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TABLE TALK: Philly Sports Report Card · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. It is Jeff here. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: let you know that we recorded this podcast episode on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty five. By the time you hear this,
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  Speaker 1: some things may have changed here or there, but we
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the show. Welcome to Table Talk here
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  Speaker 1: at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running
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  Speaker 1: weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: eleven and a half years strong, and we are starting
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  Speaker 1: off twenty twenty five with a great, great discussion about
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  Speaker 1: the world of Philly sports. We're gonna get into a
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  Speaker 1: report card. Yes, we are going to grade what has
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  Speaker 1: been happening with the four teams, the four major sports teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies, the Sixers, the Flyers, and of course the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. We got a great guest coming on to
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  Speaker 1: help us out with this report card. Let's get to
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  Speaker 1: it now. And joining us this week from the Tony
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  Speaker 1: Kotillo Show over at Rise and React Media. You can
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  Speaker 1: at Rise with Tony Rize. We've got the one and
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  Speaker 1: only Tony Katillo.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, no, buddy, I'm doing great man, What a better
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  Speaker 2: way start off twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, pot man, yes, absolutely. Look I love having
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  Speaker 1: you on every now and again, you know, two three
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  Speaker 1: times a year to talk about the world of Philly
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  Speaker 1: sports in general. Honestly, you're that guest that I bring
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast here to get into all four. You
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  Speaker 1: do such a great job with Tony Katillo Show. I
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  Speaker 1: know you had Heat Ratio podcast before, but I gotta
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be disappointed with Tony and the
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  Speaker 1: content that he is putting out there. And I love
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  Speaker 1: talking to you about you know, our four for four
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  Speaker 1: teams out there. Buddy. It's it's a real interesting time
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  Speaker 1: in the world of Philly sports.
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  Speaker 2: It is, man. This is a great Timmy year too,
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  Speaker 2: because you kind of have you know, even though baseball
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  Speaker 2: is not going on, you still got the Winter Meetings,
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  Speaker 2: you got all things, and like you just have everything
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's absolutely absolutely all right. Well, look, before we
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  Speaker 1: get into our Philly sports report card here, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get into some some general Philly sports stories with you.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I love talking world of Philly sports
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  Speaker 1: with you. I wanted to dive into this Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: team since they're gonna be heading to the playoffs this
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  Speaker 1: coming weekend to face Green Bay Packers Tony. It really
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  Speaker 1: seems like Howie Roseman continues year after year to just
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  Speaker 1: find formulas that work for this team and this organization,
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  Speaker 1: talent that works with the coaching staff very well, and
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  Speaker 1: coaches that bring out the best in their players. While
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't been perfect in terms of the NFL draft
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  Speaker 1: or perfect in free agency, darn good, the guy knows
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  Speaker 1: how to build a football team that provides it's consistency
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  Speaker 1: and relevancy year after year when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles franchise in general. So my question to you,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a two part question here, how would
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  Speaker 1: you describe Howie Roseman's tenure over the past few years
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  Speaker 1: and has he kind of created a new standard for
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  Speaker 1: gms in the National Football League here?
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it's a that's a loaded question, right, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It really is because Howie, you know, remember we always
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  Speaker 2: go back to the Chip Kelly saga, right, put the
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  Speaker 2: little put baby in a corner. Yeah, that's what he did, right.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to say, though, Jeff, that this is
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  Speaker 2: not just Howie, Like, yes, Howie is the guy, but
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  Speaker 2: it's also mister Loriie. Yeah, Like that's what people don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Like Jeffrey is very involved. Like everybody talks about Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a collaborative decision between Howie Roseman and
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Lewyd. Jeff knows everything that's going on. Absolutely, I'll
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  Speaker 2: just say we'll let Howie handle that. Nope, he's in
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  Speaker 2: just kind of like Middleton is with the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, but if you ask for a report card and
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  Speaker 2: a great over the last couple of years, he's got
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  Speaker 2: to be in the A A minus realm. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: miss all MutS man, yea. The thing is when he
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  Speaker 2: does miss, he's able to recover that. Carson Wentz like
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  Speaker 2: the trade, the cap dollars, everything he did.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't get enough attention, my friend, It does not
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  Speaker 1: get enough attention for how he handled that situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Who else does that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you look around. Look at the Atlanta Falcons
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  Speaker 2: right now with Kirk Cousins. They pay a guy guarantee,
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  Speaker 2: three year deal, draft the rookie quarterback. Those dudes on
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  Speaker 2: a bench, what are they gonna do with them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they don't know how to work this through. How he
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  Speaker 2: is it. I mean, I hate to say, you man,
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  Speaker 2: but he's borderline genius.
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  Speaker 1: Man. He knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: I say, is be very careful because we're gonna find out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the allegiance he has to Jeffrey Lowie, because
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  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be some teams that are cam
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  Speaker 2: proud of for him. We've watched coaches be traded before. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 2: don't suckond guess that people at looking at Howie.
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  Speaker 1: That is a very interesting notion, for sure, a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting notion. I like how you give Howie Roseman himself
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  Speaker 1: like like an a. We're gonna certainly get to the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles towards the end of our discussion here, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: but I also wanted to talk about another GM too
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  Speaker 1: here before we get like like dive into the report
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  Speaker 1: card with the four major Philly sports teams. And that
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  Speaker 1: other GM is Daryl Moury for the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been taking a lot of heat over
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  Speaker 1: the past couple of years, and I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your take on what kind of GM he has been
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  Speaker 1: for this Sixers organization. Now, everything we know revolves around
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  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. We know that as fans it's no secret
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  Speaker 1: at all, and it's up to Daryl Morey to kind
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  Speaker 1: of fill in the pieces. There are only so many
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  Speaker 1: free agents available. You know, what does he do with
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  Speaker 1: draft picks? Well, we've seen what he's done with some
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  Speaker 1: draft picks in the past. Do you think he's done
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  Speaker 1: the best job that he can over the past few
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  Speaker 1: seasons trying to get this team past the first and
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  Speaker 1: second rounds of the postseason. How do you characterize Daryl
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  Speaker 1: Mourray as a GM for the Sixers at this particular
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  Speaker 1: point time as we're starting off twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is he still the GM? Because I haven't
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  Speaker 2: heard from him, hadn't seen him, haven't heard he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been out. I mean, can we just call Nick Nurse
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  Speaker 2: the GM right now? Because I mean, he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: taking on a heat for everything. I mean, I really
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  Speaker 2: feel bad for him, to be honest with you. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I will say about Darryl Moury is
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  Speaker 2: we can't say that he hasn't put one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: effort into making this a championship caliber team. He just
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  Speaker 2: has Whether morves haven't worked, I don't know. But listen,
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  Speaker 2: there was a Ben Simmons Soka too that he inherited it,
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  Speaker 2: that he decided to say, you know what, screw it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done right. So I applaud him for that, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't like the way he's handled this
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  Speaker 2: whole season so far when it started. Loved the off season.
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  Speaker 2: I think he did everything he could. He did a
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  Speaker 2: couple of magic hat right, I mean, really pulled a
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  Speaker 2: couple of guys out of a hat there. But yep,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with this whole thing going on, Jeff, he
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  Speaker 2: should have been front and center. He should have been
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  Speaker 2: talking about this joellabeat incident.
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  Speaker 1: He should have been front and center back when they
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  Speaker 1: were twelve, two and twelve.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 1: He should have been front and center when they were
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  Speaker 1: two and twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and that's it's almost Remember it reminded me of
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  Speaker 2: Brett Brown, soaka, yeah, like Brett Brown was taking all
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  Speaker 2: these bullets for everybody, and I felt bad for the god. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: We're watching these news conferences with Nick Nurse and you
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  Speaker 2: see them going like he has no idea. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I felt bad and he's a good head coach.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good head coach. Nick Nurse is a good
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  Speaker 1: head coach in the NBA. Is being hung out to dry.
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  Speaker 1: It's how it seems because, like you said, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: heard from Darryl. We're not sure where he is, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes. It's not a good look
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  Speaker 1: at all. That great for Darryl Moury. Man, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's dropping a bit here for me, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look a for effort, but I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: all about execution. And he's getting paid a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: chunk of change. Right. Never he was going to retire,
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  Speaker 2: but you know they gave him all that morning. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: he's done whatever he could. And you said it to
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  Speaker 2: end this up, you talked about Joe ELMBI. This team
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  Speaker 2: lives or dies? Which simple is that? And unfortunately, I'll
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  Speaker 2: say this, I'll continue to say it. I think the
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  Speaker 2: window has passed.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me want to cry, voice cracking and crying.
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  Speaker 2: I know it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's air man.
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  Speaker 2: Look at these teams, chef, look at look at the
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  Speaker 2: Look at the Oklahoma Thunders, the Okay season, the world. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you look at this and you say, these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Are getting better, especially Cleveland. Man, Oh my god, I hate.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what I'm saying. Wait, everybody kept saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're kings of the Eat. Guess what that was two
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  Speaker 2: years ago. I don't know if it's like that right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it is either. All Right, Well, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into some report card grades here for these
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  Speaker 1: four Philly sports teams. Uh, let's start off with the
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  Speaker 1: six Ers. We're just talking about this team here. What
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  Speaker 1: grade would you give them at this point in the season,
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  Speaker 1: given the health issues, given how they started the season
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  Speaker 1: mentioned two and twelve right out of the gate, been
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  Speaker 1: dealing with so many different issues this season again health,
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  Speaker 1: just where these guys are from a mental standpoint, given
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  Speaker 1: the start of the season, given what's happened with this team,
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  Speaker 1: just a ton of issues they've been facing with with
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  Speaker 1: regard to just adversity. What grade do you give the marriage? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What's the grade that you would give the Sixers?
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  Speaker 2: And why? You know this is a tough one because
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  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of like a multifaceted question because
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  Speaker 2: I give Nick Nurse an a plus because I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he knew everything and I don't think he control
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  Speaker 2: anything that was going on. So that being said from
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  Speaker 2: a player standpoint, from the team, I give him a
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  Speaker 2: C minus. Man, they came in, they weren't prepared. This
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  Speaker 2: was a team that we told was veterans. We went
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  Speaker 2: out of vecher leadership, Caleb Martin, Eric Gordon, Paul George,
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  Speaker 2: Reggie Jackson, Andre Drummond, let's go, and they all came
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  Speaker 2: out like they were never played before. Right, that turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: bad shots out of sheep, no energy. And your best
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  Speaker 2: player was Ricky Counsel who gets no o'clock, a lester down.
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  Speaker 2: Jared McCain, who was a revelation. Yeah, and Ty Rees
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  Speaker 2: who guess what his effort was there? But his game sucked? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because tin too hard. Yes, So I say minus. I
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  Speaker 2: like the C minus. I think it's a very fair grade.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I could even go D plus to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, because I mean, as as as bad
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  Speaker 1: as Andre Drummond has been. When they first signed him,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, fantastic signing. I think so many
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  Speaker 1: of us were saying it was an under the radar
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  Speaker 1: signing for this team. He is gonna be a great
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  Speaker 1: backup to Joel and it has just flopped in so
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  Speaker 1: many in so many ways, in so many ways. So
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  Speaker 1: all right, well let's move on here. Let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies. It's their off season. They've certainly made
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  Speaker 1: some moves, notably from a pitching standpoint, his whose Lozardo
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  Speaker 1: is in the starting rotation, Jordan Romano in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough to give a grade at times, I know,
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  Speaker 1: while the team is not actually playing. But like you
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  Speaker 1: said with regard to the Phillies earlier, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the hot stove season. You know, the off season is
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  Speaker 1: really important. We're gonna be talking about spring training before
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  Speaker 1: we know it. Here with this team, how are they
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  Speaker 1: setting themselves up here for the twenty twenty five season.
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  Speaker 1: What grade do you give the Philadelphia Phillies at this
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  Speaker 1: point here in January?
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  Speaker 2: And why, Tony, So you're basically talking what they've done
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  Speaker 2: from off season standpoint the great Where.
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  Speaker 1: We are now? Yeah? Yeah, where we are now? It's
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  Speaker 1: a tough one, I think, to be honest, because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted them to get pitching. I wanted them to get pitching.
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  Speaker 1: They've done it. I don't necessarily know if the pitchers
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  Speaker 1: that they've acquired are the ones that we all wanted
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  Speaker 1: necessarily as fans. However, however, they are making some moves here,
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  Speaker 1: so it's difficult for me personally. I would actually go
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  Speaker 1: with a B minus to be honest, That's where I
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  Speaker 1: with this team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, what do you think that's funny? You
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  Speaker 2: said that because I was gonna say the same thing
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  Speaker 2: borderline C plus. Okay, only because I think if Lizardo
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  Speaker 2: comes back and he's healthy, Lessie says he is, you essentially,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, have the best rotation in baseball. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: But there's always the butt, right. I have to look
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  Speaker 2: at this and there's a lot of concerns to me.
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  Speaker 2: And what's concerning is how many years do we hear
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  Speaker 2: about stupid money? How many years do we have We're
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  Speaker 2: just going to get who we want no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: Not worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: The problem I have is I feel as though last
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  Speaker 2: year with the Trey Turner signing, was Middleton saying, I'm
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: gonna give you one more to Don Breowski. You go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: three hundred million dollar guy. But if he doesn't work out,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. And I think that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what happened, and he didn't work out. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: the scary part is you got a catcher who I
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  Speaker 2: love JT. Yes, I love them, but is he gonna
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  Speaker 2: be able to play like yadi are Melina? Is he
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to I don't know. He's on the downslide,
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  Speaker 2: he is, and Jeff, this team I feel has more
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  Speaker 2: questions now than it did last year. And I'm concerned
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  Speaker 2: that the window again for another Philly team is past.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I mean, there's certainly a team we're gonna
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: be getting to it a little bit with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: They're the main hope at this point for a potential championship.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to move on to the Philadelphia Flyers
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  Speaker 1: here because again still in that rebuild mode. But my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I never expected their goaltending to be as absolutely horrendous
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  Speaker 1: at this point as it is. But amazingly enough, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at advanced metrics, they're a top ten team
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: when it comes to playing five on five. It's amazing.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Mattve Mitchkoff has been really fun to watch this season
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  Speaker 1: as of late, hasn't been doing two to two more much.
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  Speaker 1: But this team just isn't executing well this season, not
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  Speaker 1: like they did last season. Believe it or not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's something that's been consistently unfortunate this season. But given
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  Speaker 1: the expectations, given the goalie situation, which is just oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. I mean Ivan Fidotav had a decent game
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  Speaker 1: against Las Vegas after coming back after a month. But
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  Speaker 1: we're here at the beginning of January. What grade would
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  Speaker 1: you give the Flyers? And why?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, you know that colon situation and nobody nobody
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: saw that common man like I isn't that the typical
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: cloud of Philadelphia, Like we finally get it and then
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: boom go on yep, right, I mean I don't want
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: to bring up the guy's name, but Pelly Lindbergh, Right,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: we had one in unfortunate guy passed is in an accident. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean this guy heart's not coming back. We all
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: know that. And I will say this, I'm gonna actually
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  Speaker 2: give him a B plus. No kind of why is
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  Speaker 2: We're weren't expected to win this year and even though
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: a goaltending has been horrific, they've faced a lot of
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: adversity and as much heat as towards gets, I'll tell you, man,
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  Speaker 2: kill he won't be the guy to turn it around. However,
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  Speaker 2: he will be the guy to toughen these guys up
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  Speaker 2: and it teaches him how to be NTL players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you.
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  Speaker 2: Got to take it on a chin a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and say, Okay, as long as he's getting these guys
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  Speaker 2: to that point, then the next guy that comes in,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully they're mature enough. So I don't I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's from lack of effort. I think it's just them
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  Speaker 2: growing pains. Man on a team has faced a lot
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  Speaker 2: of adversity.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's what happens in a rebuild, folks. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a fair grade too, Tony. I do.
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  Speaker 1: And again, folks, we're talking to Tony Catillo from the
• 16:48
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  Speaker 1: Rise r Ize. And before I let you go, Tony,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: we got to talk about Philadelphia Eagles a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more here. I know we talked about Howie Roseman at
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  Speaker 1: the top, but this is a team. They are the
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  Speaker 1: number two seed in the NFC heading into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I did not think this was going to be possible
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, but many have said
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: they're the most complete team in the NFC, and so
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: many of us are actually thinking that, yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl team. This could be another super Bowl year.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: What grade would you give the Birds as they're heading
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs this season here?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, what other great can't you give them except
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: an eight plus? I honestly, you know, absolutely two before
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the bye, we were talking about getting rid of everybody.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: We were talking about another lost year. You thought about
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: a quarterback who can't play, a coach who can't coach.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: He's like, we had so many question marks, and I'm
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: gonna bring this back to the beginning. And I think,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of this has to do with
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: coaching and the guys that Howie Roseman came in. I
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: think the secret assassin I'm gonna call him because the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: way he is really behind the scenes. I think Vic
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Fangio is the reason why Nick Arianni grew up after
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: the bot yep. I think I think Vic played his
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Jim Johnson role, took him in a room I was like, look, kid,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: shut up. Is how we're gonna do it. Okay, Like,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: you've got a great team here, You've got a great system,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: use them and then all of a sudden it clicked.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: And what we're seeing right now, I mean, this is
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the best team I've seen the Eagles ever have in
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: my lifetime. Yeah, I'm being honest, I'm forty six years old.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Just the way the young guys are stepping up, the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: veterans are coming in. And I will say this, how
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: about the fact that the Giants a week before dropped
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: forty five points. Yeah, we played all our offensive plaiers,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: we played our second rate defense, and we still we
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: still made them look silly.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke had thirty yards packs and in the first
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a half. Come on, man, like that's depth. That is
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a major, major aid to Halie Roseman. And I'm really
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: excited about this team, really.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Quick, before I let you go, buddy, I have been
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: talking about it, and we have been talking about on
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: this podcast platform the growth of Nick Sirianni and whether
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it was Vic Fangio or whether it was you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: after you get experienced with any sort of job, anybody
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: grows if they're able to be self reflective. And I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: think Nick Sirianni went through something, whether it was Vic,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: whether it was just looking in the mirror and saying,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you know what, maybe I should be talking crap after games,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you know, with other fan bases, you know, and going
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: back and forth with them. Maybe I need to stop
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with some of the one liners. Maybe I just need
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to grow up a little bit as a head coach.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He certainly has, for sure. I mean we can we
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: can say that so many folks wanted him fired after
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: week three, even we were more so many folks wanted
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: him fired. We don't hear that anymore. Why the guy
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: was able to take a look in the mirror and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: grow up a little bit. It's been great to see.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It really has. At last. I'll say about that. Remember
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: my favorite coach, which is Mike Tomlin. But if you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: remember back in the day when Toma first started, he
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: kind of had that issue too. He did the penalty
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: for sticking his foot out. Yes, right, made it about him,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: and then he grew up.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, you're right, it happens, and hopefully
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: we never talk about this again. And we're holding a
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Lombardi Trophy and we're looking at this going wow.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: What a year from your lips to God's ears again, folks.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Tony Katillo from the Tony Katillo Show, Rise and React
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: media buddy, it was great talking to you. Thanks so
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: much for taking the time come back and jump on
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the pod with me. I would love to talk to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you more. Man.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Sounds great, man. Thanks for having me as always been.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 21:20
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• 21:22
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