their self inflicted wounds. There's another thing you can't do when you're a young team going

into Kansas City. You can't be one dimensional. You know, the running game has still been a struggle for this team. Last week, we didn't run the ball very well. This week again, Darren Spros was our leading rusher. You look at that one hundred and seven yards. A lot of that Darren Spros is our leading rusher from the running back position. I think Carson Wentz may have been the leading rusher overall with fifty five rushing yards on four tips.

So if you take away Carson's fifty five rushing yards, you're looking at what maybe fifty nine. My man wasn't very good and coming up, but get you get the point. Only ten rushers from Darren Spros, three from all Windale Smallwood, no rushing attempts from la Garrett Blunt, this week, Eagles got to get the running game going in order to

beat teams like that. You're gonna play a tough team in the New York Giants that if you dropped back forty something odd times fifty times against that Giant's defense, you're asking for trouble. They had to find another way to move the football. You can't put all of the weight on Carson Wentz to shoulders with this passing game and expect him to just throw you to victory's week in and week out. You got to come up with some balance and that's gonna be trying to establish a

run game. Didn't get it done again this week on the ground. Now, the thing you have to be feeling great about if you're an Eagles fan. The defense to me is legit. Yeah, this defense is very, very good, and they were putting some tough positions during the course of the game. And that's gonna happen in the fourth quarter. Yeah, you know, the fourth quarter. You take away the strugles

in the fourth quarter. You came into his game saying that you're going against a very good quarterback an Alex Smith probably underrated to some degree, but was lights out. Was the offensive Player of the Week in the AFC and that win over the Patriots. And it doesn't make mistakes. That's the biggest thing. Does not make mistakes. But you always thought of him as, you know, a dink and dunk guy. But he wasn't that way against the Patriots

because he has all these tools. Now is disposable in Travis else in Tyreek Hill and now Kareem Hunt, Well, the Heel's did a great job of containing Tyreek Hill. Jim Schwartz give him credit for this. He knows how to limit those explosive weapons. You look at the top notch wide receivers he faced a year ago. He's not gonna let that guy beat you on a weekend, a week out basis, Okay, Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey was the dagger this week, which is rare that a tight end

becomes a thorn in the eagle side for Jim Schwartz defense. Here. He's so awesome when he has the ball in his hands. I mean, I think he's probably the best tight end running after the catch in the league. I mean, we talk about having wiggle. That big boy has wiggletone him. You watched him leap over defenders I mean, the effort to get in the end zone was nothing short of miraculous. He had to leap over defender and then get through two guys. So Alex Smith just dumping the ball off

and then letting his weapons make plays. One more point about the defense along with that, Travis Kelsey played the Kareem Hunt play. I mean, you just see guys missing tackles, and that's where you saw of defense wear down late in the second half of this game. I thought they did a good job, a great job actually battling up Kareem Hunt for the majority of the game. He had the one big run where he broke that four touchdown and then he broke tackles to get the other touchdown

late in the game. But I thought that was due to the defense just wearing down in that fourth quarter. Working on a short field. You put too much pressure on them when you give the ball away and scoring and the opposing team scoring area to force this Eagles team to get off the field. And with that said, the Eagles had an opportunity with a Viny Curry sack there. If he gets a sack there, it's fourth down. You

kick a field goal. Now you're looking at if he makes it as a sixteen thirteen game, you still got a ball game. He can't bring down Alex Smith. He picks up the key first down, next thing you know, they're taking it in for a touchdown. I thought Vinny Curry had such a good game. He did have a good game, very good game, flying around the ball, very disruptive, you know, cause a lot of havoc in the backfield. But that's the one play that you need him to

make it. When you look at the defense into events in the defensive line in general, Jim Schwartz and Chris Wilson, they've preached that they want the guys to finish. They want not just get to the quarterback. We saw it with Brandon grahamall last season. He could get to the quarterback, could he bring him down? And at times today they did a good job of that. They really got to Alex Smith. I thought they'd got him be a little jittery in the pocket for sacks today, did a great

job getting the pressure. But that was the one at third down. And you know, another underrated aspect Jim Schwartz talked about this. Another underrated aspect of Smith's game is his mobility, His way to escape the pocket, and you know they designed the run pass option plays for him to take advantage of that. You don't know, they create so much misdirection that you don't know who's gonna get

the ball on any given play. And overall I thought that the defense was for the most part, pretty disciplined. But you go to the third it was a third and four. I believe Alex Smith scrambles to his left, he gets away from Viney kerv No no clue whatsoever, how he's able to escape the pressure, gets the first down, keeps it alive. The next play, Travis Kelsey gets the first down, leaping over with stool Douglas and then he

gets a shovel past score for fifteen yards out. You know, So that really to me the big moment, and that's that's what's gonna be. It's gonna come down to in those clutch moments, who's gonna be able to deliver those game changing plays. And on this day, Ike, it was quite simple that the Chief's offense was able to come through with the big plays when they needed them. The Eel's defense needs just another stop, another turnover, needs something at some point not able to get the job done.

But last week Ike the Chief's offense scored forty two points. They had over five hundred and fifty I forget the exact toll, five hundred and fifty toll yards, and you look at what they were to du Tay, Okay, three hundred and forty four total yards. You obviously want that to come down. But two hundred and thirty yards of the passing game with the weapons at the disposal. The rushing yards you mentioned with the Eagles, how pretty much half of them came off of Carson went almost half

of them. And Kareem Hunt, he pretty much got all of his rushing yards off the one big play, the fifty three yard touchdown there which answered the Eagles touchdown from Alice John Jeffrey. Yeah, no doubt about it. Just needed to do more offensively, really, I thought the defense played an outstanding game for about forty five to fifty minutes of this football game. Needed more from the offense.

But I'll get the offense this. When you're wanted to mention and you can't run the ball, it wasn't without calls. I mean, that's a very good Kansas City Chiefs defense. They have pride. You saw that they started to wear our offensive line down late in the game. I thought Carson had moments where he had time to throw the ball back there in the pocket. But if you're gonna be one dimensional that Chiefs defense, Bob Sudden, he's gonna send extra guys. And that's what they saw in the

second half, a lot of extra pressure coming. Sorenson was big time with his pressure packages. D four. All these guys able to overwhelm our offensive line in the second half. And I really thought that was the difference that Carson didn't look as comfortable late in that game as he had looked earlier in the game. Well, the first I thought the first half the pass protection, even though like you mentioned, they were one dimensional, I thought the pass

protection was very good. He had clean pocket, he had time in the pocket, he could step into his throws. But you mentioned that wasn't there in the second half. And maybe that's just a result of having to backpill every single time, knowing that you're going to be throwing the ball time after time again. But you look at the numbers here Ike, you know, three hundred and thirty three yards, but largely because he had to throw the ball forty six times. Okay, he was sacked six times.

I mean you're asking him to drop back fifty plus time. Yeah, you know this is a high rate Already. You look at the Eagles and not be able to get the run game going in the first two weeks. I think that's gonna be the biggest question for this team moving forward. And you don't get an easy task next week when the Giants come to town. Yeah, but opener, Yeah, I agree. You look at the schedule the next few weeks. They're

facing some pretty good defenses. I mean, San Diego has a pretty good defense as well with that front seven. So if if the Eagles are going to righten the ship and get back on the winning ways of doing things, they have to be able to get that running game going. Listen, I love Carson Wentz. I love when he wings it, throws the ball out there. We like watching him do it. But like you, just you ask him to drop back fifty plus times, you're asking for trouble. So you gotta

get the running game going. Didn't get Legarrett Blunt any carries today. It'd be interesting to hear Dugs thoughts on why he wasn't a bigger part of the game. Plan, maybe because Kansas City's defense is a fast defense and they wanted quicker running backs to sort of hit the holes or what have you. I thought Dani Spros did a decent job, you know, running the football at times, but you know, I you gotta get the running game going.

I just don't see how you can ask Carson to throw the ball as much as he's throwing the ball the first two weeks. We got away with it in Washington last week against a better defense. The sacks, you know, even though the sacks aren't turnovers, they're negative plays. They put you behind the chains. They put you in second and fifteen, third and nineteen. I mean those are hard first downs to convert when you're looking at third and extra extra long like that. So I just think that

makes it difficult for your offense. And we mentioned Giants next week, great secondary. We got to be able to get the running game going. It's interesting because I don't know if you call it during the broadcast, but the announcer said that Doug in their pregame meeting said that he wanted to feed the ball specifically to al Sean number seventeen, zach Ertz eighty six, and Darren Sprowle, so

he wanted to feature the playmakers today. So it's interesting because you pretty much saw that within the game plan. You saw they might have targets go each of those players way, but you didn't get the ball, like you said, the little Garret blunt. And even if you try to at least sell the idea that you're going to be trying to establish the run game, yeah, all if it's just the pace of the game, the way things went,

I mean, it was a defensive slugfest. You know. They both teams went down the field pretty easily on their opening drives. Each put up a field goal, and you said, this might be a track meet. They might be going back and forth all day long completely, you know, both defenses to their credit adjusted and then all of a sudden, but you don't have a chance to establish the running game. That's probably the time where you wish you would done it.

So maybe you're out, they're little bit longer in the fourth quarter, maybe the defense is a little bit fresher. I don't know, but that's gonna be the big question for the offense is how to establish the running game. We'll think about it. You know, you look at if you just look at the Chiefs offense, they stumbled around all day as well. They couldn't get a whole lot of rhythm going, couldn't get the running game going with

Kareem Hunt. But then you watched in that third quarter, they kept feeding Kareem Hunt the ball and they kept churning it and churning it, and he finally broke one. He finally broke a big one on a nice little drawplay, a well designed quick trap draw play inside there where Kareem Hunt was able to break free. And he also got to touch down a second touchdown in the game late. So sometimes you gotta just stick with it and hopefully

it'll break sooner or later. But I thought the Eagles at one point felt like we weren't getting enough positive yardage with the running game. And sometimes it's easy to just go back to the guy who has the golden arm and allow him to make plays with his arms. And I'll say this for the offense, the passing game was there. You know, as great as this Chief's defense is. Aushan Jeffrey had a pretty good day to day. Zach Ertz had a good day to day. Torrey Smith a

good day to day. He bounced back in the second half and came up with some big catches, the move the chain, so the passing game was working. It's just that it became too predictable. And when you're this predictable, predictable against a defense like the Chiefs have, eventually they're gonna get theirs. And that's what happened. That defensive line, that defensive front of the Chiefs eventually started getting the

Carson wins. It's also you don't want to see your quarterback getting hit that many time exactly because okay, it's two sacks this week, three sacks this week. This week it was six in fact, but he's taking those hits. That's gonna have a cumuli effects by the time we get into November and December when you need him playing his best football. You don't want your quarterback worn down, and you also don't want to be You mentioned the

Golden Arm, but it's also the feat as well. Yeah, you know, the scramble drill seemed to make the biggest plays. Those are where a lot of the magic is happening right now for the offense, and it's almost you can't rely on it. It's not something you can go in and have the playbug and say, let's go to where Carson wentz Bolls is out and gets us a sixty yard touchdown, you know, to Torrey Smith or whomever. It's a field for him, which is great to have. It's a great thing to have in the art. So but

it's almost you can't rely on it. Now, watch me nitpick about it because I wish he had taken off a couple other times. He's standing back there and he's waiting for his receivers that get open. I thought the office a line had done a decent job of keeping guys off of him. But he's standing in the pocket waiting for guys to get open. And basically he gave up two or three coverage sacks. Where had he just used his legs and escape to the right or to

the left. Maybe he makes a play with his legs, or he basically gets a guy open because he's moved the pocket, which moves the defense as well. Like I said, that's nitpicking. And when you're out there on the field, I'm not the one looking down the barrel of red Jersey's coming at me and whether or not my guy is getting open, or should I take off, he rushed

with fifty five yards only on four attempts. I just thought there were a couple other times where had he escaped towards right or towards left, he would have avoided a sack and if nothing else, you could have thrown the ball away as opposed to taking a negative play there. That maybe is a difference of going against a guy like Alex Smith. There's been the league since two thousand and five, number one, former number one overall pick, and

he has that awareness, that game situation experience. I think the situational football a sudden and that was preached a lot about Carson Wentz this offseason and working in those third down and red zone situations, those types of situation should probably come into factor as well. So again Carson Wentz there. You know you want to see him use those legs definitely to buy time in the pocket, but

you don't want to see every down face it. But you do want to see him be able to take off when the offensive line has everything blocked up and there's just nothing coverage wise for you down the field to throw the ball too. And he's not a much better job this year protecting himself. Yes, when he gets out of the pocket. So you remember last year he was trying to hurt hurdle people at times and even

taking it hits on his shoulders. I thought today he did a great job when he did decide to escape the pocket of knowing how to get down or get out of bounds. A couple of times thought he was going out of bounds and he extended to play by cutting it back in there. So there's the athleticism that you see from this guy that's underrated, and I think catches defenses by surprise at times. He can slide. He

can slide. That's the biggest thing is and I think this is where we realize that even though he's had a full year of experience, he's still only eighteen seen career games. So that's part of the development that we're still unfalling again. You know, you look at the numbers here again from today, three hundred and thirty three yards

just over fifty percent completion percentage. You know, as we want to see this team make such an astronomical jump from year one year or two, going from seven to nine last year to you know, double digit wins or whatnot this season, you see, the potential is there. But obviously you're gonna have those strides. There's gonna be those growing pains along the way. But one thing that I'm taking out of today is it's great that the Eagles invested in the weapons around him that he has got.

That is, you know, when the Eagles are in an offensive funk, you realize that they can so quickly get out of it, because he could say, I could throw the ball to alshon Jeffrey it won on one coverage. And you know, if he's not batting Marcus Peters, guess what if he's against Philip Gaines. I love that matchup. You know, Tory Smith, he's got the speed. You know, we're still waiting for the deep ball to connect, so to speak. Uh, Mac Collins, you know, like way he

was springing on here today. Nice nice job here again his first couple of NFL receptions. Zach Ertz being the reliable ones. Just about everything that's in his direction unless it's basically hitting the ground before he gets to him, right. You know, he catches everything. He's caught pretty much everything

his way so far this season. He's been targeted consistently, but he's been reliable for Carson Wentz you know, and then the guys out of the back of the one area especially ironic going against an Andy reteam is the screen pass. Yeah, and that why that has struggled so much. And I don't know if it's because lay in the game when they were trying to go to screen pass, you knew the pressure was just coming in, and you know, they were just feast on whatever they could get back there.

But it's interesting how that aspect has struggled here through the first really through the first two games here, and screens are hard to sort of read to figure out where's the issue at all. Right, we're gonna sending out to Kansas City where Doug Peterson is now addressing the media. All right, carry today. Change. Um, it's an area that we have to address. We have to fix offensively. Obviously, I wasn't um pleased with how we ran the ball

really the first two weeks. Um, it's not one individual, it's a team effort. So we gotta we gotta fix that going forward. You're going now as in oll, I can't. I can't. I can't stand up here and say that, Um, we just gotta get the whole thing fixed. I mean, it's uh, when you play good teams like we did, good defenses. You have to have the ability to run the ball. Uh, this is two weeks in a row we struggled, So it's a it's an area that we

have to fix. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard. Um, it's tough to to to you know, I always have to rely on the throw. But listen, we're all in this together. We'll evaluate this film. Um, we'll go back and roll our sleeves up and and and get it corrected. And uh, we'll make sure that the next time out that we do we do a better job in that area to get getting hit a bunch six times getting out well and then yeah, I mean it's it's some exposure. But at the same time, he also made some great plays

with his legs, So that's a give or take. And um, you know, um, sometimes you give up something to get something and part of the game. But yeah, you know, you don't want to expose him like that. But at the same time, he does an outstanding job with his legs extending plays and keeping drives moving. It's high quarter. What happened that, Yeah, it was a uh you know, um pass, It just just hit to me, appeared like hit a helmet. Um, so something I'll have to watch

on the way back and just see for sure. But I hit a helmet and pop straight up. And you know, we just those situations there, you just critical times of the game. You can't make those mistakes. No, Um, got got a lot of confidence in Isaac. Um, you know, and and uh again without evaluating the film, it's it's I don't want to point fingers, and but at the same time, we got to make sure that uh we get him coached up right and and and and headed

in the right direction. Well again, it's part of the you know, he's part of the whole the whole process here and and um, you know, it's something that we gotta address, we gotta fix moving forward. It's it's not just one guy. Um, it takes all of us, you know, it takes a it takes all eleven in the run game. So we just gotta gotta valuate it, fix it and get better. Not necessarily. Um, you know, I just wanted

to show going in. Uh, you know, I felt like we could do we could do some things against the secondary, against the Chiefs, and and throwing the ball. Um obviously you you uh, you hope your run game is is uh um on track and on point? It wasn't. Uh So from that standpoint, it was it was it was tough sledding later in the game when when we sometimes you want to rely on that game run game. So we just gotta get fixed. Um, no way, fans or but we gotta go to work. As far as second,

I think they held up fine. I did an outstanding job. There were some great plays, some great efforts on defense. Um you know, they got they got ten points off of our turnovers and it could be a potentially different football game. So standing here right now, those are things that again, um defense, I thought, uh Rally did a nice job. We gotta him and Ate. Still a couple of big plays, try to fix those. But overall, I thought the guys that stepped in played well, played hard,

got some great experience. The offense a lot of guys we're talking about. No, the confidence is still there. There's no nobody's uh you know, dropping her head or anything like that. I mean, there's still still a talented offensive line, very very good and um you know again it's you know, there's two weeks in a row we've played. We've played some good defensive fronts, and then we're gonna see another one next week. So we just gotta gotta keep going

to work and working hard. Um Man, I thought he thought he you know, again, played hard, played tough, made some great decisions through the ball, accurately down the field. We had some missed opportunities in the first half that could have extended some drives. Um showed some toughness late in the game. You know, obviously there were there were a couple of things, you know, the pick is obviously, Uh, he had had a fumble in the pocket that he recovered.

But you know, those things are gonna happen. But at the same time, we got to eliminate those. But overall, I thought, uh, Um, I thought he played well. Um. I didn't talk to him before the game outside, you know it really just I guess pre game spoke to him just just see how he was doing. It was a lot of fun. This was a great atmosphere to play in. Uh. These are these are these are great fans, passionate about their team and which they should be, much

like our fans. And and uh, we're just excited. Next week we played at home. Yeah, they great. We worked all week against the noise and um, you know, UM, we had a false start at one point, but I thought I thought for the most part they handled it really really well, UM and really didn't have any issues

a little bit. What do you remember, UM, Yeah, you know a lot a lot of my my UH coaching background everything I'll be sake, I credit him for and UH played for him and worked for him, and and UM, you know, his his attention to detail, UM, his his drive, his motivation, how well he motivates his players and and gets the most out of his players. I think are some of the biggest things that I've taken away from him, you know, UM, the way he prepares during the week.

Those those things are are you know, um things that that you know, I continue to grow grow with every every week and every game, so great mentor to have, UM wish him the best going forward? You are not at all? I would agree, Yeah, I would agree that's not a balance for success. UM, by no means do you want to do that at all. That's why I made the comments earlier about we got to fix the run game. Good team. Anything from that, Well, the takeaway

is is is your right there? Um, team the team that let the scoreboard up in week one up in New England to come back and and and keep them tied and keep them held down, you know, for for three quarters. Um. The takeaway is we offensively have to have to address our own you know, uh needs and and the way we're playing uh offensively. And again it starts with me as a play caller. Um. Again, by no means so I want to throw the ball that many times. But but we got to get the run

game fixed. And uh, it's a team effort. And however the game plays out, you know, we try to find a way to win at the end. Um. And uh, the mistakes obviously cost us today, last year, last week today so much obviously. Yeah, you know, Um, we had a couple I know in the first half, you know, third and I think it was a third and two or three and you know, penalty drops you back a little pushing on their third and long situation. You just can't again, you can't put yourself in in in those situations.

And uh, um the middle part of the game again is an area that we have to we have to address and and uh you know fix um and and uh yeah, third and third and long is by you don't want to be there. You don't want to be there because you end up having to throw a little bit um against a good, good pass rushing. All right, thanks guys, anything, All right, there's head coach Andy or

I was good say and we're talking. So Dougerson addressing the media after the eagles twenty seven to twenty loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at the hands of Andy Reid, who is now nine and three against his former assistance. But the big question that we were talking about already, Ike, is what's happening with the running game? What's going to happen there? And uh dougs quote, we get the whole thing fixed, so it's evident it's out there. The question

is what do you do? Do you what can you do with the line of scrimmage, with the offensive line? You know, the personnel is a personnel. It's not like you're going to be obtaining any other backs at this point. And I don't know if even if you were to obtain another back it would make all that much of difference there. The one possible move you can make, I mean, obviously lack Eric Blunt getting him some touches when he doesn't have any carries that's one thing. But does a

rookie Corey Clements get involved. Is that something that the Eels might say, you know what, Apparently they were working more in practice this week, they got some time with the first team offense. Even maybe is that something where you know what, they were filling with the idea for this game and now it's like, maybe we need to accelerate his development just a little more. Yeah, I think so. I mean, listen, you know, this wasn't an ideal situation to have Corey Clement go out there and play a

whole lot with the offense. You're an arrowhead, it's loud, that's a ferocious defense. Obviously, protecting the quarterback is the most important thing. We didn't run the ball a whole lot to day anyway, So Jess really wasn't an opportunity that I thought to bring Corey Clement and to play for his first game from from behind the line of scrimmage. Now next week at home friendly Comfines, it's a lot quieter when the offense has the football. It's gonna be

juiced up. It's gonna be the energy, it's gonna be certain to be juice. I think it's time to think about it seriously. I mean, we need we need a back that has the ability to get the tough yards in between the tackles, but as well get to the edge of a defense. As you know, this is the type of offensive running game that Doug wants to run. They like guys that can get to the perimeter and use that speed like a Sprows or when Delle Smallwood. But for whatever reason, you know Spros had his moments

to day, but it wasn't consistent. And with le Garrett Blunt, I'm not so sure he's the type of running back that's gonna run on a perimeter. He'll get you the tough yards the tackles, but he's not running on the perimeters, uh to to break down angles. Guy like Corey Clement. He's not super fast, but he has decent speed and he's certainly a running it runs with his shoulders parallel to the line of scrimmage and can break tackles. I

think it'd be a nice change of pace. He certainly would play with a lot of energy planning playing at home, and he's from this area. You need something to spark that run game. Why not? Why not? And I'm sure that the Eagles are gonna exhaust all possibilities, and I think Corey Clement or at least getting more of a looking practice now. Whether or not he gets the ball next week, that'll be determined on the field of the game. But I guarantee you he's moving closer and closer up

that depth. Jo Oh, you're not producing, Yetta, do something, you know, because you're you're getting to the point where we've seen this now for two weeks, and you've seen it against two good front front step okay, and two three four front. So I don't know if that's gonna give this team more trouble. I don't know you'll see a basic four three front next week, So I don't know if that will alter so many things, but something

to consider at least. But if we're having this week after week after week, at some point you're gonna say something has to change or we're gonna be talking about this in week ten, in week fifteen, and at the end of the season. As to why the Eagles maybe didn't get weren't able to reach their potential or fulfill it is because of what we've been talking about here in these early weeks of the season. So I so badly wanted to see the Egles win, not just get to two and oh. I don't know if you saw

the stat during the broadcast. At the last time the Eagles went two and o on the road in both games to start of season, it was nineteen forty nine. Okay, we're going way back time. Okay to one Day or the champions, But I wanted this seem to go two and o on the road, you know, against Washington, against Andy Reading and the Chiefs, and to come back to

Philadelphia in front of that raucous crowd. I mean, this crowd could be fired up because you've had to wait a couple extra weeks to see your team in your house. But could you just imagine the electricity, the intensity, the fielding and the building. The New York Giants come to town on a short week because they played the Troyal on Monday night and have them in your house for

that first game. It's almost making me think the way Alshon Jeoffrey played today, can we get the t O game from two thousand and four where you had the home open against the Giants and three touchdowns And I'll take that, you know, but that's kind of the energy the excitement I was looking forward to. So it's still gonna be an amazing scene at the Lake next week,

no question about it. But you were just hoping to have that little extra bit with the two and O and just like all week, everyone would just be like juicing up port together, no doubt about it. And listen, this is the NFL, so there are no moral victories. This is in college football, where if you keep the game close against the Alabama, everybody feels good going back home. It's the NFL, so certainly the Eagles aren't in this

thing to take moral victories out of it. But when all the dust settles and the emotion and the passion dodged out a little bit, let's say Tuesday, on Wednesday, when we realized we started off the season with two road games against a divisional opponent and a very tough place to go and win, an Arrowhead Stadium, And you're one in one, and that's the bottom line. You love to be two and oh, no doubt about that. Which you're one in one with two tough road games to

start off the season. Um, we come home face the Giants, another another divisional opponent. We gotta have it. You gotta have next week's game. Here's the thing is, you got the more important of the two. If we're looking big divisional game, Yes, you got the divisional game. So if you were gonna say you're gonna be one on one, pick which one, you might say the Kima City Chiefs because they you know, the Chiefs have made all these

the playoff runts. But quite honestly, the division one is gonna be so much more important because when you look at their wins from last year, it was all those teams like the Pittsburghs and Chicago weren't in the division. Like, all right, you had your seven wins, but you want to get them within the division. And to get that one on the road to kick things off so very important because you didn't have that last year. Okay, you know in the Vision games on the road, you did

not win any last year. So to get the first one out of the way, you get the Giants at home, go to two on one, two wins in the division. You know, depending on how the Cowboys do later on, or they're playing right now against Denver, I don't have the score. They were trailing early seven nothing, Who knows, Maybe Denver helps us out and then maybe you're tie for first place in the division after three weeks, which

would be a great feeling. It's a great thing to have, so to keep rolling in this first month of the season. So we're waiting here from quarterback Carson Wentz in just a few moments. Doug was asked a short time ago about Carson Wentz's performance, and by and large, I like what I saw from him. Again, it's when you're asking him to two forty six pass attempts, sacks six times. You know, some some was a pressure lating the game. Some were coverage sacks. When we discussed already how he

couldn't have scrambled out of the pocket. Probably he was the one. Yeah, that was the one that to me, that was the bad play on the day. Yes, yeah, that was the only bad one of the day. You know, Um, you had the you know, four rushing attempts for fifty five yards, so you know those areas as well. So pretty much you're looking fifty six times. Yeah, he's being asked to drop back. You know, it's against this defense

on the road. It's reminiscent of the Bengals game from last season to a great extent where it was sixty times you drop back or sixty attempts. I forget the final number, but I remember it was up there and you're saying. Back then, we were saying, this is a rookie quarterback going a gains, a tough defense in a road environment, offensive struggling, just all those factors not coming together for you. This is another one where maybe a year ago this would have been or this would have

created more disastrous results. But the way that he's matured, the way he's grown in his game, you know you can rely on him and he can keep you close in these types of ball games, which is great to see. Now the next level is being able to win these types of ball games. He's the real deal. Yeah, make

no mistake about that. He is the real deal. And like you just mentioned, that's the next step in his game, going into a hostile environment like Arrowhead Stadium and coming out there, coming out of there with a victory, even with having turned the ball over for the Goyhead score with the interception, you still have an opportunity to answer

that answer that score back. And that's what the Bradies and the Mannings and the Breezes and those type of guys that's what they do on the road in tough environments, and Carson's getting there. He's getting there. We're talking about the eighteenth game of his career, back to back three hundred plus yard games, two touchdowns, but the one turnover. I guarantee you that's the one he's gonna wish he

could have back. And then, if I know Carson right in this short time that he's been a Philadelphia Eagle, this is a guy that strives to be perfect. He'll talk about throws that he wishes he had back that may have would have given his receivers a better chance to pull him in because he is perfect. He is meticulous when it comes to his game, and he puts a lot of weight on his own shoulders to be perfect and do everything correctly. But I'll tell you each

week watching this kid, you see something different. You see a special play out of him every game. We've said it over and over and over again since he took the field last year against Cleveland. The future is bright, not only for this organization, but primarily for Carson Wentz moving forward. I mean, that's a tough Chiefs defense that he played up against today, and he can I know we threw it a lot, but he completed a lot of balls. Yes, we threw it a lot, and I

know yards can pile up after a while. The fact that the matter is he threw a lot of balls and he only had the one interception. Really, Richard shaded on somebody's helmet. It wasn't as if it was a poorly thrown ball that he threw right into the lap as good. Yeah, that's the thing is the one thing has some drops too, has some drops. A couple of key drops Smith there on the first drive, a couple one area where maybe it's the timing things with alshon Jeffrey,

I want to see him. Trust Alshan's jump ball building. There were two passes. Both were in the red zone along the left sideline and the one time you know a pretty much went on defense on both those times because the ball was maybe a little overthrown and you know, he really had no chance to make it. You know, Alston is so great. These fifty fifty balls give him the opportunity to make the play and that's something that's

just gonna come with Tom. But you know, Loft, that ball ups just a little bit higher because and at the very least maybe Alshon draws a PI. You know, that's a situation there where all of a sudden where you know, Alshon goes up for the ball, gets tangled up by the dB. Most times they're gonna throw the flag, especially so in Alshon's nature, because they figured the big guys should be able to get there get that ball. If he for some reason not getting it, guess what,

maybe we'll throw the flag on there. It's almost reactive at that point. So that's probably the one area with him that you wanted to improve just a little bit there. So speaking of the quarterback, Carson Wentz, he is set to addressing me. He is making its way up to the podium now at Arrowhood Steam in Kansas City. Let's hear from the second year quarterback the person will happen

on the in Uh? It was it was a screenplay. Obviously, it was a bad throw and got got tipped around and they made the play throw it where Sprowls was in the vicinity. I think he was falling over, so I was more or less just trying to throw it away. Yeah. I think first of all, that's that's a good defense, that's a good d line. Second of all, I gotta go watch the tape. You know, I thought the old line, Um,

I thought they played well. You know, I think, um, I don't know what the numbers were, but number of the sacks I was holding on the ball for a while. So, UM, I think the old line played well. Um, we'll go back and watch the tape and and really kind of get that, get that honed in. Yeah, you know, I think it's tough. I mean we um again, that's a good defense. That's a good defense, and we thought, um, we just thought we could make plays in the passing game.

And kind of that's just kind of the way that the game went today. And UM, you know, I'm not I'm not overly concerned about the run game. I know we'll get that'll be a big part of our offense going forward. So um again, it's just kind of the flow of the game today. You know, when you've got a couple of running backs that all can can do different things. Um, my surprise. I wouldn't say surprised, you

know last week when Dell wasn't as involved. You know, it's just kind of when you got three guys, it's hard to get get them all involved. And I think we only had thirteen running plays today anyway, so it's hard to get everyone touches sometimes. Yeah, you know, obviously more balance is usually the way to go. But again, it was kind of just the nature of this game, the way they were playing some things and some things that we thought we could take advantage of that kind

of let us down that route. And then obviously late in the game when we're dead, when we're down, you know, we're throwing every down. So um, that always kind of sways things a little bit. But what were you trying to do there? It was a screenplay, so I was trying to throw it away on that play. How much of it is bad, But I'll have to watch the tape. You know. Obviously any time a ball gets tipped around, it's bad luck. But obviously I'd rather not throw it

into d Lineman's helmet. St Yeah what think? Yeah, you know, that's a good team. It's a good football team. There a playoff team last year. They just went went on the road and beat New England last week. So that's a good football team. This is a good environment to play. Um, you know, I thought we we competed. You know, at the end of the day, they made more plays than us, But we fought all the way to the end, and so there's a lot of good things that I think

we did. Um again, we just came up short and we're gonna get some of those things fixed as you as you get on the plan. I'm always the miss opportunities, you know. I always think of of where we could have capitalized, you know. Um, But at the end of the day, I thought we played our tails off. We fought to the end. Um. You know, we had two turnovers. You know, that's always always tough on the road an environment like this against a good football team. Um, So

there's missed opportunities. But again we were right there in the in the ball game all the way to the end. Um. So there's there's good and bad to take away from this one today. What'd you see there? Um? Yeah, you know, that's just I mean, they made they've made the way they're playing coverage wise today. The back shoulder was kind of the thing to take advantage of, and um, we we hit it a couple of times. We missed that one,

and that's just the way way football goes sometimes. When you all recover the seconds left, why do you feel like it was a good idea to just go ahead and go for the end so as opposed to trying to sideline route the flock with the second because five seconds is not a lot of time fustrating. You are right, it was just the play. Yeah, that's that's football. You know, that's football. You know, we learned it last year. A lot of close ball games that we just didn't didn't

find a way to win. Last week, we pulled it out on the road. This week we came up a little short. Again. It's a good football team. A lot of things to that we did well, a lot of things we can fix and we'll learn from it. Um. You know, the crowd was a big part of the day, but I don't think it impacted so much. I mean, their defense is pretty straightforward. Um, So we kind of just called it and let it ride today for the most part. And um again, we just didn't make enough place. Yeah,

that's part of it. You know. There's definitely again anytime there's there's big plays to be made. Sometimes when I'm scrambling, and obviously there's gonna be sacks and times where you hold on to it. Um, So it's gonna be a constant thing kind of every week, just knowing Wednesday the right time and you just got to find the find the right balance of it. Yeah, I think, UM, honestly,

I've always felt really good chemistry with him. Obviously today, UM, I think he was almost a hundred yards or something like that. But UM, felt good with him, felt good with other receivers, UM, and we're just gonna keep building on that. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was pretty solid, you know. I think that was something they'd shown just a little bit on tape, UM, and they pretty much

just held onto that until the second half. So we were kind of focused in and honed in on our calls by then, and then they started mixing it up. So so hats off to them. You know, they did some good things. I'd have to kind of make some adjustments there and UM create some mismatches, so to speak, in the backfield. But I thought the blitz pickup was still pretty solid. Yeah, we're good. We're again. I'll have

to go back and watch the film. But I thought Darren with his with his running opportunities, I thought he ran hard, you know. I thought he ran his tail off in the in the passing game. I he did a good job screen game you know, we missed a couple. We missed a couple of some of those around me. Some we just didn't have a lane. And um, there's some big plays, big plays there to be made too. But but Darren's a just quite the competitor. I know when he had to fumble, you know, no one really

worries about him. You know, he's he's been around and if anything, that just kind of ticked him off a little bit to play harder. So, um, yeah, I love I love when spearls in the game. Out there. What happened, Yeah, yeah,

it was just the way they were playing coverage. It was kind of start over here and progressed back and he did a really good job on that route kind of making I believe it was the safety covering him, kind of making him think he was going to the corner and come back, and um he got opened and the line protected it up. It was really he was like my second progression. It was just a slower developing play.

We're at the I think eight yard line or something like that, so, um, it took some time to develop and the line did a good job of You said, there were a lot of a lot of a lot of man you know, that's what they do. That's what they do, all right, So we were probably about to lose. Carson wentz in a few moments anyway, So a few

seconds early there. I don't know if you heard the question, like, could you imagine when the Eagles were recover the outside kick Trey Burn did a great job of knocking the ball down the field, scooping it up, giving the Eagles one last chance for five seconds left? Could you have only imagined what would happen if they did a little screen pass, a little dump off the Darren Sprowls runs up the field, gets to like the ten yard line,

makes it scintillating, and time runs out. Amiens, Yeah, everyone would be called for Doug like what do you do? Yeah, that's not good. So I don't know. Yeah, you know, tough, tough way to end the game. Tough question for Carson had to answer. Yeah, they made the right play call. That's what you do, that heil Mary, that's what you do. Yeah, I mean the fact that you had the opportunity was borderline miraculous. Yeah, we thought we were gonna get it.

I don't know what we were called, hold it over the ladder or you could have done that, but I'm thinking what we would call that game, you know, if you can't do Miracle to Mental Lands, obviously it would have had some kind of funny name to it, but um, yeah, that would been interesting to see if that's how that went. You could have done the hook and ladder. But if you do a screen pass and it's like, what's Doug doing?

You got, you got al Sean, you got you got Tour, you got zach Ertz, you go to the end zone. One chance exactly. So the fact that they held car Michael back there, that's what we needed. Man got Yeah, seventeen, it's just the we're not seventeen was out there, so maybe it was Harold just a cold time's sake. So we're gonna take a quick break here now. Obviously we're disappointed the teams won on one, but we're gonna explain why big picture, the Eagles have put themselves in great position.

We're also going to show you some All twenty two analysis from Great Cosel and fran Duffy and give your nominees for the Player of the Week award from Toyota, which you get to vote on now. If you're watching us on Facebook or Twitter. We've got to say goodbye, so you can come on over and watch the rest of the show on Philadelphi Eagles dot com or the Eagles app. So we will see you after these messages.

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All right, welcome back to the postgame show presented by Rico. I recall a conversation with Troy Vince ahead of years ago when you guys first got Donan McNabb in the building, and how the attitude just changed within the locker room, within the team of how certain games before Donovan you knew when you line up on the field. Yeah, it wasn't even chance, It wasn't even tough. It was you had no chance. So it's true, Tory said, the difference with Donovan is you knew each and every week you

at least had the opportunity. You were favored more often than not, but you at least had the opportunity to win ball games. I feel like I was really a big picture of this team with them one on one. Now, Carson went, you know you're gonna have a shot each and every week if you could go to Arrowhead. And everyone talked about the noise, the noise wasn't a factor

to stay. Noise by large wasn't a factor. Today. You know you could rely on Carson to drop back sixty plus times over the course of a ball game, not make a ton of mistakes and give you an opportunity, and you know in the both halves again miraculous fashion where you know, the one ball gets bobbled by the Kansas cornerback, Zach ERT's great awareness cash it almost scores a touchdown. Then at the end of the game, Trey Burton, great job to get the onside kick. You have a shot.

You just have a shot. At the end of the the game. You know the fact that he drove Wentz, drove him down, got the touchdown to Agalore to at least make it respectable at the end, because when it was twenty seven thirteen, you said, if this is the final score, it's not indicative of how the game was played. Again, it was a tie game with nine minutes left. Okay, a couple of us by the defense, that's where they stood at

that point. But the fact is, each and every week as an Eagles fan, you know at this point that you feel good because Carson Wentz is wearing that number eleven jersey and lining up in the huddle on your offense. No, I agree, I agree. I mean, this is gonna be a good football team this year. How good of a football team would it be we're gonna find out is this season unfolds got a big game divisional opponent coming

in here next week, the New York Giants. On a short week, you gotta bounce back after a tough loss. That's the other things good football teams do, is they bounce back after a tough loss. They don't allow this thing to turn into a losing streak. So Eagles need to get back to basics this week in practice, get ready for the Giants next week. All right, So the most targeted receiver in tis game was one Alshon. Jeffrey

scored his first touchdown as an Eagle. We're gonna do a little all twenty and two analysis here and bringing fran Duffy and Grego Sell, who take us to the RICO whiteboard for this week's RICO review. It's very sharp today, and now we're dealing with Jeffrey who here he's actually in this slot and he's matched against Philip Gains And this is what you're hoping from Alshon Jeffrey. This is

the kind of receiver he is. He runs what we call a slot fade, and it's really the kind of route and kind of throw that's usually contested you're not running away from a corner, and if you freeze it right here, what you're going to see. This is not bad coverage by Philip Gaines. Jeffrey looked back for the ball. Gaines look back for the ball, So this is not a case where he's separating and he's wide open. But

this is what Alseean Jeffrey is. He's the kind of receiver that can make catches when the corner is right there with him, and that's exactly what happens here. And it's a good throw too, by the way, Yeah, you can go back. This is a very similar play to when Carson Wentz hit Jordan Matthews for his first ever

NFL touchdowns at the slot fade. And one of the good things about that slot fade the receiver's got so much room and the quarterback's got so much room towards the sideline to be able to put this ball, and he puts it right on alshon Jeffrey's back shoulder and you see him come with. It's a really good route against man to man coverage because normally when you're in the slot, the outside receiver runs kind of a hitch and it opens the space for the slot fade and

you see it here. And as we said, that's what Alshon Jeffrey is. He's a big receiver, he's a physical receiver. He's, as they like to say now, a fifty fifty catch guy. He makes contested catches. Yeah, and someone we like to say that some of those fifty fifty balls with Alshan not quite fifty fifty. We're sent eighty twenty. We'd like to hope that's the question about it. So Alshon Jeffrey really getting on the same page as Carson Wentz. Big

day for the big receiver. Great stuff, Greg and fran It will be more All twenty two analysis in the All twenty two review tomorrow morning on Philadelphia Eagles dot

Com and the Eagles Mobile app. Is so great like having a guy like that that number seventeen again not how Carmichael, but Alshon Jeffrey, but just having being able to develop the offense and allow Wentz to take strides, because if he didn't have that talent around him, you know, it might be a situation where last year where he's doing a lot of checkdowns, there's a lot of short passes.

He's not really allowed all of his talent to emerge and it just opens up the offensive playbook so much more to be able to say we can get chunk plays, we can get explosive plays when we need to in the course of a game, no doubt about it. I mean, bringing in al Sean even tour today, making his presence felt, it's just gonna open up this offense for everybody and Team Mac I mean, seamac just wait until we get a running game going. I mean, that makes this offense

even more dangerous when they aren't one dimensional. So we gotta get the running game going. That's gonna open up the passing game even more and makes for them we don't become so predictable on offense, which makes it a lot harder for us to have success. To get this running game going, this could be one of the top offenses in the league. That's the thing. It's you knew by the end of the game what was coming at you. You knew it was gonna be either a screen or

it was gonna be a DePass. It was gonna be Fair's one or the other. The Eagles were going to the pass game time after time again, so again for Carson wants to drop back as much as he did to as few mistakes as he did to have the production that the offense still was able to was able to have all positive signs. You just need an extra element to take things to the next level. We're gonna take our last break here on the postgame show presented

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I'm sure that's what everyone's wondering. We're gonna start with number seventeen himself, Al Sean Jeffrey seven catches for ninety two yards and his first touchdown as an Eagle ache. Yeah, big day for the big man, and we've been waiting for him to come through. I only took him two games last week. Missed a couple of passes that I know that he wanted back, overthrown, a couple of times underthrown. But thirteen targets is what I like. I mean, this

is what Alshan is gonna get. They brought him in here defeating the football. He's a big possession type of receiver. He and Carson still working to get get that chemistry going together. But you watch him through the first two weeks, you can tell it's only gonna get better as the season goes on here, all right, So you gotta give props to the defense for the way they bowed through

pretty much three plus quarters into his game. And the guy who is always there at the forefront, none other than fifty five Brandon Graham, half sack, disruptive in the backfield today. Just overall, another relentless performance. Two games, two outstanding performances by Brandon Graham, who they put the league on notice that he's one of the top four three defensive ends in the game last year, burning second team

All Pro honors. He's right back on track to put himself in the Pro Bowl this season and honor he did not get a year ago. I agree, and I know this was tough for you today because there were several guys on defense that could have gotten this. The angry Bird Michael Kendricks used a very good game today, a sack at two tackles for losses. Fletcher Cox with another sack today and they also a tackle for loss. That front is leading away two straight games where they've

been after the quarterback. Four more sacks today, but his defense. The only difference to day is we couldn't take that ball away. But Brandon Graham, I agree with you, he's leading the charge up front. You know. Tim Jerkin also very deserving of the honors today. So who did I go with for the third nominee? I did go on the defensive side because I gave it. I gave props to a rookie. Okay, I went a little under the

radar on this one. Rasul Douglas, all Right, playing in his first NFL game, was inactive for the win over Washington. Everyone's probably wondering well, what did Rasuel bring to the table. Remember they started the game without Ronald Darby because a disocayd Ankle. Joleen Watkins started outside of cornerback. He goes down trying to track a Dinie Jones punt, leaves with a hamstring injury. He exits. The team also loses Rodney McCloud to a hamstring injury, so the secondary, already down

a little bit, was hurt even more so by injury. Today, the rookie comes in and more than holds his own solid tackling. He was tested early by Tyreek Hill when he had to cover him. The biggest thing is for him, no big plays allowed, you know. You look, I figured that once they saw thirty two in the game, they knew it was a rookie, a tall, lanky corner. I figured they were gonna say, Tyreek Hill, you run a go right, you burn them. We're gonna test this guy

early on. You didn't see that. Really. The only big pass play, you know, other than what Travis Kelsey did from a yard after the cash Dad point, was to Chris Conley catch over Jaylen Mills late in the game, which was one of the nail and the Coffin type players. But up until that point in the fourth quarter, you know, the Chiefs were not really able to do much damage

deep against this Eagle secondary. So for Russell Duggers for having to go in, you know, at a moment's notice and being ready for the call, I'll give him the honor there of being the third Toyota Player of the Week nominee. Nice job there. I thought the secondary did a pretty good job on the Chiefs receivers to day. Obviously, Travis Kelsey over one hundred yards, so we know he

was able to get his. Or you look at Conley, you look at Tyreek Hill, they didn't really get a whole lot, going eight catches between them under one hundred yards both receivers. We saw what they were able to do to that New England Patriots defense. We were down a couple of men, lost Rotten and McCloud today, also lost Watkins to day as well. So our secondary is getting thinner a bout a week. And I thought they

did a decent job against this Chief's passing game. Again, Travis Kelsey got his, but he also got targeted an awful lot, and so you throw him a ball enough, he's gonna get his catches. I thought the Eagles secondary, this young secondary did a nice job on the explosive outside guys today, cross your fingers that mccleoden Watkins, you know, walking become an important part of the defense very quickly here. And McLeod has been a reliable one in the backfield

there with Malcolm Jenkins over the last year plus. You hope that those will just be day to day injuries and they'll be able to come back this Sunday against the Giants. So we're gonna go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of the Week to cast your vote. Now we'll announce the winner later on in the week.

Now we're gonna take a look at the NFL Ticket Exchange upcoming schedule presented by NFL Ticket Exchange powered by Ticketmaster for the only one percent verified way to buy or sell NFL tickets, visit NFL ticket exchange dot com. And I you know, one on one through two games, Eagles are in good position. You figure two tough games on the road to open the year, you get one under your belt. But it doesn't get much easier. That's

the thing as we look here. But at least you have one at home with the Giants coming to the town this Sunday. Yeah, I mean, we wish we could play sixteen games against the Coach, the Bears, the Jags, you know, the teams that aren't very good San Francisco. But you know, we don't get to set the schedule. So it's the NFL. You're gonna get sixteen tough games, six in your own division and the other two ten games depending on who what division you're going up against

that year. You're gonna have a tough schedule coming in. This year, we play the ANC West, where I think all four teams of very good football teams. Much like the NFC East, there are no easy games when you face the AFC West. And when I look at the Eagle schedule, you know what I say, Chris, bring them on, Bring them on. If you want to be a good team, you gotta beat good teams. Giant Sidecks Chargers won't be an easy game either, going out there to Los Angeles

to play those guys. Arizona won't be easy. Denver. None of these games are gonna be easy. We're gonna have to earn everything that we get, and I'm okay with that, because I think this team is a good football team that doesn't necessarily need the benefit of an easy schedule

to show that they're a good football team. This team can play with some of the better teams in this league, and we got the first part of our schedule is road heavy, so we gotta sort of navigate through this first part of the schedule and then things are turning our favor again. We gotta get healthy. We can't afford to lose many more guys, and we gotta get the running game going. I like everything else about our football team. Gotta get the running game going, and we gotta keep

guys healthy. Yeah, because you get last September Eagles were three no in the month that they had the big win over the Steelers. But you beat up on the Browns, you be up on the Bears. Look, you can't help who you guys take them. You guys take advantage of it and your credit deals for that. But it didn't

make them a tougher team. But the course of the year, where this team is already ballot tested now going on the road, being a division rival, having a tough task there at Kansas City, you hope they learn from it. But now they get the home opener against the Giants again. If they can get to two and in the division, fans will be very, very happy for how the first month has gone. So that's gonna do it for us

here on the postgame Show presented by Rico. Everyone can hear Ike Grease on the air tomorrow at two pm with Chris Carlin on Sports Radio ninety four MP. How do you think the moves gonna be? Are you kidding me? I can't wait to get in the card to hear the postgame shows. I mean, I know this man base. You notice fans, They'll be riled up, they'll be passionate, they'll be upset. They're Eagles loss. Give it a couple of days, it'll subside again. We started this season all

two straight road games against two tough teams. We walk away one and one. We'll regroup, get back to take care of the g man in the link next week. That's what I'm pumped up for you, the man in the link next That's the thing. It's not like the Cleveland Browns for the home open or something like that. You bid arrival. The guys in the locker room here, they hate the giants. Okay, that's the giants. Okay. It's pervasive throughout the building here and so hopefully the Eagles

will take care of business at home. So for Fran Duffie, Greg Hosell, Ichrias and everyone here at the Eagles, I'm Chris McPherson, thank you very much for joining us. We'll be back on the air tomorrow at noon for Doug Pearson's press conference and then we'll have Eagles three to sixty, Dave Spidero and Brian Westbrook breaking down the law. So everyone, hope you have a good night. We'll see you tomorrow