00:00all right uh keys to a win over philadelphia on sunday night again the setup is a good one
00:09in the nfl more times than not the well-rested team uh with extreme rest meaning a bye week in
00:1714 days since their last game playing a team and this doesn't happen a lot we're you know the
00:24schedule makers really put philadelphia at a disadvantage in this game playing monday night
00:29on the road against a team coming off the bye week philadelphia's injury list looks like the longest
00:36of any team uh all season long damian pierce just went on the injured reserve he got hurt in the
00:42fourth quarter uh saquon barkley hasn't practiced davante smith hasn't practiced you know what
00:47their offense has been this year it's been decimated they're going through a lot of the same things
00:54our team went through last year they've just lost too many players but really too many important
01:02players starting quarterback starting running back starting wide receiver they haven't had their
01:07starting tight end for many games starting you know multiple positions along the offensive line
01:13starters gone including one in lane johnson who retired this is a good spot it's why washington
01:20has gone from a three and a half point favorite to a six and a half point favorite uh on
01:27sunday night
01:27that line may keep climbing these are those spots betters understand this normal fans who don't bet
01:34the sport don't it's okay it's just something that betters have been exposed to they understand why
01:40these lines all of a sudden start to move in big directions it's because of the massive net rest
01:48advantage and one team is limping into the game versus another team that isn't completely healthy
01:54they're without their starting left tackle and their wide receiver number one understood uh and
01:59javon kinlaw looks like he may not be uh ready and then burks and bates both might be in trouble
02:04as
02:05well we'll ask ben about that uh when he joins us at 12 but this is a good spot it's
02:11a good setup
02:12the games at home it's not like philly's got to travel a long way but this is one of those
02:18games
02:19that even if they were playing a good team with a good record it would be a good setup for
02:24a win
02:25all right key number one this is straight from my very good friend doc walker's playbook
02:33this is a manhood issue on sunday night you have to be the team that plays most intensely with the
02:43highest level of energy you've got to be the relentless team on the field if they come out
02:50as anything but the team on the field that is the clear-cut obvious team that has the highest level
02:56of
02:57hunger then we can really start to wonder whether or not quinn has lost some of that belief in the
03:06locker room i will be shocked if they're not flying around from the opening kickoff they've been doing
03:12that all year anyway this is the spot where you can't allow as doc would say you can't allow
03:24somebody philadelphia to come into your house sit down eat your food and take your family
03:31this is a manhood issue game period you've got to swarm them you've got to make them their backup
03:40players on offense think they don't belong in the league and it's got to happen from the jump number
03:46two more specifically uh this is always a key in most games but specifically in this game you have
03:54to stop the run and i have no idea who's going to be the running back eli mitchell you said
03:59they signed
04:00right is he going to be the starter he's never played for philly right or was he on the practice
04:05squad who knows eli mitchell no damian pierce no saquon barkley thank god no barkley because he can
04:13strap a team to his back he's capable of that and what was interesting about monday night's game
04:19is that barkley went out there less than 100 percent and he ran the ball exceptionally well
04:26in the football game he had seven carries for 62 yards and you know one of the reasons he had
04:33seven
04:34carries for 62 yards whoever is playing on the philadelphia offensive line they were moving the cowboys
04:42defensively backwards when barkley was in the game a little bit with damian pierce in the game
04:48uh but definitely more so with barkley in the game no barkley is a big deal no damian pierce is
04:54a big
04:54deal elijah mitchell is you know he's a zone run he's the guy that played with the 49ers for a
05:01few years
05:02you know he's in a in that kind of a system with sean manion as the as the oc who
05:07knows maybe he goes
05:08you know 22 for a buck 49 let's hope not because the reason stopping the run is so important on
05:16monday
05:17night and i think it's a good matchup for washington i think they should be able to stop the run
05:21they've
05:22been a good run stopping team but the reason it's so important is because tanner mckee cannot have
05:30third and threes third and fours third and fives they've got to be third and eights third and nines
05:36third and tens and beyond because if that's the case he's not going to succeed now dallas defensively
05:44is pretty bad washington i think has a better defense i do than dallas not by much but it's better
05:53and you know a tanner mckee in a down and distance situation that's unfavorable i don't see him
06:01succeeding i see a lot of check downs i see a lot of quick game a lot of screens on
06:06third and longs and
06:08then the key is to come up and tackle but if you stop the run and you put them into
06:13uncomfortable down
06:14and distance with tanner mckee at quarterback i think you can feast on philadelphia's offense
06:21don't let them run the football with elijah mitchell or anybody else i mean hell they might
06:29move elijah more back into the backfield i don't know what they're going to do they don't have a
06:33quarterback that can run he's not mobile he's big if you haven't watched tanner mckee remember
06:40he started the game for philadelphia at the end of last year against our team and there was a lot
06:45of
06:45hype in philadelphia before that start because there were a lot of people in philadelphia
06:50that believed that tanner mckee was capable of being a starter in the league they lost that game
06:57to josh johnson and company he was 21 of 40 for 241 yards a touchdown and a pick got sacked
07:04three
07:04times it's irrelevant in terms of this matchup because last year's defense was completely different
07:10the context of the game was completely different i'm just saying that he barely threw over 50 in his
07:17first start where people were excited to see what he had and then this year in his starts against
07:24carolina and dallas he's 49 of 80 for 426 yards that's 61.3 percent completions two tds and
07:33interception he's been he's been sacked five times his qbr was 32.3 against carolina 23.9 against dallas and
07:43these weren't two very good defensive teams he faced he had a bit of a running game against the cowboys
07:51and if you didn't watch that game the eagles had the lead 21 to 20 in the third quarter in
07:58a game that
07:59dallas probably felt like their season was on the line have to stop the run have to put tanner mckee
08:07in
08:08those unfavorable down and distance situations and then even though the pass rush hasn't gotten home
08:15even though the blitz rates have been high i think you can really rattle him and i think you can
08:20turn
08:20him over um number three after manhood issue game thank you doc walker and stopping the run and forcing
08:30tanner mckee to beat you number three is i think offensively you just have to protect the football
08:36i'm not suggesting a conservative game plan i'm just saying philadelphia as now a sizable underdog
08:45in this game coming into the game not rested and limping into it with all of the injuries
08:52what would give them reason to believe a couple of short fields a couple of scores off the short fields
08:59and all of a sudden you know they're up 14 to three in the second quarter or they're up you
09:05know
09:0510 to nothing in the second quarter have to protect the football the turnover margin we've talked about
09:13some of the keys to the rest of the season you know over the final 11 if they're going to
09:17win seven or
09:18eight i think g said they got to go nine and two i think eight and three would do it
09:23but seven and four
09:24might get them to a number that they're in it going into the final week but if they're going to
09:29do
09:29that they're going to have to continue to be on the positive end of the turnover margin category
09:35they're second in the league at plus six that's good it's got to continue but the turnover margin
09:41isn't just about takeaways it's about not giving it away and they only have two total turnovers on the
09:48season so far uh have to protect the football offensively you've got to convert on third
09:58downs and stay on the field it's not that i fear the philadelphia offense but they're just too many
10:06three and outs and washington right now is dead last in the league third down offense dead last in the
10:13league all right so we're talking about a team that has to get better on third down has to stay
10:20on the
10:20field if you want to look at sometimes why you're not rushing the football well it's because you're not
10:27getting enough cracks at it you're not getting enough plays you're not getting enough snaps to stay on
10:34the field you've got to convert on third down and washington right now dead last third downs in the
10:41league i didn't actually know that until i looked it up early this morning i knew it wasn't good i
10:48just didn't realize it was dead last they're converting at 30.9 percent on third down it's
10:56easily dead last easily uh believe it or not two playoff teams right now two winning teams denver and
11:05cleveland are also uh performing poorly on third downs the big difference there with those two
11:11teams they have dominant defensive teams uh lastly red zone efficiency washington not very good there
11:20either and they've got to score touchdowns i wouldn't be afraid to kick field goals in this game
11:25but you got to score some touchdowns and i think they will i feel good about the game i'm a
11:32little tight
11:33though like adam peters probably is
