The Post-Game Show: Eagles Fall To Redskins, 23-20

to fall to one and three on the season. The Eagles led twenty to sixteen as the wrestling They got the ball one last time down the stretch and they ran a fifteen play ninety yard drive that resulted in a four yard touchdown throw from Kirk Cousins to Pierre Garson. The drive took five minutes and thirty nine seconds and in a game where the Eagles defense played well at times, but you need one more stop, one were key play.

Some want to step up and no one can make the play and Garson gets the touchdown and the Eagles now left scratching their heads wondering what could have been with a great second half rally to get them to lead down now twenty three to twenty lose the game like your thoughts, well, I mean obviously a disappointing loss. I mean after the Eagles made a valiant effort to come back in the second half after being down thirteen

nothing in the first half score twenty unanswered points. Seemed to have gang control and momentum of this game, but in the worth quarter happened and basically couldn't put the team away. I mean, had ample opportunities in the second half. The red Skins offense sputtering, couldn't get anything moving, couldn't pick up first downs. Eagles with good field position, just

couldn't seal the deal, particularly in that fourth quarter. The final two series, the Eagles had I thought they certainly needed at least a field goal, but they had the opportunity to drive now because it looked like they had momentum to go in there and put put the nail in the coffin of the Redskins by going up by ten points, and they just couldn't get it done. They let this team hang around in the end. It was a one possession game, and the Redskins got to give

them credit. They made the plays in the end when they needed to make the play. A fifteen play drive eating up five minutes and forty seconds. That's a championship type drive. I mean, that's what you do in the fourth quarter when you're down about four in The Eagles defense needed to get off the field, and they could not get off the field. If Kirk Cousins could play the Eagles every week, then all of a sudden, he

would look like a championship type for quarterbacks. Pro Bowl quarterback go back the last year week three, head over four hundred yards or career high and then in this game leading him from behind late to get the victory. So once again, a tale of two halfs for the Eagles. You go back to Atlanta offense not able to get going in the first half, they rally in the second half. Dallas nothing got going whatsoever. The Jets. First half was great. They got a huge lead, but then Allston the Jets

had to rally. The Eagles had to hold on in the second half after or not being with Gay anything going there here Once again, first half, nothing going until the very end. They drive deep into Redskin's territory. They should have had a touchdown to Zach Ertzt, but then Nelson Agler was called for the illegal formation penalty. They lied for the field goal and Caleb Surgis, making his first attempt as an Eagle, misses goes wide left. So

the Eagles down thirty nothing and a half. Now all of a sudden the second half, they found the deep passing game. They own sixty two yards to Riley Cooper. Miles Austin had the deep play you had Brent Selik. They dusted him off. He was found underneath in the red zone after a valiant run there in some pocket mobility by Sam effort. So you saw some good things there in the second half. The passing game came to life. But as you said, like all of a sudden, the

offense need to make one more drive. Okay, they got the lead, they were right on the verge, but just not able to finish off the deal. Yeah, and you mentioned those positive things from the Eagles, particularly in that second half with Sam Bradford seemed to be throwing the ball with much more confidence. Office line did a much better job of giving him time with pass protection, and

they allowed plays to develop down the field. Love the fact that the Eagles took their opportunities down the field. A couple deep balls won, the aglor won, the Cooper won, the Miles Austin two for touchdowns. So that certainly is encouraging when you look at this offense, but again when you needed to drive in the fourth quarter, couldn't get it done. All right, we're gonna hear from head coach Chip Kelly and quarterback Sam Bradford a little bit later

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we're gonna hear from Chip Kelly any moment now. Now, a lot of injuries took place for the Eagles, especially on the defensive side of the football, like Bill Spyron Maxwell, Michael Kendricks, and Brandon Bear during the course of the game when they already worked there. What's that JJ Peters on the offenside the ball. I'm just even on defensive side of this point, you already had Cedric Thornton and

Tail Heart out of the game. So when they're going into that game winning drive and they already had a lot of snaps, especially in the first half, do you think that might have played a role. I'm sure it did. And listen, anytime you're down a few men, that affects your depth. I mean that means that you guys who are normally backup players have to play morse plays out there, which depletes your depth behind those guys. But there's no excuse. I mean, you know you're gonna lose guys throughout the

course of a game. Everybody comes in throughout the course of the week, everyone gets the game plan. Everyone's on the same page with the game plan in which you're supposed to do that week, and when you put together fifty three man roster, you put together that roster with the idea that I can count on all fifty three of these guys if I need them on the field. It's as simple as that. Every team goes through the round the league, injuries, throughout the course of the game,

losing starters. The good teams who are able to persevere through that are the ones who have quality depth behind them, and I happen to believe the Eagles have quality depth, at least on that defensive side of the ball. I just thought in the second half a lot of broken plays for the red Skins as well. Couldn't get a lot of pressure on Cousins, and receivers found time to

get loose. It seemed like that the Eagles were content to drop back in zone coverage and force Cousins to beat them, which going into the game, I would be

perfectly fine with. You know, you figure, if you can stop the Russian attack, and Morris and Thompson and Jones, they got their yards, they had some big plays, especially that draw early in the game, but if you could stop the run game, I'd be fine with saying we want Kirk Cousins to beat us through the air and give Cousins credit, he did do that on the final drive of the game. But even though you're dropping everyone back in the zone, they couldn't get that passwords going

up front. Now you saw a stunts, You saw a couple of different things Eagles were trying to They were trying to bring some pressure up the middle. You saw bar when at times on the eight gap flits. But overall they just could not really get Cousins off of this spot enough enforce them into enough mistakes for the Eagles of capots. That was the key thing. We couldn't get that critical era from Cousins late in the game, and I Kevin sitting there hoping, Okay, I know it's coming,

it's coming. It's coming. A tip ball, a sack, forced fumbles something, and he didn't turn the ball over. You know, I just didn't imagine he would go through the game playing the way that he was able to play today without having that critical era late in the game. But we this was a game that we had the chance

to seal the victory. They had a couple of drives there in the fourth quarter, right before that red Skins final drive where we were moving the ball and it was stalled either because the penalties or the drop pass or the pass thrown slightly behind Darren Sprows. I mean, those are the things that you have to execute on when you want to win on the road. And what happened is we'll allow the Redskins to continue to breathe and when they got the ball back with six minutes

left to go in the game, they felt confident. They felt confident, they felt all they needed to do was pick up a couple first downs and they will be okay. And that's exactly what happened. Sproles had two drops on the day. He did have the big pump return which should have led to points at the end of the first half. Unfortunately it didn't because Caleb Surgis, the new Eagles kicker, missed the field goal. Can't forget about that. No,

he missed the fields. Yeah, missed the field goal. And then after the first touchdown I won the Riley Cooper he misses the extra point as well. So you bring this guy off the street. He wins the trial on Monday. You know, Cody Parky, he's done for the year with the injury, the groin injury. So you can't count him, and he was virtually automatic for this team last season, and all of a sudden you bring in a new guy and you say, just can he make those first

couple of kicks for you? I thought he did very well with the kickoffs, but obviously he was counted upon to bring some points to the table and not able to do so. And you're gonna look at the file score they lost twenty three or twenty Those four points make all the difference in the world. You go back to Week one, Cody Parkey missing that kick there that

could have made all the differs in the world. Special teams which helped the Eagles win ten games last season and certainly provide the boost last week on sproles eighty nine yard punt return for the win over the Jets. Not Able to come through once again and get those couple points needed. Because the thing is, you know, the Eagles just don't have that big margin. They don't have that ability to say that they can play not as well up to, you know, a certain level and still

come out with the win. They've got to be able to execute and get those little points wherever needed. And unfortunately this is an example where it came back to casting today, no doubt about it. And listen, this is impaling on Caleb Sturgeons. I know he's new to the team, but this is not the welcoming that you know he was looking for. You know, to miss four four points out there, you know you could have forced the Redskins at the end there to go for two to send

the game in the overtime. You're still sitting in pretty good position if he just does his job. You're talking about a thirty three yard extra point and a thirty three yard field goal. I mean, that's what you gotta do. You gotta come in and do your part, do your job. And he didn't do his job today. And in the end, I'm not saying he's the reason the team lost, because he certainly is not the reason they lost, but he certainly didn't help the case because when he was called

upon to do his job, he did not deliver. What did you think of the clock management at the end of the game day we were talking about this off camera while watching the game unfold. I didn't have a problem with them not using the timehouts because to me, I feel like you're counting on your defense to win the game. You want them up. We're gonna sending out

to fect field. And here from the head coach, Chip Kelly. Yeah, I mean we didn't sustain anything in the first half offensively, and that and that that, that's what we talk about all the time. In the second half, we protected Sam better than gaming an opportunity throw the football, and you saw what he could do and we could do that, but we didn't. We didn't do a good job on the first half of protecting Sam, so we didn't get any We couldn't convert their downs in the first half. Wait,

why can't you running games? Were we were getting banged a cup. I think we missed a few bucks inside, you know, so we got some penetration. We kind of got that straightened down. I thought we ended up moving the ball halfway decent in the second half. But in the first game, first half, we didn't handle their movements very well up front. And it was still a game, but it was six man box, wasn't an overloaded box or anything like that. We just didn't handle their defensive

line early in the first half. Defense well, we obviously, I think if we called timeouts, we're just saving clock for them to score. You know, we're ahead in that situation. So, um, you know, we felt like Billy always felt like we were in a good look. You know, we were on a headset to you, if you need it, we can use it. But he didn't feel like he needed it. So the defense was gassed and all there on the field for forty one plus amdences. Now I didn't get it,

didn't sense that what happened on Caleb's both missises. I have to ask him technically on that. I didn't, but he missed him. So yeah, they I mean it was clean. It was you know, it was a clean It looked like a clean snap and a clean hole, you know from where I saw on the sideline. I haven't seen the film yet. He was fine in practice, but and I said that the other day there's a difference between practice and a game, and you can't simulate anything. Um.

In practice, it's going to give you this environment. And that's what um. You know, I said that the other day it was going to be a big unknown because he hadn't you haven't he had had the opportunity to kick for us in the game. We change that well, we thought we had it early, but we just weren't protecting it. Well, so when we had an opportunity to protected, then we had the opportunity to get it. To get it, we had one of Nelson early. Um, then we got one to to Coop and then we got one to Miles.

But we felt like we had a shot at it, but we we just had a protected better and we ended up protecting it better in the second after we did in the first half. We made this week coverage and how they played us. So what do you think why they called with a double reverse after we thought we had a good look, you know, and it just looked like it was the exchange was there, but we had the corner, you know, I think we got the exchange down. We thought we'd have the we'd have the corner.

We're trying to get Nelson involved in terms of what he did made a big play right there. Um, so we're concerned about his conditioning after making long now not at all. What do you think the teams had a hard time. We're not executing, you know, I think they played with great effort, but we're not executing enough. We're making Um, it's the execution part. And that's what I told him after the game, is I don't fall downy of them for an effort stand front. I think they

all play hard. They'll give you everything they got. But we're just you know, there's certain things we gotta do well. We gotta execute. You know, we had a couple of key drops on that in the fourth quarter. One we catch those balls, drive, stay alive. You know, we have two key drops, I think, and we're trying to drive and keep the ball on our side and put us into I think you catch those two balls, those drive, stay alive, and we give ourselves an opportunity to score

more points. But we just gotta execute on defense all three levels. What effected I mean, obviously when you lose players, shit, that has an effect on you. But we don't make any excuses. Everybody loses players realize it's really early in the season. But you yeah, I don't. I'm not. We're not. We're not concerned with that. We just gonna We're gonna go win a football game. I don't think we're concerned with where we are holes or anything like that. We're

gonna win a game. We lost more players game playing better. Second, it was just again it's executing. We had scooted in the second half at times, compared to what we did in the first half, specifically offensively this game with Darren when we think that they would work today, just the front we were playing. Execution, Yeah, I think it's very correctable. I mean that's the deist being a good player and being a great player. I mean, can you do it

on a consistent basis? And that's what we're not getting right now. We're not getting consistent execution. I thought when we had time, I thought he'd looked good players this year. I mean, do you think that any of the execution we don't make excuses? They wouldn't know. Is there a process that time? And we gotta make plays. I mean, we can't delay the season. We're gonna make plays. We're not making plays right now. The team is going to be able to because we I think they play hard.

I think they do what we ask them to do, and we just we just got to get us rightened. Out to Peters and Kendricks ree aggravate injuries, I don't know, I just know they're out, so they just tell me if they're up or down and they couldn't go. So thanks Jet. All right, there's head coach Chip Kelly addressing the media. Following the twenty three to twenty loss at the hands of the Washington Redskins, Chris McPherson a long

stut Ike Reese. We're gonna hear from quarterbacks Sam Bradford in just a little bit, could be any moment now in fact. So actually we're getting told that. It looks like we're gonna say a few minutes before he comes on. So Chip talking about the offensive line. Jason Peters, he left the game with the injury. So a lot of shuffling going on. You already had Matt Tobin making his first start of the season at right guard. He had

to move to left tackle. They have Denis Kelly coming off the bench there and moving to the right guard spot. And at times you can definitely tell that the pressure early on was getting to Sam Bradford. In the second half when the Eagles I think wanted to run the ball after getting the lead, not able to do so. A lot of changed up front. Obviously tough to do it on the fly, but again you were going against a very tough Washington front seven there yeah, no doubt

about it. And you can talk about the number two team in the league versus the run, the Washington riscans are so difficult running the ball against this front when you have backup players in there. But I thought they at a decent job protecting Sam Bradford for the most part in that second half, especially with those deep plays. I mean, it takes time to allow these plays to develop down the field, and the line was able to

give some protection. And listen, when you're down a man or two, it's really about everybody pulling together and just trying to get through this thing collectively. I mean, Matt Toby, Dennis Kelly, those guys are out there fighting tooth and nail, trying to hold it down so that Sam Bradford and

these skill positions players can do their thing. But that's a very good Red Skins front seven if they were going up against and I'm actually surprised up until that last drive where they were allowing routes to go deep down the field. I was surprised at how well the Eagles offensive line was able to protect Sam Bradford in that second half. Certainly that's the case, and you know, you look at the game plan going into this Washington.

You mentioned the great run defense stout front seven. Eagles have had their issues to getting the run game going, even though they were able to do so last week against the Jets. You'll get that Washington in secondary and they've been very good against the past eighth in the league in terms of the yards per game coming into this contest. But they were banged up. They didn't have D'Angelo Hall. Chris Culver was injured coming into the game.

He did play, but obviously the knee affected him. So like even though the Eagles Brendan Butter is to get the ground game going, you have the three headed monster there at the running back position. When you see the injuries that they're having, how much does that affect the game plan and understanding that the Eagles are willing to take more shots down the field because of the personalities back there, how much doesn't affect the game playing for

the Eagles. For the Eagles, oh yeah, big time. When you know the other teams starting corners are either banged up or are going to be out, that's when you have to take your chances. And I figured this week would be a good week for the Eagles to uh take shots down the field. When you have inexperienced players in the secondary, there's going to be confusion, you're gonna be able to manipulate their defense by offensive formations that you present to them, and you're gonna get your shots

to go down field. And the thing I like that, it wasn't just Nelson Aguilar, it was all three of those guys on the outside. Raley Cooper had this chance to go deep, so that Male's Austin. They both cashed in on two touchdowns, and Nelson Aguilar had a forty

five yard reception himself. So whatever the Eagles were able to do formation wise to force the Red Skins into the defense with a single high safety so that they can get one on one coverage on the outside, they need to continue to build off of that because those opportunities are going to be there. They will be there. You gotta start running the ball early and successful, and then when you get that defense at midfield, that's when

you have to take your shot. Whether it's all for play action or not, you have to make a defense play honest. And if they don't they don't feel you're gonna throw the ball deep, they're gonna start creeping closer and closer to the line of scrimmage to stop that run. And that's what the Redskins came out and did early, and that's why I was happy the Eagles were able to test them early, to back them off the line a little bit. So I would expect to see a

little more of that. Obviously, you connect the way they were able to today. It builds confidence not just the Sam but for those receivers as well, and it also keeps them mentally in tuned into the game. They know that they have an opportunity for the ball to come to them, and so they're going to be mentally sharper as you move forward. I think that's a positive sign for the selfis you mentioned Agalore a very up and

down game. He had the one handicash of beautiful grab down the seam, so obviously made the explosive play there, but then on the very next play they try to do the end around, he drops it and the results in the fumble. He committed the penalty that negated the zach Ertz touchdown at the end of the first half. He had a key third down conversion in the second half. So this is the type of game where he finally

got involved. Now he had been playing plenty of snaps, so he certainly trusted them out in the field, but you wanted to see him make those receptions, see that explosives, closeness, see that run after the cash ability that we saw in the preseason. It's a type of game where, yes, he went through some growing pains, but you would hope that the Eagles could win from it. So at least it's going into the upcoming week. Hey, you know what, it's good, you got to win. It's good you're able

to contribute. But here's some things to work on instead. Now it's going to be the Egels are one in three. They've got to, you know, go into another week wondering what they could have done, trying to fix the little things that could have gotten them over the top this week, and you're trying to learn on top of that. Yeah, I mean I felt Nelson he had his best game obviously of this young rookie career. Seemed to be a

little bit more a part of the game plan. Bradford seeming to trust him, you know, giving him opportunities down the field to make plays. Came up with him. I thought he should have came up with the past. That was a slightly underthrown. It was broken up by the dB I thought Nelson could have did a better job of going up attacking the ball in the air. But

these are growing pains that I expect. I mean, with rookies, you're gonna see them good one week, and then the following week they're going to see a different coverage, different defensive technique against them, and it's it's all a learning experience for them. So he'll be okay as we move forward. Certainly, you just hope that they'll be able to rebound from a confidence point losing here on Sunday. So we're gonna take a quick break here on the postgame show presented

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dot com. We're waiting to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford following the eagles twenty three to twenty loss at the hands of the Washington Redskins. Like before the break, we were talking about Nelson Agilore, the rookie you stepped up and had some key plays and obviously some you know, mishaps along the way. Today, how about the other rookies. I'm gonna go on the defensive side of the football. Eric Row thrust into action with the injury to Bayron Maxwell.

He had the one pass interference penalty in the end zone. You know, it was another chance for him to really get his feet wet. And then Jordan Hicks, who was already being worked in more at the beginning of the game that once Michael Kendricks went out, he was on the field for pretty much the entire remainder of it. And you saw him come up with another fumble recovery today. Yeah, I mean both rookies. Actually, another good showing. Jordan Hicks. You didn't know exactly how much he was gonna play

this week. Turns out he pretty much played the whole game at the NED first series, and so did Eric Row. For him his party, and I like when I'm seeing from Eric Cross a little concern coming out of training camp. He just didn't seem to be as as fluid in some of his his backpealing his dB sort of technique, and I was concerned as to whether or not he had the flexibility in his hips and his ankles to play the cornerback position at the NFL level. He's looked

much better since the regular season has began. Started last week with a fantastic game against the Jets at then today, even though he was called or what I believe to be a ticky tack foul, I guarantee you a veteran gets away with that call where you hold the rist of a player. Yeah, veterans do that all the time, the Royal Reeves, I've seen them all do it. It's actually a pretty good move for a young guy to

already know how to do. So I'm encouraged by what I saw from Eric Rowe, you know, especially after he was had an up and down training camp. He's looked pretty good these last two weeks. We don't know what the extent of Byron Maxwell's situation is, whether or not he'll be playing next week, but from what I gathered from what I've seen from Eric row these last two weeks, I like it. I like it. Jordan Hicks, It's obvious the guy's around the football he makes plays, he doesn't

miss tackles. It's gonna be hard to keep this guy off the field. How do you keep Jordan Hicks off the field? How is it rookie at that position able to be so mentally into it, because it's not just out there knowing your assignments. He's calling the defensive in certain situations, and it really is you meet Chris. I mean, yeah, you know, I consider myself to be a heady player, smart player, and I still didn't understand Jim Johnson's defense fully until my third year. I mean, that's just how

complex some of these defenses can be. And to have Jordan Hicks come in and play the role that he's playing as a rookie. It's one thing if you're a high draft pick and you've been starting from day one. They brought you in here, first round pick, you've been in there with the first team. But he thought the majority of his reps would be on special teams and as a backup player, he's been thrust in the action. He's the signal caller out there, and it doesn't look

like the front seven is missed a beat. You don't see a lot of miscommunication out there. He's getting everybody lined up. He he certainly doesn't seem to be out of place. I don't see a lot of mistackles from him. He seems to be around the football when it's on the ground. He has what three turnovers in two weeks, He's knocked the quarterback out of the game with a sack. What more can you do? And I also like that number that he wears. It's pretty good number, pretty good number.

So let's hit it back to fax Field and here from the quarterback, Sam Bradford. I wish I knew how to explain it, because then we'd get it fixed. It seems to kind of be the story of you know, these first couple of games is it's almost like work two completely different offenses, and you know, once we get it going, we're pretty good. But for some reason, it seems like there's times where, you know, we just struggle to get it going. What happened to your ankle? And

what did they do with the sideline? Na Um? Yeah, I think it was just a slight sprain. They just taped it, gave it some support. Was there any doubt in your mind? You come back in no le me get the same angle? Yeah, sort of been a loss for words obviously that the move to the rest of the guys and how do they get on that same page, because it seems visibly it's you know, sort of yeah, Um, you know, just come back to work, you know, keep grinding, keep putting it in time. Um, you know, I think

the good news is it's close. Um. You know, a couple of these games we've had opportunities to win and just haven't finished. Um you know, but it's not like or light years away from getting things to where they need to be. You know. I think it's just some small details here and there. Um, you know, we've just got to get everyone's just got to get on the

same page. Can you describe the mood of this locker room right now, because actually one of you is a huge hole, you know if you didn't expect it, ye, Can you describe it? Um? Yeah, I think everyone's a little frustrated right now. Um. You know this is obviously now we're we wanted or expected to be after week four. Um, but you know, just knowing this group of guys for um, the short period of time I do, Um, you know, I don't think anyone's gonna quit. I don't think anyone's

heads down right now. You know, I think everyone I thought this week we had a great week of practice. I thought the energy levels were great. Um. You know, I think we'll be back to work Tuesday with the same attitude. You know, we know we're close. We know we can get on a roll. Um. You know, it's just a matter of kind of cleaning up some of those small details. Um, you know, so they don't come back to buy us more today. I mean, you guys act like we don't want to throw the ball down field.

I think it was just, you know, we saw something that we could take advantage of this week, and we call a couple of plays, you know, trying to get those posts this week. Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously anytime that you can get big plays like that, um, you know, they're kind of game changers, momentum change, you know. I think the one to Coop, you know on the third quarter, kind of got us going. You know, it

had brought some energy to that sideline. Sam first things had fifty yard line, four point leading a fourth quarter and it was a three and out. Helps disappointing out to kind of put something together the very disappointing. Obviously, we felt like at that time we had, you know, all the momentum. We felt like we could go down and score and put the game away, and just didn't do it. Through four games, how would you assess your level before? Um, yeah, I think there's been some good.

I think there's been some bad, you know, obviously, you know, I think I'm starting to get more comfortable out there. But you know, still too many stakes, still too many things that need to be cleaned up, so many expectations on this offense because you feel like kind somewhat better on paper and see something to drop passage? Is that starting to wear on this? Do you think that the outside expectations and pressures on this offense? I don't think so. Yeah.

I think at this point, when you're one at three, I think those expectations are gone. Um, you know, obviously, I think there were a lot of expectations. Really, I think that, you know, as a group, you know, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to score, um, you know, every time we touched the football. But yeah, I think we just gotta take a big breath, you know, relax and just go have fun. What happened? I mean obviously you can convert that. Yeah, Um, I just missed

a little behind them right there. Um, that's why I like that back, Sam. It's it's almost the only games it's been one half in each game, and that the whole game is if you figured it out as a team, figured out why you can't put two halves together. I mean obviously not because we did it again today. Um. You know I said earlier, you know, if we knew what the answer was, we'd get it fixed. Um. You know, somehow we do have to find out what the answer is.

And you know, it'd be great to play four quarters because you know, I think that we could really do some damage if we played for four quarters, which would have interacted to change in personnel and the shifting on the offfective line on the offensive. And you um, yeah, I've got confidence on all those guys. Um, you know, someone goes down, it's next man up. I really didn't think about it much today, Tim, you said earlier about getting on the same page. You guys think be gonna

same page. What's the problem there? But um, you know, I think there's just you know, some small details here and there that you know, I have showed up in the past, you know, a couple of weeks that we've left opportunities on the field. Um, you know, I think it's just getting out then, you know, making sure that we're all seeing things the same way. What happened to you? What happened to you the second half? Did you decided like I want to air it out? Did you coach

tell you or how did that work? Um? No, I mean it's not like we had any huge change in game plan at halftime. Um, you know, I think it's just what they presented in the second half was an emotional changes half time were what was the atmosphere like? Um? Yeah, I think we were all a little disappointed in the first half, but you know, we knew that there was still a two possession game, and you know, with our ability to score, you know, we didn't think that it

was that big of a hole. And you know, we came out and got on a role in the second half, took the lead. Didn't give you confidence though, to know like you could finally like auto throw down the field. Yeah, absolutely. You know I think I said earlier, you know, the past to Coop just seemed to kind of get us going. You know, it seemed to bring some energy to our sideline as thank you, all right, Sam Bradford following deals lost three touchdowns two hundred and sixty nine passing yards

on the day. Welcome back to the postgame show, presented by Rico Chris McPherson alongside Ike Reece. I guess one thing that if I'm gonna start looking forward a little bit and this this stinks right now, at the very least, it seemed like Bradford found something there in the second half, got the deep passing game going. We saw the beautiful touch on those deep throws, got Riley Cooper involved Miles Austin. We saw the touchdown in the red zone to Brent Selik.

I just feel like, you know, maybe there's something there to build upon move forward. Yeah, I believe so. Listen, we've the outside passing game has been struggling through the first three weeks in the season, and if anything, they certainly looked to be in a being sync in this game with the outside guys. So that's certainly something to

build off. Fuck. You just heard Sam mentioned that this sixty yard played the Roley Cooper seemed to have given the sideline a lot of energy, and I agree with you. And that's what explosive plays does. I mean, that's what they do for a team. If you if you're able to get those explosive plays quick strikes. I mean, it gives everyone confidence, just like a long pump return does. I mean, that's what explosive plays does. And that's sort

of what's been lacking from the offense. All right, let's find out exactly how that touchdown to Riley Cooper came to fruition. But first we're intends a quick commercial break here on the post Game Show presented by Rico with extra twenty checking from SANTANDERI. You can get paid twenty dollars a month just direct deposit fifteen hundred dollars or more and paid two bills a month with the online bill pay feature. Then you can get paid twenty dollars

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winning their first preseason affairs looking perfect. I remember going back to that Week three game in Green Bay. Seems so long ago at this point, but Ike, you've been in the locker room through some good times the bad times. Eagles are one in three and there are are a lot of new faces. You know, you talked about the teams in early two thousands, where you know it was a veteran group that had been through the battles before, so they could, you know, kind of bank on those tough times.

This group doesn't really have it yet. So how do they keep things together, keep things moving in a positive direction. What's gonna start with the coach. It's gonna start with Chip, you know, And you're right. That's the one thing we had going for us back in those early two thousands that the team was familiar with each other, sort of grew together, gone through adversity together, so we knew how

to win and lose together and fight through it. This is a team that has several new players in key positions, they've lost players due to injury, and this will be a big test. I mean, this will be a big test at one in three. I certainly don't like hearing Sam say that the expectations are sort of change. No, they don't change. You're one in three. There's a lot of football still left to be played. You gotta go out there and win that next game and then try

to start stringing them together. Doesn't matter what your record is. That is at the end of the season. You want to be playing your best football at the end of the season, and you want to be one of the qualified twelve teams for postseason play and then you go on your run. So why things look a lot, I mean they look bleak right now, the team is dealing

with a lot of injuries and a different adversity. They got to stick together, hanging there and just put some positive plays together, series together, then the positive games together. Next thing you know, you look up, you're in a five hundred record and you're back in this thing. This is the NFC East. No one is running away with this division. It's a long season. A lot of things still have to happen. Eagle season is not a whip by far. Not a whip by far, long way to God.

I think when you talk about the expectations, I don't think he's talking about the you know, talk about the outside perception more of anything else, all the all the like Super Bowl hype and things of that nature. I think that stuff is out the window. Nobody's talking about the Eagles in that regard right now. The Eagles internally probably still have the same expectations they should. It's just a matter of they've got a rebound, and as you said, Ike,

they gots take things one at a time. You got to start with good series, get some good drives going, and then hopefully you get a couple of game or two and then maybe things will get rolling for this team in the second half of the season. So last year they started out nine and three, didn't make the playoffs because they didn't play their best ball down to stretch here, all right, they're struggling early on, but can they heat things up in the middle of this season.

So to take a deeper dive into exactly what happened on the field, let's bring an NFL Film senior producer Greg Cosel's going to look at the All twenty two from two different plays. First the sixty two yard touchdown from Bradford to Riley Cooper and then DeMarco Murray his thirty yard run by far, the longest of the season. Greg, take it away. This was the Eagles first touchdown against the Redskins. It was their longest play of the season. Now,

I want you to start from Sam Bradford's perspective. He's right here in the shotgun. What does he see before the snap of the ball? He sees two deep safeties what we call a two shell coverage. Now, remember this was a long touchdown pass to Riley Cooper who's down here on the left side of the formation. So what we're going to do is clear the screen and let this run, and we're going to see what happens as

Bradford takes the snap and the play starts. Now you'll see what happens if you freeze it right about here. Look what happened. The two shell coverage became single high. There's a single deep safety now. And notice two things. His body position facing the other side of the field away from Riley Cooper and the fact that he's on the other hashmark, so he's not in position to deal with Riley Cooper going to the deep post. Okay, so now let's clear the screen. Let this run. You'll see

exactly what I mean. You get Cooper running by Chris Culliver, who I imagine was expecting deep safety. Help. You get Sam Bradford beautifully going over the top for the touchdown. Excellent throw, beautiful play. Really well done. Thanks Greg, we'll come back to you in a second. Just want to

react to the player really quick. It was great to see Bradford willing to pull the trigger on that because when you have that single high Look, look, there are ways to put the defenses in a bind so that all of a sudden they have to figure out which side of the field are they defending. It could be the route concepts, It could be Bradford making some cell

head bakes. There are ways to kind of put the defense in a challenging position, so they have to decide whether they're going to go one way or the other. And here they got Riley Cooper open d I know, and you watch him on that play. He looks to his right, comes back to the left, and then he throws the ball to Raley Cooper single high coverage. He's laking shore. He gets that safety to cheat over there to the right, and then he comes back to the

left with Riley Cooper. Nice job of Sam Bradford holding that safety over there, so it gives Riley Cooper an opportunity to make a play on the ball. All right, Now, let's get to the DeMarco Murray thirty yard run. Greg What happened? How is Murray able to spring for his longest game of the season. This was DeMarco Murray's longest run of the season thirty yards and you're going to

see Murray right here offset next to Sam Bradford. Now, this is going to be an inside zone run to the left side of the formation where Brent Sellick is the tight end. Now let's clear the screen and let's start the play, and then we'll freeze it and we'll pick it up right about here. Frees it. Look what Murray does. This is really beautifully done by Murray. First he sees the force player color the corner come up, and he knows he can't stay outside on his inside

zone run. Then he does a beautiful job of working off the block by sealec right here. So he uses excellent vision right here to cut it backside, which you can do on an inside zone run. You can hit any number of different gaps or holes in an inside zone run. So let's clear the screen. Let it run. You'll see that Murray works all the way to the backside, uses some speed, some quickness, gets to the other side

of the field. A beautifully executed inside zone run by DeMarco Murray where he used his vision and running ability to gain thirty yards. All right, thanks Greg. So the Eagles one and three at the quarter pole after losing today to the Redskins. You know, if you want to watch them football later on this evening, it'll be the Cowboys against the Saints on Sunday football. You can cheer against Dallas. Hope there the two and two, but you're

also previewing next week opponent as well. Oh yeah, that's right off for guy. Yeah, that's the best part, that's right. So I'll get the root for the Saints tonight and then we get to smack them down next week. St just playing. Okay, So they're all in three. They've had their struggles to this point, so you hope that that could carry. They can win tonight, and then they'll regain those struggles a week from now to be able to you know, find themselves in a wonder for a hole.

And here's the thing about the nights game. If the Saints win, the Cowboys are two and two, you're one game out of the lead in this division. I know it's one in three. I get it. They need to improve, but winning your division puts you into playoffs, and that's all that matters. Yeah, that's all that matters. So Saints take care of business. You're one game out of the league now. Quite frankly, we lose some tiebreakers late in the season if we're gonna start winning games in our division.

But at least no one's running away with the division. So two and two should be the lead in the NFC East, and that puts the Eagles all being in last place, still just a game out of the league. So Washington two and two the Giants or two and two after being Buffalo today, the Eagles will get them the following week. So the Eagles can get some wins going and get on a roll put themselves right back in position. So that's gonna do it for us here

on the postgame show presented by Rico. Make sure to join us tomorrow at one pm for Chip Kelly's day after press conference, and then Brian Westbrook will co host Eagles three to sixty with Dave Spadaro for all the latest news and notes and that comes your way at the end of the day f five pm, right Greece. I'm Chris mcpheerson. Thanks for joining us. Everyone, try to have a decent Eagles night.