Eagles 34, Packers 29
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XAVIER McKINNEY: I mean, I think I felt good. I think defensively I think we know what we have to do to improve from this game. Obviously it's just one game, week one. So the world is not over. Obviously we got a lot of time to fix it.
But kind of what was said in the locker room was having a sense of urgency, knowing we got to go into next week with that sense of urgency and fix the things that we did wrong.
We going to be critical of ourselves watching this film on the way back. We going to be better a lot better, next week. I think we know we didn't hold up to the standard that we wanted to be defensively. But we'll get that fixed. I don't think we'll have an issue moving forward.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: Biggest difference I think is just the time change. It's not that much of a time change here than it was in London. Obviously in London we could do a lot more kind of outside of the hotel where we were staying. Here we were just kind of in the hotel the whole time.
It's a business trip. We came down here for a game. We weren't able to get the result that we wanted. It is what it is. We live and we learn. We correct moving forward.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: You talking about as a unit defensively?
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XAVIER McKINNEY: Yeah, I think we just got to be better all around the board execution-wise. We don't really think we executed well today. We kind of gave up just little things. It was like very uncharacteristic from us. We just got to be better all around the board. I mean, myself included.
Like I said, we'll get it fixed once we watch the film and be critical of ourselves. We kind of already know what we could have been better with. I know for myself, like I know exactly what I could have been better with already.
It's not always as bad as it seems. Like I said, we're going to go watch the film, see what we can do. I think just overall, as far as communication, execution of calls. We missed a lot of tackles today. A lot of things across the board that we got to improve on.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: Say that one more time.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: Oh, it was good today. I think it could be a lot better obviously. But I thought it was good for our first game, for his first game as an NFL player. Obviously I think he's going to be a great player in this league.
So just trying to help him and keep helping him improve, figuring out ways where he can be better and I can be better for him. But I thought it was good today.
We just going to keep stacking, keep finding ways where he can improve. He going to do the same. He critiques his-self very hard. He strives for perfection. I know how he's built. We built from that same cloth.
I know he'll get back into the meeting room, we'll get back into the meeting room together, and we'll find ways where we both can improve and try to help this defense be better.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: I didn't. I mean, there were some cases where I was slipping. It was a little slippery. Different than obviously what I'm kind of used to.
It's just another circumstance. Obviously every field is going to be different. We got to be able to, no matter the circumstance, still do our jobs and do it at a high level.
Really we try to pride on ourselves on no matter where we're playing at, no matter what that surface is, what it's like, we got to go in there and play a very good game and try to have a better outcome than today.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: Say that one more time.
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XAVIER McKINNEY: The field, you said?
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XAVIER McKINNEY: I thought it was fine. I went out there in warm-ups. I wore seven studs just so I could get my cleats more into the ground. I thought I was fine.
Then obviously we got into the game, actually playing, and I think I slipped a couple times early in the game. I actually got some longer studs coming out at halftime so that wouldn't happen. A lot of us pretty much did that.
But like I said, it is what it is. We know where we got to be better at. We know what we got to do. It wasn't the field today, it was us as a team. We'll get those things corrected and we'll be a lot better next week.
Appreciate y'all.
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