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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. Wanted to let you know that we recorded
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this podcast episode on Tuesday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty three. By the
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time you hear this, some things may have changed, but we hope you
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enjoy the show. All right, folks, welcome to Opposition Territory here at
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the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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in the world, that's right over ten and a half years strong. We
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got our great preview coming your way this week here on Opposition Territory. The
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Philadelphia Eagles coming off their first loss of the season, getting ready to take
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on a very prolific Miami Dolphins team that I do have to say, the
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Philadelphia Eagles are gonna be wearing their Kelly Green jerseys. There's a lot of
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excitement specifically for that, but in terms of what else we are going to
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see on the field besides the Eagles donning those jerseys, it's gonna be a
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tough, tough, Miami Dolphins team. So let's get into this week's preview
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podcast. We got a great guest, let's get to it, and it
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is great to have the podcast for the very first time coming to us from
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the Bleeve Podcast Network to get into this Philadelphia Eagles and Miami Dolphins upcoming game.
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Great preview. I know we're gonna get into some great conversations. Sam
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marcou buddy, thanks so much for jumping on the pod here. Oh thanks
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for having me. It's man, what a match up here in Week seven
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between the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles. This is the stuff that Super
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Bowl previews are made of. Absolutely both five and one teams, powerhouse teams
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in the National Football League. And before we get into this preview, Sam,
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tell everybody where they can find you on the interwebs out there, you
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know, the great stuff that you've been doing over at the Bleeve Network as
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well. Tell everybody where they can find you. Yeah. So the podcast
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is called Welcome to perfect Ville, usually shortened to the perfect Ville Podcast,
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obviously taken from the great nineteen seventy two Miami Dolphins. Myself and my co
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host, Chris Cullen, former collegiate football player and football coach out of North
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Carolina. We just talked about Miami Dolphins and football in general. We've been
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doing this for almost seven years at this point, so that doesn't mean we've
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been doing it well mind, you just means we've been doing it for seven
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years. You're catching up these yeah, yeah, we're slowly. We're reaching
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out trying to touch you guys there, but we've been doing this a long
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time. We're part of the Believe podcast network, as you talked about,
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and you can find us anywhere podcasts anywhere you listen to them right any podcast
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catcher out there. And then myself, if you guys are interested, I
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am a working stand up traveling comedian. So as of right now, my
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tour dates are none because I'm at home raising a new generation of Miami Dolphins
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fan with my young son. But soon enough you could probably google my name
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and see new tour dates coming up in early twenty twenty four. So whether
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it's comedy or football, I'm doing something somewhere. All right, very good,
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Well, let's get into this preview here, and man, the Dolphins
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they're a team that scares me is a Philadelphia Eagles fan. As we're you
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know, staring down Week seven here. Dolphins are, of course, team
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that's the top of the AFC East there. They've really built a team that's
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truly competing in the AFC. Here, Man, the connection between Tua and
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Tyreek Hill has been astonishing to watch all season. Sam. Plus, you
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know, he really does seem to be more comfortable this season. He really
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seems to be and I don't know if it's more enjoying the game of football.
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Maybe it's the fact that they're winning and that absolutely helps. So I'm
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wondering, how do you describe to his development over these past couple seasons here
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and specifically with regard to this season. Give the injuries that have you know,
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led him to where you know this team and he have been where they
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are right now, how do you describe to his development here? I think
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I would describe it if I used one word as just incredible. Look,
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Tua in college was that guy. I mean, you can't go and watch
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the tape from him at Alabama and go that guy can't play quarterback. There's
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a couple of things that happened at the very start, really at the end
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of his collegiate career. He had a devastating hip injury, which people often
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forget about. I mean, it was the same exact hip injury that ended
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Bo Jackson's football career. Now, due to sports medicine, technology and everything
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else, he was able to come back, but that takes a couple of
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years to not only physically recover, but mentally get over the hurdle of if
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I get hit again, this could be the end of my career. On
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top of that, of course, he had the concussion issues last season,
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But really what happened was that his confidence just absolutely soared. Once Mike McDaniel
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was hired on as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Brian Flores didn't
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do him any favors. He really didn't show him any sort of love.
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And Brian Flores basically is the guy who drafted him and then said, well,
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I don't really want you here. He's very confusing for a young quarterback
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who's already dealing with some issues when it comes to his hips his injuries.
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Mike McDaniel came in famously cut up seven hundred different plays for to it to
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say, look, not only are you good, but you are the exact
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quarterback I need for my offense. And then he went out and started proving
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it, and all of a sudden, you know, the concepts and everything
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starts coming into execution. It certainly helps to go get Tyreek Hill. I
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mean that cures a lot of eb absolutely, and it's just been building since
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then. And now we're to a point where two was actually calling his own
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plays in the huddle. Typically I'm going to throw it to Tyreek over the
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top, but it seems to work, and he's done that twice. Now,
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twice he's actually audibled coming out of the huddle based on what he's seeing
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in the field, based on what the defense is showing him, and both
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times it's ended in a Tyreek Hill touchdown over the top. So his confidence
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is absolutely through the roof. And he even said it. I mean,
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you mentioned is he having more fun? He is? He said he hasn't
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had this much fun since he played at Alabama. So I think confidence,
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self confidence in general is the biggest change that we've seen in two. He's
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always had the two to do it in terms of his skill set, but
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now believing that he can do it is really why we're seeing this difference.
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I think a narrative that often gets lost Sam in terms of players who have
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gone through significant injuries is the mental aspect of getting back to form. I
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don't think that's talked enough in the sports world in general, just because these
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guys are amazing athletes, doesn't necessarily mean from a mental standpoint they're going to
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be able to come back and be one hundred percent mentally, because we know
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how important the mental aspect of sports is for the performance to just look the
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way that it should. And I think there's something to be said for that.
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It doesn't get talked about enough. No, no, And it's really
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you know, professional athletes, as you know, as much money and how
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much we celebrate them and all the success they have, and especially in American
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sports, they are creatures of habit more so than any other I think,
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you know, subset of you being good potession. They aren't even really allowed
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on a lot of days to change up what they're going to eat. They
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eat at a certain every single day and people bring them food. They exercise
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at the same routine every single day. There's not a lot of diversity to
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what they do day in and day out. So when you have an injury
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and it completely shakes up not only what you do day in and day out,
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but your way of life, that is a mental block that a lot
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of folks have a hard time getting over. Athletes are a special breed because
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they now have to train on how to get over that, but that takes
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time, sometimes longer than the actual physical pain and recovery. Absolutely. All
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right, Well, moving along here in terms of the Miami Dolphins offense and
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what we may be seeing at Lincoln Financial Field this coming Sunday, is that
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one gentleman raheem Moster my gosh, you know, continuing he's been continuing with
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his amazing hot streak heading into this Week seven matchup, just a career year
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that he's having. It's amazing to watch in this past week, my gosh,
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touch the ball twenty times twenty total times, had three touchdowns. So
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do you think his incredible and just remarkable success this season has more to do
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with him knowing an un understanding the defense that's in front of him, or
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is this more of the offensive line making sure that he's able to find success,
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especially as he's rushing the ball. Yeah, well, first and foremost,
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I like that you said the gentleman because he's thirty one years old,
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which, as Tous said, he's an old head, which I was affriended
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by as somebody who's north of thirty one, like, that's a young man.
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He probably gets carted when he goes and buys a beer right, right.
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But you know, Raheem has been around for a little bit of time,
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especially in football years. And this is a guy who was handpicked by
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Mike McDaniel when he came over to the Miami Dolphins. Last year, Raheem
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Mostert was in San Francisco. Raheem Mostert has had spurts of success like you
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were seeing this season at previous stops. I mean, I think he still
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holds the right. I mean, nobody can forget what he did against the
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Green Bay Packers in the playoffs a couple of years ago. I think he
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had four touchdowns or something like that. Yeah, the talent has always been
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there. He's a track star, just like Tyreek Hill, just like Devana
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Chan, just like all these other guys on the Miami Dolphins speed kills,
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and that's what they're banking on. I think the main difference that you're seeing
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here is a he's healthy. That's always been the knock on Raheem Mostert.
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It wasn't that he couldn't run the ball. I mean, I think his
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career average, you know, this year is obviously helping them. But he's
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up like five point eight yards per carry on his career, he's able to
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run the ball. Yeah, it would just he's never been that bell cow
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back. And even this season he was splitting time with Devana Chan and others
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for the Miami Dolphins. And he'll continue to do that, which I actually
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think is helping him. Yeah, because he's not the guy who's getting the
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ball thirty times a game. Because he runs hard. I don't know,
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he's a run fast. He will knock you down if you're on you.
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Guys have the tush push in Philadelphia. But Raheem's gonna try to match that
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with his head and he's gonna drop it and he's gonna take on whatever defender
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was in front of him and try to get that yard. So, yes,
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the offensive line is playing much better, but a lot of this is
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individual effort. I mean there's at least three or four plays against the Carolina
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Panthers this past weekend where it's third and eight, it's third and seven,
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and he's getting a ball on a swing pass or he's getting a toss and
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it looks like he's dead to rights and he's running over people. He's jumping
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over people, and he's fighting for every inch of yard, you know,
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every inch on that field and getting first down. So a lot of it
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is just the individual effort from Raheem Mostert's also probably the best teammate the Miami
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Dolphins have. He doesn't care about rumors of Jonathan Taylor coming to the Miami
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Dolphins. He welcomed Dalvin Cook rumors when they came in. He was happy
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when Jeff Wilson Junior was traded there last year. He's supporting Devin Han who's
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taking you know, bread off of his plate, so to speak. He
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doesn't care. He's like, I'm a team guy. I want to win.
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This is my best opportunity to win a Super Bowl. So you have
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the right mentality with a physical specimen that is Raheem Mostern, even at the
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ripe old age of thirty one, and an offensive line that is playing much
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better and much better than we ever expected this season, especially with our two
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top players out with Connor Williams Ronstad. So it's a combination. Absolutely.
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I think it is, because I think any good team, any well rounded
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team, you're going to have a combination of both of those things. You
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know, it's individual, then again, it's all the moving parts of the
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cog working together to make sure that the overall offense is going to have success,
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but on the flip side of the ball, on the defense, we
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really wanted to get your thoughts on where this pass rush is currently and how
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they may actually be able to take advantage of the Philadelphia's or the Philadelphia Eagles
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offensive line at this point because with Lane Johnson possibly missing this week's game due
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to an ankle sprain, with Cam Jurgen's right guard out on ir there,
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I mean, there are two backup offensive linemen starting in this game. And
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as folks of this podcast they've listened for some time, know how much I
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love Lane Johnson and I do believe he is the best right tackle in the
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National Football League and the loss of him shows what happens to this Eagles offensive
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line, and they had major problems this past week against New York Jets when
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he went out. Jack Driscoll just had a tough time at right tackle against
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the Jets, and I wonder just how the Dolphins might be able to take
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advantage of this. And Sam, how how do you think the Dolphins defensive
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line in this pass rush is really gonna be able to capitalize on these you
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know, Eagles offensive line injuries up front here. Yeah, I mean it's
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good question. I mean, Lane Johnson is a guy that everyone knows.
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As soon as he went down, trust me, I was texting my co
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host, I welcome to Perfect LI podcast, going, hey, Lane's out.
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This could be an issue. It's not just the physical blocking that Lane
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Johnson does, but it's it's being a captain, it's being a leader,
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it's helping the other people on the offensive line. As you know, I
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mean, they have to work as one unit. It's five working as one.
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Yeah, and you take a big cog like that out and that's going
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to change a lot of things. Now. The Jets, to their credit,
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and I can't believe I have to say this, have a really good
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defensive line. They really do, unfortunately for the Philadelphia Eagles. So to
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the Miami Dolphins, I mean, I think they lead the league in quarterback
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pressures and hits. I think they're third in sacks. They can get after
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the quarterback. Now that being said, the Miami Dolphins don't blitz very often,
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at least they haven't under this Vic Fangio regime since the beginning of the
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season. They blitz intermittently, usually towards the end of the game, especially
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if it's a close game, which we haven't experienced a lot of this year.
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But that's when they really tend to dial it up and bring five,
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six, or even seven people up. Typically they're looking for that front four
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to get pressure on the quarterback, and they're trying to have this shell deep
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and coverage. Jalen Hurts is an amazing quarterback who can get out of the
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pocket and run around and create things with his legs. But for the Miami
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Dolphins, they're probably going to load up on that side. I wouldn't be
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surprised to see Andrew van Ginkel, who can play both inside and outside and
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is a personal favorite of Vic Fangio, lining up on the outside and lining
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up over Jalen Phillips and trying to get to Jalen Hurts as quickly as possible.
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Yeah, And what's really sad being an Eagles fan at this particular point
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in time is how the Eagle secondary is basically in shambles, and as we
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look to this coming game, my gosh, I'm absolutely scared to death.
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But I wanted to focus on what we've seen thus far this season from the
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Dolphins and their secondary is we're talking about this Dolphins defense. They're a tough
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unit, but they certainly are vulnerable I think in some aspects of the game
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here. So what should we be expecting from the Miami Dolphins secondary this particular
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week? Yeah, you know, I think if you combine the Eagles secondary
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and the Dolphins secondary, we might have a complete starting unit that's NFL worthy.
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I mean at this point. I mean Jaalen Ramsey is out, has
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been out, obviously torn in niscus. He's starting practice possibly this week.
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He will not play in this game. He won't play until after the bye
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week, kept the earliest. Xavien Howard, our other cornerback, is out
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with a groin injury. There's a lot of jokes there if you read the
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news and follow up with what he's got going on in his personal life.
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Oh don't touch, but it's possible that our top two cornerbacks are going to
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be out. And then you're looking at Caterkoho, who's an undrafted second year
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player who's really good in the slot, not so great on the boundary,
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and Javon Holland of talented safety and Deshaun Elliott, who was basically hand picked
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by Vic Fangio to come in here and it really helps set the backside of
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the defense in terms of where they need to be. He took the game
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off in Buffalo and it was a complete disaster. Now part of that is
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Stefan Diggs, of course, but he is a true leader back there and
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making sure the communication piece is key and everyone is where they need to be.
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It's so interesting when you look at this Philadelphia Eagles team and this Dolphins
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team. A lot of similarities for the quarterbacks to the wide receiving being a
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strength to basic a running back, you know, committee if you will offensive
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line issues. Then of course on the defensive side of the ball, the
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upfront is both, you know, a strength for both, and then on
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the backside maybe not so much so. I think in this game, obviously
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AJ Brown Davante Smith are going to be the two players that the Miami Dolphins
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have to focus on in the passing game. YEP. I don't know how
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you stop them. I think it's a very similar situation to Tyreek Kill and
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Jalen Will absolutely, but I think they're going to try to let the Eagles
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beat them on the ground and do everything they can to limit Aj Brown and
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Devanta Smith. From getting over the top. Now it's a brand new defensive
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scheme for the Miami Dolphins. They're used to playing press covers, they used
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to playing man on man are man to man, but they're not doing a
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lot of that this year. It's a lot of communication. It's a work
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in progress. This is an area if the Philadelphia Eagles are going to attack,
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that's where I would attack fire them. This is one of those games
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where I could see DeVante Smith, AJ Brown, Jalen Waddle, and Tyreek
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Hill all having over one hundred and twenty five yards receiving. I can absolutely
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see that NBC is crossing every single finger they have that that happens on Sunday
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Night football. They don't want another thirteen to eleven game. They exactly they've
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won two, you know with all that happening. Absolutely yep. Again,
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we are talking to Sam Marco folks over at the perfect Ville Pod and over
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our show or possibly Mercury Morris going crazy on ESPN years ago when they're doing
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single week, our game preview. Please don't take offense because I'm actually an
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Eagles fan up until this week. I can't do this week for obvious reasons.
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But you and I were talking about this. I grew up on Randall
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Cunningham. I loved watching that guy play. I grew up on Ricky Waters.
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Yeah, you know, making business decisions over the middle of the field
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with the alligator arms and everything else. Well, I know this Philadelphia Eagles
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team. I've been rooting from AFAR for a very long time out here in
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San Francisco, and I have to say the uniforms. You guys are gonna
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be rocking on Sunday are going to be fantastic. I hope the Dolphins fallow
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suit and actually throw on their throwbacks as well, because I think that would
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be the prettiest throwback game of all time. But yeah, you can find
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us, and if you want to, we'll come out a little bit later
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this week with our preview, which we call we Hate the Philadelphia Eagles,
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and we give you three reasons why I am a Dolphins fans should hate the
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Eagles, trying to pump up this team, pump up the fan base and
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get them in a ladder so that we can match your guys's intensity in Philadelphia.
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We're not gonna be throwing batteries at Santa Claus or anything, but we'll
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try to match you from Afar with the intensity. But if you want to
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take a look at that, find out why we hate the Philadelphia Eagles,
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It's gonna be tough this week, because, like I said, I like
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the Eagles, but we'll find a way, all right, Well, Sam,
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for who for what? Right? Yeah? Well, I mean,
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I think first and foremost, we're forever linked these two franchises due to Ace
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Ventura. That's always meant to be. I also can't stand the fact that
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Donovan McNabb threw up on the ball and let the Patriots beat you guys,
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because I absolutely needed you guys to win that one and it didn't quite happen.
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What reason, the Philadelphia Eagles. But it's a stretch. It's a
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stretch. God, what a terrible night that was in two thousand and four.
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All Right, as we're moving along here, two part question for you,
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as we ask our opposition territory guests every week getting into these particular matchups
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here, So I'm wondering where you think the Dolphins are most vulnerable on the
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offensive side of the ball, where the Eagles could potentially really do some damage
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perhaps to this Dolphins team. Might be a difficult question answer, But where
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do you think the Dolphins are most vulnerable on offense? It's probably where your
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guys have strength. Is this is where we do diverge a little bit.
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I think third and short, fourth and short. Remamy, Dolphins have gotten
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way too cute. I would almost imagine that they should take a page out
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of your guys's playbook quite literally, but we just do dumb things. It
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could be third in inches, and we're doing backward passes that are basically live
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ball fumbles if you don't get it done, just not putting ourselves in good
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position to convert those. Now, we don't get a lot of third downs
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in Miami, at least not this year, but when we're in those positions
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third and goal, third and one, third and two, we've seen multiple
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turnovers on downs. We've seen multiple turnovers in the red zone. It's an
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area that needs to be improved. And if I'm the Philadelphia Eagles, I'm
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looking for those opportunities to create havoc and look for the ball to come out,
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or look for the ball to be maybe rushed if he's trying to throw
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a quick slant or something like that. Get your hands up. I think
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that was something that the Carolina Panthers did very well. They knew they weren't
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going to get to it. He was getting rid of the ball in two
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point four seconds or less, which is the fastest on the week. But
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they got their hands up and they knocked down two or three passes because if
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nothing else, he's throwing the ball, get your hands up, maybe be
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bat it down. So I think that's where they're vulnerable on offense. Also,
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I mean, you guys are good against the run if they can't establish
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the run. Mike McDaniel has shown he gets a little froggy and he's going
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to start throwing over and over and over again, and at that point it's
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just a volume stat. At some point he's going to throw an interception.
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So if you can stop the run, if you can focus on third and
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short, on third and goal type situations, I think the Philadelphia Eagles are
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going to put themselves in a position to at least stop the Miami Dolphins occasionally
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on offense. Okay, from the defensive side of things, where do you
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think the Dolphins are going to be most vulnerable on the defensive side of the
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ball. I think we already talked about it in terms of the secondary.
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But is that what you're thinking as you're looking at this matchup? Yeah,
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I mean I feel like we're gonna get a taste of rown medicine here.
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I mean, I look at these teams that are playing the Miami Dolphins and
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I go, how did you leave Tyreek Hill one on one? Those rookie
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cornerback right against the Denver Broncos, they doubled Robbie Chosen, who I didn't
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even know was active for that game, and Tyree Kibble was wide open.
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It's like, that's a you know, somebody made a bad call, right
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right. I feel like that's going to happen. You know, that could
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very well happen in this game where if you're gonna bracket aj Brown, which
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is what I would do, well, what are you going to do about
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Devanta Smith? Because this is also somewhat of a little bit of an Alabama
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reunion. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if Jalen Hurts is going to
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try to make a statement by getting the ball to DeVante Smith and all of
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a sudden, you know, you have these interwoven storylines about Alabama receivers and
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everything else. It's going to be that secondary. If Xavien Howard doesn't play,
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you're looking at a lot of special teamers who are cornerbacks and safeties by
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title only having to go in there and cover this up. That is an
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area of weakness right now for the Miami Dolphins. If it gets into the
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trenches, that's going to be a bang bang who you know, I don't
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know whoever has the ball? Last kind of thing but going over the top
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and exposing this secondary for what it is right now, especially with aj Brown,
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especially with Dvante Smith, Dallas Goddard. I mean that's an area where
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you guys have us as well in terms of the tight end. If Jalen
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Hurts can get back and have some time, which is a question, right,
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he's going to have the ability to pick this apart. All right,
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Very good? All right. As we're ending things here and ending our discussion,
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another two part question for you here, and we talk about both teams
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needing to hit on one thing for a win this week. We'll start off
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with the Miami Dolphins. What's the one thing this Dolphins team is going to
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need to hit on this week for a win and give the Eagles perhaps our
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second loss of the season. Well, I think we're going to have to
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from an emotional standpoint, the Miami Dolphins are going to have to weather the
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storm. This is a primetime game in Philadelphia. The Eagles unexpectedly lost to
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the stupid New York Jets last week, so I know your team's going to
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be fired up. They're looking for revenge and they're going to try to take
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it out on the Miami Dolphins. You guys know this because you were in
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the Super Bowl last year and have been a juggernaut in the NFC. When
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you're five and one, when you're leading your division, you're getting everybody else's
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best shot. Now, the Miami Dolphins have been great against bad teams and
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have not been great against good to great teams. So the Miami Dolphins are
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motivated to beat the Eagles, especially on national TV, to show everybody we
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are for real. So I expect this to be a high flying matchup.
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I think the Miami Dolphins are going to have to establish the run. That's
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gonna be hard to do against this Philadelphia Eagles team. But if you can
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get the ball moving on the ground, it opens up everything when it comes
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to throwing the ball to Tyreek Hill, when it comes to throwing the ball
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to Jalen Waddle, And of course, don't forget people like Braxton Barrios.
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And since we love alliteration so much in Miami, keep an eye on a
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gentleman named Chase Claypool making his debut for Dolphins. Six foot four, two
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hundred and thirty pounds four point two forty We all know who he is,
23:30
but putting him in the hands of Mike McDaniel. Wouldn't surprise me if you
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see a couple gadget players with cha Chase Claypool this week, and folks,
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we know how the Philadelphia Eagles defense does in terms of gadget plays. Okay,
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we're gonna I'm just gonna say that and leave it there. Chase Claypool,
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he's gonna have some success, folks, if Mike McDaniel decides to go
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that route. So what's the one thing as we're closing things out here,
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Sam that the Philadelphia Eagles are gonna need to hit on for a win this
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week against the Miami Dolphins. What are you thinking. Yeah, it's gonna
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start up front for them. I think if you can keep Jalen Hurts clean,
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he's got a good opportunity to put up some stats, especially against the
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secondary, like we talked about. But with Lane Johnson being down and you
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have a couple of rookies playing on that line, it's gonna be up to
24:14
them to figure out how to keep people like Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb who's
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coming on. He played really well against the Carolina Panthers team, and Andrew
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Van Ginkel Christian Wilkins is fighting for a new contract right now. I think
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he's got a career high in sacks already through six to seven games. If
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you can keep them at Bay, then Jalen Hurts, I think has time
24:30
to actually go out there and process and make plays with his feed occasionally.
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That's gonna be the key for my or well for the Philadelphia Eagles. Keep
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the mind me Dolphins defensive front at Bay and Jalen Hurts is gonna have some
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success out there again. Folks. Sam Marco from perfect Ville Podcast at perfect
24:49
Ville Pod on Twitter at Believe Network as well, and Buddy doing a great
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job. I loved our conversation here. It was fantastic. I'd love to
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talk to you down the road, my friend. Yeah, I mean I
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would love to be on here, just do a throwback episode and talk about
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Dan Marineo on Randall Cunningham because that was basically seventy five percent of my childhood.
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Let's do it. Let's do it down the road, my friend.
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All righty, thank you. How is Miami going to perform on the road
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at Lincoln Financial Field in a very hostile environment remains to be seen, and
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I think that's going to be potentially one of the big stories coming out of
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this particular game is the fact that the Eagles do have home field advantage and
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I think that can be a real boost for this Eagles team. And again,
25:34
in terms of a question for the Philadelphia Eagles, how is this Eagles
25:37
team going to perform this week? Coming off that loss against the New York
25:44
Jets up in New York at MetLife Stadium. There's a lot of work that
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needs to be done with this Eagles team. The Miami Dolphins certainly aren't perfect
25:51
by any stretch of the imagination. However, they're a damn good teams.
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So it's gonna be a very interesting matchup for sure. And we're going to
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get into what that game was on our Eagles postgame podcast show, so stay
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