00:00So, in diving into the numbers defensively,
00:04everything that you wanted to happen out of the bye is happening.
00:08Durante Jones is in year one as a coordinator.
00:10This is the ascension and the growth that you're looking for.
00:13The arrow is very much trending up.
00:16I just took the last two games.
00:18I know that's a tiny sample, but it is the two games they've played
00:21since they had the bye week to kind of get back in the lab,
00:24figure out what they like, what they don't like.
00:26Since the bye week, they are 13th defensively in EPA per play.
00:30They are top 10 against the pass.
00:32I'm going to say that again.
00:34That's the insane number.
00:35They are top 10 against the pass the last two games,
00:38and they are fourth in yards per pass attempt.
00:41They have been better against the pass than the run in terms of EPA per play.
00:45They're 13th, but they have lived in the backfield
00:49and dominated the line of scrimmage.
00:51They're third in tackles for loss,
00:52so that accounts for the five sacks against the Eagles, obviously,
00:55but that's a lot of run game stuff as well.
00:57You think about the Nick Cross four-yard loss this past week,
00:59some of those types of plays where you're flying into the backfield.
01:03So I start to think, okay, they've really turned a corner.
01:06This is, I don't know if it'll be linear,
01:07but this is a much better defensive team.
01:09And then you realize, well, the Eagles you played against
01:11a backup quarterback in Tanner McKee,
01:12who's already been benched since.
01:14That was a non-starter who was playing badly.
01:17They also did not have weapons.
01:19Devontae Smith didn't play in that game.
01:21Saquon Barkley did, but I think we'd all agree
01:23that was not the real Saquon Barkley.
01:24I'm sorry.
