A lot of talk this morning about the failed two-point conversion at the end of Sunday’s Eagles game.

The Birds had scored to make it 30-28, Ravens, and decided to go with a Carson Wentz zone read, which was blown up by L.J. Fort. Baltimore got two guys in the backfield and squashed the play before it even had a chance.

On 94 WIP this morning, Doug Pederson explained that the Eagles had run the gamut of their red zone play calls, but perhaps could have stopped the clock at that point to think about the call:

“One of the things, and this is something that most people won’t understand or at least don’t know is, on those last two drives to score, we basically exhausted every red zone play that we had on our call sheet. There were a couple of plays that we had to rely on some of our veteran guys. Like the two-point conversion before, J.J. (Arcega-Whiteside),  we put him in position on that two-point conversion, a play he knows, a training camp type play. We knew going in we were going have to use one of our game plan plays, probably in another area of the game plan for that specific call. And I look back at it today, I believe I still had the timeout with that situation and I think maybe the best situation or call could have been the timeout to really think things through. At least give us more time, from a coaching standpoint, to make a better decision at that time.”

Pederson said Carson Wentz does have the authority to call a timeout there, and Wentz noted after the game that the offense was a little late getting up to the line and getting set, which may have rushed the entire sequence.

But it’s interesting to think that there wasn’t much left in the play book. The Eagles scored the Jason Croom touchdown on that slot post play intended for Greg Ward, and then used a pick play to free up Ward for the two-point conversion. After the Fulgham score, they went to JJAW on a short out, and by that point there they had exhausted pretty much everything they had with a limited personnel set, so they went to the zone read instead.

Doug probably should have called the timeout, but there’s no guarantee that a better play call was out there. In hindsight, maybe throw that ball and/or let Carson do something with his feet.

Full audio here: