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Inside The Data: How Does Eagles 53-Man Roster Composition Compare To Rest Of NFL's? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome back to Inside the Data on Inside the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher, and when we're talking about data and
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  Speaker 1: analytics and the Eagles, you know we're talking with Sam,
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  Speaker 1: the man Finkel. What's going on, Sam? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great. Doing great. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great myself. Are we allowed to share some
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  Speaker 1: great personal news here on the pod for you, or
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  Speaker 1: is that something you'd rather just, you know, keep people up?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You can share it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we would like to. Well, technically, I should be
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  Speaker 1: fighting with you. I should be sniping with you like
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  Speaker 1: I've done all throughout my career with people of your association.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I have actually a lot of decent friends
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  Speaker 1: who are NFL agents. And Sam has passed the exam,
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  Speaker 1: needed to be in the NFLPA. So if he chooses
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  Speaker 1: that lifestyle, Sam could become an NFL agent. He has
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  Speaker 1: the qualifications now to do it. You ready for that
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  Speaker 1: kind of life, by the way? You know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the optionality that's important.
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yes, yeah. Now, just don't turn into Drew
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  Speaker 1: overnight on me, okay? All right? Don't big time. Sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. I would never.
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  Speaker 1: All right. As we do each time this year, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: we like to take a look at the Eagles roster
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  Speaker 1: after it's come out, you know, after they officialized their
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  Speaker 1: 53-man roster and then their practice squad. And we like
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  Speaker 1: to take a look at how it might compare– To
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the league, we've done age in the past.
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  Speaker 1: In this one, you did something different, which is really cool,
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  Speaker 1: which is the composition of the roster by positions and
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  Speaker 1: other metrics and how that compares to the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. What was the driving force behind this idea
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  Speaker 1: that you have and what were you looking to come
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  Speaker 1: up with?
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  Speaker 3: We've done age historically and we've done other analyses, but
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  Speaker 3: I think that what was interesting is seeing how the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles historically have composed their roster, how it looks different
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  Speaker 3: this year and kind of how that compares to the
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  Speaker 3: NFL as a whole. So just kind of seeing like,
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  Speaker 3: did they, you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: They had four quarterbacks, you know, is that too many?
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  Speaker 3: What does that look like? Has that done that before
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  Speaker 3: in the past couple of years? What does that look
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  Speaker 3: like in the NFL? And just looking at each position,
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  Speaker 3: kind of figuring out, you know, what was different that
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles did this year compared to themselves and compared
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  Speaker 3: to the league.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. And it's really interesting. Is there anything that kind
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  Speaker 1: of like blew you away or knocked your socks off
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  Speaker 1: or you found somewhat interesting?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that their focus is actually more
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  Speaker 3: on rostering offense, which I think makes sense when you
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  Speaker 3: look at, you know, the QBs and the tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: They have the like the maximum of, you know, offensive rosters.
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  Speaker 3: There are other teams that have it, but they have
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  Speaker 3: 27 offensive players.
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  Speaker 2: When the average is 25.4.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's really interesting seeing how they compose
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  Speaker 3: their roster in that sense. And if you looked in
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  Speaker 3: the past, they haven't rostered as many tight ends, as
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  Speaker 3: many quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just interesting from an offensive standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in a vacuum. it certainly makes sense to me
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  Speaker 1: that they would have more offensive players because they have
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  Speaker 1: more offensive questions and you need players to fill holes.
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  Speaker 1: But when I was doing my projected 53 and I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about guys like who are Bernard and Joshua Rue
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  Speaker 1: and chance Campbell, when I did it, I had more
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  Speaker 1: defensive players than offensive players, but it didn't turn out
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  Speaker 1: to be that case. So, but in a vacuum, it
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  Speaker 1: sort of makes sense with the transition to the new offense,
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  Speaker 1: the new personnel and, some of the injuries that they've
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  Speaker 1: had already at certain positions to, to be deeper there. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So let's bring up the old chart. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the chart itself. I can blow that up a little more.
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  Speaker 1: First we'll go with how the roster is built. And
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  Speaker 1: I love this. Can I show this separately or do
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  Speaker 1: you think it has to be shown with.
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  Speaker 2: No, they can be separate. They certainly can be separate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So here is how the roster built and
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  Speaker 1: explain the, for both viewers and listeners, what this chart
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  Speaker 1: and graph means. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I think before going into the actual chart, it's
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  Speaker 3: always important to talk process.
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  Speaker 2: Just for the sake of.
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  Speaker 3: Simplicity for myself, I put O-line as its own unit.
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  Speaker 3: I put D-line as its own unit. And where it
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  Speaker 3: gets kind of important is for D-line, I included the
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  Speaker 3: outside linebacker slash edge position just within D-line.
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  Speaker 2: It's not always like that. It became more important when
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  Speaker 2: I did all 32 teams.
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  Speaker 3: And another important thing is when I did this, I
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  Speaker 3: captured initial roster stat, like roster composition. So some of
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  Speaker 3: these rosters have changed. Some of the teams had only
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  Speaker 3: 52 players. Some of them only had one specialist instead
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  Speaker 3: of three. So I do think those are kind of
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  Speaker 3: important caveats before going into the actual data.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that that's just important to put out there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely and so you've created like a three-year look here
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  Speaker 1: at where the eagles have kept how many numbers they've
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  Speaker 1: kept at each position over the past three years and
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  Speaker 1: then put it in bar graph form to to explain
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  Speaker 1: whether they're keeping more or less on average comparatively the
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  Speaker 1: last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely and so that gray first line is 24
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  Speaker 3: the white is 25 and that, that teal green is 26.
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  Speaker 3: So you can see at each position, it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: varied to some degree. I mean, it looks like every
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  Speaker 3: year has some variety and that's going to happen each
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  Speaker 3: year that a roster is made because you have different talents,
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  Speaker 3: different needs.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it's important to just kind of
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  Speaker 2: see that trend.
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  Speaker 3: And as you can see, you know, we talked about
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  Speaker 3: some of the positions or any of them sticking out
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  Speaker 3: to you that you want to really talk about from
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  Speaker 3: this chart.
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  Speaker 1: So, looking at D line when they kept 12 in 2024,
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  Speaker 1: the year they won the super bowl. That is such a,
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  Speaker 1: if you think about it philosophically from a roster building
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  Speaker 1: and roster allocation standpoint, and you recognize that like 30%
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  Speaker 1: of the time you're playing a five man front and
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  Speaker 1: 70% of the time, roughly you're playing a four man front.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you include like the backup, right. A five
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  Speaker 1: would 10 or four would be eight. They kept 12 linemen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, counting the edge group there. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: wound up becoming 11. I think that's the year they
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  Speaker 1: traded Contavious Street, who was like their seventh defensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: that year. It's just– it's crazy to think that they
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  Speaker 1: once kept 12 people in their front six, seven. And
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  Speaker 1: it has gradually decreased to a– I would think what
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  Speaker 1: is a more common NFL trend to 10. Last year
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  Speaker 1: it was 11. this year it was 10.
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  Speaker 3: Well the average is 10.3 for this year okay so
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  Speaker 3: they're right around league average then yeah right but like
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  Speaker 3: the difference between 10 and 12 is pretty staggering for
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  Speaker 3: one position i would think i i would tend to
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  Speaker 3: agree and actually i i had the 2024 average i
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  Speaker 3: wonder if i can pull it up as we're as
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  Speaker 3: we're talking because i i think that would be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of yeah And then just watching, looking at the bar
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  Speaker 1: graph to see how they are more in certain areas
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  Speaker 1: that they've never been, or at least not over the
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  Speaker 1: last three years, four quarterbacks compared to just three last year,
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  Speaker 1: three the year before for our six wide receivers. That,
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  Speaker 1: that to me, Sam is the standout because usually your
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  Speaker 1: fifth and six wide receivers are on the team for
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  Speaker 1: special teams. And if Elijah Moore is the sixth wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: it's not because of special teams. I mean, maybe they'll,
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  Speaker 1: give him a shot at punt return, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: something that he's done a whole lot. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they have Britton Covey on the practice squad intent
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  Speaker 1: makes me think they intend to elevate him at least
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  Speaker 1: for the first three weeks to be the punt returner
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  Speaker 1: until something happens. I just don't, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I have faith or reason to believe that six wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers is going to stay that way for the entirety
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: I still don't think four quarterbacks is going to stay
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  Speaker 3: there for the entirety of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's possible, but I
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  Speaker 1: think that, whereas I don't think the six wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: will stay because eventually they will need to make a
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  Speaker 1: roster move somewhere. I think the four quarterbacks stay unless
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  Speaker 1: somebody comes knocking down their door for quarter. So one's
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  Speaker 1: more in control. One's more out of control.
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  Speaker 2: That's a better way to put it for sure. I
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  Speaker 2: like that quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What about you? What was your philosophy or thinking
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  Speaker 1: on this six wide receivers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it makes sense which six they kept,
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  Speaker 3: but I think it'll be kind of interesting to see
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  Speaker 3: what they– I think you're right. I think that's probably
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  Speaker 3: the fat that's going to get cut first. I think
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  Speaker 3: that makes a lot of sense to me. So I
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  Speaker 3: totally am there with you, and I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 3: look at their– You know, I definitely think that the
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver is the fat that gets trimmed first.
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  Speaker 2: I think the more I'm thinking about it, I tend
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  Speaker 2: to agree with you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else, I think, falls in order. You know, 10
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen because they have some aging offensive linemen. And
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  Speaker 1: it's actually down one from last year. It's still probably
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  Speaker 1: more than the NFL norm. I mean, we'll get into
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  Speaker 1: that in a second. I'm going to take a quick
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  Speaker 1: sneak peek and show. Yeah, it's higher than the NFL average.
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  Speaker 1: But they've got guys like Lane Johnson. They have a
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  Speaker 1: guy in Landon Dickerson who it could be his last year.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Steen is a young player, but he's in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth year of a four-year deal, rookie deal, and he
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  Speaker 1: could potentially leave. So they need to have a set
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  Speaker 1: of younger backup offensive linemen, and that's why guys like
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  Speaker 1: Drew Kendall and Willie Lampkin and, of course, Markel Bell–
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  Speaker 1: are all, Mike and Morris are all on the team. Right. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that what, who they kept made a
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  Speaker 3: lot of sense based on, you know, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: the age experience and development standpoint. I think that that
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  Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense, but I mean, solid backups
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  Speaker 3: as well. I mean, these guys look like they're at
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  Speaker 3: least serviceable. At least that they were one of the
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  Speaker 3: highlights of the preseason. Not that many of the preseason, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel better overall about the state of Eagles offensive
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  Speaker 1: line depth, but that's because more so I'm comparing it
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  Speaker 1: to last year. Your first three off the bench last
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  Speaker 1: year were Freddie Johnson, Matt Pryor, and Brett Toth. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, poor Brett Toth. I think he's been out
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  Speaker 1: for a while with concussions that have gone, or a
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  Speaker 1: concussion that's gone a few weeks. I thought I read that,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully it's for the best for him. But we
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  Speaker 1: know that Toth was limited, could only play and was
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  Speaker 1: better used on the move as opposed to at the
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  Speaker 1: point of attack. We know that despite having a very
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  Speaker 1: good camp, Matt Pryor came in and was an absolute
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  Speaker 1: turnstile against the L.A. Rams and then never really saw
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  Speaker 1: the light of day again after that. And Freddie Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: he's good. So now you've got Freddie Johnson back, right?
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  Speaker 1: But you're pretty encouraged by what you were able to
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  Speaker 1: see from Markel Bell. I feel like the cross trending
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  Speaker 1: for Drew Kendall was good in terms good enough that
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  Speaker 1: he can play at the Brett Toth level or better
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  Speaker 1: when he gets in there. And, yeah, I would think
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  Speaker 1: Markel Bell could be a better right tackle than Matt
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  Speaker 1: Pryor was. But in fairness, I don't like to project
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  Speaker 1: from the preseason. It's just that these guys are younger, bigger, stronger,
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  Speaker 1: probably a little hungrier, you know, less mileage on them
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  Speaker 1: than guys like Pryor had. So there's a reason, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, to be encouraged without actually seeing it in
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  Speaker 1: real life yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just, I'm looking at the offensive line that
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  Speaker 3: they kept in 2024. Cause we talked about 2025. It
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  Speaker 3: was a much, you know, it was the nine, but
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  Speaker 3: it was McKay Beckton, Landon Dickerson, Fred Johnson, Lane Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: Cam Juergens, Trevor Keegan, Darren Kennard, Jordan Mailata and Tyler Steen.
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  Speaker 2: So just for comparison sake. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting mix. Keegan's still hanging on. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: really cut it with the Cowboys, but I believe he
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  Speaker 1: got claimed by the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just interesting to see how it shifted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought because of the roster depth and decision-making
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  Speaker 1: issues that they might have that they would potentially try
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  Speaker 1: to sneak– in quotes, sneak– underwood onto the practice squad
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  Speaker 1: have them elevated for three weeks and go shorter on
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  Speaker 1: special teams it's just punter and long snapper i mean
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  Speaker 1: puntering and kicker but they didn't mess around there and
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  Speaker 1: rock wonderwood did make the team as a long snapper
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a i guess an underrated
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  Speaker 1: concern going in because you just don't know how a
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  Speaker 1: rookie free agent long snapper is going to fare.
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  Speaker 3: But that's fair but i mean There were teams that
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  Speaker 3: did that, right? I mean, the 49ers on their original
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  Speaker 3: 53-man only had one special teamer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: One?
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Not a great measuring stick, given all their issues
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  Speaker 1: with their kicking game over the last few years. Although
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  Speaker 1: it's gotten straightened out last year, but they had a
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  Speaker 1: lot with Moody as their kicker a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm just looking also the Chargers and the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos on their original 53-man also only had two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't want to say the Eagles invented it.
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  Speaker 1: They were among the first. They did that last year. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little bit of a surprise. I think
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  Speaker 1: another team had done it too. It's not radical by
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  Speaker 1: any stretch of the means. It makes sense at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But I can also understand why the Eagles didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to mess around with it this year.
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. DBs, only nine DBs this year. This is an
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  Speaker 1: area where the Eagles have been heavy in the past,
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  Speaker 1: and I would only– I can only kind of chalk
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  Speaker 1: that up to, A, it's not exactly a deep position.
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  Speaker 1: You already have a couple of guys on the team
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  Speaker 1: that are probably questionable to have made it, like Mack
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  Speaker 1: McWilliams and even maybe Kelly Ringo, although Ringo is a
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  Speaker 1: very good special teamer. And B– You've got guys who
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  Speaker 1: can play multiple positions, so they kind of act as
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  Speaker 1: like a two-for-one deal.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper DeGene and Michael Carter, for example.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not the thinnest in the NFL. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are some teams that have eight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think that's kind of interesting, too.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just going to look at my master chart
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  Speaker 3: as we're talking.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams, the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: I knew the Rams would be one. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks, the Bucs.
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  Speaker 3: And the Commanders and their original 53-man all had an 8.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they have movable– like a guy like Amin
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Wari for the Seahawks, who's just a stud, right? He's
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: a safety who comes into the box. He can play linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: He can cover like a nickel. So he plays basically
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  Speaker 1: three different positions for them. Who were the other teams
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  Speaker 1: you said?
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  Speaker 2: It was the Commanders, the Rams– um.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Oh the rams have quentin lake for that he moves
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  Speaker 1: around everywhere they have another guy um that oh mcduffie
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: can play inside outside yep.
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  Speaker 2: And the dolphins was the last.
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  Speaker 1: One well the dolphins are just gonna look weird because
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  Speaker 1: they're they're the worst team i've ever seen on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly yeah it's a pretty rough team on paper it's.
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  Speaker 1: I man if adam joked in a podcast that if
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  Speaker 1: the dolphins win five games if they go five and
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  Speaker 1: twelve that Jeff Halfley might have to get consideration for
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  Speaker 1: Coach of the Year, which is crazy but kind of true.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: One of our really good family friends is a Dolphins fan,
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  Speaker 3: and he has a bet with his son-in-law about will
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  Speaker 3: they win more than two games. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: between that two to five is very fair.
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  Speaker 1: I have not checked a local sportsbook on what their
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: over-under win total is. I have to think it's probably–
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  Speaker 1: Something you can count on your hand. I'd be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if it was six or higher, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I have not checked.
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  Speaker 2: It's four and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Four and a half?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. I'm almost tempted to, like, throw a few on
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  Speaker 1: an over there. I mean, why not, right? They do
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: have to play the Jets. They get to play the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Jets twice. That is true. So there's at least a
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  Speaker 1: shot of winning one of those games.
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  Speaker 2: They open with the Raiders, too. Oh, man.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You know. Jeez. Who is going to watch that?
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a game.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that. Who is not a Raiders or
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: a Jets fan? I mean, or a Raiders or a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Dolphins fan is going to watch that game.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's a fair question.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You need some real schadenfreude reasons to watch that game.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: You just hate that team. You're a Chiefs fan who
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: hates the Raiders, or you're a Bills fan who hates
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I don't know. There you go. Other than that,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: now this is ironically a year that their thinnest– up
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: front with the defensive line because they didn't really hang
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on to the developmental guys like they've done in the past.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: If you think about it, they went– and I think
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the Grenard injury probably factors in. I don't know if
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Epinesa makes it if Grenard is healthy, but that also
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: means that if Epinesa doesn't, maybe like Ouar-Bernard does. I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: don't think they go heavier at either linebacker or D-back
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: if Epinesa's not there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I agree, and there was one other team that was
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: even thinner on the D-line.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Do you have a guess at which team that is?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: A team that kept nine or fewer D-line, huh?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Eight. Oh, wow.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Eight?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Man, you've got to have some really strong depth. Broncos?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Same division, but not the Broncos.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Chargers?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Mm-mm.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Chiefs. Yep. Okay. I guess, well, they do have some
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: movable types. Do they have any injuries there? That surprises
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: me because usually Andy likes to have more guys up front,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: but maybe he just didn't have anybody as a ninth
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: or a tenth that they felt were deserving of a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: roster spot.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, totally plausible.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: It's interesting to see how other teams– I think that's
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: an important detail in this analysis, just kind of looking
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: at all the other teams and seeing how they built
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: their rosters.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: All right, so now this is what we've kind of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: been talking about. You put the Eagles roster spots and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: compare it to the NFL average and then the NFL
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: minimum and the NFL maximum. So how many teams, Sam,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: are keeping the maximum on four quarterbacks? Is it four
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: or five?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: For four quarterbacks, it is the Cleveland Browns, the Denver Broncos.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I'm sorry. I was looking at running backs.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Please ignore me. It's the Atlanta Falcons.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Understandably.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings, understandably.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: The Eagles.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: The Steelers.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And that's it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Our boy Drew Aller earned his way on.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did. The Vikings. Who are there for? They've
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: got Wentz. They've got McCarthy. They've got Murray. Who is
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the fourth? Because I don't think they kept Rosmer, right?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. Vikings.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Was it like Nick Mullins or something still hanging around
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: for that?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, it very much could be. Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Well, you look at that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It is Brodberg.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Okay. So I thought they didn't keep him, but maybe
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they did.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: They may have not, but this was on their 53 man.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And like the original 53 man, he was on the roster.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. He has since been released, I believe.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: That would make sense. But that's the caveat I was
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: trying to make very clear. Because it's really hard to
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: control this data. So I just figured from a consistency standpoint,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: just on the original. Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: But yes, he was cut 100%.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Right. And now I think you can separate. So that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: narrows it down to just the Falcons, the Steelers, the Eagles,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and that's it, right?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Now the Falcons, I think, can rationalize where they have
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: an injury here. They have Penix coming off an injury
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and Tua looked terrible in the preseason and is coming off.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And he has always injured, right? And they're kind of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a team that's, in transition, new coaching staff, it makes sense.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: With the Steelers and the Eagles, it just feels like
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: stubbornly holding on to quarterbacks because they're waiting for somebody
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to make them an offer for an aging backup, right?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: The number two for the Steelers, it's still the guy
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: from Oklahoma State who's been with them forever. I can't
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: think of his name.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: For the Falcons to talk about?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: No, the Steelers backup. Mason, not Mason. What's his name?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're talking about Mason Rudolph.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph. Is that their number two?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That might make sense. I'm not even sure. I was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: looking at the Falcons. Let me look at the Steelers.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I got you jumping around. Sorry.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: No, you're good.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, we know that they kept Aller. We know
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: they kept the Ohio State kid from two years ago.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It is Mason Rudolph.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, they don't get rid of Mason Rudolph.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Right. Because they don't– they like– And listen, I think
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this makes sense. You've got Mike McCarthy there. He is,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: despite the fact that some people hate him, he's pretty
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: good with quarterbacks.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You've got Will Howard and Drew Aller there, but you won't,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't trust them to be your number two. So
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you keep Mason Rudolph. I don't need, it's different. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: think the Eagles would absolutely take something for Sam Darnold
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: because they've got Tanner McKee. I'm not sure the Steelers
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: would be really willing to get rid of Mason Rudolph
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and make Will Howard or Aller their backup.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I, and I agree.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And like, I was a little bit surprised that the
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Eagles didn't try to claim Joe Milton.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Good point. I don't know.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I feel like if you're going to keep four quarterbacks,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: cut somebody and pick up Milton.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, it was an interesting decision for the
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Cowboys to cut Milton because I thought he had a
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: pretty good preseason.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: He's a pretty polarizing quarterback, so I understand him. partially
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: why the eagles didn't do it but i think if
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: you're gonna try to like i'd rather have him on
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the roster than andy.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Dalton he certainly feels like someone the eagles would jump.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: At as a development guy exact.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Long arm i mean strong strong arm.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But all right the falcons are interesting i mean they
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: have cooper rush speaking of the cowboys and then.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Jack strand yeah yeah um You know, even though they
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: have Penix and Tua, it wouldn't surprise me at all
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: if they had to rely on Cooper Rush given the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: injury histories of the first two guys.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Of both, yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So to me, that makes more sense. They're doing
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: this for survival as opposed to the Eagles and the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Steelers who are just doing this for different reasons.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing at the Eagles keeping six
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is that it's not really that far from the NFL average,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and yet we're sort of surprised that the Eagles are
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: doing it, you know?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, there are two teams, three teams that
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: have seven. More than actually a decent amount.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: More than three teams have seven wide receivers?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You want to hear them? It's the Cardinals. Uh-huh.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It is the Rams. It is the Dolphins.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Hold on. I would have thought the Rams were on
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the other end of that. Yeah.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: No, you're good.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I just, I wanted to get it out. But yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Seven wide receivers?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Well, there was possibility that Puka gets suspended. I mean,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: there are legitimate reasons, I think, for them to have. Right.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I think I can name four of them. Puka, Devante,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: they traded with the Dolphins to get Tutu Atwell back.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You just mentioned, oh, I'm sorry. They have Jordan Whittington.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: That's four. Those other three guys, like, do they ever
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: see the light of day?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Well, they got that kid out of Pitt, Conata Mumpfield.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: They got Xavier Smith and then C.J. Daniels, which I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: think he was the Miami kid.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I mean, with Tutu as well. Yeah, I
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: guess that seven makes it. I can't expect them to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: stay at seven.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Did they keep five tight ends? They did. Oh, my.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: So they kept a combination of 12 pass catchers.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Okay. Hey, listen. They got a really stacked roster. They
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: can do whatever the hell they want. Exactly.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just curious about their constructions. It's a little
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: bit interesting. They also have 27 on offense and 23
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: on defense.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Interesting. And the Commanders kept seven wide receivers, too. That
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: makes sense because they're aging. You know, they've got McLaurin.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: They brought back– who's there? They brought in Steph Diggs.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So those are two guys who are a little bit
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: long in the tooth. They drafted Antonio Williams. They're still
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: trying to get something, I guess, out of Luke McCaffrey.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Cause he's a draft pick. So that's four right there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Jalen Noel or no Jalen Smith.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Jalen Lane.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: God, there's too many.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And they still have Traylon Burks.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Right. Traylon Burks came on at the end for them six.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So I, yeah, with their injury concerns and just trying
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to develop for the future, I can, I think that
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah. All right. And again, I, you know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: we'll see what the Eagles, does it stay at six?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: What's Elijah Moore's role going to be? Does he have,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he might be, this year's version of what the Eagles
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: used to do at running back, which is keep a
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: fourth guy to sit there and collect dust, whether it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was Rashad Penny or AJ Dillon, you know, because I
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to be a punt returner.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But didn't all the reports say that he had a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: better camp than Hollywood Brown?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think that that's fair. He probably did. Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: But now, now everything's perspective, right? Like, Hollywood Brown probably
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: had to make a cut because of the injuries to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Lemon and Devante Smith. Hollywood Brown was probably covered by
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Quinion Mitchell on almost all of his.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: That's fair. That's a fair point.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there was a time where Elijah was, when
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: they came back, he was back to running with the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: second team. He wasn't running with the first team right away. So,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm not trying to devalue his camp.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It was good. It was consistent. It got us a
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: high second round pick, but I don't necessarily want to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: put him above a guy like Hollywood Brown who's had
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like a thousand yard season in the NFL. Yeah, for sure.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It still sticks in my mind that Elijah Moore could
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: not contribute to the bills last year when he was
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: on their practice squad. They didn't use him despite the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: fact that they had like no wide receivers. They're, they're pulling,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: they're knocking the dust off of Brandon Cook cooks and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: throwing them out there.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That is a very fair, very, very fair point
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: What else sticks out here?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Again, I think the receiver is interesting. I think back
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to the receiver, there's a team that has four.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: That's funny. I would have thought that would be the Rams,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: but four wide receivers. Would that be the 49ers?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: It would not be the 49ers. 49ers have six.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Would it be the Seahawks?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You're in the right conference, but no, not the Seahawks.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Well, then you already told me the Cardinals had like
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a billion of them. So I guess it has to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: be the... It's a team.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't expect, if I'm going to be honest with you.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm in the right what you said?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Conference.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Would it be the Packers?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: You're in the right division now.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Might as well just tell me because now it's down
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to three teams.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: It is the Detroit Lions. Okay.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I can name them all four. They probably kept, obviously,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Jamison Williams and Amman Ross St. Brown and Isaac Tesla.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And what, Kalief Raymond, maybe, I think, is their fourth?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Or did they go with somebody else?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm pulling it up as we speak. It is Jamison.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: It's Tay Martin.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Never. Oh, he's their rookie sixth. No, no. He was
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: just a guy they signed. Okay, I think from San Francisco.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: but wow. More wide receivers for a team that doesn't,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't stay healthy very often. That's a little bit of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a dice roll.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they went really heavy defense.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: So they're one of the teams that had 27 on
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: defense and 23 on offense.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I kind of did the inverse of what
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Super interesting.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: All right. So I like this where we're at. Let's
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: let's take what the Eagles kept and then like compare
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that to a, one of the more radical, uh, teams
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that did something differently there. Like the Eagles kept nine
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: defensive backs. The NFL minimum was eight. That's really not
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: that far off.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: No, it's not that big of a difference.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: However, a team kept 13 defensive backs? Yes. Oh, that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a team that plays a lot of sub packages.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: There's only one team that did that. And we've talked
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: about them pretty ad nauseum at this point. I mean,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot of teams at that, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: it's the Atlanta Falcons.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: The Falcons. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Falcons are, I mean,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: teams that are just trying to see what they got,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: like the Falcons, Dolphins, maybe even the Jets are going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to have high numbers there.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's interesting.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Like, the Falcons are one of the teams that went
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: 27 on defense, 23 on offense.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: It's actually really interesting, some of the splits. I mean,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: most teams are closer to that 25-25 or, you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Know, 26-24. But the Eagles are on one of the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: ends of it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're on one of the polarizing ends just
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: on the offensive side. There are a lot of teams.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: It looks like more teams went on the defensive side.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I'm just by eyeballing it, but I mean, teams that
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: built the same way that the Eagles did in terms
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: of like offense defense or the Panthers, the Rams, the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: up i don't know what to make of that i.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Don't know what to make of that either that's.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Interesting So the Eagles are about one and a half
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: over the average on offensive players, which we explained why,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and almost two under the average of defensive players. You know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: that's new for them. That's obviously keeping the minimum amount
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: of defensive player. How many teams kept 23 besides the
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Eagles on defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was four teams total.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: But when you have the kind of talent and one
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: to three, one to four depth that the Eagles have it,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: The main spots, you can understand why they would do that.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm just looking at the inverse.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: So there were five teams total that did it the
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: way the Eagles did, including the Eagles, but four other.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: The inverse is one, two. Looks like two.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yep, two.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: So it was just the Lions and the Falcons that
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: were built the opposite way.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. Interesting. So what was, what's your, do you
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: have an overall kind of takeaway from this? Like, do you,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: do you suspect that there's just sort of a change
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: right now as the Eagles shift to having more offensive
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: concerns and defensive concerns?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's, it's also interesting because they're going to
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: start having to pay defense more.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I think it would be naive to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: say that isn't part of it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: But I don't think maybe it's not as overblown as
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I could make it sound, but I do think that
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: is part of it. But I think it's interesting, especially
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: knowing how both the Rams and the Eagles are built
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: very similarly. And they both are typically teams that are,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: you know, on the verge of these new trends and everything.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that their follow somewhat in lockstep
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: for a lot of these roster decisions and composition. So
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I think that's super interesting. And I think that this
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: will change eventually. I really don't think this roster will
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: be composed the way that it is now. By the
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: time playoffs start, I think it'll be a complete, not completely.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: It'll, it'll have variability than what we see here.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I tell you what, I I'm really excited for, from,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: especially from an analytics when we get into it and then.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Strategical standpoint for weeks, three, four, and to some extent, five,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit curious about the Jaguars trying to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: repeat being a 13 win team, but. I really like
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: both their head coach, Liam Cohen, and their defensive coordinator,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Anthony Campanile, who did an excellent job with that Jags
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: defense last year. But, you know, you got Bears, Rams, Jags,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: back to back to back. You're talking about a lot
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of different usage of offensive personnel from between 12 and
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: 13 personnel that we'll get into during the season. And
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: then defensively, the Rams in particular, Have a lot of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: movable parts also, like the Eagles on the back end.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: The Bears are a little bit of a mess defensively,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: but they're going to try to score 5,000 points a game.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And the Jags, you know, if Travis Hunter's healthy, really
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: curious to see what kind of impact that he has
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: on their secondary and who moves around as he does.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: So that'll be all good stuff that relates back to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: how you constructed your roster, knowing what guys can play
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: multiple positions and give you a two-for-one deal. And it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: also going to be a great litmus test for who
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are because those are three teams, you know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: who were all in the playoffs last year. All you
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: expect– I mean, everybody says– everybody feels like the Rams
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: are going to be even better. They have like this
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame roster, right? The Bears have some issues
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: on defense, but they've got a lot of offensive weapons,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: which can help your defense. And then the Jags, who
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: are kind of a– they were sneaky good last year,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: somehow won 13 games. So it's going to be– Nice
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: little three-week stretch there for them.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll definitely have a lot to talk about
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: in that time, especially once we actually get real NFL
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: snaps and data.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm itching for it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: I know you're waiting for– I know you are waiting
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to take a deep dive into things like EPA and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: success– and so am I. Yes. It's not available for
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the preseason. It shouldn't be because nobody cares about the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: EPA of a fourth-quarter run when a coach is just
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: calling a play to see– Like if a left guard
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: can pull or not. Right. And how well as opposed
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to trying to do that for the sake of winning
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the game. right so it's it's thankfully that there's none
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: of that stuff but i can't wait till we get
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: into that uh and it's gonna start pretty soon but
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: next week we'll do a little we'll do a little
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: preview stuff uh from an analytics standpoint as we get
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the uh the wheels rolling sounds good to me All right, everybody,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that was good stuff. Thank you, Sam, for the charts
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and for the interesting data. You have been watching Inside
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the Data on Inside the Birds. That's Sam Finkel. I'm
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Jeff Mosier. We'll catch you on the next one.