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All right, everybody, you are listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the
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Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in
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the world, over ten and a half years strong, and Week twelve of
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the Philadelphia Eagles twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season is now in the books.
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They beat the Buffalo Bills by a score of thirty seven to thirty four
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in overtime at Lincoln Financial Field ten in one, clinching a playoff berth here
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in week twelve. My gosh, what a game, and we are gonna
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get into it. We're gonna break it down, give our takeaways and our
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grades as we always do on our Eagles post game show. Warren, I'm
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here at my good buddy, Josh Schuster, Josh, buddy, How you
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doing, man? I don't know about you, but my heart is.
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My heart's beating a little bit here. How are you doing here, buddy?
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I am, I am alive, I am well. I can't breathe
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and that's okay. Yes, I set off you know, the the loud
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noise alarm that the watch will put off. Yes, I'm watching in my
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office by myself, and I set the set the alarm off for the loud
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noises. So I'm I'm good Man, good Man, good Man. It's
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good to say, Hey Josh really quick before we get into this. Where
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can folks find you on the interwebs out there? And what you're doing in
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the in the world of sports, my friend. Yeah, so I help
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right and and cover the Union. We're not gonna talk about that from Saturday.
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I forgot. We're here to do positive things only. Jeff at Philadelphia
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Soccer now and over at Brotherly Game covering the Flyers as well on Twitter.
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I refuse to call it by the new thing Twitter. I am at fly
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Guy, Josh ninety one. Oh Josh, they almost gave us heart attacks.
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They almost gave us heart attacks here. But let's get into our themes
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from this game. First and foremost, the one hundred and eighty ninth game
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for Brandon Graham. He now has the Eagles all time record for games played.
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He passed David Akers. And also we have to note to some injuries
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I think in this game before we get into like, really the themes of
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what we saw kind of on the field. Injuries Fletcher Cox, Zach Cunningham
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left in this game, Milton Williams did not play, and as we know,
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Lane Johnson right before the game he was down. He was graded to
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questionable and then doubtful, and then he was out. And the Eagles came
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into this game without their starting right tackle and All Pro Jack Driscoll was next
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man up. He started for lay and there were some major difficulties in pass
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protection with him. Right off the bat, we had Jalen Hurts throwing the
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ball away the first three plays of the game because Jack Driscoll was not knowing
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what he was doing in pass pro early on. But the injuries in this
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game, really the Eagles were able to overcome a lot. At the end
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of the day, in overtime, they were able to come overcome I should
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say, these injuries that they that they saw on the defensive side of the
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ball the offensive side of the ball. That is one of my themes from
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this game. But there are a lot of other themes to get into as
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well. So Buddy, I'm gonna let you kind of take the reins here
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right off the bat, major theme of this game. What do you think
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it is? Well, I think it's I think it's two things. Jeff,
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I think you hit on the first one. And I hate it when
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the fan base blames the rets and blames injuries. Yeah, and this is
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a prime example good teams. That last call on Josh Allen was horrible.
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You know what, it didn't matter, Yeah, it didn't matter. The
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Eagles got the stop that they needed just enough, and they drove down and
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won. The officiating would not have cost the Eagles this game. They had
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their chance and they did it. And injuries, well, every team in
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the league is injured absolutely absolutely really quick, with every team, yes,
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yes, well, with regard to penalties, really quick. We have to
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note it wasn't just the Eagles getting called on penalties within the course of this
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game. They were only called four times on the Eagles for thirty yards eleven
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penalties for the Buffalo Bills. Ten of them came in the first half.
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Ten of them came within the first half. It is incredible to me that
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this team was able to continue to forge ahead the way that the Buffalo Bills
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did with ten penalties in the first half. They certainly they certainly were a
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little bit more disciplined. But you're absolutely right. You can't blame penalties all
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the time, of course, you know, I mean, of course We've
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seen some games where where the referees actually do determine the outcome of a game.
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This certainly wasn't going to be one of those. And I'm sorry if
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I interrupted you with regard to the injuries and the points you wanted to make
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there, So go ahead, buddy, Yeah, it's those are my two
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weeks arguments from a fan. I don't I frankly don't tolerate it in the
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midst of a debate. The second thing is what I pointed out to you
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just before we recorded. I said, this showed the difference between two quarterbacks.
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I don't want to hear Josh Allen is elite anymore. Jalen Hurts is
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elite. I will not allow anymore Jalen Hurts slander. That man might be
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the most clutch athlete in all of Philadelphia, maybe ever he is. The
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second half comes and I don't know if he just like smashes his head into
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the lockers and then decides he's just going to completely come out different. But
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every week, every week I had said, I have a screenshot that I
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called the Josh Allen interception. You knew it was coming with Jalen Hurts in
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the second half. You don't even have to worry about turnover. And I
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had zero doubt that they were going to go down and at the very least
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get a field goal because Jalen Hurts would will them to victory. That's an
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elite QUI Josh Allen is not elite, absolutely, you know. We saw
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it in tonight's game. And I can't stand talking about him anymore because the
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Eagles played him last week and we have to hear about Patrick Mahomes here and
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there. Patrick Mahomes had a terrible first half in his game this week against
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the LA Raiders La Raiders, Las Vegas Raiders. Sorry, was watching that
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game, not watching that game, but I kind of had. I was
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following what was going on, mainly because of my fantasy teams, quite frankly,
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but you see these quarterbacks, whether it is Patrick Mahomes, and yes,
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Eagles beat Mahomes last week, but whether it's Jalen Hurts too. The
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fact of the matter is Jalen Hurts had a terrible first half. We saw
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a tenth interception by Hurts this season in the second quarter. Ball was deflected
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by Leonard Floyd who was unblocked off the edge, and then the Bills score
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five plays later on Josh Allen's rushing touchdown. You also have Jalen Hurts again
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turning the ball over on that fumble with the handoff to Kenny Gainwell, well,
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he was able to bounce back. He was he was able to say,
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Okay, we're gonna forget what happened there. We're gonna forget the fact
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that we were only able to produce and generate ninety nine total yards in the
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first half, and we need to regroup. We need to get in a
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better headspace. We need to execute. And that's what Jalen Hurts did,
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and that is what Josh Allen failed to do. Yes, should Gabe Davis
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have made that that catch at the end or toward the end of overtime.
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Absolutely, but he didn't because he that team is just not as clutch as
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this team, in specifically Jalen Hurts when it really matters. It's a great
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theme of what this game. I think. I think that's the overall theme
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of this game. You know what you just said. You know there are
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two quarterbacks who are really good quarterbacks. One is elite in Jalen Hurts,
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and then you have Josh Allen, who's He's a pretty good quarterback, but
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I don't think he can be the elite or in that category anymore. I
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just I find it amazing how this team has been able to bounce back and
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the fact that, if you don't mind getting to another theme with regard to
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the defense here, the fact that this defense, excuse me, was coming
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into this game. They were the twenty seventh ranked defense coming into this game.
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On third down once again, atrocious on third down, but they were
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able to get it done third down efficiency, my gosh. The Bills went
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thirteen of twenty two on third down. The Eagles offense went four of eleven.
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It's just the Eagles defense is not good on third downs. We've seen
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them giving up tons and tons of yards on third down, third and long
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in this game a number of times. But at the end of the day,
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I'm gonna use tenacious, I'm gonna use the word resilient. That's what
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this Eagles team is. And they're ten to one as a result. Josh,
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So, my gosh, I could keep going on and on here,
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but I mean, tenacity and just resilience is what this team is becoming here.
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Yeah, the defense is maddening. You gave the third down conversion.
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But what you didn't mention in there was the Bills were over seventy percent over
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seventy percent on third and eight or more. Think about that. It's incredible.
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It's just it. It's mind numbing. Teams really should just go in
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kneel for the first two plays of each drive and just then go forward on
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third and long because it marks almost every time. Yep. But I'm not
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going to complain too much. This is what a great championship caliber team does.
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And as we go on, I'm going to get into a narrative that
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I want to completely undo that the Eagles have not played anybody, because I
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am really tired, especially from Cowboys fans, hearing that they haven't beaten anybody.
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To talk, they haven't been the Cowboys this season. I'm not beating
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a team over five hundred this year. They haven't one of two teams in
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the entire NFL. Yes, yeah, it's amazing, you know. I
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do wonder looking at the team stats, Josh, I wonder looking at the
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team stats, how much time of possession really matters with regard to this Eagles
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team anymore. The Eagles held the ball in this game twenty six minutes and
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fifty three seconds and the Bills held the ball for forty minutes and thirty seconds.
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I wonder how much that inevitably means, because you know, we've been
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talking on this Eagles postgame podcast show for many, many years about about a
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specific stat and it usually is a stat where whoever has more yards per play
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they end up winning the game almost always, I would say ninety five percent
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of the time. And the Eagles were five point eight yards per play in
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this game to five point five yards to the Buffalo Bills time of possession.
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I just don't know how much that matters anymore, especially with this Eagles team,
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and it's interesting to look at the yards per play once again holding up.
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I think yards per play really matters a lot more at least with this
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with regard to this Eagles team than time of possession, quite frankly, because
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there were a lot of big plays that the Eagles made on offense when they
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needed to make them, much like last week eleven with the game in Kansas
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City as well. I don't know, why do you have any thoughts on
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that? I do. I've mentioned I helped cover soccer, so I'm going
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to bring soccer into this. In soccer, looking at which team has possession
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is completely fruitless. Now I don't view it that way in football. I
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think it can be a marker. But to me, there's only one team
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stat that matters, and it's turnovers. There you go, inevitably, with
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the exception of today, the team that loses the turnover battle loses the game.
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It is almost That's why it sounds like coach speak, but it's true.
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And today the Eagles, because they are the team that they are and
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they are championship caliber, they had more turnovers, but you know what,
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they weren't in the clutch moments. Yeah, and they were able to overcome
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it. Absolutely absolutely. That's the only team stat that really matters to me
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in terms of you know where I really my eyes go necessarily right to that.
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I think that's fair. I think it's very fair too. And I
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think it's also fair of US Eagles fans. I mean, I wasn't doing
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it during the course of the game, but you see it, you know,
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especially after last week's game in Kansas City. The first half of this
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game, so many fans coming down on Brian Johnson for the play calling,
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and it's a combination of play calling and just lack of execution on the field
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as well. I mean, I don't understand how it's third and fourteen at
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one point in the game and you have wide receivers like Devonte Smith and AJ
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Brown and you're throwing a wide receiver screen to Julio Jones. I don't understand
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that. I guess I think that's a terrible play. But I wonder more
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in terms of the game plan itself, Josh if we can and should be
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critical of Brian Johnson and even Nick Sirianni as well, because they didn't get
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DeAndre Swift moving until the middle of the third quarter, and once the run
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game started going, this offense was able to move the ball down the field.
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And I know sounds very simplistic, sounds simple, but that was the
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reality and that's the way football is played. And I don't know this.
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This screwing around with some of the play calling in the first half, I
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just I don't understand it, and it put the Eagles in a hole.
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It put them in so much of a hole that I think it was where
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to have this written down here, Yes it was. When the score was
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twenty four to fourteen. It was the largest deficit entering a fourth quarter for
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this Philadelphia Eagles team here in twenty twenty three, and a lot of that
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was because not just a play calling, but lack of execution as well,
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all coming together and gelling. But I do think there is I do think
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there is validity and being critical of the offensive play calling, especially to start
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these games. I don't know what are your thoughts. Yeah, so I've
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I have kind of two thoughts off of this. Okay. The first is
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today I couldn't take Tony Romo anymore. Oh my god. I put on
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the radio and it was synced, which was great. And in the first
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half especially, you kept hearing that Hurts changed the play. So I have
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a hard time blaming Sirianni Ryan Johnson for putting the game and the best player
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on the field. I can't. I can't fault that. The second thing
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is, believe it or not, the run plays and pass plays were almost
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equal. Yeah by halftime. You know, I'm not a big run the
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ball guy. I think that there are certain game plans and times. Today
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I was pissed because I'm like, I don't want to drive in this weather.
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Yeah, we should not be throwing it in this weather, right,
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let's take time and run the football, because it's not like the Bills have
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an elite run defense anymore. The perception is they do, but they really
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don't, right, So in that sense, it is what it is.
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But there were a lot of quarterback runs and they weren't hurt scrambling for his
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life. It was the RPO. Rather than him handing it off to Swift,
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he opted to run it, which is fine, but I think that
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explained some of the Swift carries being down. So anyway, long answer short,
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I'm not gonna blame them for putting the ball in the hands of their
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best player and it hurts, you know, changes the play. It kind
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of is what it is, and we'll live with it. And we have
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to trust him too, I guess, right, I guess we have to
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trust him. I mean, he's able to do this last if he's able
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to do this in this game against the Buffalo Bills last week against the Kansas
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City Chiefs on the road, yeah, folks, we gotta trust Jalen Hurts.
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He made he played like garbage in one half of the game, and
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then the next half he may play absolute lights out And let's go through some
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stats really quick. Jalen Hurts eighteen of thirty one for two hundred yards.
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He averaged six point five yards per attempt, three passing touchdowns, one interception.
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He had a rating of ninety six point two rushing on the day,
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this Eagles team rushed for a total of five point eight yards per carry.
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DeAndre Swift with eighty yards on fourteen carries. Jalen Hurt sixty five yards on
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fourteen carries. Kenneth Gainwell carried the ball twice, as did Boston Scott.
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Kenneth Gainwell had twenty six yards in Boston Scott had fourteen total of one hundred
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and eighty five total yards on the ground from the passing standpoint. Like I
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said, two hundred total yards in terms of passing and reception. Davonte Smith
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what a game. He was targeted eight times, came down with seven balls
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for one hundred and six yards. He averaged fifteen point one yards per reception.
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He had a touchdown. Aj Brown had a touchdown. Alamade Zacha Zakayas
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sorry, he had a touchdown on that amazing catch. Oh my gosh,
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what an amazing throw. An amazing catch right before the half there and Look,
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not having Dallas Goddard certainly has altered how the passing game is gonna.
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Look here, and they're getting it done. At the end of the day.
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You know, we had Kenneth Gainwell catching a couple balls, DeAndre Swift
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caught one, Julio Jones caught that one, as I mentioned earlier, that
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third and fourteen. But look, they didn't have to kill it in the
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on the box score here. That's where I'm going with this in terms of
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this particular theme, Josh, they didn't have to kill it, Jalen Hurstein
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kill it necessarily in the air. The running game, Yeah, one hundred
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and eighty five total rushing yards. It's really good. Five point eight yards
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per rush. That's good. But it's not like it was total domination to
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win this game. Good teams do this type of stuff and get these type
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of wins, and the box score doesn't have to be the most grand thing
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I'll see, no, because you know what, Jeff, at the end
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of the year, you know, if they win sixteen games, we aren't
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going to go back and say, hey, that box score against the Bills.
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Jeff Man, Wow, that was just terrible, right, And this
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is why I have a hard time with stats. One quarterback was twenty nine
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to fifty one for three hundred and thirty nine yards, two touchdowns in an
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interception. Another quarterback was eighteen of thirty one for two hundred yards, three
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touchdowns and one interception. You know which quarterback winds up with a better rating,
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Jalen Hurts with the less yards, less attempts. Stats are kind of
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it is what it is, and so I'm not worried about the box score.
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The only numbers that I really worry about at the box score is that
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final score. Yeah, a win is a win, yep. And there's
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five total touchdowns from Jalen Hurts in this game, yep. Five total touchdowns.
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Folks. We get frustrated with the turnovers, of course. I mean
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he's got sixteen, I think on the year now at this point. I
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mean he's he's got a lot to turnover so far this year. Zach Wilson,
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I believe has sixteen at this point in the season as well. It's
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tough, but he's able to bounce back, and that is most important when
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looking at this Philadelphia Eagles offense, for sure. Do you have any other
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themes here, Josh? Before we start getting into our grades here, mostly
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that I just hate schemes offensively and defensively across the league, these third and
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forever screenplays. Carolina did it, yeah in their game and it was terrible.
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And to throw one to Julio Jones who is not fast, just makes
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zero sense. But that's the game today. And defensively, just to have
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everybody playing way off the ball all the time, yep, I just it
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drives me crazy. But whatever, it's twenty twenty three and I guess I
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need to grow up. I don't know. I think you're fine. I
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think you're fine. In another theme that I have here before we go to
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our break, before we get into the grades, here, look Jalen Carter
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the field goal block. In this game, Britain Covey had an eighteen yard
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return, which was great to see. Look, Britain Covey has been a
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very very good punt returner this year. I'm gonna talk about his stats once
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we get to the UH, once we get to the grades, but the
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improvement from last year to this year has been significant and we have to we
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have to recognize that. I think because Britain Covey yes on that one eighteen
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yard return, really put this team in a good position to score, and
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it was it was really needed. That field goal block was needed as well.
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Special teams game through Josh. Yeah, this is recorded, Jeff,
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so we can go back in this in time as mister special Teams as I
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like to call you. Yes, Covey really has been night and day,
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and their punting has been amazing, especially today, flipping the field a couple
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of times. I'm not used to these things. Yeah, but I'll take
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it. You know, Covey's worked himself into a nice little role and his
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football IQ from this year, from last year to this year has dramatically improved.
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We never see him taking bad fair catches and he actually runs forward,
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yes with the ball, which is great progress. Yes, so yeah,
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you know what, I won't save the stats for the for the grades last
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year twenty twenty two, and yes, it was through seventeen games Britain,
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Covey averaged nine point three yards per return. This year, through ten games,
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he is averaging fourteen point six yards per return and that is before that's
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before today's game. I mean, I'm not sure that that eighteen yards is
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going to bring that fourteen point six yards up for sure, fourteen point six
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yards this year from nine point three last year. A significant and dramatic improvement.
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That is dramatic improvement in terms of field position, folks, Britain Covey.
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He absolutely deserves kudos, you know, moving forward here for sure.
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So anything else, I've had this real quick. Even more so than that,
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he's not doing the terrible fair catches. Yes, yeah, he's fair
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catching it inside the five when he should let it bounce, and then vice
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versa. He's catching it at like the one and deciding he's gonna run with
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it. Yep, he's been, he is. His football IQ is dramatically
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better. Great great point, A great point to make. As we head
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to our break. We will be back in just a bit. We're gonna
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get into some grades. Stick with us, all right, We are back
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and again we're with our friend Josh Schuster from Philadelphia Soccer NOOW dot com and
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UH love having you on, buddy, seriously, thank you for taking the
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time. I appreciate it. I really do. Always my pleasure, Jeff,
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I enjoy it. Let's get into these grades. Jalen hurts. I
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mean, he's got he's good. If it wasn't for the two turnovers,
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he'd get an A plus from me in this game. I'm giving him an
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A. What do you give him, Josh? I give him an A
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plus. I don't care about the turnovers. Okay, Batman is the most
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clutch athlete in Philadelphia, and I can't I can't give him. He is
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the reason they won this today. Yep, he is the reason there.
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So he gets an A plus. Absolutely. We discussed why before the break,
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So you go back, go back and listen to it again, folks,
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You're gonna love it. So we move on to the running backs.
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Look, it was it was really amazing to see how the running backs were
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hardly used at all during the course of the first half. Like I said
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and mentioned earlier, DeAndre Swift, really they didn't get him going until halfway
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through the third quarter. But I mentioned the stats before. The running backs
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did a fantastic job again, eighty yards for DeAndre Swift, Kenneth Gainwell two
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rushes for twenty six yards in Boston Scott two rushes for fourteen yards. I'm
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giving them an A. What do you give him, buddy? Yeah,
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I agree, I give him an A. Jeff. Let's do a little
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time travel here back to the NFL Draft. Do you remember how mad Eagles
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twitter was that they didn't draft Bijon Robinson or have the chance to. Yes,
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did you rather have Bjon Robinson or Jalen Carter on your team? I'd
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rather have Jail and Carter, my friend. Yes. I mean, look,
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DeAndre Swift is great, but with the Eagles offensive line, even Kenny
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Gainwell is able to average thirteen yards of carry today, right Like, they
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don't need a superstar running back. They need someone who can take care of
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the football. They did that, They turned it up in the second half.
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They get an eight. Yeah, I love it. I love it.
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Receivers, tight ends and wide receivers in this game, again, with
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Dallas Goddard being out, it has been an altered version of what we've seen,
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you know, throughout the majority of the season. When he's out there,
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there's a lot of versatility I think in terms of the receivers. Even
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I gotta say Jack Stall with his one catch on the day for fourteen yards
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and it was for a crucial first down. Fantastic AJ Brown nine targets on
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the day, he only came down with five balls for thirty seven yards,
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but he did have a fantastic touchdown, and as did Devonte Smith. As
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we know too, I'm gonna give the receivers and tight ends in general.
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I'm going to give him an A minus this week. What do you give
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him? We'll give him an A. Okay, they didn't make sure.
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The only drop that happened was a good one in overtime from A. J.
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Brown. He was convenient with his drop. But in all seriousness,
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if if one of the Eagles wide receivers had to get injured or Dallas Goddard
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had to get injured, I'll take Dallas Goddard. He really hasn't been a
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factor this year, even before the injury, to be perfectly honest, maybe
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one week he was. So I do think it opens up the field a
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little bit more. But the combination of DeVonta and aj is just it's incredible,
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and they are shorthanded, reliable, and they don't drop anything, and
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so you know they get an a all right, very good offensive line again.
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Jack Driscoll filling in for Lane Johnson had some difficulties in past protection,
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but I think they were able to really adjust again with Jack Stone bringing him
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in. How many times did we see him lining up right next to Jack
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Driscoll a number of times. Don't have the stats in front of me,
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but it was very visible and obvious to the eye. And I think the
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offensive line in general did a pretty good job. You had Jason Kelcey twice
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twice, oh my gosh, on the same drive right in the fourth quarter,
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just had those two false starts. Still Jake Elliott was able to nail
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that fifty nine yard er. God bless him. It's oh my gosh,
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we get to special teams. I can't believe what great I'm gonna be giving
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him. However, Jason Kelcey a bit of a rough time when when it
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really mattered and then it didn't because of Jake Elliott. But I'm gonna give
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the offensive line this week in a minus. What do you give him?
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I'm gonna give him a beat. Okay, I know they're they're struggling with
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injury, but the reality is the last couple of weeks it has not been.
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And this is the Jeff Statlin's credit. Not only is he the only
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offensive line coaches named that he will actually know, but they seem to,
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no matter the injuries, still be an elite offensive line. Yeah, the
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last couple of weeks. There's been a couple of kinks in the armor,
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and so they're gonna get a B for me. It's above a sea,
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which is average. But I can't give him an A. Okay, all
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right, I think that's fair. Let's move the defensive side of the ball.
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With the injuries on the defensive line, my goodness. Like we mentioned
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earlier, Fletcher Cox, Milton Williams, they were out. I mean we
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saw Jalen Carter coming out at one point. Also Davis came out at one
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point as well. I mean they were getting the crap kicked out of them.
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Not dominant by any stretch of the imagination. Because when you look at
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the stats and you see the sacks, one sack on Josh Allen, four
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quarterback hits. Not the greatest day from this line, and I'm gonna be
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giving them a C plus this week. Actually, what do you give the
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defensive line this week? Buddy? Well, I thought I was gonna be
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harsh and given a B. I they get a D for me on tackling,
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okay them, and it's gonna be the same thing for the linebackers.
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They could not tackle today and it was infuriating. It's not that they couldn't
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get pressure. It's not that they couldn't get tackles for loss, they just
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couldn't tackle today. But they get an A plus for me in terms of
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my optimism of the future of the Eagles offensive line, simply because it was
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when the old yeah, sorry, the defensive line, when the older players
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went out and the more young players went in. And this is why you
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drafted the lines. I know it drives people crazy, but this is why
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they The Bills had a much harder time scoring. They were slowed down,
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and so that to me, it deserves an A plus. I'm gonna give
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the young guys an A plus. The tackling a D will come out at
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about a B minus. Will say, okay, sounds good. You mentioned
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the linebackers. I was gonna give the line a C minus. I mean
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Zach Cunningham. I think we know how valuable he has been this year,
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and we saw it in this game when he went out. I mean,
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with Moro and Ellis out there, there's some penalties, there's some other issues
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mistackles like you saw C minus from linebackers. For me, what do you
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give them, I'm giving him a D plus. Okay, you get a
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beat or better for me if I don't sit there and go the Eagles need
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to draft a linebacker, and most weeks that's been the case this year.
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Right right today, my Atlanta was it bad? They need tight ends?
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Are going to continue to destroy this Eagles roster. So we'll see what happens.
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Yep, all right. The secondary this week, I mean they man,
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there were some rough spots and quite frankly, they got lucky a couple
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times in terms of I know Darius Slay should have been probably flagged a couple
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times other members of the secondary where they got lucky. But they played physical,
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and that's what we want to see from the secondary. I don't want
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to see a bunch of guys out there consistently just you know, playing off
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the receiver fifteen yards, you know, And of course we saw a little
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bit of that from his own coverage standpoint. But I think the secondary did
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a really good job. And I really think that, you know, with
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Bradbury's interception as well, you know, they needed to get turnovers when they
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needed to get them in this game. And I'm gonna give the secondary again
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because of that interception too. I'm gonna give him a I would say,
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probably a B plus actually, because you know there was some rough rough times
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for them in this game, for sure, but B plus for me,
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what do you give the secondary? I'm gonna give him an A minus.
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Okay, and I'm calling this week the Jeff's Nemesis week. Bradberry did not
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play terrible, and he did not you have many weeks you have just talked
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about how old he looks. Yes, he was clutched today. Well,
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he did give up the one touchdown, but honestly, I think any corner
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there probably it was a perfect pass by Allen and Davis did a great job
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of hauling in the catch and running his re out yep and then with Covey.
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So this is the Jeff's Nemesis week. And so it led to a
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win, and that's good. But yeah, they get a they get an
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A minus for me. All right, let's move over to the coaching special
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teams, defensive coaching and also offensive coaching. I am going to give special
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teams this week an A plus A plus. Baby, what do you give
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him? Josh? I think you can't give him anything other than an A
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plus. I just we don't talk enough about Jake Elliott and kind of shame
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on us for not really talking about him that that man is. He's now
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nine for nine when the game is on the line. Yep. It was
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pouring rain and he drilled his almost sixty yarder. It's incredible. And he
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had room, he had room two he could have made his oh yeah in
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rain. Yeah. A plus. Defensive side of the ball, Sean de
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Sigh, Man, it was rough during certain times of the game, and
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you know, overall, oh boy, it's just oh boy, Ben,
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but don't break defense. And that's what he's been putting out last week against
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the Chiefs and this week as well. I mean, I'm gonna give him
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a B minus this week. What do you give Sean decigh Goodness, See,
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if his quarterback isn't Jalen Hurts, the defense costs him this game.
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That's true. Yeah, he gets a C from me, and that's mostly
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because Jalen Hurts helps give An a to balance out at D. Yeah,
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so I'll give him a C plus, all right, a little generous,
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all right. The offense, Nick Sirianni Brian Johnson. Despite the first half,
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it's all about resiliency and tenaciousness. As I said earlier, I'm gonna
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give him an a minus actually, because I think at times the like we
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said, like we've said on these postgame shows in the past, and even
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with my friend Matt Rodgers who comes on as well, sometimes these players defy
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the coaching, and sometimes these players will win in spite of the coaching.
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I'll give the coaching this week and a mins. From an offensive standpoint,
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what do you give him, buddy, I'm I'm actually gonna give him an
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a plus, okay, And that's mostly for in game adjustments. This offense
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could not do anything in the first half. Yep. And if I told
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you, if I text you at halftime and said, Jeff, I bet
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you they score thirty seven today. Ugh, how much money do you want
33:23
to bet? I probably would have walked away with some cash. You would
33:27
have walked away with my kids college fun. But I can't knock the defensive,
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the offensive or defensive adjustments. But they get an A plus for me.
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All right. Wow, I can't believe that this Eagles team is ten
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and one after these games, the crazy, the quote toughest stretch of the
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season, Kansas City Chiefs, then the Buffalo Bills, the forty nine ers
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coming up, and then the Dallas Cowboys. This was that time of the
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year that we saw at the beginning of the season that oh my gosh,
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are they going to be able to do it? Folks been doing it.
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Let's see what happens Week thirteen against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Again,
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Josh Schuster, Philadelphia Soccer. Now tell us where you're doing your your
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ninety one. There we go. I'm forgetting this stuff. I have no
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idea why I say. I think my brain is still like the synapses are
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just completely going and going and going. After what this game was here,
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I'm like, oh la, I'm on overload here. So all right,
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folks again Week twelve of this Eagles twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four season
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now in the books. They win by a score of thirty seven to thirty
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four in overtime at the Lenk. It's gonna do a for us. Take
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care, We will catch you next time.