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Speaker 1: Welcome to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia Sports
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Speaker 1: Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast
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Speaker 1: show in the world, twelve years strong, and the Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: Eagles are now three to zero on the season, amazingly enough,
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Speaker 1: after beating the Los Angeles Rams down at the link
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Speaker 1: by a score of thirty three to twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Game just got done. I'm shocked. I know my guest
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Speaker 2: is shocked. To a lot of us in Eagles Nation
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Speaker 2: are shocked and how this game ended, how the Eagles
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Speaker 2: performed in the second half after looking like complete dog
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Speaker 2: doo dooo in the first half. Yes, I'm Jeff Warren.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing my good buddy from the honorable mentioned podcast
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Speaker 2: drive to them over on YouTube and whatever podcast platform
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Speaker 2: you're listening to us on if you're listening to audio,
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Speaker 2: Matt Rogers, buddy, first and foremost, it is great to
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Speaker 2: talk to you. Thanks so much for jumping on last
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Speaker 2: minute here as we had a cancelation with one of
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Speaker 2: my co hosts. But I do have to say, man,
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Speaker 2: it's great to great to be able to hear your voice,
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Speaker 2: and it's great to get this Eagles victory Week three here,
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Speaker 2: Eagles getting it done.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's always I was always excited and I'm looking
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Speaker 4: forward to always look forward to being on appreciate, you know,
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Speaker 4: getting to engage with you and talk about a variety
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Speaker 4: of different things. And I was telling you backstage four
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Speaker 4: we started, I'm like, this is going to be a
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Speaker 4: really freaking different show today. But we were talking at
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Speaker 4: the twenty six to seven that was a that was
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Speaker 4: gonna be more of like a like a funeral podcast.
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Speaker 4: Today we are celebrating. It's it's this is the best
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Speaker 4: team in football. Absolutely what I just watched over the
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Speaker 4: last half of that game. You walk down a second
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Speaker 4: round play off team and that was a very good
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Speaker 4: playoff team last year. Yes, very good team, and you
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Speaker 4: walk them down, don't allow them to score again, and
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Speaker 4: you score and every and Jalen Hurts does what. I
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Speaker 4: guess I'm getting into the themes of the show, but
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Speaker 4: I'm feeling great, Jeff.
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Speaker 3: Yes, please do, man, please do.
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Speaker 4: That's what everybody has said they want to see from
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Speaker 4: Jalen myself and at moments I want to see this
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Speaker 4: because I kind of want to shut up the haters.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 4: It also will open up opportunities for Saquon Barkley. We
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Speaker 4: do want to see aj Brown get the ball because
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Speaker 4: he's freaking amazing. You see him get you know, on
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Speaker 4: a third and got to have it. He catches it
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Speaker 4: short of the sticks, runs the guy over to get
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Speaker 4: a few extra yards because he's a special player, and
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Speaker 4: so it's it's great to see. And they put thirty
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Speaker 4: three points on the board after putting seven points on
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Speaker 4: the board in thirty minutes.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Look, the Eagles came into this game, specifically the
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Speaker 2: Eagles defense, I should say, came into this game first
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Speaker 2: in points allowed, first in yards per game. We're going
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Speaker 2: through the first half and thinking, oh my gosh, is
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Speaker 2: Sean McVeigh actually going to get his second victory against
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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles in his career. No, of course it
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Speaker 2: didn't happen. Sean McVay came into this game today one
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Speaker 2: in four against the Eagles. He's now one in five.
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Speaker 2: It's tough for him to beat this team. But look,
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Speaker 2: we got to talk about another theme as well. Loved
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Speaker 2: your first theme there, and I think it goes to
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Speaker 2: show how important this offensive line cohesiveness is because we
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Speaker 2: have what is called the Lane Johnson effect and what
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Speaker 2: happens with this team when one of these members of
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Speaker 2: the offensive line go out.
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Speaker 3: The Eagles had three three.
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Speaker 2: And outs after Lane Johnson left the game for a
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Speaker 2: total of negative ten yards. Then they had their fourth
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Speaker 2: third and their fourth three and out, I should say
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Speaker 2: right before the half. That's the driver. AJ Brown got
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Speaker 2: a personal foul penalty. Then you had Matt Pryor come
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Speaker 2: in when Lane Johnson went out during the first half.
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Speaker 2: Then Jeff Statlin wasn't caring for what he was seeing
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Speaker 2: from Matt Pryor put in Fred Johnson at the half,
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Speaker 2: and then you had this reshift and this refocus of
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Speaker 2: being able to really have some pass protection for Jalen
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Speaker 2: Hurts and also you know, being able to get the
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Speaker 2: run game here and there on specific plays, you know,
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Speaker 2: going a bit. Look, Saquon Barkley did not have the
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Speaker 2: greatest day in the world. It's gonna be interesting to
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Speaker 2: watch this video and film. Eighteen carries forty six yard
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Speaker 2: only only average two point six yards per carry in
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Speaker 2: this game here, Matt, but I really think the Lane
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Speaker 2: Johnson effect took hold of this team during the first half.
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Speaker 2: Eagles had a total of thirty three yards in the
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Speaker 2: first half, probably the most anemic offensive performance that we've
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Speaker 2: ever seen from a team offensive I should say unit in.
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Speaker 3: Quite some time, you know.
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Speaker 2: And then and then Jalen fumbles on the first snap
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Speaker 2: of the half to the half and man then the
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Speaker 2: Rams score there.
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Speaker 3: And but it turned.
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Speaker 2: Around because the offense was really able to get it
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Speaker 2: together and and Jalen Hurts was able to do what
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Speaker 2: he did, proving some critics wrong as well. But really,
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Speaker 2: I think the Lane Johnson effect, I think we really
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Speaker 2: saw that for a lot of this game until this
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Speaker 2: offense then was able to adapt. My friend, absolutely, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's great that we got Fred back from Jacksonville because
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Speaker 2: I'm not a big Matt pryor Guy Cannard all those
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Speaker 2: guys that are gonna they're not gonna be able to
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Speaker 2: fill in in a pinch. And the statistics when Lane
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Speaker 2: Johnson's on the field versus off the field for the
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles are really striking. Now this is the statistics
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Speaker 2: for aj.
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Speaker 4: Brown on the field and off the field, they're also striking,
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Speaker 4: but not like Lane Johnson. I mean, the winning percentage
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Speaker 4: is in the neighborhood of seventy percent versus thirty percent,
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Speaker 4: And so it's a really important thing. And another theme
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Speaker 4: I think while we're talking about offensive line, we had
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Speaker 4: heard a lot of talk this week about you know,
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Speaker 4: the Eagles jump off sides every time on the tush push,
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Speaker 4: and they're gonna call it and in a close game,
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Speaker 4: and they're gonna have a bunch of third in habits
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Speaker 4: and force and you gotta have it, and they're gonna
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Speaker 4: the rest. They're gonna bring in the rest today the
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Speaker 4: refs that call the most false starts in the league,
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Speaker 4: and we're gonna crack down and we're gonna back door
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Speaker 4: ban the play. Well, it didn't happen today because because
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Speaker 4: the fall starts that people are talking about our microscopic.
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Speaker 4: When you're slowing it down to the slowest motion possible
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Speaker 4: on a picture, you're seeing a guy this is a millisecond.
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Speaker 4: And it's the same thing with offensive holding on the line.
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Speaker 4: To call things all the time, but when you're watching
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Speaker 4: the plate, they're not getting it because their line is
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Speaker 4: able to jump off side. They're getting it because their
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Speaker 4: offensive line is able to give about a half a
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Speaker 4: yard every time, and their quarterback is a superhuman Yes,
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Speaker 4: and even if he gets rejected, is gonna get that
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Speaker 4: second push over. He's gonna get the first down. So
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Speaker 4: long Live the Tush Push is another theme.
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Speaker 3: For Long Live the Tush Push.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how long it is gonna live after
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Speaker 2: this season, to be honest with you, because, like like
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Speaker 2: you said that much, it's like this microscopic just a
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Speaker 2: hair of a second, which might actually be a false start.
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Speaker 2: I mean we did, we did see it today. I
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Speaker 2: think it was with land I think it was Landon Dickerson.
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Speaker 2: It was either Dickerson or Tyler Steen where there was
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Speaker 2: a little bit early, but it was, like you said,
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Speaker 2: so microscopic. But we know that this, We know what
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Speaker 2: the narrative is going to be with the tush Push
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Speaker 2: throughout this entire season because because there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: owners and a lot of teams that want to get
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Speaker 2: rid of this particular play. But I do have to
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Speaker 2: say another theme as we're moving along here, Matt, the
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Speaker 2: explosive plays. The explosive plays. After Jalen Fomble turned the
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Speaker 2: ball over and then the offense ended up starting to
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Speaker 2: get their stuff together, there were explosive plays two in
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Speaker 2: a row, a thirty eight yard pass to aj Brown
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Speaker 2: and then a thirty three yard touchdown pass to Dallas Goddard.
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Speaker 2: I am wishing that Kevin Petulu would get the ball
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Speaker 2: down the field more, and we saw him do that
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Speaker 2: during the course of the second half. Jalen Hurts ended
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Speaker 2: today twenty one thirty two for two hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: six yards, three touchdowns, a rating of one P seventeen
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Speaker 2: point four, and then he averaged seven point one yards
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Speaker 2: per attempt. Those are the numbers that I like to
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Speaker 2: see from him, mixing and matching it up. Yes, they
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Speaker 2: couldn't get the they couldn't get Saquon Barkley moving in
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Speaker 2: the rushing game again, only two point six yards per
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Speaker 2: carry for him, a lot of negative yards for whatever reason.
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Speaker 2: The run blocking was not great. And hand it to
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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams for actually defending the run. They
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Speaker 2: knew they had to do it, but Jalen Hurts was
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Speaker 2: able to then beat them through the air. So I
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Speaker 2: guess for me, it's the adaptability. You know that I'm
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Speaker 2: going to keep going back to why this team ended
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Speaker 2: up winning this game. And oh and oh, also, by
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Speaker 2: the way, one incredible awesome talent in Jordan Davis and
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Speaker 2: what he did in this game. Not just Jalen Carter
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Speaker 2: and Jordan Davis with the field goal block, the first
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Speaker 2: one in the fourth quarter, and then we had Jordan
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Speaker 2: Davis winning this game for this team with the I
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Speaker 2: mean they probably were gonna the Eagles were probably gonna
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Speaker 2: win anyway, perhaps perhaps, but needed that field goal block
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Speaker 2: and then taking it down the field for the touchdown
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Speaker 2: to make it thirty three to twenty six. Jordan Davis
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Speaker 2: the MVP of this game for sure, Matt.
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Speaker 4: You know, last year, on the back half of the season,
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Speaker 4: you absolutely saw Jordan Davis able to make some plays
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Speaker 4: when the quarterbacks would break contain, yeah, be able to
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Speaker 4: chase the guy down to the sideline, which is so important.
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Speaker 4: And they talked all off season about how he had
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Speaker 4: dropped about twenty or thirty pounds and so you can
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Speaker 4: you absolutely saw it. You saw it on a critical
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Speaker 4: scramble of Stafford today and he would not have been
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Speaker 4: able to have the gas to take it all the
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Speaker 4: way to the crib last season. Yes, to be honest
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Speaker 4: with me, yes, absolutely. It's amazing credit to him for
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Speaker 4: preparing himself for the moment and now he's just gonna
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Speaker 4: you know, his teammates are just this is such a
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Speaker 4: good team. These guys really celebrate and pour into each
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Speaker 4: other in that locker room right now. I bet they're
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Speaker 4: all talking about JD and about how proud they are
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Speaker 4: of him, and that's only going to inspire him to
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Speaker 4: play better. And if Jordan Davis is another nightmare for
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Speaker 4: people to worry about, good luck to folks, because you've
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Speaker 4: got Jayalen Carter who's one of the best players football.
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Speaker 4: And if they've really got a key in O number ninety,
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Speaker 4: I don't, I don't, you know, it's it's it's interesting
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Speaker 4: to even be having this conversation because in the first
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Speaker 4: half I was very pissed with the defensive line.
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Speaker 3: Yes, couldn't get pressure at all.
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Speaker 2: It was crazy. It was crazy how they just could
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Speaker 2: not get pressure and get through that Rams offensive line,
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Speaker 2: not a terrible offensive line, but they couldn't do it.
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Speaker 3: It was great to see.
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Speaker 2: But look, I mean, we do also have to talk
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Speaker 2: about a glaring just kind of like this glaring, I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's a black eye on the defense, and
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Speaker 2: that really is the cornerback two position.
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Speaker 3: Matt.
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Speaker 2: How many times are we seeing adri Jackson still getting
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Speaker 2: cooked out there, cooked and cooked on.
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Speaker 4: I've seen enough, I know I have.
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Speaker 2: And then Ja Coryan Bennett comes out played well, played decent,
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Speaker 2: I would say, but man, he got away with some
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Speaker 2: holding and some pass interference calls. Thankfully, huh, thankfully those
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Speaker 2: were not called on him. However, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: Jaquoran Bennett isn't necessarily the answer either.
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Speaker 3: It seems like this is really the Achilles heel of
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Speaker 3: this defense at this point.
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Speaker 4: I totally agree with you, Jeff, I totally agree. I
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Speaker 4: think the light at the end of the tunnel with
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Speaker 4: this conversation is going back to the summer with the
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Speaker 4: Micah Parsons situation. The information that's come out about that
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Speaker 4: subsequently has let us know that the Eagles put an
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Speaker 4: offer on the table that was bigger than what the
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Speaker 4: Packers had offered, but Jerry just didn't want to ship
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Speaker 4: him inside the NFC East. That tells me that that
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Speaker 4: how he's still swinging for the fences, and if there's
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Speaker 4: a deal to be made for a corner for that
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Speaker 4: cornerback too, he's gonna go and get it. And I
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Speaker 4: hope that it happens soon because Adorri, he's just simply
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Speaker 4: not good. Jackryan is fine, but the quarter these wide
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Speaker 4: receivers are really good in this league, and you know
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Speaker 4: they played. They played pretty well. I mean, VIC can
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Speaker 4: only scheme it up so well. You know, you're really
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Speaker 4: gonna need that second cornerback, and I don't think you're
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Speaker 4: gonna be able to get. Just to set expectation for folks,
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Speaker 4: don't expect a name like a Sauce Gardener somebody like that.
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Speaker 4: That's that's amazing, or a Denzel Ward, but a good
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Speaker 4: solid cornerback too. Who you know it's it's it's barbecue
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Speaker 4: chicken back there with Dori Jackson. You can see the
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Speaker 4: corner the cornerbacks on third down checking looking where number
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Speaker 4: eight is and I'm just going there. You cannot have
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Speaker 4: that we're playing important at which we expect, which we will, folks,
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Speaker 4: be playing important football in January. You cannot have a
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Speaker 4: guy like that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, Dory, if you're listening, I hate to rag on
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Speaker 4: you like this, but.
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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be it. Before we go to
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Speaker 2: break here and then we're gonna get to our grades.
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Speaker 2: Do you have any other themes you wanted to get
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Speaker 2: into before we had to break?
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Speaker 4: No? Absolutely, we hit them all good.
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Speaker 3: I think we hit them all.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna go to break, folks when we get back,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna grade each unit as we do after every
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Speaker 2: Eagles game.
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Speaker 3: Stick with us.
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Speaker 2: All right, we are back and again with our friend
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Speaker 2: Matt Rodgers from the Honorable Mention podcast. Let's get into
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Speaker 2: these grades. Jalen Hurts mentioned his stats before. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: give Jalen this week a B plus and look, a
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Speaker 2: tale of two halves, for God's sake, I mean it
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Speaker 2: was a tale of two halves. A B plus I
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Speaker 2: think is fair and given what we wanted to see
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Speaker 2: from him, you know at the end of the game,
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Speaker 2: in the second half in general. You outlined it earlier
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Speaker 2: in one of the themes Matt that we dove in to.
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Speaker 2: I think a B plus is fair. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what do you give him?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's about right. I mean that first
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Speaker 4: half was horrendous. I mean, you can't even it would
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Speaker 4: be an F. It would be a low F too.
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Speaker 4: If you're if you're if this was a numerical grading situation.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he was in the teams, but then that
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Speaker 4: that that second half was I wouldn't say perfect, but
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Speaker 4: you know, because you did have the FuMB, the set,
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Speaker 4: you know, the the fumble, but it was really really
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Speaker 4: good football. And I mean, you just gotta you just
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Speaker 4: gotta commend the metal that the Jalen Hurts has so
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Speaker 4: many situations where it's like, you've got to get this
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Speaker 4: six yards, You've got to get this five yards. You know,
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Speaker 4: if you know you don't convert this fourth down, the
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Speaker 4: games over, the season's over, everybody's gonna talk about He
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Speaker 4: knows everything that's being said about him, So I get
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Speaker 4: I commend him so much for his leadership and it
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Speaker 4: just and it just infuses such a confidence into this team.
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Speaker 4: So I agree with the B plus. But it's it's
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Speaker 4: shocking because most of the time that ticked off of
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Speaker 4: the clock in this game, he actually wasn't great except
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Speaker 4: for the most important part of the game where it
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Speaker 4: was a damn near A plus football.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's a great way to describe it.
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Speaker 2: I think too, there's something he said for the way
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Speaker 2: that he put the offense into the position to fight
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Speaker 2: and claw and get those six yards that you're talking
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Speaker 2: about here and there that was needed, you know, the
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Speaker 2: little out routes to Devonte Smith that ended up being
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Speaker 2: so crucial and so key in the end with Davonte
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Speaker 2: Smith scoring the last touchdown. We're gonna get to our
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Speaker 2: wide receiver grades in just a bit here. But from
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Speaker 2: a rushing perspective, Saquon Barkley leading rusher on the team
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Speaker 2: with forty six yards. Jalen Hurts had forty on nine
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Speaker 2: carries total of eighty six yards three point two yards
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Speaker 2: per per rush. Just man, the Rams shot just shot
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Speaker 2: down this rushing attack. I mean, I'm gonna give Saquon
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Speaker 2: Barkley this week. And maybe it wasn't Barkley himself. Perhaps
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Speaker 2: it were the lanes just not being there, maybe just
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Speaker 2: a good Rams defense stuff in the run. But I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna give it a D. What do you give it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I gotta agree. And if we're saying running backs,
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Speaker 4: I haven't you know.
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Speaker 3: It's just same one okay, yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And Bigsby on the kick returns, he was a nightmare.
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Speaker 4: I guess we'll get to him, Okay, So we'll leave
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Speaker 4: Saqua So just Saquon. Yeah, D plus cnus.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right, sounds good. Let's get to the
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Speaker 2: receiving here. We finally have We finally had the resurgence
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Speaker 2: because of whether it was play calling, and I think
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Speaker 2: it was with Kevin Petulo. We finally have ten targets
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Speaker 2: for aj Brown in this game. He came down with
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Speaker 2: six for one hundred and nine yards, eighteen point two
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Speaker 2: yards per reception and a touchdown. Nine targets for Devonte Smith.
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Speaker 2: He came down with eight balls for sixty yards, seven
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Speaker 2: point five yards per reception and a touchdown. On Dallas
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Speaker 2: Goddard only targeted twice, came down with one of those balls,
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Speaker 2: which was the thirty three yard touchdown. Saquon Barkley caught
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Speaker 2: four balls for nine yards, John Metchi caught one ball
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Speaker 2: for eight yards, and Johan Dotson caught one ball for
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Speaker 2: seven yards for a total of two hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: six total receiving yards. I'm gonna give the receivers this
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Speaker 2: week just because we finally saw them and we have
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Speaker 2: touchdowns coming from each key receiver in Aj Brown, DeVante Smith,
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Speaker 2: and Dallas Goddard. I'm gonna give them an a minus
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Speaker 2: this week. What do you give him? Maybe that's being
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Speaker 2: a little too generous. But what do you give him, buddy.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this is kind of if you're looking to
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Speaker 4: see passing in the ball slung all over the football field,
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Speaker 4: this is kind of I would expect that this is
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Speaker 4: Jalen can do it. We saw him do it today.
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Speaker 4: We saw him do it against the Steelers, we saw
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Speaker 4: him do it in the Super Bowl. We saw him
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Speaker 4: do it in the Super Bowl the first Super Bowl
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Speaker 4: against the Chiefs. He can do it. Yeah, but if
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Speaker 4: I had to guess, this is probably gonna be more
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Speaker 4: on the side of the high water mark. And so yeah,
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Speaker 4: a minus is fair. It's just this is this offense.
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Speaker 4: This is how it goes. You're not gonna see Aja
19:07
Speaker 4: for two hundred, DeVante April hundred, Dallas for fifty, you know,
19:11
Speaker 4: Metchi for fifty. That's not the way that we play.
19:14
Speaker 4: So today is more on the high side of what
19:17
Speaker 4: you can see in the box score. They came up
19:19
Speaker 4: with big catches on you know, got to have it plays.
19:24
Speaker 4: Even even on one of the throws that that Jalen made,
19:28
Speaker 4: that was a risky throw that he threw that corner
19:31
Speaker 4: route and they Dotson number two was surrounded by four rams.
19:37
Speaker 4: Dotson made a play to break that up. That's an
19:40
Speaker 4: important play there. I did not like that throw from Jalen,
19:44
Speaker 4: and it doesn't get noted. Nobody's gonna talk about that
19:48
Speaker 4: on you know, Get Up in the morning or first Sake.
19:51
Speaker 4: But that breakup right there changes things because you get
19:54
Speaker 4: a pick there that gets the other team going, it
19:57
Speaker 4: gets people on our team, gets the fans. So so
20:00
Speaker 4: i'd say a minus game today.
20:03
Speaker 2: Good footballer, absolutely totally agree with that grade. Let's move
20:07
Speaker 2: to the offensive line, who has certainly had some difficulty,
20:11
Speaker 2: as we noted earlier before the break when Matt Pryor
20:14
Speaker 2: was brought in after Lane Johnson's neck injury. I mean,
20:18
Speaker 2: things were just really rough on that right side of
20:20
Speaker 2: that offensive line, and again the rush game not really
20:24
Speaker 2: able to get going. I'm actually going to give the
20:26
Speaker 2: offensive line this week a see what do you give
20:28
Speaker 2: a Matt?
20:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta say it was not a dominant game
20:33
Speaker 4: from them by any stretch. I mean I remember one
20:38
Speaker 4: one game specifically a couple of years ago. We came
20:40
Speaker 4: on and we ran for over three hundred against the Packers,
20:43
Speaker 4: and we were just you know, just you know, a
20:46
Speaker 4: head over heels.
20:47
Speaker 3: Plus plus plus.
20:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were nowhere close to that nowhere. I mean,
20:54
Speaker 4: I would not say that they were today. They were
20:58
Speaker 4: dominant outside of America's favorite play, which is all we
21:02
Speaker 4: were always dominant on, but absolutely outside of that, this
21:06
Speaker 4: is nothing to ray home about. They got a lot
21:08
Speaker 4: of work to do. I go with your grade on this.
21:10
Speaker 2: All right, Let's move over to the defensive side of
21:13
Speaker 2: the ball and the defensive line again a tail of
21:16
Speaker 2: two halves I think for this defensive line. And you know,
21:21
Speaker 2: there were some good plays made throughout the game, but
21:24
Speaker 2: man first half was so difficult for them to get
21:26
Speaker 2: any sort of penetration, any sort of semblance of pressure
21:32
Speaker 2: on Matt Stafford, who by the way, was only sacked
21:34
Speaker 2: one time in this game by Jordan Davis. As Jordan
21:38
Speaker 2: Davis was, you know, running from you know, to the sidelines,
21:42
Speaker 2: you know, to to get Matt Stafford out of bounds.
21:45
Speaker 2: And I mean, but at the end of the day,
21:48
Speaker 2: I think you had some you had some pretty decent play.
21:51
Speaker 2: And yes, kyn Williams twenty carries ninety four yards four
21:55
Speaker 2: point seven yards per carry. Blake Korum, I mean, he
21:58
Speaker 2: had a really nice day with eight carries for fifty
22:01
Speaker 2: three yards six point six yards per carry. I mean,
22:04
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give the defensive line this week a B minus,
22:07
Speaker 2: and maybe that's generous.
22:08
Speaker 3: I don't know what are you going to give them
22:10
Speaker 3: this week, buddy.
22:12
Speaker 4: It's hard because Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter were playing
22:17
Speaker 4: defensive line. It was special teams, but they are right
22:20
Speaker 4: there at their normal positions when they make the key
22:24
Speaker 4: plays of the game. And I know it's not a
22:26
Speaker 4: special team's thing, but it's their players. I mean, I
22:31
Speaker 4: know it's not defensive line, but they're defensive line men
22:35
Speaker 4: who made those plays. So it kind of skews the grade.
22:39
Speaker 2: But they're still getting their hands up. Though they're still
22:41
Speaker 2: getting their hands up, there's deflections. Nolan Smith made some
22:44
Speaker 2: key tackles also as well in this game too, Jlex
22:49
Speaker 2: Hunt getting in the face, love Matt Stafford as well.
22:52
Speaker 2: So I mean that's why I'm giving the B minus.
22:54
Speaker 2: So like, it wasn't a dominant sack game by any means,
22:58
Speaker 2: not a lot of tackles for loss either, but the
23:01
Speaker 2: guys made plays. I thought when they needed to make
23:03
Speaker 2: those plays. I think that might be what you're saying
23:05
Speaker 2: as well.
23:06
Speaker 4: I agree, absolutely, and I think that I think they're
23:10
Speaker 4: due for some strip sacks late. They missed a couple
23:12
Speaker 4: in the Cowboys game, they missed a couple in the
23:15
Speaker 4: Chiefs game. One today on the deep ball that DeVante
23:18
Speaker 4: Smith did push off on whatever touchdown, because aj might
23:21
Speaker 4: have done it a little bit of the same his touchdown. Right,
23:25
Speaker 4: if you look, Zadarius Smith's coming off the left tackle
23:28
Speaker 4: and he's he's really close. So they're they're due and
23:33
Speaker 4: they're on their way. I think B C plus B
23:37
Speaker 4: minuses in the right neighborhood.
23:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think so to Look, I'm appreciative
23:41
Speaker 2: of the seven quarterback hits and you know, there was
23:44
Speaker 2: again one sack, only two tackles for a loss. But
23:48
Speaker 2: I'm happy with the seven quarterback hits for sure. But
23:51
Speaker 2: let's move to the linebackers. Buddy and Zach Bond always
23:55
Speaker 2: a beast. He actually had two past defenses today that
23:59
Speaker 2: he had and yeah, he may have only had like
24:01
Speaker 2: three solo tackles seven total tackles, but he and Jihad
24:05
Speaker 2: Campbell Gid Campbell with eight total tackles, five solo on
24:09
Speaker 2: the day. They're getting it done. So I'm gonna give
24:12
Speaker 2: both of those I'm gonna give him a B plus.
24:14
Speaker 2: What do you give them?
24:16
Speaker 4: I'm giving them an A. I think that, Zach, when
24:19
Speaker 4: people are watching the game, they'll see Kyron Williams running
24:23
Speaker 4: all over the Eagles and say, like, hey, the linebacker's
24:26
Speaker 4: got to shut it down. That's the linebacker's fault. What
24:29
Speaker 4: the Rams were doing was they were doing a really
24:31
Speaker 4: really good job of scheming things up, bringing their federmations
24:34
Speaker 4: into having Pooka and DeVante Adams run blocking into Another
24:39
Speaker 4: reason why mister Jackson number eight isn't great is because
24:45
Speaker 4: he is not bringing the right intensity to tackle and
24:49
Speaker 4: to human beings. Yes, yeah, he does not like touching
24:54
Speaker 4: human beings.
24:59
Speaker 3: Don't touch me. Don't touch me.
25:02
Speaker 4: Why do I have these shoulder pads a lot? Got?
25:08
Speaker 4: Where's your flag at, sir?
25:09
Speaker 3: Yes? Exactly? Very good, very good.
25:13
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of secondary players, I mean, let's talk about
25:16
Speaker 2: this secondary man, Like, honestly, I think like this is
25:19
Speaker 2: gonna be a tough grade because there was some absolute
25:22
Speaker 2: horrendous play by the secondary and there was also some
25:26
Speaker 2: really good play Boy roller coaster ride for this. For
25:29
Speaker 2: this secondary, I think I think at the end of
25:31
Speaker 2: the day, I'm gonna give him a C plus. To
25:33
Speaker 2: be honest, I think C plus is fair.
25:35
Speaker 4: I don't know what are you thinking, I'm thinking the same.
25:39
Speaker 4: I just I'm just sick of a Dori Jackson. I
25:41
Speaker 4: just I know.
25:42
Speaker 2: I just look at all the yards Puka Nukua and
25:46
Speaker 2: then yes, he got fifteen targets in this game, came
25:49
Speaker 2: down with eleven balls for one hundred and twelve yards
25:52
Speaker 2: and averaged ten point two yards per reception. And DeVante
25:55
Speaker 2: Adams had eight targets on the day, but he only
25:58
Speaker 2: came down with three balls on the day for fifty
26:00
Speaker 2: six yards and yes, a touchdown, but still like it
26:03
Speaker 2: was just an up and down day, which is why
26:05
Speaker 2: I'm giving them a C plus to this Eagle secondary.
26:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got a that's if this team. I will
26:12
Speaker 4: go back to what I said at the very beginning,
26:14
Speaker 4: just to repeat it. I do think this Eagles team
26:16
Speaker 4: is the best team in football. But if there is
26:18
Speaker 4: an achilles heel, it's that CB two spot and it
26:21
Speaker 4: could kill them.
26:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it absolutely could.
26:25
Speaker 2: All right, let's move over to the units, and I'm
26:29
Speaker 2: talking offense, defense, special teams that coaching. Let's start off
26:33
Speaker 2: with special teams. Matt, you mentioned it earlier, Buddy Tank
26:36
Speaker 2: Bigsby and John Metchi. Holy cow, they kept dropping kick returns.
26:41
Speaker 2: I think they dropped like five or six returns, which
26:43
Speaker 2: was a complete joke. The Eagles looked totally unprepared to
26:46
Speaker 2: handle Josh Carty's knuckleball kickoffs or whatever the hell they're called.
26:50
Speaker 3: I mean, holy cow.
26:52
Speaker 2: But then you have Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis with
26:54
Speaker 2: the first field goal block and of course the last
26:57
Speaker 2: field goal block for a touchdown by Jordan Davis. I
27:01
Speaker 2: think you gotta I think you gotta give special teams
27:03
Speaker 2: in a this week, right you.
27:06
Speaker 4: Do with It's like they said, you like to correct
27:10
Speaker 4: after a loss. It's a it's gonna be a weird
27:13
Speaker 4: conversation in the locker room, like you know with Michael Clay,
27:16
Speaker 4: Like a great breaking job this week, guys. Yeah, and
27:18
Speaker 4: then you're kind of like peering out of the side
27:20
Speaker 4: of your eye at Tank and at John, like you know,
27:23
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna say nothing to you right now, but
27:25
Speaker 4: you know what you did. I know what you did
27:27
Speaker 4: last summer.
27:30
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
27:31
Speaker 2: Look, Brandon Mann was averaging fifty five yards per punt.
27:35
Speaker 3: That's it.
27:35
Speaker 2: There's something to be said for that. Jake Elliott making
27:37
Speaker 2: all three of his extra points too. I don't know,
27:40
Speaker 2: I'm giving special teams in A. Is that what you
27:41
Speaker 2: would give him as well?
27:43
Speaker 4: Yeah? I was saying, Jeff, I'm sorry with the technical difficulties,
27:47
Speaker 4: but you cannot end a game with a three hundred,
27:50
Speaker 4: three hundred and thirty six pounds man when streaking down
27:53
Speaker 4: the middle of the field taking one to the house
27:55
Speaker 4: with You can't give that under an A. They would
27:57
Speaker 4: have had to have. You know of our own missed
28:02
Speaker 4: field goals, shank punts. Yep, you win a game on
28:05
Speaker 4: that note. Plays later, they just are weighted. It's like
28:09
Speaker 4: your final exams. Yeah, your final exam ninety percent, no grade.
28:13
Speaker 4: So go ahead.
28:14
Speaker 1: R A.
28:15
Speaker 4: Jordan Davis.
28:18
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Well, let's move over to the defense. Vic Fangio,
28:22
Speaker 2: the game that he called, how this personnel performed. I'm
28:26
Speaker 2: gonna be honest, I'm gonna give a C plus. I'm
28:28
Speaker 2: gonna give Vic Fangio and the defensive calling a C
28:30
Speaker 2: plus this week.
28:31
Speaker 3: What do you give him?
28:32
Speaker 4: It's the it's the Tale of two Halves thing again, Jeff.
28:36
Speaker 4: It's you know, leading up to them scoring twenty six.
28:39
Speaker 4: It's it's horse it's horseshit. Yeah, but then they didn't
28:44
Speaker 4: score again, right, and so it's I'll go I'll give
28:51
Speaker 4: I'll go B because I do absolutely at this point
28:54
Speaker 4: now with I guess twenty something in the low twenties,
28:59
Speaker 4: mid twenties, these games that I've watched Vic Fangio coaching
29:03
Speaker 4: this defense, I do have a confidence as the second
29:06
Speaker 4: half approaches, or as you know the clock starts ticking
29:10
Speaker 4: in the second half, that Vic has made adjustments and
29:13
Speaker 4: he is going to it's always going to be better
29:16
Speaker 4: in the second half. This is I'm gonna go with a.
29:21
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with a B minus overall.
29:23
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, look I said C plus B minus. I
29:26
Speaker 2: think it's fair and quite frankly, I think it's probably
29:28
Speaker 2: gonna be the same type of grade they're gonna give
29:31
Speaker 2: to Kevin Patullo and Nick Sirianni for the offense, because.
29:34
Speaker 3: It's the same thing.
29:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, do a thing in the first half, seven points
29:39
Speaker 2: in the first quarter off that that what was it
29:41
Speaker 2: their second drive or the first drive of the game,
29:44
Speaker 2: and then just nothing, a nothing burger consistently for well
29:49
Speaker 2: over basically close to twenty some minutes. It was it
29:53
Speaker 2: was ridiculous. Yes, all the three and out. So I'm
29:56
Speaker 2: going C plus B minus area for the offensive coaching.
30:00
Speaker 3: What do you give them?
30:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta I agree with you. They played. I
30:09
Speaker 4: think the players made plays. I think it to some degree.
30:13
Speaker 4: I think that was the genius of the second half.
30:16
Speaker 5: Was like, Okay, now we're just gonna got a Jonte,
30:22
Speaker 5: Jalen and Sequal do what they do and go and
30:25
Speaker 5: win the game for us.
30:27
Speaker 4: So I'll go with a little bit lower because they've
30:31
Speaker 4: really gotta they've got to clean this up. I'm gonna
30:33
Speaker 4: go with a C.
30:34
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, sounds good to me, man, sounds good.
30:38
Speaker 3: That's gonna do it for us folks. Again.
30:40
Speaker 2: Week three of this Philadelphia Eagles twenty twenty five twenty
30:43
Speaker 2: twenty six season now in the books. They beat the
30:46
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams by a score thirty three to twenty
30:48
Speaker 2: six down at the Link. Man, they are atop the
30:52
Speaker 2: NFC East here amazing And again want to thank our
30:55
Speaker 2: friend Matt Rodgers from the honorable mentioned podcast for jumping
30:58
Speaker 2: on with us. It was always great to talk to you, Matt.
31:01
Speaker 2: Any final thoughts before I let you go, buddy.
31:04
Speaker 4: No, thank you, thank you, and thank you to the
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