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Analyzing The Eagles Early This Season (PST Episode 585) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, It's Jeff here. I wanted to let
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  Speaker 1: you know we recorded this podcast episode on two separate
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  Speaker 1: days this week. Our interview with our guest was recorded
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday morning, September twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 1: the first part of our show with Eric and myself
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  Speaker 1: was recorded on Wednesday night, September twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So by the time you hear this, some things may
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  Speaker 1: have changed here or there, but we hope you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the show. Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show,
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  Speaker 1: the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world,
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  Speaker 1: eleven years strong. We got a great show coming.
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  Speaker 2: To you this week.
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  Speaker 1: We're certainly going to be getting into some Phillies talk,
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  Speaker 1: as they have won the NL least for the first
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  Speaker 1: time since twenty eleven. And then we're gonna getting into
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  Speaker 1: some Sixers talk. Of course, we're gonna talk about Joel
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  Speaker 1: Embiid's three year extension that he just signed, and also
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  Speaker 1: how the mayor of Philadelphia and the seventy six ers
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  Speaker 1: have agreed on a new arena deal in Chinatown for there,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get into a ton of Eagles talk, a
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  Speaker 1: ton of NFC East Talk as well our guests this
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  Speaker 1: week and what we're throwing down on the table.
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  Speaker 2: We've got egg Kratz from the Philadelphia Eagles on SI.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be joining us to dive into what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen from this team after three weeks and what's
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  Speaker 1: in store for them in the future as we're early
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  Speaker 1: in this season. I am Jeff Warren and I'm here
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  Speaker 1: at my buddy, Eric Leonard, Eric, buddy, How you doing, man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good man. Good. Interesting time of the year right
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  Speaker 3: now for Philly sports. Got the Sixers coming up training
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  Speaker 3: camp starts. Yep, Phillies are saving the city because the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles are shaky as hell. Yeah, I would say, even
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  Speaker 3: though they won and that other team starts, so.
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  Speaker 1: They've had a couple of preseason games the Flyers. That's cute, ye,
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. Mattve Mitch CoV has made his debut.
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  Speaker 3: Mitch Comstein. What was the name?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Mitch Comstein. Have I remained in college?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kelly. Do they play those at the ice skating
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  Speaker 3: ring by City Hall?
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  Speaker 2: They play pick up sticks? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm on the Twitter again with PST notifications on
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  Speaker 3: Man and Charlie O'Connor is just lighting it up. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, forty a day. Yes, he does a
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  Speaker 3: great job. I'm just saying exactly. I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 3: phl Y, they do a great job. They do with
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  Speaker 3: their content and stuff. Charlie's fantastic. He has our friend
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  Speaker 3: Kelly Hinkle on every now and again. Bill Matts is
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  Speaker 3: on over there too, And I love how I'm like
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  Speaker 3: promoing other podcasts and other platforms. But still they do
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic job and they still come on this podcast,
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  Speaker 3: so I appreciate it. Yeah, I agree, I agree. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be starting coaching soon again, next like seven months.
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  Speaker 3: I'll definitely have some stories.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, oh nice, I can't wait for him. Can't wait
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  Speaker 2: for him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, shitty shitty parents stories, kids saying crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Well this week, folks, you know something Eric
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  Speaker 1: and I were talking about possibly doing and I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to well, I probably shouldn't like promo it that
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  Speaker 1: promo it as though we are going to do a
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  Speaker 1: special PST show. But I know you've been watching the
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  Speaker 1: uh mister McMahon documentary that there.
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  Speaker 2: Could be something PST does with this in the future, folks.
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  Speaker 3: I say could, I'm gonn emphasize could because we want
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  Speaker 3: to get one Len Hunsicker involved in this too, who
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  Speaker 3: is a student of professional wrestling.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get him involved.
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  Speaker 3: He should have got a PhD in wrestling in WW wrestling, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: large is wrestling in general. You see w W like
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  Speaker 3: all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just watched the first two episodes its just released tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and I told Jeff, like, do we we got to
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  Speaker 3: make a return to the non sport man and it's
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  Speaker 3: sports entertainment. Yes, but and all of us served very
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  Speaker 3: much like all three of us are huge wrestling fans
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  Speaker 3: have been for a long time. Yep. I mean they
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  Speaker 3: just showed footage of Saturday Night main event in Hershey,
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  Speaker 3: Pa that I was at Nice King Kung Bunny, Big
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  Speaker 3: John King Khong Bunny, Big John Studd in Hercules. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're going at it. Yeah. So I don't know, I think,
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  Speaker 3: I mean with our listenership, I think I think there'd
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  Speaker 3: be some interest there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I look, I we all know
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  Speaker 1: our wrestling, you know. I was at the very first
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  Speaker 1: Survivor series where the Undertaker up at Hartford, Connecticut at
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  Speaker 1: the Hartford Civic Center. My dad and I were up
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  Speaker 1: there where the Undertaker was unveiled in that pay per
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  Speaker 1: view the Summer slammery before that, that was at the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Spectrum. My dad and I were there for that.
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  Speaker 1: I saw countless house shows at the at the Spectrum, so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got it. We're gonna have to get into this,
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  Speaker 1: mister McMahon documentary. We're gonna have to.
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  Speaker 3: Do yeah for sure. Yeah, and I just right off
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  Speaker 3: the bat, Tony Allis is interviewed through throughout all. He's
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  Speaker 3: hearing a sleeveless stresshirt with time.
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  Speaker 2: I love these guys.
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  Speaker 3: He's not even wrestling anymore, he does.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. That's so great.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get into some Philly sports here,
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  Speaker 1: and specifically with regard to the Philadelphia Phillies. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they are the standard now in the world of Philly sports.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh.
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  Speaker 1: They have clinched a first round by for the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four Major League Baseball Playoffs with their win against
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs a Milwaukee Brewers loss. They have clinched
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  Speaker 1: a bye again in the first round of this upcoming postseason.
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta say, Eric, you know, as we get
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  Speaker 1: into this discussion here, about our reflections on this season.
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  Speaker 1: With just a handful of games left, They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: playing the Washington Nationals this coming week, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to say that with this team heading into this season,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't even the favorites to win the division. The
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  Speaker 1: entire National League East has basically been living in the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the Atlanta Braves or the better part of
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  Speaker 1: the last decade, at least in the regular season anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But of course the Braves they had a slew of
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  Speaker 1: injuries and just underperforming players throughout their roster this whole season.
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  Speaker 1: This Phillies team, they just had a very firm grasp
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  Speaker 1: on the top spot in the division for most of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and again they solidified that by clinching the
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  Speaker 1: division earlier this week against the Chicago Cubs. And Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Harper's been getting hot at the right time. Kyle Schwarber
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  Speaker 1: again getting hot at the right time. Heading into this postseason,
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  Speaker 1: the expectations are so high for what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: see in the future. But in terms of like reflecting
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  Speaker 1: on this season, Eric, it's just it's the biggest surprise.
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  Speaker 1: It really is, like we know this team is good,
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  Speaker 1: but like I said, we've all been living in the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the Atlanta Braves. We didn't think this team
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  Speaker 1: was going to win the division. You know, we even
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  Speaker 1: said it before the season started. Wild card spot. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a wild card spot. That's what we expected.
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  Speaker 1: And then the hope was that they as they have
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  Speaker 1: been doing the past two seasons, you know, getting through
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  Speaker 1: the getting through each round of the postseason. But just
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  Speaker 1: the steadiness of this team. And yes, even though they
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  Speaker 1: had the rough patch after the All Star break, I
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  Speaker 1: think the steadiness of this team and really how even
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  Speaker 1: though they went through that rough patch, they were still
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  Speaker 1: that steady eddy group of guys. And that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: really taking away from this season as I reflect on it,
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  Speaker 1: given what the expectations initially were and how much of
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  Speaker 1: a surprise it has been.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you have any thoughts here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I mean they're still still lying for
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  Speaker 3: the top spot. They're actually tied with the Dodgers right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. Yeah, and yeah, and this is insane to me. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so Tani is the greatest baseball player of all time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers just killing everybody. They still didn't clinched the division.
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  Speaker 3: The Padres are two games beneath them and they're playing tonight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Roders could still want to Yes, that's insane. And but
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  Speaker 3: enough about that. I'm hoping they get the top seed
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  Speaker 3: and just have home field throughout the playoffs. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just some quick quick reflection, not just on individual players,
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  Speaker 3: but man, I remember sitting here in February twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 3: when they signed Bryce Harper and just being like this,
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  Speaker 3: something just changed. Yeah, yeah, like that really that really
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  Speaker 3: flipped everything, which we all know, but like you just
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  Speaker 3: think back on it. I didn't know would be this
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  Speaker 3: much of a flip. I don't know he would attract
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  Speaker 3: such talent to come to the team. JT. Real Muto
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  Speaker 3: being one of the big and just for years. I
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  Speaker 3: can't understate this, younger fans, how much how many times
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  Speaker 3: is the Phillies sucked and were hateable on top of
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  Speaker 3: that very hatb yeah, like very very players. You just
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  Speaker 3: did not like you want it true for them, and
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  Speaker 3: they sucked. It was it was. They had some really
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  Speaker 3: teams the twenty fourteen twenty fifty like somewhere yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: when like they started to fall apart, and Don Brown
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  Speaker 3: obviously wasn't the guy and you're like, what the hell
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  Speaker 3: are we doing? My god, and you were watching Chase
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  Speaker 3: Sutley get Grayer and Gray or Cole Hamils. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it was left and the.
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  Speaker 1: Farm system was basically depleted at that point too, and
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  Speaker 1: no no real development either, no, and they drained.
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  Speaker 3: It for all that town and it just there was
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  Speaker 3: nothing left. And man to be where they are now,
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  Speaker 3: am be likable and be like the I mean, I
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: know the Eagles is an Eagles town, but like the
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  Speaker 3: Phillies are the most likable team. Yeah, and the best
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  Speaker 3: team in the city. It's not even close. Zack Wheeler
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: just some some player notes quick, Zach Wheeler when they
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  Speaker 3: signed him to that major deal coming off a bad
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: injury with the Mets, just thinking like, man, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know about that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Like there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of money to throw to a guy at a
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  Speaker 3: guy that had like two good seasons up to that point.
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  Speaker 3: And what he's done this year is just piece you
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  Speaker 3: win the Young Award that I can't believe how good
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  Speaker 3: he is and he's like a top tier ace.
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  Speaker 2: What he's done the past three years. Yeah, really, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's one of the most underrated pitchers in
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  Speaker 1: all of Major League Baseball as good as he is.
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  Speaker 3: By far, and he's a top tier ace at age
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  Speaker 3: thirty four, Like he's actually getting better. Yes, Nick Castianos,
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  Speaker 3: I just man, he's one of those guys where people
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  Speaker 3: bitch about him because he's streaky, but he's one of
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  Speaker 3: my favorite Phillies all time. Like he's in my top fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, just because he doesn't give a fuck.
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  Speaker 3: I love that attitude about him. He's sexy, he's looking
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  Speaker 3: fellow dude, like that's a good looking team. That's not
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  Speaker 3: why it is. When they were throwing beer at each other,
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  Speaker 3: no shirts on, You're like, that's that's a good looking squad.
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  Speaker 2: There's like these guys work out exactly, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, like I think I think it's also it's
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  Speaker 3: I think it's long been thought of by non baseball
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  Speaker 3: fans that baseball players are kind of slobby. Yeah, be
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  Speaker 3: in great shape. And then you see the Phillies locker
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  Speaker 3: room they're all jacked with twelve packs, like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of that.
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  Speaker 3: And then Kyle Schwarber like he's become almost like a
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  Speaker 3: folk here at this point. I mean last year when
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  Speaker 3: he became the leadoff hitter. I just thought that was insane.
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  Speaker 3: The guy strikes out, he hits a home run, Like
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  Speaker 3: what what are we doing? And like you saw, you
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  Speaker 3: see what can work with a guy like that this
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: year where he leads off, he's a lot of how
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: many games with a home run and just sets the
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: tone for like fifteen games that he's done or however
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: many he should be Jason Kelcey like at this point,
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: like in terms of folk heroism, that's ap Yep, he
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  Speaker 3: reminds me of him. He's also like super duper involved
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  Speaker 3: in the in the city and he like he has
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: a foundation for kid like he's he's just that kind
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  Speaker 3: of guy. I think if they win a World Series
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  Speaker 3: ring he might get elevated to that status. Not not
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: quite that that big as Basel was not the biggest
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: football but and just Harper, I mean, the guy just
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: it's all incredible. I mean, yeah, he's incredible. He decided
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: to play first base in his early thirties because they
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: needed him to.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of this season two. Look, it's not just
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: a guy standing on first base catching a ball. There
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: has to be development with that and how he did
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: that in a year a year, like just learning on
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: the job, but really doing well, really doing well. You
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about one of the most natural baseball players,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, aside from Otani of course, in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's Bryce Harper. The fact that he was
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: able to go from right field to first base like
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: it was nothing. I mean, there were a couple errors
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  Speaker 1: here and there we saw him, but man, it was seamless.
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  Speaker 1: And that that's an incredible athlete there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's probably one of the most natural. Like
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  Speaker 3: you said, I think all time, Like the guy was
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  Speaker 3: just able to play baseball. He was on SI cover
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  Speaker 3: what sixteen fifteen sixteen, Yeah, he was. He was destined
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: to be a superstar. And I honestly think he's underrated.
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  Speaker 3: Like how crazy that is to say, Like he's just
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  Speaker 3: as good as Mike Trout.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's just good.
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  Speaker 3: I Mean Mike Trout's almost done with his career, but
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  Speaker 3: like I think he's I think he's at that level
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  Speaker 3: as well, like being a teammate and helping his team win,
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  Speaker 3: where Trout never really kind of got there. But the
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  Speaker 3: team is just awesome and it's so much fun at
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  Speaker 3: your for them, and this is this is the this
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  Speaker 3: is the playoffs where it's gonna be every single pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's why that's where I was gonna go with
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  Speaker 1: this right here. I mean, it's important to remember that,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: you know, the Phillies are going to be coming off
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  Speaker 1: some downtime, They're gonna have some momentum, and that momentum
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  Speaker 1: is going to need to continue to make its way
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  Speaker 1: into the where where these guys are in terms of
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  Speaker 1: their headspace. And I don't think it should be too
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: difficult given the fact that Citizens Bank Park is going
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: to be crazy. They are folks are going to be
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: out of their mind. I mean, they're gonna be rocking
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: once that first pitch of the NLDS happens. Regardless of
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  Speaker 1: who the opponent is, that that stadium, that Baseball stadium
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  Speaker 1: is going to be absolutely wild.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, It's gonna be wild, man.
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  Speaker 1: And and that is the anticipation of that is what
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and the teams that are it's gonna be
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Helen Earth or whatever. Let's just say it. I've been
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: the two playoff Philly Playoff games in the past, and
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: holy hell, I mean it's it's ugly I mean, it's awesome.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: There's a lot here, but it can get really ugly,
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  Speaker 3: specially you know if you're a fan of another team
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: and just looking at the possibilities who they might play.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, they could beat any of these teams. And
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: I mean imagine the Mets get in and a Mets
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  Speaker 3: fan tries to come to good luck mother, be ugly dude,
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  Speaker 3: or hell the Braves. Still I still have a shot
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: to get in like that. That'll be hideous like that.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: I can't wait. But like I said, because of the
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: let on pins and needles, even though I have like
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: way more, the pitching top to bottom starting and then
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: the bullpen is just impeccable. Every single pitch though, is
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  Speaker 3: going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, oh my god, oh my god. Well it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be fun to watch for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So let's uh, let's get now get into some Sixers
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  Speaker 1: talk here, because yes, even though the regular season has
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: not started, campus right around the corner for this team,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the regular season is gonna be here before we know it.
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  Speaker 1: But this past week, Joel Embiid signed a contract extension
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  Speaker 1: with this Philadelphia seventy six ers team, and I gotta
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: say it's just I was so happy, like I was
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: just so happy because it means he may be spending
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: his entire career as a sixer. Who knows, But in
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the history of the NBA eric only thirty six different
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: players have won the MVP Award, and of those thirty six,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: only five have been a sixer. We've got Wilt, Doctor J,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Moses Ai, and Embiid. But like, unlike Wilt, Moses and Ai,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Embiid took a huge step to possibly finishing his career
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: with the Sixers with this three year, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety three million dollar MAX extension. And of course Doctor
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: J he ended his career with the last dance in Philadelphia.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Embiid has a chance to do something even Dock didn't do,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: which is spend his entire career as a sixer. And
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I think that's why I'm so happy about this extension.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: And we just don't see it as much anymore, especially
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: in pro sports. We don't see players just staying with
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: one team. That's not how the market works anymore. Yes, yeah,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, of course, but christ even Michael
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Jordan played for the Wizards for what two seasons season
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: or two or something like that. But with this extension done,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the Sixers are now locked into the trio of Embid, Tyrese, Maxie,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and Paul George, likely through the twenty twenty seven twenty
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: twenty eight season, which is pretty good position for this
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: organization and team. So I'm a static about this and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: what it means, not just for EMBIID, but what it
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: means for the fan base too.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Listen, Doctor j couldn't be on the six years old
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Career because he was in the ABA.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: So oh that's true. Yes, yes, I.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Will not allow be smirched of doc on this show.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I know you have a poster right next to you.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Right here, yes, right, yeah, No. I I was super
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: happy for him, Like, I think a couple of days
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: after the news, he was posting pictures of his son's
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: birthday party.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Was like, and he And before that he posted something
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: like I want to spend my career here. I'm a
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Philadelphia guy. He was like, you know what, I you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: for all the ship he catches, he's not in escape.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: That's he deserves that. Let's face it. I mean, he dude,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: you're you're you're thirty. Now you're like you need to
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: like actually get in shape if you want to. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: like as far as like keeping that core intact, this
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: was the only move because you're all in, like this
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: is it. There's no the window is right here and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: that's it, and you had to lock it down. You
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: already locked Paul George down until like it's like freaking
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: forty years old or something. Max, he's locked down. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: do think he'll end his career here. I don't see
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: a Patrick Ewing in a Orlando Magic uniform, you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: end of his career kind of deal.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: A Chemo lodge one.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: We're in a Raptor's jersey or or.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: A fat Sean Kemp Yes, in a Caves jerseys. Y. Yeah,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: that's strike ruined some careers. But yeah, he's going to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: finish his career here. And I mean, but I'll tell
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: you what fudgeriple ice cream man, that's final gear. He's
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: thirty five years old, he's a player out for seventy
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: million dollars. Yes, like he might be ready to retire
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: physically at that point, right, but he's going to take that.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: He's going to pick up that option. Man, There's just
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: no way around. But it's again, it was your only
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: play as a franchise you had Day the guy, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: you have to keep this core intact because you're out
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: of moves. This is it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yep, Absolutely not too much else to say about that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So why don't we move into our next bit of
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Sixers talk here, which which deals with the the the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: arena that is likely and possibly seems like it now
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: is going to be built in Chinatown right there in
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: center city Philadelphia. The Mayor of Philadelphia this past week,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: along with the Sixers, announced that they've got a deal.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They've got a deal to put that arena that we
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: have talked about on this podcast. We said we were
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: gonna keep tabs on it and see where it goes
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: from here offer our thoughts and opinions on it. The
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: members of the Chinatown community claim and say that they
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: felt a little broadsided and or I should say blindsided
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: by this announcement.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think, as somebody who.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Kind of you know, works in a realm of public
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: service eraic and stuff like, if you have people who
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: are opposed to you, you aren't one hundred percent necessarily
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: going to let them know what your next move is
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: going to be. So as underhanded as they think it is,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it's this really is an organization like the Sixers doing
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: business with the city in the way that they have.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Just this happens in other cities. It unfortunate or not,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: this is what happens, and it stinks that. What does
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: think is the fact that there likely will be some
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: taxpayer money that is directed towards an arena. As somebody
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: who's a public official, I'm not a big fan of that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'm really not a big fan of it, even though
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it is a boon to economic development in other areas.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It is, folks, it's it's been proven time and time
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: again in other cities. However, there are times based on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: design of an arena, based on where it is, what
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: that level of commitment with taxpayer dollars to go towards
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the financing and building of the arena, because it's not
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: going to be completely done with taxpayer money, but how
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: much of it, it's all a matter of degrees. Eric
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and I we don't necessarily know what the actual plan
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: is going to be. We don't know what the financial
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: dollars are at this point. But I just I really
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: hope the taxpayers don't get screwed too too badly here.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But I saw this coming. We talked I remember we
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: talked about this a couple of months ago. I saw
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: this coming. There's there's no way that the citizens group
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in Chinatown was likely going to win this one. Not
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: when it's the Philadelphia seventy six ers, Not when a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: conglomerate like that wants to do what they want to do.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: So and I'm not trying to be mister you know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: mister well, it was just politics being politics. It's I mean,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate in some ways, but I saw this coming.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm very worked there for years, Like right
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: at the edge of it, Ninth and Race, and it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: a community and it's tight physically, like there's not a
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: lot of space there. And what they're really concerned with
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: is delivery trucks getting in and out, like trash, people
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: trying to get trying to get through, and having to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: deal with with traffic. It's it's two lanes, but it's
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: it's kind of one lane and every every street in Chinatown. Yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a mess for them. And unfortunately,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: you know, you know four or three where they were
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: trying to build the new Phillies Ballpark down there, there
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: was a Chinatown group doing the same I think it
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: was the same group, and they didn't win. It just
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: didn't get done. Like they didn't beat anybody, and they
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: weren't going to win this one. You could tell the
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: taxpayers are going to get screwed. That's just what's going
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: to happen.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And that's what happens with developers. Man Like developers really
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: strong arm folks. They probably they likely strong armed the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: city into this agreement when the team didn't rule out
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the possibility of moving out of Pennsylvania, which they weren't
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: going to do, but still the developers strong armed them.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Well, and then that threat you could always hold that
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: thread over the city. We'll playing canden, you know. But yeah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: they're going to get screwed. Some businesses will will flourish,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: but for the most part, the rich people will get
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: richer and uh y town people with restaurants and stuff
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: are going to get screwed. Hopefully, hopefully people like leave
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: the arena and go to Chinatown for dinner and that
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: kind of stuff. I hope that happens, but I'm sure
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: they're going to put all kinds of crappy Chipotle, you know. Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: just that that that's the part that sucks. I'm I'm
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I'm super excited for it, because that's where your arena
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: should be, is in the city somewhere when teams, when
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: teams do it the right way, that's usually how it works,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: and that that's it's going to be state of the art.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Thank goodness. I'm sure because the current one we've talked
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: about that it's just it's just a whole Yeah, they
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: play basketball and it it's your pretty typical basketball. Yeah,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: but I it's I'm waiting. It's gonna be funny hearing
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the people who live outside of the city, who are
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: gonna have to go down there. Yeah, doctor bid take
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: a train? Oh what exactly? Even though the train goes
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: right to tenth three to be right right right, like
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: tenth Market, it'd be right down the block.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I can't take mass transit, I know.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: And then and then just you know, imagining them going
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: down the broad Street exits six or whatever the and
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: then just like, oh my god, yes I don't have
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to do next. Yeah, like they're gonna come. Those people
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: will bitch and bone. But man, why wasn't that there
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: when I live downtown? Oh my god, I want to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: every six Ers game.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Yah, you would have we would have Oh my god,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: we would have gone to so many when I would
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: come down to visit.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yes, yeah, Well, we're.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Certainly gonna we're gonna continue to keep tabs on this
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: because this this is gonna happen, folks. It is gonna happen,
• 24:51
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• 24:53
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• 25:03
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• 25:10
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• 25:14
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• 25:17
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• 25:20
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• 25:53
  Speaker 1: are back, and we're gonna be just finishing our finishing off.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I should say our discussion with regard to the Philadelphia Eagles,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the NFC East as well, and how the dynamics of
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this division and just this Eagles team, how things are
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: happening early in this season with regard to these games.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Let's start off with some NFC East talk here, Eric,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: my gosh, the Dallas Cowboys after three weeks.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: They might actually be cooked. They might be done. They
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: have lost two straight home games in their house. The
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: New York Giants, they don't look all that great, even
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: though they won a game this past week. But with
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: regard to the Commanders, they're starting to look for real.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: With Jayden Daniels, I mentioned that I mentioned that I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: thought they might be a wildcard team when we were
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: doing our predictions for this upcoming season. Of course, We'll
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: get to the Eagles in just a bit, because yes,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: even though they are two and one, it's been a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: very shaky two and one. But man, dude, the.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys they got a tough schedule coming up too.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, they do play the Giants. Should be
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a it should, but then they've got the Steelers who
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: are three and oh, the Lions, the forty nine ers.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: This Cowboys team might actually be done. They really they
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: might be done. And I love it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it, I really am.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, even when the Eagles were bad, if if the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Cowboys sucked, it was kind of okay, you know, so
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: see to see them kind of. I mean they got
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: smoked in Week two and then lost to the Ravens
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: last week and just got ran over, like yeah, we
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: we we love Michael Parsons, Harrisburg product, Penn State product,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: but if he's not rushing the passer, he doesn't, he
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: doesn't really, I mean, Derek Henry ran him over the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: whole over, and that I think that team is just
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: when you pay three guys all of the money, that's
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: what you get, like, and you have a mediocre coach
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: who's been in the hot seat for two years. It's
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a mess. And and know I'm I can't believe people
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: are not asking for Jerry Jones to sell the damn team.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: He never will. He'll die clutching it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll keep it. His family too, Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's what I mean, do you see who
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: works for him? It's just it's just the Jones family.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Jones family, yes, higher corporate structure. It is just his
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: family that always goes really well. By the way, the
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: future president possibly, but yeah, it's they're a mess. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: they gave Dak. I can't believe that much money they
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: gave Dak, Like I I love it because he's not
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: He's not He's not that good. He's not that worth
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: that much money. I don't think our quarterback's worth that
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: much money. There aren't a lot of quarterbacks right now
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: are worth that much money.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Trevor Trevert Lawrence was one of the highest paid in
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the league, and he has been horrendous this year.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That that that Damar Hamlin interception he threw. Oh,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: it's like one of the it's one of the worst
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: ones I've ever seen. Whatever, but I love it. They suck,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: they have no they're running backs. Ezekil Elliott. I know,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: year is it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I know they brought a back.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're done too, and I mean the whole.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: If they lose next week, it's going to be the whole.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: The good thing is if they lose next week and
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the whole thing becomes Cowboys fury, people won't be paying
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: attention as much to how shitty the coaching has been
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: for the Eagles. Yes, exactly, little.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Bit, Yeah, absolutely.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I love how you mentioned Derrick Henry because something with
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: this Dallas Cowboys team that is really prevalent is the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: lack of fire on defense. And they were supposed to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: be a pretty good defensive team coming into this season.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry alone forced twelve misstackles in this past week's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: game against the Ravens. The Ravens together forced seventeen miss tackles.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I mean that that is an ingredient for failure, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's there's no fire there. When you're missing that many tackles,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: there's no fire on defense. And if we continue to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: see that, I'm going to be absolutely loving it. We're
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: watching this dumb team a week after week well, and they.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Brought him Mike Zimmers with a defensive old school guru yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: you know the you know, the personnel gave too much
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: money to too many play the wrong guys or too
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: few guys, and that's that's what happens to your roster.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna be able to sign Michael Parson probably either.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: They're probably gonna end up losing.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Them, I know, and that's awesome.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, fuck them exactly.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Look, we knew the Giants were gonna be dog crap,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you know, especially when you saw Oh my god, when
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: when you saw hard knocks the off season one, Holy cow,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what a dumpster fire that freaking organization is. But like
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I said, the Washington Commanders, man, holy cow. Jaden Daniels,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Jade and Daniels show that we saw against the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, what a fucking rookie this guy is, Man,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: holy shit, I knew he was. I said, he is
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: going to be that special quarterback in this particular quarterback class.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I mean bo Nick's for God said then again, exit
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that lit up the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Tampa Bay somehow.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Go back and listen to the Opposition Territory podcast. We
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: did the preview and talked about that specifically. But man,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels dude, real thing I reminded me of some
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: RG three stuff here really really reminded me of RG three.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The Bears might have taken the wrong guy, yeah,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: but they also can't block for him, so it's a disaster. Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: And if the Cums had any kind of defense that
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: might be a little scary, but they, you know, the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Bengals just ran it up, up and down the field.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: And then but I have some Cum fans of my life. Yeah,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: and I I gotta say I love this for them
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: actually that they have a quarterback.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And because.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Eagles like Eagles versus the nfcas for the past few
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: years not not super fun to watch. The Cowboys games
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: are always good, but the Giants have had Daniel Jones
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: for how many years now, He's horrible and he's horrible
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: to watch. And the the Comes have had Tyler Heinekey
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: and like just name it, like.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Just Sam's owl.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the guys I don't want to watch. But my god,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: they have a real quarterback now, and that's that's actually
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: kind of fun for for us, like as even as
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: fans of the Eagles, it's like, okay, this is cool,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Like we actually have to like play somebody now. Yes,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: and I yeah, that's very happy for them in that regard.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Go back to the Giants quick, Malik Neighbors. They might
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: have taken the best wide receiver in the draft. That dude,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: it's awesome. He has I think he has what four
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: hundred some yards already with like three touchdowns.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like top five in the NFL.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Quarterback Like, Yes, that's incredible, that's impeccable. Absolutely, and go
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and the the hard knocks thing we talked about it.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: The guy the GM should be fired like today after
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: watching that whole thing, and they should never do that again.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I would never let cameras in my office like that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Barkley is the number one running back in the entire
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: NFL at this point, Why not Barkley draft Neighbors and
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: have an awesome offer, which is just get an offensive line?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Why can't you draft offensive lineman?
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But yet they trade for a skinny defensive end and
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: give a hundred million dollars, Yes, and give the Panthers
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: a draft pick. Yes, what a shit show of an
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: offseason for this?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely all right, Well, getting into some Eagles talk here. Look,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we have to start this conversation now. We do based
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: on what we have seen from this Eagles team, the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: streaky Eagles team, and asked the question about what Howie
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Roseman is going to be looking to do before the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: trade deadline, which is Tuesday, November fifth. We know something
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: needs to happen from a pass rush standpoint. We know
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that Bryce Huff is not getting it done. Folks, we
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: know this. It has been really rough to watch. The
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: pass rush was so much better. Of course, this past
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: week in the U in the game against the Saints,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Jalen Carter was absolutely fantastic. Even Jordan Davis really really
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: making his mark on a Saints team that offensively was
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: performing right near the top in terms of the first
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: two weeks of the season. Yes, it's a long season.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens there. But Eric, what's Howie rose
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be gonna be looking at before the trade deadline? Obviously,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a pass rusher. I don't
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: know if you're thinking anything else, but he's gonna be
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: making a trade to bring in somebody with the pass rush,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: because Beg is getting it done out there. He's doing
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a damn good job so far, just about the only one.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Noan Smith, former first round pick not doing a whole
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: lot and again, uh, Bryce Huff not getting anything done.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So pass rusher it is for me.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when your best defensive ends like thirty five, yes,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: a tail end of his career.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: He was fifty five. Yeah, he's got.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: The gray thing going on, like like we do in
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: the Beard. Yes, so he does a little older. It
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: has to be defensive end help. The middle. The middle
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: of the line shredded the Saints and that they won
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: that game almost single handily because you put it, you
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: put pressure on their ship quarterback. He just turns into
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: garbage and they did that pretty well. It's gonna be
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: defensive end help. And I think he's probably gonna try
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: and get another offensive lineman for some depth. Yea, all
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, quietly were we're injured there? Ye pretty
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: pretty pretty substantially. So maybe you get like a some
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: kind of guard, backup tackle deal. But all but the
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: defensive end is that you have to get. I don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: know if you can get an impact guy mid season,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: but those moves have kind of been made. Like they
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: traded what was the name, Chase something, Uh, the defensive end.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: They who the commanders that comes. Yeah, yeah, they traded
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: hit yeah, Chase Young. Chase Young, Like some big deal
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: moves with defensive linemen have gone down recently, so I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping like maybe there's a blockbuster out there and
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: how he can flace a team for like a fourth
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: round pick.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: A lot of these top tier defensive linemen, though, they
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: signed contract extensions in the offseason, so that's kind of
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a problem. They've already done that contract extension with the teams. Again,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: top defensive ends have done that, So I don't know.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I think I think there may be a guy a fourth,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: fifth round pick, you know, some type of mid tier
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: guy that how he might try to look at. So
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: that's where I think that's probably where I think it's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: gonna go. I'd love to hear what folks think out there, though,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com about this issue,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: because nobody's really talking about the trade deadline yet and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'd like for us to get a jumpstart on it
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: here at the PST podcast show. Do you have anything
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: else for that, Eric before we move on to the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: final one?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: No, you talk about Bryce Huff, but I'll bring him
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: up my next al Right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: It sounds good, sounds good, So all right, before we
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: let Eric go here, and before we get to what
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: we're thrown down on table this week in our interview,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do what's one under the radar thing we
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: like from the Eagles this season, and what's one under
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the radar thing that we hate from the Eagles this season.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: So let's start with the one under radar thing we
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: like from the Birds this season? Here, Eric, what's that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: We've talked in the show ad nauseam about how they
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: just never have linebackers.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Think one under the radar thing is that they actually
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: have good linebackers this year and the play's being really good.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Zach Bond has been a breakout, kind of not star,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: but he's playing super duper well. Then Kobe Dean's actually
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: having a decent year. And I need to talk about
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Nolan Smith. Not great off the end, but as a
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: linebacker him in that trio, but it played really really
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: well and it's kind of a it's gotta be the
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: first time since like the Super Bowl year, right like
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: twenty seventeen where they have substantial linebacking play.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nigel Bradham was a pretty damn good linebacker that year.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: He really was I like what you're saying. Every we
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: all came into this season and being like, linebacker weakest
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: position on the defense.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It really isn't. It really isn't.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: We've been going through our grades after on our Eagles
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: postgame shows. Linebackers have been getting like b's and a's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and the defensive line has been getting like season d's basically.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So I like your pick right there for me, Eric,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm actually gonna go with Jalen Hurts.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: What I like this year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts his completion rate in previo this year against
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the Blitz. His completion rate this year against the Blitz.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Go back to twenty twenty one, it was fifty four
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: point four percent. Twenty twenty two, it increased to fifty
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: eight point one percent. You're still like, Eh, it's not
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: all that great of a completion percentage against the Blitz.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Last year it was sixty point five percent. This year, Yes,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: after three games, it's seventy one point four percent after
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: after three games. I want to I want to thank
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Jeff Kerr from CBS Sports, our good buddy for putting
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: those stats out that I just used right there. That
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: is promising given how much he has been blitzed, one
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: of the highest blitz quarterbacks in the league because it's
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: a weak spot for him in his game. But his
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: completion percentage is getting to a point where he's getting
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands a little bit quicker. Yes,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: in general, he keeps the ball in his hands way
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: too long at times. We're still seeing that, but the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: completion percentage on the blitz has gotten a lot better.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: And that's what I like to see, because you're gonna
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: be able to sustain drives when you have that higher percentage.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: If it's over seventy percent, seventy one point four percent,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: it's something I really like.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: I will say, you had you had to do some
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: gymnastics there. I did percentage against the blitz on Thursday
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: night games on the That's absolutely right. He's made some
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: poor decisions this year, but I'm just reading those stats
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: off that. I'll give it to him because you're all right,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: that's been a blind spot in his game for twice.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: That's usually when he makes his biggest mistakes. Yes, really,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: horse throws, Yeah.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right. What's one under the radar thing that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: we from this Eagles season here that we hate?
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, we just talked about Bryce Huff and how he's
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: just not doing much. I I think it's under the
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: radar a bit. Like we got rid of Hassan Reddick
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: for him, and and I would do the trade every
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: day like that was a smart trade because it was like,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: why should we pay Hassan Reddick if we can get
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Bryce Huff and he's younger and he's probably better, and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: we'll just give Bryce Huff the money, right, smart trade?
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: How he knocked out of the park on that one.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: But he sucks so far. Let's just say it, like
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: I have not heard enough? What the fuck is wrong
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: with Bryce Huff? Yeah, Like we just talked about defensive
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: ends and we're really light there and he was supposed
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: to be the guy. Like that's what we're complaining about. Like, dude,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: you came in and I do remember, like I didn't
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: watch a lot of Jets games, and I think I
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: text you guys like is Bryce Huff good? And you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Dave was like he's great, man, He's like come off
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: the edge sacked. He's a big sack guy.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: He has one tackle this year. Yeah, and he's played
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: in all three games. He's not hurt, Like you look
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: at a stature like, oh did he play You know
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: he played in all the games? Yeah, there you go,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and one tackle one in games. That's the re I
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: think how he his number one priority is going to
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: be defensive end help because he's not doing anything and
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: that he's hurt. He's really hurting the team right now.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was his gamble. That was his one gamble,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Bryce Huff, because he knew he had to make investments
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: in the secondary during this offseason.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: He had to.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: He was absolutely forced after after the play of the
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: secondary last year. But he made a gamble in terms
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: of Bryce Huff, and it's just it hasn't paid off.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: So it's it's a it's a it's a great uh.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: It's a great thing to hate from this Eagle season
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: thus far for me. And I'm going a little generic
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: on this one because uh, I certainly love this player,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: but I hate that Lane Johnson is injured already with
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: this potential concussions. As a US recording this right now,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night, September twenty fifth, we don't have any word
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: as to what's going on with him, what's going on
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: with DeVante Smith, what's going on with Eric's taking a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: picture I'm distracted.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, I was taking a selfie you in the background
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: and snapping my daughter.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: No oh, very nice. All right, I should do that
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: more with my kids. All right.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: That's how we communicate now, just dumb pictures.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you got to keep the streak going. I do
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: that with the twins.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And then if you don't like you can buy something.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: You can buy the street you can buy. It's like, Okay,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: your time is up. You lost your street. But if
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: you give us a dollar, we'll keep it going for you.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: It's a good marketing. But it seems crazy.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. We've never done it. I've never done it,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: my gosh. All right.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So getting back to Lane Johnson, what I hate is
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: that he's injured already because at this point in the season,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: he's allowed zero sacks, zero quarterback hits, and zero pressures
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: when he has been out there. It's why I love
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: him and have loved him for years. He is the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: best right tackle in football and he is already injured.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: And it just makes me sad because I think that
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: this isn't going to be the first injury this season
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: with him. Is that growing injuries over the years. I
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: hate that Lane Johnson is already facing the injury bug here, Eric,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: So that's that's that's kind of that one rate under
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the radar thing for me that I hate with the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Eagles this season.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: First of all, he's he's a Hall of Famer, He's
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: going to go to Hall of Fame, and he's been
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: their best offensive lineman for years. And I'm just going
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: through the twenty thirteen draft and the guys that were
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: picked above him, Eric Fisher, Luke Yokol yokel Eon Jordan
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: and then Lane Johnson. Yes, and like, good job Eagles, Yes,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: drafting a hall of famer at.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: The pick, and you know who it was. It was
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Chip Kelly.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: He did like three good things. So yeah, exactly, but no,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: it's him missing any time. Is like a J. Smith
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: or J Brown. J Brown. Yes, I was thinking a J.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Brown not being in the offense is not good. But yes, yes,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: is disastrous. Yeah exactly, it is. It is disastrous. And
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: and we've seen what's been happening with this team without
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: a J. Brown on the field.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Folks.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: As much as I love Davante Smith, I love that guy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: He is a fantastic route runner. Ran a terrible route
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: in the end zone this past week led to an interception.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: But still, when.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: When is that Saints player, that piece of shit gonna
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: get a fine? I haven't heard anything.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Yet, he's not.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's open season. I had I thought this
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: was the new NFL where you can't touch people.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, exactly.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, I guess just maybe maybe the last boy scout
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: kind of deal. The next game, our kickoff guy will
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: have a gun and just run down, like I guess,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: everything is just on the.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Table at off shotgun. He just pulls it from his pants,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you know. He comes out and they're like, boy, those
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: guy's back and then all of a sudden, But.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: How do you hold the ball though, Because you have
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: to like hold a sawd off with two hands, you do, Yeah,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: whereas with a handgun you could just hold it here? True? Yeah, true, Yes,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: you didn't think that through, Jeff, I didn't. Next step
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: in the NFL, folks, Next step All right, buddy, we're
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: gonna head out of here, take a break, then we're
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: gonna get egg crats on.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Uh got anything else before we head out?
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna go uh forget my next snap?
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, you gotta snap away. Keep the streak. All right, everybody,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: we're gonna take a break. We're gonna be back in
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: just a bit.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: All right, we are back. Let's get into more Eagles
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: talk here. We've got a great interview with great discussion
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: coming your way.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: It's what we're thrown down on the table and now
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: on the table.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Joining us this week. He is one of the longest
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: tenured Eagles beat reporters down at the Novacare Complex and
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: always at the link as well covering this team. We
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: absolutely love having him on the podcast from Philadelphia Eagles
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: over at SI We've.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Got the one and only Egg Kratz.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: How you doing, buddy, Hey, I'm doing good, Jeff. Good
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: to see you again.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: It's great to see you too.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Great to have you on to talk about this early
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Eagle season and what we've seen from this team. They've
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: been playing some interesting football here thus far. We've seen
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: some really good play from them, We've seen some bad
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: play from them. We've seen some good drives, we've seen
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: some bad drives, and just also in my opinion, and
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I think conventional opinions out there as well, that we've
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: seen some horrendous play calls every now and again in
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: certain game situations and some bad execution as well. My
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: buddy Eric and I my co host, We're just talking
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: about the fact that the team is pretty shaky still
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: at this point after a two and one start. So
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, ed, if you had one word to describe
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: this Eagles team early this season, what would that one
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: word be?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: And why?
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, one word. You know, you can say a lot
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: of words, but I think the I think the one
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: word I would use would be growth. You know, we're
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: this is an Eagles team that is continuing to grow.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: You say, it has looked ugly and it and it
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: has at times. Yeah, but they've won two games out
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: of three, which is, uh, you know, kind of unexpected
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, and I thought they were going to
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: lose in the Orleans. But this is a team that
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: needs to keep growing. You have two new coordinators. Jalen
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: Hurt said that, you know, a lot of this offense
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: is very new, and now they have the you know
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: fact that they that you know, they're on the road
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: a lot. You know, they've played you know, three of
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: these games away from home. I guess we like there's
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: two of them, and now they're going on the road
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: against Sunday against Tampa, So you know, they have a
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: lot of road games and they just have to continue
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: to grow. Within the offense. The defense is very young.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: You know, you're starting a corner a rookie cornerback in
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: Quinya and Mitchell. You have two defensive tackles that are
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: under the age of twenty five, and Jordan Davis and
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Jalen Carter. Yeah, you still have Brandon Graham and Darius Slay,
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: a couple veterans, but it's a very young team, even
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: though Kobe Dean is just in his third year at
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: linebacker and Zach Bahn is twenty six years old. So
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: they need to grow. They need to grow Dick Vangio's
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: scheme on defense, get more snaps. And I expect that
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: if this team does continue this growth process, that we're
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: going to see some good things at the end of
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: the season, which is when you really want to be
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: playing well. And this is a division that you know,
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: is kind of wide open in my opinion. There's you know,
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Manners look pretty good, the Cowboys not so good. The Giants,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: you know, they won a game last week. So it's
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: a division that I don't think anybody's going to stand
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: up and run away with it right. Absolutely a close division,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: and I think it could be there when the Eagles
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: start to continue this growth and are there at the
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: end in the mix.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I like the word growth ed because it means that
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: there is productivity happening. You know, there are hiccups along
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the way, but at the end of the day, it's
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: a more positive way to describe this team given the
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: troubles and the trials and tribulations they had with regard
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: to executing certain plays. It gives positivity to a defensive
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: line that we're going to get into in a little
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: bit that really needs to start showing us something as well.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: But as we're moving along, I wanted to dive into
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts here. He's one of the top five passing
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league thus far, even not having his
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: number one wide receiver and A J. Brown for the
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: past two weeks. I mean, he's actually number four in
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the league as we are recording this. He's continuing to
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over, however, which is a problem, and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: we're seeing some inconsistencies from this offense from time to
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: time with him with regard to the RPO and whether
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: that's Hurts of the coaching staff, I'm not one hundred
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: percent sure. I'm wondering what are your thoughts on what
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: we've been seeing from Jalen Hurts early this season and
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: what he needs to work on early on? Eric and
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I were just actually talking about some things and his uh, him,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: his completion rate against the Blitz has improved dramatically already
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: this year, which I love.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: But it's not perfect. It probably will never be perfect.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: He's not Tom Brady by any stretch. But what have
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: you been seeing from Jalen Hurts early on this season?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: What does he need to work on? Ed?
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, listen that not every turnover is created equal.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: You know, it's great to put that out there. I
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: mean that interception he threw in the end zone, a
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: lot of people thought maybe DeVante Smith didn't really run
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: the right route, or he didn't fight hard enough for
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: the football, which is rare for DeVante Smith. So you know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Hurts gets credited with these interceptions. That fumble that he
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: was charged with in the opener against the Packers, that
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: was on Cam Jurgens well, a premature snap, but yet
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: it goes on Hurts the side of the ledger. So
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: you know, you kind of have to look at each
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: turnover individually. No, I'm not excusing Hurts for this. I
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: mean this is his fifth year in the league, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: some of his decision making on these turnovers has been
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: a little bit shaky, you know. I think he's late
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: sometimes with his throws. I think those two interceptions he
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: had in Green Bay, he was late with those those throws.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: So he needs to make quicker decisions and process things.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: And this is his fifth season. He should be able
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: to do that. So I think he just needs to
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: work on that. Is not being so careless with the football,
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: not being afraid to throw it away. I mean, you
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: don't see him throw the ball away at all, not
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: at all, you know, So you'd like to see him
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: maybe do that and live to fight another down, especially
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: when you're down in field goal range. You know, you
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: can't turn the football over in those situations. You have
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: to be happy with the three points if you take
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: the three points. We talk about the decision making with
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: Nick Ryanni. He doesn't always take the three points, but listen,
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: you still have to give yourself an opportunity to make
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: that decision, whether you're going to kick it or not.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: So you know, listen, he's got seven straight games now
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: dating back to last season with an interception. Not good.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: But on the other side of that is the Eagles
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: are three and four in those games, which you know
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: he's able to respond within a game on the very
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: next series. He doesn't let them get to him. You know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: he still remains unflappable, and the players in the huddle
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: really notice that. Saquon Barkley gave him the greatest compliment
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: when he said, you know, the thing I've learned about
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: him is his poys. He comes into that huddle like
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: everything that just happened, whether it was good or bad,
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: is in the past now, and we're looking to do
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: something right now in the presence. So that's to his credit.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: But again, these interceptions, they have to stop, even if
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: they're not his fault. He needs to just do a
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: better job of giving his receivers or better chances at
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: the ball or just throwing it away when it's not there.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: He's got to start throwing the ball away at times.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Like you said, there are a couple interceptions early in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: this season here that didn't have to happen. They didn't
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: have to happen if you just threw the ball away,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: and I hope he I hope he continues to grow.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Utilizing that word and using that word that you used earlier,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: ed he can continue to grow even after five years
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: in this league. But what I'm what I'm really concerned
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: about moving forward here, and I don't know how concerned
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: we should all be, but the the injuries that are
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: just racking up on this team. Lane Johnson, Mackay, Beckton,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: AJ Brown, as I mentioned earlier, has been out for
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: the past two games. Who knows if he's going to
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: start this week as of us recording this, we're not sure.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: DeVante Smith taking that huge hit. Britain Covey, who's been
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: he's been effective on punt returns, and you know he's
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: not going to be around for quite some time going
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: on the IR Do you think this team is meeting
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the moment head on in terms of overcoming the injury
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: adversity that they have seen thus far or do you
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: think they have been faltering from it from what you've seen?
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it's still to be written
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: how they're going to respond to it. You know, like
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: you mentioned these injuries. Now, McKai Becton is going to
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: play on Sunday. I saw him in the locker room
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday, and you know, I asked him about his
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: injury and he had his fingers wrapped. He tore a
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: ligament in his ring finger on his left hand. Uh,
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: and he said, I couldn't do anything when I tried
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: to hit somebody, the finger would just flop backwards. Yeah,
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: so you know he's got a cast for it, So
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: he's going to play with a cast. So I guess
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: that's good. Old Tyler Stein stepped in and did a
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: nice job when when when Beckdon went out, Lane was
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: at practice on Wednesday doing some stretching, which was good
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: to see, you know, because it was it was an
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: inside practice. The lights were bright, so you know he
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: was able to handle that. I don't know if he'll play. See,
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: the Eagles have the luxury of coming out of this
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: game and going on their bye week, so you don't
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: have to rush these guys back. If you lose your
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: two and two coming out of the by, it's not
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: the end of the world. You know, the season is
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: still you know, at the quarter pole. Really you still
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: have the bulk of your season left. So I expect
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: they'll play it cautious with age. I don't think Devonte
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: will play, you know, so you know your two key
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: receivers are down now. Jalen Hurts talked about this yesterday.
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: I think he's kind of embracing the opportunity to watch
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: others step up, guys like Johan Dotts and maybe Johnny Wilson,
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: maybe Paris Campbell. They re signed John Ross to the
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: practice squad. But it's interesting they have more receivers on
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: the practice squad than they do in the active rosters.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: Four receivers on the active roster, five on the practice squad,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: So you know, that's interesting. But I think I think
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: it's I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily to
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: deal with this. You know, the Eagles haven't you know,
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: Jalen Devonte Smith played thirty three or thirty four games
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: the last two years.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: A J.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Brown started thirty four straight regular season games the last
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: two years. So you know, the Eagles are gonna have
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: to find another way, and they're gonna have to build
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: up the opportunities for others. And I think in the
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: long term, should this happen again or it need to be,
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: this is a good thing for them to learn how
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: to play without these two top guys, it won't be easy.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: But Hurts talked about embracing the opportunity of watching other
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: step step up, and he said, I'm not afraid to
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: lead through that. So, uh, you know, and let's not
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: forget they still have two pretty darn good weapons and
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Dallas got it in Saquon Barker.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: Health.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas Goddard showed us so much. I mean, I
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: feel like he hasn't been part of the game plan.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like he was early in the first
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: two games of the season, and then seems like the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: offense was forced to actually include him into the game plan.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: And it was great to see because he's a talented
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: tight end.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it was good to see. And you know, listen,
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Dallas is a great He never complains about anything. He
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: always says, as long as we're winning. Yeah, I'm fine
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: with whatever targets I get. He loves the block, he says.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: But it was interesting after they lost that game to Atlanta.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: In the last seconds there, he was the first one
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: out of the locker room. Like when the locker room
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: opened to let reporters in, Dallas got it was already
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: heading out yeah, and asked him about that. I said,
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: you know, you always say you're happy when you're getting
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: when you're winning and not getting your targets. He didn't win,
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: you didn't get any targets. And he said, oh, I
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: was just in a hurry. I asked him about leaving
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: the locker room so quick, and he's like, I says, like, wow,
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: I was just in a hurry to go watch the
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: game film. Yeh okay, Well we'll say I think he
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: was kind of a little fudge there, but yeah, you know,
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: but listen, he responded, well, I mean that catch, he
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: made it a sixty one yard cat. It was just tremendous.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: He was wide open, he said. He looked around and
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: he's like, where is everybody around them? So listen. He
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: had a great game and he's a great guy and
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: it was good to see.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, well ed, let's move over to the
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: defense here, specifically the defensive line, but really quick, folks,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: who are listening, if you're not following Ed on the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Twitter slash X follow him. He's a great, great follow
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: at kratz E great great follow And there's a lot
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: of heat coming down on Bryce Huff and how he
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: hasn't been a productive aspect of this Philadelphia Eagles pass
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: rush so far this season. I'm wondering ed from what
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: you're seeing, like what's happening with Bryce Huff and the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: fact that he really has been a non factor in
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: this Eagles defense throughout this early part of the season.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: It's not good to see given that contract, even given
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: what we did see on the field from him when
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: he was in New York with the Jets. What's happening
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: here with Bryce Huff?
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the Eagles took a big leap, Howi
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Roseman took a big leap with him. They thought, you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: they looked at him as a twenty five or twenty
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: six year old guy that had ten sacks. They figured, Okay,
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: this guy is going to continue to ascend. Yea, and
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: he could be I think he's twenty seven actually now
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: they think about it. But anyway, he's a black guy
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: that we think could be on the rise. He had
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: the big step with the Jets ten sacks, and we
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: think he can build on That hasn't been the case
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: so far. It was a big roll of the dice
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: by Howie and you know, three games in, I'm not
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: ready to say, hey, it was a bad signing, but
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: it's trending in that direction. I mean, he just doesn't
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: seem to feel comfortable with whatever Vic Fangio is asking
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: him to do. They wanted him to be a three
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: down player where he could stop the run and stay
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: on the field to rush the passer, and it just
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: hasn't worked out. I don't know if he's in his
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: head thinking about that kind of thing.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: But he's hardly getting off the blocks and it's he's
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: getting he's getting dominated at the line and not even
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: getting to the backfield the majority of his snaps that
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: he's getting. It's mind boggling.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to me, it almost, Jeff, it seems like he's
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: thinking too much. You know, he's just not playing and
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: just cutting it loose and going up field and looking
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: to get after the passer. It's almost like he's thinking
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: too much instead of playing and using his instincts. Because
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: we saw him do that last year with the Jets
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: and he was effective in his role. But now with
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: this new you know, fans he was trying to make
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: him become more of a three down guy. Maybe he
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: is thinking too much, and you know, I think you'll
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: figure it out. I hate to lose confidence in a
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: player this quickly, especially so young, right, a young guy,
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: and you got him for three more years, I mean,
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: so you have time to kind of let him figure
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: it out. But in the meantime, thank goodness, they have
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: Brandon Graham who has been tremendous. Uh, you know, he's
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: playing a lot. He's in his final year, maybe, but
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: he he's been really, really good. And that has been
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: to the Eagles benefit because now Bryce Stuff doesn't have
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: to play forty snaps. He only played eighteen last week,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: and Fangio doesn't care that he's making fifty one million
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: dollars the next three years. Right, And if I knew
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: what was wrong with him, I would say, hey, why
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: don't you give me a million dollars and I'll give
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: you the answer. Right, Yeah, I would charge him for
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: the answer.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: Again, I think maybe he's just thinking a little too
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: much instead of just going out there and playing.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the Eagles defense, as we're moving along
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: with the conversation here, the linebacker play has been much
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: more productive than I think a lot of us initially
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: thought before the season started, which has been a real
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: pleasant surprise, But I was also hoping to get your
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: thoughts ed on where the Eagles secondary is currently at
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: this season, because, as we know, Howie Roseman and the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: front office made it a priority to focus on this
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: secondary during the off season. What's the perception of how
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: the secondary has really been performing given the expectations of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: this group coming into the season.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts here?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know they've had moments and listen,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: Red Blankenship in that secondary of safety. Two interceptions and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: he's got six and I think twenty two starts, twenty
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: eight games. He's got said this kid and Fangio was
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: asked about it. The kid can catch the football and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: that's a big start. You know, He's not like he
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: drops the ball or anything like that. He's a playmaker.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: And his interceptions always come in big spots. You know,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: he had one against green Bay set the Eagles up
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: for the game when you know, the touchdown and put
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: them ahead yep for good late in the game. And
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: then the big one on Sunday against the Saints sealed
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: to win. So I like him. Chauncey Gardner Johnson, you know,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: he needs to probably do a little better job in tackling, but.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: I think he's okay.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: He made a big fourth and one stop against the Falcons.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: You think, okay, that wins the game. You know, five
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: and a half minutes left, the Eagles keep the ball.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: But it didn't happen that way. That could have been
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: a gameplay, a play that won the game in a sense.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: You know, Well, he whiffed on a tackle that allowed
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, and he whiffed on the big play.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: You know, so yeah, you'd like to see him do
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: a better job of tackling. But you know, listen again,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: he's he's kind of a playmaker. He hasn't really had
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: the interceptions, but he did make that fourth and one stop.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: And then you talk about Quinyan Mitchell. He's a guy
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: that needs to learn how to catch the ball. I
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: mean he's had a couple of interceptions. Yes that he
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: let go buy him, but he's a young kid. And
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: I like the way Quenyan's playing, you know, the Eagles
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: like it. I think. You know, he's played just about
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: every snap on the on the defensive side of the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: ball except for maybe.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Two or three, which is incredible for a rookie.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: Incredible for at a position that's tough to play, so
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: I like him Slay as a veteran who I think.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: You know, he gave up the touchdown pass against London
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: Drake or Drake London the Falcons late, he admitted, you know,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: my eyes are in a bad spot. I looked inside
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: where their tendencies usually are, and they cut it outside
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: on me. So you know, I still believe in Slay.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: I'd like to see them maybe spell him a little
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: bit to keep him fresh for seventeen games, maybe give
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: him an in game series or two on the bench
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: to kind of keep the legs fresh. Yeah, for the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: marathon season, but I don't. I think that the play
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: has been good and how we threw a lot of
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: resources at it, obviously, right they drafted Quinna and Cooper
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: the gene. We haven't really seen his role develop yet,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: but I think we will as the season goes on.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: Miss three weeks during training camp. You know, Isaiah Rodgers
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: hasn't played. They brought him in a young kid, so
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: how he has thrown a lot of resources at it.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: And I think again it's a growth process for this secondary.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: A lot of new parts trying to figure out how
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: Fangio wants them to play. A lot of young kids
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out where they need to be in
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: different you know, times of the game. So, you know,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: I like it. I think I think it's it's an
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: evolving secondary, but I think they have a lot of
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: talent there.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: All right, very good, Well, gonna be letting you go
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: in just a minute here, But to close us out,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: and before I let you go, I'd like to just
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on what has been the biggest surprise
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: for you early in this Eagle season. From what you
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: have seen, you have a great pulse on this team,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: what happens in the locker room, what you're seeing on
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: the field. What's been that biggest surprise for you early
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: in this Eagle season.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's been kind of the offensive line,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: you know, because it was kind of rebuilt a little bit.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: You know. Obviously Jason Kelsey leaves and Cam Jurgens has
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: stepped in, and I think he's done a pretty darn
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: good job in the middle of that line you have
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  Speaker 4: because he moves over from right guard the center, you
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  Speaker 4: have an opening at right guard and mc kaye Beckton
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  Speaker 4: has stepped in there very well to he's never played
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  Speaker 4: guard in his life. You know, he's always a tackle.
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  Speaker 4: He was at the eleventh overall pick of the Jets
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  Speaker 4: and he played nothing but tackles. So his transformation into
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  Speaker 4: what looks like a pretty solid guard has been a
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  Speaker 4: bit eye opening for me as well. And then you
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  Speaker 4: look at the depth. I was concerned about the depth,
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  Speaker 4: but then you have Tyler Steen and Fred Johnson step
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  Speaker 4: in early against the Saints and you know, they it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't perfect, but they did a pretty good job. He
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  Speaker 4: didn't really notice them that much, right, and that's a
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  Speaker 4: good thing thing, right, That's a good thing for an
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  Speaker 4: offensive line. And so, you know, that has kind of
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  Speaker 4: surprised me. So even though everybody just assumes, oh they
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  Speaker 4: have Jordan Malatta, Landon, Dickerson, Lane Johnson, this is a
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  Speaker 4: great offensive line. You just don't roll those guys out
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  Speaker 4: there and expect them to be great. They have to
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  Speaker 4: work at it. They had two new pieces on it,
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  Speaker 4: and the depth I think has been kind of eye opening.
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  Speaker 4: And again that's a credit to Jeff Stalin, just a
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  Speaker 4: great offensive line coach. He's a run game coordinator. The
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  Speaker 4: run game is really doing well. Saw Barkley is you know,
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  Speaker 4: off to a you know, he leads the league in
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  Speaker 4: rushing with three hundred and fifty one yards, and he
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  Speaker 4: runs hard every single time and he's always going forward.
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  Speaker 4: But again, the offensive line helps him get these yards.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, I think the biggest surprise has been
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  Speaker 4: this kind of reconfigured O line and how well it's playing.
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  Speaker 1: Folks, Kratz here from Eagles over on s I give
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  Speaker 1: him a follow on the Twitter slash x Kratz e
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  Speaker 1: if you're not following him already. Buddy, it was great
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  Speaker 1: talking to you. Thank you so much for taking the time.
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  Speaker 1: Always enjoy it. Come back and we'll talk again at
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  Speaker 1: some point down the road, my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Jeff. I love that question about the biggest surprise.
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  Speaker 4: I may end up writing about that also, if anybody
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  Speaker 4: wants to read more in depth, I might write about
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  Speaker 4: that's a very good, thought provoking question, So thank you
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  Speaker 4: for that.
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