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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Ask Greg Cosell On Patreon: What's The Eagles' Obsession With Backup TE Usage?

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday night's "Ask Greg Cosell" for Patreon Tier 3/Bomb Post Touchdown members, Greg answered tape-based questions about the Eagles. Here's a shortened sample-size version of the show. 


To see the entire show, become a member and ask Greg your questions:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-greg-cosell-143897244?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a shortened version of our Ask Greg CoSell live stream that we do every week during the NFL season for our Patreon tier three members.

0:10.6

Each week, our tier three members get into a live chat room with Greg Cocell and get to ask him their tape, breakdown questions directly.

0:19.5

And they get Greg's responses.

0:21.5

It's one of the most popular shows we have on Patreon.

0:25.5

You can get the full version of this show and ask Greg your own questions by becoming a

0:31.4

tier three bomb post touchdown member at patreon.com slash inside the birds.

0:38.6

Become a member today.

0:45.1

Craig, if you don't mind, I might take about 30 seconds here to ask this question

0:53.1

because I want to lay it out to you because I just want to get your opinion on everything here. And it's going to be about the offense. First and foremost, I think the Eagles offensive scheme is completely broken. Again, I know Adam alludes to it all the time and I think he's absolutely right that the wide receivers are running just comeback routes and go routes. There really seems to be nothing across the middle of the field. And I know that could be a Jalen Hertz preference or whatnot. But like the Detroit touchdown with Jamison Williams, I can't recall the last time the Eagles had a play like that that resulted in any yardage with a wide receiver running and getting yards after the catch that hasn't been an over-the-top throw. But what I will say to this is, and that could be diagnosed whichever way you want.

1:31.1

But what tells me that they're fundamentally not thinking clearly on offense

1:36.0

is any time I see Grant Palcatera and Kylin Grantson on the field and the run game

1:42.3

and their idea that if we put these two tight ends on the field

1:45.2

who have no earthly idea how to block and think that that's going to help solve the run game

1:51.1

and I know Al alluded to this last week about or two weeks ago about running out of 11 personnel

1:55.6

what pissed me off the most is we also have another guy on the roster his name's Cameron Latu

2:00.7

and in the one snap that he had in that game, he blew up Aidan Hutchinson. And I just can't find, like rationalize where they believe that, hey, if we go big, we go with these two tight ends who just clearly they can't do it. They cannot perform the task that's being asked of them. And we have a guy who has and they're not doing it.

2:18.0

I just look at the whole scheme in general. And I think it's just broken. So my question to you would be, if they called you tomorrow and said, Greg, we're stuck. We don't know the answers to the test here. What would be your suggestion? The first thing you would tell them, hey, if you want to get out of this rut, what would you suggest that they start doing first to make the offense at least look

2:37.4

functionalable again?

2:40.9

Well, there's a lot there, Frank. I apologize. I apologize. I'm just frustrated. Look, when I

2:47.8

when I talked to Jeff last night and we broke down the tape and we had a longer discussion before we broke down some plays, the question I keep coming up with this offense, because look, Nick Siriani's been in the league for a while.

3:00.0

He's been with Philip Rivers. He's been with really good players. It can't be that he doesn't know things. Same with Kevin Petulow. I know for fans, it's easy to say these guys, you know, oh, it's the coaching, they're terrible. It really can't be that, okay? Which, by the way, I'm not knocking your point. I'm just saying it, you know, it can't be that these guys have no idea what they're doing. It can't be that. You know, I've been around coaches for many,

3:24.3

many years. I've been fortunate enough in my career to sit in in meetings. And they, all these coaches can know, you know, they know what they know, obviously, but what they know they can do a lot with. So the question I kept saying to Jeff, and we didn't, I don't, I don't have an answer. I don't have an answer,

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