And while they aren't Super Bowl contenders, they seem to be much better.

It seemed to be very clear that Doug Peterson didn't forget how to coach because he seemed to be coaching well with Carson Wentz.

It seems that the guy who was the problem, or at least e no, it's not just one person is the problem, but he has given everyone else Ah, past.

They can all point to him and say the issue was Carson Wentz wasn't playing well when we move cart.

When we moved on from Carson Wentz, we all got better.

I know it's not fair, but that's how it works.

And I think Doug Peterson eyes in a position where he should be confident.

And I know the Super Bowl was a long time ago, but very few coaching head coaches and NFL that have won a Super Bowl at all, let alone in the last five years.

Well, Carson once hasn't given everyone to get out of jail free pass or his failure rather Dominique because the GM of this football team literally just signed him to a massive contract.

So I'd say his failure is an indictment on Howie Roseman, who appears to be saying, staying in Philadelphia.

By all accounts, I think that Jalen Party will actually, that's a slip of the tongue, because But I was about to say is I think Doug Peterson should keep his job because I think Jalen Hurts should be the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles next year.

If Carson Wentz is the quarterback, Doug Peterson has to be gone.

It has become wildly apparent that for whatever reason, they're not good together.

Peterson isn't good at coaching him.

I've been actually very impressed by what Peterson has done with hurts the offense since heard has come in.

It's not just been hey, go play ball run around.

He's given him simple reads.

Cut the field in half.

I think he's done a good job integrating some of the college principals.

Obviously, there's been mixed success.

He's a rookie, but Petersons done a nice job with him.

If I'm Philadelphia, I look to trade once, take the pain, now get out of that contract, stick with Peterson hurts and see what you've got going forward.

So I'm not saying Doug Peterson should not have a job, right?

My question is the fact that he's so confident given how this team has looked.

I heard those comments and I thought, did someone tell Doug Peterson that he will be back next year?

Because given the way the season has gone, if I were him, I wouldn't be confident because this is a win now league because every week you're judged by how you play, how your players play, how you coach.

And for a long time he was saying, Well, Carson isn't the only issue here Carson didn't do is, you know, is bad, as people are saying, and now all of a sudden we're ready to throw and say Carson Wentz is the clear issue with this team.

And Doug Peterson finally has been rescued by Jalen Hurts.

Listen, I was a pool reporter for that Eagles team that won the Super Bowl.

That was three years ago.

That was two jobs ago for me.

That was a long time ago.

Like I understand he won a Super Bowl, but we keep talking about it like it was last year.

This is a different squad.

And Frank, right deserves a lot of credit for that offense.

And how Carson Wentz was like.

And so the fact that right is in here and now we're seeing that Carson hasn't looked the same.

Is that an indictment on Doug Peterson?

He's the head coach.

Is Sam Donald not an indictment on Adam Gates like it's not just one or the other.

I think all these things are connected, Jeff.

I want to hear what you think.

Yeah, listen, from from Doug Peterson perspective, I would be very confident.

My job is Well, I mean, not way like to take snapshots of this season in particular, if you want, take a full snapshot.

Right.

You have an offensive line.

You know the aged very quickly, right?

Life comes at you fast and injury blown.

So now you went to a decimated offensive line.

Your quarterback who, by the way, your organization not just a head coach, but your organization.

Roseman Loury.

Everybody bought into Carson once.

We're gonna pay him $100 million.

Now you've set this coach and said, Hey, we wanna play this guy and exhaust every opportunity for him to turn it around and play which every organization the NFL would do.

They gave him as much as they could give him.

Finally, they just realized Look, hurts, is gonna give us a better opportunity to win.

Now let's see if we could get this done.

So they went toe hurts.

No one expected him to come out beat.

The Saints.

Have a good performance, right?

I know he had.

He had a tougher day last Sunday with the turnovers, but the the kind of the fire that he ignited in this football team is the spark they were looking for.

But to label to put everything on Peterson, by the way.

Look at last year, right like that.

Like they were dead in the water.

They end up winning.

What was it?

Four games at the end of the year get into the playoffs?

It's not.

It's not just a coaching issue, and I'm not trying to give Doug Peterson a pass, but what I would say is I would not put him out and just say, Hey, this is a Doug Peterson issue again.

Everybody agreed that whence was their future when the few.

When the future looked very bleak, everybody bailed on him.

It's Hey, man, Doug Peterson.

Now now you're saddled with him, right?

We're all gonna sit in the owner's box is we're gonna kind of be absolved of this decision making, but we all know that's not the way the NFL work.

So as Peterson done a masterful job, No, not not this year, but but to lose his job.

I just think that we're taking a snapshot, and it's a It's a bit unfair, right?

He should be confident.

And I want to go back to something that Meena said is interesting, who you credit and who you kind of blame in this situation.

So kind of.

You said it's indictment on Roseman for signing went, But it seemed like to me, at least throughout this season, that Peterson wanted to stick with Winds longer than others did.

Like Roseman is also the one who drafted hurts.

So it's it's a weird menagerie of issues going on there.

I'm not sure who, depending on who to blame, but you know, everyone's always looking for someone to blame, and I think right now they have the easy excuse and you might be right.

Maybe they all can't come back next year.

Maybe something has to change.

And if it's one person, I think it's the quarterback.

I mean, Dominique, you know that when it comes to quarterbacks, draft status matters, money matters, and the head coach is far from the only person who has a voice we were just talking about.

The Washington football team will get to that, But I'll say this about Doug Peterson, Um, and what we've seen out of this team, Jeff, you're absolutely right.

They've got fight, man.

Watch the Dallas Cowboys at times this season.

If you want to see a team that's not trying, those players are fighting for him.

And when I watched the Eagles on Sunday lose look, they're decimated by injuries.

But if I have to single out a coach who was at fault, Jim Schwartz, what do you do it like there's a cornerback out there whose name I did not know for that football game manned up against Michael Gallup.

I know you like to play, man.

You're gonna leave that poor kid out on an island.

He got sacrificed, and I like Jim Schwartz.

He's done a good job over the course of his career.

But at times this season, I feel like his rigidity has been a problem for that team.

I know the injuries are a factor, so if I'm looking to next year thinking about things that need to change, that's where I would be looking, not at the head coach.

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