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Birds Weekly: Ray Didinger, Derrick Gunn Preview Week 12 Eagles vs. Cowboys Showdown · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, we welcome you to another edition of Birds Weekly,
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Speaker 1: presented by the Inside the Birds Network. For Ray Dettinger,
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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Gunn. It is Cowboys Week, and we know
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Speaker 1: how much in this region we hate those Dallas Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: and we beat them in the season opener and can't
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Speaker 1: wait to pound them on their own turf come Sunday
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Speaker 1: at four twenty five. I believe it is Eastern Standard time.
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Speaker 1: And Raymond, I can't figure this Cowboys team out. They're
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Speaker 1: the halves and the have nots. They have an offense
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Speaker 1: that's ranked third in the league and they can light
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Speaker 1: it up with anybody when that offense is clicking, But
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Speaker 1: they have not done much of anything on defense. They're
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Speaker 1: thirtieth in the league of defense. They're very generous against
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Speaker 1: the run, very generous in points, very generous in the yards.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand how a team can be so good
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Speaker 1: on one side of the ball yet on another side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. But thank you Jerry Jones for putting
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Speaker 1: together another mediocre team.
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Speaker 2: Sure did? I mean? It really is? It really is
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Speaker 2: a team of two faces. It's like the the masks
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Speaker 2: of theater, you know, the smiling mask of the crowning mask. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of what their football team looks like. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're you're right. I mean, when they're on offense, they
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Speaker 2: can move the ball and score on anybody, especially at home.
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Speaker 2: I mean they have been they have been lethal at home.
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Speaker 2: And Dak Prescott's having a terrific year. People saw him
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Speaker 2: probably on Monday night lighting up the Raiders, what one
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Speaker 2: thirty eight point six quarterback rating in that game, four touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the team he's he's really having one of
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Speaker 2: his best years. But you wouldn't know it because of
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Speaker 2: the fact that they're not winning a whole lot of games.
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Speaker 2: It's not his fault, that's a defense. And it would
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Speaker 2: be too simple to just say, well, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: all about trading Michael Parsons. You know, they traded Michael
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Speaker 2: Parsons and no, the problems go way beyond that. Now,
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Speaker 2: if they had him, the probably be better. But Derek,
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Speaker 2: when you watch the film, man, they're bad on every level,
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Speaker 2: they really are. So you know, we've talked so much
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Speaker 2: about the Eagles offense this year and how they sputter
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Speaker 2: and they're three and out and they can't sustain drives
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Speaker 2: and they can't make big plays. And blah blah blah. Well,
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Speaker 2: if they can't move the ball and score against this team,
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Speaker 2: I think we really need to start worrying.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: And Ray, I look at their defensive personnel. They've got
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Speaker 1: players Kenneth Murray, Deron Blind, Donovan Wilson, Malik Hooker to
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Speaker 1: Davian Clowney, Trayvon Diggs. Now he was hurt, Kenny Clark.
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Speaker 1: They got in the trade with green Bank before the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline. They added to Quinyon Williams Dante Fowler, so
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Speaker 1: they have the personnel. And for the life of me,
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Speaker 1: I can't understand why he has not clicked. You would
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Speaker 1: think at some point it would click in the season.
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Speaker 2: But it has.
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Speaker 1: Now that they beat up on teams like they beat
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Speaker 1: the Giants, they beat the Jets, they beat Washington and
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Speaker 1: then on Monday night they beat the Raiders, and of
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Speaker 1: course they tied the Packers, but they can't seem to
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Speaker 1: beat any quality football teams. And for the life of me,
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Speaker 1: with a bunch of names that I just mentioned that oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, they're healthy for this game, that they
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Speaker 1: can't put it all together and become more of a
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Speaker 1: defensive cornerstone than they have.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, even if they were just decent. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: even if they were just decent on that side of
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Speaker 2: the ball, they'd be winning some games because their offense.
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Speaker 2: Their offense is really dangerous. I mean, you know, Cedee
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Speaker 2: Lamb has had his injury issues, so you know, he
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Speaker 2: has not put up the kinds of numbers this year
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Speaker 2: we've seen him put up in the past. But Pickens
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Speaker 2: has come over and he has been really good. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, he had a real big game against the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: He had nine catches, one hundred and forty yards a touchdown.
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Speaker 2: But he's been playing like that really all year. And
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Speaker 2: you know, there's never been any question about his ability.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even in Pittsburgh, everybody knew he was a
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Speaker 2: guy that was talent wise an elite receiver in this league.
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Speaker 2: But at issues, at issues with management, at issues with
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Speaker 2: the coaches, effort wasn't always consistent. And so he leaves
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and comes to Dallas, change of scenery, and he's
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Speaker 2: been very good this year. And their offense and Javon
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Speaker 2: Williams is averaging over five yards to carry, so offensively,
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Speaker 2: they're getting it done, but the defense just can't stop anybody.
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Speaker 2: I was looking at the league's defensive breakdown statistical rankings.
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Speaker 2: If you go through the eleven most what I would
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Speaker 2: consider the most relevant stats. There's a million stats, but
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Speaker 2: the eleven, the eleven top ones that really tell you
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Speaker 2: whether defense is an he could or not, Derek, they
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Speaker 2: ranked twenty first or lower in every one of them,
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Speaker 2: so there's really no aspect of their defense it's functioning well.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're just they are just a hot mess
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Speaker 2: over there. And you know, for an Eagles team that's
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Speaker 2: been having trouble generating much offense, well this might be
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Speaker 2: get well week.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've said that before. I know, I know
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Speaker 1: it doesn't pan out, except maybe against the Giants, but
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Speaker 1: it hasn't panned out for the most part. But you're right, Ray,
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Speaker 1: even though it is down in Dallas. You know, this
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Speaker 1: is the game where the passing games should be fluid,
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Speaker 1: the running games should surpass two hundred yards easily. But
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Speaker 1: this is Eagles and Cowboys. And you know, funny things
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Speaker 1: happened when these two teams seem to get together. Now,
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Speaker 1: you've covered this particular rivalry for a long time, and
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Speaker 1: in the time that I've covered since nineth teen ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that has always fascinated me about this
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Speaker 1: rivalry is that Eagles fans take this rivalry more seriously
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Speaker 1: than the Dallas Cowboys do. I've read stories and I've
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Speaker 1: actually interviewed people when I covered the team and traveled
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Speaker 1: with the Eagles in Dallas, and the majority would say
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Speaker 1: their biggest rivals are either the Giants or the Commanders.
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Speaker 1: And it just blows me away that the Cowboy fans
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Speaker 1: don't perceive this as big of a rivalry as the
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Speaker 1: Eagles do. Other than the fact that the Eagles right
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Speaker 1: now control of the division and the fact that they
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Speaker 1: are the defending Super Bowl champs.
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Speaker 2: Right, I think that's very accurate. There was particularly noticeable.
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Speaker 3: In the eighties in the nineties, Yeah, when you had
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Speaker 3: the when it really and when it really started to
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Speaker 3: heat up with the Buddy Ryan, you know, the Buddy
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Speaker 3: Ryan versus Jimmy Johnson phase of things.
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Speaker 2: But I think it was it was pretty easy to
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Speaker 2: understand why back then, because the people in Philadelphia, they
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Speaker 2: looked at the Cowboys as the Darth Vader team, you
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Speaker 2: know they. I mean, you can look at that from
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Speaker 2: when the series for the starting in the seventies, starting
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Speaker 2: actually in the middle sixties and running through most of
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Speaker 2: the seventies. You went back over that. I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 2: about these numbers. Twenty three times those teams played in
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Speaker 2: those years. Twenty three times.
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Speaker 2: The Cowboys won twenty one of the twenty three times.
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Speaker 2: But this was around a time when the Cowboys had
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Speaker 2: a really hot rivalry going with Washington, you know, so
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Speaker 2: the Dallas fans looked at the then Redskins as that's
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Speaker 2: our team, that's our rival, those are the guys we
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Speaker 2: have to beat. That's where the real animosity was, you know,
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Speaker 2: that's where the real blood boiling kind of thing was
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Speaker 2: there Dallas Washington in those years, Landry versus George Allen,
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Speaker 2: that whole thing. The Dallas fans couldn't get excited about
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Speaker 2: an Eagles team that they were just slapping around twice
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Speaker 2: a year for a decade, so that you didn't have
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Speaker 2: much history, you didn't have much juice in it. Then
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Speaker 2: I think you're kind of getting it now because the
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Speaker 2: Eagles have been the Eagles have now become the team
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Speaker 2: in this division, and they have been for a while.
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Speaker 2: So now you're starting to get a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a little bit of edge built up in Dallas towards
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Speaker 2: the Eagles. But for the Eagles fans, here of a
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Speaker 2: certain generation that grew up during those that two and
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Speaker 2: twenty one stretch, and you know, it'll all the bad guys,
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Speaker 2: the black hat guys will always be the Cowboys. Whenever
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys are good or bad any given year, there's
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Speaker 2: still the Cowboys. And I think that feeling still exists.
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Speaker 2: And nothing makes an Eagle fan happier than a win
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Speaker 2: over the Cowboys, and nothing makes them happier than a decisive,
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Speaker 2: one sided win over the Cowboys. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: what everybody's hoping to see you at Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's easy. The nineteen eighty eighty one Yeah, the
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eighty one championship game. Okay, no, when it
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Speaker 2: all came the NFC Championship Game, the game to go
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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl. Cowboys come into the come into
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Speaker 2: the Vet, play the Eagles on a day when it's
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Speaker 2: below zero. The Eagles do the jersey switcheroo where the
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Speaker 2: Eagles wear white, and they forced the Cowboys to wear
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Speaker 2: they're blue, which back then not so much now, but
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Speaker 2: back then the Cowboy people viewed the blue jerseys as
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Speaker 2: bad luck the Eagles because they were the home team.
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Speaker 2: They said, we're going to take white, made the Cowboys
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Speaker 2: wear the blue. And that was the game. The Eagles
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Speaker 2: went out and beat them twenty to seven, and it
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Speaker 2: was no, the score was not indicative of how one
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Speaker 2: sided it was. I mean the Eagles. That was the game.
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Speaker 2: Wilbert Montgomery second played from scrimmage boom, you know, takes it,
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Speaker 2: takes it to the house, and it was the Eagles day.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the party just went on in Philadelphia
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Speaker 2: all that week and sent the Eagles to the Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl and for the first time, and they lost the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and I really think looking back on it,
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Speaker 2: and some of the players now with the benefit of
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Speaker 2: time in hindsight, look back and say, you know, I
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Speaker 2: really think we played Super Bowl against the Cowboys. You know,
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Speaker 2: we had built everything up, this whole rivalry thing, the Cowboys,
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, the Cowboys. They're coming into our stadium. The
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Speaker 2: fans were fired up. That was our super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: I think they played their Super Bowl that day against
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, And when they went down to New Orleans
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Speaker 2: to play the Raiders, they just couldn't summon up the
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Speaker 2: same kind of emotion. And you know, they went down
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Speaker 2: there and they played probably their poorest game of the season.
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Speaker 2: But I think they filed their super Bowl here against
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. That's the one I remember.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you look at Dek Prescott is having
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Speaker 1: an outstanding year this year. He's completing seventy percent of
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Speaker 1: his passes over twenty five hundred yards and twenty one touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, as we've watched his career evolve,
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Speaker 1: there's something about Deck when he plays the Eagles. I
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Speaker 1: don't care if it's here or there. He's always been
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Speaker 1: a thought in the Eagle side you know, he seems
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Speaker 1: to be crisper in the passing, the pocket department, more
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Speaker 1: accurate in terms of side stepping, pressure, things of this nature.
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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the more uncanny scenarios when
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Speaker 1: you watch a matchup in Pro football that this guy
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Speaker 1: plays like a Hall of Famer every time he comes
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Speaker 1: up against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Speaker 2: He plays well against them. You're right, he really does.
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Speaker 2: And that's been true throughout most of his career. The
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Speaker 2: success when the Eagles have had success against the Cowboys
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Speaker 2: and have had some a lot of times it's been
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Speaker 2: against the backups. You know what that couldn't play the
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Speaker 2: Cooper Russia's the Ben Denucci remember him? Oh yes, I
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Speaker 2: mean some of the you know, some of these backup
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks that the Cowboys have played. Yeah, the Eagles have
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Speaker 2: had really good success against them. Prescott has beaten them
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Speaker 2: more than his share, and they've played well against them.
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Speaker 2: But you know this Eagles defense right now, Derek, I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're playing at a super high level and you look
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Speaker 2: at the I think when Dak is looking at the
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Speaker 2: film this week getting ready for this game, and he's
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Speaker 2: going to be looking at the film of the Eagles
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Speaker 2: Lions game, and he's going to see all those bodies
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Speaker 2: buzzing around Jared Goff. I think Dak Hason spended this
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Speaker 2: week thingk wait a minute. This is a whole different
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Speaker 2: Eagles team that I remember because some of these guys,
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Speaker 2: especially Phillips, has really changed things. But you got you know,
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Speaker 2: Johad Campbell's in there, Na, Kobe Dean's playing at a
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Speaker 2: super high level. The Eagles defense right now is playing
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Speaker 2: probably better than any Eagles defense Dak Prescott has seen
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Speaker 2: to this point. So that's going to be the challenge.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I look, I guess I was wrong
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Speaker 2: this week. I mean I said that the Eagles if
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Speaker 2: they were going to have to score points to beat
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Speaker 2: the Lions, because I thought the Lions were going to
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Speaker 2: score some too, and they didn't. So I'm feeling kind
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Speaker 2: of the same way this week. And the Eagles are
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Speaker 2: going to have to score some to beat the Cowboys
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Speaker 2: the way they're moving the ball. But who knows, Maybe
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Speaker 2: the Eagles defense really is that good. But if it'll
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Speaker 2: be a good tests from what I've seen at the
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Speaker 2: Cowboys this year, especially playing at home, and you saw
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Speaker 2: it again Monday night, are they a great team overall, No,
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Speaker 2: but offensively they're still dangerous.
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Speaker 1: You know, I can see Dak shortening up his passing
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Speaker 1: game against the Eagles on Sunday. You know, he likes
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Speaker 1: to take those deep shots to Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you're right, if he's watching the film
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Speaker 1: and he's watching all the different angles this person's coming from,
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Speaker 1: I can see I can see him shorting up his
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Speaker 1: pass game, and I can see Jake Ferguson being more
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Speaker 1: involved in the passing game, which would play into the
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Speaker 1: Eagles hands if they could keep keep everything in front
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Speaker 1: of them and make the Cowboys dink and dunk and then,
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Speaker 1: like they do, come up with the one big opportunistic
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Speaker 1: play a defense to turn them um of this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and that's fairly typical of Brian Schottenheimer's offensive philosophy.
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Speaker 2: You know, if he's got big play receivers, and he does,
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Speaker 2: you know they'll take their shots down the field. But
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Speaker 2: if they if Dak doesn't like what he sees down there,
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Speaker 2: you know he'll be real quick to lay it off
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Speaker 2: to Ferguson. I mean, you know we've talked about Lamb
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Speaker 2: and Pickings being that they're receiving their chief receivers. But
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Speaker 2: Ferguson actually leads a team in receptions. He's caught more
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Speaker 2: balls than anybody because if Dak, if Dak doesn't feel
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Speaker 2: like he can get it to the other guys, he's
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Speaker 2: going to take it to Ferguson. And Ferguson, you know,
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Speaker 2: he moves the chains a lot offensively. They're pretty good,
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Speaker 2: they really are, and Prescott is playing extremely well, so
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Speaker 2: this will be as good as the Eagles defense is
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Speaker 2: playing right now, and they are playing at a real
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Speaker 2: high level. No people around the league are talking about
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Speaker 2: it too. I mean I've had a couple of emails
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Speaker 2: and a couple of conversations with some people this in
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Speaker 2: the last two weeks about asking me, do you think
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Speaker 2: it's Eagles defense is for real? I mean from what
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Speaker 2: we're seeing now, and I mean people around the lagers
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Speaker 2: atreting a buzz about this now, is how good this
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Speaker 2: Eagles defense is right now? They're they noticed, Okay, so well,
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Speaker 2: this will be a good test here because you know,
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Speaker 2: they certainly shut down the Packers. They absolutely shut down
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Speaker 2: the Lions who were scoring on everybody. This will be
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Speaker 2: another good test taking on this Cowboys offense in Dallas.
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Speaker 2: This will be another good test for this Eagles defense
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Speaker 2: to see just how good they are right now.
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Speaker 1: You know there are those out there, not meaning but
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Speaker 1: those that I'm assuming there could be Dallas backers that
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Speaker 1: that will argue that Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens are
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Speaker 1: the best one two receiver comboy in the NFL. And
19:31
Speaker 1: then stops that pumped the brakes for a minute. Here
19:34
Speaker 1: you have a couple of good wide receivers out there
19:36
Speaker 1: with the Rams. Cincinnati is a couple of good receivers,
19:39
Speaker 1: and of course the Eagles have a couple of good
19:41
Speaker 1: ones as well. Where would you rank the combination Lamb
19:44
Speaker 1: in Pickens.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned the top ones, Yeah, you mentioned that those
19:53
Speaker 2: are probably the four best. Boy Higgins and are good. Yeah,
20:02
Speaker 2: they're really good. And you know they've been playing this
20:04
Speaker 2: whole year with without Joe Burrow. You know if you
20:08
Speaker 2: if you put them with Burrow, you know they might
20:12
Speaker 2: they might be the best. Right now, It's hard to
20:14
Speaker 2: evaluate them with the quarterback position being what it is there. Uh,
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Speaker 2: when they're when they're healthy, might be Lamb and Pickens
20:27
Speaker 2: really might be. I mean they're they're they're very good
20:31
Speaker 2: and they compliment each other very well. And Pickens has
20:33
Speaker 2: been for a guy that throughout his career has been
20:35
Speaker 2: sort of an in and outer. You know, some weeks
20:38
Speaker 2: he looks great. Other weeks you barely see him in
20:40
Speaker 2: the squoreesheet. He's been very consistent this year. And uh,
20:45
Speaker 2: the Eagles, you know, the Eagles, I'm probably are feeling
20:48
Speaker 2: pretty good about themselves right now, coming off the BIE
20:50
Speaker 2: with two big wins, defense playing great. They can't sleep
20:54
Speaker 2: on this game. They really can't. I mean, they can't
20:57
Speaker 2: just decide, oh, the Cowboys aren't any good, you know,
20:59
Speaker 2: and and just make them for granted. Because this team
21:02
Speaker 2: can move the ball, and they can score, and they
21:05
Speaker 2: can and they can make big plays. So they're going
21:08
Speaker 2: to be a test. I think the Eagles defense is
21:11
Speaker 2: more than capable of dealing with it. I'm more interested
21:14
Speaker 2: in the other side of the ball and seeing what
21:17
Speaker 2: the Eagles offense can do against the defense that has
21:22
Speaker 2: so many holes in it right now and is playing
21:24
Speaker 2: so poorly. This could this, to me, could be a
21:26
Speaker 2: game where the Eagles offense really starts to crank it up.
21:29
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, if they don't go down
21:31
Speaker 2: there and move the ball and score a lot of points.
21:33
Speaker 2: I'm going to be surprised, and you know, and frankly
21:37
Speaker 2: a little worried because this is a team that they
21:39
Speaker 2: should handle offensively. This is a team that they should
21:42
Speaker 2: be able to handle. You just jinked them, right, You
21:46
Speaker 2: just jinked them. Probably did I probably did? You know you?
21:52
Speaker 2: And you will remind me of that. Absolutely, you will
21:55
Speaker 2: remind me of that Monday if that's how it turns out,
21:57
Speaker 2: if they lose. That's the first thing I'm bringing up.
22:01
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, the Eagles defense did just just an
22:05
Speaker 1: incredible job of stonewalling Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery because
22:11
Speaker 1: they like they like to run those inside zone runs.
22:14
Speaker 1: And here's another team, Javonte Williams for the Cowboys. You know,
22:18
Speaker 1: this guy's got one hundred and sixty one carries. He's
22:20
Speaker 1: closing in on his first thousand yard season. He's got
22:24
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine yards. He's a powerback, excuse me.
22:29
Speaker 1: And he loves to get those inside zone reads. If
22:31
Speaker 1: the Eagles can take away their run game as well,
22:35
Speaker 1: make them one dimensional, you have a right way you want.
22:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's been he's been a very good addition
22:42
Speaker 2: to them. He really has the he's the best runner
22:46
Speaker 2: they've had for a while, and he's you're right, he
22:49
Speaker 2: runs with a lot of power. He always I like
22:52
Speaker 2: the way he runs because he always gets you that
22:54
Speaker 2: extra yard yard and a half. You know, he's always
22:57
Speaker 2: gone forward. He doesn't get you don't get him for
23:01
Speaker 2: negative yardage. I mean he is a straight north south
23:04
Speaker 2: guy who takes people on and gets everything there is
23:08
Speaker 2: to get on each carry. And he's been very good.
23:12
Speaker 2: And if you look at that offense, it's really complete.
23:15
Speaker 2: I mean, two really good wide receivers, really sure handed,
23:19
Speaker 2: reliable type sort of tight end. Williams has given them
23:24
Speaker 2: a real solid running component. Dak is playing great. So offensively,
23:29
Speaker 2: they're they're really good, they really are. And I you
23:32
Speaker 2: know Vic Fangio when he met the press this week,
23:37
Speaker 2: you know, Vic was typically direct in his answers. You know,
23:41
Speaker 2: when people are asking about the Dallas offense, you know
23:44
Speaker 2: they're good, you know, I mean, they're they're really good,
23:46
Speaker 2: and we're going to have to be on our game
23:48
Speaker 2: to shut them down because if you make one mistake,
23:52
Speaker 2: if you blow one coverage, if you miss one tackle,
23:56
Speaker 2: they've got guys who can take it to the house.
23:58
Speaker 2: And that's that's one of the things that and this
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Speaker 2: again is a reflection on Fangio, what a good teacher
24:03
Speaker 2: he is and what a stickler he is on detailing.
24:08
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't they do not blow coverages the Eagles.
24:11
Speaker 2: You just don't see one of those situations where a
24:14
Speaker 2: receiver is wide open catching a pass and you've got
24:17
Speaker 2: two defenders looking at each other saying, you know, I
24:20
Speaker 2: thought you you you had him. No, no, you had him.
24:24
Speaker 2: They don't do that. I mean, these guys, in addition
24:27
Speaker 2: to being really talented and with a lot of speed,
24:30
Speaker 2: they are they are well schooled.
24:32
Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the that's one of the reasons
24:35
Speaker 2: why they're so consistent right now. But they're going to
24:38
Speaker 2: have to be that this week in Dallas, because that's
24:41
Speaker 2: a team. If you make a mistake, if you blow
24:43
Speaker 2: a coverage, if you miss a tackle, they have enough
24:46
Speaker 2: athletes on that side of the ball they'll make you
24:48
Speaker 2: pay for it. All right, Ray, who do you like
24:50
Speaker 2: this game? Prediction time?
24:53
Speaker 1: Well?
24:53
Speaker 2: I like the Eagles. Uh. In all honesty, the Eagles
24:58
Speaker 2: should win this one handily. Their offense, I don't know
25:02
Speaker 2: how much I can count on their offense I'm gonna
25:04
Speaker 2: get Look, I want to give them the benefit of doubt. Okay,
25:07
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna say this is the weekend that
25:09
Speaker 2: they break out. I'm gonna say this is the weekend
25:12
Speaker 2: that they and they should, I mean they should, they
25:15
Speaker 2: should roll this team. So, Okay, I'm gonna make myself
25:19
Speaker 2: look foolish. I'm gonna I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna
25:23
Speaker 2: say the Eagles win this one, thirty to sixteen. Ooh ooh.
25:30
Speaker 4: I like that.
25:31
Speaker 2: I've also put in my faith in the Eagles.
25:33
Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys, you know, I want to get
25:36
Speaker 1: back at them for losing a season opener of twenty
25:38
Speaker 1: four to twenty.
25:38
Speaker 2: I believe it was.
25:40
Speaker 1: You know, Dallas is a much different team at home
25:42
Speaker 1: than they are on the road. They're two to one
25:43
Speaker 1: and one at home. The one thing that's stuck out
25:46
Speaker 1: in my mind is that two weeks ago Arizona went
25:48
Speaker 1: into Dallas and held Dallas to seventeen points in their
25:51
Speaker 1: own backyard. Before that, they were averaging forty one points
25:55
Speaker 1: a game at home, and somehow, some way, of all teams,
25:57
Speaker 1: Arizona went in there and took it to the Dallas
26:01
Speaker 1: Cowboys well, if Arizona can hold you know, Dallas is
26:04
Speaker 1: seventeen at home, surely the arguably the best defense in
26:08
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. The Eagles can hold them to that.
26:11
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say the Eagles get their offense right.
26:14
Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys will put up a gallon fight because
26:17
Speaker 1: it's a divisional game. But when the dust settles, the
26:20
Speaker 1: Eagles win this game thirty one to twenty one. And
26:25
Speaker 1: I think Dallas gets a meaningless touchdown in the end
26:28
Speaker 1: of the game somewhere, just to make you look respectable. Hey,
26:32
Speaker 1: before I let you go, I understand once again, we
26:35
Speaker 1: want to promote something you have coming up with something
26:37
Speaker 1: a great event coming up.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell us about it? Yeah, I want to
26:41
Speaker 2: let people know that. Glenn mcnow my old radio partner,
26:45
Speaker 2: it's the great Joe Conklin and I have put together
26:49
Speaker 2: a really fun show and it's called the Greatest Moments
26:52
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia sports History. We've done it at a couple
26:55
Speaker 2: of different theaters and people have loved it, and so
26:58
Speaker 2: we're doing it again. We're bringing it to a place
27:01
Speaker 2: called the Scottish Right Theater in uh in Colleineswood, New Jersey.
27:06
Speaker 2: Beautiful Theater, thousand seats. I've seen a couple of concerts there,
27:11
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27:14
Speaker 2: greatest moments in Philadelphia sports history on Wednesday, December the third.
27:19
Speaker 2: So if you want to, you want to relive Schmidty
27:23
Speaker 2: and Rose and Bernie and Clarkey and doctor j and
27:28
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27:31
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Speaker 2: this is your night. So uh go to the Scottish
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27:45
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Three great Philadelphia historians, historians under one roof.
27:50
Speaker 1: You can ask for anything better. Uh So for my
27:54
Speaker 1: colleague and friend, Ray Didinger, Cowboys Eagles coming up Sunday
28:00
Speaker 1: down in Big d I'm Derek Gunn. Of course, we'll
28:03
Speaker 1: be back here next week to recap how that game
28:05
Speaker 1: turns out. So until then, so long, everybody,