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Inside The Birds Week 1 Pregame Show With Greg Cosell: Philadelphia Eagles Vs. Dallas Cowboys · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Who welcome to the Inside the Birds pregame show. That's right,
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  another season of pregame shows here on Inside the Birds
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  with the same cast and crew. I'm Jeff Mosher alongside
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  Adam Kaplan and joining us as always is our tape
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  breakdown guru Greg co Sell. You see him on ESPN's
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  NFL Matchup Show. Senior producer at NFL Films, Greg, Welcome back,
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  and I promise you this is you know, we always
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  say week one is different. I know you don't have eight, nine,
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  ten weeks of tape to watch leading up to this,
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  so we have to go off of what we know right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and there's a lot of things we don't know.
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  But I gotta tell you, guys, I feel like we
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  just did this not that long ago, you know. I
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  mean the Eagles played late into the season last year,
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  as it were, So it feels like we just did
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  this a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: So did the light go off after the Super Bowl
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  for you in that studio and you went to sleep
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  and then you just woke up like a two months
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  later for training camp?
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  Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, I've been I don't think
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  I've missed more than you know A couple of trips
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  you know that were kind of business slash pleasure trips.
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  But I don't think I've missed maybe more than three
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  four days in a row since since the season ended
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  of tape study both college and NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, the Eagles are starting off the season with
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  a bang. It is the Dallas Cowboys Thursday night at
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  the Link, the super Bowl banner will be unfurled. The
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  Eagles have said they won't be watching. They're focused on
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  twenty twenty five, not two thousand and twenty four. However,
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  it's always amazing when the Eagles and the Cowboys meet,
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  and now you get it in week one, Adam. You
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  know my stance on this. I'm more of a I
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  like the lead up of a few weeks before we
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  get Eagles Cowboys. But I will say Week one is
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  fun for the fans, and I know that the stadium
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  will be rocking, especially when that banner gets unfurled. But
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  it's also a chain to get a good look at
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  one team that's trying to defend the Super Bowl and
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  another team that's really trying to bounce back from a
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  really rough year that has high expectations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look, you know when you've got the first
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  game of the season. The networks in this case would
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  be NBCY. This is what they wanted. I was on
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  that media call when the schedule came out, and look,
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  we could debate what game should have been there, but
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  you're gonna get great ratings.
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  Speaker 4: It's Dallas. They still have.
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  Speaker 3: A big name, There's no question about it. So yeah,
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  with Dallas, it's kind of a renewal of kind of
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  what they want to be. They see where Philly is.
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  Jerry Jones has talked about it. He's actually been quite
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  complimentary with the Eagles, surprisingly, but you've got a new
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  head coach, one that shocked fans and former players the Cowboys,
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  Brian Schotenheimer. And we'll get into what we think this
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  thing could look like. Offensive fact, we have a pretty
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  good idea what Shoty wants to do, but no, Michael
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  Parsons chef us. The story here to me is it's
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  just it's hard to believe they made that trade last week.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is interesting, right because Dallas's biggest offseason
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  edition was George Pickens. So we'll wind up going into
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  their offense and what that's going to mean. Greg for it,
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  but clearly for Week one under the microscope is both
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  of these defenses and how they are going to be different.
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  The Eagles having to replace about a half dozen start
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  almost half of its starting lineup on defense, and then
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  the Cowboys not making that many replacements, but really having
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  to figure out what to do now without a pass
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  rusher in the mold of Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they had made some changes on defense anyway, and
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  obviously if Parsons was there, he can alleviate a lot
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  of potential issues because he's truly an impact game changer.
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  But you know they have Kenneth Murray is now playing linebacker.
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  He's there, He's been with a few teams in the league,
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  and he's always moves on just because as athletic as
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  he is, he just doesn't see things as as quickly
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  and as clearly as you need to. They have a
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  new Uh, it'll be interesting to see. They just signed
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  a Ron Bland to a big deal, so you know
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  he's going to start on the outside. You know, I
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  know they they brought in caer elm but I can't
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  believe you signed Bland and you only play him in
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  your nickel. So he's gonna start and I believe Diggs
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  is a full participant and has been, so it looks
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  like he's gonna go yep. But it'll be a little different,
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  you know. Now they have Kenny Clark, They've got some
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  some you know, they've got the rookie Asiaku from Boston College.
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  They still have Marshawn neland who was hurt last year,
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  but he was a second round pick a year ago.
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  A second round pick is not a throwaway pick. You
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  probably expect him to play meaningful snaps. Sam Williams is back.
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  He's a twenty twenty two draft choice who actually has
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  a lot of ability. It'll be very interesting to see
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  what he can do with this team. So there's some
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  players here. It's Week one. You really have no idea
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  how guys will be deployed, and you know what the
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  snapcount will be. Really you don't know the answer to that.
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  Speaker 1: Right Well, we're gonna do real quick. We're gonna do
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  what we always do on this show, and that's break
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  it down from every angle, from the Eagles angle, from
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  the Cowboys angle. And of course, the Eagles are seven
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  and a half point favorites. Last I checked over the
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  Cowboys at home, and that's a pretty big line right there,
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  especially to start the season. And for those who care
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  about these things, and I know a lot of people
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  out there do, the Eagles are also heavy favorites to
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  repeat as NFC East champs, something that hasn't been done
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  in the last twenty seasons. And all of that stuff,
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  all those stats and odds, make me think about that
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  one guy in the chat group, the group chat, I
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  should say, every year, who hits that five leg parlay
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  in Week one and then he doesn't shut up about
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  group chat all the time. Just somethime going to say
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  about this matchup?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so something like Greg said him passing.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when we were doing We're profing the Division
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  with Greg, it was kind of known that Kyrie elam
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  Is really was not a good fit for Buffalo scheme. Greg,
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  you were talking about that he's more a man corner.
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  So to me, I mean, you've seen Abraflus's defense, how
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  does he fit.
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  Speaker 2: Well? Eba Flus has not been a heavy, heavy man
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  corner coach. But you know, I would say that Diggs
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  is probably better as a man corner as well. So
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  you would have to assume that they knew this when
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  they hired eberflu so whether he's going to make a change. Look,
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  coaches do do that. I mean I remember Robert Salah
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  with the forty nine ers back when he came there
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  initially his background with Seattle, that's how he started in
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  the NFL, and he was on the staff with the
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  Legion of Boom and it was all covered three as
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  you and I'm sure many others recall. And then he
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  started that way with the Night and saw the way
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  the league was evolving and started to play a ton
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  more of spit safety just because the league was evolving.
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  So you know, it's very possible that we'll see more
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  man coverage because there's no question Diggs is better at it.
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  Like I said, Bland, they just signed to a big number,
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  so I can't believe he's only going to play in
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  the nickel, although he's a better off coverage corner than
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  he's a pressman corner, because Bland is much more of
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  a keyer and a cluer than he is a press corner.
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  But Elam is clearly better as a pressman corner and
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  is not a very good zone corner, which is one
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  reason Adams. You just suggested correctly that he did not
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  work in Buffalo because they play a lot of off coverage.
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  Speaker 1: So interesting that you bring this up, the changing that
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  a defensive coordinator will do to adjust because Matt eberflus
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  if you were to change some of the way he
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  ordinarily has schemed, he wouldn't be the first guy to
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  do that. That's what Dan Quinn did right when he
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  got to the Cowboys. He was known as the Cover three.
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  Speaker 2: He was the legend of bloom guy too when they
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  started playing a ton of.
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  Speaker 1: Press, right right. So good coordinators cater to the strength
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  of their personnel, and we'll see exactly what Matti Eberflus
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  does here. The last time he was a defensive coordinator
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  was with the Colts before he became head coach of
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  the Bears. So let's stay on this theme then, of
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  Cowboys defense Eagles offense against it. Kenneth Murray, you mentioned
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  as an addition, a little light there at linebacker hasn't
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  really lived up the first round billing. I was asked
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  Craig and Adam in an interview with our ninety seven
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  point three ESPN partners, if I felt that this would
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  be the first sign of the Eagles moving toward a
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  passing game a little bit more, or is this going
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  to be run, run, run, And I said, well, you know,
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  based on the Eberflus history, if he's going to play
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  two safeties deep, or if they're gonna be light at linebacker.
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  Why wouldn't you run the ball against this Dallas defensive front?
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  Am I crazy for saying that?
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  Speaker 2: Adam, Well, real quick, Yeah, is history, and I've been
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  speaking to people around the league who offensive coaches is
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  and again, things can change. So I don't want to
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  sit here and have people think this is what he's
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  going to do and we know for a fact, because
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  we don't. But his history has been that he's somewhat
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  predictable alignment wise on first and second down, but on
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  third down you do get a lot of different things.
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  So if he gets you in third and pure pass,
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  you will see more different things. Now, let's remember one thing.
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  This particular opponent with a quarterback who's really really good
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  at scrambling and beating you with his legs. That often
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  necessitates a change in how you play third and long.
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  And when I say third and long, I don't mean
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  third and sixteen. I mean let's say third and six
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  to ten or six to eleven, where Hertz's legs are
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  a big deal and must be accounted for.
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  Speaker 4: Adam, Yeah, let me add this.
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  Speaker 3: So if you look at their secondary right, and I
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  understand that the offense starts with hurt. With Barkley, there's
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  no question about that. But when you throw the football,
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  let's consider Trayvon ditch right, he's missed a ton of time.
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  He missed fifteen games in twenty three, missed six out
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  of the final seven last season. The Cowboys made it
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  pretty clear they did not expect him to be ready
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  for the start of the season, as they talked about
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  it's training camp. So Jeff, he's been practicing a decent
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  amount of the last two weeks. But this is and
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  Greg has closed us in on kind of what Diggs
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  is at a corner. And we'll talk about that again
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  with Greg in a second. But if you really look
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  at it, Dallas is really.
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  Speaker 4: Short a corner here. They're just not deep at all.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Bland, who now the Eagles don't at least
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  didn't last year run a lot of eleven personnel like
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  they used to. And then you got Elom and then
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  guys who really haven't played be for because Revel, the
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  third round pick, is not ready. He's on NFI right,
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  They've got a problem a corner here. I'm not sold
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  you can't throw it against this team.
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  Speaker 1: No, I would agree with you and Greg, when you
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  say a coordinator tends to be more predictable on first
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  and second down then likes to mix it up on third,
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  I think a lot of offensive coaches like to say, well,
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  then I want to pass on first and second down
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  when they're predictable because I know what they're going to
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  show me, and then let the pass set up my
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  run if I have a good explosive running back. But
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  I also remember us three doing inside the tape, which
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  will be back this year, of course, on inside the
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  Birds after games and showing especially maybe the first eight
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  to ten weeks of the season last year, Greg, you
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  might remember the Eagles trying to just throw in some
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  basic passing routes on first and second down and either
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  Hurts wasn't seeing it, or just wasn't working, and then
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  the reflex was to go back to the run, and
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  that's when bam, that would work and then later open
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  up a nice deep threat for Jail and Hurts. So
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  it'll be interesting to see Kevin Patula's approach. You're on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I again, none of us know. Okay, I don't
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  want to say that every time, but it would not
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  I would not be surprised if the Eagles came out
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  throwing the football because I think I think we've heard
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  all offseason and we've all said this, you know, because
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  of what they were a year ago. You know, this
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  was a team that had the most first down runs
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  of any team in the league. This was a team
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  that ran the ball on third and four to eight
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  yards more than any team in the league by a
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  wide margin. I would not be surprised if they come
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  out throwing the football because I think right now you're
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  totally uncertain as to what the Cowboys pass rush is
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  correct yep, and the Eagles obviously have a really good
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  old line that can pass protect, so we don't know
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  if the Cowboys can rush the quarterback or not Adam
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  as Adam aptly stated, Diggs is not probably going to
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  be at the top of his game. He's only practiced
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  for a couple of weeks. I know they gave Bland
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  a lot of money, and I know he's made a
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  lot of interceptions in a certain way, but he's not
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  a great man to man corner elim is kind of
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  an unknown in this particular scheme. So I would not
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  be surprised if they came out and threw the ball.
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  I mean, wasn't a couple of years ago in games
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  where you know, Hurts had twenty five attempts in the
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  first half. And I don't know why this just popped
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  into my head, but wasn't there a Monday night game
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  against Minnesota early in the season a few years ago
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  and he had like twenty seven attempts in the first half,
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  you know, I mean, every once in a while they
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  do that. You know, I don't think that's going to
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  be who they are all season, but it would not
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  surprise me to see them come out being aggressive in
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  the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: Adam, Your favorite game last year was the Steelers game,
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  Wasn't it? For that reason? They came out, threw the ball,
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  they went no huddle right off the bat, Baltimore.
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  Speaker 4: Hurts was really good in that game, like that was.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was one of his best games of
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  the year as far as past games. I don't want
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  to say just him the pass game, right.
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  Speaker 1: He made really good window throws that game.
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  Speaker 3: Even yes, that's where he's going to get to he
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  actually is, much as it's with so many new people,
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  you start going.
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  Speaker 2: I love the point you just made, Jeff about the
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  no huddle on the tempo. You could easily see that
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  this is a veteran offense. Okay, the Eagles really have
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  very few Do they have any new players on offense? Really,
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  they do not. They don't have any ars.
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  Speaker 4: Cooper snow but he's not gonna play much, right, No, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about their main guys. Yeah, has played a lot
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  of snaps. He's I mean, he's a new daughter, but
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  it's not as if he's not played meaningful snaps. So
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  they have no new players as their main group on offense,
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  they can come out and go no huddle tempo without
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  any issues of communication against the Cowboys defense with a
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  lot of new pieces, a lot of players that haven't practiced,
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  and now you're putting a real burden on their ability
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  to communicate. And that would not surprise me at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And of course, Adam we saw in the Super
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  Bowl too, they had a plan to try to shut
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  down Saquon Steve Spagnuolu being today and Jalen hurts through
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  it and he threw it with conviction.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The matchups now obviously with Kenny Clark and Jerry Jones
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  is obsessed the stop of the and I don't know
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  how many times he said in his press conference, like
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  Greg talked about it when we reviewed the trade. Greg said,
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  Kenny Clark's a good player, but he's not quite what
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  he wants was No. Diggey Zoo was a more up
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  the field guy. So to me, a lot of the
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  matchup chef as I center back to really really look
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  good for the Eagles here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The last thing I want to focus on for
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  this matchup of Dallas defense versus Eagles offense is obviously
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  the The no Micah Parsons factor is very interesting. It's
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  a great player. No one's gonna deny that. I've been
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  thinking about it a lot, though, Greg. I do think
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  over the long haul that that hurts the Cowboys unless
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  one of these second rounders or two of them really
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  come up. But when you think about pass rushing plans
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  versus the Eagles, sometimes not having the guy who gets
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  off the ball like Parsons or drives guys back isn't
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  as important as the team pass rush defense plan, right,
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  because you can't rush Jalen Hurts conventionally just get upfield,
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  and because you mentioned that he runs away. I've always
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  thought that the teams that do the best against Jalen
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  are the ones that have a team plan of being
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  able to keep them in the pocket, which means they rush,
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  but then they drop back, they muddle rusher or mush rush,
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  and in that case it takes more mental discipline and
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  understanding lanes than it does just pure natural talent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're also speaking, Jeff about pure past type situations.
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  If they're gonna come out and be aggressive, and just
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  my thought, you know, we don't know that means they're
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  going to throw a lot in normal down in distance.
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  They could be in a twelve personnel, in which case
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  the Cowboys would have their base defense more than likely
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  on the field. Again, something we do not know, but
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  you know, and then you get into many other factors
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  and many other variables. So you know, yeah, if it's
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  third and eight, Yeah, what you said is one hundred
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  percent true. You know, and even though Hurts can obviously
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  beat you throwing the ball, you know, the feeling would
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  still likely be that you'd rather keep him in one
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  spot where you know he's there, as opposed to have
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  him run. You know, there's been so many plays over
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  the last number of years where he's just a moralized
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  defenses on third and eight and third nine, leaving the pocket.
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  I mean the Super Bowl in that third quarter he
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  had three of them against you know, one of the
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  best coordinators in the game, probably a Hall of Fame
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  type de coordinator in Steve Spagnolo. You know. So, yeah,
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  that's the plan all the time when you play Jalen Hurts,
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  I would imagine on third and pure pass. But if
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  the Eagles come out aggressively, you know, then it's a
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  whole different animal. Then you you probably don't have your
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  pass rush group in the game. You're playing differently, your
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  play calls are different on defense, so you know, it's
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  it's gonna be interesting to see how the Eagles come out.
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  I I can tell you this right now. I think
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  that the Eagles. Every team would love to play like,
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  you know, be in this situation, but you can try
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  to be in this situation. It would not surprise me
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  if the Eagles come out in this game and try
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  to get ahead seventeen to nothing and then rear back
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  rush the quarterback. We'll get to the to the Cowboys
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  offense in a minute, but it ties into that. But
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  I mean, it would not surprise me if that's the
• 19:08
  way they saw this game.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Got it all right, let's transfer let's flip the sides
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  be a big game for the Eagles defense. Unveiling. You know,
• 20:09
  we're expecting a Dori Jackson obviously to start a corner.
• 20:12
  We'll see what happens with safety. The good news is
• 20:15
  we should have done the injuries at the start. That's
• 20:16
  my fault. But everybody is good to go except for
• 20:19
  Tanner McKee, So we already knew that McKee was going
• 20:22
  to be out, and everybody else will play. Landon Dickerson
• 20:24
  will play, and Andrew mccooba could see and should see
• 20:28
  some time because he is eligible to play. So, Adam,
• 20:31
  what are your expectations for a defense that is going
• 20:34
  to be featuring a lot of new starters.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be fascinating because.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: If you just take a comprehensive approach of this football team,
• 20:43
  they're loaded on an offense. They could they they could
• 20:45
  have a number one offense in the National Football Game. Mean,
• 20:47
  that's how talented they are. But defensively with so many changes.
• 20:52
  Mar Joma first year starter, right Jahad campbell I first
• 20:56
  year started as a rookie who I know Greg talked
• 20:58
  about on our last show. He loved the inside of
• 21:01
  the tape. He loved the way that kimbl'sh tape look
• 21:04
  from the preseason. Jay alex Son a first time starter,
• 21:06
  Jory Jackson starting, what's he have left? Sidney Brown initially
• 21:11
  will start, but we know it's going to go to Maccooba.
• 21:13
  Sidney Brown really not a great fit for this defense.
• 21:16
  He's more of a box player. There are a lot
• 21:18
  of questions here, I mean, and and depth, you know,
• 21:21
  at at at edge, they're just there's so many questions now,
• 21:25
  I know if people like to bring this, Oh, they
• 21:27
  had so many questions lest year. Look how great they were.
• 21:29
  It's a different season. They're just taking you're making a
• 21:32
  general statement on their two there. They're two completely different
• 21:35
  things about different football players have to do different things.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: So it's it's interesting. Are we going to get all
• 21:43
  the answers week one?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: No?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Look, quite frankly, they didn't start to get the answer
• 21:48
  till they shut down Klint Kobiak and the Saints offense.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Was Vic talked about.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: It took him four weeks, So I think we got
• 21:54
  to be careful of overrating week one. But I just
• 21:58
  I think it's fascinating because there's been a lot of
• 21:59
  chea and sometimes change is good.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Speaking of change, you know, Greg vic
• 22:04
  Fangio mentioned that he was working Quinyon Mitchell at both
• 22:07
  right and left corner this training camp in the event
• 22:11
  that he may want to use a guy to shadow
• 22:13
  another guy if the situation presents itself. I feel like
• 22:17
  in years past, Eagles Cowboys would have been perfect for
• 22:20
  that situation because Ceedee Lamb was really really their only
• 22:24
  guy that you would really worry about catching eight to
• 22:26
  ten passes and going off. They've always had some you know,
• 22:28
  Brandon Cooks is okay, but Lamb's their star. But now
• 22:31
  they add George Pickens to the mix. He is a
• 22:34
  true natural X and a very talented receiver. I can't imagine,
• 22:37
  and you know, I'll ask you this though, that this
• 22:39
  would be the game where we would see Quinnon follow
• 22:43
  one receiver around and then somebody else is just gonna
• 22:46
  have to take turns on Pickensan.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Likely not because you have to remember, you know, seventy
• 22:55
  two of Lamb's one hundred and fifty two targets came
• 22:57
  last year in a slot alignment. He's a movement motion
• 23:01
  receiver in the Cowboys offense because don't forget Broughton Schenheimer
• 23:05
  was there last year, so you know it's still his offense.
• 23:09
  So Lamb is not a guy who lines up predominantly
• 23:12
  in one spot. And I would doubt very much that
• 23:16
  Mitchell is going to start going inside to follow Ceedee
• 23:18
  Lamb that that won't happen. And Pickens he's a true
• 23:24
  boundary X. Now again, does that mean one hundred percent
• 23:26
  of the snaps to line up at boundary X. No,
• 23:29
  nobody's one hundred percent. But he's a true boundary X
• 23:32
  and it allows them to play Lamb as what he
• 23:35
  does best, which is move around. He's really good at that.
• 23:38
  So is it possible that that VIC could see Quinnon
• 23:42
  Mitchell matching up to Pickens on the outside regardless of
• 23:46
  what side. You know, the boundary X obviously lines up
• 23:49
  to the boundary, but then it depends on what hashmark
• 23:51
  the ball is on. Could Quinnon Mitchell do it?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Because the Dori Jackson's not big and Pickens is big,
• 23:58
  So is could it happen? And you know, I don't
• 24:00
  think it would happen every single time he's the boundary X.
• 24:03
  It could very well be a function of what the
• 24:05
  defensive call is. But I could see that happening in
• 24:09
  this game just because Pickens is you know, again we
• 24:14
  don't know the personality and the character and all that.
• 24:16
  That's not what we're discussing. But as a pure physical talent.
• 24:20
  He's a pretty special player and at six', three the
• 24:23
  way he moves and the way he can go up
• 24:25
  and get the, ball that would be a tough assignment
• 24:28
  For Dori.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Jackson, yeah, yeah it would. BE i, mean it seems
• 24:31
  Like dallas, Finally adam has a bunch OF i, Mean
• 24:34
  Jake ferguson, Healthy he's always had a good rapport With Dak.
• 24:37
  Prescot this feels like one of the more well rounded
• 24:40
  passing attacks in a. While But, adam what is the
• 24:42
  situation at left tackle for The cowboys and what would
• 24:47
  you expect because of?
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: It, yeah he had that odd.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Fracture they first thought it was AN acl but it
• 24:52
  want up being much less of an, injury but enough
• 24:55
  that he missed decent amount of camp and now he's,
• 24:58
  healthy he's. Clear he'll start Happens we talked about this.
• 25:01
  Earlier this week would Be Nate, thomas who was a
• 25:03
  seventh threader last. Year what did you think Of tyler's tape,
• 25:07
  LESSTER i don't, Remember, FUNNY i watched.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: HIM i watched a lot Of cowboys this, week believe
• 25:11
  it or, not you, know in preparation for this as,
• 25:14
  well but just you, Know i've been going. THROUGH i
• 25:16
  have like sixty five pages and notes on Everything i've
• 25:19
  watched over the last three four weeks in THE. Nfl you,
• 25:22
  KNOW i kind of liked WHAT i saw From tyler
• 25:24
  guyt AND i think there's a lot there to be
• 25:26
  a good. Player he's very. Athletic he, kicks slides really.
• 25:31
  Well he moves his feet. Well he needs, AGAIN i
• 25:34
  don't know how he's taught to use his. HANDS i
• 25:36
  don't know the answer to. That the issue that he
• 25:39
  did have at times is that guys did get inside of,
• 25:42
  him and he needs to get. Stronger he needs to
• 25:45
  develop a better. Anchor none of this is surprising to
• 25:47
  me since he went To oklahoma as a tight end
• 25:49
  and he was only a one year starter a, tackle
• 25:52
  so none of this is. Surprising but he definitely needs
• 25:55
  to get better in terms of strength and. Anchor but
• 25:58
  he moves, really really, Well and to be honest with,
• 26:01
  YOU i was kind of surprised at. THAT i came
• 26:04
  away feeling, Like, oh there's there's a lot. THERE i
• 26:06
  probably shouldn't have been. Surprised he was the first round,
• 26:08
  pick AND i think a lot of teams would have
• 26:10
  taken him in the first. ROUND i don't think it
• 26:12
  was a big surprise that he went in the draft
• 26:14
  where he. Did but you, know but still the big
• 26:18
  question you face both With guyton and With Terence, steele
• 26:22
  who's been very up and down at right, tackle and
• 26:25
  this is, critical is can they pass protect one on
• 26:28
  one in pure pass. Situations, now now you get back
• 26:32
  To Nolan, smith j alexhn whoever else The eagles put
• 26:35
  out there on the, edge you, know can they do?
• 26:37
  That because there's going to be third and long, play
• 26:40
  second to long plays and they're going to have to
• 26:42
  pass protect one on, one so that becomes a. Factor
• 26:45
  we don't know the answer to.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: That, NO i think THAT i think that that actually
• 26:49
  is a big determinant and whether this game is going
• 26:51
  to be a shootout type of game or if it's
• 26:53
  going to be a little bit more of a grinded
• 26:55
  out type of. GAME i would Think dallas is going
• 26:59
  to try to man you facture its running game sort
• 27:01
  of the way The eagles used to do prior to
• 27:03
  Having Saquon, barkley which is rely more on the power
• 27:07
  and the massiveness of their and the talent of THE
• 27:10
  o line than the actual running backs. Themselves because Between
• 27:13
  Javonte williams And Miles, sanders and we'll see what the rookie,
• 27:17
  has but he's Jayda On blue is not a heavy
• 27:19
  workload guy At. TEXAS i don't think That schottenheimer is
• 27:22
  going to not. RUN i think he's going to try
• 27:24
  to manufacture it and hope that the offensive line can
• 27:27
  make up for the deficiencies that he has among his running.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Backs well the same it's basically the same old line
• 27:33
  as a year, ago with the exception Of Tyler booker
• 27:35
  Replacing Zach, martin which is obviously a big deal Because
• 27:38
  Zach martin's probably A hall Of famer And booker was
• 27:41
  a really good prospect coming out Of, alabama much more
• 27:44
  of a smaller strong player than an athletic movement type.
• 27:48
  Player and you'd expect if It's Javonte williams that the
• 27:52
  run game would be much more of that style of
• 27:54
  run game, anyway much more maybe duo gap, scheme probably
• 27:58
  not much outside Zone booker's, game you, know he can't
• 28:02
  really do. That so and again we don't know About
• 28:04
  Davonte williams because when he came out of, COLLEGE, i
• 28:08
  among many, others thought that he could be a, really
• 28:10
  really good pro started out his Career denver pretty well
• 28:13
  and then had the major injury and just hasn't looked
• 28:16
  the same. Since now he's another year removed from. It,
• 28:19
  again if he's back To Javonte, williams he could give
• 28:23
  you a sustaining. Element that's because he was a powerful young.
• 28:26
  Man so we'll. See you, know who knows What Miles
• 28:30
  sanders has. Left jay Down blue is an interesting. Player
• 28:34
  he's he's a lower case in terms of how he
• 28:38
  could be. Deployed i'm not talking about this not apples To,
• 28:42
  apple SO i don't want people to think it's a direct.
• 28:44
  Comparison just in terms of how he could be. Deployed
• 28:48
  he's a lower. Case Jamir, gibbs he's an, explosive explosive.
• 28:52
  GUY i, mean people should just take a look at
• 28:54
  his touchdown run Against clemson and THE i think it
• 28:57
  was in one of the playoff games last. Year this
• 28:59
  guy has major juice and he's a very good. Receiver all,
• 29:04
  right good.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Stuff shorter show than usual because there's just not a
• 29:08
  whole lot of.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Tape this is all we can talk about That prescott
• 29:10
  a little. Bit if you, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
• 29:13
  when did you do it. STUDY i did a ton
• 29:16
  of tape on him this past. WEEK i went back
• 29:18
  and looked at you, know we only PLAYED i think
• 29:20
  nine games last, year and it WAS i was kind
• 29:26
  of intrigued and. DISAPPOINTED i, mean you, know HE i
• 29:32
  almost felt watching those nine. GAMES i felt like there
• 29:35
  was something wrong with his lower. Body you, know he's
• 29:37
  been injured a, lot and he's thirty two years old,
• 29:40
  now and it just he did not look like a comfortable.
• 29:44
  Thrower you, know he showed a strong tendency to initially
• 29:49
  lock his front leg as he started his. Delivery that
• 29:52
  often led him to have to lift it off the
• 29:54
  ground and kind of pull it back as he finished his,
• 29:56
  delivery so he didn't really transfer his. Weight he didn't
• 29:59
  really have poor. Torque he didn't drive the ball the
• 30:02
  way you would you would think he really needs to
• 30:06
  be balanced with his feet and a firm base to
• 30:08
  deliver the ball, well and he overstrides at. TIMES i,
• 30:12
  mean it, was he just he didn't look to me
• 30:16
  the WAY i remembered him, looking and it made me,
• 30:18
  think is it age is at a function of having
• 30:21
  so many. Injuries he's kind of tight hipped and heavy.
• 30:25
  Footed that's what he looked like on. Tape So i'm
• 30:27
  really curious to see him in this opening, game you,
• 30:31
  know coming off an off season where he had no, injury, like,
• 30:34
  well what was his injury last? Year? Hamstring? Right was
• 30:38
  it hamstring last? Year?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: YEAH i think it was a.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Hamstring, Yeah i'm.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Sorry did he have a full off? Season was he? Okay, yes, yes,
• 30:47
  Yes SO i, mean with a full off. Season i'm
• 30:50
  curious to see him because he just he just looked
• 30:53
  like his lower half watching his tape from last, year you,
• 30:56
  know quote unquote before the, injury he just looked like
• 30:59
  an old litter quarterback who just was not.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Comfortable, wow that is interesting because he had made such
• 31:05
  strides the year. Before, yeah THE.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Mvp, VOTING i. BELIEVE i think you're.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, Yeah, WELL i.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Mean, curious you, know to see how he. Plays you,
• 31:16
  know he doesn't move like he used, to so, he's you,
• 31:19
  know at this point in his. Career he you, know
• 31:22
  he's kind of an executor and a ball. Distributor you,
• 31:24
  know you don't can he run for a first enery
• 31:27
  once in a, while, yes but you don't have to
• 31:29
  really defend. That if he does, it you tip your
• 31:31
  hat and you move. On to the next. Play you
• 31:32
  don't have to really defend him running. Around.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, WELL i mean it seems like The cowboys
• 31:37
  greg did their best to be able to give him
• 31:39
  more to work with if.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: He and he needs space to deliver the football. Right
• 31:44
  and one THING i, noticed And i'm sure IF i,
• 31:46
  Noticed i'm. Not i'm one hundred percent sure IF i noticed.
• 31:49
  It he throws the ball better to his left than
• 31:52
  his right because he's kind of open that. Way when
• 31:54
  he had a Cross that's WHERE i thought his tight
• 31:57
  hips and his heavy feet kind of really showed up
• 31:59
  when he kind of cross his body and throw it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, adam you wonder if part of That parsons
• 32:05
  trade to get that those picks was future quarterback in
• 32:08
  mind to be able to either package.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Them, Jeff, yeah it could.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Be, look they need they well they're hoping it As,
• 32:15
  raku not that he could Be Michael, parsons but by
• 32:18
  committee that they're they're going to be. Better this is
• 32:20
  a fun, game you, know it's a fun it's it's you,
• 32:22
  know it's week. One you were saying this to, start
• 32:25
  we'd all rather see this later in the. Season it
• 32:27
  is what it. Is BUT i clearly see why The
• 32:29
  eagles are. Favored they should, be And i'd be very
• 32:33
  surprised if this thing is like three points or.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: LESS i really.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Do.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah all, right, well, hey THAT'S i like where you're
• 32:40
  what you're, thinking because we're going to get to the
• 32:41
  part of the show that everybody loves the. Most that's
• 32:44
  where we give our outcoming prediction and.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Game i'm ready for you this, Week, Jeff i'm ready for.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: You greg has. Studied all, Right, greg we'll start with.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: You.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Then who's winning the game and who's going to be
• 32:54
  the m V.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: P Jalen hurts is going to be THE mvp BECAUSE
• 32:57
  i believe they're going to throw the. FOOTBALL i believe
• 32:59
  they're going to throw it, well AND i think The
• 33:01
  eagles are going to win this game thirty four to.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Seventeen, nice all, right that's a BIG i think that
• 33:08
  people would be happy with, that very convincing. Win, adam
• 33:10
  who do you Got.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah i've got. It thirty to Seventeen eagles thirty. Seventy,
• 33:17
  YEAH i know it's.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Around it's around the over under total week one more
• 33:21
  often not that numbers go. Under but, man With dallas's
• 33:24
  problems on defense and the cornerback Opposite. Mitchell there's Some
• 33:30
  i'm very interested to see how The campbell Plays thursday
• 33:33
  night and just all the guys that are having to, Play,
• 33:36
  folks be. Patient we'll see how the defense. Does but
• 33:39
  it's going to be a gradual thing with this.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Defense, yeah you. Know and by the, way who's your
• 33:43
  player of the, Game.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Oh player of the.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Game i'm gonna surprise you here BECAUSE i think the
• 33:54
  passing number will be a little bit better we EXPECTCAUSE
• 33:56
  i Expect prescott fert least forty. Times i'm gonna go
• 34:00
  With Dallas. Goddard, Okay i'm surprised. YOU i think ill
• 34:03
  just kind of a really good first.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Game did you mean you Expect hurts to throw forties
• 34:07
  or you're just saying it's gonna be a.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Shootout it's gonna Be it's gonna the tempo pass game
• 34:10
  Where trustcott knows they got to throw. It they can't
• 34:13
  run the, ball so they got to throw the, football
• 34:15
  And hurts will be successful and he's gonna Find godard
• 34:17
  over the.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Middle there you.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Go, Great, well we're all on the same page. Here
• 34:21
  i'm gonna give The cowboys a little more offensive credit,
• 34:23
  because like, you Said. Adam we've got to figure out
• 34:25
  what This eagles defense is going to look, like and
• 34:28
  it may not all be there in week. One So
• 34:30
  i'm gonna say The eagles win thirty one to twenty.
• 34:33
  Three so that's an eight point win that just covers the.
• 34:36
  Spread And i'm sort of in the same vein as you.
• 34:39
  GUYS i have a passing. Weapon it's gonna Be Devonte
• 34:42
  smith with a big game Against Dallas cowboys to be
• 34:45
  the GAME. Mvp week one pregame show is in the.
• 34:49
  Books now it's up for The eagles and The cowboys
• 34:52
  to battle it out For Greg cosell And Adam. Kaplan
• 34:56
  I'm Jeff. Mosher thanks for watching The inside The birds pregame.
• 34:59
  Show everybody enjoy the. Game