Tim McManus On If The Eagles Offense Can Keep It Up

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00:00But now you're starting to see more of a marriage between the ground game

00:04and the pass game, and it's doing what it's supposed to do,

00:07especially under center if you have these kind of plays that look like the runs

00:11and you've had some successful runs off of them,

00:14and then you have linebackers start crashing down and you're pulling it,

00:17and now you have a play-action pass and the linebackers are sucked in

00:20and you've got space in the intermediate part of the field.

00:23I mean, this is the kind of stuff that can really help kickstart this offense.

00:27I also saw commitment.

00:29I saw commitment to the ground game, and Barkley has talked about this, Bill,

00:33where he said that we can't allow defenses to dictate to us the terms.

00:39We have to go out and dictate to them.

00:41That's something that he's been talking about for really since the beginning of the year

00:45and has stood sort of steadfast by, and I think that that absolutely applied

00:49where you weren't getting big chunk gains all the time on the ground,

00:54but they were committed to that balanced attack,

00:56and that is absolutely when this offense is at its best.

00:59All right.

01:00You take last Sunday's game, obviously a drubbing of the Raiders,

01:04but the defense did exactly what they were supposed to do.

01:06It looks like they've been putting a lot of pressure on, especially up front lately.

01:09What do you take out of a game like that, and is this just something to build on,

01:16or is this what we're expected to see every week?

01:19Obviously, you can't go too overboard because of the opponent,

01:22and to be very clear, the Raiders might be the worst team in the NFL,

01:28so you have to take it for what it is.

01:31But that was the absolute performance that you're looking for.

01:35I mean, a 31-0 shutout, the defense allows only 75 yards on the ground,

01:41or total, excuse me.

01:43And the way that Fangio put it, I thought was really interesting,

01:46is that he credited the offense.

01:49He said you don't have a performance like that unless all parts are working,

01:53and he noted in particular how the offense was sustaining drives

01:57and establishing the ground game.

02:00So I guess the best way to answer that is that they put forth the formula

02:05for what could work for this team to get to the ultimate prize.

02:09If you can establish the run, if you can limit the three and outs,

02:14if you can have those longer drives and complement a defense

02:18that is capable of dominating,

02:21then all of a sudden you have a really nice postseason recipe.

02:24So whether it's the Raiders or it doesn't matter what team is out there,

02:28if you're able to sort of get a taste of that and land on a formula,

02:32I think that was a huge positive step in the right direction for this football team.

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