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The Sixers: Maxey, Embiid, George, Edgecombe, And The Future (PST Episode 646) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show,
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  Speaker 3: I'm friends with like five people. That's the only way
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  Speaker 3: my daughter will communicate, so I have to be on.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the twins do too.
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  Speaker 1: Like seriously, I have like I have streaks going with
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  Speaker 1: the twins. I have snapped streaks.
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  Speaker 2: I had.
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  Speaker 3: I had a streak going with my daughter and it
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  Speaker 3: broke the one day, and you know, she was I
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, restore it. From two dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, I'm forty nine a streak.
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  Speaker 4: They did.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins get upset when we're like, we'll go like
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  Speaker 1: we'll have like seventy will be in like the seventies
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  Speaker 1: or something, which is like nothing for kids these days.
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  Speaker 2: Like, Dad, you just ruined the streak. You just ruined it.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, you and I are weird about certain things. We
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  Speaker 3: have not phobia's OCD, so it's less than that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like the the volume has to be in an even number. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: my alarm has to be in an odd it's just whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god. Yeah, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Have too many of those to worry about a streak. Ye,
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  Speaker 2: I can't exactly. I've got to know anyone. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 3: You sent me one and you had a Santa Claus
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  Speaker 3: thing going on the filter? Yes, and I just I
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  Speaker 3: just responded someone punched stand in.
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  Speaker 2: The face, double block us. That's for something, didn't get it,
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  Speaker 2: gave the price. Yes, you did get me a snapchat.
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  Speaker 1: You broke the streak sand Yes, Well, we got a
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  Speaker 1: great show this week, folks. We're gonna be diving into
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  Speaker 1: some Eagles and NFL talk right off the bat. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get an Eagles offense. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: what we're all talking about in terms of what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with this team. We're also gonna dive into the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Philip Rivers is returning to football to play
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  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. So got a ton of
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  Speaker 1: Phillies talk, as Kyle Schwarber is coming back, Rob Thompson
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  Speaker 1: has been given an extension to manage this team through
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven season, and we're also gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into how Major League Baseball is handling the steroids air
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the Hall of Fame. Gonna dive into that,
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  Speaker 1: and also a ton of Sixers talk. Eric and I
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  Speaker 1: are gonna specifically talk about whether or not the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: should look to sign Malik Beasley once he actually becomes
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  Speaker 1: available to possibly help with their three point shooting, and
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  Speaker 1: then more Sixers talk. What we're thrown down on the
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  Speaker 1: table is a great discussion with Sean Bernard, good friend
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  Speaker 1: of the pod from Fox Sports Phillies The Gambler, and
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  Speaker 1: as a contributor over at DraftKings as well. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be discussed and the Sixers in detail as we're heading
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  Speaker 1: into mid December here, So buddy, let's get into this
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  Speaker 1: Eagles team here, and first and foremost, we got some
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  Speaker 1: listener feedback this week from our friend Lou down to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. Now, I didn't necessarily agree with what Lou
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  Speaker 1: was saying here, I'm gonna just say that right off
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  Speaker 1: the bat, I think it was a I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a little out there, Lou, But you wrote us and
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  Speaker 1: I want to dive into it here. Eric wants to
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  Speaker 1: get into it as well. It's about the Eagles defense, folks,
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  Speaker 1: Lou says. I know the d played mostly well and
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  Speaker 1: the offense had tons of failures, but on your postgame show,
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  Speaker 1: you ignored the fact that the Eagles were winning with
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  Speaker 1: two minutes and twenty seconds left in the game, and
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  Speaker 1: the defense let the Chargers march into easy field goal
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  Speaker 1: range to tie the game. Then they allowed the same
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  Speaker 1: thing to happen in overtime. Yes, Jalen played like crap,
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  Speaker 1: Yes AJ came up small. Yes the offense was predictable.
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  Speaker 1: Yes they should have run around the edge and that
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  Speaker 1: of up the middle, but they still had the lead,
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  Speaker 1: and the defense failed when it mattered most. Lou from
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  Speaker 1: Washington DC, Lou very much appreciate you, my friend, very much,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you reaching out to us here. But I gotta
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, my friend, No, the Eagles did not
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  Speaker 1: lose because this defense gave up only nineteen points. It's
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  Speaker 1: only nineteen points just after being put in a terrible
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  Speaker 1: position time and time again after the offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. Yes, some plays were
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  Speaker 1: given up by the defense, but I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: more the defense actually could have done to put the
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  Speaker 1: team in a good position to win that game.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: We're certainly going to get into the offense in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here, but I don't know. That's where I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming from. I don't know, Lou. I think you might
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  Speaker 1: be taking things out a little too much on this
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  Speaker 1: Eagles defense that has really been the driving force of
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  Speaker 1: this twenty twenty five team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what are your thoughts here.
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  Speaker 3: Eric, I'm not ture, please work, Sorry, Fargo, it's far.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Lou, Yes, no, Lou think obviously, thank
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  Speaker 3: you for writing, because you know we don't get a
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  Speaker 3: ton of those right. Anyone takes the time to sit
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  Speaker 3: down and write us is fantastic, So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay in our book.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know football's uh it's a three way sport, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean the offense, defense, special teams, And out of
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  Speaker 3: the three, I'd have to put the defense in third
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  Speaker 3: place in terms of like who lost this game, offense
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  Speaker 3: being number one, special team's number two. With Jake Ellie
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  Speaker 3: missing that field goal, this might.
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  Speaker 1: Be his last year, by the way, like since last year. Man,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, this might be his last year as an Eagle. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's starting to feel that way. No kicker goes forever,
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  Speaker 1: and you know this has that This has that gamey feeling.
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  Speaker 1: You know when when you know people get older, they
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  Speaker 1: start to smell different, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know it just it has that feel.
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  Speaker 3: And I've watched enough football are You're like, Okay, if
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  Speaker 3: he misses, if he misses like two or three more
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch, he's he's cooked. But anyway, I do
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  Speaker 3: think the defense was third on the list of who
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  Speaker 3: to blame for this loss. And you know, you almost
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  Speaker 3: have to give him credit for jailing Carter not being
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup, absolutely holding and holding that team to
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  Speaker 3: nineteen points. I know Herbert's hand was left hand was broken,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't blame Fangio. I mean, if you watch
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  Speaker 3: that game, they were going after his left hand a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they sacked him seven times without Carter in the middle,
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  Speaker 3: and I think there was like twelve quarterback hits too.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was somewhere brutal. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: that got. I don't know how you break your left
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  Speaker 3: hand and play football. Number one, I number two, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I take a hit to that broken hand
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  Speaker 3: and not just go crying home, like right, I quit,
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  Speaker 3: mister Harbor, I'm going home.
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  Speaker 2: I know I would. That would be awful.
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  Speaker 3: But Harbaugh's eye, I know you don't like him and all, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: men tell you, but no, I would say the defense
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  Speaker 3: was the last on the list. But I do get
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  Speaker 3: his point though. It's like, you are the better You
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  Speaker 3: are the better squad right now out of the three.
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  Speaker 3: So I gotta come up because I got to come
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  Speaker 3: up biggest in those moments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And there were a couple.
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  Speaker 3: I think there was twice they could have got a
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  Speaker 3: turnover in my opinion, and they did not get those.
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  Speaker 3: And they kind of had to play a perfect game
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  Speaker 3: to win this game. Because that's a good point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as we'll get to it. The offense did not help,
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  Speaker 3: including the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Look thanks so much for the email, buddy, seriously appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you listening and keep sending some emails to us. We'd
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  Speaker 1: love to read them here on the show. Again, Folks,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table gmail dot com. We'll read your email
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  Speaker 1: here on the show and respond to it. As Eric said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this Eagles offense and and
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: I guess where do we go with this right now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the the the absolute hacks that are on
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: Philly sports talk radio right now and just trying to
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get everything, just trying to get everybody
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  Speaker 1: all riled up and stuff, like we're already riled up
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  Speaker 1: because the offense sucks in every way possible right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it just feels like the season is essentially over.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like this team is not a contender because
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  Speaker 1: of the offense. But you know, as as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was checking our Twitter account today and a gentleman
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  Speaker 1: who goes back and forth with us every now and
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  Speaker 1: then was basically I could tell he was frustrated, and
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  Speaker 1: he really, I think, wanted to blame Hurts, and I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just Hurts. I mean, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: a coaching problem. This is an execution problem all around.
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  Speaker 1: We're not just talking about hurts. We're talking about execution
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  Speaker 1: from the offensive line, the receivers, even Saquon Barkley as well.
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  Speaker 1: And this is also a game in game decision problem.
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  Speaker 1: This is also a play design problem, Like it's fucking
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  Speaker 1: everything right now with offense, like nothing is working at
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  Speaker 1: this point. And I read a stat recently from our
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: good friend Mark Scofield over at SB Nation. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: that teams have been stacking the box to stop Saquon
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  Speaker 1: Barkley this year. He has faced eight or more defenders
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  Speaker 1: in the box thirty three point one percent of the
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  Speaker 1: time this season compared to twenty point six percent from
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  Speaker 1: a season ago. And on those runs where teams have
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  Speaker 1: been stacking the box with at least eight defenders this year,
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  Speaker 1: he's averaging two point three yards per carry, which is
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  Speaker 1: a huge dip from four point five yards per carry
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  Speaker 1: against lighter boxes. So that's part of the problem as well.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have an offensive line that just is
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  Speaker 1: not sinking up, there's the chemistry just isn't there as well.
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  Speaker 1: That creates a problem all round for the run game.
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  Speaker 1: And then for the passing game as well. And it
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  Speaker 1: creates a problem with Jalen Hurts and this coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: where if they're stacking the box with eight defenders thirty
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  Speaker 1: three point one percent of the time, Jalen Hurts needs
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get the ball down the field
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  Speaker 1: and he's not doing it either because for whatever reason
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  Speaker 1: he's not able to in a moment, or the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff is telling him, no, you're gonna run this play,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how it's going to be. Things are just
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  Speaker 1: broken everywhere. There's no easy answers, there's no easy solutions.
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  Speaker 1: There's no silver bullet here.
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  Speaker 2: Eric.
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  Speaker 1: So, I don't know, I just it just doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like this team is a contender because this offense is
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  Speaker 1: just floundering.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I hate to give poopoo holes some credit here.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think his game. I didn't think the game
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  Speaker 3: scheme was that bad. Yeah, Monday night, I just and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I know they stacked the box against Sparkley
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  Speaker 3: and you just read the stat but he had a
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  Speaker 3: great game, honestly, But this, honestly just falls on the
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  Speaker 3: shoulders of the quarterback this particular game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit here and all the turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all the turnovers. Absolutely, it was. It was horrendous.
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  Speaker 1: But Josh Shuster, our friend who did the postgame show
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  Speaker 1: with me, I mean, Jalen Hurts, got an F. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that that's the great game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad he didn't ask me to do the post
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  Speaker 3: game because I would have been an absolute bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know, there's a reason I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: The game ended at twelve fifteen. I stayed up for it.
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  Speaker 3: I had to watch the Monsters inc Yeah, broadcasts, just
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  Speaker 3: to stay interested because it was it was just such
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  Speaker 3: a bad game.
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  Speaker 2: But the Chargers weren't great either. Yeah. I've known you
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  Speaker 2: for over twenty five years. I know you were.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way doing the post game shit, and not
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  Speaker 3: that one, now one that would have been a everyone
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  Speaker 3: gets an F. I'm going to bed, Yes, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I don't. When's last time a quarterback had two turnovers
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  Speaker 3: on the same possession like that? No, it hasn't happened
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  Speaker 3: since I started tracking that, since nineteen seventy eight. No,
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  Speaker 3: and there's for how many shitty quarterbacks have played since
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  Speaker 3: that year.
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  Speaker 2: Especially for the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, especially for the Eagles in the nineties. But
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe it's never happened. But yeah, he pulled
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  Speaker 3: it off. And if he doesn't get his shit together, yeah, essentially,
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  Speaker 3: let me just look at the standings quick. We can
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: talk about the offense all we wanted. It sucked. You
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: hope they do better next week. They have a horrible
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: Raiders team come into town. There's no easy answers. Yeah
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  Speaker 3: that should be Yeah, there are no easy answers. He
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  Speaker 3: just he has to play better. They should beat the
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  Speaker 3: Raiders by thirty points if he doesn't turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 2: That's one. But right, you said the standings.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted to just take a look at the stand because,
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: like I said, at the offense is what do you say? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but like here's the sad thing. You want to say.
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  Speaker 3: The season is done. They're not contenders, but I mean
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  Speaker 3: I almost guarantee they're going to win the NFC East
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  Speaker 3: and probably be the third seed.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I see him winning three of their last four, even
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  Speaker 3: even playing this poorly. I could see it because they
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: have the Commanders, the Commanders twice twice, yeah twice, who
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  Speaker 3: against Marcus Mariota for God's sakes, and the Raiders, and
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: they're going to have to Buffalo the Bill. That's gonna
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: be a loss. If you look at Dallas's remaining remaining games,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: they're not they're not playing too many good teams. But
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: that team so up and down. I think just by
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: the fall we're going to win. And if things play
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  Speaker 3: out the way they do, they actually play like like Chicago. Agree,
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  Speaker 3: if it ended today, you know, this could very well
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: end like right the way it is right now, the
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: Bears go to Green Bay, Seattle plays Tampa or Carolina.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: That's going to be an absolute blowout by Seattle, and
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: then the Eagles will play the forty nine ers right now,
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: And that's if you have to pick from Chicago Seattle.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Give me the Niners every week.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So like, unfortunately we want to sit here and
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: say they're not contenders anymore. But like, if it plays
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: out the way I think it's going to, they're going
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: to have a first round home game against the Niners,
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: who they could beat. Their defense is decimated, their offenses
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: can be good. You know, they haven't played anybody for
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: a while, and unfortunately I could see him winning that game.
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  Speaker 3: When an NC is winning that game, and then everybody's
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: back on the train, Yes, and then that's when everything's
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: going to fall apart and you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're not contenders because.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: They would wind up playing like you know, they might
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: play Green Bears, but a team they could beat as well.
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  Speaker 3: That's the crazy thing, Like, that's unfortunately I want to
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: say they're not contenders. I don't think they would beat
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: they won't beat they.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think they beat the Rams.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I don't think it beat the Patriots, the Bills that
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: they actually made the Super Bowl.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, you.
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  Speaker 3: Want to just it's one of those things like I
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: don't want to get my heart broken.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I know you can't.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: They won the title last year, but at the same time,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: you're getting back into it and I could see them
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: winning a couple and winning that first game in the
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: playoffs and then everyone's like, I.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Knew all along, we got I knew it, we got this.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: You know what's going to happen is right around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: You know they were going to get it together.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: And then they're not going to get it together. Actually,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: that's what's good. This team has been so inconsistent and
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: not enough has been said. I'm sure there has been,
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  Speaker 3: but Nick Sirianni I saw multiple people on Twitter the
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: past few games that Eagles played, like does his team
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  Speaker 3: practice during the week, like they just look so unprepared.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Poopoo holes has not been great. But where is Nick's
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: accountability and all this?
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  Speaker 1: Because he talks about all the time he really does,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you know, he he's culpable in this as well. Like
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: big time, there's just the you can take like a
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: pie chart and the percentages of everybody who's responsible. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: in there to like a certain degree in a certain level,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think there's one that is the absolute
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  Speaker 1: majority of the problem. It's like it's it's all even
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  Speaker 1: from the offensive line to guys missing catches or not
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  Speaker 1: running routes hard enough, or whether it's hurts and his
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  Speaker 1: turnovers recently, everybody on the offense is culpable.
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  Speaker 2: But I yeah, yeah, I mean, if.
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  Speaker 3: There's a blame pie you want to call it, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think Vic Fangio gets a I'm trying to watch
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: my figure slice, he gets a really tiny one. But
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I think I think Sirianni gets the largest slice out
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: of everybody, because yeah, once you felt the offense floundering
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: like weak freaking what do we say the beginning of
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: the year, like the offense will come together. By week four,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: we should be good. Yes, And it just kept going
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: and going, and it was like, where's the head guy
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: in charge? It'd be like, Yo, we're champions.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: This is bullshit. I'm gonna say this. Yeah, I'm going
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to say this too.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, this offensive line, the injuries are important because I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was actually thinking about it today and reflecting after this
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: past week because look, I mean the team that the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Eagle that beat the Eagles this week, they had a
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: ton of injuries on their offensive line. This Chargers team
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: had a bunch of injuries and their interior offensive line
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: just sucked and they've sucked all year. Biggest weakness on
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the team but the Eagles in their injuries. It seems
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like when you have a couple guys who are nursing injuries,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you have Lane Johnson go down, everything falls apart. The
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: wheels absolutely come off. Jeff Stoutlin is a fantastic offensive
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: line coach, probably the best in the entire league. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the fact that he hasn't necessarily been able to quote
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: figure it out at this point as we're heading into
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: week fifteen, there is something to be said about that.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: And I don't think that's getting enough attention to the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: injuries are a real thing, and these guys are not
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: able to play how they need to. When you're being
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: asked when you've got whatever back injury or a calf injury,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and you're being told that on a play you have
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to go two plus gaps over to get some sort
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of to block an end who is just coming at
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you full force.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Like it. There are certain things that are just not.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Possible for you to have a positive outcome at the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: end of a play if you're an offensive lineman injured
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: trying to do those things. So I think there's more
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to be said for that. Jeff Stotlin's awesome. We know
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he is year after year after year, and the fact
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that he hasn't been able to figure it out. I
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: think the injury issue is actually a bigger deal on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the offensive line than a lot of us are really
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, and the Lion last year was just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: so dominant. There's no holes, you know, and you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you see Stalin still has it. You know, he's an
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: older guy, but like you know, Mackai Beckdam leaves town
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and he turns into a ball of shit.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously, Yeah, Jordan Davis was killing him
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: on Oh my God, he was absolutely murdering him on
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Sunday Monday. Jordan Davis is just I so many kudos
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: to that guy. Yeah, had a sack in this game.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You know, their running game was not overly powerful in
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the second half. You know, the first half they got
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: some good runs with Omar and return to the lineup,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: but to lose thirty pounds and just he's I think
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: he's easily one of the most improved players in the
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: league and he was already good. But I again this,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I think this offense is going to pick it up
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit, get us all interested, and then break
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: down that they go down that road of yeah, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I'll be on this. I'll be on a show with
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: you on a mid January and.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: We'll be like, what do we do now? Yeah?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Who poo holes has to go? Yanni stick around and
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I kind of creiate.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, before we go to our first break,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: we also wanted to talk about the fact that there's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a grandfather, folks. There's a grandfather that's going to be
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in the NFL this week, and he's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: none other than Philip Rivers. He is back in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: NFL playing quarterback for the sam I'm sorry for the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts at the age of forty four. My god,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: just real quick, Like I just, I just I don't
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: get you love the game that much at forty four
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that you want to like get back into this the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: way he is going to be getting hit. He hasn't picked,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been under center in the NFL for five
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: fucking years. He kidding me, Like, I just I don't
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: necessarily understand it. Yes, people love certain things in their life.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that if you're one of the best
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that has played the game in our modern era
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and in our contemporary history, you'll probably miss it. You
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: probably have a lot of nostalgia week after week after
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: week during the course of the season. Say, man, I'd
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: really love to get back out there on the field,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: But man, I just don't know how this is gonna
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: go for this guy. Seriously, he might be broken two
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: weeks from now, and maybe he is in great shape.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe he is, but still forty four. And like you said,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: he's a grandfather at forty four too.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Interesting, So I don't know what are your thoughts before
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we go to break here man.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, he's forty four. My brother's forty
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: five and gray as a mule.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: So yes, it's like.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: My brother's strapping him back, you know, putting this straps
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: back on. Yeah, you talk about the love of the game.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I think it's the hatred of his family. He must
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: be still annoyed with him. I gotta get out of
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: this house and his thirty one kids. He just was like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I gotta get out of here. It sucks like five
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: years of this. I think he just had one who's
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: like two or something.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Just kid, Oh my.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: God, I can't remember. I was doing research on his family.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I'm like, and as by the sixth kid, I gave up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I'm like, Jesus Christ, put a put a put a
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: rap on it. You know what I'm saying, Phil, bag
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it up there. You made your point. But I just
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: can't see this working. And he was one of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: best of all time, I mean best all time, like
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: top twenty twenty five, like you know, yeah, but that's
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: you know, that's best all time. And but then I
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: read you know, he's back, He's in great shape. He
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: might actually play this Sunday. And I'm just looking at
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the I'm just looking at the rest of their schedule.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: First of all, they played on Sunday. They played in Seattle. Yes,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: who as I think the best defense in the league
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: besides the Texans. Yeah, and you're gonna go into Seattle
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: at forty four. I haven't played the game in like
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: three years.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I wait to see him scramble.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be I mean he's gonna be landlocked, yes,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: like his legs are tied down with cinder blocks.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: And then the last game of the year for the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Colts is at Houston against the best defense.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Was murdering quarterbacks, the Kellen quarterbacks.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: He may not even make it to that game, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: if he does, he may never see his ten kids again.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Like that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I just can't see this working out. But I do
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: like the story. And I'm always like when Dave Robertson
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: earlier this year is signed with the Phillies, Yeah, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: think I made the same joke.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, he must have heard.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: He must be in his man cave, the kids are
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: screaming upstairs, and he's like.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take the contract. I gotta get out of here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I think that lady who walks the sideline for the Colts,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the Johnson Notes.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Downs and the owner or whatever. The owner she.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Must have called and he was like, yeah, the kids
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: are sleeping, five of the kids are sleeping.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I'll be there. I can I get out of here.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Don't let anybody know for another week. Don't tell my wife. Yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I'll be there. Yes, I love it all right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Well, we are gonna take a break, folks, And if
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you are not following us on social media, I think
• 24:23
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• 24:24
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• 24:28
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• 24:31
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• 24:35
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• 24:38
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• 24:40
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• 24:42
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• 24:57
  Speaker 1: being said, you gonna take a break. We're gonna be back.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: We've got tons of Phillies talk coming your way. Stick
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: with us, all right, Eric, I know you're watching the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Lakers and the Spurs right now. Just yeah, yeah, somebody
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: may have some money on this game here.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I might have a couple of shekels on this one.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Keeping an eye on it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, But look, baseball off season, some movement is actually occurring.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And folks, if you hadn't heard, if you've been living
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: under a rock, but you're a Phillies fan, Yes, Kyle
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Schwarber has re signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. He is
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: going to be coming back one hundred and fifty million
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: dollar contract over the course of the next four years.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And I am extremely happy about this because the thought
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: that he could have been going to the Orioles, because
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the Orioles, apparently matched with the Phillies, were going to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: give him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: We talked about on Table Talk show this week about
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: how the Pirates were looking to possibly bring Schwarber on board.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: They were reportedly wanting to give him a million Who
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: knows if that was for real or not, because again
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it's the Pirates, but look, he wanted to be back
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in Philly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: What they low balled him. If it's real, I know
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: they really did. Four years, twenty five. He's never gonna sign.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: It, I know, but it really it goes to show,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It was reported that the Orioles matched what the Phillies
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: were gonna give him. He wanted to stay here in Philly.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Do you want to? You know, it loves the city
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and uh, we've we've got ourselves, so some offense here
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: over these next four years here Eric.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's interesting that the Orioles, you know, got
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: turned down and then went and signed Alonzo for an
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: extra five million I think on the contract. Yeah, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: he's a year younger, so maybe that that the money
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: makes sense. But I think they got the better player.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: The Phillies got the better player and just one that
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: like just fits in. He's been here forever.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yep. That was done.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I think that was a done deal
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: even after the season, like it soon as the season
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: was over for them.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: But there's not much to say.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: It's like grad, he's back, he's going to lead off,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: He's going to hit forty five home runs or more
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: game or a season. But now like what now what
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: what Domino's fall Like that's the part I'm a little
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: afraid of.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Like, well, now, like what I know, JT Real Muto,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Like it seems like he's next up.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, I I I
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: still think he's going to go somewhere else. I think
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: he's going to get more money somewhere else. Yeah, I think. Uh,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I think Cassiy is going to get traded at some point.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I think Bomb is going to be gone.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I read the Phillies are still trying to get Kettle Marte,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: which you know, what does that mean for Scott Marte
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: is a second base, second basement so and and but
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: then but you also signed Schobert and that kind of
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: takes you out of the market for you know, you're
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: not going to sign Kyle Tucker.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Ranger Swarez is almost as good as gone, which I've
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: said on the show. I think twice into the season
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: was over. I think that's kind of a foregone conclusion. Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: scary scary proposition, though, given the the flimsiness of the
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: starting lineup the starting pitching next year, no one knows
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: when Wheelers coming back. Aaron Nola appears to possibly be
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: toast Sanchez is great. Uh, what's the other kid's name?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: The left I'm sorry, uh, pa, well him, we have
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: no idea if he's any good, right, And uh, who's
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the other lefty? I'm sorry he's Lozardo and the other one. No,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you're right, I got it now. Sorry Lizardo, my bad.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: But yeah, like in Lozardo might have been a one
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: like a shooting star situation. We have no idea if
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: he's going to be any good next year. So for
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Suarez to go, it's like, Man, I don't I love
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: bringing back Schwoerbert. You almost had to do it, But
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: what does that mean for the rest of the roster now?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Like the swarrest thing is the biggest gamble of losing him? Yeah, where,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell you're going to do.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: We are starting pitching next year before Wheeler comes back.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Scares me. Well.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: The one thing that did happen as well, aside from
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber, is this, This front office absolutely loves Rob Thompson.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They absolutely love him.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: They've extended him through the twenty twenty seven season. Rob
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Thompson has a record a record since taking over as
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Phillies manager in twenty twenty two of three hundred
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and forty six wins two hundred and fifty one losses,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and his five hundred and eighty career winning percentage is
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the best best of any qualified Phillies manager. And I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: don't know, Eric, and maybe maybe you have another angle
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this at all prior. There's a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: lot of dislike out there for Rob Thompson. For some reason,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: he's been the most successful Phillies manager, and there are
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: people that say, oh, with all the talent on this team,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we should be successful. I don't necessarily see that.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I can understand the argument, but there have been plenty
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: of managers over the years in professional baseball outside of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Phillies organization that have had really great rosters who
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: absolutely sucked, didn't do a great job. I mean, for
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: God's sakes, we had Joe Girardi here, and I mean
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that seems like, I know, it seems like so long ago,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and he had pretty talented teams and did absolutely nothing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: He really sucked. I like Rob Thompson, I do. I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: think he has been a pretty damn good manager for
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: this team, and I'm happy to hear about the extension
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty seven season.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: What about you? Who else you going to bring in?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a great question, yes, like who else? Like
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: what's the alternative here?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: It's always like, oh, there's always something better out there.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: It's like, well we have he's almost as a six
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: hundred winning percentage. Yeah, through how many seasons now? And
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: what were your options beyond that?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: He knows the team well, the players besides Castiano's really
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: like him and he's hard on them. You know, he
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: got him to a World Series and it's like what
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: there was there was no other option and plus but
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: also at the same time, like even for the haters,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: you know, it's only through twenty twenty seven, it's only
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: two year extension basic, right, we think him a ten
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: year extension for God's sake to relax everybody and people
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: forget like Charlie Manuel before two thousand and seven, people
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: hated Charlie Manuel.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: They wanted him gone. Yes, he was there for what
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: two or three years?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: And I mean I remember the running with Howard Eskin
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: back in the day that got really ugly. Yeah, And
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I used to listen to six to ten all the
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: time back then. He no one liked him, like, let's
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: just say it out loud. He was, he was despised,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and then seven happened, oh eight, and so on, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: now he's Uncle Charlie. And if Rob Thompson somehow wins
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: a World Series with this team, he'll be Uncle Rob. Yeah,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's just the way it is. He's
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the best option for this team. And again it's only
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: to your extension.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well look, before you know, we
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: get to some sixers talk. In terms of major League
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Baseball talk, I read a tweet from Buster Only, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, let's put this on the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: podcast show this coming week because I think it's an
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: interesting storyline about baseball, the state of baseball, the mentality
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, the Hall of Fame as well.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So Buster Only said in a tweet about former Major
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: League Baseball players who took pds and steroids. He said, quote,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a great gesture of leadership would occur when current Hall
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of famers who use pds, greenies, steroids, whatever, just came
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: out and explained what they did and why it would
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: move the Hall of Fame to a place when it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: could finally acknowledge the reality of what happened in the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: industry for twenty plus years. Rather than absurdly pretending that
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were outliers, we wanted to give
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: our thoughts on this because Buster Only here has a
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: fantastic argument. In my opinion, why can't Major League Baseball,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, this entire cog and network figure
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: this out? Eric, It's like, why can't they figure something
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: like this out? What Buster Only said there, it's easy.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: It is easy to move on from this narrative. For
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: all these years, these decades that US baseball fans have
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: been having to hear this narrative. These players who are
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: great players, they are great players, and who need to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: acknowledge something that absolutely happened that we all know that
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: happened and put it to rest. I thought it was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: really interesting. I just wanted to bring it up on
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the show. I don't know if you have any thoughts
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: with it, because I think that it's very I thought
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it was insightful from Olney to really dive into this. Yes,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: so it was Twitter, so take it from what it's worth.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And some of the responses were pretty hilarious as well.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But I don't know what what are your.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Thoughts here on this? Well?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Number one, I always love the term greenies. It's basically
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: meth in a pill form. It's just speed, yes, but
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: they give it that nice fun name, so it's not
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: you know, whatever the make organic you yeah, like nose candy,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: we like you know, like yeah toot. But like I
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I like the idea. The only the only, the huge
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: kink in his idea is that these guys have come
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: out and explain what they did and why. Most of
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: these guys have flat out said but now, I never
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: did anything right. No, like like Barry Bonds. At this point,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: it's never going to come out and say, yeah, I
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: did horse piss tranquilizer and it helped me hit all
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: these home runs, like Roger Clemens. Is never gonna be
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: like my career was essentially done when I got to Toronto,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: but I took this magic elixir and I became amazing.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Like that's the hard part, Like they would have to
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: actually go and explain to the public. I mean to me,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: it's like they already hate you anyway, so who cares?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: But that's what I'm That's what I'm saying here, Like
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the haters are gonna hate you, But you know what,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: why don't you move on from it as well?
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Instead of just continuing to dodge it because everybody knows,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: you know, everybody else knows as well. Why not just
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: get it out there. Okay, you fucked up.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You know, you made some shitty decisions, probably even though
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: it did extend your career and even though you made
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: millions of more dollars whatever, you know whatever. Just fessing
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: up to it and being like, yes, this happened. Doing
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: it in that honest way, I think actually the public
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: backlash wouldn't be as terrible.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: No, but the downside is what if you do admit
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: it and you don't get into the Hall of Fame, Like, well,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: that's where that's where baseball sucks, Like that's where fall
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: of shitty, you know. So yeah, Like I could see
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: a Sammy Sosa being like, yeah, I did it, and
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: they're like, well, you weren't that good? Actually, yeah, all
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: those home runs you had like four years, we were amazing,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: But the rest of your career was like good, But
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: like you know, you weren't Bonds or Clemens. Yeah, but
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I just think, I mean, this is this idea has
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: been floated out forever. Baseball Hall of Fame, Baseball in general,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: never does anything easy. We talked about the Rule five
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: draft couple and all that shit. Just make the whole
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: of just just create an outhouse or another separate wing
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: that's downstairs in the basement for these guys that are
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: basically like, while they never admitted, we all kind of know, Yeah,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Mark Maguire's bust is down there next to Clemens and
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Palmarrow and and Sosa, Like just you know, it's down
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: the steps through the cobwebs.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Do you want to go see it?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Like we all kind of know what happened, But but
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: they're in there, because come on, it's there were cheating forever.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: There's pure pieces of shit there in the Hall of
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Fame like Tai Yes, like like, stop being so self
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: righteous baseball when you've turned your back and turn your
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: attention away from all the shitty things that went on anyway, Yeah,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: don't act like a high and mighty and pious because
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: you're part of the you're part of the hypocrisy of
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: this whole thing anyway.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: So yep, absolutely absolutely, I like the idea of like
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a separate room.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: They call it the.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Greenies Room, the green room, the green Ease room.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: There's a big bucket there with with greenies.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: We're going in.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just have to have yourself some greenies.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Folks just sweating McGuire's stats.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, look at these numbers.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're gonna take a break again really
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: quick here and then we get back.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: We got some Sixers talk for you, tons of Sixers talk.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Coming your right, stick with.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Us, all right. Eric was getting a delicious drink there
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: right as we were going to break. Uh, get sweating
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a little bit with this game. Got a parley going, huh.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Spurs are up fourteen? Yeah, oh man, all right, I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: doing all right, I know something for the effort, you
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: know there we go right.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll put that money back into the show.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, it sounds no, I'm not doing that well.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Look, in terms of the Sixers talk to get us
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: started here as we're closing out, like our first segment,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: before we get to what we're throwing down on the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: table with our interview this week, sixers having some issues
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in terms of three point shots. Thinking to myself this week,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: like what could be done? Could there be an acquisition.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Could they pick up somebody that might help it. I'm thinking,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Malik Beasley. He's out there, and yes
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: there's legal issues. He may not be the most stand
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: up human being in the world. However, signing Malik Beasley
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: if and when he is able to sign in the NBA,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I I think that's a notion that Daryl Morey and
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the Sixers front office may really want to take a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: look at because they need some help. This isn't a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: team that is in the basement by any stretch. The backcourt,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: as lenn and I were talking about last week, is
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: just incredible to watch, Like the future of what this
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: backcourt is potentially going to be is so fun to
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not only watch right now, but to think about and
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: if they have that three point shooting from Beasley. I
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: don't know, Eric, I think I I think there's something
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: to it here.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: You know, what are your thoughts?
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you're right about his character. He's always
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: been kind of a flake. There's weird stories about Landlord's
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: wanting rent even though he's made sixty million in his
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: entire career. Some weird stories about uh, like Scottie Pippens's
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: daughter apparently stuff like that. He was actually the one
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: of the first guys, you know, the whole NBA gambling
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: scandal thing that happened.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wasn't he like the first one? I think like that.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all of a sudden people were watching his tape
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: been like that was a airball? What the hell was
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. I think he's been kind of cleared.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the rules are in signing him.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: There's this weird rumor that he signed with a team
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: in Serbia. He came out today or yesterday and said,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: that's absolutely not true. I never never signed. We talked
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: to this some team out of there, but we never signed.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: But a basketball fit. I mean, the guy's a forty
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: two percent career three point shooter. He's absolutely up and down.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that, like in a contract situation,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: he will he'll play well. Yeah, he's not going to
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: cost a lot, he's not going to cost a lot.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: But when he's comfortable, he's not good, which is a good,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: good reason to go sign him because you're going to
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: probably sign him to like three or four million, because
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: you're almost half we've done with this season at this point,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: and he was only making six million with the Pistons
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: last year. Anyway, would he even want to come here?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think any team that would want to.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: There's multiple teams, given all everything I said out him,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: there will be multiple multiple teams will go after him
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: because he can shoot the ball, and he would absolutely
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: he kind of he would fit in on this team.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, you got Eric Gordon come off the bench
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: at times and he's won of he's like your fourth
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: or fifth three point shooter. It's like to upgrade that spot, yeah,
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: you know, to a guy that's giving you absolutely nothing
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: to taking it from him and given it to a
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: guy like Beasley. He's six', nine he can rebound a little,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: bit he's. Not it's it's actually a pretty good. Fit
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and you, know this Is maxi's. Team he's not going
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: to take Any he could do his knucklehead, stuff but
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: it's just it's not going to, matter honestly on this.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Team AND i honestly think it'd be a decent. FIT
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: i just don't know how many teams are going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: try and sign. HIM i don't know here's any Way
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: detroit is going to resign him because of all that,
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: happened and just you, know you, know And Darryl morio
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: will take the heat for signing a guy like. That
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: he doesn't give a, show so he won't give a
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: shit at. All, no, no, NO i think it's a
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: DECENT i just don't know if it's going to. Happen
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: he's he's such a kind of a bizarre guy some
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: from what i've EVERYTHING i know about. Him, yeah he
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: might just sign with a team In russia all of
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: a sudden for six.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Million, yeah who don't never see him. AGAIN i don't.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Know but as a basketball, fit, yes he'd be, excellent
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: coming off the bench and taking some. Minutes you, know you're,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: you're You're edward's, minutes those that kind of stuff WHERE
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: i like those, players but they can only get you so.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Far like he's an ESTABLISHED nba.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Vetter he's only twenty nine years old, too and he's
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: he's an awesome, shooter hits his free. THROWS i think
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: good fit basketball. WISE i just have no idea if
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: it could actually happen'd.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Be funny if you signed over In, russia you'd be, like,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: oh the landlords are looking for.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Me it's pretty much.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: He'll be living in that house That rocky trained, in
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And rocky for nobody can find him.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Cav In serbia or wherever he. Was It's, siberia that's
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: WHAT i, Meant. Siberia, YEAH i don't.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: KNOW I i like the, IDEA i really. Do and
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: if did you Ask sean about?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: This well we're going to be getting to.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: That, yes, yeah you, know he thought it was a good,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: idea like if it's, feasible you, know like if it's,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: feasible like what.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: You were, saying it's a good. Idea it really.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Is it's another no lose. Proposition you're already you're already
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: up against the cap, anyway you're probably over. IT i
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: think you're in the first. Apron but, yeah to sign
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: a guy for like three four million looking at three
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: pointers and maybe healthy team and instead of Giving Eric
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: gordon and need more, time, right he doesn't Need Kyle
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: lowry For god's. Sake, YEAH i think it's a good.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Idea so all, right very.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Good all, right we are going to go to break
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: before we do, that, though you got any final thoughts
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: buddy BEFORE i let you?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Go, nope it's almost eleven. Fifteen, yes they're tired. Boys
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: we got here we're. Working we're.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Working we're working during the. Day you, know we got
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: where we're now podcast at. NIGHT i was making food
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: all day with my. Daughter, yeah, exhausting.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Baking and. Cooking it's.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Fine AND i haven't really been. Drinking and you know
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: which it, helps you know. Everything, yeah AND i was
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: talking to. HER i, WAS i told my, Dog i'm,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Like i'm just, Tired, like, Yeah i'm. Forty i'm, realizing
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: LIKE i cut everything, Out i'm still.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Tired, Yeah i'm getting that point.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: In, life LIKE i get eight hours sometimes AND i
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: wake Up i'm, like, NO i could do another.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Eight, yeah this. Sucks i'm. Tired i'll let you.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Go big boy needs a, Pillow my, goodness, gracious my flyer's. Pillow,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: YES i love. It we're gonna be talking. FLYERS i
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: swear To. God next time we're, on we're talking. Flyers, yeah,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: yes let's get it. Done all, right send me flyer.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Stuff i'm.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: On, okay all, right sounds, good sounds, good all, right,
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: buddy all their names by?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Then, okay all, right, folks gonna take a break when
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: we come. Back got a great interview With Sean bernard
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: From Fox Sports. Phillies The, gambler gonna dive more into
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the six or.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Stick with us and now on the table and joining
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: us this.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Week we love having them on to talk about The
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: philadelphia seventy Six, ers where this team is currently, at
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and where they may be heading in the. Future From
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports phillies The. Gambler he's also putting up some
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: content over At DraftKings as. Well one of our good
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: friends of The Philadelphia Sports table podcast, show Mister Sean,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Bernard how you, doing my, Friend good to see.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: You, yeah doing, Well.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: JEFF i appreciate you having me on.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: Again always a pleasure to be on chopping up about
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: the Six ers and a little more room for life
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: with this. Team come back down to earth to an,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: extent but still a little bit more excitement this.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Year.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah you, Know eric AND i were talking about this
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: team prior to us jumping on, here and just the
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: fact that you, know from a three point shooting, PERSPECTIVE i,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: THINK i don't, KNOW i Think Daryl morey might need
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to do, something possibly before the trade. DEADLINE i know
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: we weren't necessarily going to get into, that but just
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a segue from What eric AND i were talking about
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: to our discussion.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: HERE i don't. KNOW i think IT'S i think it's
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: something that this team may need.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Too, YEAH i think this year has been from start to,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: finish a really big evaluation year of let's see how
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: good this team really, Is let's see what kind of,
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: leap how ready they are to, Compete and it will
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: be interesting what the decisions are made at the deadline
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: if it's more of a priority to get under the
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: tax shed a little bit, money and that's when you
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: think of guys Like Andre drummond Or Eric gordon probably
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: being the ones on the chopping block in that, regard
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: or is it can we retool and try and make
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: some noise.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: In The Eastern?
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: Conference, yea there is some reasons for belief with guys
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Like Tyrese, maxy the leap that he's.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: Taken if you can get a little bit of health
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: bluck right.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: There so we'll be interesting to see kind of what
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: the motivation is if they're trying to win, games that
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: they're trying to make some.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Noise more shooting is always.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Welcome, yeah, Absolutely, Actually eric AND i were talking About
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Malik Bleep beasley to be honest with, you like what
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: what might, Happen like could that be a. POSSIBILITY i don't,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: know do you have any initial thoughts on?
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: That, YEAH i, mean as long as he is legally
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: cleared by THE olda and be able to play basketball,
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: GAMES i do not have a problem with him taking
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: a chance on the Six ers. Roster THAT i, mean,
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: obviously the circumstances are a little bit unique when having this,
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: conversation AND i mean we're seeing that more and. MORE
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: i was reading about The Miami heat how they basically
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: have to officially agree to a trade of sending Away
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Terry rogier before the league can even have a ruling
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: for whether or not that will be, legal which is
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: kind of interesting in that regard to so a little
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: bit in the unforeseen circumstances, here but just from a
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: peer basketball, perspective League bez is one of the best
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: shooters in all of basketball right. There and, yep when
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: you think about how impactful he was That pistons team last,
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: year really their second best player during that playoff. Run
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: that's a guy THAT i would welcome And philodolpha AND
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: i think it makes some noise next To TIREES maxi.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: ABSOLUTELY i think a lot of teams are going to
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: be honing in on him if the legal stuff gets
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: worked out there for. Sure But, SEAN i want to
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: dive into where this team is at right now, here
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: because you, know they started the season off, strong kind
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: of come back down to, reality coming back down to
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: earth as you essentially mentioned here thirteen and ten in
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: The east as we're recording. THIS i, mean we've seen
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: some fun basketball from this, team for. Sure we've also
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: seen some ugly basketball every now and again as. Well
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: as we're almost into Mid december, here how would you
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: grade This sixers team and the job that they've done
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: so far given the challenges that they've had this.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Season, YEAH i.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: Think it's been a solid bea to me That i've
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: been mostly encouraged by what That i've seen this. YEAR
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: i think the most positive storyline and probably the biggest
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: long term change or sort of how evaluating this team
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: is the growth Of Tyrese. Maxi this dude is showing
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: the ability to be a ONE a star in a
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: way THAT i wasn't fully confident was the case coming
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: into the. Air and we do have to see this
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: equate to winning on a way THAT i think that's
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: the biggest critique that you can throw is is a
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: guy Like tyrese when he has it all the way,
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: cooking does that really carry a roster in the way
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: that you want to start To but he's certainly closer
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: in that conversation THAN i ever imagined would be possible
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: at this stage of the. Year to that same, point
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: there has sort of been the black cloud Of joel
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: embiid hangover the.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: Franchise up is he? Available can he? Play what? Levels?
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Yet we just Saw i'm sho shoot four for twenty
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: one against The, lakers including some shots down the stretch
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: where just to me didn't feel like this is your
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: time or this is your shot within the flow of.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Here so you're kind of seeing is this going to?
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Work can these two pathways sort of cross over themselves
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: in a way that is effective to The? Sixers but,
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: OVERALL i still think it's been mostly positives for the
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: air and feel pretty strongly about.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: That, Yeah and it's interesting you Mentioned Tyrese maxi too
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: and him being THAT Nba All. STAR i, mean we're
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: talking about that one A All star that we didn't
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: necessarily think he may get to that? Echelon DID i
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: think he could have been AN nba STAR a couple
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: of years. Ago, absolutely but to reach this, echelon it's pretty.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Incredible but the narrative surrounding, him the concern about how
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Much Nick nurse has been playing him this. Season the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: last thing that we all need and the last thing
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: that this team needs is For Tyrese maxi to go
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: down with a long term injury due to how much
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: time he's on the. Court how concerned should we be
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: About maxi's usage thus far and the minutes that he's.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Playing, YEAH i certainly have some level of concern with
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: it that it does feel a level of an extreme
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: THAT i think could be scaled back to some.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: EXTENT i will say for.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: STARTERS i do Think tyrese max he's a guy who
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: can take that level of wearing, terras limitless. Energy he
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: wants to run around all, day takes incredible care of his,
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: body trains like a madman in the offseason to be
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: ready for these type of. Opportunities and to that other
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: side of the coin, here this is also A Nick
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: nurse thing when you go back through the years of
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: him as a head, coach That Kyle lowry and his
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: prime was logging up there with the most minutes in the.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: League Fred Van fleet played some of the most minutes
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: in the, league And tyrese is sort of his guy
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: for this, team so it's kind of comes with the
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: territory when that's your head. COACH i don't need him
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: being the clear number one minutes leader in THE nba
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: by multiple, minutes as is currently the, case and he
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: was over forty for most of the start of the
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: season that now.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: DIPPED i believe we're at thirty nine point nine at
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: the time of.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: Recording as far as minutes per game, there you just
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: got to find the windows where there are the games
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: you can throw in the toath that you don't need
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: him to play forty five deep into the fourth quarter
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: when you're down twenty points against The Cleveland cavaliers or
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: whoever it may. BE i Think Nick nurse has made
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: it a clear priority to set the tone to say
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: we're going all out regardless of what the score, is
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: And tyrese has sort of been the redt presentation of.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: That BUT i do agree in the overall scheme of,
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: things would they get scowed back at least?
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Slightly? Yeah.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Absolutely and you, know as we look at This sixers,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: team the one thing that has consistently baffled me In Sixers.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: NATION i think in, general it is a constant theme
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: and like narrative that the third, quarter my, gosh it
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: remains an absolute. Abomination and, yes the personnel and the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: talent That Nick nurse have on hand for the third
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: quarter certainly isn't stellar by any stretch of the. Imagination But,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: SEAN i just don't understand at times how this team
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: it's like. Clockwork they'll have a, lead they squander the,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: lead third quarter comes into, play and it is an
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: absolute nightmare from much of the. TIME i, mean is
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: this it's something that's gotten so bad that it's just
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: this huge blemish and it's been here for so long
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: that this, narrative this storyline, here is there any way
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: For Nick nurse and The sixers to fix this third,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: quarter these third quarter woes that they have in the.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: FUTURE i, mean what are your thoughts?
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: Here, Yeah And i've yet to be able to put
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: my full finger on why. Exactly that is one of
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: the stranger like weaknesses That i've seen in a team.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: HERE i, mean whatever they are doing at, HALFTIME i
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: would change everything. Up if that means not going to
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: the locker, room if that means whatever it is To Nick,
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: nurses like, credit he has changed up the lineups like
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: quite a, Bit like we've seen a lot of occasions
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: where Vj edgcomb will start the first, Half Quinn grimes
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: will start the second, half and changes like. THAT i
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: was personally critical of Like jared McCain's guy THAT i
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: would have injected into That lakers, game which once again
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: we saw some of the third quarter woes pop in.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: There SO i think there are some things to, critique
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: but the reality is this is a team that just
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: sort of has to get up and get back in
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: the flow of things after, halftime breaking a rate WHICH
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: i think teams are doing better than. Them SO i
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: DON'T i kind of refuse to believe that there is
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Like x's and o's changes that teams are making that
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: The sixers, aren't or that there are adjustments That Nick
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: nurse is behind the eight. BALL i think in general
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: across THE nba that happens probably less than people think.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: That it is way more pretty game, prep having a
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: game plan and that's what you execute moving. Forward SO
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: i can't put my finger on what it, is but
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: it definitely has to, stop and they are putting themselves
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: in a massive hole for no. Reason they just got
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: to find a way to replicate what they have had
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: some very good first quarter to, Start so maybe we
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: can kind of bring some of that.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Light, YEAH i just wish we could put our finger on,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: it BECAUSE i mean this is like a long term
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: type of Narrow. YEAH i mean it's not getting any
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: better anytime.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Soon it doesn't seem like so uh.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: WELL i need a break. HERE i need a break from,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: this and we're gonna take a break folks when we come.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Back we've got more sixers talk come in your, way all.
• 53:39
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• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Are but another GUY i want to dive into with
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: This philadelphia seventy Six ers team Is Paul. GEORGE i,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: mean he had a really good game against The bucks
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: this past week and he really took control of that
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: game while ALSO i think helping to settle the offense
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: The sixers offense a bunch of young guys to really
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: kind of taking a leadership role that you can actually
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: see on the. Court i'm wondering what are your assessments
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Of Paul george when he's on the court this, season
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: what we've seen from him in terms, of you, know
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: how he can really help this team in the.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Future, yeah you.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Definitely can still have the complaints about the rate at
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: Which Paul george has been on the floor right some
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: of the lack of availability, there BUT i think when
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: he has actually played for the most, part it's been
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: pretty promising and pretty like respectable THAT i think it's
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: been The Paul george has advertised to an, extent he's
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: never gonna be a guy that quite lives up to
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: the max, contract the full scale max that they did
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: hand him in the past offseason. There BUT i think
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: he's been like pretty solid when on the. FLOOR i
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: think defensively he makes an impact that you see s
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: the pathway to him being like this three and d
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: arch type of player with a little bit more juice to.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: HIM i think That bucks game was absolutely his best
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: game as A, sixers certainly this, year and there is
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: like this calming sense when he does have the basketball
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: on the flow of the, offense WHICH i think is
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: pretty comforting and necessary to what The sixers team. NEEDS
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: i don't think they have a ton of like super advanced,
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: creators so having a guy Like Paul george is certainly
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: helpful in that. Regard So i'm frustrated by it has
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: not been he's scaled up to a full workload in
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: the way That I've i've. Hoped but when he's, PLAYED
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: i think he's been pretty, fine AND i can live
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: with that and be encouraged that maybe that scales up moving.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Forward, absolutely it hasn't lived up to the max, contract
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: like you, said but you know there's comfort out there
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: at least for us when he is on the, floor
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: as you, noted so as we're moving along, Here, SEAN
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: i like to do this exercise every now and again
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: with our guests that we. Have we have some categories,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: here And i'm hoping you can give me the player
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: that fits these particular categories and why you think that
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: player fits best so on This sixers. Team who do
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: you think the breakout guy has been so far this?
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: Season for, ME i think It's Dominic barlow in this,
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: conversation all, right, Nice i'm thrilled by what.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: We've seen From Don.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: Barlow and this is a cool story of a guy
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: that you sort of got off the scrap peep, here
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: had had a cup of coffee with The Atlanta hawks
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: And San Antonio, spurs wasn't really able to find ANY
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: nba footing. There and he looks like a guy THAT
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: i think maybe the starter for this team all season
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: THAT i love the way that he does the dirty,
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: work is willing to commit to the, glass knows exactly
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: who he is as a basketball player in terms of
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: attacking the glass with just like a relentlessless, aggression WHICH
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: i think is really. Appreciated AND i think there's more
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: to him than just that that you see some flashes
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: where he'll put the ball on the, floor where he'll
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: make a little pass Where i'm just, like there's something
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: here in this guy's. Game SO i don't Think Dominic
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: barlow is on very many people those maps heading into the.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: SEASON i think he might be by the end of.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: It all, right very. Good the next, Category i'm, wondering
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: who do you see as the comeback? KID i was
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: always hoping that it would be Joe El. Embiid he
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: certainly has not flipped up to being the comeback. Kid
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: who do you see so far on The sixers team
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: as the comeback?
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: Kid, Yeah i'll give it To Paul george for this,
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: one just from the standpoint OF i think he went
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: forgotten in a lot of, minds and he's still a
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: very SOLID nba. Player he's still a guy that can
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: give you twenty five and five on a fairly regular basis,
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: there AND i think we'll settle into his role in
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: the Six ers. Team it still has not been like
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: a ten out of ten satisfied with The Paul george,
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: experience primarily for the lack of opportunities and him being
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: on the floor consistently, there but ULTIMATELY i Think Paul
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: george has still been pretty respectable and worthy of this.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Award, here there's a few players for this next CATEGORY
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: i think that we could really hone in. On But i'm,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: wondering who do you categorize at this particular point as
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: we're heading into Mid december as the rising star of
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: the seventy six.
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: Ers it still has to Be Tyrese maxie me, yep
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: he is across the ENTIRE nba conversation a rising star
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: THAT i think he's been a pretty clear top ten
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: player in basketball this, year and that is a level
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: WHICH i cannot believe that he's achieved this year after.
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: Year this dude has skyrocketed pass WHAT i thought any
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: realistic ceiling war for his. Player and he's still just
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: twenty five years. Old he's still coming into his. Prime
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: he's gonna get even. Better Tyrese maxey is a superstar
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: THAT i do not think any very many people expected
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: that he would get to this.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Low Thank god For Tyrese.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: MAXEY a right moving, along who do you think is
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: the don't forget about him player on this?
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: Team that would Be jared McCain for, Me i'm still
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: buying as Much jared McCain's stock AS i can, Get
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: BUT i still believe in what this guy brings the
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: table as far as his relocation. Skills, OFFENSIVELY i think
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: he's truly going to be one of the most elite
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: shooters in THE. NBA i think we have to give
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: him a little bit more grace when you factor in
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: the pathway for him to this point was him absolutely
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: popping off the, page playing twenty three games as a
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: rookie and then his season being ended due to a miniscus.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: TEAR i think it was even.
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: More harmful to kind of the trajectory was tearing that
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: ligament in his shooting hand arm in THAT ucl coming
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: into training camp this. Year, yeah not being able to
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: participate in training camp when there was the level of
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: roster turnover that was the case, HERE i think is
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: a really tough spot for a guard dominant. Player SO
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: i Think jared McCain has sort of been behind the
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: eight ball all. Year there's still the flashes that have
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: me BELIEVING i don't think he's necessarily the most Nick
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: nerus type of, player And i'm personal a little bit
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: frustrated THAT i would carve out more. Minutes BUT i
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: do believe in the. TALENT i do believe that the
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: cream will ultimately rise at the top.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: THERE i love the player you picked for that, category
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: because when it comes to McCain, TWO i think folks
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: just need to, realize like you, said give him a
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: little more. Grace he's in a sophomore year, here sophomore,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: season you, know with this, Team let's let's give the
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: guy a little bit more, grace especially with the injuries
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: that he has been. Through so final category here before
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: we get to then our last, Topic sean who is
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: the biggest, quote needs to step up player on this.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Team, yeah AND.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: I hate to do it to, him BUT i think
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: this Is joel embiid.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: Conmerce, yeah and it's, Strange LIKE i will, say this
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: wasn't exactly HOW i expected things to. GO i kind
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: of thought it would either Be joel can't play and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: he's consistently, unavailable and you could honestly make the case
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: that that's pretty much what has happened this. Year but
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: the other side of things IS i thought, like if
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: he's going to be existing in THIS nba, capacity we're
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: going to see more consistent flashes of him being the,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: guy AND i don't think we've quite seen. THIS i
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: will say the first stretch at the start of the,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: year that final game before he missed the twenty two
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: days with the knee flare up and the right knee
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: the non surgically repared mee from this offseason, there that
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: was the most encouraged THAT i was THAT i THOUGHT
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: i could squint and see the vision Of, okay he's
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: not far off from What Joel embiid can. Be the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: lack of defensive impact that he does make it is
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: just layup lines around.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: Him the lob is always available when he's on the.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: Floor it makes it really difficult to build out an
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: actual like winning roster when your center can't do big
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: time center things like rebound and protect the rim at
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: a high.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Rate.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: There so The Joel embiid conversation is getting a lot
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: more complicated THAN i wish would be the case. There
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: AND i don't know how much room there is for
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: him to improve off what we're. Seeing and that's kind
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: of a concerning question right.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: There absolutely absolutely it's gonna be a it's going to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: be a story narrative here that just doesn't go away
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. Either so with that being, said BEFORE i
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: let you, go, buddy you, know this team certainly has
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: a lot to work, on and we've talked about a
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: lot of that during the course of this discussion, here
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: BUT i am still committed to saying that they are
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: a fun team to watch, overall given The Joel embiid,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: challenges you, know given the concerns that we have About
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Tyrese maxi in his, minutes and they have a spectacular
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: backcourt with a ton of promise for the, future WHICH
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: i think is so fun in terms of watching this
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: team following what happens with. Them that being, said excuse,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: me what do you want to see from this seventy
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: six ers team in terms of what they need to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: work on most here In december that can really propel
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: them into twenty twenty.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Six, YEAH i.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: Want to see him keep, scrapping keep doing a lot
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: of what they are, doing and keep leaning on the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: backcourt THAT i still think that there is some work
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: to be done as far as sorting out what is
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: the chemistry level and what are the proper lineup combinations
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: between The Tyrese, Maxis jared, McCain Quentin GRIMES vj edgecomb
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: as sort of the identity of this offense in this,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: TEAM i would like to see some level of defensive.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: Improvement That they're not going to be an elite defensive
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: team by any, means but it's got to be a
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: little bit better than it has. Been that they've been
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  Speaker 5: pretty close to the bottom tier of the team AND
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  Speaker 5: i think at best mediocre for stretches this. Season so
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  Speaker 5: if you can get to just passable or serviceable in that,
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  Speaker 5: CATEGORY i think would be a big. Deal AND i
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  Speaker 5: do think that when you look around the greater landscape
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  Speaker 5: of The Eastern, Conference i'm totally optimistic of this team
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  Speaker 5: making its way into the postseasons to some capacity, here
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  Speaker 5: and that has less to do with direct belief in
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  Speaker 5: The sixers and more to do with look at how
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  Speaker 5: bad some of the other teams in The east are
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  Speaker 5: that when you look at The, pacers The, nets The,
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  Speaker 5: wizards The, hornets none of those TEAMS i think have
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  Speaker 5: any sort of postseason chance.
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  Speaker 4: There so it's really.
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  Speaker 5: One team that is trying to win basketball games isn't
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  Speaker 5: going to qualify for. It so we'll see ultimately what
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  Speaker 5: things are going to be at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 5: Here BUT i just want to continue seeing this level
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  Speaker 5: of fight competitiveness and see where the cards fall where
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  Speaker 5: they do at the end of the.
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  Speaker 1: Season it's a fun season so, far and we're going
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