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Football at Four: Eagles Offensive and Defensive Approach vs. Raiders? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Eagles getting ready for the Raiders.
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  Speaker 2: Today's football for Adam Kaplan's in the house. What are
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  Speaker 2: the keys to an Eagles victory? We got people texting in.
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  Speaker 2: I asked a simple question, are you concerned that the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles get actually lose to the Raiders? And the text
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  Speaker 2: messages are very interesting right now, Adam Kaplan, the people
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  Speaker 2: are not confident with the football team in Philadelphia. They're
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  Speaker 2: playing a bad Raiders team. Let's take a look at
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  Speaker 2: some of the keys to an Eagle win.
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  Speaker 1: They need it.
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  Speaker 2: They got to get it back, no matter how they
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  Speaker 2: get it. They got to find a way. Adam, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on?
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  Speaker 3: But look, let's get started. Offenses always so get let's
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  Speaker 3: get the running game off to a good start. They actually, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: what an interesting thing is? You know when they could
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  Speaker 3: not run inside earlier in the season, they still can't
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  Speaker 3: by the way they're they're they're just ironic. The Raiders
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  Speaker 3: and the Eagles are graded as the two worst inside
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  Speaker 3: running teams in National footbally. But when they got off
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  Speaker 3: to a bad start running it inside, we're like, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you run it outside? Remember they wouldn't run it outside.
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  Speaker 3: We came on football and four kept telling you, we
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  Speaker 3: don't we don't know why. Well, they ran it very
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  Speaker 3: well in the first half outside after a slow start
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  Speaker 3: off tackle. Now here's the problem, Fred Johnson. He was
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  Speaker 3: added to the injury report after Thursday's practice. Let me
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  Speaker 3: explain it. What that means is when you when a
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  Speaker 3: player is added either he didn't feel right prior to practice,
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  Speaker 3: we got hurt in practice, Fred Johnson. Mike, there is
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  Speaker 3: their backup swing tackle. Now he could play right or
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  Speaker 3: left tackle. Obviously he's filling in for Lane Johnson for
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  Speaker 3: three games here. So we got to see what happens today.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get the introvert probably within minutes. We'll see if
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  Speaker 3: we get it. Typically, Mike, you and I we usually
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  Speaker 3: get it during the segment. But if not, it would
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  Speaker 3: be Matt pryor that they're running out of chances. Cameron Williams,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, the rookie offensive tackle, I'd be stunned
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  Speaker 3: if he plays this season. They start, They just they
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  Speaker 3: designating for a return. They just want to see him
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  Speaker 3: practice for the end of the season. It would have
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  Speaker 3: to take something extraordinary for him to be activated within
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  Speaker 3: the twenty one days. He's he's a raw, talented but
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  Speaker 3: needs a full off season of work to the running
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  Speaker 3: out of lineman here, Mike Brett Toath could always play
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  Speaker 3: right tackle Landon Dickerson. Landon Dickerson was trending better. I
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  Speaker 3: know he didn't practice y history, but that was on purposes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm told because of the short week. But if he's not,
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  Speaker 3: if he's not practicing today, that would that that would
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  Speaker 3: be a different story, that would be a problem again
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  Speaker 3: that they just they Mike. What they have not done
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  Speaker 3: yet in the last couple of years has developed these
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  Speaker 3: young alignemen. Kendall's nutt has not been ready yet. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you never know. They're running out of linean so he
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  Speaker 3: may have to be forced in action. But uh, the
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  Speaker 3: the mission, Trevor Keegan Mike had hurt this football team.
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  Speaker 3: They thought he would be that developmental guard, that he
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  Speaker 3: could be here for three or four years, but they
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  Speaker 3: cut him. He's elsewhere now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we did uh check in on practice. La
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  Speaker 2: Dickerson was out there, so it looks like he will play.
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson and not going to play. Fred Johnson did
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  Speaker 2: say at his locker that he will play, So it
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  Speaker 2: looks like that is good stuff there. They got to
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  Speaker 2: get this running game going. You said there's some signs
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  Speaker 2: last week. It was really just you know, they had
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  Speaker 2: that fifty two yard run, a couple of other good ones,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, is there a way that they can
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  Speaker 2: really build off of what we saw on what was
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  Speaker 2: that Monday night?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, in additionally what I said a couple of
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  Speaker 3: minutes ago about getting off the running game to a
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  Speaker 3: good start, as I told you, I'd like to see
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  Speaker 3: Tank Bixby. We say this every week. You get to
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  Speaker 3: one or two touches and that's it. A change up
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  Speaker 3: means you're a change up is someone who's a running
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  Speaker 3: back in this case, who's different than the starter. Stylistically,
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  Speaker 3: Bakesby tries to break everything outside. Mike, he not an
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  Speaker 3: inside runners. He sees it outside and he breaks it.
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  Speaker 3: He usually is right about breaking outside. They need to
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  Speaker 3: do that other things before we moved on to defense.
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  Speaker 3: Be smart about the passing game. I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 3: the conditions in terms of snow or rain, whatever it's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen before the game. It's never about what
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  Speaker 3: happens before the game with rain or snow. It's what
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  Speaker 3: happens in the game. Teams I've talked to you forever.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care about what happens before the game, what
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  Speaker 3: happens during the game, though Mike is a condition is concerning.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go again. Wins. The gouts are twenty to
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  Speaker 3: thirty miles an hour. You've seen against the Bears. Against
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  Speaker 3: the Lions, it was really difficult to throw the football.
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  Speaker 3: You might try to work the screen game. We've talked
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  Speaker 3: about that also before. This is the last point here
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  Speaker 3: on offense. Execute the plan against Max Crosby. If they
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  Speaker 3: have to go with more twelve personnel, chip him, Siriani
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  Speaker 3: talked about today, like you have to you have an
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  Speaker 3: awareness of them, and you've got to make him be irrelevant.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's gonna be hard. Crosby super explosive. They'll
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  Speaker 3: move him around a little bit. And look if Fred
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  Speaker 3: Johnson's ready to go here and he's gimpy a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to know about that pretty early in the games.
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  Speaker 3: That's something to watch in this game, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagle defense this week, you know they played very
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  Speaker 2: well last week.
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  Speaker 1: They had two straight weeks.
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  Speaker 2: We did get confirmation Ke Myers from Vegas was on
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  Speaker 2: in the last segment. He did say and they did
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  Speaker 2: announce it that Kenny Pickett will start the game and
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  Speaker 2: that the Raider fans have been clamoring for this.
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  Speaker 1: They have seen enough of Geno Smith out there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we know, but Kenny Pigott, he's a
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  Speaker 2: guy who can do some things with his legs here.
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  Speaker 3: He's a timing passer. He will run, but he is
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  Speaker 3: a below average arm and this is not good. Now
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  Speaker 3: we know he knows the link because he's played there,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not good for him these conditions. And here's
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  Speaker 3: the thing is is that Genty is a very odd
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  Speaker 3: running back their first run pick. And now our friend
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  Speaker 3: Greg os Sell like Hampton way better than Genty. Greg
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  Speaker 3: took a lot of heat Ford on social media. He
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  Speaker 3: was right so far. Hampton's way more explosive. Genty is
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  Speaker 3: one of the only runners I've ever seen that runs
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  Speaker 3: toward contact, not after contact. He tries to execute after
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  Speaker 3: getting running into the defender. It's a very odd deal
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  Speaker 3: that he had at Boise State. It's not working out
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  Speaker 3: for him. He's been awful so far. I'm not worried
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  Speaker 3: about him. He shouldn't be even without Jalen Carter. It's
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  Speaker 3: you want to make Kenny Picket a pack. If you
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  Speaker 3: could do that, you're probably gonna win the game. And
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  Speaker 3: then one more note before we get out of here,
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  Speaker 3: Mike on actually two defensively play where man covers is usual.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to blitz now. Calt Miller, the left tackle,
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  Speaker 3: has been out since Week five where a severe high
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  Speaker 3: ankle sprain. He may play in this game. He started working,
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  Speaker 3: though he's not taking all the ones as I understand it.
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  Speaker 3: But they've got an advantage here with their defensive front,
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  Speaker 3: and they they brought the one of them the when
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  Speaker 3: you look at next Gen stats pressure rate one of
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  Speaker 3: the highest pressure rates of this season for getting after
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  Speaker 3: justin Herbert last week. So they don't have to blitz.
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  Speaker 3: They shouldn't really much. I'd be surprised if they did,
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  Speaker 3: because I only because I think they could win a front. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if they can't win a front, you got to bring
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  Speaker 3: more heat. That's it, Mike. It's it's not hard. Watch
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  Speaker 3: the conditions. If you're going to the link on one o'clock, yes,
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  Speaker 3: the one o'clock, and the Raiders have to travel three
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  Speaker 3: time zones. It will not be easy for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yet supposed to snow possibly earlier in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Way earlier. Yeah, want to be close to the game
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  Speaker 3: based on what to live.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean that means it's gonna be pretty
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  Speaker 2: cold as.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be low thirties side twenties again unless it changes.
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  Speaker 3: But it's the gusts man, gusts matter. Man, bring your
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  Speaker 3: gloves be warm. I've been plenty of link games what
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  Speaker 3: has been called and windy man, it's awful in December,
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  Speaker 3: and this is one of those games. Man. And know
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  Speaker 3: it's funny because the Raiders in the summer do not
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  Speaker 3: practice outdoors in Henderson, Nevada, because it's a one hundred
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  Speaker 3: degrees They practice inside. Look, I've been wrong before though.
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  Speaker 3: The last two weeks I picked the You know I've
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  Speaker 3: been I picked against the Eagles the last two weeks
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  Speaker 3: that I've been right. I got kind of lucky in
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  Speaker 3: the Charger game. But if this game is tight, and
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  Speaker 3: I know they're the Raiders as bad as they are,
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  Speaker 3: they've played some tight games, I just can't see it, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I feel the Eagles bounce back. Now, this game is
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  Speaker 3: two years ago. People bring up the Cardinal game. Carlo
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  Speaker 3: has had way more talent than the Eagles. Do this
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  Speaker 3: that mean, excuse me? The Raiders do this year. The
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  Speaker 3: Raiders one of the least talent teams in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football again again with Kenny Pickett small hands by the way,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be wearing those gloves.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: And the one thing is you know you mentioned and
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  Speaker 2: you know, bring the heat if you have to. They
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  Speaker 2: should be able to get pressure. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst offensive lines in football too, so they should
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  Speaker 2: be able to get the foreman pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't see why they would blitz. But look,
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  Speaker 3: Vic knows more than hun is more than we do.
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  Speaker 3: I think you played now if Carlton Meyler plays or
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  Speaker 3: left tackle, who's he's a big dude six seven to
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  Speaker 3: sixty eight. I mean, you got he's a good player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good player. But Stone fourth site that has
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  Speaker 3: been filling in for him as a young backup who's
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  Speaker 3: been pressed in the service. So Thegles have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of advantages here. Well I would just watch for Fred
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  Speaker 3: Johnson early in the game and see how well he
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  Speaker 3: was an ankle Landon Dickerson with a calf once again
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  Speaker 3: he couldn't finish a game. Well, well, I'm sorry he
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  Speaker 3: came out and did finish, but he did leave the
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  Speaker 3: game to come back wash Yeah, with the calf injury.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we talked about the offensive line at
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  Speaker 2: him and the one thing that the Raiders have Max crossby,
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  Speaker 2: and that could be an area where he wrecks the
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  Speaker 2: game all by himself.
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  Speaker 3: He does, you have to watch out for it. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, Charlie Hewlett was activated earlier today their long snapper,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why cal Adam Midas was cut. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens Mike. And Jake Elliott is a good kicker, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: but last three games it's been a little bit off,
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  Speaker 3: so that's another thing he's got to do. We don't
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  Speaker 3: really talk much about it because bradon Man has been
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable as their punter, who should be a Pro bowler
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  Speaker 3: this season. But Jake Kelli, it's got to get himself
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  Speaker 3: together here as their kicker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he did say he had nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with the snapper, although the stats suggest that the numbers
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  Speaker 2: were significantly different, you know, with the two different snappers,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll.
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  Speaker 1: See if that comes into play here.
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  Speaker 2: One thing before you get out of here too is
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  Speaker 2: obviously we had Q Myers on earlier. He talked about
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  Speaker 2: their secondary being a problem for them. This isn't a
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  Speaker 2: game though, where you want to throw them as you
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  Speaker 2: talk about the win gus here, but this is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of week where they should be able to have
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  Speaker 2: success in the past game, but the weather doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: set up for it.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to have to try to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like they have to absolutely have to. But
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  Speaker 3: now what the coaches have told me over the year,
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  Speaker 3: it's just kind of funny. So what they do is
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  Speaker 3: they already know what the wind's going to be, but
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  Speaker 3: the guts are impossible to predict. You don't know when
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  Speaker 3: they're going to come. So sometimes when it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit calmer, you may be throwing the football. Now when
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  Speaker 3: you talk about the corners. Darian Porter's a rookie talk
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  Speaker 3: corner of Iowa State. Eric Stokes was a disappointment and
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  Speaker 3: a former first round pick for the Packers that just
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  Speaker 3: never worked out. He had an ac injury early in
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  Speaker 3: his career. And by the way, just so folks know,
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  Speaker 3: tackles are a terrible way to evaluate a linebacker. Devin
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  Speaker 3: White is top three in solo tackles in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football He's not a very good football player. It's just
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  Speaker 3: official stat that I ignore tackles. It's just mean nothing
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  Speaker 3: to me because you have to know about how the
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  Speaker 3: defense is funneled and how the guy was tackling. I
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  Speaker 3: just don't buy into tackles because people are going out
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  Speaker 3: of their minds. But stude Eagle's made a mistake, No,
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  Speaker 3: they did. He was awful here, so one doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to do with the other. People love to conflate stuff
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  Speaker 3: with Devin White, who was just he was a very
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  Speaker 3: undisciplined player here. That's why the Bucks wanted to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of them. The Eagles couldn't looky. They benched them,
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  Speaker 3: paying them a lot of money. Good for him that
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  Speaker 3: he's a reviving his career, but they're an awful football team.
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  Speaker 2: And well though here on Sunday and the Eagles need
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  Speaker 2: to get back on track. The Raiders are they just
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  Speaker 2: what the doctor ordered? Find out it's an old school
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  Speaker 2: Sunday one o'clock game, Adam Kaplan, it's nice to have
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  Speaker 2: one of those back here in our lives. And you
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  Speaker 1: Adam, thanks Man, thank you,