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Football at Four: The Plan for Eagles at Edge and CB · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Football at Four powered by the Inside of the Birds podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: Resort in Atlantic City. We'll be there on Monday. Today.
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  Speaker 1: We're live at the Roost in a Garboro township. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people inside hanging out, having a nice
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  Speaker 1: cold one watching the Ryder Cup. That's how everybody got
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  Speaker 1: their day started. We started on the golf course here.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're at Football at four as the Eagles are,
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  Speaker 1: I believe Andrew, their flight is to Tampa in fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They are leaving for Tampa early this year to try
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  Speaker 1: to do something a little different as Andrew to checko
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  Speaker 1: from the Inside the Birds podcast joins us for a
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  Speaker 1: Football at four Friday edition. Welcome back, Andrew. What's up
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  Speaker 1: my man?
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  Speaker 2: Mabe, mikel Warret all good.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you've seen this team practicing all this week
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for this Tampa Bay game, and the big
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  Speaker 1: thing has been the loss of Nolan Smith. So you
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  Speaker 1: have any feel on how they are going to kind
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  Speaker 1: of compensate for him not being out on the field,
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  Speaker 1: who replaces those snaps and how they kind of try to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, replace him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Aziz Ojulari would make the most sense from a
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  Speaker 2: pass rushing standpoint. They have Patrick Johnson and Obo Okoronkwell
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  Speaker 2: there as well, who is hes Ojalari and Obo have
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  Speaker 2: played a lot of snaps in the NFL before, so
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  Speaker 2: I think it would behoove the Eagles to stockpile some
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  Speaker 2: depth there if given the heat and the conditions that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be up against. So last week they
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  Speaker 2: sat Patrick Johnson, he wasn't active despite him being a
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  Speaker 2: Special Team star wart. So it wouldn't surprise me to
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  Speaker 2: see Ojulari and potentially Okaronquall active for the first time
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  Speaker 2: this season, just to give them more depth in the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how big of uh? I know, losing Smith
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  Speaker 1: big deal. He's probably their best pass rusher. But how
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  Speaker 1: important is he to what Vic Fangio likes to make
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  Speaker 1: his defense really work?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's really important. And I mean I'm not
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  Speaker 2: one of the box score watch and I know for
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  Speaker 2: some who may you see the lack of stats, the
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  Speaker 2: lack of production there in that area, and that maybe
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  Speaker 2: colors your perception, But make no mistake about it, Nolan
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  Speaker 2: Smith is a tenacious, physical run defender. He sets the
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  Speaker 2: edge and he just continues to grow and evolve in
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  Speaker 2: his role and become more comfortable. And I've seen refinement
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  Speaker 2: in his game as a pass rusher. Now that's that's
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  Speaker 2: a that's a big loss, especially when he was sort
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  Speaker 2: of fronting that unit. And I believe that he's a player.
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  Speaker 2: The more he plays, the better he gets, and you
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  Speaker 2: would have seen more production over the next you know,
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  Speaker 2: few games. But for unfortunately for him, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be sidelined for a while and it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: up to the others to step up. But this is
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  Speaker 2: why the Eagles have stockpile depth there and and and
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  Speaker 2: you look at it and you say they have seven
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  Speaker 2: edge rushers. Well, not that you can forecast injuries, but
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  Speaker 2: they they kept players who they believe in and eventually
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  Speaker 2: your time' is gonna come. And Nick Sirianni always talks
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  Speaker 2: about how everyone's role isn't the same, but it's vitally
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  Speaker 2: important to the success of the football team. And you
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  Speaker 2: have to be ready when when your numbers called.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew to check us with us on a Friday edition
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  Speaker 1: of Football at four, Let's look at the Eagles offense
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  Speaker 1: real quick, because you know, the last time they played
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  Speaker 1: Tampa and many times they play a Tampa, it seems
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  Speaker 1: that they're shorthanded. AJ Brown missed last year's game, DeVante
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  Speaker 1: Smith last year's game. The Lane Johnson missed last year's game.
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  Speaker 1: A J. Brown missed the wildcard game, so they have
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  Speaker 1: not had AJ in a couple of these games. So
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  Speaker 1: do we anticipate AJ Brown playing in the game, being
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  Speaker 1: a factor in this game after we finally saw them
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  Speaker 1: get him going in the back end of last week's game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's gonna play, and I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the the X factor of this game because
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  Speaker 2: I do envision the Eagle was becoming a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more aggressive and trying to open things up using the
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  Speaker 2: pass to set up the run, which is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different. But AJ Brown has a good matchup whether
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  Speaker 2: he's calling up against Iya mcm who, of course is
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  Speaker 2: the twin brother of former Eagles safety Tristan McCollum er
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  Speaker 2: on the other side, Jamel Dean. I believe that he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be someone that they're going to call upon
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  Speaker 2: early in this one, and you saw what he was
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  Speaker 2: able to do against the Rams. You get him the
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  Speaker 2: ball even on a short completion, and he can impose
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  Speaker 2: his will on defenders, and that sort of invigorate reinvigorates,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, and that kind of passion and toughness
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  Speaker 2: radiates throughout the whole offense and throughout the whole sideline really,
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  Speaker 2: so he can get them going with a big play early.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew, what are you seeing in the run game with
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  Speaker 1: Barkley as this say? The teams are just defending them
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  Speaker 1: differently than they did a year ago? Is it something
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  Speaker 1: with the offensive line up front? Is this the week
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  Speaker 1: they get that going.
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  Speaker 2: Well? I mean, the offensive line hasn't necessarily played to
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  Speaker 2: their normal standard. I think that's fair to say, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still playing at an acceptable level, above average level.
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  Speaker 2: I would say. Kevin Patula spoke about, you know, trying
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  Speaker 2: to do different things to create space for say cluon Barkley.
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  Speaker 2: I think a big part of the that would be
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  Speaker 2: maybe moving away from the heavy dose of twelve personnel
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  Speaker 2: and using some eleven personnel to spread teams out and
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  Speaker 2: you know, create more space but also have some more
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  Speaker 2: optionality there. That's something that I think it is fair
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  Speaker 2: to say. And then there was points in that Rams
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  Speaker 2: game later where you have to wonder if maybe Sae
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  Speaker 2: Quon was pressing a little bit, wasn't necessarily hitting the
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  Speaker 2: hole with the same authority that he always does, trying
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  Speaker 2: to look like he might have been trying to hit
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  Speaker 2: a home run and make a big play there. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just a they're gonna have to make
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  Speaker 2: a concerted effort. It's not any one area that you
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  Speaker 2: can pinpoint. It's just going to take a collective to
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  Speaker 2: get this thing rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew, you know, when you look at the matchup here,
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  Speaker 1: they're three to zero, Philadelphia's three to zero. Both teams
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  Speaker 1: have kind of scratched and clawed their ways to wins here, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we talked earlier with someone from Tampa who
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  Speaker 1: covers the Buccaneers and he said, look, they think they
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  Speaker 1: match up well with Philadelphia. When you look at this
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  Speaker 1: matchup for the Eagles, where's there something that concerned you
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  Speaker 1: about this team? Because we know that Todd Bowles has
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  Speaker 1: been very good against the But the flip side of
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  Speaker 1: that is the Eagles generally haven't been at full strength here.
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  Speaker 1: So what is something you're looking at in this game
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  Speaker 1: with two three and ohero teams?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's the unscattered looks that
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  Speaker 2: you have to account for. And Todd Bowles is going
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  Speaker 2: to be super aggressive. He's going to throw different things
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  Speaker 2: at you, and that's where pass protection becomes paramount. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to get your offense off the ground, they
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  Speaker 2: have to be better at blocking that up and that
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  Speaker 2: includes Saquon Barkley and pass protection. So that's the one
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  Speaker 2: area that I think you look at outside of the
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  Speaker 2: humid conditions that sometimes can be the equalizer. The Eagles are,
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  Speaker 2: of course going out there a day early, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if that helps them at all. But I think
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  Speaker 2: you factor in the conditions and the attack style defense
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  Speaker 2: that Todd Bowles likes to deploy, and he's had the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles number that's been a house of horrors for the team.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the two elements I think that that could
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  Speaker 2: be a factor.
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  Speaker 1: All right, real quick, Dori Jackson, it just got the
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  Speaker 1: injured list sent to me. Here. We are on location today,
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  Speaker 1: out on location, so I just got the injury list
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  Speaker 1: sent to me. A Dori Jackson limited.
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  Speaker 2: He is doubtful. Doubtful. Yeah, he's doubtful for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, doubtful for the game. Is this I guess no
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  Speaker 1: Bennett either, is Kaylee Ringo the.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, well, he would be the guy. He's next up.
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  Speaker 2: Mac McWilliams is more of a nickel corner. He's cross
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  Speaker 2: trained outside, but he's really a nickel corner by trade.
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  Speaker 2: And Keeley Ringo he's next man up. I had a
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  Speaker 2: chance to talk to him. I wrote a story about
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  Speaker 2: kee Ringo on Inside the Birds dot Com. Really confident
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  Speaker 2: his he it never really wavered. He was able to
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  Speaker 2: see the game from a different perspective. A Dorri Jackson
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  Speaker 2: today spoke about how he's noticed Keeley's attention to detail,
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  Speaker 2: asking questions and he's a confident player. Now it's just
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  Speaker 2: about going out there and executing because Baker Mayfield will
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  Speaker 2: be aware of where Keelee Ringo is on the field
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  Speaker 2: at all times. Should a Dory Jackson not be in
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  Speaker 2: the lineup, but obviously if he's listed as doubtful, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem all that likely. It seemed like it could
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  Speaker 2: be a day of type of thing with Jackson based
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  Speaker 2: on what he said and testing out the and seeing
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  Speaker 2: how his body responded from doing work the previous day.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems like it's gonna be Tilley Ringo who's
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  Speaker 2: in line to start.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and they did activate Perry Nickerson and e rix
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  Speaker 1: Is on the practice squad, so obviously they were anticipating
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  Speaker 1: this being a possibilities. He's Andrew to Czecho Football at
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  Speaker 1: four from the Inside of the Birds podcast. It is
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Buccaneers, Week four again in Steamy Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: Our Tampa correspondent tells us expect temperatures to hit one
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  Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, Thanks man.