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Ray Didinger, Derrick Gunn Preview Week 3 Eagles Vs. Rams · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to this preview edition of Burr's Weekly. He's Ray
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  Diger on Derek Gunn. Week number three is rapidly approaching
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  and up next the Los Angeles Rams coming to Philadelphia
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  and Ray, when you think about the LA Rams, Boy,
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  did they put a scare to the Philadelphia Eagles last
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  year in the playoffs until Jalen Carter made two defining
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  plays late in that game to steal the win for
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  the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we all talk about how dominant the Eagles
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  were down the stretch and how dominant they were in
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  the postseason, and you know, you look at the aggregate score,
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  how many points they outscre theonents. It's all true, but
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  that people need to look back at how close they
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  came in that Rams game. I mean, that was a
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  funny game because when when Savon Barkley breaks away on
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  that long touchdown run, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Where he's smacking his helmet as he's running down the field.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's like what four or five
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  minutes to go, and I think that everybody's feeling was, well,
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  this one's over, you know, and everybody starts celebrating, and
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  next thing you know, the Rams take.
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  Speaker 2: It down, they score, and the Eagles have The Eagles
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  don't go anywhere. Next possession of the Rams take them.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they're driving again, and all of
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  a sudden, everybody's on the edge of their seats and
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  oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was two plays by Jalen Carter that
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  saved the day. I mean, one of them was a
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  sack and then the other one was a pressure that
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  for Stafford to force the throw that wound up incomplete
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  and you hold them and you hang on to win
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  the game. But you know, the Rams, the Rams showed
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  you a lot of grit in that game, because after
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  that long Carter at that long Barkley run, and they
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  could have just said, oh the heck with this, it's snowing,
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  it's cold, let's just get on.
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  Speaker 2: A plane and go back to California.
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  Speaker 3: And they didn't. I mean, they they came. You know,
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  you hit him with your best shot and they came
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  right back. And I think that's what you're going to
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  get this week. I think the Rams are going to
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  come in here and play them tough. They you know,
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  they've had two fairly easy games the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: The Texans and Titans. But they've got a lot of
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  good players.
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  Speaker 3: And boy, I was just I was watching some of
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  that game yesterday when they were playing Tennessee, and they
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  were all over that rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they were.
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  Speaker 3: They sacked them five times and they hit them a
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  dozen times. And they can bring it, you know, they
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  can get pressure on the quarterback and the Eagles are
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  going to have to have answers for that and trying
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  to see if they can get Saquon Barkley re established
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  in their offense because it's this is going to be
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  a tough game.
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  Speaker 2: I really think this is going to be a tough
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  game for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: This Rams team, as you just mentioned, offensively loaded with talent,
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  and I'm want to start with the biggest offseason acquisition
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  they made him bringing in Devanta Adams. To me, I
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  still think at this stage of his career, he's still
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  the best route runner for a receiver in the National
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  Football League. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Uh, he is very good. Good, he is very good.
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  I will grant you that. I'll I'll tell you why
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  I think is a great route runner. And I'm going
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  to be accused of being of having a Philadelphia bias. Okay,
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  I think DeVante Smith is a tremendous route runner. I agree,
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  I think he is. And he has been this from Alabama.
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  I mean you go all the way back. I mean
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  he was this good then. Uh, He's just he just
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  has a very uncanny sense of space and timing in
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  the field. That I mean, the big catch he made
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  in Sunday's game that against Kansas City is exactly what
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  It's sort of definition of what he is.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanted to, if you if you wanted to
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  ask somebody, what is Davante Smith? Who is he? What
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  is he?
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  Speaker 3: You know some people would put on the touchdown in
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  the Super Bowl, you know, the dagger touchdown that puts
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  the game away the down the field, great catch, you
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  could but and he's clearly capable of making that play
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  and does make them.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, this play is more the definition of him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, his ability to create room and get separation
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  and make a big catch where a few other players
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  could and it's just a matter of timing and body
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  control and anticipation that I just think. I just think
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  he's an extraordinary player. I mean, AJ Brown is the
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  number one guy, and he's the guy most people think about.
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  But boy, I mean, Smith has been and has been
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  from his days at Alabama and to me an extraordinary
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  receiver and just a great route runner.
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  Speaker 2: Adams is very good too. I mean he's been and
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  has been for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that with the Rams and with McVeigh
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  calling the plays and playing with a quarterback like Stafford,
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  it absolutely maximizes that part of his game. And you've
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  seen it now through two games here, even though he's
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  new there. I mean, it looks like he's played there forever.
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  So he's going to be, you know, for an Eagle
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  secondary that's still sort of find feeling its way. I mean,
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  he's going to be Pookah's going to get his touches
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  for sure. But honestly, the guy that scares me the
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  most coming into this game is probably is probably him.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably Devonte Adams.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you go Adams, you go, Puka Nakula, Tyler Higbee
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  to to add well, and then of course they have
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  a very rugged running back in Kyra and Williams. Where
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  do you start in terms of trying to defend this
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  Rams offense?
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  Speaker 2: Good question. I guess you would start the way you
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  start with most weeks is your pressure on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and when you're talking about Matthew Stafford
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  there at least with him, you know where he's going
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  to be. You know, he's he's not going to hurt
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  you like a Patrick Mahomes. He's not going to break
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  out of the pocket and run for a first down.
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  He's not going to keep a whole lot of drives
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  alive with his legs. I mean, he's going to be
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  in the pocket and you know that. So you got
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  to get in there and make him uncomfortable. Even if
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  you're not sacking him on every play, you have to
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  hurry him.
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  Speaker 2: You have to hit him.
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  Speaker 3: You have to pressure him and disrupt the timing of
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  his offense because if he gets in a rhythm, and
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  this has been true with him going back to his
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  Detroit days, if he gets comfortable where he feels he's
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  protected and he can get in an offensive rhythm, man
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  is he is really really good. Even now at this
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  point in his career, he's really really good. So I
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  think when you talk about, okay, how did the Eagles
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  begin playing attacking the Rams offense? To me, I think
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  the key is it begins with getting pressure on Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I don't like about Stafford's game is
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  he has that wind up motion when he throws the
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  football you expect Fangio to download more blitz is knowing
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  that Stafford holds the ball maybe a second or a
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  francion of a second longer than most quarterbacks who get
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  in a rhythm them offensively.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that people have talked about for a long time,
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  and I'm sure that Listen Vic has played against him
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  a lot of times, so he knows how to go
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  about that. But I think McVeigh is a really smart
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  coach and a really good play designer, and in a
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  lot of ways, I think Stafford it was almost the
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  perfect marriage, you know, because Stafford needed a fresh start
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  out after Detroit, and he came to a good situation
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  Los Angeles, a team that was built to kind of
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  win now with an offensive coach who's really good and
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  there's a really good sense of how the complete passing
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  game works. And with Stafford, he has a quarterback that
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  has a tremendous understanding of that and the patience to
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  stay in the pocket and a guy who still to
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  this day throws a sweetball downfield. So what you have
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  to do is as a defensive team, you have to
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  get in there and get pressure on him and don't
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  let him fall and find that rhythm. You have to
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  keep him out of sink and keep him trying to
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  trying to sustain because once he gets comfortable and once
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  he gets into a rhythm throwing, especially to these receivers,
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  you could be in for a long.
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  Speaker 2: Day, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And of course McVeigh, like Nick Sirianni, has won at
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  Super Bowl as well. Do you think McVeigh is one
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  of the best and most innovative offensive minds in the
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  game today.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do, I really do. I think he is
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  very very good. I mean if you look at if
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  you look at the the overall design of their passing game,
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  it works. Everything works kind of together. You know, one
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  thing sets up another, and McVeigh is very good at
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  establishing and maintaining a rhythm throughout the game. I mean,
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  he's when his team is clicking, when his rams are clicking,
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  and he's calling the place. There there's a real pay
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  They play the game at their pace and it's not
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  it's not Chip Kelly like it never it never appears hurried,
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  but it's just it's just at a vert. It's it
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  they're you're playing the game as a defense, you always
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  feel like you're playing at their pace. Yes, you're playing
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  this is the way they want to play.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a very uncomfortable position to be in defensively.
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  Speaker 1: UH.
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  Speaker 3: But McVeigh is a guy who can do that, and
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  it was very obvious, especially in their Super Bowl year
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  they're run to the Super Bowl, that he and Stafford
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  are absolutely on the same wavelength. You know, they see
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  the field the same way and they understand their route
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  combinations in such a way that they're that they're they're
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  really good. I mean, if if they get a feeling
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  like they have control of the game and they understand
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  what you're trying to do, uh, and you can block
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  and you can block them, they can just pick you apart.
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  And that's kind of what they did in the game
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  against Tennessee. They got to slow start, but in the
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  second half they just got it going. And once they
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  got it going, I think they scored on every possession.
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  And that's the kind of thing that the Eagles cannel
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  out of half happened Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you said, Stafford's been doing this for
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  a long time, but When you look at the so
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  called experts and the pundits who like to come out
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  with their top ten, top five, top ten quarterback rankings
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  across the National Football League, very seldom is he mentioned
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  among the top ten. I mean, guys like Jane Daniels
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  are getting more acculated than a Matthew Stafford, and he's
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  done in time and time again. Do you think he's underrated,
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  underappreciated for what he's accomplished and his overall abilities.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of do.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of do, which is a little bit unusual
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  when you consider when he came out of Georgia, he
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  was the first pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was Numero uno in his draft class.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not like he's the guy that came out
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  of a small college, or he's not like he's Kurt
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  Warner or David Craig or somebody that came from nowhere
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  and all of a sudden putting up big numbers. You know,
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  Matthew Stafford had the pedigree coming in, but he had
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  the misfortune of going to Detroit, you know, and at
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  a time when the Lions couldn't get out of their
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  wrong way, and and he took as quarterbacks do in
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  that situation, he took a lot of what I thought
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  was unfair criticism. I thought he was in a situation
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  where the front office let him down, coaching staff let
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  him down.
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  Speaker 2: And as the quarterback he bore the brunt of it.
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  But I always liked him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I liked him a lot as a college player,
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  and I kind of kind of felt bad for him
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  in Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a guy who deserved a better fate.
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  Speaker 3: And when he when he was traded to Detroit, I mean,
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  there were a lot of people said, Oh, what did
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  the lion?
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  Speaker 2: What are they giving up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Why are they bothering with him? He's and I said,
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  you wait and see.
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  Speaker 3: I just think at this point in his career, if
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  you put him with a really smart coach, which I
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  think McVeigh, is that going to You're gonna finally begin
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  to see the best of Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 3: And lo and behold he goes and wins a super Bowl.
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  Now there's a whole nother discussion that grows out of this,
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  which is and I've had this with a few people,
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  including a couple of people at WYP. Is Matthew Stafford
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  a hall of Famer? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can go.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he is. You know, he's you know,
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  he's not to me. I don't really think about that
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  when a guy's playing. I don't worry about it's a
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  hall of famer. Just you know, that's a conversation for
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  after a guy retires, and you can kind of put
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  the whole thing in perspective, you know, I don't worry
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  from week to week if a guy's Hall of Famer
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  or not.
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  Speaker 1: Is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you got to play him this week,
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  you got to find a way to beat him this week. Canton,
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  that's down the road. We'll worry about that down the road,
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  you know. I just worry about the here and the now,
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  and that's where the Eagles are this week. They have
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  to find a way to beat him and slow down
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  this offense. And to getting back to your original point,
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  was where does it begin? It begins with getting pressure
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  on him. That's where it starts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out on the limb and say, I
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  believe this is the week Saquon Barkley finally crosses the
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  sentry mark in terms of rushing yards. Last year in
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  the playoffs, he had two hundred five yards rushing against
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  this Rams team. They're not a big defensive front. Their
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  heaviest body along the defensive line is a five to
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  eleven nose tackle named Poona Ford. Do you think this
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  is where number one? I think the Rams are going
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  to try to stack the line of scrimmage the way
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  Dallas did, the way Kansas City did. But I think
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  because they're so smallish in that defensive front seven, I
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  think this is where the Eagles offensive line gets this
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  act together, man handles the trenches and Saquon goes over
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  the sentry mark.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's certainly the way it played out last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the regular season game in Los Angeles,
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  he had what two thirty five and broke the club
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  records game, and then did it again in the playoffs.
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  So for that very reason, I mean, they're they're a
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  smallish upfront defensive team, and that Eagles offensive line, I mean,
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  you know, three thirty three thirty three thirty across, then they.
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  Speaker 2: Just manhandle them. You know, they just manhandled them, and
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  Barkley had huge holes to run through.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the Rams coaches are going to
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  spend this whole week trying to figure out ways to
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  fill those gaps. You know how much you're going to
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  attack with your linebackers. You're going to play a seven
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  man front, eight man front, whatever you're going to do.
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  I mean, they're going to prepare to do it. But
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  I just don't see the way the Rams are built
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  that that matchup in the trenches that they can win it.
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  I just I just don't see it. I mean, to me,
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  it looks even though the Eagles offensive line to me,
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  has not played particularly well through the first two weeks.
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  Me this this looks like a week when I think
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  they can finally begin to a sert themselves and be
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  the play like the kind of offensive line we've seen
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  them be in the past, because I just think the
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  matchups here sort of lend themselves to that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if they do crowd the bus, it's going to
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  present a lot of one on one situations for a j.
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  Brown and DeVante Smith. Of course, the Rams early in
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  the game against Tennessee, they lose one of the best
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  quarterbacks and othellow Witherspoon. How big of a loss is
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  he significant?
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  Speaker 3: And I think that I don't think it's necessarily a
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  game changer, you know, but he's a good player that
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  isn't going to be easy to replace. And I think
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  with the kind of defense you're going to see from
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  the Rams this week, which is going to be a
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  very heavy emphasis on jam and the line of scrimmage
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  and trying to limit Barkley's opportunities, which I understand where
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  you're going to have to give something away in the back,
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  which means you're going to have to be here. There's
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  going to be some one on one opportunities out there.
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  And if you don't know Witherspoon to account for one
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  of those. Then one of those guys, either Brown or
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  Smith is going to find themselves with some one on
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  one opportunities, and I think that's a chance for them
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  to break out and have a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you like in this game? And why?
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  Speaker 3: I you know, I like the Eagles, But I Derek,
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  I think it's gonna be a really tough game.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, we're looking around the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: You think about down the road? I mean, who are
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  the teams.
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  Speaker 3: That are really going to challenge the Eagles in this conference?
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  I mean, who are the teams that you're really worry
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  about in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too far ahead, but.
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  Speaker 3: But you look around who right now I would probably
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  say you're Green Bay number one. I mean I think
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  I think they're really good and it wouldn't shock me
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  at all if they're there.
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  Speaker 2: At the end.
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  Speaker 3: But next up might be these guys. Yeah, I think
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  the I think the Rams are lurking, you know, and
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  so I I think I think you have a team
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  that's coming in here to play, is that it's going
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  to be a playoff team down the road. I think
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  they are that good right now. I like the because
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  at home. I like the Eagles, but I don't think
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  it's going to be easy. I mean four and a
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  half to me seems about right, maybe a little generous.
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  I'll say Eagles twenty seven. I think it's going to
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  be like that. But I think it's going to be
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  a game that's going to be certainly not a walkover.
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  I think it's going to be another game sort of
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  like the last two. It's going to be hard fought
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  right to the end, but I expect the Eagles will
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  find a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: I see the Eagles in big Fangio putting more pressure
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  on Matthew Stafford because he's a statue and he holds
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  the ball a little bit longer than a lot of
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  quarterbacks do, because they know if they let him get
• 20:43
  the ball out of his hands, somebody is going to
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  be open. With all the weapons they have, the Eagles
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  have won two games based on getting breaks going their way.
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  I think that's going to happen again. They're going to
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  get a definitive break going their way in this particular game,
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  and I think it's gonna be another nail biter, just
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  like you. I'm thinking could be like twenty four to
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  twenty three, and it's gonna come down to whoever has
• 21:06
  the ball last in this game. So we both agree
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  the Eagles will somehow, some way find a way to
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  survive at home, but it ain't gonna be easy.
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  Speaker 2: Mo Man, I don't think so either.
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  Speaker 1: All.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing we haven't mentioned and probably mentioning, is
• 21:21
  it looks like this is gonna be one of those seasons.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like the Eagles are gonna be playing one
• 21:25
  close game after another.
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  Speaker 3: It really looks I think it's gonna be kind of year.
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  One thing you got to feel good about. Boy Jake
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  Elliott's got it back. Whoa you know, I mean, and
• 21:36
  I think every week is going to be. Every one
• 21:39
  of these weeks, there's gonna be a big kick that
• 21:41
  he's going to have to make. Not necessarily a walk off,
• 21:46
  but somewhere in the second half, early fourth quarter, there's
• 21:49
  gonna be a big kick. And there was a stretch
• 21:51
  last year where you weren't all that confident, But right
• 21:55
  now he's back.
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  Speaker 2: In the groove. Now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that fifty eight that he hit that he
• 22:01
  hit in the game against Kansas City out in Kansas City,
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  I mean he just nailed that sucker.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so he's he's.
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  Speaker 3: Got his confidence back, and if you're an Eagles fan,
• 22:11
  you got to feel good about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the fifty yard curse is behind him, right. Hey,
• 22:16
  before I let you go to get away from football
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  for just a moment, you have no big play coming up.
• 22:21
  Tell us about the play and where we can see
• 22:23
  it and when, how, why, all of the persons of it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have a play.
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  Speaker 3: I think most folks have heard about Tommy and Me,
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  which is the play that I wrote about my long
• 22:33
  friendship with Tommy McDonald. That play has been running for
• 22:36
  ten years amazingly enough. This year will be its tenth anniversary,
• 22:42
  and we are bringing that play back to People's Light
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  Theater in Malvern October the seventh through the nineteenth. So
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  if you haven't seen Tommy and Me, come out to
• 22:50
  People's Light in Malvern and see it in October. But
• 22:53
  before that, I've written a new play which is called Spinner,
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  and it's a play about ice hockey. It's a play
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  about the National Hockey League in the seventies and the
• 23:04
  wild and wooly seventies, and that play will be coming
• 23:08
  to the Delaware Theater Company, September seventeenth, running now and
• 23:13
  it will run through October the fifth at Delaware Delaware
• 23:18
  Theater Company. So if you want to come out and
• 23:20
  see Spinner, you have a lot of special guests. Are
• 23:23
  coming night after night, Duke Q and As, Bernie Paranz coming,
• 23:27
  Brian Propp is coming, the Watson Brothers are coming. So
• 23:30
  if you're a hockey fan, I think you'll enjoy it.
• 23:32
  So Delaware Theater Company, go there, check the dates, check
• 23:35
  the performance times, and come on out and see Spinner.
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  Speaker 1: You are a jack of all trades and a master
• 23:41
  of all of them, my friend, I'm looking forward to it.
• 23:44
  All right. That's going to wrap up this edition of
• 23:46
  Birds Weekly. We will be right here next week after
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  the Eagles take on and beat the Los Angeles Rams.
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  Until then, my man here is read Dan Jump Derek Gunn.
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  Thanks for handing out with us. We'll see you next week.
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  Everybody now, not bow making, not no, not our