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Birds Weekly: Ray Didinger, Derrick Gunn Preview Week 14 Philadelphia Eagles vs. Chargers · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to another preview edition of Birds Weekly,
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  Speaker 1: presented by the Inside the Person Network for a Ray Dendrum,
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  Speaker 1: Derek Gunn and the eagles next opponent, the Los Angeles Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: You know they always say the best way to get
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  Speaker 1: the bad taste of a loss out of your mouth
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  Speaker 1: is get right back in there and play another opponent.
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  Speaker 1: But in this case, the Eagles will be better be
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  Speaker 1: aware of what they asked for, because going out West
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  Speaker 1: to play these Chargers is no joke. But Ray, an
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  Speaker 1: interesting development occurred on Sunday. The Chargers beat the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: thirty one to fourteen to get to eight and four.
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  Speaker 1: They are number two in the AFC West. They are
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  Speaker 1: the five seed overall in the AFC. But their franchise
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Justin Herbert, early in that game broke a bone
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  Speaker 1: in his left hand, his non throwing hand. He left
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  Speaker 1: the game, came back and finished the game. Then we
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  Speaker 1: find out after the game he's going to have surgery
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  Speaker 1: on the hand on Monday. Now he says he's proceeding
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  Speaker 1: as if he's going to play next Monday night against
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles. His head coach, Jim Harbaugh says, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he's going to miss any time. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: it's all gamesmanship right now. But boy, wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 1: something if he didn't play against the Eagles next Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: It really would be. I saw the film of his
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  Speaker 2: press conference in which he was very matter of fact
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  Speaker 2: about no, I'm going to play. I mean, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even like, well we'll see how this goes, or I
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  Speaker 2: need to talk to the doctors or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it came up and he said, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get surgery, but yeah, I'm playing Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: Don't even worry about that. So now that's what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, he was he was hardly
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  Speaker 2: out of the game at all. I mean he went
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  Speaker 2: out and then came right back in and it was
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  Speaker 2: interesting though they didn't put him under center at all.
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  Speaker 2: After that. He played the rest of the game from
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  Speaker 2: the shotgun because I guess to protect his hand from
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  Speaker 2: the impact of the ball. I would guess that he
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  Speaker 2: would probably have to do something like that again if
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  Speaker 2: he were playing next week. So but it is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it is his non throwing hand. I guess he could
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  Speaker 2: do it. But you know what, Derek. It seems to
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  Speaker 2: me if Jim Harbaugh, who loves to run the football anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to spend this week watching the film of
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  Speaker 2: what the Chicago Bears did to the Eagles defense last week,
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  Speaker 2: he's you know, I mean, he could just have Justin
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  Speaker 2: Herbert come out there with boxing gloves on both hands
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  Speaker 2: and always going to have to do is hand it off,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't think he's going to be throwing the
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  Speaker 2: ball a whole heck of a lot next Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: If they're controlling the line of scrimmage the way the
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  Speaker 2: Bears controlled the line of scrimmage last Friday.
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  Speaker 1: If there's one thing we know, it's that Jim Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: loves to pound the rock. There's no question about that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: On Black Friday, we learned about a Chicago running back
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  Speaker 1: named Manongi. You know, I had never heard much about
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  Speaker 1: this kid, but he made a name for himself on
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  Speaker 1: National TV this past Friday. And when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers, they have a young man named Kamani Videll
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  Speaker 1: and obviously he's become the feature back because Najie Harris
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  Speaker 1: suffered an achilles injury back in September. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: ir But this young man, all he's done is he's
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  Speaker 1: carried the ball, you know, over a hundred times this season.
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  Speaker 1: Is five hundred and forty three yards rushing and he's
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  Speaker 1: averaging almost four and a half yards per Carrie, do
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  Speaker 1: you have any book on this kid. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: him play.
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  Speaker 2: If anything, he's he's had three hundred yard games.
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  Speaker 1: Geez.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a leading rusher on the team. They have
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  Speaker 2: a running game that is. He was a six round
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  Speaker 2: draft pick last year, was released this year, and he
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  Speaker 2: his profile reads a lot like Menanji. Really. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a low round draft pick, nobody expected anything. Came in,
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  Speaker 2: made the team last year as a sixth round pick,
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  Speaker 2: got released this summer. Uh. And then they brought him back. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And when they had some other injuries, they brought him
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  Speaker 2: back and he wound up being the number one guy.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's gotten an opportunity and taking advantage of
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  Speaker 2: it uh and had a real big game today. This
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  Speaker 2: was This was the best game of his career so far.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah. I mean the Chargers have had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of issues, most of them in the offensive line with injuries.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they started this year looking at the looking
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  Speaker 2: at the construction of their team. I mean, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things you said was, man, they got two really
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  Speaker 2: good tackles, you know, they got they got Alt and
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  Speaker 2: they got Slater, who were two really elite tackles to
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  Speaker 2: protect Justin Herbert and now they're both gone. Uh, And
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  Speaker 2: that whole offensive line has been had to be reshuffled
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  Speaker 2: and remade, and frankly hasn't been very good, especially in
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  Speaker 2: the area of protecting the quarterback. But they've been good
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  Speaker 2: enough to win enough games that you know they're they're
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  Speaker 2: right in the thick of the playoff race. And this
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  Speaker 2: kid Fidal has kind of come out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 2: given them a running game. And you know, the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to obviously do a much better
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  Speaker 2: job holding the line of scrimmage on Monday night than
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  Speaker 2: they did against the Bears, who are, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: now the number one seed in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You believe that unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You believe that we were looking at last week, we
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  Speaker 2: were looking ahead of the Eagles Bears game, and you
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  Speaker 2: and I were looking at that eight and three Bears
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  Speaker 2: record and sort of saying, I don't know if these
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  Speaker 2: guys are really all that they're beating a lot of
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  Speaker 2: bad teams. They've squeaked out a couple of one point wins.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't really know if if if they're
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  Speaker 2: a legitimate contender. Geez, you know, a couple of days later,
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  Speaker 2: now they're a number one seed the NFC. But it
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  Speaker 2: just sort of goes back to saying what we said
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  Speaker 2: all year. This is to me the most wide open
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  Speaker 2: NFL season I can remember. I mean, from week to week,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, justin were ready to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams are the team. The Rams go to Carolina
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  Speaker 2: and get beat. So what a nutty season this has been?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in another interesting game, Houston goes into
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  Speaker 1: Indy and beats Indianapolis, which was the highest scoring team
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Houston had the number one defense and
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  Speaker 1: defense prevailed in that game. So you're right as we
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  Speaker 1: sit here right now, Ray, I couldn't even begin to
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  Speaker 1: tell you who a favorite might be from the NFC
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC to represent their conferences in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: because it's that wide opening as you, as you and
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  Speaker 1: I were talking about, if somehow, some way the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: could get their act together, it is right there for
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  Speaker 1: the taking.
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  Speaker 2: It is it really is. And we've been saying that
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  Speaker 2: all year.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And you really thought at some point this thing is
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  Speaker 2: going to shake out and and and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: teams are going to emerge and they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: the teams. And just like I did last year, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's just the way seasons go. Uh and not this year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, here we're rolling in December now. Uh. And
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  Speaker 2: you tell me who the best team is. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You tell me who the two teams
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  Speaker 2: going to be playing in the Super Bowl. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have any idea. Uh. And yeah, I mean if the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles could regroup, reorganize, get them get themselves straightened out here,
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  Speaker 2: they can get right back in this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that I know we've said this before,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll say it again. If if, if they can,
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  Speaker 2: if they can pull it together, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think Monday Night's game is going to tell us
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  Speaker 2: a lot, you know. I mean they're coming off two
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  Speaker 2: back to back losses and they're going all the way
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  Speaker 2: across the country to play a good Chargers team that
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  Speaker 2: has a lot to play for too. Uh And and
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll see, you know, we'll guess we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to see just how much of that that championship thing,
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  Speaker 2: that championship, if that means anything to these guys, that
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  Speaker 2: pride factor of being the defending champs, even though all
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  Speaker 2: year that have kept putting aside the idea we're not
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  Speaker 2: defending anything. We're not defending anything. We're not the defending Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine to say that, But somewhere deep inside, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these guys look at themselves as the champs until proven otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, go show me Monday night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: show me Monday night. You know you're the defending champ.
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  Speaker 2: See you know, go show us Monday night. If that
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  Speaker 2: really means anything to you, I'll tell you after getting
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  Speaker 2: embarrassed on a prime on a prime time stage last Friday,
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  Speaker 2: you got something to play for here. I mean to
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  Speaker 2: keep your season alive, but also to re establish yourself
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  Speaker 2: as a team that's worthy of being called a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl champion.
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  Speaker 1: Ray, as we sit here right now, I don't trust
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  Speaker 1: this Eagle team. I don't trust him. The last game
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  Speaker 1: and a half they have been manhandled. You go back
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  Speaker 1: to the second half in a Dallas game, and of
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  Speaker 1: course all four quarters against Chicago I mean on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the football. Now, they're not playing anything like
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  Speaker 1: the team we expected and the team that was playing
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  Speaker 1: earlier this season. He defensively more so than offensively. I
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  Speaker 1: honestly don't know, Ray, what to expect from this team anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, the penalties, the mental mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: the physical miscues, the quarterback in consistency. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who this team is right now, Ray, Yeah, I think that.
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  Speaker 2: The point is the offense hasn't looked right all year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the offense has you know, has been coughing
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  Speaker 2: and sputtering like a fifty eight Chevy, I mean all year.
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  Speaker 2: But so you know that you know that they were
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  Speaker 2: struggling to get a first down, that they're struggling to
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  Speaker 2: move the ball. What we saw against the Bear is
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  Speaker 2: nothing surprising, because we've seen that all year. That was
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  Speaker 2: fairly typical. What's really scary is is the way the
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  Speaker 2: defense collapsed, because the defense is what kept them, has
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  Speaker 2: kept them afloat to this point, and and that just
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  Speaker 2: the damn just broke on Friday for sure. And so
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  Speaker 2: now we'll see, you know, when they go out there
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, because you know, the Chargers have their issues too.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of think, based on the way Herbert was
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  Speaker 2: speaking today, I kind of think Herbert is going to
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  Speaker 2: play on Monday. I mean, if they can't, then a
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  Speaker 2: Trey Lance. But again, I have a feeling knowing hardballs
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  Speaker 2: propensity to want to run the ball anyway. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the offensive play call I probably won't change all that much.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to come out and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to want to run the ball at the Eagles in
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  Speaker 2: this game, and let's see, if you know, let's see
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  Speaker 2: if they're up to it. I mean it was you
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  Speaker 2: look back at that Bears game. I mean I try
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  Speaker 2: to look back at every Eagles game and watch it again.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do it with this one. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: was just too awful. I know there's stuff you can
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  Speaker 2: learn by watching the team, I couldn't watch it on
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  Speaker 2: this one. Watching it once was enough for me, more
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  Speaker 2: than enough. I mean, do you think about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the Bears ran eighty five plays in that game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still shocked ran eighty five plays. I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous that you let that happen to you. Now, you
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  Speaker 2: know everybody's talking about Mini buy a couple extra days
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  Speaker 2: to prepare going to make any difference. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm kind of at the point that you were
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of minutes ago. I don't trust this team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I know this team. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what to expect. You know, they could come out
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  Speaker 2: and play great on Monday. I don't expect that, but
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  Speaker 2: they could, because you know, they kind of the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: in many ways, kind of reflect the whole NFL this season.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing makes sense from week to week. Just when you think,
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  Speaker 2: just when you think you kind of got to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, something else happened. So you know, Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ray, you touched on in a moment ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm with you. I'd be shocked if Justin Herbert
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  Speaker 1: is not under center for this team come Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's a sliver of a chance Trey Lance
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  Speaker 1: plays in this game. You know he was the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers former first round pick back in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: He missed all of twenty three, well, he missed most
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  Speaker 1: of twenty two because of an ankle Andrew he missed
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  Speaker 1: all of twenty three. Then he goes to Dallas for
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  Speaker 1: one year. Now he's on his third team in five years.
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  Speaker 1: He's only playing fourteen games in his career and he's
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  Speaker 1: only completed fifty six percent of his passes. How much
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  Speaker 1: does that change the dynamic? Now we know he's athletic,
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  Speaker 1: he's a big kid, like six four five. We know
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  Speaker 1: he's athletic. But how much does that change the dynamic
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  Speaker 1: and the construction of what the Chargers want to do offensively?
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  Speaker 1: If Justin Herbert can't go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that I think you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: leaning towards the run anyway. And if it's if it
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  Speaker 2: turns out to be Lance, I don't think it will.
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  Speaker 2: But if it would, then it probably just run it more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean they would probably just really I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he would probably run it as much as throw it,
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  Speaker 2: because we know he can do that. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: know that he can run the ball, and he's he's
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  Speaker 2: and he is a threat running the ball. But I
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  Speaker 2: think that there's not much of a chance of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a really I mean, we're just
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  Speaker 2: looking at it from a Philadelphia standpoint how important this
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  Speaker 2: game is to the Eagles. But if you want to
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  Speaker 2: look at it from the other side, this is a
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  Speaker 2: really important game for the Chargers because they're right, They're
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  Speaker 2: right in the thick of it in the AFC West,
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  Speaker 2: and you know they you know, they got to they
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  Speaker 2: got to keep they got to keep winning to keep
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  Speaker 2: themselves alive in this race too. And I fully expect
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  Speaker 2: to see Herbert out there, maybe in a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a limited basis, but I think i'd be I'd be
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  Speaker 2: very surprised if if he was on the sidelines in
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  Speaker 2: this game. I think he's going to I think he's
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  Speaker 2: He clearly wants to play, and I think he will.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have not been able to run the football
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  Speaker 1: effectively except for one game all season long, and it
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  Speaker 1: was shocking that against two of the more porous run
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  Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL, in Dallas and Chicago, they still
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  Speaker 1: couldn't run the football. Now you're about to face a
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  Speaker 1: number four Chargers defense that only gives up one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six yards a game rushing. They are rugged, they
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  Speaker 1: are fan I think the Eagles need that run game,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of run game, to have a chance against
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  Speaker 1: this Chargers defense, right, if they're won to mental, they
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  Speaker 1: have to throw the ball again thirty five times a game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they have a chance of winning this game.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I think they're going to have to. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have to find some form of a
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  Speaker 2: balanced offense here where you're going to have to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball some to set up the pass. But you
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: know it's Hurts. Hurts played really poorly in the Chicago game.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I mean it's I mean, he wasn't the difference, but
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: this is one time where you could look at him
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: and say, you know, he played poorly. I mean, they've
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: had other games this year where the offense in general underperformed,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: but you wouldn't have said, yeah, the quarterback was the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: problem Friday. The quarterback is a problem. And if that
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: happens again on Monday, they're gonna have trouble winning that
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: game because I don't see them all of a sudden
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: coming in here and running for two hundred yards. I
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: just don't see it. They're they just haven't shown me
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: that all year, but the exception of the second Giants game.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: But to be able to do to expect them to
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: be able to do that against what is a pretty
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: stout run defense. I don't I don't expect that. I mean,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have to get They're gonna have to get
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a much sharper, much better performance from the quarterback to
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: have some chance of winning out there.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You know, one of the players to keep an eye
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: on in this in this Chargers game is this safety
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Derwin James. When I look at him play Ray, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: physically hurt after watching him play because the man reminds
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: me a lot of old school style football, Jack Tatum
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: style football. When he puts a pop on you, everybody
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in the stadium knows he hits you. And and that's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: an intimidating factor because I've seen receivers go over the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: middle and Ale arm passes knowing he's coming at him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And that's a psychological element the Eagles are going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: have to be aware of. Now. Obviously, aj is a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: big body and can take a licking, and do we
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: know DeVante can take a licking. But the presence of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Derwin James on that back end of that defense is
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: definitely something to keep a close eye on.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't see a lot of guys like that
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: in the league anymore, you know, I think the rules,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the way the games officiated now has taken a lot
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: of that stuff out of the game. And I think
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: even guys who have that kind of that kind of
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: frame and that kind of physicality, they don't you don't
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: see it as much. But he's not. He's not shy
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: about using it because that is I mean, that's a
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: big part of his game, is that intimidation factor. If
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you're coming across the middle against this team, you've got
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to be thinking about him. And he's he's very very good.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: That's a defense, that's that's I mean, they're strong. I
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: mean they're good at them. They're good at the on
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the defensive line. I mean this Trully two we pull
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: O two oh is really good player. I mean, watching today,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I got a greater appreciation for him. He's he's really good.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I mean he he had like seven tackles today. He
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: had like four tackles for loss. He had a couple
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of sacks. Very active player. And the Eagles, who clearly
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: have issues on the offensive line, you know they're gonna
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: have to deal with him. They're gonna have to They're
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: gonna have to try and find some way of neutralizing
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: him because he was a very big factor and then
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: winning this game today. Not that the Raiders are any
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: kind of a team, but he played very well. And yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I think this is this is gonna be real tough
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: for This is gonna be a really tough game for
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the Eagles. I haven't seen the points spread yet, so
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm I'm assuming, I'm assuming the Chargers favorite,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: but I don't know that for a fact.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Now I've not seen the spread either for the upcoming game.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: We both agree that Jalen Hurts has some soul searching
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to do, and now we're not and I'm not just
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: pinning this on Jalen, but it starts with the quarterback,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: especially coming off that performance he had against Chicago. If
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you're Jalen, if you can get inside the mind of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ray, what should he be saying all the way
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: up to that game next Monday night against the Chargers.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: What should he be thinking in terms of trying to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: turn things around individually leading up to that game.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I would think that he understands what's at stake here.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I think that he It's one of the things about
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: him is over the course of his career in Philadelphia
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is there have been occasions, even though people keep quoting
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and you should his one loss record, you know, his
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: winning percentage, the number of games he's won, you know
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: how many you know, he's won eighteen of his last
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: twenty two star all those numbers that people throw around,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: which it's a matter of record. I mean, come on,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not wrong in citing it. But throughout
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: all of that, every time he has a bad game
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: or two, you start to hear the questions about, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure that he's really the guy, or
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not really sure that he throws the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: ball that well, I'm not sure that if you have
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a game where he has to where it has to
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: come down to him throwing the ball, that he can
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: win or what we're getting last year, which was, yeah,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: this offense are scoring a lot of points or win
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a lot of games. But it's really the line and
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: it's Barkley and he's just a game manager. You know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: it's I mean, that kind of stuff for a guy
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: who's won a lot of games in a Super Bowl MVP,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: taking a team's Super Bowl twice in the last three years,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a pretty good resume. But yet
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: there have been he has his critics. I mean, you
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: hear it, I hear it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: We all so.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: And every time that gets louder than a murmur, you know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: every time it becomes like really a topic of conversation
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: where you get the feeling people are genuinely questioning him,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: he generally responds, I mean that's you know, when when
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: it's you know, when when that starts to get when
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that chatter starts to get kind of loud. I mean,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: he won't ever address it or let on that he's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: hearing it or it's bothering him, but he generally comes
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: back with a big game, and this would certainly be
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the time to do it, because that's they kind of
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: are going to need that on Monday, because I don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: expect him to come out and run the ball a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: ton against this team successfully. I really don't. We're going
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to win this game. I think he's going to have
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to have one of those games where he has a
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: big one, you know, if they're going to win it,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to have to be the guy
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• 24:10
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  Speaker 1: All right, who do you like in this game?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Getting back to I think might have been your opening statement.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I don't trust this team right now. I don't. I don't.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's a really tough spot for them. Yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and I think what we saw Friday was not an accident.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of a reflection of what they
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: are right now. And can you take that team out
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: to LA and beat a Chargers team that has a
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: lot to play for. I'm not feeling it. You know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take the Chargers and you know I'm
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: probably gonna wind up looking silly. You know, They're probably
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: going to come out and play great and win going away,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: and I hope they do, but I can't pick it
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that way. I'm going to pick the Chargers. I'm gonna pick.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I think the Chargers from what I saw today, they
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: can even though they're playing with a lot of backup
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: linemen and the offensive line has been not what they
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: had hoped it was going to be. It looked at
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: me like today they can run the ball. Uh and uh,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna pick. I'm going to pick the Chargers.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I'll say, ooh, yeah, See, they had one hundred and
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: ninety two yards rushing against the Raiders, and of course
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: everybody's padding the stats against this Raiders team this season.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: But I said it earlier and I'm gonna say it again.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I don't trust this team. I don't know what they are.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They don't have an identity to me right now. They're
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a void of leadership on this team. There's no one
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: player that can definitively rally the troops from my perspective
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: in that locker room, you know, this is a Chargers
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: team that's not it's not an elite offense. It's only
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: scoring twenty three points a game, but they're only giving
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: up twenty one a game. So with that said, I'm
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with you. I'm taking the Chargers in this game, twenty
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: four to twenty. All right, Ryan and Irey Unison, we
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: both hope we're wrong in this case, but we will
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: find out come next Monday night. So until then, for
• 28:54
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• 28:58
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• 29:00
  Speaker 1: meet again, my friends, So long, everybody,