Eagles' Playoff Loss: A Breakdown of Strategic Failures

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00:00i i'm at a loss for words because again i did not believe that this would happen kev in a playoff

00:06environment going for back-to-back super bowl appearances and titles i thought they were

00:12dialed in they allowed big plays in the first half they buckled up they got two turnovers and

00:18they failed to capitalize and jalen hurts in that offense again inconsistent and just absolutely

00:24pathetic in the second half yeah i think again pathetic does pathetic is the right word but joe

00:30it goes far beyond yesterday's performance the philadelphia eagles through their first month

00:38had a glaring issue in their offensive coordinator in kevin petullo i cannot remember an offensive

00:45coordinator being a storyline this much of a season without a change in my entire life and everybody

00:51knew that petullo was a problem and nick sirianni put his head down and said we're not making a

00:56change and at that point then if you're not going to make a change well you better be able to help

01:00the issue and sirianni could not do that either it was an offensive master class in what not to do

01:09and that was the case all season long the eagle scoring two touchdowns on their first three drives

01:16and the one non-touchdown drive was a turnover on downs with a again awful third and two fourth and

01:22two play calling combination but they had not punted three and out three and out three and out

01:30field goal three and out field goal and then the final drive it was predictable it was who this team

01:37has been all season long just magnified a little bit more because it was the postseason

01:45a.j brown drops arguably back-to-back deep shots that with the tone of this game maybe could have

01:53iced the football game the niners hit their offensive ceiling in this and it required a jawan

01:59jennings 45-yard trick play passing touchdown and a.j slow getting off the field is being barked at by his

02:07head coach that isn't something you do in the nfl playoffs that's nick saban when alabama is playing

02:15fc upstate looking to make a statement to his guys you don't see that that's not being a leader

02:21and that type of environment is what sirianni has cultivated for years now and it's not worked it's

02:27blown up in their face i watched on that final drive jalen hurts give up on a.j brown after that

02:35third dropped pass said i'm not going to him he threw a goal ball to johan dotson instead of throwing

02:42it to a.j brown on the other side and i'm not saying that's good judgment but that is the

02:46environment that this group created and if you sit there and say kev my only issue with your breakdown

02:52is you thought this team could actually win the super bowl this year i said going into this weekend

02:58that they would win the super bowl i did say that because i guess against all logic i thought in the

03:05postseason they could turn it around and really joe i thought the path was laid out for this team

03:10but it goes back to the regular season the path was laid out for them but they have no interest in

03:16taking it the nfc east was dead dead a month into the season it was a race on thanksgiving they gave

03:25the cowboys life the two seed was handed to them by the chicago bears who played starters at home

03:32and lost to detroit philly squandered that because they didn't want want to run tank bigsby against

03:39washington and let a season high and pass attempts number fall on the arm of tanner mckee so again they

03:46played a niners team who in the first half lost their second best player still standing in george

03:53kiddle and it just didn't matter the only guy you have to cover is mcafree and they couldn't do it

03:59it was pathetic from day one to the final day that's it it's over