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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world, over ten years strong, and Week three of the Philadelphia Eagles twenty
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twenty four season is now in the books. They beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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on the road by a score of twenty five two eleven, which was absolutely
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dominated in the trenches. And we're gonna get into some analysis here, some
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themes and some grades, as we always do on our Eagles postgame shows.
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I'm Jeff Warren and I'm here with one of my good buddies filling in for
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the guys. This week. We've got the one and Only Matt Rogers,
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the honorable mentioned podcast man. How you doing, buddy? Thank you,
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one and only. Thank you. That's that's cool. That's how I always
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introduce you now, the one and only. It was great meeting you.
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It was great meeting you for the first time. By the way, my
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wife and I were down at the Indianapolis Colts preseason game. You were there
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as well, and it was just great meeting you face to face. We've
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been absolute yeah, yeah, we've been doing this for what two years,
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a couple of years now, right, Yeah, yeah, So it was
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nice. You've been doing it for a long time. You're the og Jesus,
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you're the you're like the third person that has said that this year.
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Anyway, thank you, But really getting this game it's a compliment. Yeah,
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Well I appreciate it. I really do. I really do. But
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man, I got to compliment the Eagles in the trenches tonight. I mean,
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holy freaking cow, Matt. When we take away a look at the
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themes here of this game, just you know, coming into this game,
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the Buccaneers, they were giving up big yards to opposing team's number one wide
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receiver last week. DJ Moorey had one hundred and four yards last week against
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against the Buccaneers defense. Justin Jefferson week one had one hundred and fifty yards
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that first game again of the season. And now tonight AJ Brown with one
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hundred and thirty one yards averaging fourteen point six yards per reception and just you
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know, really getting it done. And my gosh, again just the dominance
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offensively and defensively in the trenches. I think when we take a look at
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this game, that's what we've really come away saying, like, my gosh,
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they're just dominant in the trenches. That's what the drafts are. Four
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And as as enraging as the Eagles drafts are, quote boring as people will
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say they are with taking offensive lineman defensive linemen, you saw the fruits of
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those drafts really coming to fruition tonight in the game. Absolutely. I mean,
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it's just the it's the formula the Bird's been working on for the last
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few years, and it's just it's bearing fruit once again. Ye ugly three
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and oh yeah, ugly three and not like I all right, well let's
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get into jail and Hurts here first or second people want to hear, Yeah,
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exactly exactly, because like I'm on the Twitter timeline. Yes, I'm
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still on the Twitter timeline, and I'm thinking to myself as I'm reading some
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of the tweets, I'm not calling it x Nope, nope, nope,
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not gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. But you know, you
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see the criticism of Jaalen Hurts and like, Okay, yes, they're getting
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down into the red zone. They don't necessarily convert and they're they're struggling.
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Okay, they're stalling early on in the game, and I guess when I'm
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looking at what Jalen Hurts has done over the past three weeks. Here,
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Matt, he's a quarterback that continues to make elite plays like he did last
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year. He is, folks, he is an elite talent at quarterback and
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he's making plays when he has to. However, the turnovers are a bit
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of a new development for him this year. He was aggressive but calculated based
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on where the offense was on the field last season. This season a little
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bit more reckless throughout the first three weeks of the season with four turnovers thus
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far in this game. Again, Matt still elite. Jalen Hurts is elite,
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and I'm going to continue to say that word elite because I think some
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people are really forgetting this because he's not one hundred percent perfect this year and
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it's something that, look, folks, it's something that he may not be
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able to attain perfection this year. But again, he is elite. I
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think he may be taking a bit too many chances this season again, maybe
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overthinking some things a bit more reckless. As I mentioned your thoughts on Jaalen
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Hurts, do you think that that's what we're seeing as well well, the
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two picks tonight, because that's the main things that you know that are sticking
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out in people's brains who are listening to this, taking the time listen to
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this. So obviously the first pick to DeAndre Swift, you know, basically
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Deandre's act when he thought he was gonna zig and that if you watch from
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behind, it just clearly Jaalen through it with anticipation, thinking that DeAndre is
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going to make the break. He made the break. He just made the
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break at the wrong side. He hits the linebacker safety instead of DeAndre Swift.
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That's a pick. The second one, I mean, I sometimes you
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just got to take your hat off to the guy. I mean, the
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guy made one hell of a play to pick that off. Keep his feet
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one. I mean all overall, I mean, still Jalen hurts is I
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would give so far Jalen hurts this season. Definitely still a B minus.
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But it's not it's not like he is putting you in a position where you
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don't have a chance to win. Now, maybe you know, and teams
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will pick each other up at times, and sometimes maybe it's just the team's
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time to not maybe ride Jalen hurts his back so much because last season we
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were really, you know, depending on him being able to really carry us.
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So he hasn't played great so far. He still is an elite player.
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But but the pick, the two picks tonight are not you know,
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I'm not I'm not sitting here thinking, oh, has Jalen lost the ability
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to read coverage? Has is Jalen not able to make the throws? I
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mean he's kind of just picking his spots a lot of these times. I
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mean you can watch AJ. He's clearly communicating with AJ, giving AJ look,
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hey, I'm coming to you, and they can't do anything about it.
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You had that third and eight where yeah, that's not a touchdown play
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and that's not going to boost his his quarterback rating. He'd probably boost his
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QBR. But that third and eight that doesn't score late in the game,
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third and nine, something like that, and and AJ Brown's off to the
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left, he hits him with a four curl and the guy just can't stop
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him. I mean, the of course, you would like to see Jalen
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throw you know, four touchdowns, no picks, six touchdowns, one pick,
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things like that, and make sure you know it looks good for the
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for the for the Sports Center captions and stuff like that, but overall,
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again, I mean, in the last twenty one regular season games, he's
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twenty in one, So you can't complete, you know, come on,
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guys, I mean can't complete? What are we what are we talking about?
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Including the Super Bowl? He's twenty in two, So let's let's throw
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the super Bowl in there. There you go, there you go. Ninety
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five percent of the games he's waiting. I'm sorry, guys, it's not
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enough. Exactly what the hell? It's not pure perfection, not pure perfection.
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And look, his pocket presence has been was fantastic in this game as
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well. Sacked one time. And this is a Bucks defense, supposed the
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Baker exactly exactly, this is a bus Bucks defense coming into this game.
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Matt blitzing thirty seven percent of the time, highest in the NFL. They
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were blitzing Hurts early in this game, especially on third down. And yes,
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the Bucks defense kept their team in the game within the first half,
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but it just got away from them again. Jalen Hurts really understanding his pocket
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management, understanding you know, what he needed to do in the pocket,
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went to get out of the pocket one sack. You know, I I
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overall it was a pretty good day for him. Me when we get to
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the grades, people are probably gonna be they only had one sack on Jalen.
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That's it. One sack for six yards, six yard loss, that's
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it. They had great they had They got great pressure on him till I've
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only gotten one sack. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and he was but
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his pocket presence was fantastic in my opinion. So another oh my gosh,
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since we're talking about pocket presence, I just gotta go here, people,
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Baker was bad tonight. I will say, you know, like, yeah,
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Jalen will need to play better because when he's playing the Mahomes in the
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Boroughs and Allen's, you know, they're gonna make you pay for some of
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these. Baker was taken, Saxy had no business taken. Yeah, I'll
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just leave it at that because I know you want to keep rolling. That's
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all right, That's okay. But another theme from this game here, Matt
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was you know we talked about, of course, that miscommunication between DeAndre Swift
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and Jalen Hurts. It resulted in a Devin White interception right before the half,
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and the offense it was frustrating because they could have kind of really put
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the game away right there at the half, and we thought that interception was
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really gonna hurt him, really gonna kill him. But then would the Eagles
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defense do two plays later Jalen Carter strips receiver and gives him back to the
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offense. Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis tow behemoth. Then, who are going
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to wreak havoc in the NFC and in this NFL in general? My gosh,
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where where sometimes I was standing injury exactly exactly where you're double teams that
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stood absolutely no chance at all. They're moving two men, both of them.
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You watched them together moving two guys back. They were devouring as well
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as the rest of the defensive line as well. The defensive dominance was incredible.
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The Bucks had eighty seven yards in the first half because of what they
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did in the trenches on defense. It was something where we're seeing, we're
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seeing the next era the torch being passed from the Fletcher Coxes and Brandon Grahams
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to these younger players here. And we really settled two Yes, let's played
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well today. Very true. He dominated in moments. I mean it was
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incredible. I'm like, if that defensive line plays like they play they played
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tonight, the Eagles will be in the super Bowl. I'm not gonna say
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they're gonna win the Super Bowl, but if that defensive line comes to play
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like that, you cannot run an offense. You cannot sustain offense. Yeah,
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you can get your little eleven point. It's maybe even if you've got
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a great offense twenty four points. But over the course of sixty minutes,
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that is frustrating. It's going to cause you to do stupid stuff, turn
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it over at bad times. Howie way to go. This is I guess
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this is how you build a smart team in the twenty first century. Absolutely,
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a great, great point, Matt. I've been talking about my themes
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that I had throughout this game. Are there any themes that you particularly want
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to dive into here on the post game? Absolutely? DeAndre Swift outstanding pick
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up. You know, I don't want to get out over my skis,
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but he is I'm just gonna say it here. First, he's looking like
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a baby Lashawn McCoy. He is, he is, he is, He
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is making guys miss and he's like running with patients. Not absolutely breathtaking speed.
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But if you if you take the right angles and you accelerate at the
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right moments, you can go ahead and you know, run a sixty yard
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play. And he looks very capable of that gainwell, looks good as a
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you know, a complimentary back. I think that's what his ceiling is.
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Very good complimentary back. Bring him out, Swiss army knife, you know,
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run some screens and things like that. I want to see more Penny.
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So I love I love the mix of running backs, but I do
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want to see a little Penny. I mean, I do want to know
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why he's in the doghouse. It is why he hasn't had a touch.
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I don't know if I've seen a touch this season for Penny. I think
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I think we may have had one. I think we may have had one
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in the first game. I think perhaps maybe it was a second game,
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but I think we have one with him. But going back to DeAndre Swift,
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Matt, interesting how you were talking about his style of play, the
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patience that he has waiting for those blockers to get into their position so that
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he can just be explosive right through the line. It's fantastic. He was
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averaging seven point six yards per carry in the first half on five carrys,
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thirty eight yards in the first half, and then overall in this game one
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hundred and thirty yards on sixteen carries. He averaged eight point one yards per
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carry. What an incredibly dominant He's in the league leaders after getting nothing in
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Week one. Incredible. I don't even have to like fact check that.
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I know that if you're averaging, he's now over the last two games averaging
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over one hundred yards a game after doing nothing in Week one, Right,
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give him the opportunity to do anything. He's now averaging one hundred yards a
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game. He damned there in the Offensive Player of the Year. I mean
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through Week three discussion. Absolutely absolutely, I meant that. At one point
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in the third quarter, he was averaging nine point three yards per carry.
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I'm like, oh my gosh, he's almost averaging a first down on every
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carry. I was like, Jesus, if he does this for another week,
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they're gonna have They're gonna be obliged to start putting, you know,
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really silly, ridiculous you know, charts and stuff, because when you put
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the numbers in the performance on tape, you just put yourself in those conversations.
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Yeah, if DeAndre Slift has another one of these one twenty one,
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you know, one fifty, he's off the races to be towards a thousand
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yards by week four week absolutely absolutely great, great points for sure. And
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moving over to the defense, another theme real quick before we get to the
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grades, Matt, is that I think an underrated aspect of what the defense
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has been has, honestly Zach Cunningham, because I saw him a number of
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times just getting into plays where where he needed to make a play and he
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ended up coming coming, coming through big time for the defense. Zach Cunningham.
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As much as we have been worried about Kobe Dean's injury, what that
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means in terms of his development, but what it means to the middle of
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the field so far through three games, I think Zach Cunningham is one of
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is one of the most underrated storylines of this Eagles defense and the team in
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general. Yeah, he's playing well. He'll probably if he stays healthy and
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the Eagles don't make a move, he'll probably lead the team. And tackles
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Marrow played well today. I wouldn't be shocked if a team in Carolina took
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another loss in the next week if the Eagles weren't interested or wouldn't look at
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bringing in like a Jeremy chan I still I think that they're playing well.
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I just don't know over the course of seventeen weeks. If you know Cunningham
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Morrow, you know that that group is gonna be able to really get it
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done. When you're you know, when you go through a murderous row of
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sophisticated you know, run blocking schemes, that's still you know, the defensive
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line is dominant. But at the end of the day, you know,
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if it's Cunningham versus McCaffrey, and it's you know, late in the fourth
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and in an important game, that I you know, I don't have to
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potentially mention you still will you'd rather have McCaffrey, And that's I'm taking McCaffrey.
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I'm taking McCaffrey over a lot of guys. Yes, so I would.
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I would still look to make a I would like to make a move,
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have some kind of plan B, because you're obviously thin. If you're
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pushing Morrow and cunning him into major major they're playing great. No disrespect to
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those guys, they just haven't yet put on tape that they're that next level
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a linebacker. And that's partially how you know, I'm talking about how how
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he runs this franchise. He just is like, I'll mix a match.
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I don't give a damn who the linebacker is. Kaiser, Jordan Hicks,
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go get your money and I'll go keep going to the conference championships. Absolutely,
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go to Arizona. Jordan Hicks Arizona. They both would Arizona actually do.
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That's funny. Absolutely they did. But look, you know, another
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aspect of this defense before we get into the grades and the other themes that
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you have, Matt, is that the injuries that in Week two that were
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really prevalent as this team faced the Vikings, you know, read Blank and
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Ship and getting getting James Bradberry back, two guys in the secondary that are
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absolutely huge Read Blank and Ship with that interception with two minutes about two minutes
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and thirty minutes, two minutes and thirty seconds left in the first half.
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And then James Bradberry, Yeah, I started at outside cornerback in the Eagles
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Base five two defense, but then we saw him playing a lot of slot
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because they brought in Josh Job played the outside. Bucks were really testing Josh
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job on the opening drive in throughout the game as well, and he held
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up. He did not completely crap the bed. But having James Bradberry,
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especially in the slot since Avonte Maddox is out getting read blank and ship back
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two guys on this defense who they sorely missed in week two, and they
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showed up big time tonight in their return and it was great. I got
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to be honest with you, Jeff, I'm just gonna you know, I
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like you know. I love my birds, I love James Bradberry. Seems
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like a great guy. He's an outside corner. I do not like the
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idea, especially seeing what I saw tonight, what I saw in the super
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Bowl with him in the slot with Juju, I don't think he has that
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quick twitch. He's a long strider. He'll keep up with you, you
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get to back off. He doesn't have like that quick twitch that Vonte Maddox
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or these other you know, really good slot corners who was able, who
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were able to adjust and all that. Yeah, he's good and he's smart
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and he's able to press up on guys. But if people give him a
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good press move like you saw with Chris Godwin, just cooking him in the
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slot. Yeah, I don't love it. I mean, Travis Kelsey was
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cooking him in the Super Bowl yea before before the bad holding call. You
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know, I was looking forward to Bradberry. I was, you know,
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I saw a lot of graphics. Oh, Bradberry's great, you know,
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and he's shut down Kelsey a couple of years ago, and all this.
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I'm not loving the Bradberry and the slot I got I got. I don't
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know if you know. I'm not trying to dis him, but it hasn't
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been looking good, is all. I gotta say. The slot issue is
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going to be interesting to follow for sure over the course of this season,
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not having a Vonte Maddox there because of Vonte Maddocks, one of the best
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in the league playing the slot appearing some absolutely yeah, can't just replace that,
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absolutely? All right? Do you have any other themes map before we
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take a quick break and before we get into our grades. Well, I
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think that obviously you've got trap game. You know, the discussion you'll come
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into this trap games week against the two and one Commanders, and I think
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I think it's important for the Eagles to go into the prepare the preparation for
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this game, look into you know, hang a serious impressive beating. Of
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course, you know a W is impressive. It's the NFL. It's hard
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to win games. But it's important to hang an important number because now now
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you're getting ready to be compared against the Chiefs in the bill in the forty
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nine ers. You gotta go up against those guys. You need to put
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good stuff on tape, absolutely good, good theme talk about before we hit
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the brake, and we're gonna get to our grades in just a bit.
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We're gonna take that break right now. We'll be back in just a bit.
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All right, we are back and again with Matt Rogers from the honorable
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mentioned podcast. I listen on Apple Podcast and you should listen to Matt and
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his great guests that he brings on during the course of the football season.
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I'm sorry including you. Oh you're very sweet, Thank you very much.
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Yes, yes, yes, we always have a good time. Man,
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when we're on the microphones, we always have a great time. But all
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right, well let's get into some grades here. Oh wait, oh at
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politodope on the Twitter dot com, dude, I just I've been saying,
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is all right? Go ahead with X. I am so tired of X
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and the and the ridiculousness. We didn't Elon want to. Didn't he want
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to call PayPal X when he was there, Like I seriously think when he
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was like on their board or something, he wanted to call PayPal X.
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I have no idea what his obsession is with the letter X at this point.
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Boy, what a deviation. It's like I mean, it's it's like
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a. It's like a. It's like a great friend yours who went and
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started doing crack. It's like, man, you're a Shelly yourself man,
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Like I love it. I love this like you were my mad You're a
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damn crackhead. Now I love it. Oh my gosh, I completely derailed
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the postgame show there, all right, wonderful, wonderful. All right,
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let's get because he refused to call it X exactly exactly. Let's get into
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these grades. We're gonna grade by unit and then grade the coaching. We
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didn't talk about special teams, but we're gonna get they're very, very pleasantly
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surprised by a lot of what's happening on special teams here. All right,
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let's get a quarterback position. Jalen hurts, I'm at I am going to
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give him a B plus this week. I absolutely think, based on what
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I said earlier in the show, that he is still making elite plays.
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We saw that touchdown pass to Zacaius. What an incredible throw under dress and
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that's just one of the elite plays, just one of them that he made
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tonight and it happened to be for a touchdown. I'm giving Jalen Hurts a
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B plus. What do you give him this week? It's interesting because at
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the beginning of the show, I figured that you would give him. I
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don't necessarily disagree, but I don't know is eighty six If I'm doing like
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numbers, it's more like that eighty six range. Okay, that's a bee
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then, and I think that's a good bee. Yeah, it's a good
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be. Solidly Yeah, I think he's working through right now. I think
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the part of his of his development is he's learned learning to start trusting his
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guys when they're not open yet, like in terms of throwing jump balls,
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in terms of just like hey, stop caring so much. Like he's trying
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to learn a little bit pushing himself into being a gun slinger. You can
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see it. He's like shaking his head and very frustrated by that pick.
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Like he knows he like last year and in years past, he wouldn't have
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thrown that. Even the guy made an incredible play down at the line to
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pick to pick that ball off. But he's like, I wouldn't have even
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thrown that, And it's because I'm trying to get my guys. He's got
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guys competing for and that's the that's the thing. I don't know. I
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don't like that from AJ. I don't know not to try to go too
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far off the point here, but I don't like AJ doing that because we
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have such a so many tools in the shed, and the thing that makes
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all of them able to succeed from week to week is you don't know who's
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going for one hundred and thirty hundred like AJ did today, could be devote,
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could be AJ, It could be gained well, it could be God
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heard. And so if if a certain guy while the team is winning,
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starts complaining, then it Having played that position myself, you do you do
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want to like cater to it and you're not playing the game. So yeah,
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he's dealing with all those things. I kind of talked myself in more
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like, yeah, so like B B plus. I'm with you. Yeah,
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I think a lot of people would actually give him more of a C
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plus in this game. Just by looking at the box score twenty three or
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thirty seven, two hundred seventy seven yards, one touchdown, two interceptions with
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a rating of seventy one point six, I think a lot of people would
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be like, Okay, that's a C plus score. I actually think it's
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a B plus. So I'm glad we're right there around the same area there,
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Matt. So quarterback rating to tell you what quarterback rating tells you.
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Yeah, I looked at it before the game. Baker's quarterback rating in the
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game tonight was higher than than Jalen Hurts. Oh absolutely, yes, absolutely,
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I think he was the high. I think he was the second highest
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in the league. I think heading into this week three. During this game,
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oh during this game. Okay, Tonight's get you guys. You guys,
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if you listen to this show, you watch tonight's game, you've seen
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some highlights and Jalen's quarterback rating was like seventy one point one and Bakers is
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like seventy three. Yeah, And you tell me if you think that that
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means something. Okay, all right, very good, very good, exactly
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exactly. So all right, let's move to the running back position. DeAndre
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Swift sixteen carries one hundred and thirty yards eight point one yards per carry.
25:26
As I mentioned earlier in the show, Kenny Gainwell fourteen fourteen carries forty three
25:32
yards on the night, three point one yards per carry. Jalen Hurts had
25:36
ten carries in this game, twenty eight yards two point eight yards per carry.
25:41
This team averaged five yards per carry on forty carries. It's just it's
25:47
just an incredible, incredible dominance. Two hundred and one total yards on the
25:52
ground. I'm gonna give the running backs, and I know I put Jalen
25:55
Hurts in there in terms of his stats, but but the running backs running,
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yeah, I mean they didn't score touchdown. Jalen Hurt certainly scored a
26:03
rushing touchdown. But I'm going to give them an a this week, and
26:06
especially because of DeAndre Swift and what he's been able to do. What do
26:08
you what do you give him? I'm kind of like in my own mind
26:12
kind of battling, you know, are we spoiled? I mean, you
26:15
know, you're putting up two fifty two hundred, two hundred. They only
26:19
did two touchdown. They just totally dominated. Every time there was a third
26:25
and one, yeah, or fourth and one that you knew what the whole
26:27
stadium knew what we were doing. They couldn't stop it. But we didn't
26:30
score enough touchdown, So it's not an So we're kind of we're kind of
26:34
spoiled in that respect. So but I still agree. I think it's I
26:38
think it's an A. I need to see gain Will still game will still
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disappointing me. I would like to see again, I need to see more
26:48
Penny because I'm not convinced that Gainwell's, like you know, needs to be
26:53
your number one or your number two. And that's just me being honest.
26:57
Okay, all right, very good. Let's move to the receivers. Wide
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receivers and tight ends in this game here two hundred and seventy seven total yards
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receiving, led again by A. J. Brown, one hundred and thirty
27:08
one yards on the day, average fourteen point six yards per reception, Ola
27:14
matte Zacus twenty nine yards he averaged on two catches fifty eight total yards.
27:21
Dallas Goddard came down with five balls for forty one yards and DeVante Smith came
27:23
down with four balls for twenty eight yards. I am going to give the
27:27
receivers in this game because I think at times there was probably maybe some miscommunication.
27:34
AJ Brown he led a couple passes U you know, go right off
27:40
of his fingertips as well. I'm going to give the receivers in this particular
27:42
game of B plus. What do you give them or more like a B
27:48
There are, like you said, concentration, dropsy. A J. Brown
27:52
had a touchdown that would have helped Jalen stat line, which is, you
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know, apparently all we're gonna talk about this week. So yeah, I
28:03
think that they can play better. But again this is just you know,
28:06
us being a little spoiled at the moment because yeah, A J. Brown
28:08
who just hammered these guys for what eight eight for one thirty nine for one
28:15
thirty one yep, targets, fourteen targets. Yes, we're spoiled up.
28:26
Yes, it is absolutely offensive line. I'm giving them a straight up A
28:30
plus because DeAndre Swift was just incredible. The pass protection was incredible as well.
28:37
There's not too much else to say. Again, as I said,
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a top of the show. Offensive line, defensive line. This was a
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game that was won in the trenches. They're offensive lines getting an A plus
28:45
for me? What do you give them? Buddy? Can we send the
28:48
whole whole offensive line to the Pro Bowl? Let's do it. Let's start
28:55
the campaign right now, Let's do it. Little all have to start.
29:00
But can they all go? Because Cam Jurgons there were a lot of questions
29:04
about Cam Jurgons. Is he was he going to be able to get the
29:07
leverage to continue to power like Samalo did at rank guard and still power and
29:12
u through people for two hundred yards and for all these qbats, sneaked tush
29:17
pushes and such. He's answering the call. And so who's the missing?
29:23
I mean, they're all good. You got. I mean, there's no
29:26
there's no weak link on the start air five, there's no weak link exactly
29:32
exactly. Let's move over to the defensive side of things. Not much needs
29:37
to be said for the defensive line. A plus? What do you give
29:38
them? I mean, how could they have played better? I guess you
29:42
need a strip sack. I mean, yeah, safety, you know,
29:47
just oh my gosh, it was just incredible. They were aided by Baker
29:52
with no QB pocket awareness tonight. I do got to throw that disclaimer in
29:56
there because I want to make some people know, you know, we're not
29:57
bssing them on this. Because Baker took sacks tonight and held onto the ball
30:03
too long and situations where it was clearly not nothing happened. He needed to
30:07
throw it away. He tried to keep plays alive. He's looking real,
30:11
Baker Biggs. So absolutely all right. The linebackers, I'm gonna give him
30:15
a straight up be like I said, you know, talking to There's not
30:19
too many linebackers on this team, as we know, but the two that
30:22
were there and really playing tonight, I think they played a solid game.
30:26
And again Zach Cunningham again one of the most underrated storylines I personally think this
30:30
season. So I'm giving him a B. What do you give him?
30:33
Yeah, I'm in that range B B. Plus. I liked the safety
30:37
was good. I liked that forty one Morrow got the got the attack on
30:41
that one. And so they played as well as we need them to play.
30:45
I mean, clearly, how he again, like we said, how,
30:47
he doesn't give a damn. He's like, hey, Jeff, Matt,
30:49
you get out there, hit behind Jordan Davis, follow him, there's
30:55
gonna be nobody to touch you. Hit the quarterback, stop the running back.
31:00
Nice all right, the secondary safeties and cornerbacks, there were certainly some
31:07
challenges, but at the end of the day, Tampa Bay's receiving one hundred
31:11
and forty six yards total and I think they just did a bang up job.
31:15
And again, I mean having James Bradberry back again, having Read blanket
31:18
Ship back was just a great just great for the defense overall. I'm gonna
31:25
give them this week and b plus, what do you give them? Same?
31:29
Same? I like it first game without Avonte Maddox. I did like
31:33
that they were mixing in Sydney Brown some read Blanketship has been awesome. I
31:37
mean, the guy is he's playing not to get out of because you know,
31:44
Gardner Johnson was getting picks. He's ball hawking, but playing the safety
31:48
position minus like the splash of like a ball hawk play. Read Blanketship is
31:53
playing the position at the level of like as good as you want somebody to
31:59
be playing. Say yeah yeah, and I'm not you know, laying it
32:02
on thick. I mean, he's just he's not he's not cooking he's not
32:07
like making Sports Center plays, but he's in the right position every time,
32:13
finishing up, you know, tackles on running backs. If a guy's catching
32:16
a pass over the middle, the guy brought him down, he's trying to
32:20
finish on the right angle to try to punch the ball out or hit the
32:22
ball out. He's playing the position at a high level right now. I
32:28
don't know about Pro Bowl, but at a high level, very high level.
32:30
Absolutely. All right, Uh, we're gonna move over to the coaches.
32:34
Here is where running a little low on time. We're gonna start with
32:38
special teams, and boy, the special teams unit here, Holy crap.
32:42
We actually saw some good stuff from Britain Covey. We saw we saw a
32:45
fifty two yard punt return in the first quarter. And this boy, this
32:51
good boy is averaging twenty seven yards per punt return on three returns in this
32:58
game. I loved it. I loved seeing it. It's like, my
33:00
gosh, you know that that fifty two yarder mats kind of look Darren Sprowl's
33:06
ish. I'm not gonna go there necessarily, but it was just nice to
33:08
see. And maybe you're giving him an a minus. I'm giving him A.
33:13
There you go, A minus for special teams. I am totally with
33:16
you. You had Jake Elliott making all three of his field goals, two
33:20
of his extra points, his field goals at thirty eight, thirty six,
33:23
and twenty six yards. I don't know how good Brandon Man is. He
33:28
only had one point when thirty eight yards inside the twenty went to the sixteen.
33:32
I don't want to see you stay on the side of exactly keep this
33:37
guy, hire me a couple of all right, A minus for special teams.
33:45
The defensive side of things, boy, we gotta give the defense here
33:47
a straight up A. They I be incredible, incredible performance. Are you
33:53
going to give him an A as well? Matt? Yeah. The only
33:58
reason I don't give him an eight because it was Baker who was sucking tonight.
34:01
Yeah, honestly, Yeah, absolutely, But you have to take advantage
34:06
of your opponents, and they certainly did that when he was down and out.
34:08
I don't know if I could say that, old pst, but that's
34:12
what he was doing. You can, yes, no, you can,
34:15
all right. Moving over to the offense, Nick Sirianni, Brian Johnson,
34:20
I'm gonna give these gentlemen, uh in a minus this week. I don't
34:22
know, some curious calls here and there, but overall overall, I mean,
34:28
what you're on the road, you know, you're putting together a game
34:31
plan and and you're you're you're wanting to exploit what the defense is giving you.
34:37
And that's what they did. So I'm giving them an a minus.
34:39
What do you give them? Yeah, a minus. The one call that
34:45
sticks out to me and I know we're running low on time was the third
34:49
was the second and one they got down the second one down by the goal
34:52
line close towards the end of the game. Uh, not the last drive,
34:57
but the second to last drive they were trying to score. They throw
35:00
the second one the slant to A J. Brown. He throws it over
35:06
Neil's hands, but AJ drops it. They should have run it on that
35:09
play and just thrown too straight. Uh, if you're gonna if you don't
35:14
get it on, if you don't get it on second from the ground,
35:16
then you then you throw on on third and fourth. Really, but so
35:22
that's the one. They're just moments where it's a little too cute, a
35:25
little too cute. Yeah, we saw those moments for sure. Great great
35:30
show, great podcast here with you again, folks. Matt Rogers from the
35:35
honorable mentioned podcast at Polatodope on Twitter. The sex stuff, I mean,
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I don't even use it. I don't even use it, as you know,
35:46
you've ply it just for the pod, yep, No, just for
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the pod. He's on threads as well, folks, follow him on the
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innerwebs. Dude, it was great talking to you. Thanks so much for
35:57
filling in for the guys here. Any last bit of words before we head
36:00
out, not man, but but whenever, whenever we do link up for
36:05
the post game. We've been knowing it here for a lot of WS.
36:08
I don't know. Yep, I don't really remember a loss like oh I
36:14
don't either. Actually, geez, the Cowboys we did the mention right,
36:19
we did? We did. We did Christmas Eve. That's what we got.
36:22
One under our belt, one under our belt. Alright, folks,
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