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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadelphia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world, over ten and a half years strong, and this is our last
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Eagles postgame podcast show of the season. The Eagles losing in a disgraceful fashion
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down in Tampa Bay to the Buccaneers in this Super Wild Card Round by a
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score of thirty two to nine. Their season is over. The Philadelphia Eagles
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twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season is finally done. We're gonna be looking
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toward the offseason, but we're gonna talk about this terrible, terrible loss.
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I'm Jeff Warren and I'm here with my good body for our last Eagles postgame
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podcast show. You've heard him, you've heard our other buddy, Josh Schuster
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as well from Philadelphia Soccer now coming on every now and again as well.
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But here with us is the one and only Matt Rodgers from the honorable mentioned
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podcast. Matt, you have come on a number of times to do this
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Eagles postgame podcast show with me. First and foremost, thank you so much
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for your dedication to that during the course of yeah, I love it,
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man, I love coming on the Honorable Mention podcast with you as well.
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But always fun talking to you, Always fun talking about this team. But
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they stink. I mean they really stink, and they stunk it up again.
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And kind of coming into this game, I thought, okay, leading
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up to what we are hearing from the team this week, maybe there would
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have been some sort of some sort of something different. But the Eagles again
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not able to beat the Blitz. Matt. They haven't been able to beat
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the Blitz during the last third of the season, likely seeing the end of
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Brian Johnson as the offensive coordinator. Oh yeah, Philly, and it's just
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leaving ta Yeah. Absolutely, It's just it's just amazing to see how a
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stubbornness, a lack of being willing to alter the playbook. They said,
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you know, we're gonna come out be in the you know the same,
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We're gonna we're gonna be the the Eagles that y'all love to see. And
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it didn't happen at all. So themes from the game, Buddy, let's
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get into a few here. What do you think in here? Right off
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the bat, Well, I'll just say I mean, I've done I've done
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a good bit of coaching in my young life. And I said, and
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I'll say, you know, you know, no offense to the kids who
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may listen and go look to listen to this. They weren't all the best
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of athletes, right. So I've coached teams with players with deficiencies, and
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many a time you are able to make up for those deficiencies. I think,
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I think I want to first thing, jump into those those first two
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drives where the Eagles get it to a third and two on both drives,
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yep, and they throw the ball deep. Yes, it's just dumb.
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It's just bad football, especially with you know. I didn't go ahead,
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Jeff, No, No, I was gonna say. They threw the ball
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on third and two. Actually had a note about this no hot route.
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Once again. We have been ridiculous time and time again during the latter part
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of this season. Those third and twos that you talked about, both of
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them, no hot roots at all. Why are you throwing it deep?
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If you're gonna throw it, throw it in the middle of the field.
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Is somebody who's gonna with yak or something like that. This is ridiculous.
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Yes, and then you go for it on fourth and five. I was
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sitting down. I was telling my wife, we're watching the game together.
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She's after this. I told her to go. She could enjoy, you
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know, her sleep in the back of her eyelids, because the game was
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over. On fourth and five when the Eagles got that chance to run it
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again, I said, the Eagles are gonna be stupid here and they're gonna
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throw it in the end zone's gonna be incomplete and the game's gonna be over.
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And exactly like that, they do that. They are being the same
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old Eagles, but not the same old Eagles that we wanted to see that
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we're gonna stuff the ball down the opponent's throat. You were the same old
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Eagles with dumb ass play calls, dumb ass pass routes, just horrible.
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On the first third and two, you have Dallas Goddter and DeVante Smith within
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spinning distance of each other, and then it's you know, you see people
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saying, oh, that was a bad throw by Jalen Hurts, Like,
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you know, what's a good throw when you're throwing with two defenders in the
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same era. You had the same thing going on at the end. Whatever
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play call that Jalen and aj Brown said that they checked to that was also
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they can only check to the plays that Nick, you and Brian are putting
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in the damn playbook. And these are bad plays. These are just like
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draw it up. These are bad football plays like guys are not designed to
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get open. You know, I wanted to not come on here and rip
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Nick Sirianni today. I wanted to come on here and not rip Brian Johnson.
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But you look crazy anybody right now, there's no reason to even consider
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firing Nick Sirianni. That is, that is just you know, beyond hopium
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that even Matt Rodgers is uncomfortable with I even me who came into today saying,
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Jeff, I feel good about the game. I believe you know,
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Dak is gonna be able to steer the ship right to go and get the
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doors blown off the U nine to thirty two against a team that didn't even
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that barely made the playoffs. You have to have this conversation now. Absolutely,
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the Eagles had twenty six yards of offense in the first quarter. If
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you were gonna come onto that field Raymond James Stadium and you were going to
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you know, get back to the Eagles basics you're you're gonna that that that
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pound in the football that we all wanted, that we were all hoping for,
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It didn't happen. They had twenty six yards of offense in the first
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freaking quarter. The tush push didn't work before the half, Timpa Bay Buccaneers
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stopped it. Second time, they stopped at this little bit of a face
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mask. Yes, a little absolutely, absolutely, for sure, have to
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say that. But the fact of the matter is DeAndre Swift carried the ball
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four times for sixteen yards in the first half. It is egregious coaching.
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It is egregious offensive coaching by Brian Johnson. One of the reasons why he
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is not going to be the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia after this. You know,
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I mean, I'm gonna to be a Cowboys fan. They best round
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bring Brian Johnson back. Protest absolutely. Look also also really not, but
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I will make it hell for folks, That's what I will do. I
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was kidding there, just for your listeners. Well, look, well into
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the second half of the Eagles offense, they continued to go. It was
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amazing me. They continued to go into empty sets and the Buccaneers continued to
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send six or more to ensure a free runner, and the continue to have
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exactly zero answers for this. Continuing to have zero answers week after week after
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week. This is the wild card of the of the NFL playoffs. It's
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the exact same thing that happened against the Giants last week. I just don't
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understand how the offensive staff prepared for this game or what they even did in
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the film room. It's the exact same thing that we have seen over and
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over and over again. Although I do like how they did get the ball
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to Davante Smith over the middle of the field that was working in the second
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quarter. I enjoyed seeing a receiver catching the ball in the middle of the
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field instead of just down the sideline, you know. And then they ended
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up getting away from that as well. DeAndre Switt, I'm sorry DeVante Smith.
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And then the defensive line, believe it or not, are gonna be
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the they did. They're gonna be the only units that don't get an F
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For me, our grades are gonna be real quick, at least from my
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stand. Wait a little bit later here, Matt, but really, I
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mean, Devonte Smith fantastic on the day. Eight receptions for one hundred and
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forty eight yards eighteen point five yards per reception. And like I said,
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with regard to the defensive line, four sacks, we actually got four sacks
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in this game. I cannot believe we got four sacks in this game.
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We haven't seen four sacks in a while. It's been a long time.
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So I keep pontificating here and he in the lack of tackling, I mean
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from a defensive standpoint, man defensive standpoint, same crap with Matt Patricia,
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of course, but I really think that that side of the ball. I
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really do believe that they were trying to fight in the first half. But
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the lack of tackling Zach Cunningham big time. We saw it from him,
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We saw it from Bradley Roby, James Bradbury early in the first drive of
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the game, and then throughout the game subsequently, just the lack of tackling.
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We actually saw Eagles players in the secondary taking each other out of plays
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by running into each other, and we saw that on the Buccaneers first touchdown
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of the game. And it's just I'm just shaking my head here, man,
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I'm just shaking my head. Very predictable, though, very addictable ye
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in the spring, you know, after this season was over, I had
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you on Honorable Mention podcast and I was talking about how like a I don't
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know about Bradley, Like, I'm sure he's a nice guy. He's a
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very intelligent young man. I always want him to, you know, people
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be able to get their money. I'm like, James Bradberry was getting picked
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on in the playoffs last year. James Bradberry was already looking slow. Bad
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move, letting Marcus EPs go. Bad move. They got a three year
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contract. They got Bradbury and Sleigh. We're given a three year contract in
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the spring of twenty twenty three. Man, Matt, I just say to
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myself, what is going to happen here? Because these two gentlemen are not
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playing the position like they did in twenty twenty two and prior to that.
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It hurts my brain to think about what our corn situation, our outside cornerback
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situation is going to be looking like potentially next year. I mean, these
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two gentlemen may be coming back based on the contract and how he gave him
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last year. At the deadline, I was hearing that that the Eagles were
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making calls for certain out of Denver Broncos, who I believe is a top
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five corner in the league. That that's what's going to happen. I mean,
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how he always is trying to wheel and deal in Wow. I think
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this year, though, you know, how he's you know, under an
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amount of pressure. He hasn't been in since he won the Super Bowl,
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and I think that that's healthy for this team. I think there's a little
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bit too much worship going on and we really haven't done. You know,
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we talk a lot about the Cowboys about what have you guys done. I
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mean we still only cast one Super Bowl ring, and so you know,
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there was a lot of talk and a lot of you know, holding our
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chest up high, you know, walking into this season and thinking we can
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let good players like Marcus again, Marcus EEPs go, let Chauncey Gardner,
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Johnson Goye and just you know with bargain basement. Oh, because Howie's so
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smart, We're going to be able to just go and oh yeah, read
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Blankenship is going to be the next coming of Brian Dawkins. I never really
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saw that, you know, I think that he played well, he played
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above his talent and has. But I mean, even if we had read
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blankenship today, we weren't going to be shutting things down. I mean,
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it's just the reality is, this was a flawed football team that Jalen Hurts
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through eleven games, was able to will to eleven wins, and at a
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certain point the dan broke. And I really, I really do. I
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know that Jalen hurts at times and games is under a certain amount of pressure.
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And I mentioned I mentioned before we got on the show or before we
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hit the record button here, I mentioned his knee. I really do wonder
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how much his knee has been a problem this entire season in terms of his
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mobility. And you know, I was getting some tweets. I was actually
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yes on Twitter a bit tonight and I was actually getting some tweets about how
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Jalen is terrible, Jalen's awful. You gotta get rid of Jalen Hurts.
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I strongly disagree with that notion. This coaching staff, folks, did not
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put Jalen in a good position. The offensive line has folded over these past
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few weeks. They just have They were in f grade. For me after
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this playoff game, Jalen hurts, Jyla would have had to come out and
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throw five or six picks today for us for the conversation to even not be
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you know, ridiculous exactly. It's not just stupid, it's ridiculously stupid.
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So even and I'm thinking to myself, Man, this ain't Jalen. I
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mean, look, yeah, he's dumping a lot of balls off and unfortunately
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it's like it's like third and fifteen or third and twenty and screen passes are
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being called. How many screen passes were called in his freaking game, Matt
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where I'm sitting there thinking, my gosh, what are they? None of
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those guys like Dawkins. Brian Dawkins himself said it tonight. I mean,
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you're throwing these screen passes in the slot out into the flat and nobody,
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none of these guys. Name a guy who's gonna really make anybody miss.
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It's the only one exactly what I sees getting one of those. I'm like,
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my god, how many times do we have to see this play?
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We've all seen it coach nowhere. It's amazing how they just didn't make any
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sort of adjustments, alterations or changes to the offensive scheming. Coming again,
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they kind of and I really think that Jalen Hurts was driving a car with
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a governor on it this year. I think that the way that they they
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drew up this offense, they were holding him back. They were not making
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things easy. He still had a statistically good season. I go stack his
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numbers up against you know, he's a controversial figure in Philadelphia sports history,
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Donovan McNabb. Donovan McNabb, who was a very good player. Who is
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you know, even in my estimation, a little bit outside of the Hall
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of Fame, but still a very, very, very good player. Jalen
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Hurts. The stats this year are what franchise record in passing yards or damn
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near and touchdowns? I mean he broke Randalls. He broke Randall's record and
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touchdowns. So it's not Jalen Hurts, folks. You know, these coaches
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need to put these players in a position. It's the old Andy Reid adage.
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Got to put the players in a position to succeed. And this coaching
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staff has failed. I mean, when you talk about a coaching staff that
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has ultimately failed and doomed a team of talented individuals, not everybody is extremely
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talented, but doomed really talented individuals like they're better than the Bucks. Yeah,
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absolutely absolutely. This is a team talent wise that is better than the
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers absolutely kick their asses in this
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playoff game thirty two to nineteen or to nine. Sorry, I wish nineteen
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to thirty two to nine. So it just I don't know, buddy.
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Before we head into actually, I'm thinking this before we headed into the break
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really quick here, I'm thinking, maybe we just give some quick grades because
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I'm assuming you're gonna have some F grades and maybe a lot of them.
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I'm gonna have a ton of them, like I just said, So,
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I'm I'm wondering if we should just say this, let's give out some grades
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who don't give it or to the units that don't get an F. Like
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I said, I'm just I'm just Devonte Smith. He is his own grade
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of an A this week. Okay, I'm gonna give him an A this
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week. He's the only person on the offensive side of the ball that really
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stepped up in a way I gave the stats earlier. He with one hundred
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and forty eight yards on the day. He's the only offensive player that really
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really stepped I mean outside of like Jalen Hurts trying to do what he could.
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He ended with a rating of one hundred zero point nine actually twenty five
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to thirty five two hundred and fifty yards. Certainly wasn't the greatest day for
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him. He did throw a touchdown to Dallas Goddard. But I have to
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say that the defensive line two they actually get a B from me. I'm
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not gonna give him an F. Of course, Like I said, four
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sacks, the six quarterback hits, they're gonna get a B from me.
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So I don't know. Those are my grades. Everybody else gets an F.
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Everybody gonna I'm gonna give Jalen a B minus. Okay, Okay,
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I think that's fair. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give him a
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B mine. I think the sack and really I might be able to be
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talked into C plus because of that stupid sack that he took that turned into
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a safety, yea. But overall, I mean, I don't think Jalen
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threw us out of the He didn't throw us out of the game. He
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made a couple of very good throws. There were some pass interferences. There
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were a couple of instances with Quees Watkins not fighting for the ball. I'm
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in the range of A depends on the school districture. And you know if
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eighty one, if eighty one is a C plus in your school district or
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not? All right, sounds good? Sounds good? I mean, are
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there any other decent grades that you have out there? I mean, and
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Michael Clay, I'm going to give him in the special teams, I'm actually
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going to give them a B minus. Britain Covey with that fumble on the
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six yard line could have been absolutely disastrous. It wasn't Jake Elliott hitting his
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forty seven yard or grateful for him in the sixteen. He's sixteen for sixteen
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in the playoffs. Love Jake Elliott. It's going to be the kicker next
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year as well. But I mean, Michael Clay and special teams, I'm
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going to give them a be Siriani in, Matt Patricia get in, Brian
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Johnson, f's everywhere. So those are all my grades. Do you have
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any other grades? DeAndre Swift? DeAndre Swift the running backs, what do
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you think he carried the ball ten times thirty four yards? Of course,
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it's a three point four yards per carry. He did catch the ball four
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times for thirty two yards as well, eight yards per reception there with a
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long of eleven. I don't know what are you thinking there? All right?
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Plus I think it's fair, okay. I just weren't given a chance
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those guys, I mean, the game flow, the game plan, all
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of it was just dumb. Yeah, and so it just didn't It just
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didn't help them. I don't want to dig them too much because the game
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kind of got pushed into a direction where, you know, the Eagles have
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shown us, Sirianni has shown us he's only really going to commit to running
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the ball if he's got a lead. Yes, if if you put this
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Eagles team down seven points, three points, he may still run the ball.
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But if you put this Eagles team down seven points, Sirianni will abandon
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the run. It's like old Andy Reid. It is unbelievable that we are
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back in those days. I really thought they were going to run the ball
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more today. Like we said at the top of the show here, you
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know, we thought it was going to be a little something different. Week
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three against this Buccaneers team. They put up two hundred and one rushing yards
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against this Bucks team, Yes, the Bucks. In Week three, they
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had some injuries on that defensive line, but still I thought they were going
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to really try to ram it down their throats because they did he some bit
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of success earlier this season didn't happen, and it's pretty egregious to me.
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So do you have any other grades here before we get to the break?
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Buddy? No, No, we can go to break, all right,
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and everybody's for everybody else fantastic for fantastic, yeah, right for failure.
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Yes, all right, folks, quick break. We will be back in
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just a bit. All right, we are back, and again we're with
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Matt Rodgers from the honorable mentioned podcast. He is on threads at Politidope.
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He is a great, great follow. Give him a follow and listen to
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the Honorable mentioned podcast on Apple Podcasts or whatever podcast platform you're listening to us
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on. It is a great, great show, great guests all the time.
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And Matt, I really you know, we talked about the game,
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and we kind of just knew a lot of us were hoping. Of course
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we had the hope, but we knew what was going to really kind of
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end up happening, I think in the end, but I think everybody now
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is going to be like, Okay, what is going to be happening with
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this team? What's gonna be happening with this organization? Free agency is gonna
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be I think here before we know it. And the top free agents on
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this team are DeAndre Swift, Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, I believe it
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or not, Zach Cunningham, and Nick Morrow in the middle of the field,
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also backup quarterback in Marcus Mariota, Boston Scott, and Rashad Penny.
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In the offensive backfield, Lamade's a kaush Ques Watkins, Julio Jones. In
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terms of the wide receivers, you've got Albert Oh, I'm gonna botch his
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name because I'm not gonna be able to pronounce his name. Roberto. They
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never made us. They never made it. You know something that we had
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to learn because they never gave him a chance. Gave up a pick,
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I think a fifth round pick for him. I think it was fifth,
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fourth or fifth round. I think it was fifth round pick for him.
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Jack stall is the other tight end who is He's on a restricted He's a
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restricted free agent. And then we've got Roderick Johnson, offensive tackle Sua Opetta
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Sean Bradley, Bradley Roby, Josiah Scott, Justin Evans or Justin Evans.
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He was cut earlier this year, so I'm reading from a list obviously.
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And then Braiden Man and Rick Lovado, those are your free agents, folks.
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And I gotta say, Braiden Man and Rick Lovado exact I heard exactly.
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I do not think the rest of these folks are coming back. I
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really don't. I don't know. Part of me thinks that Brandon Graham could
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actually be coming back. Part of me thinks he. I would love it
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Brandon Graham comes back. Yes, his body language at the end of the
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game was much different than Jason Kelsey's. Absolutely, absolutely, And I think
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with Kelsey, I think this probably was his last year. That's what I
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That's what I'm thinking. I don't know why I'm getting that gut reaction.
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Think he came back this year thinking, okay, man, it was the
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Super Bowl. You know, this is a Super Bowl team. We're going
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to be running it back with a lot of the same folks. And unfortunately
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two of the important ones in the offensive coordinator Shane Steichen and believe it or
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not, Jonathan Gannon, who we all get crap to last year. They
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were a big piece of that puzzle or big pieces of that puzzle last year,
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Matt. So you know, it really goes to show that the coaching
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and how much of the coaching really really was a detriment the majority of this
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season. So I don't know that that's what we're looking at in terms of
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this offseason. Nine draft picks as well from what I last read, four
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in the top top three rounds, so I look at what and thirty two
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million dollars, by the way, already in cap space, So who knows
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what how he's going to do in terms of more cap space in the future.
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A lot of these guys are not going to be coming back. Who
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I just read first and foremost probably the coaches before we get into any sort
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of free agency. That's what I would think. Is that what you're thinking,
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Matt? Yeah, I Lee, Brian Johnson and Matt Patricia down in
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Tampa Bay. Let him pay for a bus, take it back, let
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him ride at the Greyhound. Right. Hey, y'all, y'all make your
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own way back exactly. Looks it's very real. Peace out brothers. But
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the coach is interested in Jonathan Allen Josh Allen from the from the Jaguars.
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Though, absolutely would be that would that could be something that would that would
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get me excited. Yes. Absolutely. The look the free agent quarterbacks,
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I mean they're obviously I mean, like a guy like Gardner Minshew, he's
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he's going to be a free agent this year. Maybe bring him back,
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who knows, Maybe sign Mariota, you know exactly, No, no,
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please, don't don't do it. But really I was glad we only had
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to saw We only had to see what we saw in that Giants game,
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and that was it. I was worried, you know, Jeff, I
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was worried about that all season. Yes, and that was the one cherry
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that I didn't have to watch Marcus Mario to throw a five pick game.
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Yes. So I look at this organization. I think they're gonna take care
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of the coaches first, whether Nick Sirianni does keep his job. I actually
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do think Nick Sirianni is gonna keep his job. I think he is gonna
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be the one coach in the NFL next season that is going to be on
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the hottest seat based on where he's gonna take new coordinators. And I think
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there's gonna be a new offensive coordinator, a new defensive coordinator. Those are
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just my thoughts, my predictions here, folks. I know absolutely nothing in
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terms of what's gonna happen. Nobody does. And and then with regard to
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free agency in the draft, we're gonna see how this team is rebuilt,
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because I think we're gonna see a much different team in twenty twenty four,
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twenty twenty five than we did this year. I really think that we are
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going to see a lot of different different folks. You know, running backs.
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Don't think DeAndre Swift is probably gonna be coming back. I don't think
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a lot of it never bring back exactly, a lot of these wide receivers
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probably not gonna be coming back. And you know, it's it's it's gonna
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be really interesting to see. Where do you think they should really focus their
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efforts in free agency in the draft? I personally think the trenches because we
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just saw absolutely them get absolutely trounced in the trenches over the past third of
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the season here, so I think it's got to be the trenches. You
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know, I haven't heard this a lot, so I'm definitely not copying this
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or getting this from anybody else. I haven't been incredibly impressed with Cam Jurgens.
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I gotta say here for this idea that he's the heir apparent at Jason
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Kelce. I'm calling bs on that I forget he wasn't even really holding it
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down at guard. Yeah, I'm sorry, I forget who I'm forgetting off
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the top of my head. It was earlier this season and I was saying
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whether or not Cam Jurgens was actually going to be the guy because there was
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somebody else during training camp that was competing for that right guard spot. It
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might have been Tyler Steen. Actually he may have been have been in there
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as well. Tyler Steen was playing pretty well. Yeah, and number fifty
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six. And the person was like, a, I may have to tell
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uh, may have to tell Cam Jurgens a pst over here saying he may
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not be that great of a starter. And now I'm thinking of that conversation,
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and I'm like, you know what decent amount of holding penalties and somebody
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who who's past blocking and pass pro was not very good and he was the
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He was the detriment on the Eagles offensive line for sure this year. And
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you can hear in AJ Brown's great quote where he it's, you know,
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somebody messing up and not doing their thing. I think we're gonna hear,
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you know, however, the shoes fall or drop with aj Brown, I
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think we're gonna start seeing Cam Jurgens get thrown under the bus a little bit.
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I think when you watch the film study, he's off by a couple
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feet. He's he's making mistakes. He's not, you know, pancaking guys.
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I mean, it's amazing to say, but Saya Malo was significantly better
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than Camdell my gosh, yes, absolutely absolutely he was. He was one
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of the most underrated offensive linemen I think of the NFL for a number of
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years. Yes, yeah, yes, I don't know. I also I
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think they build in the in the trenches. Oh ahead, I was gonna
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say they're gonna build in the trenches as we're as we're saying here, And
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I really do think, and I think it's gonna be a a conversation that
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goes nowhere. But a number of folks are going to have this conversation the
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linebacker position and what is going to happen in the middle of the field because
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teams continually other teams offenses continually kicked the crap out of the Eagles in the
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middle of the field because the linebackers just aren't that good. Nakobe Dean,
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who I know, you are extremely disappointed. I know he's been injured.
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You know he's been on ir now how many times, part of football exactly
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part of football. That was part of his scouting. Yep, folks,
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that he was undersized and he would be able to be getting injured like this.
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So yep, you know it's not just like some freak accident. I
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mean, maybe he's just too small to play the position he's trying to play.
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Yes, absolutely, So the middle of the field is a big,
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big concern for me when it comes to this Eagles defense, and I think
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they either need to get a decent free agent linebacker. I'm not talking about
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Nick Morrow and Zach Cunningham here, folks, I'm not talking about them.
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I'm talking about a guy who is really going to be a difference maker,
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is gonna understand the blitz. But that's the thing here. We need to
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know who these coaches are. We need to know who the new coaches are
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going to be before we can start talking about players. Because certain certain traits
28:36
that a player has needs to be able to fit with what the actual coach
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wants to do. So but those are my big you random, random six
28:45
year old flag football coach. Hey, you're perfectly qualified to coach. We
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need one thing from you, mister Smith. Yes, you see this guy
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number seven, We're paying him to rush the pass there, so let's let
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him him do that. Yes, he doesn't need to be in coverage.
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He does not. Oh, Matt, we are going to be running out
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of time here, buddy, in just a few minutes. But yeah,
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but really, as we sum up this season, of course, probably the
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most disappointing Philadelphia Eagles season that US fans have had to endure. It wasn't
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all horrible. It wasn't it wasn't all terrible horrible. They beat the Buffalo
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Bills, they beat the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, that's when things were
29:30
really starting to teeter. But they were wins, and it was interesting to
29:34
see those wins, for sure. But the most disappointing Eagle season I think
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of all time that I can remember, having watched this team since I was
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three years old. I will remember the very first time I ever saw in
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Eagles uniform. It was in nineteen eighty when my dad was watching the Super
29:52
Bowl, and I actually remember that it was one of my first memories as
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a kid. And since then, this has to be one of the most
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disappointing seasons that I can ever remember. And the thing, and the really
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disappointing thing is and I and I preview this one here, is they're they're
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in the same kind of position that the Philadelphia Phillies are in, where we're
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at a point now where okay, say this Eagles team goes ten and one
30:18
again, eleven and one and thirteen and two or something next year. Okay,
30:22
when's the bottom gonna fall out? Same thing with the Phillies. It's
30:26
like, you guys have made it now to the to the NLCS. You
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guys made it to the World Series. When's the choke coming? We are
30:33
like feeling real cowboys right now. I gotta be honest, I got the
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accountability. This is some cowboys shit that we're doing. Yes, it is,
30:42
It absolutely is. And look, even though this Eagles team lost and
30:48
got their asses kicked, it was still great to see the Cowboys completely unplode
30:52
the way they did against the Packers. Fully shit, they join us on
30:56
the couch. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. Oh my gosh,
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I was. I was actually watching videos today on TikTok of Cowboys fans losing
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their minds as they were as the game was just slipping away from them,
31:10
and it was some of the greatest content that I have seen all season.
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And I do think that our fans will be better behave, which is against
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counter counter to the narrative. I think you will see a lot of Eagles
31:23
fans who are pissed with the coaching, but I don't think you'll see the
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kind of meltdowns that you saw. We'll see. I absolutely agree, I
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absolutely agree. So buddy, do you have any final thoughts before I let
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you go and before we end this final Eagles postgame podcast? Yeah? Please?
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Please next season, let Hassan Reddick rush the passer. I just never
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want to see it again. Guys that can we just let him do that?
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Please? He's good at it, folks, he's good at it.
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Coaches, I shouldn't say folks, he's coaches. He's good at it,
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good, good at everybody, but the Eagles coaches know that. Yes,
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he's good at a skill. Let him do the skill seems simple to me.
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I don't know. Seems simple to me. Then again, I'm not
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a coach again. Matt Rodgers. Yes, Matt Rogers from the honorable mentioned
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podcast, Buddy, it was great doing all those postgame shows with you throughout
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the course of this season, and hope to have you back on the show
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down the road we can talk some Sixers and Phillies for sure, would love
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to have you back. Man. All right, all right, thank you,
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right, thank you, everybody, Take care and we will catch you
32:32
on our regular show this week. And we're gonna take a break from opposition
32:37
territory this week. I just I definitely need a break from looking at other
32:42
teams and talking about other teams for sure, So regular show this week,
32:45
we're actually gonna be getting into a ton of Phillies talk with Destiny Legardo from
32:49
Phillies Nation dot com. She's gonna be jumping on with us just talk about
32:52
where this team is gonna go during this hot stove season. Are there gonna
32:57
be any more acquisitions? And it's gonna be a fun conversation. So subscribe
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if you are not already, and take care everybody. We'll catch you next time.