I do not.

I do not believe that.

I think that when you've been to the playoffs last three years, you missed the playoffs for the first time in four years.

Uh, you delivered the first Super Bowl championship in the entire franchise history just three years ago and you're let go.

I think that you deserve a little bit more latitude than that.

That's just my personal opinion.

I understand.

Jeffrey.

Lori, I know I'm a little bit, um and I respect the hell out of them.

Um, I don't know if I agree with this decision.

I think that Doug Peterson earned the right to come back and make amends for an absolutely atrocious season.

And there's no way to get around that his relationship with Carson Wentz was a factor.

I do not believe Jeffrey Lori when he says that Carson Wentz played no role in Doug Peterson's demise because obviously, with the commitment has been made to Carson Wentz and how you're stuck with, you know, with a 49 $59 million hit in the event, um, that, you know, you let him go or whatever.

This is what he's gonna count against the cap next year.

That's a tough position to be in.

And I think that you gotta find a way to make it work.

I understand the thinking.

I just think that if I'm if I'm if I'm the Eagles, I give Doug Peterson an opportunity to make amends.

He's widely respected in the National Football League, particularly as a play caller.

He's not deemed clueless or anything like that.

It was just a bad year, and I think that he should have an opportunity to make amends for that.

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

And I think he is the fall guy when obviously some people would say it should have been Howie Roseman.

Some people should say it would say it should have been, uh, Carson Wentz.

I just think it was the wrong move to make.

When it comes to Doug Peterson, that's just my person.

Peterson had to go.

He had to go.

Onda, apparently Stephen A.

From what I understand, he wanted to make uh, press.

Taylor, who's the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach hey, wanted to make him offensive coordinator because Doug Peterson.

I think foolishly is trying to fix whence right so clearly his firing is because he is the fall guy.

They need a fall guy.

They're gonna make Peterson the fall guy.

Really?

His mistake was the time to stand up to Jeffrey Lurie.

The time to stand upto ownership and management GM Howie Roseman and say, No, this is what I have to do.

I need to be able to pick my own staff, which he has not been able to do was right after he won the Super Bowl, or even after the defense of the Super Bowl, which is a great title defense, right?

Like you know that with Nick Foles again, they go to Soldier Field and they beat the Bears and they go toe New Orleans and and and come one dropped pass away from getting to the NFC championship game.

So, like, that's the time when you have leverage to stand up and say, Wait a minute, I need to be able to choose my own staff.

This is what I need to be able to dio he didn't he let that go by?

It got worse and worse, and frankly, now didn't have the leverage to say, Make this guy my guy and he becomes the fall guy.

No.

Is my problem is not getting rid of Peterson.

My problem is, what's Howie Roseman still doing there?

I mean, obviously Carson Wentz is done.

I can't, like, sit here and seriously are you know they need to stick with Carson Wentz.

Why?

Why is Peterson the fall guy?

What is Howie Roseman done?

But you know he hasn't are Sega Whiteside over over Uh, D.

K.

Metcalf?

Is that what he's done Reagor over over a Justin Jefferson?

Is that what he's done?

He hasn't selected a Pro Bowler in the draft in half a decade, and the cap is a mess.

Their whole cap situation is a mess.

So why isn't Roseman got at least with Peterson, if not before him and Stephen, A.

Jeffrey Lurie should know better.

As you know, from your time in Philadelphia, he weighed in backing McNabb in a fractured locker room, the T O thing, and by the way, that was the right thing to do.

I think I think that was the right thing to do.

McNab is the greatest quarterback in franchise history but they did finish six and 10 that year and taking sides even if it was the right thing to do.

Maybe it wasn't smart in that moment, but at any rate, that should have informed him what that could do to a locker room.

This locker room clearly prefers Jalen hurts.

And what it seems like is that Carson Wentz wields a lot of power to the point where the coach becomes the fall guy.

I think Peterson should have been gone, if you want to argue so shit Roseman so should went well, then we agree.

But Peterson had to go.

I'm not gonna go.

I'm not gonna disagree with you about Roseman in the points that you made.

I'm gonna sit up there and say this to you.

If Peterson First of all, I think you were wrong about the leverage that he had when he won the Super Bowl.

If he was never allowed to pick his staff and as a result, that was the staff that was assembled by Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Loria and those boys, and that's what won them the Super Bowl.

Why would Peterson suddenly have leverage for winning the Super bowl when they could make the argument.

No, it was because of the staff we surrounded.

You buy this.

The fact that we picked this team and we deliver the Super Bowl championship, why do we need to change course now?

I think that that would be the argument against Peterson having the leverage that you alluded to him have being in a position to have.

So I disagree with that.

That's number one number two.

When we talk about Roseman.

No disagreement there because your points of valid What I would say to you is because Peterson didn't have that kind of clout.

That's a reason to give him a pass because he was subjected to being forced to deal with circumstances that were out of his control.

That was not of his doing.

Eso as a result of that, why I point the finger of blame at him when it's clear that that wasn't the case.

Unless Jeffrey Lori, who obviously is the owner and he would know better than any of us, it wasn't that way for Peterson.

That's why Peterson is gone because he gave the power to Peterson power that we may not have known that Peterson had, and Peterson was the one who made those calls instead of Roseman.

That seems to be the only logical thing to deduce from all of this in light of the fact that Roseman is still there and Peterson is gone.

Unless, of course, we ultimately find out that Howie Roseman is ending up out the door as well.

Then it would make more sense that it was obviously both of them instead of just Peterson.

Well, look, here's the thing about Peterson when you say no, he didn't have the leverage and all this Peterson, all the quarterbacks, except for whence, you know, other than his rookie season, other than that first great year where he got hurt but perform well with Peterson.

And the common thread is they'll follow a game plan like Carson Wentz.

Stephen a clearly at some point got the message that he doesn't have to listen to coach.

I mean, clearly, at some point he got that message.

Coach has to stand up for himself at a certain point, he's got to do it.

You're not wrong about, um, Laurie putting a GM or whatever a brain trust in place that did put a team together that won a Super Bowl.

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