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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest fronting weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world, over ten and a half years strong. Week seven of this Philadelphia
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Eagles season is now in the books. They beat the Miami Dolphins two five
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and one teams. They beat the Miami Dolphins at the Link by a score
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of thirty one to seventeen. The Eagles are now six and one on this
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season. In a statement type of game, even though there were so many
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ups and downs throughout this throughout this particular game, a decent amount of downs
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that we are going to talk about those downs regardless of this win. I'm
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Jeff Warren and I'm here at my good buddy Josh Schuster from Philadelphia soccernow dot
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com, and he's a good friend of the podcast, filling in for the
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guys here. Josh, Man, it is good to see you, buddy,
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and I gotta tell you it was a great win. Of course,
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it was a great win. But man, some some some ups and downs
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throughout this game. But I feel like it was like a tale of not
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even Sometimes. Len has said that Eagles games are every now and again,
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a tale of two halves. I felt this was like a tale of what's
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gonna happen here on this particular possession, with this with this offense here,
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That's what I was thinking here with this game. Yeah, No, I
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think that's a fair way of I'm kind of calling what this game was.
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I think, you know, last week when when I was on, we
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talked about the fact that it really was a tale of two halves, right.
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I think earlier during the Washington game after that when I was on with
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you, it was kind of the same thing here. It was it was
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a tale of every play because you really didn't know what was gonna be coming.
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Yep. And so I also feel like the score thirty one seventeen was
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not truly reflective of how close the game was. Yeah, and I really
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don't want to hear other fan bases of teams within the division talking about,
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well, you beat a team that hasn't played anybody, friends, Like,
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I got news for you. You have to play who's on your schedule.
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Yes, Miami had to win those five games. As it goes to show
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the Eagles lost to Zach Wilson last week, like anything can happen yeah,
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on any Sunday. That's why you play the game. So they won,
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Absolutely, they won. That's what we want in the end, folks.
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And seriously, throughout the analysis here where and the takeaways and the themes and
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the grades were gonna end up giving there is. There's no complaining about winning
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here. And I gotta say first and foremost though too as we like in
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terms of the themes. Man, this Kelly Green jerseys looked absolutely amazing.
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Josh my gosh. It took me back to the times of Randall Cunningham when
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I was a kid watching Ham. And just how appropriate because in this game,
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Jalen Hurts tied Randall Cunningham for the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in
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the Eagles history, which is thirty two rushing touchdowns. It was really cool
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to see those Kelly Green jerseys and man, what it meant to you know,
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Jalen Hurts breaking Randall Cunningham's record. It's pretty cool. Actually, yeah,
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I kind of put the It's not that I hate the Kelly Green I
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like it, but part of it is when I see people wearing the Kelly
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Green out about I'm like, I'm not sure I understand the hype fully right,
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like people make a huge deal of it. I have a Kelly Green
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sweatshirt. It's more of the actual jersey that I look at. I'm like,
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I'm not sure, but when I saw it tonight, I equated to
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the Flyers jerseys the ones this year. Oh yeah, I saw a picture
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of them. I'm like, I really don't get it. But when I
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saw it on the ice and they were playing, I'm like, that is
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really really beautiful. Yeah, And so yeah they were. They just looked
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so clean tonight, and it was just it was it was great. Yep,
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it was. It was all right, let's get into this game here.
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And I want to say something right off the bat, because of our
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opposition territory show guest I was talking to. We were talking Miami Dolphins,
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and I gave some initial early thoughts and potential predictions, and I really thought
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the Eagles were gonna lose this game this week, and especially because of how
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this Eagles secondary looked coming into this game. Red Blankenship wasn't going to be
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playing, you have a rookie that was going to be starting, just a
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lot of uncertainty with the secondary, and I thought both Tyreek Hill and Jalen
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Waddell were both gonna have over one hundred and twenty yards receiving, and they
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didn't even come close to it. They really didn't. Tyreek Hill had fifteen
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targets in this game, as he should, he's one of the best wide
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receivers in the league. Fifteen targets, came down with eleven balls for eighty
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eight yards. Jalen Waddle, yes, he was injured. He was targeted
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six times, came down with six balls for sixty three yards. So I
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just wanted to call myself out there and say, folks, yes, I
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was completely wrong about this particular potential prediction here that both of these wide receivers
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were going to have over one hundred and twenty yards receiving. Again, didn't
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even come close to it. I have to call myself out for that.
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But you know, we were talking about Randall Cunningham a little bit earlier and
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how it relates to the Jalen Hurts and tying Randall Cunningham's record for most rushing
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touchdowns by an Eagles quarterback. And I really want to talk about Jalen here
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because let's talk about what we've seen from him here, Josh, because the
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fact that he came out of the half with a brace on his left leg.
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He's obviously from a health standpoint, not himself, perhaps maybe leading into
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this game, I don't know. Obviously at the half he needed some help,
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he needed some physical help. But overall from Jalen Hurts, we once
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again saw a very inconsistent Hurts playing the quarterback position this week. We saw
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him make some incredible plays, we saw him make some incredibly dumb plays.
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We saw him handle pressure well, and we also saw him cave to pressure
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as well. And then the turnovers. I mean, some of these turnovers,
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Yes, they're just bad. Some of them are bad luck. Some
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of it's also a product of just terrible pocket management from him as well.
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And I feel like we don't completely know who Jalen Hurts is this particular season
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here, Josh, what are your thoughts here? I just don't think we
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know who Jalen is here. Maybe he doesn't know who he is either,
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because he's not the same Jalen Hurts that he was in twenty twenty two.
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Yeah, so I'll go back to the first point you made about kind of
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pregame predictions. I was texting with a couple of my buddies, and I
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said it was going to be thirty one twenty four Miami, and I said,
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Pyriek Hill takes a slant route to the house and pretty much ends it.
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So I mean both of us. Clearly, I'm glad we're doing the
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post game together because clearly no football. Yes, here's my thing with quarterback
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interceptions. I really don't like when people say they've had bad luck. Okay,
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there are very few interceptions that are actually bad luck. If it goes
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off of a receiver's foot, even still, then it's probably not thrown in
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the best location. When it goes off of receiver's hands, unless it's right
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there, it's probably thrown behind or too far in front or too high right.
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Hearts was not unlucky tonight. Like, let's let's be very clear about
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this. He couldn't throw it around the defender that tipped it and it wound
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up going for a pick six. Right, yep, he if I told
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you that through seven games now, Parts has turned the ball over one or
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more times, whether it be fumble or interception, in every game but one,
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that's a problem. That is a big problem. Yes, it's not
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so much even the turnovers. If you looked at the game tonight, and
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I'll go back to what we said last week. When you are a top
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five paid quarterback, I am going to evaluate you as a top five paid
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quarterback because I think that that's fair. I've said it all along. I
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think he deserved to be paid, But when you get paid, I'm going
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to evaluate you based off of you getting paid. You cannot continue all night
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to throw too high for players where they're jumping, can't do anything. You
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cannot continue to throw behind receivers or they're falling to the ground to catch the
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ball, like during the McNab era. You need to hit people in stride.
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The two times he did it tonight, both were touchdowns, Yes,
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because the receiver was able to catch it and run right. The accuracy has
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really become an issue, and I think you're probably right in the sense.
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I don't know if we need to adjust from what we saw last year with
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Hurts. I'm not going to say that he's regressing, but is my concern
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level rising, Yeah, yes, and I think that's fair. I don't
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think it's regression at all. I think there was a sense from the coaching
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staff and the message to Jalen hurts after getting to contract where they wanted his
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game to go with regard to his overall future with this team, Josh,
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where I think it was, Okay, let's see where we can build upon
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your strengths from the pocket. We're seeing less and less of him getting outside
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the pocket this year. We're still seeing it every now and again. I
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mean, certainly we are still seeing it. I mean we're still seeing the
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plays too. We're getting outside the pockets. He's just falling down. We
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saw that on a couple plays today or tonight. I think Jalen and the
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coaching staff are trying to alter how his game went from twenty twenty two to
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twenty twenty three in terms of pocket management, and it just has been faltering
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game after game after game, and there isn't a semblance of a coherent pocket
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management system for him at this particular point. And I think that's what it
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is. I don't think it's just okay, we don't want you running,
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because they obviously have design plays with him, of course in the red zone,
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which go absolutely nowhere, and we can get into that in a little
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bit. But I think the concept of let's enhance your pocket management skills,
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I think they're trying to do that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it really
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doesn't work. When it doesn't work, and I think that's what's going on
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here. The best comparison that I I mean, I've tried to think for
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a while about it. The best comparison I can give for Hurtz his play
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this year outside of the one week that he was stellar, is a rich
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Man's justin fields. Yeah where, And I know people will probably come after
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me and say that's absolutely ridiculous comparison. But if you look at his games,
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it's the inconsistent throws, it's the turnovers, it's the running around,
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wants to pocket breaks down and I don't want to hear that Jalen Hurts doesn't
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have good protection either. The Eagles have one of the best offensive lines in
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the National Football League. You can't give them credit for that. They have
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hands down, it's not even a contest. The best offensive line coach in
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the NFL can't give Flowers for that and then also say he has no time.
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It comes down to something that you were talking about pocket awareness. For
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whatever reason, this year, I'm not talking about last year. This year
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he seems scared at some points where he is either looking to run or he's
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looking to just chuck it up, and that's not good. And that's where
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you get the throws into double and triple coverage, which never really happened last
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year, but it's happening on a regular basis this year. Yep. I'd
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love to know, folks, what you're thinking about Jalen Hurts this season,
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where he's at in terms of what his identity is, if he even has
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any identity. Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. We'd love to read
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your email here on the show and respond to it on our regular show,
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as we do every now and again. So I also wanted to. I
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also mentioned the fact of the Eagles red zone play calling first drive of the
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game. My gosh, another week, another red zone trip going with direct
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runs with Jalen Hurtz handoffs to Kenny Gainwell for whatever reason. Meanwhile, this
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team has aj Brown and Davonte's Smith Dallas Goddard on the team, three pretty
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dominant receivers, and why not attempt a freaking pass when you are like third
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and goal from the nine yard line. Meanwhile, it takes one play for
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the Dolphins to get their top playmaker involved, which is Tyreek Hill and the
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Eagles didn't get Aj Brown involved once on their first drive. It boggles my
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mind, and especially in the red zone when they're calling the type of plays
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that they do, especially early in the games, it does not help to
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set a good tone, in a positive tone and just a forward thinking tone
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for this offense in the first quarter where we want to really see some dominance.
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I don't know, I was frustrated by that, Josh. Yeah.
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I think if the Eagles are on the two yard line, the one yard
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line, or the goal line, they're golden. Yeah. If the Eagles
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are anywhere between the nineteen and the twenty five, they're golden. It's that
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three yard line to the eighteen yard line. I can't remember the last time,
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especially with Hurtz at quarterback, And I promise I don't hate the guy.
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I really don't. I think he's a good NFL quarterback. Right.
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When is the last time he threw a ball that was a jump ball where
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the receiver AJ Brown had to go and high point the ball exactly I was
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thinking about in the playbook. Yeah, I was thinking about that as well.
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Today watching this game, I'm like, I have not seen a contested
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catch from AJ Brown in quite some time where he's just going up to the
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catch point bringing it down as we saw a number of times last season.
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It's pretty amazing to me. But AJ Brown does it anywhere outside of the
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red zone? Yeah, like they have no problem calling that play outside of
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the red zone. Yeah, I don't. I don't understand what's happening.
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Just as a reminder, the Eagles did win this game. Yes, I
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promise we are happy that they want them. Oh, we're gonna get into
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some good stuff too. We're gonna get into some good side. Okay,
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let's finish with the last Maybe I don't know if you have any more crap
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you want to talk about, just the and this isn't even crap, but
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I do have to say as we're getting as we're moving on, moving along
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from Jalen Hurts here, but Lane Johnson giving up a sack at the end
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of the first half. It was his first sack allowed since Week eleven of
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twenty twenty. It was like it was like a kind of like not really
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a heartbreaker, but just man, what a streak that came to an end
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with the Miami Dolphins. And you know, every now and again, the
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Dolphins have put some put some numbers up and some records and things like that
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over the years and decades up on the Philadelphia Eagles, and it stinks.
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It kind of stinks. It was the Dolphins for some reason where Lane gave
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up that first sack, the first one since Week eleven of twenty twenty.
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But overall, the offensive line did such an amazing job, specifically in pass
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pro I thought, but yeah, Lane Johnson giving up that sack kind of
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stunk. Yeah, but I think that's just a testament to how good he
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is. Yes, I think really the last two things that I have in
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the negative end. Okay, go ahead. You and I were texting,
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yes, and I asked you, I said, do the Eagles have an
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identity? And to me to be at Week seven as a Super Bowl hopeful
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and to sit and go. You gave me the responsible I think they were
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trying to be a running team like they were last year. But now I'm
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not really sure. Yeah. Yeah, well you're seven weeks in, like
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we're past this window of preseason. Basically, it's a little concerning that there's
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no like identity and the defense one time there's going to be a coach.
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I really thought it was gonna be Miami is just going to run slant routes
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and kill this team with slant routes because they keep playing fifteen yards off.
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Yes, and you can't. You can't do it. Let's go back to
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the identity robe. Oh no, go ahead, I'm sorry, Sorry,
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No, I was just gonna say, can we please be done with with
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Kenny Gamewell like I I don't think anyone ever has quoted mean Girls on here,
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but I'm about to quote it. I don't think anybody has. Go
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ahead. There's there's a line in there where there they say, stop trying
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to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen. Yes, stop trying
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to make Kenny Gainwell happen. It's not going to happen. Like done,
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we have swift done. I don't. I don't need Gainwell in my life.
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I know that quote all too well. My daughters love mean girls.
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They do. But going back to what you're talking about with the identity and
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our texts during the game, Josh, because I said, you know,
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I felt like earlier in the season, you know, whether it was the
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game against Minnesota where they put up two hundred and fifty nine yards rushing,
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and then the following week against Tampa Bay, they put up two hundred and
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one yards rushing. That was that identity that reminded me of twenty twenty two.
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I don't mean to keep going back to twenty twenty two, but it's
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kind of hard not to when they had such success going to the Super Bowl.
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But I felt like that was kind of they were kind of getting their
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identity early in the season, and then it just dropped off against Washington where
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it was one hundred and four yards on the ground. Last week against New
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York Jets eighty yards on the ground. Yes, I know the Jets have
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a pretty darn good defense, pretty damn good defensive front as well, but
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I felt like that identity they were trying to get going in the in the
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early part of this season was the rushing attack because it worked so well last
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year, and unfortunately they've just kind of they've kind of gotten away from that.
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But it does lead me into a positive that I have for this team.
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And I don't know if a lot of people recognized this, but DeAndre
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Swift I have to recognize something that he has been doing. I know that
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last game, definitely this game for sure him getting first downs when this team
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really needed them. I mean, he wasn't breaking any long runs really in
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this game. He wasn't like he wasn't flash here, flash there. But
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there were more than a few conversions that he made when holes were closing up
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and he was just using his vision and he was using his legs to make
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sure that he got that first down. He only had sixty two yards rushing
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on the day on fifteen carries, four point one yards per carry. His
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long was twenty two yards, so long as twenty two yards sixty two yards
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total on the day, folks. But DeAndre Swift was getting first downs in
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this game, and I just love having him in the backfield. I love
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having his versatility. He only caught three balls for thirteen yards, but again,
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there's some first downs that he was getting in this game that helped sustain
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drives. And I just love what DeAndre Swift has brought to this offense.
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I like DeAndre Swift a lot. I liked him before he came to Philly,
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mostly because of Fantasy football, I'll be honest, but he was one
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of those trades where I sat and went, whatever the compensation is, unless
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it's a first or a second round pick. You're not going to find a
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player in the third round of the draft or later that's going to be able
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to do what he can do. And so I loved the trade when they
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had made it. And he's kind of like the Bryce Harper of the Eagles
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to your point, where he's very clutch in terms of when they desperately need
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to get things going, he steps up to the plate and he gets the
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job done, which is why Nick listened to me. We don't need Kenny
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Gamewell. You don't need Kenny Gainwell at all. He's Boston Scott, anybody
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else, but Swift has that clutch gene to be able to get it done.
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And he runs hard too. It's that Philly thing. We love him.
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Players give it, give it, they're all and he absolutely does with
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every carry. Absolutely. I do wonder what's gonna happen with Kenny Gainwell from
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here because it look eight carries, sixteen yards averaged, two point two yards
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per carry, and I just cannot see him being on the field as often
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as he has with these type of numbers. And this is pretty consistent week
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after week. I'm not sure you mentioned Boston Scott, not sure why he
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is not in the backfield more. We've seen what he's been able to do
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over the years, a lot better numbers I think than Kenneth Gainwell, for
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sure. But I also wanted to mention too real quick, aj Brown fifth
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game of fifth game in a row with more than one hundred and twenty five
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yards receiving. He tied Calvin Johnson. Just an amazing wide receiver, of
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course, But I think at the end of the day, you have to
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credit this Eagles d defense and the rushing defense Josh, with how they handled,
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of course a very weak Dolphins offensive line. The rushing I mean they
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were keeping to Attago Vailoa on his toes consistently throughout this game. I mean
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the Dolphins had negative seven rushing yards at halftime. The domination of the rushing
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defense, I think really set the tone for everything else in this game.
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I mean, including that interception that we saw from Darius Slay in the fourth
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quarter. We haven't seen too many interceptions this season, but it really happened
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a lot, I think because of pressure and because the Eagles defense, specifically
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the rushing defense and a lot of the pass rush was just on working on
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all cylinders. In this game. Yeah. So to your point, there's
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two things that come to mind. The first is, I'm never going to
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complain about the Eagles not drafting a linebacker in the first round again, because
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honestly, every year that's what the talk is around the draft. Why don't
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they draft a linebrighter? And every year we get to Week seven and it's
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like, a linebacker really isn't the problem. If there's one position they're really
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able to develop outside of offensive line, yeah, it's linebacker exactly. They
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take whatever they have and they turn it into gold, and that's great.
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Is that cunning him had a great game? Yeah. I mean, hey,
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the other thing is I want to highlight most of its season because I
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feel like people don't understand the kind of season he was having going in tonight
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to tonight. Yes, when he gets ten or more carries, this is
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what he's done this year. Six point eight yards per carry, six point
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five yards per carry, six point three yards per carry, six point seven
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yards per carry. When he gets ten or more rushes, he averages easily
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six yards per carry. But not tonight, And so I mean you can
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look at it and say, wow, he averaged five yards to carry that's
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pretty good, but you have to look in terms of the grand scheme of
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things. They really shut him down. They only had forty five yards.
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Yeah, only forty five total yards rushing, folks. It's incredible. And
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he barely hit the fifty yard mark including receptions, Yeah, receiving yards.
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He had fifty one total yards on the night tonight. You'll take that any
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day of the week from a guy who's been averaging close to seven yards per
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carry outside of when he's able to get ten touches. Yep, yep.
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Absolutely. Look from a defensive standpoint as well, we saw a lot of
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different looks from the safety position. Of course, Trell Edmonds was in there
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Sidney Brown as well, with you know, Red Blanket Ship being injured and
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not being able to play in this game. I think his name is Mecky
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Mecky Gardner. He was in its safety for Sidney Brown at one point when
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Sidney had to come out in the second quarter. There was a lot of
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rotation with regard to the safeties and they were actually able to make it work.
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Sean Decide was able to make it work in this game. But I
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did want to mention to you and I texted you about it as well,
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you know, the secondary, even though it is weak, and even though
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they did perform generally well in this game. I wonder if I was texting
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another friend about this as well, another friend of mine about this, I'd
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like, I'm wondering if James Bradbury is just looking slow to you this year,
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because he does to me for some reason. I don't know if it's
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because Jalen Wattle and Tyreek Hill. You know, he's covering these guys who
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are just really amazing wide receivers and they're so fast. But I think James
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Bradbury in general, it's not just this game. It was the Jets game,
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it was the Rams game, it was the Commander's game. He was
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just looking slower. And Darius Slay too. I mean, look, these
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guys are no Spring chickens by the stretch of the imagination, but they are
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looking slower this year. Do you get that sense at all? Or am
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I crazy? Ere Josh, No, I don't think you're crazy, Okay,
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no, I James Bradbury to me was an excellent number two. Besides
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Slay. One of the things that you love about Sleigh is he has that
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dog mentality as a cornerback. But with that at cornerback, corners are really
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weird creatures and when you have that dog at corner, they need to be
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the clear cut one, and he is. So you need someone who's willing
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to play that Robin role next to Slay the Batman, and Bradberry does that
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really good. But at the end of the season, if he doesn't come
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back next year, I'm not going to be upset. And it's not because
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I think he's done a horrible job. It's just he is on that fence
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of where he's starting to look slower, and then next year he'll be too
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slow and then you have a problem. Yeah, I've got no other themes
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to get into. There's certainly some things we're going to talk about once we
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get into the grades in just a bit here, But do you have any
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other themes Josh before we get into the grades? Yeah, this this might
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be a hot take. Okay. I think the AJ Brown is probably the
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best wide receiver the Eagles have had easily since probably the My Quick days.
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Oh my gosh. Yeah, dude, I don't know how it can't be
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argued. Like I mentioned, his fifth straight game of over one hundred and
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twenty five yards. I mean, it's he's incredible. I mean fred X
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is a close second, but you know, yes, yeah, you know,
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but I mean he's just he's insane. It's kind of like when Zack
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Wheeler goes to the mound. You just have complete under trust. Whenever a
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ball is thrown AJ Brown's way. If he doesn't catch it, I mean,
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my jaw almost literally hits the floor. Yeah, yeah, I think
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there's something to be said for athletes like that, the Zach Wheelers of baseball,
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the Aj Browns of football. You know, even you know, you
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can even say that Joe El Embiid's you know, of the game of basketball.
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When there are steady guys who are able to really get the job done
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night in, night out. You know, there's some hiccups here and there
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with with with some of these players. Every now and again, little hiccups
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happened. But my gosh, Aj Brown fifteen targets come down, came down
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with ten balls for one hundred and thirty seven yards. Just absolutely incredible.
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So I think we're gonna end our themes there if that's good with you,
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and take a quick break. Is that all right with you, buddy?
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Yep? Sounds good. All right, folks, quick break. We will
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be back with our grades in just a bit. All right, we are
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back with our good friend Josh Schuster here, and I'm gonna get into our
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grades. I'm gonna grade Jalen Hurts and give him, believe it or not,
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even after the turnovers in this game, I'm gonna give him a B
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minus. Considering twenty three of thirty two, two hundred and sixteen yards,
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six point eight yards per attempt, one touchdown, one interception, he ended
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with a rating of eighty seven point five, and I'm still gonna give the
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guy a B minus. A lot of that comes from him needing to make
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plays, and he actually did make make them. Yes, as we mentioned
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earlier, a lot of bad plays that were on the field as well,
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but when he needed to make good plays for this team, he did.
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I'm giving him a B minus. Josh, what do you give him?
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I have a feel like it's going to be lower. No, I'm actually
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going to give him a bee. Okay, I'm gonna gi him fire because,
28:15
honestly, Jack, I feel like if I told you the quarterback for
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the Eagles tonight, when twenty three of thirty one for two hundred and seventy
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nine yards, two touchdowns at interception, and oh, by the way,
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he ran another one in. You'd be like, yeah, that was a
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pretty good performance. So I feel like to give him less than a BE
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I would be unfair, even though I was highly critical of him. Yeah,
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I'll give him a B. Okay, sounds good. Running backs DeAndre
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Swift, as I mentioned, and I'm even though again, fifteen carries for
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sixty two yards. You know it's nothing to write home about. But I
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think the running backs, specifically DeAndre Swift, really helped out this offense when
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they needed. When this team needed first downs, Andre Swift was absolutely there.
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So I'm gonna give the running backs a B plus. Even though Kenny
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Gainwell only had two yards averaging per Carrie. What do you give the running
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backs this week? I will give DeAndre Swift an A and I'm gonna give
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Kenny Gainwell a h Go home, okay home, But yeah, I'll give
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Swift an a. All right, sounds good. The receivers this week,
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man Dallas Godder getting five targets, caught all five for seventy seven yards and
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a touchdown. Davante Smith with five targets came down with four balls for forty
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nine yards twelve point three yards per reception. I'm gonna give the wide receivers
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a B plus this week. What do you give them? I'm gonna give
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him a name minus. Okay, it would be a full A except I
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want a little more out of the Slim Reaper and I'd like to see Cause
29:56
get involved a little bit more. Yeah, but really, that third,
30:00
that third wide receiver spot is still just missing. And maybe Julio Jones will
30:04
change that moving forward. I'm not expecting him to be the Julio that he
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was as a Falcon. Yeah, they need something there. Yep. He
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had one catch for three yards. Hopefully we see more from him, for
30:15
sure. The offensive line I thought was fantastic in pass protection, even though
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you know Jalen Hurts you know, went down three sacks in the game.
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Still I thought they were fantastic pass protection. The run game struggled a little
30:30
bit here and there. I'm gonna give the offensive line a an A minus
30:33
this week. What do you give him? Yeah? That sounds about good
30:37
to me. You know, I know Herts was sacked three times, so
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you said, but some of it I think just comes down to pocket awareness,
30:42
yep, and he just wasn't able to escape. Some of it was
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he was running around too long. So I'll give him a name, Honus.
30:52
That sounds about fair, all right. I am just realizing that when
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I went over Jalen hurts Is, I'm glad. I'm glad you. Actually
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I knew what you were doing, Josh, because when I went over Jalen
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hurts stats, I was reading to a tug of I Lois. That's what
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I was reading here from the stat sheet. Please somebody slap me in the
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face the next time you see me. Dear god, I'm glad you were
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a team here exactly. Gosh, guy doing it for ten and a half
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years, and oh my gosh, slap me in the face, folks.
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All right, as we're running half time here, I'm gonna move over to
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the defensive side of things. The defensive line this week, my gosh,
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just just fantastic pressure that they were consistently getting Onta. They ended the day
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with four sacks, eight tackles for a lost, and six quarterback hits.
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I'm giving them a A I'm giving the defensive line, and a what are
31:42
you give them? Buddy? I'm gonna rope d line and linebackers together and
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do an A plus. Okay, anytime you don't hear any problems coming out
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of the linebacker corp that that's an easy A. And I mean it's not
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so much the sacks. There was eight tackles for loss tonight as well.
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Yeah, and really two was under pressure like all all night tonight. Yeah,
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so they really did their job, you know what. I was gonna
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give the linebackers an A minus. Actually he's been mainly Zach Cunningham. He
32:12
was a guy and na Kobe Dean was out there as well. But I
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completely agree with you, and I think the linebackers really held up well for
32:19
sure. Secondary this week, boy, you gotta give Darius Slay big play
32:22
Sleigh a lot of credit for that interception, and I think again holding up
32:30
with regard to Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, they did they didn't go absolutely
32:35
insane and crazy. So I'm gonna give the secondary actually a B plus this
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week. What do you give him? I'm giving him an A all right.
32:44
I mean if you would have told me going into tonight that Tyreek Hill
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is going to be under ninety yards and Jalen Waddle is going to be under
32:51
sixty five. Yep, I honestly probably would have called you a liar,
32:55
okay, because I wouldn't have believed it. And to be honest, for
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the nickel corner spot, they're literally just piecing this together week by week,
33:05
and so for them to kind of have the performance they have, I'll keep
33:08
graping and complaining about playing fifteen yards off, but if it's working, what
33:15
can you do? Absolutely? What can you do? All right, Well,
33:16
let's move over to coaching right now. Michael Clay and special teams man
33:22
Brandon Mann had one punt for fifty seven yards, Jake Elliott nailing one field
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goal, a twenty four yarder, And I do have to say this as
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well, Let's not forget that on the Eagles first touchdown drive of the game,
33:37
they were given a really good field position by a thirty eight yard kickoff
33:40
return by Boston Scott. Special teams actually came to play today. It's complete
33:46
opposite from what we saw last week. I am giving special teams a straight
33:51
up a what do you give of Josh? I agree, Jeff, did
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you know that you are allowed to run the ball more than ten yards a
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return? You can you can and you don't have to fair catch it all
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the time. It's it's amazing what can happen? Absolutely, I have someone
34:08
different back there. Literally, anyone making a fan give away, I don't
34:13
care, but hey, they get an A. Sean Desigh On the defensive
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side of the ball, I am going to give Sean decaie again, given
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the fact that the secondary is pretty banged up and we just didn't really know
34:23
what to expect from them, I'm actually going to give Sewan Desi an a
34:28
minus this week. Tremendous job again, pressure on Tua. It turned out
34:31
to be a very dominant game by this defense. I'm giving him an a
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minus. What do you give him, buddy, I'm going to give him
34:38
an A or sound like Oprah, you get an A, you get an
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ay. I may hate the system, and I think a lot of us
34:46
Philadelphia fans hate the system, but I can't be critical of holding the Dolphins,
34:52
which I think we're the number one scoring offense coming into the game,
34:54
as they were to easily two touchdowns less than what averages this year. I
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can't argue with it, and so I'm gonna give him an A. All
35:04
right, Nick Sirianni Brian Johnson, I am going to give these gentlemen an
35:09
A minus as well. I mean aside from the aside from the terrible red
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zone offense on that first drive, I mean, the guys, these guys
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did pretty well. I think in terms of running this offense tonight, I'll
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give him an A minus. What do you give them? The hesitation?
35:29
Yeah, I'm gonna go B B Okay, And it's more because it's been
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weeks after weeks after weeks of the same issues. And if this team really
35:37
is gonna make it to the Super good point and they're gonna win the Super
35:39
Bowl, yeah you gotta change. And we talked about lack of offensive identity
35:45
too, you know what I mean? So I I think that, you
35:47
know what, I'm getting mine down to a B minus. There it is
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B minus. Fo I'm talking down here. I think the defense has an
35:54
identity. It's just I have a hard time giving an A if I I
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can't understand what the identity is. Yep, all right, well there you
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go, folks. Week seven of this season now in the books for this
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Philadelphia Eagles team. Again. They beat the Miami Dolphins by score thirty one
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to seventeen down at the link. They are six and one on the season,
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first in the NFC East. And Josh Man, it was great talking
36:22
to you. We had the Philadelphia Union's last regular season game last night,
36:28
right, didn't go too well, Jeff. The Union are showing exactly what
36:35
it means too literally back into the playoffs. There you go. Yep,
36:38
it's great, it's great. We are hopefully going to be getting into the
36:42
Philadelphia Union a little bit more on our regular show, and make sure you're
36:46
following what Josh and his colleagues are doing over at Philadelphia soccernow dot com.
36:51
Great great content over there. So Josh, buddy, it was great,
36:54
great talking to you again. Thanks for filling in for the guys here on
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our postgame show. And I'm hoping to talk to you at some point down
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the road, my friend, anytime. Jeff, always a pleasure. All
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