Inside The Tape With Greg Cosell: Philadelphia Eagles Nickel Defense Thrives; Jalen Hurts' No-Huddle Mastery

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Hello, Welcome to Inside the Tape with Greg Cosell. It's
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an Inside the Birds presentation. I'm Jeff Mosher. Of course
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the law joined alongside Adam Kaplan and joining us every
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week to break down the tape of the Eagles game
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is NFL film senior producer Greg Cosell. He's also the
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star of ESPN's NFL Matchup Show, and of course you
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see him on the Inside the Birds pregame show as well,
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along with the Inside the Birds Patreon platform. Greg, the
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Eagles keep on rolling. They get to ten and two
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by outclassing the Baltimore Ravens twenty four to nineteen down
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in Baltimore, and Greg, I think Adam and I agree
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on this, and you might as well. The score probably
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not or the game probably not as close as the
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score indicated. Once the Eagles took the lead, they really
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flexed their muscles there.
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Yeah, I mean it was an odd game though in
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that sense I would agree, but I would also slightly disagree.
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I thought it was the kind of game where there
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are a lot of individual plays that if they had
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gone a little bit differently, we might be having a
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different conversation. I mean, even if Tucker makes a few
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field goals, we might be having a different conversation.
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I mean, I remember a play early where.
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Lamar just overthrew andrews down on what the two or
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three yard line, you know, but that's the way close
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games are, so those things could you know, always do happen.
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But I think once they let's put it this way,
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I think the second half did have a feel that
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the Eagles controlled the game, but the score didn't necessarily
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reflect that, you know, so, and that's the issue you
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sometimes face, as we've discussed with the Eagles, when you
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don't necessarily score a lot of points. Now they have
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on occasion, obviously, But you know, it's funny they've been
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that it's an eight game winning streak, right, they've won
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eight in a row.
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Yes, yes, you know.
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In five of those eight wins it was a one
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score game going into the fourth quarter. There's only three
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of those eight wins. They had some big leads, but
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five of the eight was a one score game. And
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while they've won those and then people say, well they
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know how to win, they throw out all the cliches.
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We all know that that, you know, one play can
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change those games, oh.
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One hundred per I know the Chiefs are having that
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same kind of discourse, right, I mean every game they
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seem to win also is in the fourth quarter.
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Yeah, I mean, and.
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Then you hear the ridiculous cliches like it's funny you
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mentioned the Chiefs when when they when they blocked the
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field goal and they beat the Broncos, and people say
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stuff like, well, they just know how to win.
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I mean, what, but you.
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Know that's but you know the point, the larger point
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is is for a lot of these games they've pulled
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away in the fourth quarter with the run game, but
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they've been one score games going into the fourth quarter.
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So Greg on that that point about you know that
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they're able to win heading into the going through the
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fourth quarter. The thing that keeps them in the game
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or gives them the it's been the defense. Jeff and
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I have been talking, you know, on OWL on our
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shows lately that not only is the defense way better
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than we expected it, I think it's the best national
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football league that some of the metrics say it is.
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They're not great in every category, but they're gonna a lot.
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Oh yeah, we're now through twelve games. Here, where's this defense?
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When you watch thirty two teams wor's this. I know
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you don't rack him, but when you watch this defense,
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where's this at twelve games at?
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I think it's really good. I think it's fundamentally sound.
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I think they have improving individual players, which is exactly
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what you want. As the season progresses, I think they're
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getting really solid contributions from some players that maybe were
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unexpected before the season. I think they have a lot
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of really good role players that maybe people unless you
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follow the Eagles or follow the league closely as we do,
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then maybe a lot of people aren't aware of like
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a Milton Williams, who's a really good football player, a
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red Blanken ship who you know, have had an opportunity
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to talk to a coach on the staff and and
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he told me that he in many ways is the
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trend setter for the defense. You know, people would have
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no idea about that. You know, you know, he's a
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guy that I'm sure a lot of people think, well,
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he's a guy you got to replace.
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Well, they don't feel that way at all in that building.
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I can tell you that as you guys probably know,
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so you know, they I think they've just gotten you know,
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and again Vic Fangio has been doing this a long time.
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You know, he does things his way, but he knows,
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he knows the league, he knows the players. I mean,
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we talked about the fact, you know, almost every team
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when you play the Ravens spies Lamar Jackson. They did
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not spy Lamar Jackson. You know, they had another approach
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and you know what it worked, So you know, it's
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it's just been a combination of things. But this is
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and at the end of the day, the two rookies
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have been you know, look, you drafted them one and two.
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You still couldn't.
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Expect that they play at this higher level so quickly.
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That's unrealistic to expect.
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Absolutely. Why don't we then continue with defense and what
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will start our tape breakdown observations from you on the
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defensive side. A big part of our conversation on the
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pregame show last week was what Vic Fangio would do
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to match up against the Ravens unique personnel looks, whether
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it's twelve personnel, which they do a lot of twenty
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one personnel. I think there were even some times you
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can correct me if I'm wrong, where they were throwing
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an extra offensive tackle on the field. Greg I couldn't
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get the number. He looked like an extra big guy if.
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I remember that. But you could be right.
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But you know, as I said to the Patreon group,
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I was surprised that they didn't play as much twenty
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one and twenty two personnel as they had been playing,
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because that's really been the foundation of the Derik Henry
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run game. Sixty four percent of his rushes prior to
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the Eagles game came out of twenty one or twenty
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two personnel, and they did not do that as much
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as I anticipated they would. Obviously they had a plan.
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You know, I'm not going to sit here and say
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I more than Todd Monkin because I don't. But I
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was just surprised.
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But they did play a lot of twelve personnel correct
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using likely and of course.
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And when they played twelve, the Eagles stayed nickel right.
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So that was sort of the first question we were
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going to have is how are they going to match up?
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Because the Ravens twelve personnel, what you would say, is
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different than others, because they'll throw it to those tight
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ends maybe more than some other.
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And because both can detach from the formation and essentially
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be deployed as wide receivers, right.
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So they did play Nickel a lot more than maybe
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we thought given the personnel. What about Bass, What did
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you see when the race when the Eagles were in base,
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what did the Ravens do to get the Eagles in.
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That That's when the Ravens went with Ricard on the field,
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when when they were twenty one or twenty two personnel,
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that's when the Eagles took the gene off the field
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and played there. You know, what is a five to
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two is what I call it. And in that five
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to two, at times they would bring Bond from a
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stack position and put him on the edge, which is
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the same thing they did against the Saints with much
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much more off often against the Saints back earlier in
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the season. But that's what they did on occasion. When
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you do that, you pretty much have to bring down
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a safety because if you just have one stacked player
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that would have been Dean as the one stacked player,
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you don't have a cutback player, So you pretty much
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have to bring down someone else to play in the box.
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So you have a cutback player.
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Greg.
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One of the things that we thought coming in the
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game is that Jordan Davis may play more than usual
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because of the Ravens run game. But overall, look, you
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know you told us two weeks ago you were concerned
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about him playing too high. In fact, Vic Fangio brought
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that up Greg during his press conference this week. But
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sometimes Davis plays too high. Well that wins.
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So I mean again, you know it doesn't make me smart.
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The tape told me that sure, watching the tape.
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Yeah, yeah, well, and Vic said the same thing about
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the tape.
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So let's talk.
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About Jordan Davis. This is a game where there was
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some good plays from him.
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What did you say.
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Yeah, I thought Jordan Davis had one of his better
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games of the season, and it was needed. You know,
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he didn't play as much as I made anticipated because
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I anticipated more twenty one and twenty two personnel, so
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he only played thirty three percent of the snaps. I
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thought this might be a game where he was more
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in the fifty percent range, but it didn't turn out
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that way based on the Ravens personnel. But I thought
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he really played well in this game. In the run game,
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he always has two or three plays that he flashes.
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But I thought just in general, in stalemating and controlling
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offensive linemen, even if he didn't make the play that
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he did his job better than he'd done it at
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times in the past this season, and even had a
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couple of pass rushes where he just pushed the pocket
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and he forced Lamar to have to move. And again
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those did not come on third down, where he he
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hardly ever plays it. This was the first game where
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he actually played a snap on third and six, plus
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in a meaningful part of the game. But he was
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a factor in this game. He was an important piece
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of the Eagles run defense.
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Greg let's continue on in the front six, we'll call it.
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Who else stood out on the d line in that
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six man front that the Eagles play a lot.
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I would say that Sweat stood out. I would say
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that Milton william Milton Williams always stands out. You know,
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he's just a really good player. I mean, you know,
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obviously I haven't mentioned Jalen Carter because he's just been
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phenomenal the last three games, and in some ways what's
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been most phenomenal not just the way in which he's
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been playing, but the fact that he's played every snap
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but one in the last three games. Think about that
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for a three hundred and twenty pound defensive tackle that
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is very, very rare in this league. And he's played
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at a high level. Again, you know, I don't never
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know what's in a guy's head, but when I watch him,
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I don't feel like he's taking plays off. I feel
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like he's playing with pretty high level competitiveness.
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Yeah.
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I mean, if you guys want to vignette to understand
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just how much has changed since Week four when that's
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when the Eagles lost to Tampa, right we three or
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Week four, in that very hot game, there was a
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moment where a referee came over and tapped Jayle and
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cl to either say something or and he fell over
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right hot. And they were so not conditioned for it.
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And here we are eight weeks, nine weeks later, and
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this guy, as you just mentioned, has played ninety nine
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point nine percent of total snaps in three games. That's incredible.
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I know, it's incredible, and at and at a high level.
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Right, at a high level.
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And one thing I would add, Greg, we had a
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team tell us when we were one of the Egos
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opponents late last season, they felt like ninety eight, Dave,
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I think he's I think janeccarter is ninety eight was
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not given great effort from tape. It's they only have tape.
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That's all they could look at. Yeah, they felt that
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his effort could have been better. And now you're just
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saying like his effort has been great and that that
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you know, you'll think, Gregid.
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Look, there's going to be plays obviously that you don't
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you know, when you're three hundred and twenty five pounds.
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You know, I learned this years ago.
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And I forget which GM I spoke to when I
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was evaluating college players. Okay, and the college game has
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more snaps than the NFL game more often than not.
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You know, some teams, some teams run ninety five snaps
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a game in a college game. You know, that's just
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the nature of college football. And I remember evaluating there
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was Kowan Short, remember him from the.
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Past, herd guy, a really good player, Yeah.
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And I remember watching him in college. I believe it
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was Purdue if memory starts me correctly.
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Yes, And he was playing like eighty snaps a game,
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and I remember making a note that, boy, this guy,
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you know, he's not competing all the time. And I
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spoke to a GM and said, hey, you got that's
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not the way it works. He's never going to play
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eighty snaps a game in the NFL, So that's not
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really a knock on him. He's just the size of
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the human being. He's not capable of doing that. So
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when he comes to the league and plays forty snaps
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a game, that won't be an issue. And of course
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the GM was right, and I learned something from that conversation,
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and I.
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Would just add this, and Jeff knows this. When Vic
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Fangio and Clint hurt Bosett hurt the d line coach,
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they mentioned not just Jordan Davis, but they mentioned carterisk
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conditioning specifically. That's one thing they wanted to get and
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it's obviously on their tape study.
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And you said it.
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I mean his effort right has been phenomenal.
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Yeah, it's been great.
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I mean yeah, I think he's just played at a really,
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really high level, there's no getting around it. And I
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think Nolan Smith is another player who deserves mention because
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he still needs a lot of work as a pass rusher,
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there's no question about that. But in the run game,
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he's so disciplined, he's so aware, he has a savvy
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about him. This was a game where you could not
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let Jackson beat you with his own read and get
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out on the perimeter where he just is a different
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cat than everybody else. And I thought Nolan Smith had
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some really good snaps forcing Jackson to hand the ball off,
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because that's what you prefer him to do, hand the
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ball off and then slide down and be part of
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making the tackle in the run game. But he prevented
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him from getting outside. He made him hand it off real.
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Quick before he gets into the secondary. I want to
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ask you about a player. I want to ask about
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jaelexs Hunt because I feel like watching the game, he
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was involved in some good plays that make you think, man,
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he's really having a great game. And listen, he's a
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rookie third round pick and probably shouldn't have even been
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on the field at this point based on what we
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thought going into the year. But watching the tape, did
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you see this incredible player? Or, as Vick Fangrow described,
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a guy who gives you some good snaps and then
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obviously some learning on some others.
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I would say Vic's right, of course, I mean, you know,
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he knows better than I. But as I said the
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other night, he belongs. That's the key thing. You can
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tell he belongs. He's not overmatched. I think when Vic's
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talking about bad snaps, and he certainly knows the techniques
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and the specifics of his defense better than I do.
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But I'm sure he's talking about maybe not executing exactly
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the way you're supposed to, or maybe not using his
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hands exactly the way they want him to. But he's
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not talking about the fact that he doesn't belong on
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the field, right And he does belong, And that's the
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first step for a guy coming out of a small school,
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and even before that, playing at Cornell where he wasn't
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even an outside linebacker. You know, you're dealing with a
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guy that has a lot of hurdles to get to
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this point, and Jeff, you nailed it. You know, in
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an ideal world, they probably didn't anticipate him having to
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play as many snaps as he's now playing, you know,
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in week twelve of his first season, or week thirteen,
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I guess it was, sorry, week thirteen.
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So let's move to the back end, the secondary. We'll
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talk specifically about the corners and the safeties. What jumped
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out to you, either from schematic standpoint one high too
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high or a player individual standpoint.
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You know, it was an it was an odd game
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in that sense, Jeff, I didn't feel like they got
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tested a lot in this game. You know it didn't.
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I just didn't feel watching you know, Look, when I
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watched Sunday, I watch a red Zone. I'm not gonna
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lie to people and tell them all I study every
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Eagles play on Sunday. I watch red Zone, you know,
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because I know I'm going to study the tape in detail,
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and I like hearing all the different announcers and all
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the you know, the different stuff. So so when I
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watched the tape, I just didn't feel like they got
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tested a ton on the per just the game didn't
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have that feel to me. I don't know what you
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guys thought, but I didn't feel that way to me.
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But I think overall, and you know, Tucking Overview, after
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twelve games and thirteen weeks, I think that you can't
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possibly be anything but elated with the way Quinyon Mitchell
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has played. You can't possibly be anything but excited about
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Cooper Gene. Those guys have played at a really really
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high level with savvy, with a See.
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That's the thing.
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A lot of guys come in the league and you
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love their physical traits and then they come in and
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they just takes them time to really get acclimated to
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the NFL and to do all the little things that
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are necessary. I was told by a guy on the
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staff that Quinyon Mitchell came in and he's a true
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pro right off the bat, like he's just got that
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personality that he's just a pro. And I guarantee Cooper
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Ggene is probably the same.
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That's it's.
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It's been a long time since the Eagles of really
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nailed the effort comes to the secondary.
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So it's it's interesting.
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One thing, you know, Greg and I know Avonte Madox
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is not playing very much.
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He's he only played two snaps.
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Right and unfortunately, you know, one of me had a
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pedal or the other one he almost gave up a
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deep sideline throw. So it people have asked us and
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or like, you know, let me let me ask Greg.
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So other than Maddox in terms of dime personnel, is
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there someone like maybe when when Slide comes back, could
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you could you see Rogers playing dime or I mean,
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I don't know what else they can do.
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Well, I would have to know if they practiced there,
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because you know, that's the thing. You can't just decide
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on Saturday night, you know we're gonna play this guy
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at that No.
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No, they were doing during the week to practice that,
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So I don't know.
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You know, maybe you guys, you know, because you you
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do a little more of that kind of work than
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I didn't sit on my ass all day watching take
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If you can find out if someone else is practicing there,
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you know.
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I think I don't know that they have a to
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your point, we know that Quinn practice at nickel interior
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corner all of camp, but they don't want to take him.
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They want him to play right corner, and he comes
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so good at it they don't want to change that.
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So no one else has really practiced there. The only
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other situation if you want to have that many defensive
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backs on the field but not Maddox, would be to
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play an extra safety and be in a big nickel.
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But I don't sense that they like Sidney Brown in
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that situation either. So it goes back to the question
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do you just try to not play.
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A lot of snaps to dine by the way, So
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I don't want to say it's not a big deal,
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because every snap is a big deal for a coach,
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even if it's two snaps. Those are every snap's important.
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But it's not like they're a twenty percent nickel I
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excuse me, dying defense. They don't play a ton of die.
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Right, it does seem though they play that Maddox gets targeted,
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and even the one he got a holding on, which
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is the early and it was the first press he
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and Rogers covered the same guy and left and if
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Lamar had seen Andrews, it would have been what a
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fifty yard sixth?
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And then the one that Adam just mentioned was when
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he did get beat by Aglar, who should have caught
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that ball, and who knows if that changes the game,
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you know.
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But yeah, but you're right, Jeff. It seems like they
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find him and he's out there.
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All right, let's take a look at them all twenty
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two and Greg, I want to talk about a player
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that you've already discussed that you were impressed with. All right, So,
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as I mentioned, Greg, this is an important part of
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the game. The Eagles have punted their down nine nothing.
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The Ravens are pinned in their own territory here, and
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the Eagles need someone to make a play. Let's let's
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talk about what's going to happen.
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Here, and what you're seeing, well, clearly what the Ravens
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wanted to do because they've come out with Ricard and
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six offensive linemen. So what they want to do is clearly,
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give the ball to Derrick Henry, be physical, have him
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get them out of this bad territory situation. You know,
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and again we know that Henry can also go ninety
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four yards for a touchdown. He's done that in his career.
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But that's the whole plan here. This is fit, this
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is physical football. This is the way the Ravens want
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to play. So what do the Eagles do? They line
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up in their five to two front. You can see
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big Jordan Davis right in the middle. He's going to
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be basically the no shade, the zero technique, and now
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you've got to buck up and stop the run game.
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This is where you just have to be physical, you know,
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you have you have to control and stalemate and ideally
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defeat the guy in front of you, but you certainly
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have to control and steal mat him.
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You cannot get pushed back.
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Right.
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So he's lined up, as you mentioned, over center, I'm
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gonna run.
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It here kind of in a one technique.
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So, yeah, is this what you would call slanting the
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way everybody goes one way here.
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Yeah, yeah, the shed shed gonna so so he beats
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the guard.
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McCary, you had a really tough game.
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By the way, mccary's not Scary's not expecting that lateral quickly.
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He's not expecting the slant. Yeah, go right into Davis.
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But Davis slants and then gets involved here. You know
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he's responsible for this play because you can see as
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you run it again, Jeff right, Henry had a change
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change direction in the backfield, which a back never wants
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to do because of of Jordan Davis's quick penetration. So
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you know, Davis didn't get a tackle here, but he
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made the play.
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Right, and I believe I sweat setting the edge to
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make sure he can't bounce it to the outside either.
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And actually then.
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Is that that's ninety seven Jomo right, yep, cleaning it up.
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He says his block too.
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I mean, yeah, this is what you have to do
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here because they actually they actually run power because they
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pulled the right the right guard.
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The right guard.
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Yes, you're right, they pulled the right guard.
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Now that's a nice shot by Nikobe Dean.
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Here is it dean excuse me, it's Dean. That's what
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Dean does.
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Really well, Dean's not going to take that on because
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he knows he gets swallowed up.
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So what he has to do is he has to
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beat it with angle and leverage, and that's what he does.
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And Davis got low. If you notice, shoulders are lower. Oh,
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you're right, you're exactly right. Yep.
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And look he even puts a dive in there at
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the I mean, this is it's not like the first
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play of the game. So he's been in there and
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and he drags him down. So good stuff there. And
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as you mentioned, there were a couple of I thought,
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you know, Greg, a couple of players that really jumped out.
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He even had a pass rush. I think you mentioned
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this on on a first or a second down showed
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him similar gener.
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Maybe I can't recall, but he might have been lender Bound,
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who's very strong. By the way, he was a wrestling
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champ and back and forced Jackson to move.
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Those Iowa guys, you know, they all wrestled the Cooper.
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He wrestled to Gable.
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There's a good game from the past.
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That I know my old school college.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, not the only one I know.
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Olympic champion Dan Gable.
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Oh then yeah, yeah, yeah, there are other couple others,
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but anyway.
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All right, I want to also draw our attention to another,
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you know, really significant series. This is in the second quarter.
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I believe the Eagles have now gone ahead. All right,
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they're up fourteen twelve, but they're stop trying to stop
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the Ravens now from driving. So the Ravens are at
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the forty seven here of the Eagles, Greg, it's their
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final drive of the of the half, right, as said,
493
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and the left side of the screen is we're what
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we're gonna look at here, because what happens on this
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play is you're gonna have Josh Sweat dropping, You're gonna
496
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have Nolan Smith, who you mentioned. Nolan Smith is going
497
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to be the guy who comes in and gets the sack.
498
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So you're right, he gets the sack because because Jackson
499
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could not make the throw that he wanted to make.
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Yes, right, right, So the action is kind of here
501
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on the left side, right where the three receivers are,
502
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and Nolan Smith is at the top of the screen.
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So I'll let you kind of set it up from there.
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Yeah, well you can see that it's a three by
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one set.
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It's it's a trips bunch to the basically to the
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wide side of the field, and the Eagles are in
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their four to two nickel So so dejene is over
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the trips part of the uh the formation and Nolan
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Smith is at the top of the screen. But Josh
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Schwat is the d N down below, so he's not
512
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going to rush here. He's going to drop. So you
513
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can run this, Jeff, and we'll see exactly.
514
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I guess the key is Lamar doesn't. Lamar just thinks
515
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he's in his normal you know spot.
516
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Right quarterbacks would right.
517
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So there's nothing that looks different about this look right now.
518
00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.839
There's no indicator or key that says something different is
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going to happen.
520
00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:36.599
Right, So here's where we get the ball snapped after
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the receiver goes in motion.
522
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So what happens is this is gonna be a This
523
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is gonna be a sim pressure, a four man pressure
524
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with Dean the fourth rusher and Bonn and well Bonn
525
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is the second level player.
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But he drops and Sweat drops yep.
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So here are your your two droppers and here's Sweat.
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As I believe that's Flowers trying to run the slant
529
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in front of him.
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Right, and you can see him looking that way.
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Yep, yep, and he's got nowhere to go with it.
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And then I thought it was pretty cool, how Sweat
533
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If you can still watch it, I.
534
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Think that what happens is I think Sweat does a
535
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great job right here, because if what they're doing is
536
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they're bringing the backside shallow crosser to be the route
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that if he didn't like because he's basically looking for
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something a little.
539
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Deeper here, Jeff.
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But but if he doesn't have it, the backside crosser
541
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is essentially the checkdown so to speak. Here Sweats in
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perfect position to take away that backside shallow crosser and
543
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Lamar has no throat.
544
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And look at the two Ravens run into.
545
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It's a forty three to the running back Hill and
546
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the lineman or two.
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Yeah boy there, Yeah, he's trying to forty three. Hill
548
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was trying to help and pass protection. He gets knocked
549
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out by by the blitz of is that niklobehu blitz.
550
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We'll take a look at the.
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Yeah, Nacobe was the fourth rusher here in the four
552
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man sim zone exchange pressure because they're playing zone behind.
553
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This right and This is a good example, I would say,
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of when your coverage and pressure are married, right, because
555
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Lamar has to hold on. Look at how the defensive
556
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tackles and the rushers and the pass rushers are able
557
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to get on him because.
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Lamar, Lamar is looking for Flowers on the outcut. That's
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who he wants to throw the ball to.
560
00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:17.599
Mm hmm.
561
00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:20.680
So what Sweat's not taking away that throw?
562
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That throw got taken away, uh, I believe by Dejeene.
563
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But but so then let's.
564
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Let's go back to that. Uh So, here's Flowers right there.
565
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That is sweat.
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00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.039
Yeah, but yeah, but but people, I see what you're saying.
567
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:39.000
Okay, Flowers is going to run the outcut right so
568
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right now, right wants to throw the ball because the
569
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outside receiver, I think it's a he's a lift player.
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He's lifting the corner and that's he was. So Degene
571
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takes away the outcut. Sweat takes away what is essentially
572
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the check down the shallow crosser.
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It's just good coverage right there, and then you let
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your your front and.
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Then and then if who wins off the edge can
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run down Lamar.
577
00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.640
Right, great stuff there, Yeah, it's good.
578
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The marriage of coverage and pressure.
579
00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.960
Absolutely. We talk about that a lot and how how
580
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vital that marriage is, and it really came through there
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and it was just a couple of plays later, I
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think right after that too, where they get another really
583
00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:23.599
significant play here, Greg, this is gonna be a the
584
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jailing Carter sack that originally looked like it was gonna
585
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be intentional grounding, you remember, because his knee was down
586
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as you think, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Greg. So
587
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this was just a few plays later, and it's really
588
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vital because the Ravens are now deeper in the Eagles
589
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territory and again trying to erase their deficit. So what
590
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.359
we're gonna see here is go ahead.
591
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Well, what they're gonna do again. It's three by one
592
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.319
and it's trips bunched to the field and they're gonna
593
00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:50.599
run a very common route two man route concept that
594
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everybody runs to the field in this part of the field.
595
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It's called dino.
596
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So it's two it's basically two kind of short post routes,
597
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but Dino is what everybody calls it. So if you
598
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just run that part of it, Jeff, and then we'll
599
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.039
come back to the to the other part, you can
600
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see that is that Andrews, who's the point man in
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the bunch.
602
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Yep, Andrews up front is Joel.
603
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.200
Andrews is going to eat up the safety and ideally
604
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they want to get the ball to the second to
605
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the outside, and I think that's Bateman.
606
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Yes, yep, that's who you'd ideally like to get the
607
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ball to. Here. But the Eagles play this really really well.
608
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Yeah, and I think it's significant, Greg because last year
609
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this is the type of formation where two guys would
610
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be wide open against the Eagles because they just didn't
611
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know how to communicate and defend it well or they
612
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:38.720
just didn't do it well.
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Yeah, it's Dino because you're counting on Andrews to eat
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up the safety and then you throw. Well, actually, Bateman's
615
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gonna break outside. So they're playing off the Dino concept
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because that's a really well known concept that everybody runs.
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And you can see that Mitchell actually for a second,
618
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this is theoretically open. I mean, Mitchell does get body lean.
619
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If that ball were thrown, you know, to the outside,
620
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this would be a touchdown. So but the pressure prevented
621
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Lamar from doing that.
622
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Exactly or did not Yep, Yeah, Dush sweat comes around
623
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the edge and sweat.
624
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.680
That prevented it. Sweat.
625
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Sweat was the reason that that Jackson had to leave
626
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.880
the pocket and he got Stanley.
627
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That was Stanley correct the left hand.
628
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Yeah, yeah, that's Ronnie Stanley. And by the way, the
629
00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:26.720
other route, the Flowers route, he does this little dipsy
630
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do here at the fifteen. I thought, I thought that
631
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was a good job by Deseine to kind of stay
632
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with him there.
633
00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.319
Yeah, well he was trying to adjust his route once
634
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:38.400
he saw Yeah, because he's not really he's not truly
635
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.279
part of this play.
636
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I mean he'd be, he'd be a late part of
637
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:42.359
it if it got.
638
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.440
To that right and then obviously the pressure was already there.
639
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.400
And then from the other angle just to see sweat.
640
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Give Stanley the business here and really work him.
641
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:53.039
See this is a.
642
00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:55.240
Good marriage again between covering the mark can't make the
643
00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:57.079
throw and then he can't adjust to the one. You
644
00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:58.920
said that where he's opening ends.
645
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:01.759
Well, this is where the pressure was first, because it
646
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.039
might have been a touchdown if he could have sat
647
00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:09.359
in the pocket securely, but he moves, it would have
648
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.440
been This is where a lot of quarterbacks who are
649
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:16.599
movers are different, like someone like Jared Goff might have
650
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.519
just stepped up and still thrown the ball because he's
651
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:19.880
done his.
652
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:24.680
Whole career playing quarterback. Lamar's whole life playing quarterback, leaves
653
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:27.680
the pocket and makes plays, right because he has room
654
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:29.519
to just step up and deliver this ball.
655
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I guess I'll go back to the when he when
656
00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:34.920
when the receiver is open, and we're talking now about
657
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.319
Bateman here at the five right now, you say it
658
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:39.839
is probably when he should throw it, but it looks
659
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.160
like is already on the run.
660
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.440
I don't, yeah, because he's pocket.
661
00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:47.359
Yeah, yeah, you're right. The pressure, the pressure forced him
662
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:49.880
on the run, and then the coverage, you know, married
663
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:51.559
with that. So that's great stuff right there.
664
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:51.960
Right.
665
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.000
Of course, Jille and Carter very aggressive and cleaning up,
666
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.480
all right. So those are the defensive clips I wanted
667
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:01.519
to get through. There was also a really good place.
668
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:03.559
We don't have to look at it, but in the
669
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third quarter there was a Zach Bond blitz where he
670
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.000
kind of came through where the Eagles once again defended
671
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.599
well defended the left side bunch formation, and then it
672
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:14.440
was a nice and pressure and Bond came in and
673
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.039
got the sack.
674
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:17.720
You're talking about the sack that he split with Hunt.
675
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:20.200
Yes, you want to take a look at it real quick. No,
676
00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:20.599
I know it.
677
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:22.160
I mean I wrote it out.
678
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:24.319
I mean he was the fifth rusher with cover one
679
00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:28.440
behind it. Matched up to Andrews with Gardner Johnson unlikely
680
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:31.440
because they were in twelve. Bonbeat Hill who crossed the
681
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:34.039
formation to account from and Hunt got the edge on
682
00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.519
Stanley and the Eagles ran a TT stunt inside with
683
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.160
Carter the picker and Williams the looper to control the
684
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:43.279
left guard mccari so they could prevent him from reacting
685
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to Bond Sea gap pressure. It was really well designed, all.
686
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:48.359
Right, Well, since you said it, now, I'm gonna I'm
687
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gonna really quickly run it because we only have two
688
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.279
on offense that we're gonna get through, and it's gonna
689
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:53.960
be pretty easy.
690
00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:55.839
They're gonna run a pressure here. It's gonna be a
691
00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.400
five man pressure with cover one behind it. Cover one
692
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.799
meaning it's man coverage with the same a high safety
693
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:02.640
and it's going to be blanket chip.
694
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:03.720
So what they're going to do.
695
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.279
Bond is gonna be the fifth rusher, so he's going
696
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.920
to attack through the SA gap. But they also add
697
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.599
a TT stunt, meaning tackle tackle stunt because what what
698
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.559
they You see that the Ravens picked this up with
699
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.519
Hill the back crossing the formation, and the reason they
700
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:25.519
wanted to run the TT stunt is they didn't want McCary,
701
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.000
the left guard, to be able to fall off and
702
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:32.240
pick up Bond on his pressure. So so therefore they
703
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:35.559
wanted to get the matchup of Bond on Hill, which
704
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:38.559
favors the Eagles, which you'll see it does here. Yea.
705
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.200
In addition, you can see.
706
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.920
That this was a good rush by Jaylex Hunt on
707
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the outside getting the edge on on Stanley.
708
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.799
Yeah. I don't think Stanley's a pretty good tackle or
709
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:51.519
this has been throughout his career. But I mean, I
710
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.359
think you observed the same thing as me is that
711
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.319
he got worked by by sweat by Hunt a couple
712
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:56.640
of times.
713
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.319
He just stab it's really nice.
714
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.079
Yeah, and he's got those long arms. It really helps me.
715
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:04.920
You know what were they thirty four to three cords?
716
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.119
Did we say, Yeah, that's what you said the other night? Yeah?
717
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.319
Yeah, like watch it from this angle. By the way,
718
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:11.839
everybody seems to want to call him like Trent Cole
719
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:13.799
because he wears the same number and plays the same spot,
720
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.480
but no offensive Trent. But this guy's like ten times
721
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:17.039
the athlete.
722
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:19.720
I think that's way. He's just way bigger and longer.
723
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.480
Yeah yeah, you see how he just puts his hand
724
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:23.880
right into Stanley right there?
725
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:27.480
Yeah, wow, he got Jeffy got him turned. Yeah.
726
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:29.519
That's not a good thing. When you're an offensive lineman.
727
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:30.839
You're you're in trouble.
728
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:34.839
Here's his hands, well there you fight arm well yeah,
729
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.559
and then god, that's a really well designed scheme. And
730
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:41.839
the TT stunt parts critical because if if McCary decided
731
00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:43.960
to come off when he saw a bond, then the
732
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.720
looper and the stunt is going to get in clean.
733
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.519
So it just it all goes together right.
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00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:50.319
Awesome.
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All right, let's transition to offense. Greg. We know that
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there was not a throw game, only nineteen passes eleven completions.
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What did you see from the offensive line and the
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rush attack from the Eagles before we get into the
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passing stuff.
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You know, the Ravens have a good front, so I
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mean the Eagles did not have big rushing numbers, you know,
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throughout the game until again, but Barkley only had forty
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four yards going into the fourth quarter. You know, the
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Eagles only ran fifty four offensive plays, which is a
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low number in the NFL. So their offense, you know,
746
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they they do some good things, but they're not really
747
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an explosive offense in terms of the pass game. And
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that's something I think they have to work on because
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at some point we assume that they're going to need that.
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We assume.
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Yeah, I mean, I feel like we've been saying that
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week after we have it. But yeah, you get into
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the playoffs, you face the high scoring teams, whether it's
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the Lions and the Packers. Yeah, you're probably gonna have
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to score some more points.
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Yeah, go ahead, we'll see.
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But you know, we talked about this a lot with
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the Patreon group and I'm actually going to do a
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piece on it in the Matchup show this week on
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the Eagles No Huddle, and I'm actually going to do
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the four plays that ended with Goddard's touchdown because I
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think that's one thing they do every week that Jalen
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is really good at. I think he really controls the
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game well. In the no huddle. They get a lot
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of positive plays and again, it doesn't have to be
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a fifty yard play. It's just understanding what you're looking at,
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and then calling a play that attacks the weakness of
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that defensive look. He did that on the Barkley twenty
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five yard touchdown, by the way, that came out of
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no huddle. But he's been really good at that, and
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they do it selectively throughout every game, and they're very
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good at it.
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Is it usually?
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Is it when they're an eleven or in twelve or both?
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Does it seem to matter at all? This week they
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did it out of eleven. I'm sure they've done it
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out of both. I can't remember, but I'm sure they've
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done it out of both.
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Well.
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People, I know you were asked the other night on Patreon,
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if this is what makes jillen Hurts comfortable to operate
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fast and no huddle? Can they do this more? And
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I would question, like, can you do it more? If
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you're alternating between eleven and twelve personnel the way they do?
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I mean it's you have to substitute so you got
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a huddle in those cases, right.
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I mean, theoretically you can go no huddle as much
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as you want, but I think teams don't like to
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do that as as in every play thing, because you
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want to feel like you can kind of you know,
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get together, discuss, talk call up, you know, call a play,
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Let the coach in your ear run through some alerts
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and some some potential red flags based on the situation.
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I mean, you know, it's.
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They're not going to do it every play, but they
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do it selectively and they do it well.
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Right.
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And obviously that second quarter RPO touchdown to Dallas Goddard
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that was an almost entire drive of no huddle.
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That was his own read with an RPO tag. Right.
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So let's ask you this. One of the Ravens' best
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players is Nomdi Matabuki, defensive tackle, right.
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Not really a factor in the game.
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I was going to ask you why what it was?
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Is that just something that Eagles did well you think?
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Or yeah, well the Eagles have the biggest pair of
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offense of guards in the league. Yeah, I mean those
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guys probably weigh about fifteen hundred pounds combined. No, they
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got the biggest you know, I mean, they're all lines
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played really well. I mean, you know, and the thing
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is there's a mentality that goes with that. They know
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how they're going to play every week. They know they're
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going to stay with the run game. They know they're
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going to be moving forward and not pass protecting on
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every single play, and that builds a mentality and that's
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you just know that that's how you're going to play,
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and you like that.
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One thing before we get to the clips here real quick,
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Jordan Mylotta, I can't remember the last time we talked
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about him. You know, we might talk about him passing,
821
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but how do you think he's played the season overall?
822
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We know he was hurt, but four games, yeah, hamsterring,
823
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how does he look to you?
824
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You know, again, I'm not studying him in detail, but
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he hasn't he hasn't done bad things.
826
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I mean, you know, stops are good. Yeah.
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Yeah. I also think it's worth saying before we get
828
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to the plays that Hurts did have two really good
829
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Throesy had a big time window throw between the hashes
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to Brown for fifteen yards. We don't see that very
831
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much from Jalen. It was good to see. And then
832
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on the same possession, they ran a high low concept
833
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which they don't run a ton of, and he read
834
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it perfectly and he hit you know, Brown on the inbreaker.
835
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So that was great execution of a pretty staple concept.
836
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But you know, We've talked through this season that there
837
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are times he hasn't done that. But I thought those
838
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two plays were just really really positives. I mean, that's
839
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just that's just good quarterbacking.
840
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Good awesome. Was the window throw you're referring to a
841
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under center from under center play action can't remember? Well,
842
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let's take a look at this clip here, because I
843
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think this might be the play you described. It was
844
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the first play on their touchdown drive that ended in
845
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the touchdown to Dallas Goddard. Here they're at the thirty two.
846
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It is the first play you see. They are downhill,
847
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they're under center, I should say, which is something that
848
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they're starting to do more of. And it's obviously as
849
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:07.960
we set this up, they're trying to make the Ravens
850
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.519
think they're gonna run here because it looks like they're
851
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also in They're in not is it?
852
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Yeah?
853
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Yeah, they're in twelve. That's the title in line. Yeah,
854
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so let's let's look at it.
855
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.599
Yeah, because they're in twelve, they probably and I believe
856
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this was first down if I'm not a.
857
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Mistaken Yeah, first play of the drive.
858
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Okay, so so they get a single high, they get
859
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.920
eight in the box, single high.
860
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And I told I'm glad you point out of this
861
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play because I know some people might say, well, it's
862
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play action, it's a schemed open throw, it's the only read.
863
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But I thought the linebackers for the Ravens got good
864
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depth despite it.
865
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:42.840
This is the play.
866
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.920
This is outside split flow, outside zone run action, and
867
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the Ravens go kind of basic cover three. I believe
868
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it is. Let me see again, just to be sure.
869
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:54.920
If you go back a little, yeah, it's cover three.
870
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.119
They go base cover three. So now you've got to
871
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stick this throw with windows between two hook defenders. Okay,
872
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:08.719
so now the key is when you throw this ball,
873
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.119
go back, Jeff, freeze it just before he separates his hands.
874
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If you can.
875
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:14.800
Sure, So we're gonna go.
876
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:19.559
If you go slow, even if he just starts to
877
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:21.760
separate him, go a little, keep going.
878
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:23.239
It's that.
879
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:27.920
Now stop, look where Brown is and look where he's
880
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.199
going to catch the ball. This is this is what
881
00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:34.480
window throws are in the NFL. These like Matthew Stafford's
882
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:36.679
as good as there is in the NFL. Jared GOB's
883
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.719
as good as there is in the NFL. These are
884
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:40.880
throws you have to be able to make in the
885
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:45.320
NFL because Brown's going to catch this ball between those
886
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:48.599
two defenders and look where he is now. So this
887
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is this is what anticipation and timing is right between
888
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.639
the hashes.
889
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.639
Yeah. By the way, this is a big time NFL throw,
890
00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:57.119
right throw.
891
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.320
This is what Arvan Friar talked about on WIP a
892
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.559
couple weeks ago. What it was, Jalen just doesn't do
893
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:03.760
this well. He did it here and it shows he's
894
00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.480
capable of doing it. He stuck that back foot and
895
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.280
that ball's out and that's a great time for That's
896
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:09.159
a big time throw.
897
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:10.000
Big time throw.
898
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.840
I learned that from you and Jaws about throwing with anticipation.
899
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.719
You're you're throwing the ball to a spot you expect
900
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:18.280
your pass target to go get it.
901
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:19.360
It's a great throw. Yeah.
902
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.519
And this I just want to say we Adam, you
903
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:26.360
remember I almost stopped abruptly in the postgame show to say, hey, listen,
904
00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.039
we've got to give Jayalen Hurts credit words due because
905
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:30.559
we say these are not the type of throws. But
906
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:32.800
he made about two or three of these throws. This
907
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one might have been the best.
908
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:35.719
One was the best one couple.
909
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.280
The other one to Brown was a high low, which
910
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:42.119
was really good too, but this one was better.
911
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:43.079
This exceptional.
912
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.480
And against the Rams he had a couple of timing throws,
913
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:47.159
but nothing like this. This is a This is a
914
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:49.880
tremendous football throw. This is this is big time.
915
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:51.719
You got to be happy if you're the coaching staff
916
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:52.760
to have seen that.
917
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.199
See, these throws are what an offense like the Rams
918
00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:59.400
and the Lions are built on. The Eagles offense isn't
919
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.760
built on it because Jalen normally doesn't make those kinds
920
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:05.159
of throws. That's not the way he sees the game, right,
921
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.360
But that was a great throw. As Adam said, you
922
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:08.719
got to call it as you see it. You know,
923
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:10.079
that was a great throw.
924
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:11.920
Big time for you know, I do what? Okay, So
925
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.159
on what Greg just said, Now, yes, historically he doesn't
926
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:18.800
make those stores. Maybe there's more involved here, folks. We'll
927
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:20.159
say we don't have that, we don't know.
928
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:21.199
We're gonna look for it.
929
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:22.400
I'm sure he's all gonna look for it.
930
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.360
You know, we'll see, all right. So this is the
931
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:28.159
touchdown to Dallas Goddard that we want to review here.
932
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.719
So so I just want I just want to set
933
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:33.880
this up, Greg, because to your point after that catch
934
00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:36.639
by aj Brown and that beautiful throw is when they
935
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:39.639
get into a series of no huddle plays to which
936
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:41.400
they work the ball down here.
937
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:44.760
Yes, okay, so go ahead, and this is their last
938
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.239
no huddle play and what they're going to run here
939
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:53.840
is zone read with an RPO tag. Okay, And you're explaining.
940
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:56.000
What an RPO tag means on that.
941
00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:01.199
Yes, So what's gonna happen here is first, let's let's
942
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.119
walk through the Playlet's so because so it's a zone
943
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.760
read initially, because look he takes the snap. Look at
944
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:10.559
the mesh point right there, there's an unstop it. There's
945
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:13.400
an unblocked edge defender. This is what you get in
946
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.920
his zone read. Okay, So that's the zone read part
947
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.679
of the play. If he crashed hard inside, Jalen could
948
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.119
have just kept the ball and run on the perimeter, okay,
949
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:29.880
because notice that Brown, the outside receiver up top, is
950
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.440
running off his guy and Goddard initially is potentially looking
951
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:38.239
to block because look his eyes are forward. So that's
952
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:43.800
the zone read element. If that unblocked defender crashed hard inside,
953
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:47.239
Jalen could have kept the ball and run. Okay, But
954
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:50.800
he did not crash so now Jeff, you go to
955
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:54.280
the RPO part of the play. That's the RPO tag.
956
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.199
So now Jalen can look to run if he wanted to,
957
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:03.519
But now he looks to Goddard in the flat because
958
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.960
what what now ensues is Brown in a sense becomes
959
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:13.320
a natural picker on Kile Hamilton and Goddard gets He
960
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.239
out flanks Hamilton to the edge and he just flicks
961
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:18.880
him the ball. This is a staple of what they do.
962
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:21.679
It's a zone read with an RPO tag.
963
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.199
Love it, now you correct me if I'm wrong. They
964
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:27.239
score a touchdown here, they get the ball back. On
965
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.800
the very next drive, they get into a similar spot.
966
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:32.920
Right, they run a very similar play and they.
967
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:34.840
Run it just on this on the on the right
968
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.480
side of the field. Correct, But this time the safety,
969
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:39.800
who I believe is twenty nine or Darius Stewart, he
970
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:42.719
played far more up on Goddard so that he wouldn't
971
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.760
get caught in the wash the way Hamilton did on it.
972
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.760
And Goddard still got the cats but only got nine
973
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:48.360
yards out of.
974
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:50.360
It, right, because you know they'd seen it. Then.
975
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It's a staple for the Eagles. It's a very cool
976
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play and it plays off Jalen's running, which is such
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a critical piece of the Like, you're not going to
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see the the Lions or the Rams are on this play.
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Right right, yeah? Right?
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Yeah?
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No, great play. And by the way, you talk about
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fractions of a second or I mean this ball is
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delivering way time. Yeah, well enough to lead him it's not.
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But I mean, this play could have not been a
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touchdown if the throw is not so good.
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I mean, look and look at Brown. He's not getting
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the ball under any circumstances. He's not even looking to
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run her out. No, he is not right, you know,
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I'm glad that. I mean, I'm sorry, And that's what
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I mean, Jeff by an RPO tag, that's the second
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part of the play absolutely, which.
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By the way, goes to show you how much a
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quarterback has to process in that moment. There were literally
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three different and not just the quarterback because the same
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thing with got Itt and right and your line. There
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were three different things that could have happened on that play,
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and it all worked in unison.
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Jeff, He's making Jalen is making quicker decisions. That that
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is the key. I know, they don't throw the ball out,
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he doesn't drop back to throw a lot. But when
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you do, the ball's got to be out the back
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foot out he sees on that out out route. It's
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not a hard throw, but that's not the point. The
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point is that the ball's got to be out. If
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he hesitates, as you said, it's a good point that
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ball's dead.
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They play dead.
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Look, the bottom line is this. Everybody, including the people
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in their building, know what Jalen's strengths and weaknesses are.
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One thing he's very good at is controlling the game.
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He's very good at that. He has a very good feel.
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That's why they run a lot of no huddle. He
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controls the game and he doesn't make mistakes. And I
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can tell you that that cannot be overstated. He does
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not make mistakes, and he does not turn Has he
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turned the ball over in the last six, seven eight games.
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I think he's had one turnover right in the last
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seven or eight game ever since that first four where
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he was averaging to a game.
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Yeah, he doesn't turn the ball over right. And with
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their defense and so every team that gets the ball
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if they do have to punt, has a pretty long field.
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There.
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You go, all right, Greg, Before we get out of here,
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give me thirty seconds on the Panthers.
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Oh geez.
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Well, first of all, I mean they play they're won
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to in a row, and then they almost won two
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in a row.
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So yeah, yeah, I think that Bryce Young looks like
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just a more confident player right now. He's making better throws,
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quicker decisions, not getting stuck in the pocket as much.
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And you know, it's funny.
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I watch their defense today actually.
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And their defense has some pretty good players. They've got
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two good veteran safeties who are smart and savvy, and
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Jordan Fuller and Xavier Woods, both guys have been around
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the league quite a bit. Josie Jewell, you'll remember Josie
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Jewell Penn State, Iowa years ago. Jeff Josie Dwell. I
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think had like twenty tackles in that.
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Game, at times called ten to fifteen yards behind the
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line of scrimmen, right, but there were.
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Times even publically one on one and in wow coverage.
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What a name, by the way, you know.
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And and and you know, obviously they they don't have
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great players throughout their defense, but their defense is not bad.
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And j C.
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Horn, that'll be interesting. He normally plays boundary corner. I'll
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be very curious to see if they make him the
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you know, a matchup on Brown. But the other corner,
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Michael Jackson is six two two ten, so he's not little,
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so he they may feel he can match up and
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they don't need to flop their corners.
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And a Verro's a zero. Verro is the a former
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vic Vic disciple there. So yeah, right, we'll see see
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what it looks like.
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Yeah, Jordan Fuller was an Ohio steak guy. I feel
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like it always comes back.
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To BIG's actually a guy originally. I believe that is correct.
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That is correct.
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All right, that was wonderful, great tape break, great observations
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as usual from you. So from Greg Cosell and Adam Kaplan.
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I'm Jeff Mosher. You've been watching Inside the Tape with
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Greg Cosell.