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Eagles See NFC North's Weaponry In 3Q Of Eagles Sked · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello again, everyone, Welcome to another Inside the Birds special.
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  It's our schedule, an Intel show where we go over
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  every one of the Eagle's opponents. And we've done two shows already.
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  I think this is number three. We will go through
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  Eagles games nine through twelve here and this stretch is interesting.
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  This is probably the harder stretch or most intriguing stretch
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  of all of them. And we're gonna start in week
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  ten against the Packers. Now the Eagles come off, they're
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  buying week nine, which you know what, that's a good thing.
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  You're around the mid season mark to come off, you're buy.
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  It's not too early, it's not too late. That's probably
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  a good area. A Nick Sirianni, Eagles head coach, including playoffs,
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  is three and zero against the Packers all three we're
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  technically at home, two in Philly, and that last game,
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  which is awesome in Brazil. And this is the first
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  time that the Eagles will be on the road at
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  Green Bay since December sixth, twenty twenty, so you're talking
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  five years, so it's been a while.
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  Speaker 2: There will be interesting to see was Doug Peters this
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  last year.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be interesting to see how these guys react to
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  being there in Green Bay. Let's get started with Green
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  Bay's offense, what they're bringing to the table. So at
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  running back, you know, it's all about Josh Jacobs had
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  a good year for them. It's about who's going to
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  back him up. Well, aj Dillon obviously is gone, he's
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  in Philly and Marshawn Lloyd unfortunately was the only played
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  one game last season and they just teating to any
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  then he just couldn't stay healthy, had the worst luck
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  in the world. Two hamsterring injuries, a hip injury, then
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  he had a penaceiitis.
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  Speaker 2: So it just it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: They they drafted him to be Josh jacobs back up
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  and to be a third down back, and eventually he
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  could start maybe when they move on from Jacobs, if
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  they do over the next couple of years. But they're
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  gonna learn a lot about him because he is finally
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  healthy now. The floor is one of these what we
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  call balance eleven twelve personnel guys. It's run based. It's
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  the Shanahan system. He's committed to the run. And this
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  would annoy me because the Urban Times, if you look
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  at their Passtar Gert group, particularly at receiver and you go, wow,
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  you look at the receiver group, they're four deep, they're
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  legitimate for deep, and they've had these two young Ted
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  Ends that they like, why aren't you throwing the ball more?
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  But they're they're over committed to running the football when
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  your running back is not Saquon Barkley, no offensive Josh Shacobs,
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  he did very well for Green Bay. But when you've
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  got this personnel that the Packers have it wide receiver
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  and Ted End. What am I talking about here? Now?
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  Christian Watson unfortunate tours acl We're gonna assume he'll be
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  back by mid season. He suffered his injury late last season,
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  so there's a question about when he'll be back.
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  Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs on the final y of his deal.
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  Speaker 1: Jayden Reeve is a really good slot Matthew Golden Now,
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  he could run, He could flat out fly. I know
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  there's some personal people that I spoke to around the
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  draft who thought that he shouldn't have been drafted in
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  the first round.
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  Speaker 2: He's more of a second round talent.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably gonna get overdrafted for a speed, but he's
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  a good football player and they needed that. They needed
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  somebody could run badly. Don Tavian Wis is a talented receiver,
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  good backup receiver. They brought in me Coole Harmon who's
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  not the same player he once was. So and they
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  have Bo Melton who they sign off. The Seahawks practice
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  quite a couple years ago, and one president of service
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  has done a good job.
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  Speaker 2: So they're super deep at receiver. That's that's really not
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  the issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's how you want a tack teams, in particular the Eagles,
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  where we know the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Are not deep at corner. Okay, we know they're not and.
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  Speaker 1: Now on the surface through nowt now we'll see what
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  happens closer to the season. Does how he add another
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  veteran corner? Is he trade for one? How to do
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  the guys competing for the one Joe the one outside job?
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  Look Ringo and Jackson. Well, well we'll learn that in
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  July and August.
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  Speaker 2: But as I was saying.
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  Speaker 1: Before, they could do whatever they want because they got
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  Tucker kraftlou must Grave a tight end. So they're super
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  deep pass target group. If you had a more aggressive
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  play caller. Because Matt Lafleur, the head coach, calls the plays,
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  this offense would be better. I'm just telling you now.
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  The question is with Jordan Love very inconsistent last season.
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  You know he's super gifted. He was have faced him before.
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  They know him very well. Which Jordan Love is gonna
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  show up and we're going to learn early in the season.
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  Then Malik Willison's his backup, although Sean Clifford will see
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  if they open it up to let Clifford Penn State
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  Shan Clifford compete for that two job.
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  Speaker 2: But the bottom line is they've got a lot of talent.
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  They should be.
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  Speaker 1: Better on offense than they are the very gifted. The
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  offensive line's not great.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Rashid Walker, who's been a good story development considering he
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  was a seventh round pick in twenty twenty two. Now
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  they drafted Anthony Belton, presumably to be the long term
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  solution at left tackle. Aaron Banks will play left guard.
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  Comes here from the Niners. Jenkins has played left tackle,
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  he's played guard. He's now going to play center. Zach
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  tom who's been a good story.
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  Speaker 2: No question.
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  Speaker 1: At the right tackle. It's an okay line. It's not great,
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  it's very beatable. Eagles defensive line should do very well
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  against this offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can't, if you can't get on Jordan
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  Low with.
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  Speaker 1: His past target groove, if Matt Lafleur ever gets out
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  of his comfort zone, it actually tries to be aggressive
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  coming out and throwing the football and stop trying to
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  be balanced. This could be a game when Eagles playing
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  them in Week ten, that could present them some problems.
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  Now let's look at their defense. Jeff Hafley is in
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  a second year. Now, I know a lot of people
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  say that, oh, Jeff Haffley is an aggressive play caller.
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  One of the lowest man coverage teams in the NFL
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  less than twenty percent, ninety percent man coverage blitz rate,
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  very low. Everyone's talking about aggressive. He would be second host.
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  Let's rate at seventeen percent. And look, that's okay if
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  you can get to the quarterback. I'm just I see
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  a team, a defense that's very talented, and this is
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  another defense. Why don't they win in the playoffs. There's
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  just something missing from this team. Rashaun Garry's good football player.
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  He recovered from his injury very well. Now I should
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  tell you Lucas van Nass was drafted for a thirty
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  four front. They play a forty three in or half ofley.
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  First time they played last year was the first time
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  they played a forty three front in well over a decade.
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  So Van Neassa is a guy caught without a scheme.
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  He's just he's not a good fit for a forty
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  three front. They're just not working for them at all.
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  So they're what they're going to do in their front
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  is because they moved on from t J. Slayton, who
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  draft who sign in free agency with the Bengals. They'll
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  go with Davonte Wyatt, most likely as a full time player.
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  As a full time starter. Whyatt was a twenty twenty
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  two first round pick, So look there's and Kenny Clark's phenomenal.
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  It was just, man, this guy is still getting done.
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  A first rounder in twenty sixteen for the Packers heat
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  story development. So the front is talented, but it's not
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  a high end front. And the linebackers Kwai Walker, Edrian Cooper,
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  and Isaiah McDuffie, who the Eagles know well. They saw
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  him in Week one last year. So Cooper should be
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  a full time starter with very very gifted came on
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  late last season. So this is a really good group.
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  Now there's secondary is where they have questions. If you
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  could protect, you could throw against these guys. I like
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  the safety group. McKinney's really good. He rebuilt his career
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  with the Packers, no question about it. And Evan Williams
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  was a good story. Development last year went healthy. But
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  the cornerback group now they cut Alexander everybody knows that
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  he signed with Baltimore, who was the most talented corner.
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  And Keishaw Nixon. I got to give this guy credit.
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  One of better special teams returners in the League's he's
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  become a good corner better than you think if you're
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  not watching him. For what I'm told, he's actually been
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  well above average. Nate Hobbs one of my favorite players
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  in the league since he came in with the Raiders.
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  A guy that a lot of people thought could only
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  play inside, and he's out of Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: By the way.
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  Speaker 1: He can play nickel, he could play outside. My sense
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  is he's got to play outside here because they're just
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  not good enough on the outside. Carrington Valentine's there. It
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  was the third round corner of seventh round in twenty
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  twenty three. This is a very beautable group. Hobbs is
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  good he's had a lot of injuries. He's very competitive
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  talking to people with the Raiders about him. In fact,
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  I remember when I remember when teams called the Raiders
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  a couple of years ago for him at trade deadline.
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  The Raiders said, we're not trade them. They told teams
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  who called, we're not trade him. So he's very gifted.
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  But this is a team that you could throw against.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We know the Eagles last year at least were heavy
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  twelve personnel because they had Barkley. But if it's not
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  working with their run game against the Packers and they
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  feel that they could spread it out, I would absolutely
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  do that and get obviously Dotson Eagles their receiver. So
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  that's a fun matchup. Obviously, both teams know each other
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  very very well. That game is again in week ten
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  at Green Bay November tenth, by the way, and on
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  Monday night at eight fifteen Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get let's get to this next one
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  and to a team that was my breakout team three
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  years ago. But I'm moving off the lines a little bit.
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  I think they're a little bit overrated. Let me get
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  into some of the issues that they have this game
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  in Week eleven is at home. He goes, we'll host
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  this one. It's on Sunday Night Football, November sixteenth. Boy,
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  the lines are coming off of a tough schedule. Week
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  five at the week five at the Bengals, Week six
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  at the Chiefs. The next week after that they host
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  the Bucks, then they have a bye. Week nine, they
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  host the Vikings. Say, if McCarthy's the real deal, they're
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  going to be really good, and they play at Washington
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  the following week. That is a gauntlet of a schedule. Now, offensively,
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  we know Ben Johnson is no longer their offense coordinator.
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  He has moved on to be the Bears head coach.
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  John Morton, who was once the Jets offense coordinator, didn't
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  go well for him. He was not brought back after I.
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  Speaker 2: Believe one year. He's more.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's coached at USC, but talking to someone
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  who's coached with him before, he runs a lot of
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  Sean Payton's concepts, which means you'll see a lot of
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  eleven and twelve personnel. Ben Johnson and we'll talk about
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  him later in the show. Ben Johnson did both with
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  the Lions. John Morton could do both. He's an experienced guy,
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  been around the league a long time. He's a good coach.
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  But let's see what he learned from his time with
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  the Jets. But the bottom line is when you look
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  at the Lions here, if they could protect, because you
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  know that Jared Goff cannot move very well. But if
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  you could protect, you got James to Williams, who's on
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  the final yvers rookie deal, although they picked up with
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  a fifth year option. He's super explosive. He looked pretty
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  good last year. Needs to be more consistent. He looked great.
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  I'm on Rossie Brown, one of the best possession receivers
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  in the National football super gifted player, Tim Patrick, who's
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  overcome major injuries. He could still play. They brought him
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  back and they've got uh. It's funny the kid that
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  they drafted from Arkansas, Isaac. I don't know how you
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  say his name. T s l a A tesla. I
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  had a receivers coach tell me that he he he
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  gave him a six round grade and the Lions took
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  him in the third. So we'll see if Brad Holmes
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  is terrific. He's one of the better, probably top three GM.
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  He's usually right, but they're not really deep at receiver,
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  but with la porterback, Rock writes their why they could
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  go to eleven and twelve person and how they want
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  to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: They've had pretty significant changes on their offensive line. Frank
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  ragnow retired, Tate Ratleige will replace him, and then Kevin Zeitler.
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  They're left guard. Signed with the Titans. Christian Mahogany the
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  six round of last year is the first time starter
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  They did draft Miles Fraser, so they've got two changes
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  on the interior their offensive line. Grahame Glascal is getting
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  up there, folks. Glasgal turns thirty three soon, so there
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  this offensive line. We know that Sools elite and Decker's
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  still solid, but they've got some big changes on the
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  interior of their line. This is where Jalen Carter could eat.
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  This is where the Eagles have an advantage in the
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  They're in the Lions interior ol versus the Eagles defensive
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  line interior. So that's one matchup, but that we'll certainly
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  look at. And by the way, Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery,
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  for those of you who thought this is ridiculous, why
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  would they draft Gibbs in the first round when they
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  have Montgomery. Now you see why this one two punch
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  is phenomenal. But Ben Johnson not calling the plays anymore,
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  that's where that's where you wonder, does John Morton have
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  a good feel for those players. I know that Morton's
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  been there for a couple of years, so he knew
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  Ben Johnson, he worked under him.
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  Speaker 2: But play callings and art folks, it's not easy. So
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  those are the guy is that you have to be
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  aware of.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Zach Bond grated out as elite I'm
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  told as a coverage player. Bond's got elite size and movement,
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  but it's not easy covering. Premier gives him by the way,
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  he's way stronger than you think, super explosive and got
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  better size than you think. And obviously montgomers the banger
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  of the two of in terms of the power game.
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  So that's a that look, it's a dimonically dynamically talented offense.
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  It's just that the the go from Ben Johnson to
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  John Morton is certainly going to raise to my brows
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  a little bit. Let's get to the defense. Get another
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  new coordinator, Kelvin Sheppard. You might remember where the Giants
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  and the Dolphins as a linebacker. He's the lines former
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  linebacker linebacker's coaches, now their defense coordinator. Moving on, he
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  takes over for Aaron Glenn, who's now the Jets head coach.
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  Speaker 2: Now they run a thirty four front.
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  Speaker 1: My understanding is they're going to keep it relatively the same,
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  so they run an odd man front.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles have seen plenty of odd man fronts. The question
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  is for the Lions. We know the Eagles have the.
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  Speaker 1: Best offensive line in football. Where are they getting a
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  pass rush? They re signed Marcus Davenport, which surprises me.
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  The guy's been nothing but disappointing. Talented but always hurt,
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  too many injuries. He never remember what the Saints gave
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  up to trade up to get him. It never worked out.
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  He moved on to the Lions and Brad Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Brought him back.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're gonna have a they believe it was it
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  healthy in Hutchinson, William McNeill coming off the ACL really
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  dynamic nose tackle or interior defensive lineman went healthy. Tyler
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  Williams was their first round defensive tackle, so they're going
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  to be good on the interior. The question is where
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  they get in a pass rush. Davenport. You don't know
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  how much he could play. You don't know how much
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  he could contribute. We know Hutchinson can.
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  Speaker 2: In a big way.
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  Speaker 1: But that's really it, folks that al Qudein Muhammad is
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  a nice backup player, not a high end edge rush
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  shirt the kid they drafted in the sixth round from
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  Boise passa nine. He's a late round pick. So you
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  just don't know about this pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just.
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  Speaker 1: I've got real questions about the pass rush, which we
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  had questions last year with them. Brad Holmes is phenomenal,
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  but he needs to understand you gotta win by getting
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  a field. I heard what he talked about being strongly interior.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: But Jack pass Josh Passill could rush the passer, but
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  he's not. We're their elite, big time, high in pass rushers.
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  That's that's my issue with them now. Now the cornerback
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  group is one where they're questions. They lost Carlton Davis
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  who signed with the Patriots sign a big number, signed
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  for big number.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: They play a ton of man coverage, highest man coverage
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  of the National Football League forty five per man coverage,
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  one of the highest splits rates in the natural up
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  league at thirty five percent. Now, you would think Kelvin
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  Sheppard will keep it relatively the same. That's to be
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  honest with me. That's the way I see it. But
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  when you look at this group here, they're questions. Terry
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  and Arnold up and down rookie season. DJ Reid's a
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  good number two corner, really good, but he's changing teams here,
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  different scheme. Avonte Max will play safety or nickel for them.
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  A Meek Robertson's a pretty good nickel. They're phenomenal at safety.
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  Branch and Kirby Joseoph is awesome, huge contract, high speed
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  safety in NFL history. Brian Branch, I'm told could if
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  they needed to play outside corner or corner, he can
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  play it now. Annas Raygustraul didn't really contribute much last season.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: They have plenty of players at corner. Where's your ace
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  corner there, That's what they have to prove. We know
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  they're e lead at safety and inside backer. Angeloni he's
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  been an overchiever, good football player, and Jack Campbell big
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  time later in his third year. He's not quite up
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  to the hype yet and they have, by the way,
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  for me, Eagle and Bronco and Texan and Titan. Zach
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  Cunningham is there if you didn't know that. And Rodrigo
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  is uh if Dan Campbell calls him. Rodrigo is coming
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  off of major injury of Malcolm Rodriguez, so he's there.
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  So look, there's plenty of talent on this defense. And
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  DJ Reader is still there at nose tackle. But the
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  bottom line is there's talent here. I don't know if
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  they can get the pasture. I don't know if they
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  could rush the pastor enough because coverage and pressure they've
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  got to connect. I just don't know if they're gonna
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  have that kind of connection to being the lead football team.
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  They're gonna win the division. They're gonna be very good.
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  I don't see them as a super Bowl team. I'm
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  just gonna be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: But they're a fun team to watch.
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  Speaker 1: And look, they're gonna have a lot of questions because, folks,
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  when you have two new coordinators. We know the Eagles
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  did it. They had two new coordinators last year and
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  they won Super Bowl. That's that's a big deal. But
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  when you when you look at it, the lines have
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  a first time defensive coordinator. That's the difference there. So
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  that that's the first two games for the Eagles. Here
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  Speaker 2: Fives all right, Week thirteen at Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Sunday afternoon game at Dallas, Big d
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  But I hate that stadium.
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  Speaker 2: At and T. It's too big. I was there for
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  the Super Bowl the Packers Steelers one. I think that
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  was the one. I mean, it's it's cool how big
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  it is.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's just it's kind of like it is loud,
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  but it doesn't feel like a great home field of Bannage,
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  to be honest with you. And of course the Eagles have.
• 19:03
  In Week one, they played against the Cowboys to open
• 19:06
  up on Thursday. The Cowboys played the previous week at
• 19:11
  the Raiders on Monday Night Football. So, by the way,
• 19:13
  they're in a short week, not super far travel, but hey,
• 19:17
  after this game, listen to the Cowboys schedule, folks. The
• 19:23
  next week they host the Chiefs. The next week after
• 19:25
  that at the Lions, then they host the Vikings, then
• 19:28
  they host the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: And at the Commandos.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna know, well before this game how good
• 19:37
  of a job Braun Schottenheimer is doing, and how much
• 19:39
  they're buying in and shoddy calling the plays here offensively.
• 19:43
  Just a couple of notes. The backup quarterback they're expecting
• 19:46
  to be Joe Milton. Joe Milton has an unbelievab arm strength.
• 19:49
  I know the media kind of went, oh wow, I
• 19:52
  had a great offseason, folks. You can't get bought by
• 19:56
  the arm strength. There's a reason why the team that
• 19:58
  drafted him didn't want the Patriots. They moved on from
• 20:02
  him very quick. So let's just see what happens. But
• 20:05
  he's got talent, he's got a big arm, he's got
• 20:07
  good size. I know everyone's putting to Javonte Williams hopefully,
• 20:11
  like hopefully he wins the starting job. He probably will
• 20:13
  be their starter. Miles Sanders probably will be his backup
• 20:16
  of Jayden Blue, fifth rounder of Texas.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Is super explosive.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: He's a much lower case is one personnel executive told
• 20:24
  me much lowercase Jamier Gibbs. He's smaller physically, but he's explosive.
• 20:30
  And of course the trade for George Pickens if he
• 20:32
  talked about a couple of shows ago when we did
• 20:34
  this schedule show, Let's see how he handles himself with
• 20:38
  his new coaching staff. Tyler Booker is going to be
• 20:40
  a first year starter, a rookie first round pick. I
• 20:43
  mean ast Brandon Cooks, but they're gonna be You can
• 20:46
  expect heavy eleven personnel this season, no question about that.
• 20:51
  Shody is a good play caller, but I'm interested to
• 20:55
  see what he's done since he was the play caller
• 20:58
  for Seattle when they won twelve, when they didn't have
• 21:01
  a really good back at heavy eleven. Well, they didn't
• 21:03
  have good backup receivers, but he still put him out there,
• 21:06
  which is bold, and he did a great job until
• 21:08
  Pete Carroll kind of micro managed him. Defensively Matt Eberflus,
• 21:14
  as we talked about in a couple of shows ago
• 21:16
  on our schedule, Show forty three front lots of zone.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: What's interesting is that under Mike Zimmer last season.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: They played they played more man coverage thirty one percent
• 21:29
  man covered Chicago with Ibra, Flus only played seventy percent
• 21:32
  man coverage. Blitz rate in Chicago twenty four percent. Blitz
• 21:37
  rate last year on her Zim thirty percent. So you're
• 21:40
  gonna see a more conservative defense. Rush four, don't blitz
• 21:44
  a lot. Got to get home. Eziaku, who we liked
• 21:49
  at inside the Birds a lot second round pick, should
• 21:52
  be one of the first at drushers off the bench.
• 21:54
  It's Parsons, it's Dontee Fowler who they know, they brought
• 21:57
  him back from Washington, Marshawn Neeland, Zaku, and Sam Williams
• 22:01
  coming off injury, so they're loaded there.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Oh so Diggi Zua it was terrific.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Number ninety seven and got his big contract extension. But
• 22:08
  they've not got enough out of Manzi Smith. The Eagles, look,
• 22:13
  they're gonna be some moments in each of these times
• 22:15
  that they played Dallas that Dallas might win up front,
• 22:17
  but overall, Eagles were still have.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: The best offensive line.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Payton Turner's there as well, who's
• 22:22
  unfortunately a former first round pick who's been hurt. Just
• 22:25
  not he's super long, but not explosive, but he's more
• 22:28
  of a rundown guy. So this is a This is
• 22:31
  a good battle the Dallas front versus the Eagles elite
• 22:36
  offensive line. They're pretty weak at inside at linebacker. Overall,
• 22:41
  they don't know when Overshown is going to be ready.
• 22:43
  Said so many injuries. It's such a shame. Third rounder
• 22:45
  and twenty twenty three Kenneth Murray has been such a disappointment.
• 22:49
  They got him for a ham sandwich from Tennessee, got
• 22:51
  him for seventh rounder Jack Sanborne wouldn't shock me and
• 22:55
  off Samborne wind up winning the job. They got to
• 22:59
  figure this out look, and Dallas has been terrible against
• 23:02
  the run. We know that it's gonna be all about
• 23:03
  Barkley in the matchups. And the other thing is, look,
• 23:07
  they're not good at corner. Kay eyr Ilam is a
• 23:10
  man cover corner.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: He was in college.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: He didn't fit with Buffalo, who plays a lot of
• 23:14
  his own Irau Ibraflues plays a lot of his own
• 23:17
  drown Bland. You could play them at Nickel, you could
• 23:19
  play him outside. Dravon Diggs coming off a fill up
• 23:22
  on his ACL surgery, and Trevon revel A revel he's
• 23:29
  coming off ACL surgery and the Dallas Cowboys team doctor
• 23:31
  did the surgery. But and Andrew Booth, who they acquired
• 23:35
  last year from a trade, is that didn't work out
• 23:37
  for Minnesota. It was the second rounder for the Vikings.
• 23:39
  They're not good at corner, good at safety. With Hooker
• 23:41
  and Wilson, this defense is upside, but they.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Have a ton of question marks. Egos are clearly way
• 23:46
  better than them.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: The thing with Dallas is they've got the talent, but
• 23:52
  something seems to always happen. Can Maddy Refluse get them
• 23:56
  to play more, more discipline. He's been with Dallas before,
• 23:59
  by the way, so they know him in that building.
• 24:01
  We'll see what happens. But this is the fun matchup.
• 24:04
  But the one I cannot wait for is in week thirteen.
• 24:09
  The Eagles will host on a Friday, Yes, on Black Friday.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: This is to me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: We'll see how Ben Johnson, if there's a good buy
• 24:15
  in from him, Ben Johnson will to call the plays.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Their new head coach. This team is so fun.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: This game is on the Deverober twenty eighth, Black Friday
• 24:23
  three at three eastern, and this will be a streak
• 24:27
  of three out of the last four games versus the
• 24:29
  NFC North, which is kind of what a That's an
• 24:31
  odd deal there with the schedule makers. But here's what
• 24:35
  you're looking at. A talk about a team that's completely
• 24:37
  changed their offensive line. So it's Joe Tuney who's going
• 24:41
  to be backup guard. He was miscast the Eagles embarrassed
• 24:43
  him in the Super Bowl at left tackle. It's not
• 24:46
  his fault. He's a guard. Drew Dollmen comes over from Atlanta.
• 24:50
  Jonah Jackson came from the trade with the Rams. It
• 24:52
  didn't work out. He lost his job there. He'll be
• 24:54
  the right guard. Darnell Wright, a first round or two
• 24:57
  years ago, is the right tackle. Question is could Assi
• 25:01
  Trapelo their second rounder, beat out Brax and Jones to
• 25:03
  be the left tackle. So they've completely revamped it. It's
• 25:08
  gonna look different. And I'm telling you, folks, if Ben
• 25:12
  and Ben Johnson, by the way, listen to this passarger
• 25:14
  group that they have. DJ Moore is really good. Romo
• 25:18
  Dunese will be a first year starter. Keenan Allen's not back.
• 25:22
  Alamade Sakiaz did a good job for Washington last season.
• 25:24
  He'll be a backup. Luther Burden, who fell to the
• 25:26
  second round. What I was told from some personal people
• 25:30
  is not a great route runner, not as good as
• 25:33
  as the draft knicks think he was. Needs to be better,
• 25:38
  being more energy when the ball's not to him, I
• 25:40
  was told, which I thought was interesting. So again, there's
• 25:43
  a reason why a guy like that, who's super gifted,
• 25:46
  drops of the second round. Tyler Scott, by the way,
• 25:48
  a third year receiver, fourth rounder two years ago.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Two years ago, he could run. So they're loaded there
• 25:54
  and listen to this tight end group.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Colston Lovelin, who that was a surprise that the Bears
• 25:58
  drafted him in the first round.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: We now gifted he is out in Michigan.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Cole Comet, who's one of the better wide tight ends
• 26:07
  in the NFL, is an athletic. Why Derviens Month that
• 26:10
  could play inside? Who's Who's Who's cut by Miami? He's
• 26:14
  a He's a wide tight end, So folks, Ben Johnson
• 26:17
  could do whatever he wants a lot eleven, a lot
• 26:19
  of twelve. This presents a lot of problems for the Eagles,
• 26:22
  but the Eagles defensive line should be able to eat
• 26:24
  against this offensive line. This is a great matchup en
• 26:27
  up on Ben Johnson. You see the Eagles weakness opposite
• 26:30
  Quinnion Mitchell. I'm going after their secondary like this is
• 26:34
  a This is a game where the Eagles have to
• 26:37
  win up front or or it could be a closer
• 26:39
  game than you think because look at this pass target
• 26:41
  group and running back DeAndre Swift, who the obviously no
• 26:44
  Roshawn Johnson will be their goal line back.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It'll help them on third downs when they need it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So and then of course Kavi the Wims is the
• 26:52
  quarterback and he's got to improve on his mechanics, footwork, timing,
• 26:56
  and Ben Johnson is going to coach him apart, he's
• 26:57
  gonna get hard coach at case Ken will be the backup.
• 27:00
  So this is a really fun offense defensively, now, this
• 27:05
  is going to be interesting, this scheme under Declan Doyle. Well,
• 27:09
  actually it's really I'm sorry that Doyle's their pseudo offense
• 27:13
  corner bench has to call the place. I'm sorry it's
• 27:15
  Dennis Allen who's a defense coordinator. He runs a forty three.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Front, so Da is a guy who will blitz. You're
• 27:22
  not afraid to do it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Their past rush group it's Montes Swat as a power rusher.
• 27:27
  Dio and Digbo came up from the cult of very
• 27:29
  unerrated rusher. Austin Booker was a nice story development of
• 27:34
  terms of their preseason last year in training camp. Who
• 27:37
  made it out of Kansas. But it's not a great group.
• 27:41
  This is a group the Eagles should have no problem with.
• 27:44
  Grady Jared comes over cut from the Falcons. Andrew Billings
• 27:49
  is there, Schmart Turner is there. Second rounder of Texas
• 27:52
  A and M and Dexter. This is a pretty good group.
• 27:54
  It was the second rounder two years ago.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: They got good depth.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: They'll have a good rotation. But you know what, but
• 28:00
  it's one Eagles will be able to handle it. It's
• 28:02
  gonna be a fun situation to see. Dennis Allen could
• 28:05
  be aggressive a linebacker. We know they're really good with TJ.
• 28:09
  Edwards and Tremade Edmonds. Secondary, this is where there's some questions.
• 28:15
  We know Jalen Johnson's really good. The other corner is
• 28:17
  where they've got problems because Tyreek Stevenson not consistent. Who's
• 28:22
  a third round player, second rounder two years ago. They
• 28:25
  got to kind of figure it out opposite Jalen Johnson,
• 28:28
  Tyler Gordon's are really good, Nickel and bared Byared who
• 28:33
  the problem with him was when when the Eagles traded
• 28:35
  for him. This is when the Eagles are having problems
• 28:38
  two years ago with coach of staff and it just
• 28:40
  didn't work out. The Eagles went up cutting him.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: He revived his career.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Really there well there and then hopefully Juwan Prisker has
• 28:46
  no more problems with concussions. Man very scary what happened
• 28:49
  him last year, So we wish him very very well.
• 28:52
  So this is a fun matchup. Eagles again are clearly
• 28:55
  the better team. I look forward to this one, no
• 28:58
  doubt about it. Ben Johnson's really really good and lead
• 29:04
  play caller. But can they protect against the Eagles. This
• 29:08
  is going to be a fun stretch for the Eagles.
• 29:11
  And then lastly, when you look at the final group,
• 29:15
  which we'll talk about on the next show. As you
• 29:18
  run up this schedule show for the Eagles the next
• 29:24
  the final group of games for the Eagles are as follows.
• 29:29
  They're at the Chargers, they host the Raiders. And this
• 29:33
  is the craziness of the schedule. This the the game
• 29:38
  December twentieth, the time is not determined at Washington, Wow
• 29:43
  at Buffalo on December twentieth, eight days later, and then
• 29:49
  home on January fourth against Washington. So that is going
• 29:54
  to be fun. What a brutal Now, that is a
• 29:56
  brutal stretch. Obviously the Raiders shouldn't be very good, but
• 30:00
  that's so far. They know that stadium and then they
• 30:04
  play the Comandos twice to the final three weeks.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: That is going to be very, very challenging. All right,
• 30:10
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