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Ask Greg Cosell: What's Stopping The Eagles From Getting Their Run Game Going? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Three two one. The following is a shortened version of
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  Speaker 1: our Ask Greg Cosell live stream that we do every
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  Speaker 2: So I just wondered if Great Cosell was going to
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  Speaker 2: say with what the Eagles are good at what they're
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  Speaker 2: struggling with right now, like what would you do to
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  Speaker 2: get their run game going if you had the power
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  Speaker 2: to the thing?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know? And actually Cam Jurgens came out this
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  Speaker 3: week Chris and basically said that his back is still
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  Speaker 3: bothering him and he's not not one hundred percent, but
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  Speaker 3: he obviously wants to be out there because no player
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  Speaker 3: wants to sit. That's a hard question to answer because
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  Speaker 3: maybe at this moment in time, because he obviously is
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  Speaker 3: very athletic. I'm sure you probably remember that he when
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  Speaker 3: he came in in Nebraska, he actually went to Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: as a tight end and they moved him to center.
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  Speaker 3: So he obviously is a more athletic guy. But it's
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  Speaker 3: very possible that he just at this point in time
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  Speaker 3: can't quite do those things yet.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a thought because they certainly have not worked
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  Speaker 3: outside in the run game. There's got to be reasons
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  Speaker 3: for that that, as I said, probably think we don't
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  Speaker 3: know that player speaking about to Barkley came in no huddle,
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  Speaker 3: which they used really really effectively on their second possession
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  Speaker 3: and then didn't really come back to it except for
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  Speaker 3: a few selective plays here and there, and hadn't really
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  Speaker 3: used it much through the first four games. Last year.
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  Speaker 3: Was really a staple of what they did regularly, and
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  Speaker 3: it was very successful. Again, you know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these questions, Chris, I can't tell you why I'm not there.
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  Speaker 3: I can only tell you, you know, what the tape shows.
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  Speaker 3: I can't speak to the process of how they go
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  Speaker 3: about thinking what they want their offense to look like
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  Speaker 3: and game planning, and you know, I can't speak to
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  Speaker 3: the process.
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  Speaker 5: So two years ago, it looks like, you know, the Eagles,
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  Speaker 5: they couldn't handle the blitz right in the past game,
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  Speaker 5: that was the big nightmare. Now it seems to me
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  Speaker 5: it's very simple to beat them. Just rush three or
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  Speaker 5: four guys in play zone. They cannot beat zone defense
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  Speaker 5: in terms of passing the football. And I want to
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  Speaker 5: ask you, why why is it now that looks like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: if they blitz and they play man coverage the past
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  Speaker 5: game seems to work. And then the simple adjustment of
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  Speaker 5: just rushing three or four guys dropping in the zone,
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  Speaker 5: playing too high, and then boom, it's over and they
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  Speaker 5: have no answers? Is it route concepts? Is a jailen hurts?
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  Speaker 5: What are you seeing?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can only speak to what I know,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what I interpret from film. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a blueprint guy. So in other words, that doesn't automatically
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  Speaker 3: mean just to start the answer that every team's going
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  Speaker 3: to do that. That means it's gonna work every week
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  Speaker 3: and they can't play because it never works like that
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  Speaker 3: in the league. There are some weeks certain things work,
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  Speaker 3: and then a team might try something similar to the
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  Speaker 3: next week, and you know what, it doesn't work. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but just to speak to Jalen hurts strengths and weaknesses.
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  Speaker 3: What Jalen Hurts is not and it was frustrating for
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  Speaker 3: Kellen Moore. I happen to know it's frustrating for the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback coach now as well. Is Jalen is not a
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  Speaker 3: window thrower, and that's what you have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do against zone. You've got to be able to
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  Speaker 3: work between the numbers and make window throws that require
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  Speaker 3: anticipation timing. Balls must be thrown before receivers get into
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  Speaker 3: that window because if you wait too long, then they're
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  Speaker 3: past that window and you get the backside defender who's
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  Speaker 3: sitting right there. That's not the strength of his game,
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  Speaker 3: never was at this point in his career, it won't be.
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  Speaker 6: So my question, you have talked about jail and specifically
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  Speaker 6: in your tape career watching teams for what you've been
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  Speaker 6: thing like about fifteen years now, Greg, fifteen or so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, okay, great, by the way you lose and wait,
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  Speaker 6: but uh.
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  Speaker 3: I am thank you. By the way, I got on
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  Speaker 3: the gym five six days a week. Thank you to
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  Speaker 3: the question.
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  Speaker 6: The question is ultimately, but we also saw people grow,
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  Speaker 6: they got really good soul. Do you see quo of
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  Speaker 6: the course of their career, like Jaalen get the bigger
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  Speaker 6: you know, bigger box, see the feel better? Is there
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  Speaker 6: a growth there? Are you just kind of like you
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  Speaker 6: got or you don't forgive this a little QUI but
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  Speaker 6: I want to give my perspective little bit.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, it's a great question. I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: a case by case. I think there are some quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: that that can happen with and I think that there
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  Speaker 3: are others that it can't. A lot of it also
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  Speaker 3: depends on how a coach structures an offense and how
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  Speaker 3: he presents it to him so that you know, which
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  Speaker 3: is one reason why. There's obviously, like in any professional
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  Speaker 3: like you just indicated about people you've been with in
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  Speaker 3: your career, there's obviously coaches who can present it in
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  Speaker 3: a way that is total clarity for a quarterback, and
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  Speaker 3: there's other coach.
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  Speaker 6: In climate it's a good culture of the command and
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  Speaker 6: we you know, and then we have pilots that we're like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: this guy's really good at this, this guy's really good thing.
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  Speaker 6: I could do everything. So ultimately it's about the culture.
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  Speaker 6: How you're going to basically how I put it, How
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  Speaker 6: you're going to direct your weapon, how you going to
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  Speaker 6: do it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's very clear. For instance, and I know
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  Speaker 3: him personally and I haven't been out to his camp,
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  Speaker 3: which I hope to do next year, but Kevin O'Connell
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  Speaker 3: clearly understands how to present material to quarterbacks. Because Carson
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  Speaker 3: Wentz has now played three weeks in a row and
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  Speaker 3: he looks like he did almost in twenty seventeen with
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles. You know, he's calm, he's comfortable, he's not reckless,
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  Speaker 3: he's not getting sacked, he's getting rid of the foot
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  Speaker 3: fall to the right guy at the right time. So
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  Speaker 3: obviously that's coaching because for the last three four years
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  Speaker 3: and every played he looked like he was you know,
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  Speaker 3: he had really no idea, you know, And so it's
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  Speaker 3: it's coaching. So it's all how it's presented to quarterbacks. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you truly cannot see the field, Dan, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you're just one of those guys, it's not likely
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  Speaker 3: you're all of a sudden going to be great at that.
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  Speaker 7: How how does Jordan looking on at tackle Jordan Davis? No, okay, left, Jordan, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I don't think he's go ahead, no goodhead.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, I don't think he's played
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  Speaker 3: as well this year as he has in the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of years. You know, he hasn't been a true
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  Speaker 3: liability al but I don't think he's played quite at
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  Speaker 3: the same level that he's played at the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years. And I think the old line, you know
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  Speaker 3: that's sort of the elephant in the room now, is
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  Speaker 3: because they've been the best old line in football for
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  Speaker 3: three years. Again just the assumption great old line well,
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  Speaker 3: which in August that statement is very fair. They've been
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  Speaker 3: the best all line. This year, the old line, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 3: is not playing at the necessary level and that's been
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  Speaker 3: an issue, There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, I wanted to ask about the hurry up offense.
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  Speaker 8: Are you seeing when they do a hurry up off fins?
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  Speaker 8: Is it that it's always man on the other side?
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  Speaker 8: And do they need it first down to get it started? Well,
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  Speaker 8: normally a lot of teams do it that way. I
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  Speaker 8: mean again, that's that's for whatever reason, that seems to
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  Speaker 8: be foundational mark to the way a lot of teams
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  Speaker 8: that use the no huddle tempo, the way they do.
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  Speaker 3: It is if they let's say they want to do
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  Speaker 3: no like the Eagles did on that second drive. Normally,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the first play can't be no huddle because you're
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  Speaker 3: starting a play. But normally, if you know, gain good
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  Speaker 3: yards or get a first down, they go right into
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  Speaker 3: the no huddle. So let's say you gain eight yards,
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  Speaker 3: you go right into no huddle. Teams will rarely go
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  Speaker 3: into no huddle if they gain two yards. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it just doesn't for whatever reason. Market doesn't work that way,
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  Speaker 4: So I want to flip the script here talk about
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  Speaker 4: the defense a little bit. Sure he may be having
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  Speaker 4: some currency bias, but it seems to me that we're
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  Speaker 4: missing more tackles in general this year, and we did,
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  Speaker 4: let's say toward the end of last year, because I
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  Speaker 4: can't remember at the beginning of the year, and are
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  Speaker 4: you seeing that too or is it just my imagination.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that's fair to some extent. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't chart that, but I
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  Speaker 3: would say that that's that's noticeable at times, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I and I love him as a player,
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  Speaker 3: but I think Blankenship has missed probably a few more
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  Speaker 3: tackles this year than we've seen in the past. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that was always the strength of his game, not to
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  Speaker 3: the point where I think, oh my god, this guy's
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  Speaker 3: you know, shouldn't be out there or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say that that's a that's a fair statement.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I it's sort of like the defense version of
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line not playing up to snuff so far,
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  Speaker 4: or up to I mean.
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  Speaker 3: To a certain I think overall the defense has not
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  Speaker 3: been a problem the way you know in this you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's I mean, I know people might look at the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter this week and think, and if someone wants
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  Speaker 3: to ask about it, we can certainly talk about what happened,
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I don't think that that's I don't
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  Speaker 3: think the defense has been a problem overall. Though good stuff,
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  Speaker 3: really good. That was that was fun. Thank you, h
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  Speaker 6: Okay okay,