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NFL Conference Championship Sunday Recap: Get Ready For The Sam Darnold Revenge Tour Storyline · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Inside the Birds. We'll call
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Speaker 1: it NFL Conference Championship recap. I don't ordinarily do this,
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher. Of course don't ordinarily do this, but
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Speaker 1: both games are really tremendous games on Sunday, the Conference
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Speaker 1: championship games. Normally we do football at four on Monday
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Speaker 1: with our partners Mike Gillett ninety seven to three ESPN
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Speaker 1: and South Jersey. But the Sixers play today at three o'clock,
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Speaker 1: so they carry Sixers games, So there would be no
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Speaker 1: football at four today, and I know we were going
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Speaker 1: to talk about the conference championship game, so I just
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Speaker 1: figured I would do it here. I won't get too
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Speaker 1: much into the Super Bowl preview, you know, I'll do
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Speaker 1: that on Sunday this coming Sunday next weekend. I'll give
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Speaker 1: you my initial thought on the matchup, and then we'll
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Speaker 1: close off the season the following Saturday. I'll give you
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Speaker 1: the my preview of the Super Bowl. You're getting a
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Speaker 1: great what should be a great matchup. Obviously, a Patriots
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Speaker 1: team that came from nowhere behind Drake May, Mike Rabel,
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Speaker 1: excellent coaching job. Josh McDaniels kind of came from nowhere
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Speaker 1: and really proved themselves. You know, they went fourteen and
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Speaker 1: three in the regular season, but there were question marks
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Speaker 1: about just how viable they really were, and surely Denver
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Speaker 1: being on its backup quarterback, you could say they got
1:44
Speaker 1: an easier path for sure to the Super Bowl. However,
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Speaker 1: with the way the elements of that game and how
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Speaker 1: it went, it was certainly not easy. But you could
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Speaker 1: say the path was a little easier. But it doesn't
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Speaker 1: undermine I shouldn't undermine everything that this Patriots team has accomplished.
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Speaker 1: I know, very difficult for a lot of people who
2:01
Speaker 1: still have Patriots fatigue from the Tom Brady era to
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Speaker 1: appreciate the Patriots back in the Super Bowl. But a
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Speaker 1: tremendous coaching job, tremendous talent development job. Also, if we're
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Speaker 1: being fair, free agency, Elliott Wolfe, the GM who came
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Speaker 1: to the New England a couple of years ago from
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Speaker 1: his time in Green Bay, has to be has to
2:24
Speaker 1: be praised because free agency, as we all know, can
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Speaker 1: go two ways. It can be great, it could really
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Speaker 1: sabotage your team. Some of the guys that they brought
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Speaker 1: in Milton Williams, Carlton Davis, Steph Diggs all right, were
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Speaker 1: home run signings, and I'm not sure that we knew
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Speaker 1: that was going to be the case. And obviously the
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Speaker 1: drafting of Will Campbell there are question marks around him
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Speaker 1: coming at LSU with short arms. But the Patriots did
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Speaker 1: an excellent job, took advantage of a year that Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Lamar Jackson weren't in their way, and they're
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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl, and of course they're going to
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Speaker 1: face Seattle Seahawks team that is absolutely impressive. I believe
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Speaker 1: I saw that there were five point favorites. I think
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Speaker 1: that's fair. People will talk about this being a rematch
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Speaker 1: of what the twenty fourteen season Super Bowl really not.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, this Seattle team is a defensive team,
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Speaker 1: and yes, the Patriots for most of the year were
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Speaker 1: an offensive team. Defense has really come together in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: But this is nothing like you know, the Brady Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson matchup, where I should say Brady versus Legion and
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Speaker 1: Boom matchup. Nothing like that. This is a two completely
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Speaker 1: different teams, different coaches, different personnel obviously, and it will
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Speaker 1: be a different storyline onto its own right. Those of
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Speaker 1: you might be happy about this outcome because you don't
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Speaker 1: get the Rams Broncos matchup that I thought I had predicted.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be ramsing Rams Broncos going
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. I even thought with the backup quarterback
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Speaker 1: situation with the Broncos, they were gonna pull it out.
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Speaker 1: I was wrong about that. But I did say in
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Speaker 1: my last show that the perils of having a Broncos
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Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl was you are going to be beaten
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Speaker 1: to death for two weeks with storylines about how brilliant
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Speaker 1: of a coach Sean mcpay is and how brilliant of
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Speaker 1: a coach Sean Payton is, and how Peyton is going
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Speaker 1: to be in line to be the first coach to
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Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl with two different teams. Nobody has
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Speaker 1: to worry about that anymore. That's not going to be
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Speaker 1: at all the storyline went. In fact, now here's the
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Speaker 1: dominant storyline that will probably, you know, be beaten to
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Speaker 1: death and people will probably be tired of it by
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Speaker 1: the time the game rolls around. But the storyline for
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, which again we'll get into later or
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Speaker 1: not not for this episode, but for the next two weeks,
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Speaker 1: will be Sam Donald. I mean that that is the storyline.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry to Drake May. He's had an unbelievable
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Speaker 1: second year career, second year season, he's been fantastic. He
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Speaker 1: deserves the attention he gets. I think if they were
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Speaker 1: facing any other team, the storyline would probably be something
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Speaker 1: along the lines of, you know, is Drake May going
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Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl in his second year like
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and you know, is he going to be
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Speaker 1: the next great you know, brady ish quarterback for New England.
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Speaker 1: That would have been because you know, you got two weeks,
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Speaker 1: you got to fill up content anywhere. But this will
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Speaker 1: be the Sam Donald revenge Tour. It will be two
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Speaker 1: weeks of it, and deservedly so. Sam Donald played a
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Speaker 1: great getting out a good game. He played a great game,
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Speaker 1: a fantastic game. I thought he played an even better
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Speaker 1: game than he played throughout the playoffs. And I thought
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Speaker 1: it was even a better better game than when the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks and Seahawks and sorry Rams played at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year or the week fifteen to six, something
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Speaker 1: like that, and they played. Donald had a bunch of
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Speaker 1: turnovers in that game, and then he snapped out of
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Speaker 1: it and spearheaded and unbelievable comeback. But I told you
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Speaker 1: in that show that comeback was more about for Shaheed
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Speaker 1: returning a punt getting them back in the game, then
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Speaker 1: the offense coming through getting a touchdown, which was to
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Speaker 1: a wide open barner, I mean, and then of course
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Speaker 1: the touchdown that Donald threw in that game in overtime
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Speaker 1: was fantastic, little leak out at the running back. It
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Speaker 1: was great. I'm just saying I thought this past game
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Speaker 1: by Donald was about as good of a game that
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get from Donald. Because everybody, myself included, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about fourth down decisions in the show, but
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Speaker 1: everybody was kind of waiting. I was getting text from
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Speaker 1: a friend, all right, fourth quarter, the Rams are just
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Speaker 1: going down the field. You know they were down by ten,
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Speaker 1: Now they're just going down. Bam bam bam. When does
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Speaker 1: Donald make the debilitating mistake? And he did not made
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Speaker 1: a lot of good throws, So good on Sam Donald.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough week if you're maybe not
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Speaker 1: a fan of the Jets or the Panthers or the Vikings,
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Speaker 1: but maybe if you're part of the ownership of the
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Speaker 1: team where the I mean the GMS for the Jets
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Speaker 1: and the Panthers aren't there anymore, but and the coaches
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Speaker 1: aren't there anymore. But so it'll be tough for some fans.
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Speaker 1: It'll be tough for certainly the owners, maybe Kevin O'Connell
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Speaker 1: for sure. I mean those that GM in Minnesota, that
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Speaker 1: head coach O'Connell making the decision to go on to
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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. They could have retained Sam Donald if they
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Speaker 1: wanted to. They could have given McCarthy more time, could
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Speaker 1: have taken a playbook out of the Patriots, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: out of the Packers, you know, playbook which is basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, draft a quarterback and let him sit a
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Speaker 1: couple of years behind a really good one. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they believed in Sam Donald, but just not to the
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Speaker 1: level that they felt, especially after his last game with
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Speaker 1: the Vikings and all the pressure that he was under.
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Speaker 1: But they're probably kicking themselves now. Sam Donald is a
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Speaker 1: good quarterback, not a great quarterback, good good quarterback, very
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Speaker 1: very good fit for the scheme that they run, going
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Speaker 1: under center play action. But you know that doesn't a scheme.
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Speaker 1: A scheme helps you, you know, I get into this
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Speaker 1: conversation a lot. You know, he's a system quarterback. He's
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Speaker 1: a scheme quarterback. Okay, the scheme helps you, for sure, right,
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Speaker 1: And a bad scheme, which Donald was in for the
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Speaker 1: first few years of his career compared to a good
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Speaker 1: scheme can really make or break a quarterback, but or
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Speaker 1: at least set a quarterback on a better path to success.
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Speaker 1: But you've got to make those throws. I've seen guys
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Speaker 1: in good schemes just not perform well. And Sam Donald
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Speaker 1: has taken his game higher level and he's not the
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Speaker 1: guy that anymore, or at least we haven't seen it,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens to the super Bowl, but
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Speaker 1: he has shaken off that image of the guy who's
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Speaker 1: gonna blow you the game in the fourth quarter or
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Speaker 1: he's gonna succumb to a lot of pressure and make
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Speaker 1: the perilous mistake. So good for Sam Donald. Great great story.
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Speaker 1: It will be the dominant storyline for the next two weeks.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that there's anything else that's even gonna
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Speaker 1: come close to that. You know, my some Mike Rabel
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Speaker 1: getting discarded by Tennessee and then coming and leading the team.
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Speaker 1: You know, the former Patriot who played under Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: taking the team in his first year, which is amazing.
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Speaker 1: To the first year coaching that team to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: That'll get some love as well. You know, Mike McDonald,
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Speaker 1: the job he's done. And here's a real storyline that
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Speaker 1: will get pursued and talked about, and probably not as
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Speaker 1: much as it should. But John Schneider, the general manager
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Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks, you know, the decision to move
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Speaker 1: on from Pete Carroll, who was of a franchise legend
10:03
Speaker 1: and an overall great guy. I'm sure that wasn't easy.
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Speaker 1: Hiring Mike McDonald, which was not a slam dunk. A
10:09
Speaker 1: lot of guys don't want to hire defensive coaches. They
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Speaker 1: worry about what that guy is going to bring in offensively.
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Speaker 1: And then the decision to trade just to sign San Donald,
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Speaker 1: trade Gino Smith, I mean all of his the drafting
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Speaker 1: of Nick aman Warri, the safety out of South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: who is the epicenter of what they do defensively, everything,
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Speaker 1: and listen, he hires Mike McDonald. Mike McDonald brings in
10:33
Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak, another good storyline. Kubiak was the offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: for the Saints last year, not last year, but in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. You all remember how the Saints started
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Speaker 1: off with forty point games in their first two weeks,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the injuries set in
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Speaker 1: on the offensive line, O Lave quarterback everything, and they
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Speaker 1: were a show of themselves. But you could see the
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Speaker 1: early impact Kubiak was going to have on that Saint
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Speaker 1: offense when it was healthy, as they were just mowing
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Speaker 1: through the first two opponents scoring forty points. Now, they
11:06
Speaker 1: weren't going to do that all year long. But my
11:07
Speaker 1: point is you could see that he had really good
11:10
Speaker 1: offensive passing concepts that in general work well when you
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Speaker 1: have the right people on your offensive line, the right quarterback,
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Speaker 1: the right set of weapons, and he does. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Saints have a good running back, good offensive line,
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Speaker 1: a great good better than average, an unbelievable wide receiver
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Speaker 1: in Jackson Smith and Jigba, and honestly, the fact that
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Speaker 1: they don't have that many other great weapons speaks to
11:37
Speaker 1: just how good of a job Koubiak has done with
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Speaker 1: the offense in general and his concept and his scheme
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Speaker 1: getting guys open. This must have been a very very
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Speaker 1: difficult game to watch. And then even you know, first
11:51
Speaker 1: half of the you know Patriots Broncos game. You saw
11:55
Speaker 1: some things there and you think, man, guys getting schemed open?
11:59
Speaker 1: How about that must have been must have been a
12:01
Speaker 1: very difficult watch at times for Eagles fans. But you
12:04
Speaker 1: have to appreciate what a good scheme and a good
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Speaker 1: play caller can do so real quick on the first game.
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Speaker 1: You know, fourth down decisions are really difficult. Everybody thinks
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Speaker 1: they have the answer. Everybody thinks either you'd go with
12:19
Speaker 1: the analytics or you go with the common sense, right,
12:22
Speaker 1: because sometimes the analytics challenged conventional thinking. I'm not trying
12:26
Speaker 1: to say analytics aren't common sense, but you know it's
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Speaker 1: fourth and something, you're deep in enemy territory and you
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Speaker 1: decide to kick the field goal. Some people just say
12:34
Speaker 1: that's common sense because you're taking the points, and some
12:37
Speaker 1: people say, no, there's the analytics tell you to go
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Speaker 1: for it. There's no I've done this long enough to
12:42
Speaker 1: know that I don't truly believe that there is an
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Speaker 1: absolute right or wrong, and we are not privy to
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Speaker 1: know what happens when you go the opposite route. For example,
12:51
Speaker 1: if you decide to go for it a fourth down
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Speaker 1: deep in your opponent territory, and you don't get it, Well,
12:56
Speaker 1: we don't know what would have happened if you decide
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Speaker 1: to kick it, could miss the field goal. We don't
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Speaker 1: know if you decided to kick the field goal, We
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Speaker 1: don't know if you would have made or missed the
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Speaker 1: fourth down. We can only go by percentages likelihood how
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Speaker 1: the game is going. And even then, even then you
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Speaker 1: can never be sure what the other decision would have
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Speaker 1: gotten you. All right, So when the Broncos were up
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Speaker 1: seven to nothing and Stidham was doing a nice job,
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Speaker 1: he had that really nice pass to Mims, all right,
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Speaker 1: you got the deep ball going, they get in the
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Speaker 1: end zone. They're up seven to nothing, Patriots are struggling
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Speaker 1: to move the ball, Broncos defensive sacking May and early on,
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Speaker 1: and you could just you could feel the momentum for
13:39
Speaker 1: the Broncos. And I understand why at that moment, up
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Speaker 1: seven nothing, second quarter, Peyton's facing fourth and one in
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Speaker 1: Patriots red zone. Believe it was in the red zone.
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Speaker 1: He goes for it, and he wants to go for
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Speaker 1: the juggular. He wants to be up fourteen nothing. I
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Speaker 1: kind of fell at the time that I would have
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Speaker 1: done that too. I don't blame him singularly for that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't love the play call. It's a play action roll, right,
14:10
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of take half the field away
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Speaker 1: from the quarterback. You don't give him as many scrambling
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Speaker 1: lanes because you can if he if he's gonna run
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Speaker 1: for it. In a game where both those guys ran
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Speaker 1: a lot, the defense is already flowing in the direction
14:22
Speaker 1: that he's going in, so it's difficult to run for it.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't love the play call, but I'm not
14:26
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a play caller. I could sit
14:30
Speaker 1: here and say, man, they should have ran like an
14:31
Speaker 1: RPO to give him more options and you know, give
14:34
Speaker 1: more guessworks the defense. That doesn't mean it's going to work.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I didn't mind it. But
14:40
Speaker 1: here's one thing that I didn't know, and I would
14:43
Speaker 1: imagine the people watching at home also didn't know. Also,
14:47
Speaker 1: I had no idea that the second half of that
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Speaker 1: game was going to be played in a snowstorm, A
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Speaker 1: bad snowstorm. I mean, you saw you saw footage of
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Speaker 1: what the field looked like mid way through the third quarter.
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Speaker 1: It was still kind of playable and clear, and you
15:03
Speaker 1: could see everything to early in the fourth quarter where
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Speaker 1: you couldn't see anything. That's how fast and furiously the
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Speaker 1: snow fell. I have to think that that was not
15:13
Speaker 1: some pop up storm, and that there were at least
15:17
Speaker 1: warnings to both teams and head coaches knew prior to
15:21
Speaker 1: the start of the game that a snowstorm was gonna come.
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Speaker 1: This is what they did. They check everybody know. Every
15:27
Speaker 1: head coach in the world is prepared for every scenario weatherwise,
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Speaker 1: way before the game even begins, okay, but especially right
15:37
Speaker 1: out in game day. They want to know it up
15:39
Speaker 1: to the hour. These guys are that detailed. So I
15:43
Speaker 1: know that Sean Payton and I know that Mike Vrabel
15:46
Speaker 1: knew all right that Denver was most likely going to
15:51
Speaker 1: get some kind of precipitation. Maybe they didn't know as
15:54
Speaker 1: that much snow, who knows, but that snowfall was coming
15:57
Speaker 1: in the second half, right, And if Sean Payton knew
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Speaker 1: that that it was gonna be treacherous conditions. Scoring was
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Speaker 1: gonna be difficult, seeing, the field was gonna be tough,
16:08
Speaker 1: the wind was gonna change, which it did. It was
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Speaker 1: gonna be at your face so badly on one side
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Speaker 1: of the field that you probably have trouble throwing the
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Speaker 1: ball forward. If he knew that, then he should have
16:19
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal there. I say that with hindsight,
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Speaker 1: but I don't have all the information he does. Then
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Speaker 1: the reason you kick the field goal there, if you
16:28
Speaker 1: know that, is because you're already up seven to nothing.
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Speaker 1: You have a chance then to make it a two
16:32
Speaker 1: possession game. You're not necessarily going for the juggular. But
16:36
Speaker 1: if you feel you're already close, you know you're getting
16:38
Speaker 1: closer to halftime, if you're playing great defense, If you
16:41
Speaker 1: feel that moving the ball is going to be very
16:44
Speaker 1: difficult and that the other team scoring twice is going
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Speaker 1: to be really difficult, then it probably would have behooved
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Speaker 1: you to kick the field goal there and go up
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Speaker 1: ten nothing. And does it automatically mean they would have won?
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Speaker 1: Obviously not. I mean the Patriots got ten points. Okay,
17:08
Speaker 1: they got the touchdown about two possessions later. Will know
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Speaker 1: Stidham made a terrible, terrible mistake throwing the ball forward
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Speaker 1: like that, Just a bad, bad play by a quarterback
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Speaker 1: who's just not experienced in that situation. It led to
17:23
Speaker 1: the Patriots scoring a touchdown, so it could have been
17:25
Speaker 1: ten to seven there and then you know, obviously the
17:29
Speaker 1: Patriots get the field goal in the third quarter ten ten,
17:32
Speaker 1: but still you're not losing. And I just feel like
17:36
Speaker 1: in hindsight, and it's sure this is all hindsight, but
17:41
Speaker 1: again you have the information, go up, take the points,
17:45
Speaker 1: and go up two possessions. Make the Patriots, who are
17:49
Speaker 1: have arrived early, right, make them have to go score
17:55
Speaker 1: ten just to tie it. They got the seven, that
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Speaker 1: was pretty easy, easily handed to him, but then they
18:03
Speaker 1: missed two field goals. The issue, the real issue is
18:07
Speaker 1: the Broncos kicker missed the field goal. That wasn't a gimme.
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Speaker 1: But in Denver, you get the altitude, distance, you get
18:15
Speaker 1: it's it's not uncommon to kick make kicks in the
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Speaker 1: fifties in Denver. I get. I get that the snow
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Speaker 1: was coming down and all that. I think this was
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Speaker 1: still in the second quarter though before it got bad.
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Speaker 1: He missed the field goal. That hurts too. But I
18:29
Speaker 1: don't know if even if it's ten to ten, if
18:31
Speaker 1: if the Broncos win that game, because Stidham was clear
18:34
Speaker 1: it seemed after he threw the ball that was that
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Speaker 1: was a fumble and then gave got the touchdown. It
18:42
Speaker 1: seemed after that that Stidham was was not quite right
18:45
Speaker 1: after that, like he was scared. Obviously the conditions were
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Speaker 1: not great, but he looked like he was just not
18:53
Speaker 1: confident throwing the ball. You know, he threw that other
18:56
Speaker 1: interception on a ball that I was probably I don't
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Speaker 1: know if wind I mean knocked it down or just
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Speaker 1: just turd the pathway, but he threw it more to
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Speaker 1: the defensive back than he did to Gonzales than he
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Speaker 1: did to his receiver. It looked like he threw it
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Speaker 1: inside when it should have been outside the numbers to
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Speaker 1: the outside to give his receiver a shot. Now, maybe
19:19
Speaker 1: he didn't get enough under it. Maybe it was what
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but the point is Stidham didn't look good,
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Speaker 1: and especially after that turnover that led to the May
19:30
Speaker 1: six yard touchdown run that seemed to really get at
19:34
Speaker 1: him mentally. And then of course in the second half
19:37
Speaker 1: he had to deal with a lack what looked like
19:39
Speaker 1: a lack of confidence, and then an inability of either
19:42
Speaker 1: quarterback to be able to throw the ball consistently. I mean,
19:47
Speaker 1: the biggest plays made in this game were either defensive plays,
19:51
Speaker 1: sacks or runs by quarterbacks. Obviously, the Mims pass was huge,
19:55
Speaker 1: but that was that was it. You know. I know
19:57
Speaker 1: Hollins had a nice thirty one yarder that was a
19:59
Speaker 1: good play, but really that was it for both teams.
20:05
Speaker 1: I thought, you heard my show. I thought the Procos
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Speaker 1: were gonna win the game. Not knowing anything about the snow,
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Speaker 1: I thought Stidham would play okay, But let's because I thought.
20:17
Speaker 1: I figured Sean Payton was going to make it comfortable
20:19
Speaker 1: for him, and the first quarter he did, it just
20:22
Speaker 1: got tougher. But let's let's be very honest. After watching
20:26
Speaker 1: that game, there is no chance that Denver had even
20:31
Speaker 1: they beaten the Patriots, We're going to beat the Seahawks team.
20:34
Speaker 1: I don't believe it, not with Stidham now taking a
20:39
Speaker 1: guy like Nick Foles. Nick Foles struggled in his first
20:43
Speaker 1: playoff game in twenty seventeen for the Eagles, replacing Carson Wentz.
20:48
Speaker 1: It was against Atlanta. They barely came. Everybody remembers that game.
20:52
Speaker 1: They barely escaped with a win. They needed Julio Jones
20:55
Speaker 1: to basically drop a pass in the end zone on
20:57
Speaker 1: the final play for Atlanta to cement the in Foles
21:01
Speaker 1: had a bad game. He had a ball that was
21:03
Speaker 1: nearly picked off right before halftime that bounced off its
21:07
Speaker 1: like tipped and then almost picked off by Kean O'Neil,
21:10
Speaker 1: but then it was dropped or else. I think that
21:13
Speaker 1: would have set up in Atlanta field goal if Neil
21:15
Speaker 1: had not dropped an easy pick. So it was not
21:18
Speaker 1: a good game for Nick Foles. And then of course
21:20
Speaker 1: we know he exploded against Minnesota in the championship game
21:24
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl. He's MVP. We know all about that.
21:29
Speaker 1: That that is not Stidham. I don't think it could
21:31
Speaker 1: have been Stidham. He has not had nearly the same
21:34
Speaker 1: amount of overall experience that Foles had when Foles took
21:39
Speaker 1: over for once. I mean Foles had been a starter.
21:41
Speaker 1: I mean he had been a start for the Eagles,
21:43
Speaker 1: He'd been a starter for other teams before losing his
21:45
Speaker 1: starting job. I mean, he had come into relief plenty
21:48
Speaker 1: of times before. So there was no Foles magic for
21:53
Speaker 1: Jarrett's that I know about the Foles tweet before that
21:55
Speaker 1: about New England struggles in championship type games against back uarterbacks.
22:00
Speaker 1: But even if the Broncos have figured out a way
22:03
Speaker 1: to win that game. There's no shot in my mind
22:07
Speaker 1: that the Broncos could have beaten the Seahawks team. This
22:11
Speaker 1: Seahawks team is good, it's well rounded, and I think defensively, defensively,
22:17
Speaker 1: they would have eaten stid him up. I really believe
22:19
Speaker 1: that now. You know, as we look recap that game,
22:23
Speaker 1: they gave up a lot of points to the Rams,
22:25
Speaker 1: but some of it was you know, obviously you have
22:28
Speaker 1: the taunting penalty that league gives the the second chance,
22:31
Speaker 1: and then of course Stafford throws a touchdown to Nikua
22:34
Speaker 1: right on the very next play, So that's seven right there.
22:39
Speaker 1: The Seahawks weren't great against the Rams run game, and
22:44
Speaker 1: Stafford obviously made some unbelievable throws that I just don't
22:47
Speaker 1: think Stidham could make, so not consistently enough. So the
22:51
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense is really good. And the reason why you
22:53
Speaker 1: see sometimes high scoring games like that is because both
22:57
Speaker 1: teams know each other. I mean, we won't find two
23:00
Speaker 1: teams that know each other more than and playing each
23:03
Speaker 1: other down to the wire as much as the Rams
23:06
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks this year and even going back to
23:09
Speaker 1: last year a little bit. So that's why I can
23:12
Speaker 1: understand how the Seahawks, who have a great defense, still
23:16
Speaker 1: gave up twenty seven points. However, the Rams were zero
23:21
Speaker 1: for They were two for ten third and fourth down
23:24
Speaker 1: one for eight third down, one for two on fourth down. Okay,
23:28
Speaker 1: the Rams struggled situationally against the Seahawks, so it's not
23:34
Speaker 1: like the Seahawks were completely loose defensively. You were going
23:38
Speaker 1: up against Matthew Stafford, and Stafford is amazing. I really
23:43
Speaker 1: hope Stafford is healthy and was healthy for this game.
23:48
Speaker 1: We knew about the back injury going into the year
23:50
Speaker 1: and never bothering him. Had that hand injury throughout the playoffs,
23:53
Speaker 1: I don't I can't imagine it bothered him because he
23:55
Speaker 1: was twenty two of thirty five for three seventy four
23:58
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. It didn't look like his throws were
24:01
Speaker 1: off the mark that much unless he was under duress.
24:04
Speaker 1: I hope Stafford comes back one more year, just because
24:08
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching him play. I think he's already very
24:12
Speaker 1: likely to be a Hall of Famer, But had he
24:14
Speaker 1: made it to the super Bowl this year, or if
24:17
Speaker 1: he makes it comes back next year, makes it deep.
24:20
Speaker 1: He'll probably help his cause out with that. I think
24:23
Speaker 1: that the Rams would beat the pay I think whoever
24:27
Speaker 1: was going to win the Seattle LA game was going
24:29
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. I do believe that. I
24:33
Speaker 1: think the Rams also would have been favorites. If the
24:36
Speaker 1: Seahawks are five point favorites, the Rams probably would have
24:38
Speaker 1: been right around that as well. And the Rams had
24:43
Speaker 1: a chance to win. So here's where you go, and
24:48
Speaker 1: you talk about fourth down again the Sea. The Rams
24:52
Speaker 1: were down at one point. They were down by eleven
24:56
Speaker 1: in the third after Bobo caught that touchdown all right,
25:00
Speaker 1: which was right after the punt Okay, the punt fumble
25:05
Speaker 1: that really killed them, it seemed, I mean, that was
25:08
Speaker 1: such a I forgot to talk about this because I
25:11
Speaker 1: always talk about this did last year a lot. You
25:14
Speaker 1: will not find playoff games that are not somehow decided
25:19
Speaker 1: by or heavily involved with something on special teams happening.
25:24
Speaker 1: I just talked about New England Denver. New England wins
25:27
Speaker 1: by three Denver Misster. The field goal, New England miss
25:29
Speaker 1: two field goals. Okay, in this game, the muff punt
25:33
Speaker 1: by Xavier Smith that put the ball deep in Rams
25:37
Speaker 1: territory and then led to an excellent throw. Listen Stafford
25:41
Speaker 1: was almost hit on that throw, but he makes a
25:43
Speaker 1: really nice throw to Bobo for the seventeen yard touchdown.
25:47
Speaker 1: They go up by eleven, and then you think this
25:50
Speaker 1: is it. The Seahawks have just completely changed the complexion
25:54
Speaker 1: of the game. Well no, because then Stafford goes right
25:56
Speaker 1: down the field in four plays throws a touchdown Adams
26:00
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty. All right, But here's where Sam
26:03
Speaker 1: Donald really became the Sam Donald that we're starting to see,
26:07
Speaker 1: because now it's twenty four to twenty. Seahawks are holding
26:10
Speaker 1: on to a four point lead, and they've got the
26:12
Speaker 1: ball and they got to do something, and they go
26:15
Speaker 1: right down the field and nine plays and it's not
26:19
Speaker 1: just that they went down the field. There were some
26:21
Speaker 1: really nice throws by Stafford. There was one on the
26:25
Speaker 1: outside to Walker who did a really nice job. And
26:29
Speaker 1: I give Klint Kubiak a lot of credit for getting
26:31
Speaker 1: Walker involved in the passing game. They didn't have Sharbonney.
26:35
Speaker 1: He's out, he can catch some passes. Walker's usually their
26:39
Speaker 1: steamroll runner, but he's got moves and you saw on
26:41
Speaker 1: a couple of passes and they clearly attack the edges
26:44
Speaker 1: of the Rams defense. The Rams corners are their weakness.
26:48
Speaker 1: You can attack them all right. Look what Smith and
26:52
Speaker 1: Jiggbad did one hundred and fifty three yards on ten
26:54
Speaker 1: ten carry, ten receptions, twelve targets. They went after the
26:59
Speaker 1: outside and those corners and the flats, and they found
27:03
Speaker 1: Walker on a big third down on that drive, and
27:06
Speaker 1: then Cooper Cup with that pass over the middle on
27:10
Speaker 1: third down, where I actually I was surprised because I
27:13
Speaker 1: thought I thought he was gonna be short. I thought
27:16
Speaker 1: he was short of the sticks, and if I'm not mistaken,
27:19
Speaker 1: I thought that McVeigh took a time out there to
27:23
Speaker 1: maybe have them take a look at it, and then
27:28
Speaker 1: they decided not to, so that was confusing to me.
27:32
Speaker 1: It was a twelve yard they wound up give him
27:35
Speaker 1: twelve yards. I believe that was earlier in the drive,
27:37
Speaker 1: the twelve yarder to Cooper, but there was another one
27:40
Speaker 1: to Smith and Jigba for twelve yards, and obviously the
27:44
Speaker 1: touchdown on third and three the Cup was a beautiful
27:48
Speaker 1: play as well, and then that puts them up eleven.
27:51
Speaker 1: Now they're still not out of the water, but that
27:54
Speaker 1: put a whole lot. That was a great response to
27:58
Speaker 1: the Rams. Prior the Rams go down the field in
28:01
Speaker 1: four plays and score touchdown and say we don't care
28:03
Speaker 1: about this double just deficit, when now we're right there
28:05
Speaker 1: in it. And then Darnold takes the ball from his
28:10
Speaker 1: own thirty five and he just works it down methodically
28:14
Speaker 1: down to Cup twelve yards, right to Smith and jig
28:18
Speaker 1: but twelve yards to Barner seven yards. That was a big,
28:21
Speaker 1: big play too. And then of course the touchdown to
28:25
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup for thirteen yards, all right, and then it's
28:27
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty and then what do the Rams do?
28:30
Speaker 1: They go right back down the field. And then of
28:34
Speaker 1: course we saw that on third and twelve incomplete Nakua
28:39
Speaker 1: fifteen yard taunting penalty on Woolen. Now, look, I don't
28:42
Speaker 1: like the penalty in general. I don't like taunting penalty
28:46
Speaker 1: in general because the guys are just having fun. Taunting
28:50
Speaker 1: is a part of the game, trash talk is are
28:52
Speaker 1: part of any sport. I don't think it's over the
28:55
Speaker 1: top too much when guys do these things. I think
28:58
Speaker 1: the NFL is way too concerned about image in this regard,
29:02
Speaker 1: and I honestly don't understand why. I think people like
29:05
Speaker 1: a little bit of celebration. And now, by the way,
29:08
Speaker 1: you're putting. I know on the next drive someone had
29:11
Speaker 1: to sack someone sacks it was it Lake. Somebody sacked
29:17
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold and like took a step away. It was
29:21
Speaker 1: Kitchens right, Kitchens right, took a step away, started doing
29:24
Speaker 1: a little dance. I didn't think it was a taunting penalty.
29:26
Speaker 1: It was a celebration. But the entire Seattle crowd thought
29:29
Speaker 1: it was a taunting penalty because they wanted just desserts.
29:33
Speaker 1: They wanted it even it really wasn't taunting, but they
29:36
Speaker 1: never thought that what William was doing was taunting. He was,
29:39
Speaker 1: and this has been a rule that's been enforced and
29:42
Speaker 1: cracked down on since week one. We've seen it and
29:46
Speaker 1: you have to know it and you have to control yourself.
29:48
Speaker 1: It would have been one thing if Willan maybe said
29:51
Speaker 1: something to two and walked nakua and walked away. But
29:54
Speaker 1: he went and then just the whole Seattle sideline. I mean,
29:59
Speaker 1: he just basically asked for it, and in honestly, that's
30:03
Speaker 1: on him, even though I don't like the rule, that's
30:06
Speaker 1: on him. And of course you give Seattle, I'm sorry,
30:10
Speaker 1: you give the Rams a second second opportunity, and Matthew
30:14
Speaker 1: Stafford will burn you who can, Nicole will burn you
30:17
Speaker 1: thirty four yards touchdown. So now it's a four point
30:21
Speaker 1: game again. All right, Seattle has the punt, all right,
30:25
Speaker 1: And now the Rams, it's the fourth quarter. They get
30:28
Speaker 1: the ball and unbelievably, and this is why Stafford's great.
30:33
Speaker 1: He's really Stafford is the best deep over thrower in
30:38
Speaker 1: the National Football League and probably the best tight window
30:41
Speaker 1: thrower in the National Football League. Some quarterbacks are just
30:45
Speaker 1: excellent at certain types of throws. We talk about Jalen Hurts.
30:48
Speaker 1: He is the best sideline deep ball thrower in the NFL.
30:53
Speaker 1: But nobody I have not seen anybody. I'm including Mahomes,
30:56
Speaker 1: I'm including Lamar Burrow. Nobody throws the twenty to thirty
31:01
Speaker 1: yard deep over, especially to a guy who only may
31:05
Speaker 1: have a step or between the quarter corner and the safety,
31:08
Speaker 1: better than Matthew Stafford. And all you know, he gets
31:12
Speaker 1: the ball. It's the fourth quarter, and he does his
31:16
Speaker 1: magic and the Rams ran the ball well. By the way,
31:20
Speaker 1: you heard McVeigh criticize himself against Chicago for not running
31:23
Speaker 1: the ball more, And I honestly didn't think that was
31:26
Speaker 1: as much of an issue as people because you know,
31:30
Speaker 1: the Rams ran the ball really well on the first
31:32
Speaker 1: half of the Seahawks game, and what they have thirteen
31:34
Speaker 1: points to show for it. I mean, when you see
31:37
Speaker 1: what Stafford was able to do to a great Seahawks
31:39
Speaker 1: defense through the air, especially on that last drive, I mean, yeah,
31:43
Speaker 1: he hits Quorum on the side for fifteen, then he
31:47
Speaker 1: hits Parkinson sixteen more. He probably wanted to kill Parkinson
31:52
Speaker 1: earlier in the game on that fourth third down drop
31:54
Speaker 1: that made him have to run for it on fourth down.
31:56
Speaker 1: You don't ever want to see Matthew Stafford feel like
31:58
Speaker 1: he has to run for it on fourth down. But
32:02
Speaker 1: he did, and that took the pressure off of Parkinson.
32:06
Speaker 1: But he just works the ball down the field and
32:09
Speaker 1: then he gets to deep inside and then obviously the
32:14
Speaker 1: territory for Seattle, and you know, tries to hit Mumfield
32:18
Speaker 1: on third down. Think in the short right in the
32:21
Speaker 1: end zone. There was a little pressure there. Man. It's
32:24
Speaker 1: tough on third and fourth the Seattle six when you're
32:26
Speaker 1: going for Mumfield. But I will give it to Stafford.
32:30
Speaker 1: He is the wide receiver maker. I mean, guys like
32:32
Speaker 1: Mumford and Xavier Smith and Jordan Winnington came up with
32:35
Speaker 1: these huge catches because Stafford just knows how to get
32:39
Speaker 1: them the football. So and then it's fourth and four
32:43
Speaker 1: at the six. So I'm saying to myself here, you know,
32:47
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the Denver game where he didn't take
32:51
Speaker 1: the points where I felt he should have in retrospect,
32:54
Speaker 1: even though at the time I thought he should have
32:55
Speaker 1: gone for it. And then I'm thinking, you know what,
32:58
Speaker 1: take the points, make it through thirty one to thirty.
33:01
Speaker 1: Make Sam Donald be the hero. Okay, make it thirty
33:06
Speaker 1: one thirty. Make Sam Donald be the hero, because up
33:10
Speaker 1: to that point, Sam Donald had not proven that he
33:14
Speaker 1: can come through in that situation. Well, Jean McVay is
33:18
Speaker 1: smarter than me, because he didn't take the points. He
33:21
Speaker 1: felt like he needed to get the touchdown there. He
33:23
Speaker 1: felt like the way his defense was playing, Donald was
33:27
Speaker 1: probably going to do something. And you know, there was
33:30
Speaker 1: no chance that even if Donald doesn't put it in
33:32
Speaker 1: the end zone or make it to a field goal,
33:34
Speaker 1: it's going to leave very little time left for the
33:36
Speaker 1: Rams to get the ball. So obviously they go for
33:39
Speaker 1: it incomplete to Ferguson and the Rams take over at
33:44
Speaker 1: their own six. And then Sam Donald does his thing.
33:49
Speaker 1: He hits Kenneth Walker for fifteen. There's a third and
33:52
Speaker 1: seven he hits Cup. That's the play that I was
33:55
Speaker 1: referring to, not the early one, the third and seven,
33:58
Speaker 1: the cup for seven years yards. McVeigh takes the time out,
34:02
Speaker 1: but then he doesn't have the play reviewed. I don't
34:05
Speaker 1: understand that. I thought that Cup was short in that situation.
34:11
Speaker 1: I thought he'd tried to lean the ball over the mark,
34:14
Speaker 1: but that his butt hit the ground right before, or
34:17
Speaker 1: at least could have it was worth a review. I mean,
34:20
Speaker 1: when you got to lose at that point, I thought
34:22
Speaker 1: it was worth a review. It was not reviewed. He
34:25
Speaker 1: got the first down and then next thing you know,
34:30
Speaker 1: it's another fresh set at first downs and then I
34:33
Speaker 1: love the aggressiveness the second down call second and ten
34:37
Speaker 1: at the thirty five for Darnold to play action pass
34:40
Speaker 1: to Smith and Jigbo. He gets fourteen yards. Loved that,
34:44
Speaker 1: Loved every second of that. You know, reminded me of
34:48
Speaker 1: an Eagles game, not this past year, but Super Bowl year.
34:52
Speaker 1: Forget who was against maybe Green Bay in the opener,
34:56
Speaker 1: God is that long ago where they throw an eight
34:58
Speaker 1: yard past a DeVante's deep in enemy territory to make
35:02
Speaker 1: sure that they get the first down, the ice the clock.
35:04
Speaker 1: They weren't just gonna run it, run and run it
35:06
Speaker 1: and then punt or something of that nature, or kick
35:09
Speaker 1: the field goal. They went for the jugular. I like
35:11
Speaker 1: when teams have the confidence and the personnel to go
35:15
Speaker 1: for the jugular in that situation. So the Seahawks did
35:18
Speaker 1: credit to them. Did McVeigh have a bad game. I
35:22
Speaker 1: think there's an no. I think there's an argument to
35:24
Speaker 1: be made. Well, hey, let's let's go backwards. He did
35:28
Speaker 1: the right thing going for it on fourth down, because
35:30
Speaker 1: if you kicked the field goal, you would have lost
35:32
Speaker 1: thirty one to thirty. Instead, they never got the ball back,
35:35
Speaker 1: so you can't really criticize him for that the end
35:37
Speaker 1: of the first half. Did they not take enough time
35:40
Speaker 1: off the clock on that second quarter possession? It's fair,
35:46
Speaker 1: it's fair. I mean, obviously the Seahawks were able to
35:50
Speaker 1: get the ball and go right down the field very quickly,
35:54
Speaker 1: and Darnold hit Smith and Jigba for fourteen yards and
35:58
Speaker 1: a touchdown. They go up seven team thirteen, And you know,
36:02
Speaker 1: it looks like then maybe the Rams didn't do such
36:05
Speaker 1: a hot job of because the Rams basically had the
36:08
Speaker 1: ball first and ten, there was like a minute and
36:10
Speaker 1: a half left. They ran and then passed it twice,
36:12
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, why are you passing it twice? You're
36:14
Speaker 1: just if you punt, you left too much time on
36:16
Speaker 1: the clock. Again, I have no issue with the mentality
36:21
Speaker 1: that in a huge game like this that you're testing
36:25
Speaker 1: Sam Arnold, and Sam Arnold beat you. It doesn't always happen.
36:29
Speaker 1: And I honestly think that if we're looking if we're
36:32
Speaker 1: looking for more of a blame. I don't think the
36:34
Speaker 1: Rams defense. I think the corners were bad, but they've
36:37
Speaker 1: been bad. I think the pass rush was not very
36:39
Speaker 1: good Jared vers Fisk. I just think in general that
36:44
Speaker 1: whole front. I know they lost Kobe Turner at some
36:49
Speaker 1: point in the game and that stinks. You know, they
36:52
Speaker 1: had three sacks. One came from Kitchens, they had one
36:55
Speaker 1: from Fisk sort at the end of the game that
36:58
Speaker 1: was you know, like he shot through unblocked. Even Tom
37:02
Speaker 1: Brady said, I kind of like it when my blocking
37:05
Speaker 1: scheme calls for blocking the defensive tackle, like getting one
37:08
Speaker 1: person on him. But in general, three sacks not enough.
37:11
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was enough pressure. I didn't think
37:13
Speaker 1: there was enough hurries. This has been a Rams defense
37:16
Speaker 1: that I thought did not play as well over the
37:18
Speaker 1: last month of the season as it did in the
37:20
Speaker 1: first ten to twelve weeks. I don't know why that is,
37:23
Speaker 1: but if you're asking me what the bigger blame, I mean,
37:27
Speaker 1: Seattle going for seven to thirteen on third down to me,
37:32
Speaker 1: compared to the Rams going one for eight, I think
37:34
Speaker 1: that's where the game was more lost than say, Sean
37:38
Speaker 1: mcvay's clock management. I'm not telling you mcvay's clock management
37:41
Speaker 1: was great there. I'm telling you if the thought process
37:45
Speaker 1: was we'll be aggressive because we don't believe Sam Donald
37:49
Speaker 1: is going to beat us. Do you know how many
37:51
Speaker 1: coaches have said that, and most of them, most of
37:53
Speaker 1: the time, have succeeded. It just so happens that Donald
37:57
Speaker 1: really rose to the occasion and he played an unbelievable game.
38:01
Speaker 1: He answered every test. And by the way, the Seahawks
38:04
Speaker 1: still scored twenty seven points. You know, usually that's gonna
38:07
Speaker 1: be usually score twenty seven against I'm sorry the Rams
38:10
Speaker 1: score twenty seven. You scored twenty seven against the Seahawks.
38:13
Speaker 1: You are going to win most of the time because
38:17
Speaker 1: the defense is there. Bread and butter, but it is
38:20
Speaker 1: not the case. They had their opportunities. Again, I think
38:23
Speaker 1: the fumble punt gave the Seahawks basically a touchdown. It
38:30
Speaker 1: didn't make it so that the Rams couldn't come back
38:33
Speaker 1: and have a chance to win, but it gave them
38:36
Speaker 1: a touchdown in a game that was decided by four points.
38:40
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna ask me, what is the number,
38:43
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm gonna rank culprits or responsibility for
38:46
Speaker 1: the Rams losing or the Seahawks winning, that's number one
38:49
Speaker 1: to me. Okay, number two would be Sam Darnold playing
38:52
Speaker 1: out of his mind. You would probably I'd probably get
38:55
Speaker 1: to four or five before I say bad game by
38:59
Speaker 1: Sean mc me personally, that's just me. I don't think
39:02
Speaker 1: his decisions were that bad, and I think he, you know,
39:05
Speaker 1: obviously proved to be correct to go for going for
39:08
Speaker 1: on fourth down late in the fourth quarter of that game.
39:12
Speaker 1: So that is my recap of the two games. Very
39:15
Speaker 1: exciting weekend. Should be a good super Bowl. I do
39:18
Speaker 1: wonder how much the Super Bowl is going to be
39:22
Speaker 1: compared to other Super Bowls. You know, everybody's gonna watch it,
39:25
Speaker 1: but is the lead up going to be as dramatic,
39:28
Speaker 1: are the storyline is going to be as juicy? Will
39:31
Speaker 1: the overall viewership the ratings for this Super Bowl be
39:35
Speaker 1: able to match some of the more you know, impressive
39:38
Speaker 1: super Bowls, whether they're rematches like Eagles and Chiefs, or
39:43
Speaker 1: you know, whether they feature somebody you know, like Joe Burrow,
39:47
Speaker 1: you know in it, like the form the four when
39:48
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers were in it. I'm sorry, when
39:49
Speaker 1: the Bengals were in it. I don't know. I really
39:52
Speaker 1: don't know, you know. I know a lot of people
39:54
Speaker 1: will watch, but I don't know if it'll have I
39:56
Speaker 1: don't know if it'll generate the same enthusiasm that the
40:01
Speaker 1: Super Bowl typically generates.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's that time of the year that everyone's trying
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Speaker 1: real quick, I'll just go through some Eagles stuff here. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: if you heard the Inside the Birds podcast on Monday morning,
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Speaker 1: you heard Adam specifically mention the fact that he had
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Speaker 1: heard that Decklan Doyle was likely to stay in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: and that was the case. We talked about Clayton Adams
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Speaker 1: getting blocked from the Eagles, So it's two guys they
43:40
Speaker 1: were hoping for that they won't. But let's let me
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Speaker 1: just clear this up, because the Internet is so full
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Speaker 1: social media is so full of shit, to be honest
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Speaker 1: with you, and misleading information that it really bothers me
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Speaker 1: because you know what, the it's bad enough the Eagles
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Speaker 1: are going through this, right, I mean, you don't need
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Speaker 1: to kick someone when they're down with false information. I'm
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Speaker 1: not like an apologist for the team. Everybody knows that
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Speaker 1: I'm not cheerleader. But when I see headlines saying things
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Speaker 1: like Declan Doyle turns down Eagles to go back or
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Speaker 1: declines Eagles offered no, no, I'm sorry. Was there was
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Speaker 1: he offered the job, He was interviewed, It doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: he was offered the job. And you've seen this with
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Speaker 1: a couple of guys who have either decided not to
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Speaker 1: interview or didn't aren't taking the job. They're spurning the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean spurning? Declan Dowy was no short
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Speaker 1: shot to be the Eagles offensive coordinator. I'm sure they
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Speaker 1: liked him, bright, mind, brilliant probably. I mean, the guy's
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Speaker 1: only been a position coacher coordinator for three years, two
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Speaker 1: years of tight end coach in Denver, one year of
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Speaker 1: non play calling OC in Chicago. Before that, he was
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Speaker 1: only a quality control assistant guy. So he's on a
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Speaker 1: very very meteoric rise, all right. And I actually thought
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Speaker 1: to myself, it probably would be smart of him to
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Speaker 1: stay in Chicago and continue to learn under Ben Jonson,
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Speaker 1: one of the best play callers and play designers in
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Speaker 1: the league, because he's still a fledgling coordinator and the
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Speaker 1: amount of scrutiny and pressure he would have faced working
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Speaker 1: with an entirely new offense here in Philadelphia, different quarterback,
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Speaker 1: different offensive line, different running scheme. They've the Eagles generally
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Speaker 1: run insideer and some outside, whereas the Bears will go
45:25
Speaker 1: outside wide zone. I mean that just totally different everything.
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Speaker 1: There's no guarantee that this would have been a great
45:32
Speaker 1: thing for Decklan Doyle's career, and there's no guarantee the
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Speaker 1: Eagles felt that he was their guy. So to to
45:37
Speaker 1: say that he is spurning or rejecting the Eagle, that's
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Speaker 1: factually wrong. Unless somebody out there knows that he specifically
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Speaker 1: got an offer from the Eagles and turned it down
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Speaker 1: and said no thanks, then it's not it's not worth
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Speaker 1: talking about that. It's not it's not worth putting out
45:55
Speaker 1: that kind of headline or misleading statement. That's just not true.
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Speaker 1: There's still some good play calls out there. It's non
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Speaker 1: ideal situation for the Eagles, that there are people who
46:06
Speaker 1: have taken themselves out of the running, and that other
46:08
Speaker 1: guys are still online for either head coaching jobs or
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Speaker 1: other offensive coordinator jobs. He saw Mike McDaniel officially agreed
46:15
Speaker 1: to become Chargers offensive coordinator. All right, they did the
46:20
Speaker 1: Eagles talk to Gerad Johnson, quarterbacks coach for the Texans.
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Speaker 1: They interviewed him two years ago before they hired Kellen Moore,
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Speaker 1: so as a guy they've clearly been interested in in
46:30
Speaker 1: the past. Sounds Frank Smith is a guy that worked
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Speaker 1: under Mike McDaniel in Miami, so he's got that sort
46:38
Speaker 1: of McDaniel play calling and play design background. So again,
46:42
Speaker 1: the Eagles continue to look at a variety of different candidates.
46:46
Speaker 1: That's the wise thing. Yeah, Charlie Weiss is going to
46:48
Speaker 1: stay at LSU. I saw a line he rejected the
46:51
Speaker 1: Eagles offer to stay in college, and it made it
46:54
Speaker 1: seem like the Eagles are just a laughing stock. No,
46:56
Speaker 1: he what offer again? Show me the offer that these
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Speaker 1: guys had. I don't know of any offer. I mean,
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Speaker 1: my gosh. To say that is just irresponsible journalism unless
47:10
Speaker 1: you know that there was an offer, and if you
47:12
Speaker 1: know that you should report it anyway. I'll get off
47:16
Speaker 1: my soapbox. So, yeah, Frank Smith was the Dolphins offensive
47:20
Speaker 1: coordinator under Mike McDaniel, so you would get a little
47:26
Speaker 1: bit of that that offense is assuming if he would
47:29
Speaker 1: be the guy that they were ultimately interested in. But
47:32
Speaker 1: the search will go on and you know, we'll see
47:35
Speaker 1: where it ends up, and you know, it may be great,
47:37
Speaker 1: it may not be. I'm not going to sit here
47:39
Speaker 1: in sugarcoat the whole process or say that this has
47:42
Speaker 1: been ideal for the Eagles. But I just can't stand
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Speaker 1: intentionally misleading information like that that these guys turned down
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. No turning down everybody. If you're just going
47:54
Speaker 1: going back to whoever you are, you're just basically deciding
47:56
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay put unless there's an actual offer
47:59
Speaker 1: on the table. Nobody got turned down for anything. All right,
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Speaker 1: I'll get off my soapbox. Now. It's been fun recapping
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Speaker 1: the conference championship games and again this coming weekend, which
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Speaker 1: it sounds like we're headed for another potential snowstorm nor
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Speaker 1: Eastern bomb cyclone, whatever, Oh boy, I deal with. All Right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: stay warm, get out of your ice, get out of
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Speaker 1: your snow the best you can, and again next weekend
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Speaker 1: I'll give my first initial thoughts on the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: matchup between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this Inside the Birds NFL
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Speaker 1: Conference Championship recap. Catch you on the next show.