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Birds Weekly With Derrick Gunn, Barrett Brooks: "They Were Far Ahead Of The Game" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey again, everybody. Welcome to a new season of the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Bird Weekly Show. It is brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: the Inside the Birds Network. The 2026 NFL season is
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  Speaker 1: up and running, and it's a new season. And I
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  Speaker 1: have a new co-host, and this man here is a
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  Speaker 1: familiar face throughout the region. And he and I worked
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  Speaker 1: together for a long time before he dumped me for
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. But that's okay. I'm not holding it against him.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. It's quite all right. But, you know, Barrett,
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  Speaker 1: the one and only Barrett Brooks and B. Brooks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's an old song that says, we are together once again.
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  Speaker 1: Just when you thought you got rid of me, we're back, baby. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, bro, you trying to get rid of me, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like that old cough that come back every year.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? I'm that old cough. I'm
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  Speaker 3: right here. I'm right here. You can't get rid of me, man.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get rid of me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course, the Eagles kick off the 2026 campaign
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  Speaker 1: against a divisional foe. And what an entertaining game it was.
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  Speaker 1: And what a game it was. You come out of
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  Speaker 1: scratching your head at certain things that went on in
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  Speaker 1: the game. And, of course... You know, the Eagles prevailed. Somehow, someway,
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  Speaker 1: they prevailed 24-22, especially after that botched two-point try by
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  Speaker 1: the commanders. But, Barry, first of all, give me your
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  Speaker 1: overall general impression of the way you saw the game
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  Speaker 1: and how it turned out.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, man, I was encouraged.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I actually liked what I saw because I thought they
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  Speaker 2: were going to be a lot worse.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a whole lot worse than they were.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're considering the fact that they never have
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  Speaker 2: played together full speed. And for them to go out
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  Speaker 2: and play in a new offense, and this is really
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  Speaker 2: a new offense.
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  Speaker 3: This offense is nothing they've ever run before.
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  Speaker 2: This is the closest to a new thing that I've
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  Speaker 2: seen in the past six offensive coordinators they've had for
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  Speaker 2: Jalen since his career.
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  Speaker 3: So, I'm looking at it, and I'm like, it's considerably different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he's very comfortable in running it.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: To me, it was a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought they were ahead of the game, far
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the game as far as where they need
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  Speaker 2: to be at to really be a good team. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought they were ahead of the curve as far
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  Speaker 2: as Jalen's maturation in this offense. He knew where to
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  Speaker 2: go with the ball. He made the right calls. He
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  Speaker 2: put them in great situations. To me, he played a
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  Speaker 2: great game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to have six different coordinators in six consecutive years,
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  Speaker 1: is a lot to ask anybody at this particular level,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm with you. I expected it to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more raggedy because of lack of game reps
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  Speaker 1: in the preseason. I saw some fluidity there that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect. And obviously we haven't seen the full playbook
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  Speaker 1: yet of what Sean Manion wants to run with this offense.
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  Speaker 1: As he gets more comfortable with his personnel, the personnel
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  Speaker 1: continues to get comfortable with him. But, What we did see,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was a little jagged at times, we
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  Speaker 1: saw the capability of it being a big play offense.
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  Speaker 1: They have seven plays of 20 or more yards in
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  Speaker 1: this particular game, and that's not bad for the first
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  Speaker 1: game in a new offense where you really haven't been
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  Speaker 1: playing with the bullets that have been flying. Now, do
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of work to do? Yes. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what? You've still got 16 games to work
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  Speaker 1: it all out, and you're starting in the plus ledger
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  Speaker 1: instead of the minus ledger.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, D-Gun. But one thing I did say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what? That's a lot of big plays.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seven plays of 20 yards or more. But
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  Speaker 2: can they sustain that? I wanted to see a more
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  Speaker 2: in-depth offensive running game. I wanted to see more consistency.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want them to be a big play offense
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  Speaker 2: all the time, and that's the only way they know
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  Speaker 2: how to score or move the ball. I wanted some
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  Speaker 2: consistency on how they ran the ball. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see consistency as far as them, you know, executing the offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and I saw things that were very. They
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  Speaker 2: were very, you know, they were they were very good
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  Speaker 2: at times.
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  Speaker 3: And then I look and I saw some things where.
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  Speaker 2: All they have to do is just one more step
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  Speaker 2: or do this a little bit, and it will be
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  Speaker 2: a big play or it will be a game, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Four or five yards. You know, it's a marathon. It's
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  Speaker 3: not a sprint.
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  Speaker 2: And if they came out and just, you know, been
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  Speaker 2: throwing the ball their way, and they'd be like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: they sprinting instead of it being a marathon.
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  Speaker 3: But I like the fact that they went out. I
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  Speaker 3: saw some execution things.
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  Speaker 2: I saw some stuff, you know, with the new scheme
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  Speaker 2: that they have to coach and that, you know, something
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: See when they were in practice.
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  Speaker 2: These are things that I knew it was going to.
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  Speaker 3: Happen to you.
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  Speaker 2: So in-game changes from the commander's standpoint on the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side of the ball to really put them in a
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  Speaker 2: situation like, all right, we got to learn from this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take this, watch film on it, because this is
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  Speaker 2: a copycat league. And you know you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff when you go to the Titans this
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  Speaker 2: next week. So I'm glad that they, I'm glad they,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that, you know, I saw the little things.
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  Speaker 2: I know the stuff they're going to be trying to coach. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as they go forward, they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. They're going to be pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to start with the trench warfare.
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  Speaker 1: And each and every week, we're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: little segment that we call Inside the Line. I came
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  Speaker 1: up with that, by the way, Barrett, so just so
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  Speaker 1: you know who came up with that. But we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play to your strength, which is offensive line play.
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  Speaker 1: And if there's one glaring weakness that we saw, it
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  Speaker 1: was the inconsistency of the Eagles' offensive line. And the
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  Speaker 1: two guys who really stood out more negatively than positively
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  Speaker 1: were Cam Jurgens and Landon Dickerson. How surprised were you
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  Speaker 1: that both of these guys came back in what appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be a healthy state, but yet the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: in general, from tackle to tackle, and let's also add,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of money invested in this whole line,
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  Speaker 1: played as inconsistent as they did in this game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: I am so glad that, you know, everybody's heard the
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  Speaker 2: news now that Cam Juergens, not Cam Juergens, but Dickerson
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  Speaker 2: was put on IR.
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  Speaker 3: I am so glad. It took a weight off my chest,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, whew.
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  Speaker 3: Because if that was him and he played that way
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  Speaker 3: and that's what he had going forward.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were doomed. I thought we were doomed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because I've never seen him play like that.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen an offensive line start and play like that,
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  Speaker 2: number one. And it would have been very concerning to
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  Speaker 2: me if that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it had to be an injury. It had
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  Speaker 3: to be an injury because he couldn't move.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know he didn't get that old in
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  Speaker 2: just six months of an offseason. And what I saw was.
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  Speaker 3: A statue out there, a totem pole.
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  Speaker 2: He just couldn't move. He wasn't effective. He couldn't bend,
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  Speaker 2: and he couldn't explode. There was no pop at contact.
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  Speaker 2: So because of that, he looked real bad, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: so glad, man. I mean, I never want anybody to
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  Speaker 2: get hurt, but I'm so glad he's hurt. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that with love, you know, because Dickerson is my dude.
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  Speaker 3: That's my man. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I just saw Dickerson at the airport last week, and
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  Speaker 2: we talked, we chopped it up for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad that he was injured because if that
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  Speaker 2: was the Dickinson that I was going to see for
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  Speaker 2: the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of the year, we just couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's no matter how much money you paid him,
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't go forward with those type of plays that
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  Speaker 2: I saw. I mean, there were times when he was
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  Speaker 2: just getting spun around. He couldn't, you know, he couldn't
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  Speaker 2: snap off the stunts. And they took advantage of that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a stunt. They bring a linebacker in, he's
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  Speaker 2: the penetrator, and they got the end will come up
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  Speaker 2: and occupy Malata. And then as soon as, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as, you know, if he doesn't punch, if
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  Speaker 2: Differson doesn't punch that linebacker and get separation, he blows
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  Speaker 2: up Jordan Malata because he's trying to block that defensive
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  Speaker 2: end that's sitting there, you know, baiting him and everything.
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  Speaker 2: He's not even looking at that linebacker. And all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, bam, he gets blown up on one side.
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  Speaker 2: And then the end goes around. And Frankie Louvo and
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  Speaker 2: the end weren't even touched.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at that point, Dickerson didn't touch either one
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  Speaker 2: of them, the penetrator or the looper coming around. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it had to be something like that that was wrong
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  Speaker 2: with him. You know what I'm saying? Even on run plays,
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't move on run plays. And a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, running backs getting hit in the backfield for
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  Speaker 2: tackles for loss. So, yes, I was very concerned that
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  Speaker 2: if it wasn't an injury, oh, my goodness, I would
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  Speaker 2: have been so sick, you know, because I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth.
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  Speaker 3: And he just did not play well. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't play.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't even playing well. It was, he looked disastrous
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  Speaker 2: out there. So I'm glad that he, I'm glad it's
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  Speaker 2: an injury and he's injured. I'm not glad that he's hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that what I put out on film was
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  Speaker 2: something that's not of him because he was injured. That's
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  Speaker 2: not the, that's not, because that's definitely not the guy
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  Speaker 2: I saw in camp.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I don't know, that's a long dissertation,
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  Speaker 2: but that's only because, you know, I care about this.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great dude.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I believe if they'd have put in his backup and
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  Speaker 2: they brought him out there, I really do believe that
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  Speaker 2: it would have been a different story.
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  Speaker 3: They'd have probably scored about 30 points. It was that bad.
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  Speaker 2: If you'd have put any one of the two backups
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  Speaker 2: in there, and I forgot his name, Drew Kendall. If
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: they'd have put Drew Kendall in there, they'd have scored maybe...
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  Speaker 2: 30 points, 35 points, as opposed to the 25.
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  Speaker 3: They scored so that's.
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  Speaker 2: How much of a big deal him being out there
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  Speaker 2: there was there were literally i counted like 10 to
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  Speaker 2: 12 plays and was he looked so bad that you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't run anything with the offense jaylen was running for
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  Speaker 2: his life.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't touch anybody or barely touched anybody. And basically,
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  Speaker 1: guys were blowing past him before he got out of
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  Speaker 1: his stance. And then on a couple of the hitch
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  Speaker 1: passes to his side, you saw him just jogging. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even pivot and get over there quick enough to
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  Speaker 1: be a screen for the pass catcher. And you talked
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  Speaker 1: about they put him on IR. and earlier, this is Monday,
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  Speaker 1: so earlier on this day, he was on WIP, and
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  Speaker 1: here's what he said, basically, I played like bleep yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I was a complete liability. It was my fault. I
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  Speaker 1: should not have been out there until I feel healthy.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, someone rolled up on me in practice.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: We got some imaging on it today. Really, the best
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  Speaker 1: plan going forward is to put me on IR and
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: so I can have a good stretch at the back
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: end of the season. I don't think anybody wants to
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: see that again. That was ugly. That was BS. This
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  Speaker 1: is not related to last season. So after listening to
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  Speaker 1: his statement and reading his statement, the first question I
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: asked Barrett is, they knew he was hurt. Why did
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: they even let him play in this game?
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  Speaker 2: You can't really tell Dickerson not to play. He's earned cachet.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: he's a player that, you know, he's going to give
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  Speaker 2: a yeoman's effort. I mean, look what he did. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the championship game when they won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: He goes out there and he felt as though he
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  Speaker 2: had to play simply because Juergens was more hurt than
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  Speaker 2: he was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So he went out and played.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, and you know it all the time
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: and I tell you all the time, you can't trust
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  Speaker 2: athletes when it comes to injuries.
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  Speaker 1: You just can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're going to want to play. We've got that
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  Speaker 2: type of we've got that type of hard-headedness. And we
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  Speaker 2: want to go out there and be players.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? And that's the problem. We
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  Speaker 3: want to be players. And, you know, think we can
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  Speaker 3: fight through anything.
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  Speaker 2: And he gave a yeoman's effort to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and play what he did this time, you know, on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: He tried. He did the best he could. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was held together by duct tape and bubble gum.
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  Speaker 3: And for him to go out there and play, it
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  Speaker 3: just goes to show that he's a competitive player. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to go out there and make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: So, I applaud that effort, but, you know, to the
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  Speaker 2: detriment of the team he played, he shouldn't have played.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he understood it when he was out
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  Speaker 2: there doing it. He couldn't move. He knew he couldn't move.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell you what, most of all, you.
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  Speaker 3: Got to look. Jalen Hurst was like, y'all see what's
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: going on? Help me.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Help me.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Help us.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Help me.
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  Speaker 3: Help us. What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jalen did a great job avoiding pressure, getting
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  Speaker 2: out the huddle. You know, but he did, man, he
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  Speaker 2: tried his best, man, and I applaud his effort.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I applaud his effort, man.
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  Speaker 1: How surprised were you that Washington brought consistent heat the
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  Speaker 1: way they did? Obviously, they have a new defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: in Durante Jones. He's a direct disciple of Brian Flores
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. And obviously Washington has a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: players on defense. Man, they were bringing the heat almost
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: every down. They were coming up the middle. They were
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: coming off the edges. I don't think the Eagles were
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  Speaker 1: ready for that. And the offensive line in particular was
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: not ready. Washington backed off a lot of the pressure
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  Speaker 1: in the early part of the third quarter, and then
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  Speaker 1: they ramped it up again once they figured, hey, we
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: got a chance to do something here. But I was
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: surprised that the Eagles had the consistent problem. And the
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  Speaker 1: one play that rookie style blew up, Saquon, I mean
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: blew him up, But you shocked at the way Washington
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: kept bringing the heat on Jalen Hurts?
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• 17:13
  Speaker 2: No, because the game counts. That wasn't preseason. So since
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the game counts, I'm going to pull out all the stops.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: And I just go to show we're a far better
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: team than they are because they gave everything in the
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: kitchen sink to beat us, and they couldn't. We weren't healthy,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: and they still didn't beat us. We got a new
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator like they had a new offensive coordinator. You know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: they had a defensive coordinator. But, I mean, this is,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you know, they did what they needed to do to
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: try to make the game as competitive as they could.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: You know, especially with their offensive line.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: And their offensive line played well also.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But they were able to take advantage and end-game coaching
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: do a great job of stopping the run game by
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: doing something as simple as sending the linebackers through the gaps.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: They see a gap open up, just run straight through.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And the Eagles off of the line are still learning
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: how to run this track blocking that they used. See,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: track blocking is where you're blocking an area. You're blocking
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: a space as opposed to blocking somebody that's there. Well,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: if nobody's there, you keep going out. Well, you keep
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: going out and that linebacker comes through and you've gone
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: out too far and you can't get back, that's hard.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? That takes a level of
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: understanding that they aren't at right now. They don't know
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: how to do it. So, I mean, that's what it was, man.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It was more so they need to be taught how
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: to do the scheme a little bit. They need to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: be coached on the finer parts of running that zone-blocking concept.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And once they do learn it, I mean, it could
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: be great.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So that's why I say I wasn't as mad at
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the fact that They didn't run the balls consistently because
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: you can't open up the offense without doing it because
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you got to run play action.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: You got to do stuff like that. We weren't able
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: to do it because we didn't run it consistently.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: But I saw some things that even with us not
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: running it right because we didn't know how to run
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it right.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: We still don't have the hang of it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: There was still some good plays in there to give
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: hope in that situation.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You were talking about Jalen a little bit earlier and
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: he was running for his life most of the day.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: But When he had to, he stood tall and made
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: some big plays with his legs and his feet. You know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you know, they were talking about how they're going to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: have more design running plays.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: In this case, though, he was running for his life
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: out of necessity. When things weren't open, he didn't hesitate
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: to take off. And he had a big run there
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: for what, 18 yards. You know, that really kept the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: momentum in their favor in a lot of ways. He
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: threw the ball away when he had to, made some
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: nice throws at the Octavian Wicks, and that throw he
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: made to Devontae Smith on the sideline right over the shoulder,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. You know, again, let me reiterate,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: playing for as many different coordinators as this man has
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: played for in his NFL tenure, and the man is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: a winner. Basically, plain and simple, he is a winner.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: His winning percentage in a regular season is 750. He's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: been to two Super Bowls. He won a Super Bowl.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He was a Super Bowl MVP. What else do you
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: want for him? Now, people say I'm a Jalen hater,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and I don't care what people say because... I've gone
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: on the record applauding this man's efforts when it's warranted.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And I've also critiqued him on the other side when
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it's warranted as well. But I am a fan of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. Your thoughts on what he's able to do.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And again, limited reps coming into a game, the first
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: game of the season against a hated divisional foe, bullets
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: flying for real. And he had pedestrian numbers, but they
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: were efficient numbers.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: If you'd have told me and you gave me a
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: stat line of 202 yards passing, 47 yards rushing, three
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: thrown touchdowns. I'd have took that all day and twice
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. I'd have took those numbers and said, we
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: won the game. And we won the game. We were
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: imperfect in running the offense effectively. And he still had
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: those type of numbers. He still got a beautiful deep ball.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Sean Mayhew, is getting used to calling plays, and the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: repertoires that he's going to open up and give are
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: going to be amazing also. So I was positive in
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: how Jalen just effectively ran the offense. He knew where
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the ball was supposed to go. He got the ball
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: where it was supposed to go. When he was back
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: there and it was a decision to run, it wasn't
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a hesitation.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: He took the decision when it got the first downs.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: He wasn't running phonetically out there just to run around.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: And one of the big things, and a pet peeve
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of mine, when he did get pressure and he did
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to run to the sideline, he threw the ball and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: he didn't get the sack.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He threw the ball.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Down the field, threw it out of bounds to avoid
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: negative yardage.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: So to me, he learned a lot from last year,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: number one.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He learned the offense from Sean Mannion, and those two
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: are teaming up, and they're going to get more and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: more combined in this offense.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: This offense is great for him, and I.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Think he felt comfortable in his day one introduction to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: run at full speed in real conditions. I think he said, yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I can do this, and it's only going to get
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: better as he goes. So, yeah, this is going to
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: be very, very good. It's going to be very effective. So, man,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: keep going. I just can't wait, man. So I think
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Jalen did a great job of executing the offense, making
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: great decisions, getting the ball out of his hands when
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: he had to, hitting his receivers when they were open,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: getting guys to the line, getting them, you know, making sure,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you know, because they only had one time where they
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: made a, you know, it was a play where, you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the big long play to win.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: And, you know, they didn't get the ball out.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But, see, that happens a lot anyways because when you
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: throw the ball that far down the field.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: The offensive line has to get down. You know, everybody's
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: got to get down. They've got to get set. He's
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: got to get the play in, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: And the play clock starts going as soon as the ball,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you know, so he's got to go farther distance.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: So that kind of happens sometimes.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But now Jalen showed his displeasure in it, and they're
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: going to make sure they get the ball to him
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: more timely next time.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Are you surprised still at this stage of his career?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And you heard me a moment ago highlight, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: his career as a professional quarterback and the accomplishments that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: he's had, something that a lot of quarterbacks in the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: National Football League for the duration of their careers never
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: get to achieve. Are you surprised still that there's so
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: much indifference towards Jalen, not just locally, but also the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: national pundits as well? You know, another quarterback could have
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a similar day like Jalen and say, oh, he just
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: had an off day. But when it comes to Jalen,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he's critiqued differently than most quarterbacks. And for the life
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of me, I've never been able to figure out why.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He has never said anything negatively or controversial to get
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: himself in trouble. You don't see him out in public
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: doing things he shouldn't do. If anything, he doesn't give you,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: when he talks to the media, he doesn't give you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a whole lot you can gravitate towards and hold on to.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: All he does is simply go about his business and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: finds a way to win more times than not. And yet,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's still not good enough for a lot of people
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: out there And I don't think I've ever seen a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: situation like this where a quarterback is critiqued in the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: manner in which he is week in and week out.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: D-Gun, you're absolutely right, man. And I don't get it either.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Look at his numbers. He's not that far from the
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: best quarterbacks in the league. And the biggest number is
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: his winner percentage. The fact he's been to two Super Bowls,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: won one. Super Bowl MVP. He should have been a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl MVP in the last one that he lost.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, he lost the game. He's
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: always going to get some negative stuff simply because he
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: was second round pick that they drafted because they're a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: quarterback factory.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: They had already paid a quarterback.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And, you know, and He just doesn't fit the conventional
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: wisdom on what you want as a starting quarterback. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about a black quarterback. I'm talking about
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a starting quarterback. He doesn't have the running speed of
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: somebody like, you know, Baltimore's, what's his name?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Lamar Jackson. Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: He doesn't have the speed of Jackson. He doesn't have
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the arm of Jackson, but yet. He wins more than Jackson.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You go to Buffalo, the same thing. Numbers are almost identical.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: He just goes about winning differently, but he wins. You
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: go anywhere. Now, we're not going to say Patrick Mahomes.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes is a freak of nature, you know. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, he's still up there
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: in winning percentage like, you know, Patty Mahomes. So he
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: just doesn't do it the conventional way, and they got
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: to find something wrong, and they just can't. He's not
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: going to give you, like you said, off-the-field trouble, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: he's not going to give you anything to say when
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: he's in a press conference.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: So how else can they hate on him? By just saying,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: we're just going to.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Think he's an average quarterback once the roster doesn't make
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: them good.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to hear all that. Those other guys
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: got great rosters also.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: But he does it consistently consistently. But he just doesn't
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: do it like everybody else does it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Right, right. You look at this running game, B. Brooks,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and as a team they ran for $ 1. 36. Saquon, 83 yards.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Of course, he broke one off of 42 yards. But
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we saw a lot of what we saw last year,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: him getting hit at the line of scrimmage or getting
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: hit in the backfield when he touched the ball. Can
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we expect to see that all season long again? Because
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: we knew early on in the season in 2025, teams
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: were making a concerted effort to take Saquon out of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the equation. And, man, he took a beating in a
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: lot of ways. He still had, you know, what, almost 1,200
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: yards rushing. But he took a beating in 2025. And
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it appears it's going to be the case again in 2026. So...
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's going– it was a balanced game on Sunday. What,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: 25 pass, 25 run? Balanced attack. I think if this continues, though,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to force this Eagles team to put the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: ball up in the air a lot more.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I think that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: With the new offense and how they're going to call
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the run plays, I think that it's going to be
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: totally different than what the NFL is used to seeing.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: They will have checks and balances.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Which will help them out and get that running game going.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Like I said, they got a few things they got to,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: you know, tweak here and there. They may have to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: tighten up their points on the offensive line of getting
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to that, you know, because they tried to get outside,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: so they had wider.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Steps to get to where they needed to go.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: So they need to tighten that up a little bit,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: you know, how they run, and then that way they don't,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: If they do bring a linebacker, there'll be somebody there
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: to pick that linebacker up. And once you get a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: block on a block and you bring that linebacker, what's
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: after that linebacker?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: The safety.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So you get a hat on a hat and you
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: get Saquon one-on-one with a safety. So it'll be a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: lot different on what you see next Sunday than what
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you saw this Sunday.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: They'll tighten up their advantage points of where they're supposed
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: to be at.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: They'll see where they're supposed to go.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: They'll read things more effectively, and then they'll take care
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: But, man, you can start running the linebackers up like
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: you want to.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, keep running the linebackers up, and they'll see big
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: plays from everywhere because you're trying to stop them. You're
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: trying to break it up. So that's how you break
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: up zone running plays with penetration. Penetration kills all run plays.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So if you're trying to stop a team from running
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the zone, you've got to get penetration up the field.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Make the runner back slow his feet down.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: They're not going to be able to do that because
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: once they tighten up the marks, the landmarks are where
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: their heads are supposed to go. And the landmarks are
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: seeing the linebackers come through and they get the linebackers.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: And now nobody's in Saquon's face because they got the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: linebacker that was in the backfield this time.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Now there's nobody at.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: That second level. So then he's getting to the third level.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And that's when things start happening. You know, even teams
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: will start running stunts like E.T. stunts in the middle. And, man,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you mess around and cut off one of those guys
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that is supposed to be in one gap. You cut
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: him off from being in that gap. And that means
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you have two guys in one gap. And he's one-on-one
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: with the linebacker. Bro, these goals are going to start
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: opening up so much. So they got off. They did
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: their thing this last game. And they showed them what
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: they need to work on. But the same thing make
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you laugh, make you cry. You want to send linebackers
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: and stop the run? Go ahead and send linebackers and
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: stop the run.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Not only do.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: You, you know, lessen your chance of really getting Saquon
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: with a linebacker in the second level, you're going to
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: have a whole second level over them. But then when
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: they start running play action, you send that linebacker. Who's
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: going to be in that void that you just sent
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: that linebacker? Now you got a Dallas Goddard roaming in
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the middle of that defense. You got, you know, I
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: know they tried to force Lemon to be that guy,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: but now you got Smitty.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: You got your wicks.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: You got all these guys in the middle of that
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: defense with no linebacker to cover them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Then you have to bring a safety down to cover
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: the safety. Man, you can't cover.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Everybody when you do that. So you just take one
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: more guy. You're taking these guys out of coverage. Who's
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: going to take their spaces? So it's going to open
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: up the offense immensely. So this will be one of
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: those opportunities that like, all right, you guys got your
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: shot off.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Wait, just wait. The rest of the league will be
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: on notice after this. They'll be on notice.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You were mentioning Dallas Goddard, and what a game he
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: had to come out of the gates in 2026. A
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, 77 yards receiving. And here's a guy,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it appears on the outside looking in, that the Eagles
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: have done everything they could possibly do to try to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: get rid of this guy over the last couple of years.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And all he does is keep producing. And I tell
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you what, he got a little bit more speed in
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: this stage of his career than I thought he had.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: when he broke that one for the touchdown, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: but you know, he's a warrior. He's becoming the accomplished block.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He's a complete tight end. He's, he's an accomplished blocker. Now,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: obviously he wasn't that when he came into the league,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: but he is now shorthanded catcher. And he's basically the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: safety valve. And let's face it in this offense, which
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is a direct derivative of what green Bay ran. The
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: tight end is an integral part of this offense. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: we got to see that in this particular game against Washington.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You know, tight ends are always the quarterback's best friend,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: number one. Yeah, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: They're a big target. Number two, that's the easiest pass
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: to get to him. And number three, he's just like,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I'm going to start calling Jalen Hurts Linus. And if
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you ain't seen Peanuts or Charlie Brown, he's Linus. Always
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: has his blanket. Well, yes, Goddard is his safety blanket.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: He needs that guy. And they have a.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Lot of camaraderie together. They, you know, they vibe.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And, you know, he's going to look for Goddard. You know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Goddard's going to be one of his main targets because,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: number one, he's got production. Number two, he's playing.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: At an elite level.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You know, not many guys, you know, have, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: 14 touchdowns in the last, you know, season and one game,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: you know, including the playoffs. You know, I mean, so
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: he's a threat. And I think, you know, more and
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: more teams are going to have to account for him,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: which means now you can't bracket Smithy. Hmm. And once
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: you don't bracket Smitty, now he's going to take advantage
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: of guys. And you bracket Smitty, which opened up Wicks.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: And Wicks had a great game. I mean, everything goes
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: hand in hand, man. So you can't stop them all.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And once we get used to running this offense full speed,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you're going to see it all.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Devontae Smith only had three catches. And obviously,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Washington made a concerted effort to take him out of
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the game. But I love what he said after the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: game about it. He said he told Dontavion Wicks, you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: got to pick it up. You got to take over.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: They're going to try to take me out. You got
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to take it over. We're not used to hearing that
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: because there was a number one receiver a year ago.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: If he didn't get the ball, he would send you
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: cryptic messages, whether through social media or in very limited
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: conversations he would have. with the media, but I love
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: his demeanor in terms of, look, if they're going to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: take me away, somebody else has got to step up,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and that's what this offense is about in the passing game.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You don't have a definitive number one. If you look
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: how they ran this offense in Green Bay, you don't
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: have the so-called definitive thousand-yard receivers. You had four or
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: five guys catching five, six, seven hundred yards worth of receiving. Now,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Devontae's Overall, numbers may suffer if this offense plays it
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: out the way I think it's going to play it out.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But it's also going to give him an opportunity to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: be more of a big play receiver because if other
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: guys start stepping up and do what they're supposed to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: do and all of a sudden they get the numbers,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: then you're going to have a defense that's going to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: start shying away from Devontae, trying to shade over and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: cheat to help out on another side. Boom, there he
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: is right there getting the ball. But I love his demeanor.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: It's not about me. It's always about we.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Not selfish. Unselfish guy, man. You know what I'm saying?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: And usually I'll say that about receivers. Receivers are one
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: of the most selfless positions in the league. They're definitely
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: not selfless. But you got a guy who just wants
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: to win. And I think that comes from a Nick
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Saban-led team where it's all about the team.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: It's all about winning. And that's what he's all about.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: He wants to win.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So you understand, they're going to run cloud coverage. Cloud
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: coverage is when you have two deep safeties. And whenever
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: you have a guy like, you know, Smitty right there,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: They're going to cloud him. They're going to bring, make
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: sure there's a safety over the top of him, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: maybe a linebacker and a cornerback to really, you know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: high-low him.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: They're always going to double cover him.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: They're always going to put him in a position where
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: he's never going to be by himself.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: When you put him by himself, look what happens. Just
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: like when they motioned over, and he got that big
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: play with the toe tap. That's all by design, and
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: they designed it to help Smitty get open from that
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: cloud coverage.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Manny said, all right, this is what I'm going to do.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: We're going to go, and they're going to go man-to-man,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to run this play. And guess who
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: they had over?
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Rasul Douglas.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Rasul Douglas, yeah.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: He was never really fast when he was here. Now
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: he's into his ninth or tenth year. He's definitely never
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: gotten any faster. So that's one-on-one with a guy that,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you know, they could take advantage of. So they took
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: advantage of Rasul, you know. I mean, even though Rasul
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: has played well. You know, he played well yesterday.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: He made some plays yesterday, but they took advantage of
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: that matchup knowing that he can't cover Smitty. And that's why,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you know, boom, catch.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Toe tap.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: And we know Jalen throws some of the prettiest deep
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: balls in the league.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: This team will be ready, man. And a lot of
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: people say I got green colored glasses.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I got green colored glasses. Not rose, but green colored glasses.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: But that's only because I see what I see. I
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: break down what I break down. I watched the film again.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I saw the negative plays. I diagnosed the negative plays.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I took why the negative plays worked and what they
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: need to work on. So I'm going to see next
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: week when I diagnose the plays, see if they cross
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: that inefficiency out. See if they cross this inefficiency out.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: See if they work on this right here. Did they
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: go back to the things they do well? I mean,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to break down.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: This is a book. You know, this is my dissertation
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: that I'm writing. You know what I'm saying? So at
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the end of the season, I'll get my doctorate. You
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying? I'm going to keep writing and
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: keep writing and breaking it down.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And as I see things going, I'm going to give
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: you viewers, you know, a taste of what I saw.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a little bit of what
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do. So, you know, this is what
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: football is all about. I just love the fact that
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I've seen the potential and I've been in that offense before.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I've seen the potential of what it can do and
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: how it can help. So, yes, you know, I'm going
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: to look that way. It's not like this roster is bad.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: This is a great roster.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? We just don't have a
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: lot of depth.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: But you'll see Drew Kendall come in.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Drew Kendall will definitely play.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: And we also got that little wrestling fireball, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: saying that, you know, ready to play also, you.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Know, Willie Lampkin.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: So it will be okay.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: 5'11, 290.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: But he's a– man, he's a fireball, man. He's a player.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: He's a player.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to the other side of
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the ball. And I want to single out two players
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: in particular. I'm going to start with Zach Bond because
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I thought– Overall, Zach Vaughn was the MVP of the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: defense on Sunday. The man had 12 tackles. He had
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: seven solo tackles. He was all over the field, man.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Stuffing running plays, knocking down passes, defending pass plays. Zach
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Vaughn is worth every dollar that the Philadelphia Eagles are
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: paying that man.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It's almost like we're spoiled because we go into the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: offseason– Then we turn around, we go into fall camp,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and he's just doing his thing.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: He's not saying anything to anybody.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: We're not paying attention to him because we're spoiled in
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the aspect that once those lights come on, 53 going
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: to be there. We're just used to that. We know
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: that 53 going to show up. We know that Zach
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Bond's going to make some pivotal plays, and we ain't
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: got to worry about it. And that's us being spoiled
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: because we know we got something special in him. But, man,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. He just diagnosed it. I mean,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: it was that third and three. I think it was
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: third and three or maybe third and one. And he
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: shot the gap. They ran inside zone to the open side,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: you know, to the guard to tackle. And they had
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: everybody else on the other side. And he had to
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: stay backside with Will Backers. So he stays backside, reads
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: his keys. As soon as he sees the opener, pow,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: he darted into the hole, hits the running back. And
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: by that time when he hits him, Everybody else comes
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and gangs tackle.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Boom. Fourth and one. Fourth and one. Let's get off
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the field.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and punt.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: You know, we're just used to that. That is man
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: on man. You know, they're coming out. They're on like
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: the 20-something yard line. They're coming out. And he's got
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the running back man to man. Running backs have a
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: pretty good game against. He's got a man to man.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: on a screen play where they try to sneak the
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: guard out. And, you know, the running back kind.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Of bows out.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: And as he's bowing out, he's got him man-to-man. And
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: the guard knows he has to get the mugger. We
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: call the mugger is the man-to-man guy.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: So he's the mugger. So Zach Bond's the mugger. He's
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: got to get out and get him.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: He reads the play, sees he has a man, he
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: outflanks the guard, gets the field, bam, tackle for loss.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: We're just used to that. We're used to seeing it,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: so we're spoiled, man. I love that kid, man. He
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: can ball. He can ball, man.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I know they are pissed off with the Saints that
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: they let that guy leave their locker room.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Your guy, Jomo, man, he's overshadowed by Davis and Carter,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: but he is really coming to his own None bigger
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: than now he deciphered that shovel pass for the two-point
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: conversion and blew that play up. You know, he's going
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to get his money eventually. You know, his time is coming. But, man,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: can you talk about how you've watched him develop over
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the last year or so and become a dominant force
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: in the trenches?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: His penetration that he gets up the field is phenomenal.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Like I say, how do you kill a run play?
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Get penetration. Make the running back stop their feet. He
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: gets up the field so quick, and he's so exposed
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: to getting up the field. And we already know on
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: pass plays, he can do.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: The same thing. Well, I sat back and how he
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: did it.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: He got up the field, he hit his guy, but
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: then he saw the guard pull, and he followed him.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Came around it, and he saw that tight end, bam,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: made the play. Any other time I've been like, you know, hey,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Coach Bowe, the new officer coordinator. Yeah, David Blau, yeah.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: David Bly, why would he run that play?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: We could have ran that play with Dallas Goddard, and
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: it would have probably worked.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: But he's trying something new. You know, he's trying to
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: see what works, what doesn't work.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: That didn't work.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: But I love the fact that we were ready to play.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: They could have won the game. You know, they did
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: a great, fantastic job of just blowing that play up, man.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: And that just goes to show how the team is.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: They're on their P's and Q's, man.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: They're ready, man.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: You know, they.
• 41:44
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• 41:46
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• 41:49
  Speaker 3: You know, we got three great quarters, even though Coop.
• 41:53
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• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll win.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: It's time to stop.
• 41:58
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• 42:01
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  Speaker 1: Covering Stephon Diggs is not an easy assignment for anybody,
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  Speaker 1: that kid Williams can flat out play too, that rookie
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  Speaker 1: that got there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know. But I wonder how much he misses his
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• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the safety blanket. I wonder how much he misses blanket,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: blanking ship, you know. Yep. You know, obviously. Blank, blank. Yeah. But, yeah, Coop, Coop, hey, Coop,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: summer's over, man. Time to ball, bro. You know, you
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: got a lot of accolades for being that slot guy, dude.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: And you know what? You got exposed a little bit
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: in this game. But, you know, obviously, there's still 16
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: games to get better, man. And we know you're going
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to get it done. But, man, that was a little
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• 46:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad he got it done early and we
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  Speaker 2: still won the game. I'm glad because I know he's
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: going to come back. He's going to evaluate the film.
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  Speaker 2: And he knows he can't play like that. He can't continue.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: But they need him too much. And– you know, sometimes,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: you know, you, you feeling yourself a little bit, you
• 46:20
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  Speaker 3: A sudden the NFL will bring you back down to
• 46:23
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• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: You know, they'll show you how human you are and, and,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: and not saying he hadn't worked hard. He probably has
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: worked hard. You know, in fact, what I saw, he
• 46:32
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• 46:36
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• 46:38
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• 46:40
  Speaker 2: get you motivated, get you ready to go out there
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: and ball. And he had his early, he had his,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: the first game. And, I doubt seriously you see him
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: work like that again, you know. He just wasn't technically sound. And,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: you know, he'll get back to what he needed to
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: do to be that pro bowler that he's been the
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: last couple years.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I got to give the back end of that defense
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit, though, because, man, they did a
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: yeoman's job on Terry McLaurin. I mean, Terry McLaurin has,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: you know, been an Eagles killer for many years.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: He's on kryptonite, wasn't he?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, man.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: He's on kryptonite, yeah.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, look, man, Terry McLaurin, He was in the witness
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: protection program Sunday because you didn't even hear from him
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. He only ended up with two
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: catches for 14 yards. But, you know, historically, he's one
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: of only four Washington Redskins to ever go over 1,000
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: yards career-wise against the Philadelphia Eagles defense. But, man, you know,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Quinion Mitchell shot him down. They put him in the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: dirt all day long. And, you know, that's where it
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: starts because he's been the biggest threat against the Eagles
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: for years. And, Ben, I can't say enough about what
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: they did in terms of taking him out of that game.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Well, Quinion Mitchell took his lunch money. Give me that
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: lunch money.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Give me that lunch money. You know, and Quinion said, look,
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not playing.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: I came to work. You know what I'm saying?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Like, you could tell his focus this entire offseason, his
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: focus in camp, his focus going into this game. He
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: ain't got no time. He ain't playing with nobody. He
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: ready to ball. He know he about to get paid.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: He going to make sure you're going to get your
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: money's worth. You know what I'm saying? And even going
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: from him, I think Davis had a great game also.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Davis balled out.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: And the big fella up front, Carter, it was clash
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: of the types. Cosme is a really good guard. He's
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: a first-round draft choice out of Texas. I wanted to
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: draft him here. They did the right thing, put him
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: at guard. His arms were a little too short to
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: play tackle. They drafted him to tackle. They moved him
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: to guard. He's been Very effective. Man, it was one-on-one battles,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: him and Carter.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: They were going at it, you know what I'm saying?
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: And that's what you want to watch, football, you know?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: It's not like, you know, Carter took any plays off
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: or anything. Carter was balling, too. It was tit for tat.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: I beat you this play, you beat me that play.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: They went back and forth. That was great football. That's
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: must-see TV. I just took, I went back and watched
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the film over just to watch them two. Watch them
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: fight and battle, you know, all day. So, man, that
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: was a great, that was a great battle.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: I know right now that Carter's a little mad.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: He's a little pissed off that he didn't go off
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: like he wanted to. But that's good.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't like he wasn't getting his butt kicked
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: or anything. It was just two really good players battling
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: the entire day.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: That defense, though, in the fourth quarter did look a
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: little gassed. And when you spend a whole game chasing
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels around, man, you know, that's a heck of
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: an assignment because the Eagles were getting good pressure on him.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: But every time you thought they were about to get
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: him down, I mean, they officially got him down one time.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: But he will step up, step to the outside, step
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to the middle, take off and run. You know, that's
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: a lot to ask, man. When that kid's healthy, he's
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: like Houdini, man. And you can tell that defense was
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: a little gassed. And I'm going to attribute it to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: You know, first game of the season, adrenaline's pumping. You know,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: it was hot, high humidity in this game. It's not
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: an excuse. It's a fact of what it was. But
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: you can tell that defense at times was getting a
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: little winded there in that fourth quarter. That's what I'm saying.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: The offense has got to do their part to be
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: three and outs in the second half. So when they
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: do that, and then they start running the rock on
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: them too, that's hard because when you run the rock,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: it takes a little long for them to get back up.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: You know, from getting chop blocked, you know, linebackers get
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: back up. So, They were effective in.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Running the rock.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I will say this.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: The reason why, and I'm not making an excuse, but
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: you got to know who you're rushing to. And you're
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: rushing a guy that's great at, you know, going out
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: there and evading guys and picking up crucial yardage and
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: playing frenetically outside the pocket. He's a great guy at
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: doing that. So, you know, you got to treat Den
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Daniels as a guy that, you know, you have to
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: rush him a different way.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm glad that our defensive.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Ends played the way they played. And everybody's like, oh,
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: they didn't have any sacks. It wasn't a sack game.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: You had to be selfless in this game when you
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: were a defensive end in this game. You had to
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: stay in your rush lane. You couldn't rush around him
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: because he'd go up underneath that and run for big yardage.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: You had to rush him through the tackles. That means
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: you had to engage the tackles and drive him into
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: the Jaden Daniels. So you're not trying to take a side.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: You take a side, he's going to make you feel
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: bad because he's going to be able to get out
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: and evade you to the other side.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: You've got to drive him through. And they had to
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: push the pocket.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: We call it mush rushing, but I think they did
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal job of just... you know, corralling him and
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: keeping him in. He got away a couple of times,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: you know, but, you know, everybody's human and he sometimes
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: is unhuman the way he played and the way he
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: was juking guys and spinning and everything else. But that's
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: what he could have done if they would have rushed
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: the conventional way and just try to go get theirs.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: You can't do that. You got to collapse the pocket.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: You got to rush through the tackle to the the quarterback,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and I think they did a great job of that.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: So everybody's like, oh, Jada Hunt. He was still, him
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: and both him, Nolan and Hunt were this close to
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: getting sacks, but they didn't get out their rush lane.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: So you got to get them guys, you know, you
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: got to, and I'm going to make sure that I
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: tell everybody when I talk about this, that yes, they
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: did rush the pass the way we're supposed to.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: You had to stay in your lane. You couldn't go
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: out there and play hero.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: And as soon as you try to play hero ball,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: you'll make him the hero because he can get out
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: there and run.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Here he is.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: You work your butt off on first, second down, and
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: you get the third down, and you want to go
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: be the hero. And all of a sudden, he makes
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: you feel bad, look bad because you brush outside.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: He runs up on a Niki for a first down.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: So everybody's work. You know what I'm saying?
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: The other 10 guys on that field did everything they
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: were supposed to do, but you didn't do what you
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: were supposed to do.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: So I love the fact that Hunt did it. Epiketty
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: did it. Epineza did it.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: All those guys rushed through the tackles to him, which
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: allowed them to then keep him ground and make him
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: beat them from the pocket.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: And he couldn't beat them from the pocket because we
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: ended up winning.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Were you surprised, though, at the success Washington was having
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: in a running game? Not to the outside, but they
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: were picking them four, five, six, eight yards in the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: middle of their defense. And I was surprised that for
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: four quarters, now the Eagles defense did stand tall at
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: times when it had to, but Washington had 132 yards rushing,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and they were getting the bulk of their yards between
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: the tackles.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I was surprised at that, but once I watched the film,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: like I said, watched the film, filmed the film, just
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: kept watching the film, I saw that they were a
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: play away from making a big play.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: And sometimes... you know, Campbell would run under a block
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: instead of over a block.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: He'd run in the same gap as the tackle was,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: or the tackle would take a gap, and he's not
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: supposed to take a gap.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: And he's trying to, you know, undercut it, and he's
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: supposed to stay out of his gap.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: It was just one little thing that kept them from
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: keeping it bottled up, and that's what it was. You know,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like there was anything glaring of, you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: anybody getting their ass kicked or anything like that.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: It wasn't anything like that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: It was more so an assignment bust, gap integrity, those
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: little things that kept them from being a dominant run
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: play for the entirety of the game.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: First half, they balled out.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: They kept them.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: They balled out.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Second half, with the offense going three and out and
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: guys trying to get off the field, sometimes they would.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Undercut blocks and try to run around plays.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: You can't do that with an offensive line that they're
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: trying to run it just so they can keep from
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: passing it.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: So, you know, they'll clean up their mistakes. They'll clean
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: up their mistakes. They won't be running through the same gap.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: They won't be trying to jump gaps. They won't be
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: doing that stuff. You know, they're going to make sure
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: that they stay focused. And we know, you know, Vic
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Fangio is going to have guys on the right page.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: He's going to look at them. He's going to cuss
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: them out. This film study. And they'll see what they
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: did wrong. And they'll fix what they did wrong. And
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: they'll play a more solid defense than they did. They're
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: going to play the Titans. They better blow the Titans
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: out because when you got a Jets team that blew
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: out the Titans, you better blow them out. And I'm
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: not accepting anything like we just had. We're just barely winning. No,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: we need to blow the Titans out.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Now, if the Eagles were giving out game balls, and
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: they do, teams give out game balls for a win.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: If there's one guy who deserved a game ball, it
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: was Braden Mann. The dude there was 51 yards a punt. Man,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. He had that one punt, what,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: with 64 yards? And the way he kept pinning Washington
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: deep in their own territory, oh, my goodness. Nobody deserves
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a game ball more so than that man.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: So why is it that when I'm doing my post-game
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: show and I say Braidman is my MVP, everybody looks
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: at me crazy?
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I keep telling people he was my MVP last year.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Because you are crazy. You are a little crazy. So what?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: But still, Braidman is one of the best players on
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: the team.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Period.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: I keep telling people that. Braidman is a baller. He
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: should be a pro bowler. Last year, he averaged 49
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: yards a punt.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: 49.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: It should have been 50 because it was 49.5. 49.5.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: He was.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: 5 away from averaging 50 yards a punt. And he
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: all the time pinned those guys down and made them
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: do the entirety of the field. He wants you to
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: go the long way on the field. Brady Mann's my MVP.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: That's my guy. Say what you want to say. That's
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: my guy.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: And the way he worked the sidelines on some of
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: his punts, too, you know, putting it down to the six,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: the nine-yard line. I'm like, man, this dude, I don't think,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I think he's like an unsung hero. But
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: then again, how many punters get a lot of accolades
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: in a national football league? None.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: And they shouldn't.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: No, whatsoever. And they shouldn't. All the time, kickers and punters,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: do your job. We don't want to know your name.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: We don't know what number you are. We don't care
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: to talk to you. We just want you to do
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: your job. And that's what they do. They go do
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: their job.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Now, up next for the Eagles, as you mentioned, is
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. This is a team that's in a
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: rebuilding stage. They don't have a third of the talent
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: on that team that the Eagles do. But what they
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: do have is Robert Sala, who's one of the best
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: defensive minds in the game. So I expect Robert Sala
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: to try to emulate a lot of what Washington did
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: in terms of you know, blitzing gaps coming off edges,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: coming off different angles, exotic looks in the trenches, so
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. Yeah. But the good thing is
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Tennessee's offense can't score yet.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: So that defense is crazy because they got the best
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: offensive minds in the league.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: But they don't have, they don't have the personnel yet.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: They have a few, they have the quarterback in the future,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: but they still don't have the offensive personnel yet. You know,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: And with that said, they only scored 10 points against
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: the Jets. Are you kidding me? And the Jets put
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: up 23? Jets put up 23? If the Eagles don't
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: score at least 30 in this game, and of course
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: we know the Eagles' offense is nowhere near what we
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: expect it to be, but if the Jets score 23,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the Eagles better put up 30 in this game.
• 58:20
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• 59:00
  Speaker 4: got the big receiver, Cornell Tate, from Ohio State in
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: their first round.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: They got Wendell Robinson. He's a carryover from the New
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: York Giants.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: From the Giants, yeah.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: They got Calvin Ridley. He's pretty good. Started his career.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: How old is Ridley now?
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Let me see. Let me see. He got drafted in 18.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: 31 years old.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: 31 years old. Which is considered old for a wide receiver,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: you know. Yes, yes.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Around Jacksonville.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he may have a little gas in
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the tank, but still, you know. I mean, his players
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: and the team are still evolving offensively. Yes, yes. You know,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: they're not an offensive juggernaut, you know. So that's why
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I said the Eagles should be able to cruise in
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: this game. Build a lead, let your defense pin back
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: its ears, and cruise to the finish line and start
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: the season off 2-0.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: They better.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: They better.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: They better come to win and not play a round.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I want to see Lane to be able to go
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: sit down and have some Gatorade by the third, fourth quarter.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: That's what I need to see, man. You just got
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: to understand, you can't let teams play around. You can't
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: give teams hope. Everybody out there is an NFL player.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: I tell people all the time, an NFL player goes
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: against an average Joe, it's still an NFL player. Even
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: the worst NFL player in the league can ball. When
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: you let them hang around They'll stick around.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: And end up beating you. So they got to make it,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: you know, they got to kill them softly but fast. B.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Brooks, always a pleasure chopping it up, talking football with you. And,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: of course, Barrett Brooks and I will be here each
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: and every week after an Eagles game to talk about
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: what the Eagles do, the pluses, and hopefully very few minuses.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Barrett, I expect you to be here unless
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you go off on some exotic fishing trips like you
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: like to do and things like that. Leave me hanging.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Have to find somebody else to fill in until you
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: decide to come back. But I'm looking forward to it, man.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we had a chance
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: to just sit and chat football, and I'm looking forward
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: to doing it with you each and every week, my man.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: I can't believe, man, you let me still talk to you, man.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? You don't like to talk
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: to me. I text you. Why are you texting me, man?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, come on.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Stop lying.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Because I love you, bro.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I only talk to you because my wife makes me
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: talk to you. Hey, look, man. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate it. Hey,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: this has been the first installment of the 2026 Birds Weekly.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: It is presented by the Inside the Birds Network. For
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: my man, one of my favorite people, and I call
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: him a brother because that's the way I see him,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: is family. And my wife made me say that also.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: But he's family to the Gunn family. So until next
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: week after the Eagles do business against the Tennessee Titans,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: for Barrett Brooks, I'm Derrick Gunn. So long, everybody.