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Inside The Birds Wild Card Pregame Show With Greg Cosell: Philadelphia Eagles V. San Francisco 49ers · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Inside the Birds Pregame Show with
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  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. I'm Jeff Mosher with Adam Kaplan and of
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  Speaker 1: course we have Greg Cosell. And it's a playoff edition
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  Speaker 1: of the Inside the Birds Pregame Show as the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: and forty nine Ers will battle it out and an
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  Speaker 1: NFC wild Card game at the link for thirty kickoff
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  Speaker 1: and this should be a good one. Two teams that
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  Speaker 1: are familiar with each other, have played each other in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs before, and really interesting clash of style, contrast
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  Speaker 1: of style both offensively and defensively. I want to start
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  Speaker 1: off the show. We're gonna get into the injuries because
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  Speaker 1: they factor into this game significantly, but I would like
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  Speaker 1: to start off the show a little differently. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to ask both of you guys, starting with you, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: when you go into this game, right, I know you
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  Speaker 1: kind of watch tape and then think about the matchups
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  Speaker 1: in this way, what's the biggest question in your mind
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  Speaker 1: that you have about this game?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty four to thirteen Eagle Saquon Barkley, I'm done, See
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  Speaker 2: you guys later. Bye.
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  Speaker 1: That will do it for their.
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  Speaker 3: YEA look at him, you would think it'd be funny
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  Speaker 3: real honestly.
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  Speaker 1: I see how he was dressed, so I kind of
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  Speaker 1: thought there would be a little common anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Always, the final question there you had.
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  Speaker 1: The best thing is, I'm going to edit none of
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  Speaker 1: this out. I'm leaving it all in. Everything you get
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  Speaker 1: a great laugh. So the question is what kind of
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  Speaker 1: question strategically matchup wise, Greg, do you have going in to.
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  Speaker 2: This matchup on either side of the ball, any.
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  Speaker 1: Side, any question you might have. I'm just curious when
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  Speaker 1: you evaluate this, what's the biggest thing on your mind?
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  Speaker 1: The biggest question?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I could answer that many ways.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I really looked at in
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  Speaker 2: this game, particularly coming off the last game at the
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  Speaker 2: Niners played on defense against the Seahawks, is what their
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  Speaker 2: linebacker position is going to be. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: you can get to the edges on their defense. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's something I'm really looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: with the Eagles because when all said and done, the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles are still a running football team and that is
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  Speaker 2: the way they want their offense to start and to
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  Speaker 2: work through the run game. And you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: feel as if in looking at the tape, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it looks like right now, and we'll go into more detail,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like right now that when they're in their nickel,
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, that is, it appears that Eric
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  Speaker 2: Kendricks and Garrett Wallow look like to be their starting
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  Speaker 2: linebackers and their nickel. And you know, again, Kendricks has
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  Speaker 2: been a good player in the league for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, he's thirty three or thirty four. Wallow
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  Speaker 2: is I remember actually doing Wallow coming out of college,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, he's not a starting linebacker in the league.
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  Speaker 2: And I just don't see a lot of range and mobility.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just feeling as if the Eagles can can
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  Speaker 2: work to the perimeter effectively in this game. So that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing. As we continue talking, they'll they'll certainly be others.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't want to just talk for the next
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  Speaker 2: ten I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, just before I get to Adam's question,
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  Speaker 1: my own personal because we've talked about this during the week,
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  Speaker 1: the whole injury situation at linebacker and what the Niners
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  Speaker 1: are going to be. I'm sort of fatigued of waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the Eagles to take advantage of a team that
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  Speaker 1: Bills were down three defensive tackles. The Eagles couldn't run
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  Speaker 1: against them. The Bears were missing t J. Edwards and
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  Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds. Right, the Eagles couldn't run against them. So like,
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  Speaker 1: I see this and I'm just you know, I'll see
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  Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I'm with you, but but I think I
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  Speaker 2: guess My point is that's the way I think they
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  Speaker 2: need to play, and that's the the way I think
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  Speaker 2: they want to play.
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  Speaker 1: On Adam, what is your biggest match up Rtion going
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  Speaker 1: into this?
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  Speaker 4: My biggest matchup question is what would be Can they
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  Speaker 4: take advantage of the Niners being down four linebackers?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Also, oh, here's another one which we can't we can't
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  Speaker 4: not talk about this if you comparatively, if you look
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  Speaker 4: at Week one right when the Niners one at Seattle,
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  Speaker 4: to listen to the talent level of this defense. Nick Posa,
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  Speaker 4: mikel Williams, Fred Warner. Okay, those guys are done for
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  Speaker 4: the season. The two tackles are still there, Elliott and Davis.
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  Speaker 4: Davis is a minor injury knee Tretam totally expected to play.
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  Speaker 4: Dee Winners now has an Echolangy doesn't look good for him,
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  Speaker 4: so that's another starter, right, Both starting safeties have been replaced.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking down six starters, Jeff from week
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  Speaker 4: one now on your point, and it's fair Ken Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Patula in particular, and with all of his coaches giving
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  Speaker 4: him you know they every coach. The way it works
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  Speaker 4: is they have their game plan for the game and
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  Speaker 4: then you slim it down. You'll let you take it.
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  Speaker 4: You see what you like, and you go from there.
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  Speaker 4: Can they at on your point, take finally take advantage
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  Speaker 4: of it? We all see it the same way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there's certain advantages here that they're going to have. And
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  Speaker 4: I also like, Okay, here's another thing. I like a
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  Speaker 4: lot that they got the offensive lineman off their feet. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's hope they're fresher. I understand they're not even remotely
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  Speaker 4: close as good as last season, but that decision to
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  Speaker 4: wrest them, Jeff, as they send it back to you,
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  Speaker 4: let's hope that's meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Listen, there is no doubt you guys are hitting
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  Speaker 1: it on the head. There's no doubt. A huge question
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  Speaker 1: going into this game is the forty nine ers are hurting?
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  Speaker 1: Can the Eagles just hit them where it hurts, because
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  Speaker 1: at times they do and at times they don't. And
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  Speaker 1: that is absolutely a matchup that they should be able
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  Speaker 1: to capitalize on. But we all wonder, well will they
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  Speaker 1: because they've had their own struggles.
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  Speaker 2: Can I throw one other thing out, Jeff, just before
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  Speaker 2: we let me.
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  Speaker 1: Just give mine because it might be what you were thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and if not, you add yours. No, No, my biggest
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  Speaker 1: one is sort of the opposite, And it's just a question.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I wonder. The sy Francisco forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers play more twenty one and twenty two personnel than
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the league. It is their base offense, probably
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  Speaker 1: half their all time that they're on the field. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have U search the full back out there, two
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  Speaker 1: tight ends perhaps, and ordinarily when a team does that,
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  Speaker 1: a defense plays bass. And I noticed that in Week
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  Speaker 1: eighteen the Seahawks played nothing but nickel. They responded to
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  Speaker 1: this in nothing but nickel and really gave the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. Vic Fangio typically plays base defense
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  Speaker 1: against those kind of heavy formations on offense. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if he will look at what happened in Week eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and think he is a predominantly nickel defensive coordinator this
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  Speaker 1: year in last year, that is where they do their
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  Speaker 1: best work. Will he go nickel against the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers offense or will he go more bass against them
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  Speaker 1: and move de Gene back outside instead of playing him
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  Speaker 1: in the slot. I think that's a I think that
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan would love him to play bass, right, but
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  Speaker 1: I think Vic might actually want to play more nickel.
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  Speaker 2: Greg thoughts a legit question. I mean, obviously the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are different because emin Warri, that's the way they played
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  Speaker 2: all year. So that wasn't a stretch for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: to play nickel. That's basically their base defense, right. It
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  Speaker 2: is not necessarily the Eagles base defense.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So because us check they played out of twenty one
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  Speaker 2: personnel thirty six percent of their snaps this year. Used
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  Speaker 2: check is clearly a foundational piece to everything they do
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  Speaker 2: in normal down in distance situations. So that that's a
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  Speaker 2: great question, which relates to the thing that I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say, which you probably knew it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: mind meld, you know, you probably you probably knew that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say this. You know, it also
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  Speaker 2: relates to the fact that with rookie Pearsall, who I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe practiced again today and is not looking good
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  Speaker 2: for this game. Adam could probably address that more, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe he practiced again as we speak on
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  Speaker 2: a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Then the question is they don't really have a wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver that can win one on one, and at some
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  Speaker 2: point that hurts your offense. Now we know Shanahan is phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously they've played a good part of the season
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  Speaker 2: without rookie Piersoll, and they've had games where they've scored
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  Speaker 2: a lot of points without him. But obviously the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: defense is at the top of the league over the
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  Speaker 2: last eight or nine weeks. They're playing a really really
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  Speaker 2: good defense. Look what happened last week without rookie Piersoll
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  Speaker 2: against a very good Seattle defense. You know, they just
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  Speaker 2: don't have, you know, other than Kittle, and he's not
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  Speaker 2: a wide out, but obviously Kittle is a really good player.
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  Speaker 2: But other than Kittle, they don't really have They don't
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  Speaker 2: have a receiver that can win one on one. And
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  Speaker 2: it just and that gets into which we'll get into
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  Speaker 2: as we talk further about the specific unit matchups. About
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  Speaker 2: how the Eagles play defense.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And did you have another matchup that you.
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  Speaker 2: Said, you know, that was it? That was it.
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  Speaker 1: I had a feeling we had, like, you know, shared
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  Speaker 1: brain on that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it's it's fascinating. I think it matters too, guys,
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  Speaker 1: because if Vick is go to play more bass than
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna take it Dori Jackson off the field, He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have no slot corner. Obviously, it's gonna move Cooper
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  Speaker 1: to Gen outside. Some might think that's beneficial, but then
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  Speaker 1: he's also going to play a five man front, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's gonna have Jordan Davis and Jayleen Carter and
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  Speaker 1: Morojomo out there. But obviously if he's gonna if he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play that way, the forty nine Ers might be
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  Speaker 1: able to expose the middle of the field a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more with Cooper de Gen on the outside, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what they like to do.
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  Speaker 2: They like the quicker side about specific matchups because I
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  Speaker 2: think where the Eagles have a definite advantage in this
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  Speaker 2: game is in the interior their defensive tackles versus the
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  Speaker 2: interior of the forty nine ers all line. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's where they would have an advantage as well.
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  Speaker 4: And Jeff, remember Ben Bartch was a starter for them.
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  Speaker 4: He has a list Frank fracture, so he's out till
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  Speaker 4: the summer. Other than Trent Williams, and I know that
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  Speaker 4: they're very well coached. I think it's John Benton, if
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  Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken. I think he's still out there.
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  Speaker 3: You online coach for the Niners as he's still out there.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Foster Foster, Chris Forster from the the U Foster, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: used to be with Miami.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry Benton was there before, but he's coach.
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  Speaker 4: They're well schemed. They kind of play better than probably
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  Speaker 4: their talent would suggest. But I uh, I think Jeff
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  Speaker 4: I kind of clued you in on this. I talked
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  Speaker 4: to a NFC assistant coach who said, with the Eagles defense,
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  Speaker 4: Vic every game. Greg may not even know this because
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  Speaker 4: they don't look at it the same way Greg might
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  Speaker 4: look at it. VIC has something different for you every week.
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  Speaker 4: It made like they ran a little bit of six
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  Speaker 4: to one at some point. I don't know how many
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  Speaker 4: times they've run it, but he gives you something that
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  Speaker 4: you feel like you have to train for, like you
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  Speaker 4: watch like, let's say you've only run five times, but
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  Speaker 4: he makes you look for it because he tries to
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  Speaker 4: give you something small that you haven't practiced for. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we remember when I mean, we can go back to
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  Speaker 4: Week two last year when Vic dropped on down for
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  Speaker 4: the first time and Clint Kobiak was.
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  Speaker 3: Like, uh oh, we didn't see this before. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: a great compliment. It was a great compliment.
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  Speaker 2: You're dealing with two coaches, and it's funny you mentioned that.
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  Speaker 2: That's another great point.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love these conversations because I hope people understand this
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  Speaker 2: is all off the cuff.
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  Speaker 3: We don't play with it.
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  Speaker 2: So when you guys say something, it clicks in my brain.
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  Speaker 2: One of the main things that happens, particularly against really
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  Speaker 2: good coaches, whether it's Vic showing something or Shanahan showing something,
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  Speaker 2: is the term that coaches use, and it's critical in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs is unscouted looks. Yes, so a big thing
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  Speaker 2: in these games. You're and that when you just spoke
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  Speaker 2: at him, it made me think of that Vick will
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  Speaker 2: show an unscouted look, Shanahan will show some unscauted looks.
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  Speaker 2: That becomes a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're not doing that on fifty percent of your snaps, yeah, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: but you're doing it just enough that you know, you
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  Speaker 5: show something where you know, maybe if Shanahan shows Vic something,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the defense just reacts to half a beat
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  Speaker 5: slow and you end up with a twenty five yard game.
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  Speaker 2: You know that those are the kinds of things you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Unscouted looks, absolutely good stuff, good matchups. We'll get into more. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the injuries are going to play a huge part in
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  Speaker 1: this game now, generally for the Eagles. So it was
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  Speaker 1: a very encouraging week. By Friday, they had everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster participating in practice in some capacity,
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  Speaker 1: so that was good. Brett Toath had the concussion out there,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson was out there all three days, so that's good. However,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that Adam and I have discussed and
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  Speaker 1: Greg with Lane Johnson, he was limited all three days
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  Speaker 1: of practice, which means they did not feel comfortable putting
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  Speaker 1: him out there team drills, you know, the real football
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  Speaker 1: practice was not what they wanted from Lane Johnson, and
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  Speaker 1: to me, that signals a little bit of concern. I
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  Speaker 1: expect him to play. I just wonder if they were
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  Speaker 1: concerned about exposing him to practice, how could we not
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  Speaker 1: be concerned about him not making it through the game
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  Speaker 1: or really not you know, when you have to actually
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  Speaker 1: play real football for the first two months. Was your
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  Speaker 1: your your right foot going to respond to that? Adam,
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  Speaker 1: I know you have the same.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same when we had.
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  Speaker 4: When we had Aaron borgwan On, the former Egos assistant
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  Speaker 4: UH trainer athletic trainer. He made it clear that try
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  Speaker 4: to come back from this injury within six weeks. Its
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  Speaker 4: actually a little bit less than eight weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It would be hard.
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  Speaker 4: First he probably thought we would have to have a
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  Speaker 4: different cleat and the He explained that the heavier or
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  Speaker 4: the bigger or the harder it is to play with
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  Speaker 4: the spring. It's not a fractured sprain, but it's the
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  Speaker 4: midfoot and because you're putting more pressure on your foot,
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  Speaker 4: your weight, you're so big and he's obviously six foot seven. Yep,
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  Speaker 4: we're close to it. It's going to be very difficult.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, he didn't take all the ones this week. Lane,
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  Speaker 4: he did not That.
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  Speaker 2: Midop is the.
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  Speaker 3: Midfoot of his right foot. It's going to be hard.
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  Speaker 4: And Aaron also explained how to to try to anchor
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  Speaker 4: on that foot.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be very difficult. He said it.
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  Speaker 4: He said, it's funny everything he said seven weeks Aaron
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  Speaker 4: On it's all how true.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are now because he'll probably give it
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  Speaker 2: a go and then.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure he'll try to warm up. But yep,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard.
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  Speaker 4: And we know it's Fred Johnson's backup who's been an
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  Speaker 4: you know, not great, but he's a quality backup. But
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  Speaker 4: the record is well out of five hundred without Lane
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  Speaker 4: and by the way, Trent. Without Trent Williams, they're three
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  Speaker 4: and fourteen the Niners.
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  Speaker 3: It's not good.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about without two Hall of Fame offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens after pre good warm ups to.
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  Speaker 1: Go through everybody else. Calcata, who looked like that was
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  Speaker 1: a tough injury. It was a good sign that was
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  Speaker 1: just ankle and not knee. Throughout the week. He was
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  Speaker 1: a full participant on Friday, so he's good to go.
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  Speaker 1: Jayal and Carter with the hip, full participant in n
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Dean with the hamstring. All these guys are gonna
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  Speaker 1: gonna play landon Dickerson. I know people get concerned because
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  Speaker 1: he They have this habit now where he practices Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: either full or limited, and then Thursday they rest him,
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  Speaker 1: which is different. Usually they rest a guy on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: but they've been resting Landed on Thursday. He was back
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  Speaker 1: at it Friday EPs back from the concussion. Got it
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  Speaker 1: with the knee is fine. Oja Lari was a full participant.
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  Speaker 1: He was put into the practice wind. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: never know, you know, if you get injured, it's not
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  Speaker 1: obviously not going to play this weekend. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you hope that you're you stay healthy at edge, but
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  Speaker 1: if you don't, you lose a couple of guys.
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  Speaker 4: You may That's why, because you get if Eagles are
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  Speaker 4: able to make a run and they lose one edge
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  Speaker 4: rusher or one guy can't play for a given week,
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  Speaker 4: he could dresses the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: Guy though, joshushe can do that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, look, uh, it's it seems so long since
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  Speaker 4: I think Ojlari has been out for over two months,
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  Speaker 4: but uh, Jalen Phillis, by the way, the ankle's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Brett Toaf has not been cleared completely out of concussion protocol,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: though Epps has been cleared out of the protocol. So
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: the two guys and Brett, Yeah, the two guys that
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: you're concerned about for Sunday would be Lane Johnson and
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Brett Toave. Brett Toath is important because he backs up
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: center and guard, so that that you want to have
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: him because they you and I have talked about this lately, Jeff.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Their death is not very good on the offensive line.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is not. And so you're hoping. Listen,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: this is this is about the journey too. It's not
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: just about winning one game. You got to get through
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: the first game. But this line has been beat up,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: and at least you hope they make it through with
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: a win and that nobody else gets hurt on the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: offensive line because they are thin. Let's flip it over
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: to the Niners, Adam. I want you to, you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: talk about what you know.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Obviously, we saw that Trent Williams was able to get
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: onto the practice field for the forty nine ers. He's
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: dealing with that a hamstring injury. Ricky Pierce all at
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: least for the first two days, wasn't out. I don't
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: think he was out there at all.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I didn't get the I didn't get the picture that
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: there was any optimist, I should say, any very I thought,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: based on what I'd been told by League sours, not
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: a lot of optimism he'd be able to play. And
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: even if he did, with his PCLS brain. I remember
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: in Nateerlisson, you know he's now working television. We had
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Nate on on NFL radio. He said it was by
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: far the worst injury he's ever had. The poster appreciate
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: ligament sprain. Yeah, this is a you got a run man,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: you got to be able to stop and start and explode,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and he couldn't do it. He's the worst injury he
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: had at that point when we had him on this
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: many years ago. So yeah, Greg, Greg could get into
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: kind of what it looks like. They watch for Jacob Cowing,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: who's a slot receiver. They like him. He started working
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: his way back. He's been out for a while and
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: injury reserve. But so really right now that one for
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: them would obviously Trent Williams. It's not so much whether
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: he could play. It's Kenny Last and Greg, I throw
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: it back to you, Austin Pleasants is a true young journeyman.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: What kind of players this guy he's from what you've seen.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously you're somewhat limited in certain kinds
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: of runs because she's Trent Williams. Just with the mobility
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: factor gives you so much and therefore it increases the
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: options in your run game concepts. You know, Pleasance has
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: actually been okay, it's not as if he's been a
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: liability where oh my god, this guy's not blocking anybody,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: but he certainly can't get out on the edge. You
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: can't run certain runs with him that you can run
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: with Trent Williams. So it does them at what they
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: can do.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Greg.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: It amazes me when I every time I see it,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: because the guy is out there catching passes. It amazes me.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson is still playing for winning teams that are
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: going for number one. I mean, this guy has been
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: one of these role players who's always had to like
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: step in for injuries and kinda has gotten the job.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Whether it was with the Chiefs.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: He always funny.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know how long he's been in the league now, Jeff,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: but I remember when Okay, I remember when he came out.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: No problem, I'm doing a yeah, we'll get me that
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that was the CEO. Sorry, but Barbark the year he
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: came out twenty sixteen, he came out of Florida, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I remember he had some issue off the field issues.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys remember that. I thought that year
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: he was a top five wide receiver in the draft class,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: but he wasn't drafted that way because he had off
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the field issues. And of course he's never truly been
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a you know, that kind of receiver in the league.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: But jee, if you make a great point, everywhere he's been,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: he's a contributor. Now he's not truly a number two
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: who knows, you know, everybody wants to categorize guys who
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: knows however you want to categorize them. But wherever he's been,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: he contributes. Yeah, you know, I mean I remember he's
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a fun years in Kansas City and he caught touchdowns.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, he just seems like he has value to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: whatever team he's on.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: A Super Bowl with the Rams, by the way that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: y're the well.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Not only the speak of the Rams, not only.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Was he good for the Rams, they took him off
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: special teams and he's signed a contract he was so good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so good. It was like where did this contact?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: If Jeff might run for fantasy, people go down their
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: minds because see like four or five weeks in a row,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: You're like, oh my, where does this come from? Because
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: he can run back then now that he's been in
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: the league a long time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Also, by the way, savvy guy, he's just he's a
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: good player, but he's not he's not a speed guy.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know. And and when I say they
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: don't have guys who can win one on one, that
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that no one can ever win one on one.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's the NFL. But they don't have that one
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: guy that you feel like, okay, you know, we can
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: line him up and he's a match up player if
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: need be right.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: One thing on Austin Pleasants. In five years, he's been
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: on seven teams, just to give a count. He's a
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: true young journeyman. He's twenty eight years old. He's undrafted
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: side by Jacksonville in twenty twenty.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And he's who would play left tackle if Williams.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Number sixty three in your program.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we already talked about the linebacker situation. It's
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: pretty well known now Curtis Robinson is a fill in
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: if obviously that that's what it comes through him and Kendricks.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But Greg, do you the Niners play more big nickel
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to compensate like it doesn't mean Now.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It's funny. Robinson was a healthy scratch last week after
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: playing more than forty snaps for four consecutive games, so
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously they felt that he was not the guy.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: So but he I'm sure he'll be up this week
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: just because they need bodies. But yes, they do play
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: big nickel, and they will play big nickel, and that's
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Pinnick is the third safety because it's Mustapha and Brown
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: are the starting safeties. And I think actually those guys
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: have played well. Yeah, and they're very good playing downhill
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: on the run game. Yeah, that's the strength of both players.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: But Pinnock, when they do play Pinnock and they do
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: play big nickel, I would say ninety five percent of
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the time he lines up essentially as a second level player,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: and that mustaf and Brown are our third level players.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Jeff, And well, it's funny how things again, how they've
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: had six they there since week one, they have had
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: a minimum of six defensive starter changes Pinnock started with
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Siegel sigl e. I think that's how you pronounce it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Now they're both back on. Pinnock plays more now because
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: he's they play big nickel. But this is it's hard.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I give Robert Salad credit. I know that their sack
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: totals are bad, press rates not very good.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: They're fairly disciplined. Okay, you got to earn your yards here.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: You could say all you want, and I know you
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: outlined how many times Eagles haven't taken advantage of it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: But it's very well coached.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Greg could get into other stuff with this defense, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: you're gonna They're gonna have to earn it this week.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: The question I mean there if Robert Salah isn't at
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: least a finalist for the Assistant Coach of the Year award,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: then yeah, there should be an investigation. Although there's been.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of good coaches assistants this year
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: have been up for it, but he certainly.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And what they do on the back end is it
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: function very much of whether they're playing big nickel or
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: playing at base four three. And again the base four
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: to three could be dependent on who's available. But when
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: they played big nickel, they tend to play out of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a two high structure, and when they play four to three,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they'll play much more out of a single high structure.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, I think that's why, and this is just
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my belief. You guys can certainly disagree, but I would
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: say from an injury front, if I were the Niners,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like the Trent Williams situation to me is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: far more concerning if he can't play in the linebacker situation,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: because they've all they've as Greg mentioned, they've tackled well,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they've gotten good play out of their big nickel, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the Eagles just haven't run the ball well enough for
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: me to think that they are just going to go
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: off for two hundred and fifty yards. Could have happened, sure,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: But if I were the Niners, I'd be more concerned
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: about Trent Williams because I feel like they're a different
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: offense Greg, when they don't have him, and they are
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: there a much better offense. I know you said Pleasants
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: has played well, but they are to me a much
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: better offense now.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy's the first ballot Hall of Famer,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: he's he's I don't think you'd be wrong to say
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that as you go through the history of left tackles
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: in in the league. Oh, you know, I'm going through
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the you know, let's say, going back, I'm trying to think,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: let's say, start with Anthony Munios around nineteen eighty give
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: or take. At the starting point, I would I would
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: say Trent Williams is in the top six or seven.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got the obvious, you know, the Munio's,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the the Walter Jones, the Ogdens. I know I'm missing some,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you know, one or two. But yeah, yeah, Joe Thomas.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: But I mean Trent Williams is in that conversation.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah one. So if you give him good rep Jason Peter,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: there is good latown Jason Pierre, good one.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm talking about left tackles though.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: All right, just left tackles, good point, good point, Yep,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: all right. I want to ask you this, Greg, then
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Adam probably has some stuff for you. They were the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Niners did very well, right, considerably well when Mac Jones
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: had to start eight games. I believe it was for
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Rock Purty. When Perty came back, they went to another level.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: What is it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: About what brock Party does for this offense that they
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: averaged thirty one points since he's per game since he
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: came back.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a hard question to answer because you know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I think that will perty give you a couple of
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: things that I think go beyond Jones. Keep in mind,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it's a very highly choreographed offense. It's a pure progression
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: based offense. But the quarterback has to have an understanding
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of defense, you know, the old abstract pure progression. Those
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: days are gone because defenses are so much more multiple
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: and diverse, and there's too much late rotation and changing
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: looks pre snapped post nap for just pure pure progression,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you know, to be the way you play where you
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: have no idea what the defense is doing and it
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Purdy is a master at innately understanding late rotation.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: He just sees it really, really well. It's something you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: didn't really know about him coming out of college because
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the college game doesn't demand very much that quarterbacks do that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: There's a few college coaches, obviously, maybe the Kirby Smarts
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and others who I don't study the college coaches like
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I know the NFL coaches. You know, you'll see that
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: somewhat in college, but certainly not like in the NFL
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: where that's been a major trend in the league the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: last couple of years, the changing the picture pre snapped
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: to post nap and Purdy just has an incredible feel
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: for that. It's innate. It doesn't impact his timing or anticipation.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And the other thing is is the timing and anticipation.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: He's really really high level. But the offense is very
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: choreographed and everything is tied into your footwork to their routes.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It's uh and and the other part of Purty, which
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: is better than mac Jones, is just the movement ability.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Perdy can make plays outside of structure, both running and throwing.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Now is he a playmaker in the way you think
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: of the elite playmakers. No, but he can make plays
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: outside of structure. He can make second reaction plays. He
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: can improvise and and run and.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Throw the two things. He's got real quick feet, you know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: When you're I was like, sometimes this surprises me and
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Jeff how many times we said it. Sometimes these guys
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: who scramble eagles, sometimes they don't play their discipline and
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: guys get loose.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And that's one thing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: As elite as this defense has been, you worry about
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: what Justin Herbert did to them when he in ten
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: for sixty three with a broken left hand, and that
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: that does concern.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Me a little bit. So you got to you just
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to me there.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: The Eagles have a lot of vantages the third defense
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: versus the Niners offense. But then you get to Shanahan,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the scheme versus Vic the genius. I love these coach matchups. Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I talks about coach against coaches. This sleep is going
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: to be fun. Oh, by the way, weatherwise, it's gonna
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: be very windy once again.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Well, oh it is, yeah, yeah, I mean obviously a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: big advantage will be this is that the Niners have
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: had trouble running the ball, just like the Eagles. They've
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: had trouble having a very impactful run game. They'll still
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: do it, but if they get behind the sticks, and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: especially if they don't have Trent Williams, even if they
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: do guys like Jelex Hunt Jalen Phillips, the stunting that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: they do up front the Eagles have done lately. Greg
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Eagles have a big advantage if they can keep the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Niners offense just like the Seattle did behind schedule, they'll
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: just lose their identity like that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it's tunny you mentioned that, because
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that was one of the main issues I felt that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: watching that game live. Obviously, now that you're getting into
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: these games and certainly the playoffs, you can watch every
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: game live, you know. But when I was watching that
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Seattle San Francisco game, because that was a night game,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: right yes, so I saw it live. There was no
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: other game going on. When I saw Seattle's opening drive
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: where they control the ball for what six seven whatever
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: it was, it was a long amount of time, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: right away I'm thinking to myself, this game is getting
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: outside of the pace and flow of the way the
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Niners need the game to be played, which raises a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: fascinating question for this game, and I know we'll get
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you know, I love the way we talk because we just,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you know, talk. The Eagles have had the most three
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and outs in the NFL. The Eagles and one other team,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns, have the most three and outs of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: any team in the NFL. And you know, if the
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Eagles cannot control the ball at all against the defense
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that's obviously not one of the best in the league.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: As good as Salah is, and I think everybody knows
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: he's really good at what he does. But if they
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: can't control the ball and the Niners are able to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: keep getting the ball back, then they can have a
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: chance to develop their pace and tempo for the game,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: even if they're not going to put up thirty, which
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: they won't against the Eagles at the lank, but still
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the game can be at least played more to their
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: pace in tempo, whereas if the opposing offense starts controlling
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the ball and you could almost feel it. Did you
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: watch the Seattle San Francisco game on.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: TV, Jeff, Yes, I felt they almost.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Feel like the Niners could never get into the flow
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: of the game on offense.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: So many three and outs, so many of them, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: they had a big turnover. But boy, I've not seen
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: them look so apt on offense. It was just kind of, look,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: if Seattle's elite defensively, that happens, you know.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Argue the Eagles have played that way over the last six, seven,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: eight weeks.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Right, So the one thing that really jumped out of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: me of that game, Greg, is that I agree that
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I felt that even though the score was close the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: entire way that Seattle was just controlling it and the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Niners could not get to where they wanted to be.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like the backbreaking play was actually when San
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Francisco had him at third and seventeen, they ran the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: ball and they got.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: A nineteen hours walker.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yea, got just deflated everything. I think San Francisco is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: hanging on and hanging on and hoping to force a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: punt there and then when they couldn't, it just it's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just like the balloon deflated.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: No, I agree, I agree, but the Niners look obviously
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: they had the stretch where they scored a lot of points,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: but the Niners also don't have to score thirty five
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: in order to be controlling the game on offense correct
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and they that game, they just it wasn't there and
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: you could feel it. You know, they're just watching the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: game on TV.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The Niners defense, Greg, let's talk about what. Sala is
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: not high blitz. He's gonna be what.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: And they're normally a top down defense. I mean, they'll
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: play single high, like I said, depending on the personnel
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: out there, but normally they're not a high percentage pressure defense.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Although depending on games, he will jack up his blitz
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: frequency in the second half because he feels it's needed.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Depending on a given game, but that's not their their
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: starting mo and they're not, relative to the rest of
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the league a high high percentage cover one team, although
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: they you know, although they will play cover one, I
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: mean they're not, you know, they're more I would say foundationally,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: they're more zone based than they are man based.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: They had they had twenty sacks at him in an
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: eighteen game season. I believe they have that twenty. Is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that not amazing that they finished with their record to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: have twentys?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: They played with discipline, but listen, they lost both starting
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: edges right use Fred Warner. It's not that he's a
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: sack guy, but when you're down an efficiency and pressure rate,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: it is kind of amazing.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: But I don't want to throw the back at Greg.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: I know they've talking to the Niners over the years.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: They're very proud.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Of Diamadoor Lenore's development.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Yep, if you.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Could give the folks a little bit of an overview
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: of him and Ernardo Green, what could they expect in
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: this game?
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Well, the really interesting thing about the Niners and the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: way they play defense is Ornardo Green went to Florida State,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and Florida State plays heavy, heavy pressed man and I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: love Ernardo Green coming out. He was a second round pick,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: but I loved him as a press man corner. They
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: don't play a lot of press man so I think
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Lenora and Green are solid players. They're smaller players, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: they're not big guys. And the guy who I think
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: has really been good for them, believe it or not,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: has been their slot corner up in Stout. He's had
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: a really really good season and you know, he's he
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is one of those sort of slot corners that's not big,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: but he's physical, he's competitive, he's aggressive, he will play
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the run. When they do blitz, he'll be part of
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of their blitz packages. So he's he's a
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: really interesting player, spicy. He's smaller though, he's under five
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to nine, but he's good. Yeah, yeah, he's small.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: The thing that the thing that I really think becomes
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: good for the Eagles and problematic for the forty nine
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: ers is this is that the times the passing offense
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: really goes into droughts, they'll either be that pocket collapse
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: around Jillen. There is either pressure or the perception of pressure,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and you get him out of his rhythm. And as
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: good as this forty nine Ers team has been an
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: overcoming its weaknesses. I just don't know that they can
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: do enough of that to really make Jalen Hurts uncomfortable.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And Adam, you say, well, I'm getting getting those matchups
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: on the outside. As good as Lenore has been and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: as okay they've been in the secondary, you have to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: favor DeVante and aj against.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: They've had some teats where they've gotten torched. But we
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: should make that clear here. I mean, I could not
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: believe and I happen to watch that game actually more
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: than a half of when Jacoby Brissette have one of
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: the best games that no one will ever talk about
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: in forty seven completions for four hundred and fifty somebody yards. Yeah,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: and it's not like, look but I know that the
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Niners they like their corners.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: But that's great.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: But they've had some games to the Chicago game, if
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: that's some games, Jeff, where they've gotten torched.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And the pass rife point, Jeff is a really
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: good one. I know Keyon White, it has been in
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: and out of practice, I think this week, but let's
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: assume he plays. They're predominant third down and pure pass
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: rush D line front. They have Sammy Oh and Huff
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: as the edge rushers, and White and Gross Matos inside.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: That's basically their pass rush front when they're in you know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: third down and pure pass situations.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I know Greg that they are more about scheme than
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: any individual because they've lost so many good players. But
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: if the Niners are going to pull this off and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: really hold the Eagles under twenty points and play a
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: really good defensive game, who's going to be the forced
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: player for them? Who's gonna, oh, you mean, like, who
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be the one that kind of just
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: causes the havoc that really frustrates the Eagles.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: That's a great question, because, look, I don't think you're speaking,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: we're speaking at a school to say that they don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: really have that impact player that you feel like as
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: a game changer. I would almost argue that their two
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: most impactful players are their two safeties right now, right
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Brown and Mustafa.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Mustafa was a fun watch coming out of wake Forest
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and Brown. You know Brown, he's a Penn State kid
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: and he's played really well this year. He's he's finally
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: come to where I think they expected when they drafted him,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: because wasn't he a second round pick Jeff Yeah, he
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: was yeah, round pick. Yeah, and he was good college player.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he was a good player. But
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you know, when you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Look around, I'm right third round at him, Okay, but.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: When you look at their D line, I mean, you know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Huff can have his moments as a pass rusher, but
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say he's a dominant pass rusher.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a good start. He fell off the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: face of the earth after getting hurt. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: So they just don't really have that guy, you know.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I think that you look at and say, that's a
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: guy that could really be an impact changing type player.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And that's where I think it's going to be a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: struggle for them. I mean, at least when they played
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Buffalo and they were missing all those guys, they had
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a guy like Epanessa who could cause a little issue.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: They had to me they have more. I just again,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I can't discount the job that Roberts Hell has done,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: but I this is a different animal. These are the Eagles.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: The Eagles can can block it up pretty well, and
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: then if Jalen Hurts gets into a rhythm, then it
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: could be lights out pretty quickly. I feel comfortable in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: saying if this game winds up being a blowout, it's
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: more because the Eagles blew out the Niners than vice versah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Right, right, well, yeah, I mean look in the link
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: in January. It's you know, teams usually don't come in
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: and score thirty. You know that normally doesn't happen. Doesn't
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: mean they're gonna win. We don't know that obviously, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if the Niners win, they're not
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: gonna be winning this game thirty five to seventeen, right, yes, I.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Think more than ever. And I know fans hate this,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and to extent, people who watch the Eagles and cover
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: them objectively sort of get annoyed with the two. But
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: this might be the epitome of the nick Sirianni. Just
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: play smart, fundamental football, not turn it over, and you'll
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: probably wind up on the winning side because I don't
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: let anything flukey happen that favors the forty nine ers,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: And you're probably pretty good.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It's a great point because can you see the forty
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: nine ers? And again, you know, we're just talking here
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and people probably think we're just you know, three idiots
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: talking like everybody else. But yeah, yeah, but can you
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: see the Niners having to, let's say four or five
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: times in this game, having to drive eighty yards and scoring.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: No, not at all. And that's exactly I thought. That
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: thought You've just had Greg, And that's why I said
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the only I don't say the only way, but the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: best way for the Niners to get out of there
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with the win is if the Eagles really screw something up,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: if they turn it over and flip the field and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Niners, who I think are
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: a really good red zone and third down team this.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Year, a terrific third down team.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you give them those.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: If it's third and nine or ten, I mean, then
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: it's you know, that's different.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. I think it's just a real
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: uphill climb. Yeah, And I'm I'm saying that expecting the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Eagles to struggle a little bit offensively because that's just
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: who they are.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Well, the main look, one could make the argument as
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you really look back and reflect on this Eagle season
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: is not much was different about the Eagles overall, other
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: than the fact that I give you guys that stat
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: earlier in the week. Other than the fact that Barkley
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: in the third and fourth quarter a year ago twenty
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: twenty four had three twenty two for seventeen fifty three.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And this year in the third and fourth quarter he's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: got one thirty six for five. Oh weight, He've not
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: been able to run the ball and put the game away.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I mean last year they did that automatically. He had
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty two carries in the second half
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Wow, what did what a difference? What did dichotomy? That's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: crazy one year in the next.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Over twelve hundred yards less.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I mean it's crazy, you know. So. But other than that,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: you could make the argument that everything else is relatively
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts numbers wise. You know, we can debate Jalen
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Hurts all day long. He's played long enough to know
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that this is Jalen Hurts. He's a good player. This
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: is who he is. He's not all of a sudden
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: going to be a different player tomorrow or next week
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: or next year. This has played long enough to know
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: this is who he is.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: One thing I do.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Want to add, what's that?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Just finish up? I want to add something within.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: The context of the Eagles when they're playing. Well, he's
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: a really good player. Yeah, but he won't he personally
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: won't be different.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Correct, all right, so the win, the guts, and the
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: first half are up to forty miles an hour. That's
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: actually worse than a lot of their games this year. Hmm, Okay,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: we'll see now. You know it could change before the game,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: but I'm just letting people know that's on. But the
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: one another positive for him is this is important. Never
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: on the injury report this season. With all the contact
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: that he has he takes. I know he doesn't run
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: as much, they don't design as many runs, but with
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: their offensive line protection issues, the line not being as good,
• 39:42
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• 39:43
  Speaker 3: That's a credit to him. Not even on these report
• 39:45
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• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Were already maybe he won't run around it. It was actually
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: going to the Charger game, I think, yeah, he was okay,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: So that's a credit to him.
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• 43:22
  Speaker 1: talked about the matchups. Here are the key ones, the injuries.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Let's make our predictions in our Player of the game.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Greg because he was so eager
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: he gave it at the top of the show. I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: know he's bursting out the seams to give it again.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna stick with that. Twenty four to thirteen Birds,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley. I think I just feel like this is
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: the week the run game is going to.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Be a factor.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: And again I can't give be a yardage total, but
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I just think it's it's going to be that they're
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: going to be able to sort of control the pacing
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: tempo of the game with the run game against the
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: forty nine ers.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: What's your score?
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Twenty four to thirteen?
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, close to mind.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, too many, too many injuries for the Niners, too
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: many players that just you know, I mean, look, we
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: know Shanahan's a phenomenal coach, we know Solid has done
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: an unbelievable job. But I just feel like they're down
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: too many bodies, yep, And I'm concerned. I'm concerned as
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: well about their past game as well, schemed and choreographed
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: as it is. You know, that's one reason. Just to
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: make a quick point, which you know I mentioned, I
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: would say earlier that the Eagles can can kind of
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: control Jackson on the outside because they essentially let Mitchell
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: at boundary corner play zero man and push everything to
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the wide side of the field, so Jackson is not
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: really playing a lot of pure man coverage on the outside,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: even in their zone principles, because you know, they let
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: they let Mitchell essentially play zero.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Man, right right. That's amazing that he's been able to
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: do that all year long. Yeah, yeah, and get some
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: really good wide receivers and flourish. So you're okay. You
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: said Barkley was your player of the game.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did, all right.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I should mention the Eagles are now six point favorites.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: For most of the week it was five five and
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: a half and they're up to six point favorites in
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the game. Over under, it's low as you would expect,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: forty four and a half. So your prediction, Greg was
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, twenty four. So my quick mats and
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: under on the forty four and a half, Adam, what
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: do you got?
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: I've got a twenty three seventeen Eagles since Greg took
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: my guy. Well, here, let's put it this way. I
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: had a great talk with an offensive coach from an
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: NFC team, and because his team played the Eagles this
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: season and he spoke so glogally about jaylex Son, he
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: was just shocked at how good of a football player is.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: He said, the guy's no weakness and he goes, but
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: he's he's not great, elite at anything.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: But he can't believe.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: Because I guess whatever cutups they got, they got some
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: from it's most a year two, but some from last year.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: He just shocked at how good he is. And I
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: believe that Hunk could have a huge game here. I'll
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: go with Barkley because it starts with him. Obviously, I
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: expect you to have a great game. They're going to
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: get up with the second and who knows how well
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: we'll be able to throw the football this win. That's
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: also not good for party by the way. So and
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: we saw what Jared Goff could do in the win,
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: not very good. So yeah, I like them to win
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: this game. I'm fascinated to see what the chess match
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: is going to be with the conditions and how they
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: call it. We know both teams want to start with
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: a run. Kyle Shannon talks about his openers right run game.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: I love that Kyle's very up from it. If we're Jeff,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: we're Sirian. He won't give you anything. Kyle doesn't care
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: with injuries. Yeah, philosophy. He doesn't really hid a lot.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: I love it. And by the way, they're really good.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Well it's funny because he tried to hire Vic Fangio
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: wants to be his defensive coordinator. Can imagine covering a
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  Speaker 1: team with both Kyle and Vick at the podium every week.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a treasure that would be.
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  Speaker 3: We love We love that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I'm gonna stick with my Philly I always
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  Speaker 1: give the same pick here than I do with Philly
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  Speaker 1: Voice when we to our staff picks. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to crown myself. I was the top game
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  Speaker 1: Eagles game picker at Philly Voice this year. If here
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  Speaker 1: though no might have been no, it might have been
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  Speaker 1: you Caplin, you're right, But I was twelve and five
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  Speaker 1: picking games. So but anyway, that's not against the spread,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not not very hard. But either way, I
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  Speaker 1: am picking the Eagles in a ten point win. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say twenty three to thirteen was my pick. And
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  Speaker 1: I am going to go with na Kobe Dean as
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  Speaker 1: my player of the game because I do think that
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  Speaker 1: the Niners are going to be in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: second and third and unmanageables. You might see n Kobe Dean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, some sim pressures, get after the quarterback, get
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: a few sacks, maybe for some fumble. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a really big part of what the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles do defensively against the Niners on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: That's going out. Wow, that's a pretty good cup. We'll say, yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: I like to be different. If I'm going to pick
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  Speaker 1: a defensive oriented game, I want to go with a
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  Speaker 1: defensive player as my MVP, just like you did. So
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  Speaker 1: that is it. The picks are in, the matchups have
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  Speaker 1: been analyzed, and all that's left is for the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: and the Niners to duke it out at the Link
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. That'll do it for the Inside the Birds
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  Speaker 1: pregame show for Greg Cosell and Adam Kaplan. I'm Jeff Mosher.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for watching on Inside the Birds.