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All right, everybody, you are listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at Philadelphia
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Sports Stable podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world. Week nine of the Philadelphia Eagles twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season
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is now in the books. They beat the Dallas Cowboys, another divisional win
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at the Link. I score twenty eight to twenty three. It was a
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nail fighter coming down to the last play of the game. I am Jeff
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Warren and I'm here at my buddy from the honorable mentioned podcast. I listen
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on Apple podcast. We've got, as I usually say, the one and
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only Matt Rogers. Buddy, how you doing. I don't know. If
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I don't know, I'm okay. You know. You know my heart has
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gotten back down to regular, regular rhythm pattern. Yeah, exactly, My
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gosh, after that one, Holy cow. Look, it was not the
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greatest game from the Eagles defense. And this is now two straight games I
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think where we have seen defensive struggles time and time again, and the offense
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continues to bail out this Eagles team time and time again. Here man,
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defensive struggles continue to persist. I am so happy with this win against Dallas
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Cowboys and the divisional win, third one of this year. But I'm still
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I'm still really concerned about this defense. I'm concerned about the injuries, and
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i know we're gonna get into all this stuff here, So buddy, I'm
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gonna let you first go at what's your biggest theme of the game here?
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As we're you know, looking towards this bye week here, what's your biggest
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theme and takeaway from this game? Right? My biggest theme, of course
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is yeah, obviously you play the Cowboys, you want to win by a
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million. But as we get here to another part of this week where people
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are going to be looking at math, you know, the math, we're
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at halfway, we're a little bit past the halfway point of the season.
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The Eagles are have eight wins, you know, they win half of their
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the remaining games, they'll have twelve, you know, getting towards twelve thirteen
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wins. They've got three divisional wins in their pocket, and so they're in
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really good pole position, you know, with the Cowboys, basically in the
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cellar with the Commanders, with the Commanders with one less win than them this
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season. Of course, they have more losses, but the Commanders actually have
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had to play the Eagles twice, and the Commanders are four and three against
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everybody except for the Eagles. So it's you know the rest of the division,
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which is the Giants are just pitiful team. Yes, so that part
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is over, so I really I'm at a metal. My takeaway from this
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game is this puts the Eagles heading into the bye week in a really really
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good position watching football next week. I don't know who the commit Cowboys have,
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you know, should they be able to log another loss. I mean,
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the Eagles are sitting pretty and really trying to get themselves ready for postseason
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action. In this game, yeah, this Eagles team definitely needs this bye
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week coming up. With regard to the injuries, I mean, the biggest
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injury coming out of this game Dallas Goddard in the third quarter. It's either
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his elbow or his forearm. He was downgraded to out after that particular play.
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It was a fantastic play, a twenty eight yard pass play from Jalen
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Hurts to Goddard there and it was actually that play. It was that play
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Matt where Jalen Hurts surpassed Tommy Thompson, who played for this Eagles organization from
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nineteen forty one to nineteen fifty and Jalen Hurts actually passed him for the sixth
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most passing yards in Eagles history ten two hundred and forty already point, yes,
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already at this point in his career. So I mean, you gotta
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give Jalen Hurts so much credit in terms of what he did in this game.
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We're gonna get to Jalen in just a bit here. But again,
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in terms of the injuries, Dallas god Her and quite frankly, we saw
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Jordan Davis hobbling off the field, Fletcher Cox hobbling off the field, Milton
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Williams, all these guys injured in the first half. Ni Kobe Dean was
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limping off the field at one point with the foot injury. He was not
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able to come back at all. And it's it's really concerning how a lot
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of this defensive players and defensive studs too have been really dealing with injuries.
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This bye week could not be coming at a better time. Yeah, we'll
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get to this later. I had something, so I'll put a pin in
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that as we moved to the next segment. I don't want to cook it
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sounds good, sounds good to me well and for me. I think one
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of the biggest themes of this game too, from an offensive standpoint, Matt,
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is that you had one quarterback that was able to really make plays when
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he needed to and another quarterback who is not able to make plays when they
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needed to. Not a superstar. Just can we say now Dak is not
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an NFL superstar, He's just not. I mean, I think we could
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have said that a little while ago. To quite frankly, I mean,
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you look at the stat sheets. Dak had a pretty decent day twenty nine.
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He had a good game. Yeah, he did from a stats perspective,
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but when it comes down to those plays where when you need that fourth
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down play or it's crunch time, when you have your night, he's not
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your guy. He's just not your guy at all. Jalen Hurts is,
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Yeah, Jalen Hurts he is. It's amazing. Seventeen of twenty three,
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two hundred and seven yards, not a ton of yards on the day,
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but what he was able to do with his legs, how he kept drives
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alive, he average nine yards per attempt, two touchdowns he threw, and
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he ended with a rating of one hundred and thirty point two. Incredible and
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incredible. It's a bad man, absolutely, and it's only getting better,
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only getting better. NFL fans absolutely're not if you're if you're not an Eagles
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fan, you know, well, I'm sorry to be you. Yeah,
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sorry, but right, Jalen Hurts getting the crap kicked out of his knee
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the way that he did in the second right before the half, right before
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the you know, in the second quarter, right before the half, and
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he was able to get back in there. I mean, I'm assuming you
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had to get some sort of shot or took some sort of Oh we got
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they said he he had an IV. No, that's right, he had
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an IV in mixed Sirianni's office apparently. Yes, so hey, whatever you
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need exactly. Jalen Hurts the absolute stud of this game, getting it done
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when he needed to. And uh again, that's one of my biggest takeaways.
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Do you have any other takeaways and themes from this game you want to
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get into here, Matt, Yeah, yeah, And I hate to be
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the bearer bad news on this again. I'm going to beat this drum,
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just like I said for a while before the Eagles had gotten rid of Anthony
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Harris, that he was looking a little slow. Uh, you know,
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James Bradberry's just looking slow as a NFL dB. He's getting picked on it
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as when the chips were down, who did the who did the who did
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the Cowboys decide? Oh, we're throwing at this guy, James Bradberry.
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Every single time when it's a foot race, they're throwing at James Bradberry.
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The Eagles have to figure out, how are we gonna are we gonna try
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to roll him into some three safety kind of looks. Can Bradbury be an
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effective safety? Try to train up some of these other guys to be because
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as as far as just coverage, yeah he can be in the vicinity,
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but it doesn't really matter in the NFL because if you get these great quarterbacks
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like Josh Allen or Joe Burrow, they'll fit it in a tight space.
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And yeah, James Bradberry, you were close, but you're just getting beat,
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you know, in a foot race. So that's a big that's a
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big thing. And uh. Also I'm also looking forward to seeing how much
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they continue to integrate Julio Jones in that tight end kind of role, receiving
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tight end kind of role. That's the that's the role I see him.
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I don't think he's really talking about not you know, being a low long
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in the tooth and not being able to beat people in terms of speed.
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Putting him on the outside is kind of a fool's errand but I really like
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him in the red zone, you know, two tight end kind of mix
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and mesh and all kinds of things like that, which they probably are going
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to need to do with Dallas Goddard and his potential injury. I know we
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still have to wait for a word on what Goddard's injury is going to be.
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But I think it's a great point, Matt. It's a fantastic point.
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You know, Julio Jones may be that tight end type of personnel player
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that this Eagles team is going to need depending on what happens with Dallas Goddard.
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But it's interesting how you mentioned cornerback James Bradberry because another corner well,
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I'm sorry, safety Kevin Byrd, who was just recently brought in in a
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trade. And frankly, I mean yes, I love nine total tackles on
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the day. Second in the team in total tackles. Zach Cunningham was first
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with ten, but in terms of coverage, there are times when I'm seeing
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Kevin Byard, I'm seeing Darius Slay read blank and ship James Bradberry. We
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already talked about poor Eli Rix was getting picked on early by Ceedee Lamb.
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I'm not sure why Sean Desaigh decided that that was going to be the best
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course of action, but I'm seeing a lot of these guys. Whether it
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is the zone coverage that is being consistently played by Sean Decigh, I'm not
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sure if he's putting these guys in the best possible position. I'm not sure.
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Because Kevin Byern I wanted him to be that difference maker coming right in,
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and of course he's making tackles that he needs to make, which is
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great. But I'm talking about being a difference maker in terms of just being
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disruptive in the defensive blackfield, and we haven't seen it yet, and I
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know he's only been here a couple of weeks, but my gosh, it's
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I need to see that from this defensive secondary. The secondary's really struggling here,
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Matt, Yeah, they are, and I think it's just you know,
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they made the right move. James Bradberry played his cards, right,
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he played really well, they went all the way to the Super Bowl.
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They were able to get the bargain on him that they could and so you
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know, quarter corners of the ilk of James Bradberry just don't grow on trees.
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And you know you got to kind of pay that price. Yeah,
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But what you're seeing is is why in the NFL they don't like to try
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to pay guys at thirty thirty one because you're only going to get so you
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know, you're only gonna get slower. Yeah, and you can see you
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can see that in James game. And he's still a good player. He's
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still right there in coverage as a heavy player. You know, is not
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afraid to confront in the running game. So it's not to you know,
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talk about his his motivation or his his intellect as a player. It's just
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he just looks slower. Yes, effect he absolutely does. And it's something
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that we're going to be keeping tabs on. Certainly we've talked a number of
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times, even when Matt has not been on the podcast here and doing the
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postgame shows. Matt, it's something we've been talking about. You're here on
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this podcast, and I think others are talking about it as well. I
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did want to get into some notable milestones. Of course, I already mentioned
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Jalen Hurts surpassing Tommy Thompson's record for sixth not record, but have six most
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passing yards in Eagles history. Jalen Hurts also set an Eagles quarterback record with
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his thirty third career rushing touchdown, passed Randall Cunningham on the Eagles all time
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rushing touchdown list, which was great. Davonte Smith, even his touchdown that
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he had in this game gave him two hundred career With that touchdown that he
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had, it was his two hundredth career reception. There was one gentleman,
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one one wide receiver who reached that mark faster and franchise history, and that
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was Jordan Matthews believe it or not. Wow, yes, oh no,
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oh, and then hoping much better for you, Davonte, exactly exactly,
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man, I have a Jordan Matthews Jersey believe it or not. I do,
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haven't worn it in a while. So he finished up as like a
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tight end for San Francisco, right, Yeah, I think so. I
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think that talk about the Julio Jones kind of thing. I think they kind
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converted him to the tight end. But I don't know if. I don't
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know if he even I don't even remember a catch. I don't know if
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Yeah, I'm not sure if he did. I don't know if a regular
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season catch was logged or target. But what else? Jordan Matthews great moments,
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including in Louisiana super Dome in the playoffs with Nikky six. Oh yes,
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absolutely, absolutely and real quick too. AJ Brown the fastest Eagles player
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to reach one thousand yards in a season. He's done it in nine games,
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folks, He's over one thousand. Oh my, got in nine games.
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Still, We've still got more time. We've got more weeks, more
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football coming. And A J. Brown is just a fun games yeah,
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oh yes, it's amazing games left. Yes, oh man. Oh Son
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Reddick too. From the defensive side of things, A Son Reddick now has
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ten plus sacks in his last three seasons. Fantastic defensive player there. NFL
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superstar. Yeah, that's NFL superstar, Dak Prescott, NFL superstar, Hassan
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re Yes, what's the respect on the day. Look, this was one
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that could have slipped. It could have slipped for the Eagles. Matt This
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is one of those games, one of those divisional games where it's a knockdown,
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drag out type of situation. That's what we saw. We saw it
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against the Commanders last week. This is what happens in the NFC East again,
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like you mentioned, New York Giants, not the greatest team in the
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world, and people are probably gonna actually the worst. Yes, people are
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gonna plow over them, of course, but this is that division game where
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it's gonna come down. How many times have we seen it over theyres where
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it's gonna come down to the fourth quarter. It's gonna come down to just
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a couple of plays here or there to determine the outcome. And I have
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a feeling we're probably gonna see this when the Eagles head down to Dallas toward
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the end of the season. So it's gonna be It's always fun. It
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is. It is, so before we head into UH grades and uh you
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know, coaches grades, Do you have any other themes that you want to
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get in here? Buddy? I like the Rashad Penny. I don't I
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don't know what happened there. I don't know. It looks like he was
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getting integrated in and then he just disappears. Yeah, it didn't look like
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he'd missed the holes. He was doing what you want Penny to do at
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the running back approaches. It just he had two carries eight yards he average,
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what are we doing yards per carry? It's not like he's some change
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of pace back or anything like. If you're gonna play him, play him
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and let's be hon it like this was this. There were a lot of
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rushes in this game, and yes, ten of them came from Jalen Hurts.
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Not all of them were designed rushes, of course, but in terms
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of rushing, thirty three rushes for one hundred and nine yards three point three
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yards per attempt overall for this team. Meanwhile, Jalen Hurts threw the ball
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twenty three times, so it was more of a quote rushing attack, but
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I think more balanced. In the end, DeAndre Swift did not have the
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greatest. Eighteen carries for forty three yards. He averaged two point four yards
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per carry, And it begs the question, as you're mentioning here, Matt
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Rashad Penny, you know, let's get him a little bit more active and
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integrated into this game year. I think it just helps the mentality of the
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team too, because it's such a he's that battering ram. The only way
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that this makes sense, like that his playing time makes sense is if Nick
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Sirianni in the in the offensive coaching staff are concerned about Penny's ball security,
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that's the only way that they make sense, Like we can't afford to allow
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him to put the ball on the ground. That's the only way that he
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gets two carries rushes above what the team ended up you know, doing all
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day. The team does three points something Penny did four. Yeah, but
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he can't get he got the rock twice. That's crazy. I mean,
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look, DeAndre Swift fumbled twice. DeAndre Swift fumbled twice. Jalen Hurts fumbled
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as well. I mean, there's still fumble issues with this team after nine
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games on the season here, and if they're worried about set Penny fumbling the
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ball, I mean we're seeing it week after week here with DeAndre Swift and
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even with Jalen Hurts. But I think the difference is, especially with those
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two guys, is that the end of the day, they're still gonna be
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able to move the ball. And it really does come down to putting the
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ball and Jalen Hurts his hands, letting him take the offense down the field,
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which he is consistently done over and over and again. My last theme
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here, Matt, is that Jalen Hurts is consistently moving this offense down the
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field. The consistency of the offense is something that it's amazing to behold.
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Even though these games are close, the Washington game, both Washington games are
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close. Even though this Cowboys game was a close one, the consistency of
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the Eagles offense never ceases to amaze me. The just the connection between Jalen
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Hurts and AJ Brown. Yeah, AJ Brown did not have a one and
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twenty five plus yard game for the first time in six games here or seven
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games. Not a default. I'm sorry that that became a default for a
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wi right right. It doesn't mean he had a bad game yet, not
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at all a fantastic game catching a touchdown. Devonte Smith caught a touchdown as
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well. So I think the consistency of this Eagles offense is a major theme
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that we need to consistently be talking about throughout this bye week. Absolutely,
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yep, all right, do you got anything else before we head to break
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and then get back for the grades. Julio Jones look out for him.
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Ooh, Dallas got its industry. Okay, right, sounds good. I
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think I think what you said earlier said at all you know, you'd be
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him being used in a tight end capacity. That's going to be really interesting
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to see how they utilize him, for sure. So bye week. Yep,
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absolutely all right. We are going to head to a break real quick
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to pay some bills, folks. We will be back in just a bit.
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All right, we are back. Got Matt Rogers with us from the
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Honorable mentioned podcast to follow him on Twitter at politidope. He is also on
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threads at politidope as well. And I listened to the Honorable Mention podcast on
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Apple Podcast and you should listen to it on whatever podcast platform you're listening to
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us on right now, let's get into these grades. We're going to grade
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by units, starting with the quarterback position. I am giving Jalen Hurts this
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week an A minus. What do you actually I'm just going to give him
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an A. You know, I was gonna give him the minus for the
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fumble Dad. Everything ended up turning out our right there with that, however,
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Jalen Hurts his consistency is why I'm going to give him an a.
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Just a fantastic performance. We went over the box score earlier in the game.
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I'm giving him an A. What do you give him this week?
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Matt? I want to give him an A. But it's like if I
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if I'm being objective, I'm giving him an A because I know that he's
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dealing with an injury. Yeah, I think because there were some misses,
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but you know, you know, degree of difficulty does matter, kind of
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hemming and hawing. I think I think I'm just gonna go ahead and give
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him an ay because we do know that he's injured. So absolutely what a
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performance with a bum knee? So yeah, all right the site McNabb's game
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where he had like the broken ankle and he threw four touchdowns against the Cardinals,
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it's like, yep, you can't be like, well, if he
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wasn't injured, you know, and he can't thrown six you know, exactly
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all right? The running backs this week again, you know, Kenny Gainwell
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only carried the ball three times, twenty two total yards, seven point three
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yards per carry, pretty nice on three carries, scored a touchdown, and
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Jalen Hurts we know had a rushing touchdown as well. DeAndre Swift, as
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I mentioned earlier, only two point four yards per carry. I felt like
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the rushing attack wasn't necessarily the primary goal and objective of how they were going
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to try to take apart this Cowboys defense. So I'm going to give the
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running backs this week a C plus. It wasn't necessarily the greatest performance in
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the world, but I don't necessarily think they were called upon too too much.
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What do you give the running backs this week, Matt, Yeah,
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I give him a C plus. Yeah, c ish, But the game,
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well, touchdown to get the party started to flip in the hands.
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Oh yeah, good, go ahead and take your C plus exactly, all
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right, sounds good. Tight ends and wide receivers the receiving corps here two
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hundred and seven total yards. They averaged twelve point two yards per reception.
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Two touchdowns on the day. AJ Brown with sixty six yards, Davante Smith
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with fifty one yards, Dallas Goddard with fifty yards as well. Again,
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they needed to make plays when they needed to make plays. I was a
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little surprised that Davante Smith was only targeted three times in this game, and
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he came down with all three balls according to the stat sheet here. So
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I'm going to give the wide receivers a B this week? What do you
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give them? Same? More? Yeah? Like be minus. I I
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liked that they were able to spread spread the ball around, but I need
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to see more from Devonte' Smith. I'm actually, to be completely honest,
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disappointed with Devonte Smith this season. I mean, he he is getting the
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way AJ Brown has completely taken over the NFL. He teams cannot defend him
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the way that they should be able to, and he should be feasting and
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he's not. And so it's kind of it's kind of mounting disappointment. I
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think he you know, he's playing well, but it's like it can always
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be said, like if you took AJ Brown away and you rolled that main
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h you know, double coverage over to him, what he would he be
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doing what he does? And right now, I gotta as an honest NFL
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fan, I would have to say that I don't expect him to do that.
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He needs to step in and and and make people like meat eat those
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words, because he's got all the skills. He's in year two, he's
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going to be asking for his money. Davante stepped the hell up. Yep,
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great points, great points for sure. Let's move over to the offensive
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line, and this is an offensive line I think that had some struggles here
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and there throughout the day. You know, at the end of the day,
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this team wins again twenty eight to twenty three. But Tyler Steen as
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a rookie coming in his very first start, I think there was a little
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bit of disconnect with regard to him and Lane Johnson. Sometimes that pass protection
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was breaking down on the right side of that offensive line. And you know,
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it's weird you have Jason Kelcey actually getting a penalty in this game.
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It wins, Like the last time you've heard Jason Kelcey being penalized for anything,
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and especially a false start kind of bizarre. I'm not going to grade
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based on Kelsey's penalty by any stretch, but Jordan Mylotta having a bit of
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difficulties here and there throughout the game. Not a perfect game by the offensive
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line by any stretch. And it is a tough Dallas defense. I mean,
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let's be honest, it's a tough Dallas defense. So actually, I'm
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gonna give the offensive line a B minus this week. What do you give
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by same, same, same, and I am and I'm glad you raised
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the Jordan my loot of thing. I think you know not to you know,
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diss him or try to slam him, but I think he would be
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a more dominant left guard. I know we have Landon Dickerson and so we
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have the team that we have. Yeah, but his build, his get
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off is just not fast enough. Like if we say, I mean,
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the Browns are not going to get there, so we don't have to worry
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about this. But let's say we were to play the Rounds in the super
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Bowl, which we're not going to do because the Browns aren't that good.
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But that get off with Miles Garrett, he's just gonna blow by Ma Jordan
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my lot. I'm seeing him get just blown past way too often. Yeah,
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it's it's concerning, but it's still a very dominant offensive line. Go,
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I'm definitely going with your B minus on that. All right, let's
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move over to the defense right now, the defensive line. I thought it
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was interesting how at the earlier this afternoon, I got a text from from
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the gentleman that I'm talking to here. Matt sends me a text and he's
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like five sacks. He's like, I'm calling five sacks on the day,
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and I was like, affirmative, Absolutely you did. And I honestly thought
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to myself, I was like, ooh, I'm like, if they get
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five sacks, it means defense is playing pretty good. It means that the
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you know, there's gonna be a decent amount of quarterback hits. And at
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the end of the day, five sacks, four tackles for a loss,
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ten quarterback hits. I mean the defensive line against a very prolific Cowboys offensive
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line I thought did pretty well in this game. They made plays when they
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needed to, and I think at the end of the day, that's why
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I'm going to be giving them an a minus. What do you give them?
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That's right, Yep, that's right. I really I love that that
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when the when the chips were down, they that's the way they build this
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team. Everybody wants people to go and get Bjohn Robinson, go get Christian
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Gonzalez, go and get all these different skill players, flashy positions, wide
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receiver. No, we're getting defensive live, a defensive live in the next
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year, the defensive live in the next year. And that's just the way
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they build this team. And when the Chips were down, Brandon Graham,
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the oldster, comes back with a sack, comes back with another stack.
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Then then Josh Sweat comes off the edge with the freaking play of the game.
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Yes, Josh Sweat with the team MVP play of the game today,
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wax the hell out of deck. Jalen Carter comes with some extra violence.
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It's very exciting. I did I talked myself into an A When the Chips
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were down, the defensive lied, took the hell over. They did.
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They absolutely did when they needed to because the secondary wasn't given much help throughout
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this game. So no, they were not. And with that, talking
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about weighted yeah, I'm not going to talk myself into an A plus.
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But with that it's it's worth discussing. But we only have a certain amount
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of times. Yeah, absolutely, all right, let's move to the linebackers.
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Linebackers were absolutely nonexistent up until the second half when Zach Cunningham really brought
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it. He was all over the field in the second half. But I
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do have to say, I mean, yes, na, Kobe Dean going
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out with a foot injury. You know he's now he now quote has this
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injury history here in his very brief time in the NFL. I'm not sure
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if we can say to Kobe Dean is necessarily a dud at this point,
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but I'm going there. I'm ahead of there with a bullet. Yeah,
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it's getting real close. We're getting close to the close. Yes, yes,
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I love the B words so much. But I'm gonna look, they
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rebounded in the second half. I am going to give them a I'm actually
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gonna give them a C plus because it was a straight up F in the
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first half. It was an F for sure. They rebound the second half
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C plus for me. What do you give the linebackers, buddy, Yeah,
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C plus. I also just want to say, I'm gonna slam Tony
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Poler looks like he sucks, Like I'm sorry all this all this talk about
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him in the average Yeah, I mean, dude, like this is you
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guys need Tony Pollard to be a dominant player because the way that they're calling
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their the Dallas Cowboys off and they you can tell that they don't trust Dak
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So Tony Pollard needs to step up. These backup Ricodowdell I believe, I
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mean, they're doing nothing. So yeah, the linebacker, the Eagles linebackers
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might have actually played like an f today, but y'all are looking like you
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suck. So I'm gonna go ahead and give them a c witis. I
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keep it moving. That sounds good. Coming into this game, Tony Pollard
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was averaging three point nine yards per carry only two touchdowns on the season,
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Matt, So, yeah, it might be more about Tony than about That's
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true, very true, very true. All right, secondary man, Eagles
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secondary, as we know, crap the bed. They They're getting a D
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minus from me. I mean, it could be an F dus territory.
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It was terrible. What do you really want? It really was and if
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not for and if not for our buddy Blanken ship to stopping the guy from
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like advancing the ball like a millimeter, yeah that's a that's a touchdown.
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And we're having a completely different conversation. So bailed out by the defensive line
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built out by Jalen secondary, get it together, absolutely all right, let's
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head to the coaches special teams. I have to say that it was a
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bit disappointing with regard to special teams. And I say that because the Eagles
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kicking team. Let Cavana Cavanta sorry, Cavanta Turpin get a forty seven yard
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return in the first quarter, and this special team's play, this particular one,
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led to Dallas scoring their first touchdown of the game, and it was
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it was a terrible effort by the special teams. Then again, we did
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see Brandon Mann with a huge punt at the end of the game to put
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the Cowboys inside their own fifteen. Not that it mattered because the Eagles secondary
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was terrible. As we were just talking about, Oh my gosh, yeah,
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let him go eighty yards with no timeouts. Yep, people, yep,
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absolutely realize how hard that is to do. Exactly right. Jake Elli
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maked all four of his extra points, which is fantastic, and one of
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his extra points I think was close to forty five yards. Because of penalties
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in this game, which, by the way, the penalties were absolutely astonishing
29:07
and ridiculous from these officials. There was twenty total penalties. Each team had
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ten each in this game. But anyway, as we're running out of time,
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I'm going to give special teams this week a see a straight up sea
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what do you give them? Yeah? And I and I think that the
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Eagles are just planning for the time that the NFL takes away the punt return
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kick return. I think that the Eagles are just fined, like just don't
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let special teams screw up the game exactly. That's just the way that they're
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coaching it at this point. Absolutely, Sean decide the defensive side of things,
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the defensive coaching. I'm going to be giving him a D this week
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actually because I don't necessarily think that having Eli Rix on CD Lamb for an
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entire was the best course of action, and to not realize that earlier and
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to allow Dallas down the getting down the field with Ceedee Lamb, and with
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Ceedee Lamb just absolutely eating today one hundred and ninety one Michael Gallup even have
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multiple catches, Like, who else on the receiving cord did anything exactly?
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Ceedee Lamb was targeted sixteen times in this game. He came down with eleven
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balls for one hundred and ninety one yards. He averaged seventeen point four yards
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per reception. So Sean Desigh is actually going to get a D for me
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this week. I thought, I thought it was a terrible, terrible coaching
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performance from him. What do you give him? Yeah? I mean again,
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passable d minus. Not even he barely passed the class. Buddy,
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you really might just want to take this one over again. Yep. Because
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because until the final because until the final drive when the Chips were down,
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they didn't put slave. Why can't Slay match up if they moved Lamb into
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the slot? Duh, That's what everybody does. They put their best receivers
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in the side. Justin Jefferson goes in the side. Doesn't mean you put
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Eli Rix there exactly. Kevin byered, what the hell are we doing?
30:56
Yeah, exact? Who else is going to hurt you from the Dallas.
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It's it's just dumb football. Like to be honest, Matt is talking sense,
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folks, Lots of sense here for sure. Let's move to the offensive
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side of things. Nick Sirianni, Brian Johnson. I'm gonna give these guys
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a bee this week, you know, because I think, as we saw
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last week with the Commanders, I think the players ended up just winning this
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game. It wasn't necessarily coaching that that got the job done. It was
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these players on off again, AJ Brown, DeVante Smith and Jalen Hurts.
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Of course, for sure, these three guys just getting it done on the
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offensive side of the ball. I'm gonna give the coaching, the offensive coaching
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to be this week, what do you give them? Same? And they
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almost and and people won't talk much about it because there are so many exciting
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plays that you know, pivotal plays. That third and three call where they
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take the deep shot on the last offensive Egles drive, that you do a
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stop and go on that third and three is just insane. Yes, knowing
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what you have in terms of the Eagles, you get something else. Why
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are we taking that? Why didn't we take that shot on second down?
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So yes, that the players just you know, put the team on their
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backs. But take this week, offensive coach, coach, offensive play callers,
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let's get it together, guys, absolutely get it together. This pert
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team is not perfect yet. They are eight and one, best record in
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the NFL. Again, always get better. Yes, the Philadelphia Eagles beating
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the Dallas Cowboys at the Link by a score of twenty eight to twenty three.
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They are first in the NFC East, first of the NFC. They
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are creating their own destiny. And do we want to thank again Matt Rodgers
32:34
from the Honorable Mentioned podcast for joining us. Honorable Mention podcast is always great
32:38
to listen to, folks. Matt has a lot of great guests on week
32:40
after week, and Matt, buddy, I appreciate you taking the time to
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come on, and you know, I know we'll be talking at some point
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down the road, my friend. Lots of content coming soon for the people
32:51
you all wait out, all right, They very good, all right,
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folks. That is going to do it for us here Eagles postgame analysis.
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Take care, folks. We'll catch you next time.