Yeah, well, you know, I think there's a couple of things. First is, um, when when you get me right before I'm going out to practice, my mind is certainly not talking to you guys. I'm trying to get mentally ready for practice. And the other part would be, um, you know, I ain't trying to make it tough. But when we started with Derek, Um, we're talking about media, and I said, the one criteria that I have for speaking to media is I never want to speak on the same day
to take coach speaks. I have way too much respect for that chair when I sat in that chair, and I got way too much respect for Doug and the chair he's got to sit in to to speak on the same day. So anyway, that that that was my thing. But if this works better for you guys, um, you know, then then that's fine. Um, we can we can keep
we can keep going. Yeah, well, we already played him once, so you know that's probably the downside of this is we're not going to be were weren't we Our game plan is not final and you guys know me, I probably don't talk very much about game plan anyway. Um, but that is sort of the downside of this. It probably helps um recap the game maybe a little bit
better at a time timely your fashion. But it also we're not into the game plan weekend, and honestly, you know, Doug hasn't really had a chance to set the tone for the upcoming week. So it's probably a double edged thing. But we'll see how it goes. Yesterday they gave effort. Do you agree with that, particularly on the defensive. Well, you know, I think anytime things aren't going well, you're looking at everything that you can, whether it's schemes, whether
it's individual effort, whether it's collective effort. Um, it's a tough situation. It's twenty nine to nothing in this game. Here. Here's what I'd say about that, and I actually UM talk to the defense about that this morning. Um, when it's all said and done, we have to take the most pride in our effort. And sometimes there might be a difference between effort and energy. It's hard to have energy when you're down twenty nine to nothing. Um, it's not hard to have have effort. And I think you
saw us have effort. It's twenty nine nothing. We give up a first down and Benny Logan runs twenty five yards down the field and uh and cause us a fumble And was that the fourth quarter? That was the beginning of a fourth quarter. You don't do that without effort, you know. We we cut it to two scores with whatever that was six minutes to play and didn't get the on side kick and got the twenty four years in the NFL, don't tell me about a two score game with six minutes to play. Man, I've been on
the I've been on both sides of those. And we didn't get the on side kick, and it was it was a little bit deflating. You know, it's hard to have energy. You didn't get the on side kick. Go out, Um, we go out and and force a fumble, you know. And Nigel actually was covering an eligible tighten and they sort of ran a trick play they wiped seventy four and he had him covered and they booted way and then he started he fell off him and then it was like, you know, man, I gotta go get him.
Guy catches the ball. He didn't give up on the play, you know, he did. He went out and caused to fumble and when Michael Kendrick picked it up, Michael didn't pick it up and fall down on the ground to avoid a hit. He didn't step out of bounds. He picked it up when he was trying to score, you know, And I'm encouraged by all those things. You don't always play your best, but I'm encouraged by by those kind of things. I think that I would agree that we
need to play with more energy. And that's that's a hard thing sometimes too. You know, you're down twenty nine to nothing. I've been there. You know you make a sack. It's twenty nine to nothing. If you get excited and high five and have a sack dance. Man, you guys probably say it. I probably say at home watching TV, man they did not go know what the score is.
But if you walk back to the huddle and put your head down and you know, and just go through the motions, then everybody says the other things say, man, they're not into it, they're not spirited. So I just I just told our guys, hey, lets the chips fall where they may play with some emotion, play with some play with some Uh be willing to put yourself out there. And I think, don't worry about you know anything else.
I seem like when you were falling behind. Yeah, I mean there's I think if we had a handle on that, if you could just put a formula on that every game. Um, I think that ever anybody in sports, whether it's football, whether it's the Eagles, whether it's baseball or hockey or basketball, Um, you'd have a you'd have a pretty good monopoly. Um. There's human nature that goes into this game. Um, you
know we didn't start that game very well. We went three and out on offense, that got the ball at midfield, We gave up a field goal, We had a chance to get an interception. Man, what a change that would have made. Imagine, imagine we make that play, get that interception. Um, you know, get that lead. Man, you're probably be writing a writing a different story. You'd say, Man, they did have energy to start. And I think I goes to what I was talking to the to the guys about today.
Regardless of what that scoreboard says, you got to come out and you got to play. And as there's, um the camaraderie there, it's it's too precious, not too and um, you know I was a little bit, um, I would say disappointed at that disappointed might be a fine word or an okay word. Um, but you know we need to play with more energy, whether it's at the beginning or at the end. And um, you know that's that's
a challenge every week. Yeah, you're talking about Rodney. Yeah, I think I think you're I'll say you're you're off base. But I looked at that play because Derek brought that to my attention, and um, his fit on that play is not inside, his fit is outside, and he got caught flat footed. You know, he's getting ready to fit backside. All of a sudden the ball pops out front side and he wasn't expecting anything right there. I'll tell you what,
I'll put my name on Rodney McCloud any day. That guy plays the way the game supposed to be played. He's tough, he's not the biggest guy on the field, but that guy is a warrior and he's going to do everything he can to win that game. He got caught flatfoot. It probably no different than a baseball player. That's that's looking at sitting on a fastball and you throw a change up and he looks full of showing
a play that wasn't his best presentation. He didn't look good on that play, but I think that had a lot more to do with where he was expecting that
ball than anything else. That's early in that game. Yeah, and I would probably even agree with you, say, after we got that ball back on that play and Carson threw his last interception and it's two score and they're in field goal range, if if we had given up that touchdown, then man, that would have perked my eyes right there if he would have had that play early in that game. Right there. That guy's a warrior. And like I said, I'll put my name on, put my
name beside Rodden Cloud. Anytime previously season they have you guys this game just wait, the season is trending. That's hey, I have better game. Well, you know we talk all the time, and this goes back to training camp. Um. You know, for nine weeks you probably could not mention best defenses in the NFL without mentioning the Eagles. Um, the last three you probably can't mention worst defenses in
the NFL without mentioning Eagles. Hey, facts life, man, that's that's that's that's that's what it is, Um, same schemes, same same players. I mean, other than Ron Brooks pretty much the same, the same bunch. We're in a slump, you know, I mean, we have to we have to own that we're in a three gat three game slump. We've had. We had good games and bad games in that nine stretch early. You know, some games we played better than others. But these last three we've we've been
in a slump. You know, for a lot of different reasons. Third down the last two games, third down has been a significant part of that. This last game, penalty has had a significant partition of that. And sort of to go back to the to the effort question, those penalties we had, they weren't from lack of attention. They weren't
from um lack of composure. They were aggressive penalties. I mean anytimes I mean Brandon Graham is fighting to get to the quarterback, He's three hundred pounders, you know, trying to get him. He's off balanced, you know, he goes low on the quarterback. I mean, he knows he can't go low on the quarterback. He's trying to get him. If he swipes his leg, he's got a better chance. U Jalen Watkins, I mean, that guy's got that ball.
That guy's fighting to try to get a first down, you know, and he goes in to clean that tackle up to try to get us off the field on a critical third down, and the guy ducks his head. He ends up hitting him in the head. You know, those penalties hurt us. We recognize that, and we want
to avoid penalties the best we can. But I tell you what, if you gave me the choice of Jamen Watkins um getting that foul right there or passing on that hit and that guy fighting for the first down, I mean we all would have lost our Philadelphia card right there. I mean, you know, you could never be able to step out for pizza and sail Philly if if he had, if he had, if if he hadn't, if he hadn't tried to make that play, And um, I think that, But that doesn't change the fact that
penalties had a big effect. Their down had a bit of a big effect in this game. So yeah, you know, we blitzed an awful lot in this game. I think I think I called nineteen blitz is seventeens. A couple of them we audibled out of um, you know, since he was since he was gonna try to make it hard to blitz and a couple of those looks, and you might get sued for malpractice if you try to
blitz a couple of those looks during max protection. They're wanting you to blitz and then keep you lighting coverage. You know, facts were in this game. We got beat in blitz, we got beat in in zone. We got beating covered two, we got beaten two man, we got beaten six. We rolled through every one. We got beating all of them. And you know, and facts of life,
our corners aren't playing very well right now. It doesn't meet I've lost confidence in them because that's the same bunch of corners that shut down some of the best offenses in the NFL. But we're in a slump. And it didn't matter what we were calling. And I've got a couple of weeks ago when I was up here, we were talking about I think it was Minnesota, maybe at Land. I think Minnesota, and I said, it didn't
matter what I was calling. They were all working, you know, And in this game it didn't matter, and it didn't matter what we're calling. It wasn't working. You know. I think I watched enough baseball and talk baseball players deal with slumps all the time. The only thing you can do in a slum is go back to basics, go back to technique. If you're a corner, it's all about technique, one of those two things. It's about technique and it's
about confidence. We're not playing with a lot of confidence a corner, and we need to taighten up our technique. Talking about and a lot of invested in the musician, UMAs, don't do that. I don't think that's the only outside is that where you is that your school thought? When it comes to you know, personnelity, well, you know, a lot of it is availability. Also, you know, I mean there's a lot of great corners in the league that
don't become available in free agency. And you gotta you gotta take every chance you can to improve our team, um or to improve any way you can. There's something to be said for being strong up the middle. Also. Um yeah, so I guess I'll bet I'm on any other way to answer it with that, But the corners are important, you know, blown, I don't know which one you're referring to it when you say blown coverages. We got beat with technique. I don't think we had anything
that yeah, he got. If you watch it, he's set down inside. He bit on the first move and then and then the guy got up and threw it open on the on the outside. I mean, it wasn't a miscommunication. That's just one bad step. And that's this league. Man. You take one bad step, you can look bad. I think it falls a little bit with um. You know, with our you know talk before about got technique. It's a technique and it's confidence and that's not just a
corner thing. That's a safety thing. But you know, you look at I think cross, but I don't. I don't think that. I don't think that communication was an issue. Um. In this we there was only one play I think that we had a miscommunication. That was when they were backed up and they ran the ball out of that full house backfield. There was an adjustment that we had made after the first time they ran it, because they had never shown that before that the second time we didn't.
We didn't make that play and we gave a some rushing yards. But I thought our rushing defense certainly wasn't a problem in this game. We played the wrong pretty well. I mean I missed no, no, no, we all we all about it. I think seventeen of them were actually executed. There's a there's a couple that weren't. There was there was two that weren't. I guess I don't know that the first UM, I don't know how many yards it was, but the first third down we gave up unling down
the field. That was blitz um. You know, there were all ways, and sometimes the best answer to being able to cover them is get the ball to come out quicker. There's double edge to that too. If they pick up that blitz um, you can get isolated and coverage a lot. And I'll go back technique confidence. We need those things so UM. You know, it really depends on situation, It depends on opponent, it depends on UM. You know a lot of different things. There are times to be aggressive.
There are times, UM, you know that you're better off in a different technique. I think you can't go to too steady a diet of anything, any one thing right there. I agree with you. I do think it goes hand in hand with UM with coverage. If you're not covering well, you can rush all you want, you're not going to get there because the ball's coming out quick. The other end, of that is if you're not rushing well, you can cover as well as you want. If that quarterback's holding
the ball forever, Um, you know it. Those guys understand that, they understand that their success has a lot to do with with other guys success. I think that, UM, you know, there's there's times to be aggressive in coverage. A couple of weeks ago playing Atlanta, um LEO was very aggressive on a play, give up an eighty yard touchdown. You know, it's all probably right, too aggresive in coverage, you know, and then and then you're off and you give up
a play in front. Not aggressive enough in coverage. Man, it's tough league. It's it's it's tough business out there. UM, can't lose your confidence back, you know, I think, And I'll go back to that baseball UM comparison because I'm a big baseball fan and I've heard guys talking. And I was kid in Baltimore. It was an oriole player named Lee May and he was a streaky hitter. Yeah, And I mean he was that guy that when he
was hot, it didn't matter. You could throw him, you know, high fastball and he was hitting it, change up, curveball, the ball was probably like a beach ball to him, and he was just stroking. But he could also go in some wicked slumps. I mean, just just terrible slumps. I was, I was, I was too young to remember, but watching all the other stuff in nineteen seventy and the Orioles beat them. Since he in the um in the World Series, he was the only guy that could
hit for the Reds. He batted like four hundred with two home runs. He was they were down five to three. It's the only home run that or he you have the only win in that game anyway. Um, But when when it's not going good, it looks like a seed. You know, you're not You're not hitting it. And he had a famous quote one time. They wanted them to take extra batting practice, and he said, who's going to be pitching. It's like a pitching coach. And I'm not
having a problem hitting him. You know, I'm a problem with those other guys. Um. But alongside, way way too much, way too long story there. Um, here's here's the thing that always got me with baseball players and hearing those guys to get themselves out of the slump and slumps happening in baseball. I mean, it's probably more so than any other any other sport. You'd go over sixteen or something like that. Every single guy that I've ever heard
talk about getting themselves out of a slump. It had nothing to do with burning his bats or um changing his sweatshirt or changing you know, his whole approach. It was always about going back and watching himself be successful. Hey, let me go back and watch when I was hot, and let me go back to that, and let me see where I've got away from those things. And I
think that falls a little bit what I talked about before. Technique, technique, technique, and you know, I think that you know, you go back and see what you're doing well and when you were doing it well, and if you did, you're abably playing with good technique. You're playing with energy, um those things. And we can get back to that, do you watching they were successful more than games where they made mistakes. And you know we do that all the time. You're
always trying to positively reinforce. You know, I think it probably falls a little bit like coverage. You can't go too much into that. You know, sometimes sometimes there's some fire and brimstone. Sometimes you can't shy away from some of the place that you that you put on on film. But you know, sometimes coaches, um, you know that when things aren't going well, you need to find a way to bring guys up. And when things are going well, you need to find a way to, um, you know,
bring them back to reality a little bit. And I think in this case, it has a lot to do with confidence and we need to we need to get back to that and they need to know that, um. You know, first nine weeks, you know, they were respected as for what they put on tape, and the last three we've been in a slump and we need to we need to get back to those first nine so, you know, but we do that a lot follow all right,