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  Speaker 1: Welcome to opposition Territory here at the Philadelphia Sports Table
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  Speaker 1: podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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  Speaker 1: in the world, twelve years strong, actually about twelve and
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  Speaker 1: a half years strong at this point. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: great opposition territory pod coming your way. We are previewing
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles in Minnesota Vikings matchup that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be right around the corner here.
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  Speaker 2: Both teams have an interesting seasons to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: And to dive into this pregame preview show with us
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  Speaker 1: from the Locked On Vikings podcast. You know we love
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  Speaker 1: Locked On Vikings, love our Locked On network.
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  Speaker 2: You've got our good friend Luke Brown, Luke Buddy. How
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  Speaker 2: you doing, man, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, We're doing interestingly over here.
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  Speaker 2: The same here, man, same here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my interesting times.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we are living in interesting times in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: where you've got the Buffalo Bills dropping two games in
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  Speaker 1: a row, the Philadelphia Eagles defending Super Bowl champions dropping
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  Speaker 1: two games in a row, one to the New York Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I could not believe what I was watching this.
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  Speaker 3: Past week with everybody. It does, especially those division games.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are the Giants and like they those teams,
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  Speaker 3: know you, it's an eagilizer. I spent my whole childhood
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  Speaker 3: growing up watching the Vikings beat Brett Farv with worse
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  Speaker 3: teams than those Packers teams. Like it happens, It.
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  Speaker 2: Does, it does happen. It's in the division.
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  Speaker 1: Games are so very interesting and there the philadelph Eagles
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  Speaker 1: are going to be playing the Giants actually right after
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  Speaker 1: this Vikings game. So twice with the Giants in three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Fun times.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, that's gonna be They're gonna be mad.
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  Speaker 2: Huh exactly, They're gonna be mad.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Buddy, I wanted to get into this Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings team, so I guess to start us off, you
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  Speaker 1: know with folks who may not necessarily be following where
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings are at at this particular point in the season. Look,
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  Speaker 1: this NFC North is a strong division at this point here,
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  Speaker 1: all four teams they have winning records coming into this
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  Speaker 1: game against the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings are three and two here.
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  Speaker 1: But let's kind of summarize what this Minnesota Vikings team is.
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  Speaker 2: Who they are.
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  Speaker 1: So if you had to describe one word to you
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  Speaker 1: to you know, to really hone in on what the
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  Speaker 1: theme of this Viking season has been and who this
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  Speaker 1: team is?
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  Speaker 2: What is that one word and.
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  Speaker 3: Why right now? That word is probably potential. Okay, if
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  Speaker 3: I could do two words, it's unrealized potential. Okay, they've
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  Speaker 3: been this is an ugly three and two. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: this is not the Seahawks when they were three and
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  Speaker 3: two headed into last week where you felt really good.
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  Speaker 3: They had their game against the Bears on Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of you watched that the opening game.
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  Speaker 3: They played really bad for most of that game. Same
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  Speaker 3: thing in London with the Browns. They played really bad.
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  Speaker 3: Figured out away at the end. They've played bad football
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  Speaker 3: more than they've played good football, and they've found a
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  Speaker 3: way to win a couple of these stupid games. And
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  Speaker 3: then they had Jake Brown and fall apart in front
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  Speaker 3: of him. There he's doing that to everybody. That's their
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  Speaker 3: three wins. So you walked into this season with a
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal group of pass catchers, justin Jefferson, TJ. Howkinson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have Adison for the first three weeks. He's back.
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  Speaker 3: That's over. You had this retooled O line. You were
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  Speaker 3: really excited about the Brian Flores defense, it looked like
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  Speaker 3: this totally stacked roster injury. The injury bug has beiten
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  Speaker 3: like crazy. Now they're getting a lot healthier after the
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  Speaker 3: bi So we're gonna watch these injury reports. But because
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  Speaker 3: of problems up front with those injuries, specifically with backup
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  Speaker 3: tackle justin School who will see if he plays and
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  Speaker 3: other backups, problems up front, problems with the quarterbacks. JJ
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  Speaker 3: McCarthy and Carson Wentz have both had had plenty of issues.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you're familiar with the latter's, oh yeah. But offensively, especially,
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  Speaker 3: this just has not been the unit you thought it
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  Speaker 3: would be when you looked at that rosterant.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a mirror image in a way of the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. From an offensive perspective, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: offense that we knew from last season at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: not and we're certainly going to get into some trenches
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  Speaker 1: talk in a bit here, but we like to get
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  Speaker 1: into the strengths and weaknesses of the teams that the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are facing on our opposition territory shows on a
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  Speaker 1: weekly basis here.
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  Speaker 2: So two part question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the biggest strength of this Vikings team
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  Speaker 1: after their first five games of the season.
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  Speaker 2: What is that strength and can you describe it to us?
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  Speaker 3: It's a pass catchers. Everybody who's catching passes from of
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  Speaker 3: course Justin Jefferson. He's still doing his thing. The last
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  Speaker 3: time the Vikings played, they played against the Browns, and
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  Speaker 3: the Browns man everybody up because they got Denzel Ward
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  Speaker 3: and they had Greg Newsome. I don't really get why
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  Speaker 3: they tragged him away, but they had these two corners
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  Speaker 3: that they feel really really good about, so they man
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  Speaker 3: everybody up. Justin Jefferson drops a buck twenty on him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter how good your corners are, don't man up
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  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson. This has been the lesson for the last
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  Speaker 3: like four years, right, And a big part of that
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  Speaker 3: in the last couple years has been that Jordan Addison
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  Speaker 3: can punish single coverage as well. And especially if you
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  Speaker 3: just say, well, well, man everybody up, but we'll bracket
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  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, it'll be fine. Addison's gonna scurt. Yet he
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  Speaker 3: catches the game winning touchdown against the Browns, he gets
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  Speaker 3: this huge busted coverage play against the Steelers, and all
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  Speaker 3: that dude does is make huge plays in huge moments, right, TJ. Hawkinson,
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  Speaker 3: reliable safety valve over the middle, has all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: utility roles on this team, from chipping helping to stymy
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  Speaker 3: these terrifying pass rushers TJ. Watt and Miles ga and
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  Speaker 3: back to back weeks TJ. Howkinson has a huge role
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  Speaker 3: in stymying them. Jalen Naylor, who is wide receiver three.
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  Speaker 3: He has been open as much as a seven to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: He is absolutely scorching guys. Not always getting the ball
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  Speaker 3: for the reasons we mentioned before, right, but he's scorching
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  Speaker 3: guys downfield, even you know, flipping the ball out to
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Mason or just getting the ball out to Josh
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  Speaker 3: Oliver and letting him try. You know, Josh Oliver has
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown in Ireland. You're or no sorry in week
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  Speaker 3: three Gains Spingles. There's so many places to throw the
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  Speaker 3: ball that it really is is a truly QB friendly
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  Speaker 3: offense once you block it up, Yeah, assuming you can
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  Speaker 3: get at least two and a half seconds in the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: All right, on the flip side of that, let's flip
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  Speaker 1: the coin here. What is the biggest weakness on this
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  Speaker 1: Vikings team as we're heading into this matchup with the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's probably on the defense. If I would
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  Speaker 1: have to say, am I correcting that?
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  Speaker 3: The defense is like one of the best in the
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  Speaker 3: leagues statistically, so it's kind of hard. I could talk
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  Speaker 3: about the run defense, for sure. That's been a huge
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  Speaker 3: and that's what I was thinking. Yeah, so far the
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  Speaker 3: issue has been the O line. Hopefully it gets healthy,
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  Speaker 3: so let's let's talk about the run defense. Ye and say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hey, they're getting four out of five intended
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  Speaker 3: starters back this week. Hopefully there's question marks around all
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  Speaker 3: of that. But the run defense has been putrid. It's
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  Speaker 3: been really, really really bad. So they trade away Harrison
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  Speaker 3: Phillips at the beginning of the season. He was really
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  Speaker 3: their run stuffing D tackle. Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen
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  Speaker 3: aren't really that. Those guys are guys who want to
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  Speaker 3: single up on a guard in a pass play and
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  Speaker 3: try to get a sack out of them, and they
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  Speaker 3: have done that. The Vikings have gotten incredible pressure. They
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  Speaker 3: have like the best pass defense in the league, but
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  Speaker 3: their run defense is like bottom five. It's been really, really,
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  Speaker 3: really really bad because those d tackles you get a
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  Speaker 3: double team on them and you just sled them. And
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  Speaker 3: so I'm looking at a team like the Eagles that
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  Speaker 3: loves to be physical. I don't know what the deal
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  Speaker 3: is with Lyndon Dickerson, but like who cares like Jordan
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  Speaker 3: Malatta and I mean you can you can have whoever
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  Speaker 3: you want at guard, whether it's Brett Toth or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: double team, whoever's at that point in that B gap
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  Speaker 3: they're moving because we just don't have a guy that
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  Speaker 3: can hold onto that. Yeah, they've actually been putting in
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Redman Moore, who is a very unknown not a
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  Speaker 3: household name at all. That dude was an Arlington renegade
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  Speaker 3: I think three years ago, and he is showing out
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  Speaker 3: like crazy. He's he is having like a genuine breakout
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  Speaker 3: season and is starting to maybe push Javon Hargrave out
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  Speaker 3: of the rotation, which is pretty crazy. Wow, Like you
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  Speaker 3: guys know Hargrave, like, oh, dude, I have loved in
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  Speaker 3: the past taking his snaps man, Yeah, they're kind of
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  Speaker 3: right to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: So but you know that Javon Hargrave can't really hang
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  Speaker 3: on in the run game too. So I feel like
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles are gonna look at him a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: They I believe, are expected to get Blake Cashman back
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  Speaker 3: this week, which will should help with the run defense
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  Speaker 3: a lot too. But it's really really hard when your
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  Speaker 3: dtackles just can't hold their ground.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was going to get into this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, and we will, certainly, But I
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  Speaker 1: do wonder if this is going to be for the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and for the rushing attack that has been suffering
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  Speaker 1: so bad this year. I wonder if this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a quote get right game for Saquon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: as he's only averaging three point four yards per carry
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  Speaker 1: this season on ninety i think ninety five carries, which
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  Speaker 1: is like tied for fifth in the league. The rushing
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  Speaker 1: attack of the Eagles just isn't there. So I think
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  Speaker 1: we might get into this in a little bit here.
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  Speaker 1: But as we're moving along with the discussion and conversation here,
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  Speaker 1: Luke like the quarterback position, I really want to dive
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  Speaker 1: into one. I think that is very interesting JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, dealing with a high ankle spring and injury,
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  Speaker 1: and former Eagles quarterback, as you mentioned, Carson Wentz has
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  Speaker 1: been filling in.
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  Speaker 3: He's been showing some good stuff legend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, been Joe, Yes, yes, absolutely, look showing some
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  Speaker 1: good stuff over here. He's also showing some not good
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  Speaker 1: stuff from time to time on the field as well.
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  Speaker 1: We still don't know, I guess, as of us recording this,
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  Speaker 1: whether or not McCarthy or Wentz is going to be
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  Speaker 1: playing this Sunday. How have you assessed both JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz thus far and how might both fare
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  Speaker 1: against this Eagles defense that I mean, they've been struggling
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  Speaker 1: as well, especially from a pass rush standpoint. Quinnyon Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: if he's not able to play, we're still unaware of
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  Speaker 1: as of recording this. That's a huge issue in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the secondary. So how would you assess where the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position play is right now for the Vikings?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the question is twofold because there's the health
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  Speaker 3: aspect of it, and then there's like, okay, what if
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  Speaker 3: they're both healthy, what do you do right? Right? So
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  Speaker 3: the health aspect of it, unfortunately, we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: know a lot. Did They just aren't going to tell you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for obvious reasons. They don't want the Eagles to know
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  Speaker 3: who's going to play quarterback. They want it to be murky,
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  Speaker 3: so they're going to keep it murky. We'll see the
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  Speaker 3: official injury reports. Of course that'll be super important, but
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  Speaker 3: that's probably all you're going to get out of the biking.
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  Speaker 3: So table that for now, assume both are gonna be
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  Speaker 3: good to go and healthy. They're all practicing. We know that, ye,
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  Speaker 3: So let's just for the sake of argument, assume that
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  Speaker 3: they're both going to be healthy. What do you do? Right?
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  Speaker 3: The Vikings have made that decision. Kevin O'Connell said, like,
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  Speaker 3: there's the private answer in the public answer. The public
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  Speaker 3: answer is we're not telling you the private answer. Am
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  Speaker 3: not going to tell you, right, So that means that
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  Speaker 3: they have a private answer, right. They know. And my
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  Speaker 3: read on the situation is that they're going to go
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  Speaker 3: back to JJ McCarthy. But if you ask other Vikings
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  Speaker 3: media people, you'll get a different read. I think people
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  Speaker 3: really struggle to read Kevin O'Connell's comments sometimes, But he's
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  Speaker 3: never really been one to say that's our starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to give the dreaded vote of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: He just kind of quietly started McCarthy and quietly stuck
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  Speaker 3: with them all off season. In a turmoil of all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of other rumors, none of which came to fruition
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  Speaker 3: right quietly, they just kind of said, no, we're not
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  Speaker 3: doing any of that, and JJ McCarthy went and started.
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  Speaker 3: He struggled a lot in his first two weeks, but
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  Speaker 3: he also had some good moments like there's grow it's
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  Speaker 3: a young quarterback, right, and then Carson Wentz comes in
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  Speaker 3: and had his own struggles in his own ways. It's
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  Speaker 3: the same stuff you guys saw. It's no different than
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  Speaker 3: what you were looking at in twenty nineteen. That he
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  Speaker 3: makes some cool plays, improvises, He turns down inexplicably open
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  Speaker 3: first reads, he holds onto the ball, He tries to
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  Speaker 3: make the hero play when really he just needs to
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  Speaker 3: get rid of it. Sometimes he panics and flips it
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  Speaker 3: up out to a checkdown well before any routes have developed.
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  Speaker 3: I've called him a first read and improvised quarterback, and
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  Speaker 3: that's not really the kind of offense that Kevin O'Connell
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  Speaker 3: wants to run. And when you ask him about JJ McCarthy,
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  Speaker 3: he talks so much about all the things he's excited
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  Speaker 3: for JJ McCarthy to get better at, not in a
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  Speaker 3: way of like here's all the things he's bad at
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  Speaker 3: and I need him to improve, But more like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting this down now and this is happening and
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  Speaker 3: we're working on that. That's really cool. He is just
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  Speaker 3: like bright eyed when he talks about McCarthy. So I
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  Speaker 3: think he's gonna go with McCarthy. I can't say that
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  Speaker 3: for and they're not going to tell you until game time.
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  Speaker 3: But that's that's my reap.
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  Speaker 1: And McCarthy's still growing. I mean, he is still growing
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. This is essentially his first year, and
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  Speaker 1: he is the type of quarterback coming out, honestly that
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  Speaker 1: I had some concerns with. You know, I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 1: a Penn State fan. I watched JJ McCarthy for many years,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, he mainly was, you know, blowing up Penn
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  Speaker 1: State's defense every down. And again, however, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: goes to the NFL, and like every single NFL quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: there are issues and there are certainly developmental aspects of
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  Speaker 1: his game that need to be honed in on. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be perfect right out of the gate.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm wondering against a struggling Eagles defense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: can we see a productive jj McCarthy if he is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the starter.
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  Speaker 3: I mean so like you're banged up in the secondary, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: which is going to be a big thing, right, you
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  Speaker 3: have a banged up secondary and we have I just
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  Speaker 3: said our greatest strength is probably the pass catcher. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I learned quite a bit about the Vic Fangio defense
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  Speaker 3: during the one year the Vikings ran that scheme, which,
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  Speaker 3: said Donna Tell went horribly, but I learned the system
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  Speaker 3: at least, and a lot of what I think the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles are going to have to do is essentially call gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I forget the name the play call they used to do,
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  Speaker 3: but it was it would basically be quarter quarter half
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  Speaker 3: their cover six, yeah, with cover two toward Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 3: And that essentially guarantees that there's a safety over top
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  Speaker 3: of Justin Jefferson. There's always going to be somebody low
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  Speaker 3: on Justin Jefferson and then quarters the other side. So
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  Speaker 3: the Vikings are going to bring out all their quarters
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  Speaker 3: beaters and then run them to the to the side
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  Speaker 3: opposite Justin Jefferson. If I'm the Vikings, that's a game
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  Speaker 3: plan I'm coming up with. And I know that that
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  Speaker 3: works because I saw the Vikings try to do that
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  Speaker 3: stuff to other teams when they had good receivers, and
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  Speaker 3: then we got lit up by everyone's wide receiver three
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. So I'm hoping for those concepts
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  Speaker 3: to really work out. But you gotta block those yea.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta block it up, and you gotta keep the
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  Speaker 3: oal line you got to. You gotta keep the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: up right, no matter who he is. But with McCarthy,
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  Speaker 3: if he does start, what I'm looking for is timing,
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  Speaker 3: both timing of the actual plays right. Can you get
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  Speaker 3: the ball out top of the drop, maybe a hitch
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  Speaker 3: or two, get the ball out? Can you throw with anticipation?
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  Speaker 3: All that McCarthy has thrown with anticipation this year, I
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  Speaker 3: think better than Wentz has, so I can see that.
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  Speaker 3: But he's also had plays where he holds the ball
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  Speaker 3: where he doesn't quite see what he's doing, where he
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  Speaker 3: gets to the read but he's too late, or he
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  Speaker 3: gets to the rebody's too early and he's moved off
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  Speaker 3: of something before it broke, and the timing is just
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  Speaker 3: not quite there. He's getting used to it, but it's
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  Speaker 3: also the timing in between plays the Vikings would break
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  Speaker 3: the huddle with McCarthy, They break the huddle with ten
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  Speaker 3: seconds left, they got delay of games, you got d
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  Speaker 3: line and tea and off because they know you can't
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  Speaker 3: hard count there's zero on the play cloth, so they
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  Speaker 3: would tee off. You got to back up a line
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  Speaker 3: and you give up a bajillion sacks. There was this,
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  Speaker 3: and this problem didn't really get better with went So
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  Speaker 3: that feels like more of a structural organizational issue, or
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  Speaker 3: it got a little better with Wentz. So we'll see,
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  Speaker 3: so like, can you get in and out of the
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  Speaker 3: huddle right, he's twenty two? Can you take handle these
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  Speaker 3: twenty five word Kevin O'Connell play calls, relay them properly,
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  Speaker 3: get everybody lined up straight, and then actually play some quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they're still learning how to work together
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: into that. So you're still getting a very much like
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: growing pains quarterback situation, or you're getting Carson Wentz and
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: you know how to attack how to attack them right.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: But I would say that health probably impacts this more.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I think if both guys were fully healthy, I think
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell says, Okay, let's resume this JJ McCarthy thing
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: and try to get this to work, because I think
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that's the vision for the offense that they had going
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: in and they're not going to give up on that
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: after two games which entailed fifty four dropbacks total. They
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: just didn't run a lot of plays in those two
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: games because the defense couldn't get up the field against Atlanta.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: So it's way too early for them to just put
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: their their young quarterback that they were super excited about
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: in Rice and limp through the rest of the season
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: with Carson Wentz and just resolved to go six and eleven.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of grown pains to go around as
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: it pertains to this coming game, whether we're talking about
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: the Vikings or whether we're talking about the Philadelphia Eagles,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and we're certainly going to be getting into more of
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: those growing pains after our break that we're gonna be
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: taking right now. But Luke, tell everybody where they can
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: find you on the socials out there again. It's locked
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: on Vikings podcast, folks, I listen on Apple podcasts. You
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: should listen on whatever podcast platform you're listening to us on.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I believe you're on YouTube as well. Tell everybody where
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: they can find you out there, man.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, anywhere you listen to podcasts. Just look up Locked
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: on Vikings, Locked on whatever, right, locked on Eagles. If
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: you wanna, you know Louis I'll be hopping on with
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: him later this week. Ny nice, But yeah, you can
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: find Lockdown Vikings wherever you find your favorite podcasts. If
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: you want film breakdowns, if you want something a little
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: more visual, my Patreon page, Patreon dot com, slash Lupron NFL.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Most of what is on there is free except for
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: the most recent few videos. And actually I have a
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: big long one on Carson Wentz if you want to
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: watch how once is doing big long one that's totally
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: free to watch.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds good, sounds good, folks.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: We are going to get into some offense, more offense
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and defense when we get back from the break stick
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: All right, We are back and again we are with
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Luke Brawn from the Locked On Vikings podcast, and let's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: now dive into some trenches talk here, because the Eagles
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: offense and they're lined that they're having some trouble to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: say the least. Yes, they're injury issues. There's just some
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: timing issues as well that we have been seeing. They've
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: only been able to score the defense or the offense
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: themselves a maximum of seventeen points in both of their
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: last games against the Broncos and the Giants. And with
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: regard to third down, this is what is most troublesome
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: as an Eagles fan for me. In terms of the offense,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: They're three of twenty on third down over these past
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: two games, which is absolutely horrendous for a team that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: dominated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl this
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: past year. So we'd like to talk about the trenches
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on our Opposition Territory podcast here at Luke. How do
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you see the Vikings defensive front stacking up against the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Eagles offensive line that is having its troubles to say
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the least. I know, we kind of got into it
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: before with regard to the defensive pass rush or the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: defensive I'm sorry, the defensive run stoppage we talked about before.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: In terms of the pass rush, you know, how are
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you seeing things shake out here?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: So for the Eagles, I think the interior pass rush
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: is the scarier thing. The Jalen Carter of it, all right, Yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: so that'll be interesting. The one starter we know the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Vikings won't have is Ryan Kelly. He's still on IR.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Michael Jurgen's dealing with a hamstring injury. No idea what
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: you're getting with that. I think he's supposed to return
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to practice this week, but that's enough. The injury report
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday is gonna be a big deal. Yeah, there's
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of answers on it. And so
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: you have Blake Brandle, who played center for the first
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: time ever in London against the Browns pretty well, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: first time ever centers naps weren't quite right. And that's
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: and and he's a backup player for a reason, right,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I think that's exploitable. You've got a rookie and Donovan Jackson,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: who I think has played well coming off of a
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: risk thing. He got a minor surgery. He should be
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: back this week. And then Will Fryes at right guard
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: is a veteran who's been up and down as well.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: So those guys are all kind of question marks. We've
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: been mostly happy with the starters there, but we just
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: haven't gotten the starters as much, and so I would
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: say that's probably it. They've been pretty rough at picking
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: up stunts, but just the vanilla rush for hope to
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: win hasn't quite been enough to get through this O line.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: If you run some stunts some games, some blitzer and stuff.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: You gotta do that, but does take time. Those have
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: costs to them as well. Right, if you pull a
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: guy out of coverage, you can probably make that happen.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: But one interesting thing with the Vikings because of that
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: physicality issue I was talking about, is the Toush push.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I wanted to bring this up with you, so.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: We got to get into the Toush push because you've
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: got a big article coming out about this. I believe
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a three thousand article. Oh nice, I have a three
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: thousand word touch push. Oh nice, Folks left football. Ye,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: not all three thousand are about the touch push.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of history of the QB sneak, okay.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm like the QB sneaky's ancient football, right.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: The the formation that you see with the Toush push,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: there is a clip from a game from nineteen oh
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: three Princeton versus Yale using that formation. I mean this
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: is like age old traditional stuff, okay, which is was
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: a kind of a retort to the Micah Parsons tweet
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: from that Thursday night game of where He was like,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: this isn't football.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Oh yes it is, Yeah, exactly, this football that your
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: great grandpa will watch. I'm loving Luke's take on this
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: so far. Keep it going, buddy, Yeah, I.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Think Eagles fans will like my take. My take is,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: go ahead and ban the pusher. You won't stop the Eagles,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: right because I don't think the pusher himself actually has
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: that big of an impact on the play. I think
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: more often than not, the day is by the time
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the pusher gets involved. Yes, so go ahead and ben him.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Go ahead and take it away ben pushing of the runner.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Ban the defense from doing it too, and you won't
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: get all these like forward progress scrums if you if
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: you really want to do that, But I think that's
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: hard to do without getting a lot of collateral damage
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: on other plays. And like the proposal that the Packers
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: put forth last year, I think would have had collateral
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: damage and I'm glad that it failed. They'll probably try
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: again this offseason. The vote was close for the first time,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: so we'll see. But I went into kind of this.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: The scheme of the touch push is more than just
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: everybody get together and push nuance to it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, there is the offensive line is so key. I mean,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: there's a reason why. George Malota said, you know, I
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: fifty percent love it and I fifty percent hate it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: He's like, after like the fifth or sixth time, it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: really taking its toll on my body, and he's like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I hate it. At that point, it's it's a very honest.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Basically, the sled players hate the sled yep the like, Okay,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I know he's hurt right now, but I've been on
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: record on Lockdown NFL saying Landon Dickerson's the best guard
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: in the league, and what he does on the two
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: pushes part of it. Him and my lotta. So when
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: most people want to attack a QB sneak, they think
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: this thing is going up the A gap. This is
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the thing that I don't get is I don't know
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: how everybody watches all these and all these teams think
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: that this play only ever goes up the A gap
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: because it doesn't. It doesn't, right, So they point four
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: players at the A gap and they tilt all their
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: alignments so everybody's diagonal and everybody's showing their oblique to
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Jordan Malatta, and then he pushes them over. If you
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: watch George car laftis on all of the ones that
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: you ran against the Chiefs. Oh my god, he's getting destroyed.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: He's five yards downfield and he's asked over te kettle
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: what's going on? And then you see, you know, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: next team line up the exact same way against them,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: and the next team line up the exact same way
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: against him, and it's it's like, I don't understand, Like,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: are people not watching this? Yeah, what's going on here?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So I don't think it's an unbeatable play. I actually
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: did a statistical analysis to the Eagles are thirteen of
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: seventeen on QB rushes with the yard or less to go,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: excluding or I think that includes one scramble one one
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Jalen Hurt scramble that was a run, that was a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: pass play that happened. I think it was like a
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: two minute riller, but still right, thirteen to seventeen, which
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: is as bad as it they have ever been at it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Usually that is an eighty percent play. That's well below
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: eighty percent. All QB sneaks for the last ten years
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: have been an eighty percent play. Teams on average are
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: like seventy nine point six percent conversion rate on one
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: yard to go QB rushes. I'm sure that includes some
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: zone reads, but like for the most part, that sneaks right,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: So this is not an unstoppable play. It's a sneak.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: It's a sneak like any other, with a pretty good
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: line and a pretty good schematic. Little wrinkle with attacking
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: that tilted nose. Get good, that's my thing. Get good.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And I think the Vikings.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Voted to ban it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I disagree with them. They also tried to run it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: They're really bad at it. They because other teams don't
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: understand what's happening here. This is now just a rugby scrum, right,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: and all of the talk is about the rugby scrum
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: or the pusher behind and everything like that. No, this
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: is a sea gap run play that goes behind the tackle.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Look, Louke, tell everybody again where they can
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: find the article that you wrote about this, this three
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: thousand word article.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: So you can find a uh. Look, there's like Greek
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: felank stuff in there. It's it's it's it's wide ranging
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: wide left dot football. Yep, there's Look, there's a famous
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: battle in ancient Thebes that's like kind of a perfect
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: metaphor it's fine the weeds.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, uh and I'm a trench guy too, okay, yeph
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the You can also find a film breakdown of I've
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: broke down every single twitch push the Eagles have run
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: so far on my patre dot com slash Luke Brunn NFL. Wow.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. All right, Well, moving along with the conversation. Look,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the Eagles have had some injuries on the defensive side
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of the ball, specifically Nolan Smith. He's been missing some
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: time also their number one cornerback, and Quinyon Mitchell now
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: dealing with a hamstring injury. Not sure if he is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: going to be able to play this week. As of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: us recording this defense, they're just going through a bunch
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of these mid season challenges.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: When you look at this Eagles defense, where do you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings can really exploit it? I'm thinking probably
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the secondary based on what we talked about the answer exactly, Ora,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Dori Jackson. If he's in there, Oh my gosh, just
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: been an absolute mess. What are your thoughts here? I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: would think the secondary is where the Vikings can exploit
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the Eagles defense.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, so I remember the word as zeus. This
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: is the Fangio word for you. When you play quarter
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: quarter half with the half over a player that you
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: really don't want to go off, Right, there's a there's
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: a Justin Jefferson across from you. You would play zeus.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: It would be called zeus. Eighteen would be the coverage call. Okay,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And so that's half over number half cover two over
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the side with eighteen and quarters for the other side.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: So what I would want to do is attack that
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: by either putting bunches to Justin Jefferson's side, so you
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: now have cover two versus three players. That's really hard
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: for uh, there's a lot of cover two beaters that
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: come from that, or I'm gonna leave Justin Jefferson over
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: on that side. I'm gonna make sure I line up
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson away from Kieley Ringo because I believe the
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Eagles play sides right, they do where Ringo's on the
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: same side every time. Yeah, So I'm gonna put Justin
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Jefferson away from Kieley Ringo counterintuitively, so that Kieley Ringo
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: has to play quarters. And then I'm gonna have Jordan
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Addison and Jalen Naylor over there, and I'm gonna run
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: quarters beaters at him, much of which might be you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: posts or just like a fade, and I'm taking my
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: chances at that matchup with Addison and Keeley Ringo just
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: trying to like isolate that That's how I would do things. Also,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell, because he coached with a Fangio style defense
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: with ed Donnatel for so long, or for one year
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: at least, he learned a lot of what he practiced
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: against it. He learned a lot of ways to just
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: have beaters for those middle of field open defenses, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: then you just got to be on your p's and
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: ques with blitzes. Because the thing that separates Fangio from
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: all of his little spawn that and all of all
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: of the people that have come off the Fangio tree,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and then DC's all suck. They've all been absolutely terrible.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Fangio has not. And the difference is that Fangio is
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: way more aggressive with Blitzer and for some reason, nobody
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: else gets that memo when they leave. Yeah, so you've
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: got to be on your p's and ques with blitz
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: pickups and stuff, which is, again, do we have a
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: young quarterback that doesn't know how to do that? That
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: could be a really big key here. But if you
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: do that, then I'm trying to isolate Kieley Ringo. You're
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: probably not gonna let us do that with Justin Jefferson. Yeah,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: but I can do that with Addison and and sort
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: of put Jefferson away as the decoy and he's still
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: gonna be able to run basics and stuff and cover
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: two beaters on his side and still get his Yeah, it's.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Gonna be interesting to see this matchup for sure.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And as we end our pregame preview show here, like
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: we do on all of our Opposition Territory podcasts, briefly here,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about what both teams are gonna
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: need to hit on for a win this week against
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the other.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: So let's start off first.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: What's the one thing the Vikings are going to need
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to hit on for a win against the Eagles this week?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Luke, you have to keep the quarterback up right, whichever
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: quarterback it is, keep him upright. Hopefully four out of
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: five starters are back on the O line and we
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: have a better job, a better chance to do that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: We won't have to use TJ. Howkinson to chip an
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: edge all day long because we have some idiot at
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: tackle that doesn't know what he's doing, but hopefully they
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: can keep the quarterback up right. If they can do that,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: then all of these then so much pressure gets put
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: on an Eagle secondary that I think is too banged
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: up to hold up to that pressure. And the Vikings
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: can probably move the ball with a lot of chunks
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: On the flip side of that, what's the one thing
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the Eagles are going to need to hit on for
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a win against the Vikings this week?
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: If the Eagles can't run with Sakwon Barkley against this
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: run defense, yeah, I think that you are sounding a
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: lot of a arm bells about it. I think you're
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: starting to you gotta go do trade deadline stuff or something. Yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: if the Eagles can't run on this, like, you have
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to get the run game going, even if that doesn't
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: lead to a win. Even if you end up losing
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: and you're disappointed but the run game worked a little bit,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I would still say you could walk away with that
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: and say we're leaving here with something. We figured out
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: one problem and that'll help us going forward. But I think,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, if Saquon Barkley gets going, I don't
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: really see a world where that doesn't turn into a win, right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: But I think it's so important for the Eagles with
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: where they're at right now, how weird the vibes are.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: You've got to get Saquon Barkley going, have that element,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: get those boxes loaded up again. You got to see
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Saquon go off for two hundred in this one and
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you walk into the next game and then all the
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: boxes are loaded and AJ Brown's one on one all day. Yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: that's how you turn back into the Eagles that won
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Ast. Yeah, he is.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Luke bron Folks from the Locked On Vikings podcast, fantastic
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: content out what they got going on over there, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have their crossover show a little later this
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: week with our good buddy Lou Debassi from the Locked
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: On Eagles Podcast. Again, Luke braun Locked On Vikings podcast,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: My friend, it was great having you on the show
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: for the very first time. I'd love to have you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: back on again. If you're up for it, come back
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and join us, my friend.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Let's see if the Vikings can get you in like
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a two seven wildcardbine round matchup. Maybe all right, sneak
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: in like idiots and then go get killed in the
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: wildcard and we'll do this again.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us here on Opposition Territory
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