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ITB: Could Jonathan Greenard Being Limited On Eagles First Injury Be A Positive Sign · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back. What's going on, everybody? It's
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Jeff Mosher and Adam Kaplan, and it's a really exciting
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: time for us because even though nobody likes injuries, but
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: the Eagles released their first injury report of the new
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: 2026 season on Wednesday, and it was a very short list,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: so that is good news, Adam. But it's also, for
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  Speaker 1: one guy in particular, it's not necessarily the most telltale news,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: and that's obviously Jonathan Garnard being limited at practice, which
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think that should surprise anybody. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: what you missed that much time. You've got to ramp up.
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  Speaker 2: There was no way he was going to be having
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  Speaker 2: a full practice. Like, this is not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: He hadn't practiced. His last practice with the Vikings, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: was December 19th. Now, it's presumed last week when the
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  Speaker 2: media wasn't there, he started working.
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  Speaker 3: But he needs a ramp-up period. As much as Vic
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  Speaker 3: Fangio hates the ramp-up period... but he's going to need
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of time here.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever he plays and if it's as soon as this week,
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  Speaker 2: which would be surprising, but if he does, you expect
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  Speaker 2: him not to play 60 snaps.
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  Speaker 3: They kind of ease him in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The great thing is he'll have a ton of depth.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: It is great to have depth at edge, man. It's
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: like having depth in pitching. Baseball, hard to find, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to find. When you have it, it's great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: only two players on their injury report. Now the commandos,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about them in a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 3: They've got.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch on both sides of the football. Actually, a
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  Speaker 2: couple important ones. But the big thing is Zach Granard
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  Speaker 2: is working, coming back from his pectoral strain. And then
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  Speaker 2: we knew about Stowers' hamstring injury. He had a sleeve
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  Speaker 2: on his right leg, I noticed at training camp, when there.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, all right, we'll have to keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on this. But there's a reason why I
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  Speaker 2: probably have four tight ends on the roster.
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  Speaker 3: E.J. Jenkins is one of them. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, this is a validation of a process, right?
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  Speaker 1: Of always being deep at the edge as, as much
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  Speaker 1: as they possibly can. They are built to withstand. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you want him and they were last year, they
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  Speaker 1: were a team that until they got Jalen Phillips, they
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  Speaker 1: weren't as consistent in the edge rush as they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be. And then Jalen Phillips came along and they
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  Speaker 1: got more consistent. Now Phillips is gone. Grenard's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be that guy. We'll see. He's still got to get
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  Speaker 1: through two practices. If by somehow he's able to practice
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  Speaker 1: by Friday in full, that would be an amazing to
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  Speaker 1: me thing for him and the team. I won't rule
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  Speaker 1: it out, but, you know, we'll just have to see
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  Speaker 1: as it goes along. But again, like you said, they
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  Speaker 1: should be able to withstand it. The other the other
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  Speaker 1: thing I wanted to bring up was that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson not being on the list. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the next name on the list.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. None of them. Yeah, none of them are
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought that was really interesting because in the
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  Speaker 1: final practice that was open to the meet, the last
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: practice of training camp before the final preseason game, I
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  Speaker 1: think I spoke about this with you in a pod
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  Speaker 1: around that time. They were rotating him and Drew Kendall
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  Speaker 1: and nobody else. They were just bringing him out of
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: the first team to put Drew Kendall on And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just was something I filed away in my notebook
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  Speaker 1: to see if that would mean anything for week one,
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  Speaker 1: if that was just body preservation or if something was
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  Speaker 1: bothering him. But here he is, not on the list,
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  Speaker 1: full participant. So that's really good news for him in
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, the great thing is their team is intact here.
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  Speaker 2: Really, they only have two players on the injury report,
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  Speaker 2: one from each side of football, one who's supporting Grenard,
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  Speaker 2: no question about it. Whenever he's ready, Uh, it's just,
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  Speaker 2: they have to make sure that he, they kind of
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: get an idea of what he can handle. And obviously the,
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  Speaker 2: the communication is super important between the medical staff, training
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  Speaker 2: staff and the player and Fangio. He's got to know
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  Speaker 2: when he's ready, how many snaps he can handle and
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: how they'll recommend to him. This is what we think
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  Speaker 2: you should do with him. We know Vic only likes
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  Speaker 2: using three.
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  Speaker 3: Well, guess what? He might have to use four when
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  Speaker 3: Grenard's ready.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a great point, right? Because they kept AJ
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  Speaker 1: Epinesa on the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you could say, hey, look, even without Grenard, they
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  Speaker 1: had their three-man rotation of Jalex Hunt, Nolan Smith, and
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  Speaker 1: Arnold Ebikidi, but they kept A.J. Epinesa. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: like Epinesa is going to give you like 65% to
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  Speaker 1: 70% special teams. That was for the rotation. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to say, I think Vic is definitely going
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  Speaker 1: to expand that rotation of four or else why is
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  Speaker 1: AJ Epinesa on the team? Do you want him to
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  Speaker 1: collect dust or can you actually use him? Maybe not
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot, but just to get him on the
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  Speaker 1: field to keep your rotation fresh. Or else why else
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  Speaker 1: would he occupy a spot on the 53?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you don't, if everybody's healthy, you would have five.
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  Speaker 2: And that makes no sense. In fact, that's where you
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  Speaker 2: would have him on the practice squad. You'd ask him
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  Speaker 2: to do that because you would tell him, look, Vic doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: How he could just say, look, Vic doesn't play five.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't even play four.
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  Speaker 2: We have to have four active because if, God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: somebody gets hurt, we need somebody to come in to
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  Speaker 2: be the first guy off the bench. And then at Panessa,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he has a variety of things he can
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  Speaker 2: do because he's long and he's a good run stopper.
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  Speaker 2: But he had a good training camp. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Browns, it is amazing how the Browns didn't, there
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  Speaker 2: was something they didn't like on his physical. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles had no problem with it.
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  Speaker 3: He's been healthy. He's not on the injury report. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really strange.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not like it was like one year
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  Speaker 2: and $ 5 million they had with Cleveland. So he's making
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  Speaker 2: far less than that here. But he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a deep backup. We'll see what happens through Friday's practice. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: Friday's a late practice. We're on a regular practice week.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday's a long one.
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  Speaker 3: And then Friday is a short one, just around an hour.
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  Speaker 3: And it's light.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got to walk through Saturday and Sunday
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  Speaker 2: at 425.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I hate to bring this up. People know I'm
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  Speaker 3: crazy with the weather. Oh, yeah.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: We already got a comment about Hurricane Kaplan.
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  Speaker 3: I had to do it, but look.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, just to correct everybody, just to make sure,
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  Speaker 1: it is Tropical Storm Kaplan.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to borrow from another famous or formerly
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  Speaker 1: famous meteorologist in the Philadelphia area.
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  Speaker 3: Hurricane Schwartz, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Sunday, okay. Let me see if we got hour by
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  Speaker 3: hour yet. We do. Rain all morning. It rains. Under
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  Speaker 3: that zip code of 19148, which is where the stadium is.
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  Speaker 3: Love it. Hour by hour. We have it this far out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Mr. Hour by Hour. This is how I kind
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  Speaker 3: of run everything. Yeah. Should be okay by kickoff. Was
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  Speaker 3: it 425?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 425. I know that there was some talk about
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  Speaker 1: some mid-afternoon thunderstorms potentially.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's there.
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  Speaker 2: But late afternoon, early evening, it looks like it's going
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  Speaker 2: to dissipate.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it could change, but we're just telling you early.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're tailgating, be ready and just be ready
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  Speaker 2: for that. And there's nothing worse than having to be
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: in rain and tailgating.
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  Speaker 3: I've done it. It's terrible.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: It's awful. And if it's kind of hot and swampy,
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: we advise everybody to bring their pickle juice. Games might
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: have been famously won or lost because of pickle juice.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: So it's always a good, I hate pickles. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: never drink pickle juice. No matter what you could tie
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  Speaker 1: me down and you'd have to tie, you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: tie me down and open it up.
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  Speaker 3: Make me drink pickle juice.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Stowers with the hamstring, he was a limited participant. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we've addressed this quite a bit. He's behind. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even running with the first team, barely on the second team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the idea that he could be inactive for
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  Speaker 1: this game, even if healthy, to me was there. So
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  Speaker 1: right now, dealing with the hamstring injury and being limited,
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  Speaker 1: you're just getting closer to the reality that he's probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to play or be active.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if he's active. I really would. Cause
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  Speaker 3: I don't see a role for him. Jenkins is a
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  Speaker 3: way better blocker.
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  Speaker 2: We know, we know Goddard's to a tight end and
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  Speaker 2: we know Johnny months here as a Y he's only
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  Speaker 2: here to block.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If he gets, there should be an over under on
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  Speaker 2: past target for Johnny month this season, 10 or less.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking under, under 10. We're putting it. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man. Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're basically playing four, four out instead of five, whenever
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  Speaker 1: you have him on the field, if that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: my God, I'd have.
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  Speaker 3: To, I wonder if he could even run. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I know he's, all he's done is block his
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  Speaker 2: entire career. It's like, what's the tight end, the wide
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: tight end for, it's been only a long time. Sean
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: Payton found him. He's now with Carolina. I mean, what's,
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: what's the, with the giants. Chris, he went to man hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Chris man hurts, which is so comical.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Can each is, I didn't even know they had a
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: football team because I just grew up knowing them as
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: a basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: And the MAAC.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: M-A-A-C. Right. Right. So that's it. Yeah. I mean, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Washington has got some concerns.
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  Speaker 1: They do.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: They do.
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  Speaker 1: And again, because it's, you know, it's the Wednesday report.
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  Speaker 1: You try not to put too much into it because
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: how many times have we seen, you know, we've been
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: scared by what we see, the pop-up injuries. And then
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  Speaker 1: by Friday, we're fine.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles didn't have any. That is funny because that
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  Speaker 2: was on my list. No pop-up injuries was the exclamation point.
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  Speaker 3: Right. They didn't have any.
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: But Washington, here you go. So offensively, Ja'Cory, Krosky, Merritt,
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: or Bill, as he's known, he is their starting running back.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about this on a pregame show with
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: Greg Cosell. But Krosky, Merritt is their primary first and
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: second down back. You're not going to see him much
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: on third down. That's why Rashad White's there or a
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: goal line. But we'll see what he does the next
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: couple of days. Now, the big one, this is big.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Nick Allegretti, who's moving from guard to center, he's going
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: to be their center this season.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: We'll see how he does. He missed all of.
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: Training camp in the preseason with a calf strain. Give
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: Dan Quinn credit. I mean, he said he's going to
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: be ready this week. Very confident.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: He took all the reps once.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: As I understand it. So, barring a setback, he'll be
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: in the lineup. But guess what? He's not a great athlete.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: He's an okay starting guard. Nothing special. Good luck against
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: this line when you come back from a calf injury.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. And then obviously their pass rushers, the two
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  Speaker 1: to help turn around their defense, which is, I always
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: pronounce the last name right. It's Kalavon Chiesan, right? Did
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  Speaker 3: Kalavon Chiesan.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Chiesan and Adafi Owe were limited on Wednesday. So we'll
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: have to make sure, see what goes on with them.
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  Speaker 1: It was a calf for Owe. It was a knee
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: for Chiesan. So we'll see. what follows there.
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  Speaker 2: The key for both of these guys, because they're both starters,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: depending on what formation that their new DC opens up with,
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Durante Jones, because they have, funny, they went from having
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: a terrible pass rush group last year due to injury,
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: and they were bringing anyone they could find off the street,
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: literally anyone.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: BG could have gone there and probably had five sacks. Really?
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, don't try. He could go anywhere and have five sacks.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: You and I could have gone there and maybe had
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: five sacks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they had nobody. I mean, it was bad,
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: but they've got a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You're chasing with an A and Daffy O with a calf.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Friday's a big thing. They're going to have a tremendous,
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: tremendous rotation. Leo Chennault is such a good player, inside
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: or outside. You can play him at edge or inside backer.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you he's a good player, but he's not
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: going to start as Jordan McGee out of Temple. If
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: not for Sonny Stiles, he would be starting.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: So he'll be ready. He's got a chest injury. Mariota
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: had the knee injury. He was out a bit. He's
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: going to be ready to be their number two quarterback.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: And then Charles Amenehu, the well-traveled Charles Amenehu, formerly of
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: the Niners and the Chiefs, he's going to be one
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: of their top backup edges. He'll be ready to go
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: with a wrist injury. So the big one to watch
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: is Nick Allegretti and then see how the edges do
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: on defense.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And the commanders need better injury information because it's been
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: rough for them. Losing Tunsell and obviously not having Trey Amos, right?
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: He's out for a while, yeah.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Amos is their best corner. Russell Doug is probably going
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: to start. We'll talk more about this when we do
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: the matchups in the pregame show. And then left tackle,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: there's a reason why they traded for Laramie Tunsell because
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Brandon Coleman, they knew, is too short. At 6'4, he's
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: built more of a– he's really not what we call powerful.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: He's more athletic than powerful. So they've tried him at guard,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and they've tried him at right tackle and left tackle,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: and that's why they brought– DJ Humphrey's out of mothballs,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: so to speak, who's near the end of his career.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: He's well past his prime. Oh, yeah.
• 15:15
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• 15:19
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• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, man. If Washington's offensive line shockingly
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: holds up. I don't see any way in hell it happens.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: This game will be really close. If not, you blow
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: out city.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Although the Eagles, we have to see it's the first
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: week and they don't, they haven't seen this defense yet.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: But I could see it being 20 to three or
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: 17 to three. I just don't see how Washington's going
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to score.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: So our mutual friend and radio partner, Mike Gill informed
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: me that you said something, um, to the effect that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I'm usually the guy who's Mr. Over and you're usually Mr. Under,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: which is correct. Which is correct. But I have a
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: feeling you and I were thinking along the same wavelength
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: because I think the total for this game is around 44.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I think this is going to kind
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: of be one of those weird slug fest. I think the,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about it on Friday. It'll be you, myself,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. Well, it'll come out. It'll be out on
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, right?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: The Inside the Birds pregame show, which will be back
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: for another year. Probably the, No, not probably. Definitely the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: best and most analytical game preview breakdown that you're going
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: to get in this area because it is just incredible stuff.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, between what we can bring just from our
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: knowledge of the team and what Greg does from the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: tape breakdown and the schemes is it's just fun. We
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: talk ball. If you're new to our show, you're not
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: going to hear some just real true junkie ball talk
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the way we do when we do these.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: There's no bullshit. Yeah, it's all inside stuff. The three
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: of us have a lot of fun. And then we
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: beg Greg. No, actually, we tell him or we fire him.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: He better give us a game score. We have a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: running joke. What's he say? He spends.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: It's like Sal Powell says on Greg's show. His one
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: minute of tape study each week.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Greg goes, my 10 seconds to think about what the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: score might be.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Here's what I have. Did I win it last year?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I thought I had a pretty good. I forgot. I forget.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I really.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the point I would be making is you'll
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: watch some awful shit. I don't think we have dedicated
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: a nanosecond to the GQ story on Jalen Hurts.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Not that it's not.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Interesting, but it's just not what we do. Yeah, it
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: was interesting, but it's not really what we do. It's
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: not relevant to our discussion.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: It's a talk show. That's for the radio to talk about.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: But I did like the... The guy who wrote it,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: he might be from here. I forget what the guy's
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: name is.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's from Philly.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I happened to hear it on The Fanatic for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: like 20 minutes. I was like, this is really interesting.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: And I know our Patreon people told me last week, oh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: you got to see this. This is great stuff.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: And Jalen went and admitted to some stuff.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Like he admitted about Connective stuff, which we've talked about
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: for a couple of years.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: But anyway, moving on.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: This is week one. It's opening week. Strange things happen.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to this game. I was hoping it
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: would be a better game, but you never know. Maybe
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it turns out to be a great game. I just– Washington,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: they would have had Tunsell. They would have had Tunsell
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and did a little bit– as aggressive as they were
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: in free agency, they were super aggressive trying.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: To help the quarterback.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And they needed to rehab their defense because they needed talent, basically.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They need some help at receiver. And Stefan Diggs, to me,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: is not it. I mean, he's at best a three.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: He might be starting. We'll see what we'll talk about that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to have to, right? They don't really
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: have anybody better. He's got to be their number two.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was the number two last year for
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team, but it is a year later.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: As I'm told by an NFL coach who did tape
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: work on him once he got released, he said he
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: doesn't run all that well anymore.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: But he goes, you know what? He's a perfect possession
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: receiver for a young quarterback.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And voila.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And I happened to be at his first practice.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: What'd you think?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: He looked really good in a short area. Speaking of that,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it's ironic.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I see it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It looked pretty good, but I mean, it's unreal that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it's been nine years since that championship game.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: And he was on that team, Vikings. Him and Thielen. Oh, yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: When we got in the Super Bowl last year.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, I'm just always loathe to, like, write
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: this game off, even though the Eagles are, I believe,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: five and a half point favorites. And it feels like
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it should be, like, a pretty decent win for them.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: But you know how I always say this game between
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: these two teams gets very weird sometimes. So, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: we'll get the real soup to nuts breakdown on the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds free game show.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Myself.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Adam, and of course, Greg Cosell. Also, Saturday, we'll have
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a really awesome, and I want to thank everybody for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: all the great feedback they gave us on the last
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Inside the Data, last two with Sam Finkel. He's been
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: really unearthing some really good analytical gems to do podcasts on.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He did a great one that's going to be up.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: We'll probably have it up Saturday.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Maybe one more for you. Okay, one more for you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Just booked, literally, I didn't tell you this yet. Oh, yes,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: that's right.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Vince Papali, Mr. Invincible, a good friend of ours.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Actually, we had him in the early infancy of our company.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: We brought him in for a speak at one of
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the Chickies in Northeast Philly, maybe?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Was it that one?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: It was the Chickies in Northeast Philly. That was the one, yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Many years ago. On Roosevelt Boulevard.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: 20th anniversary of the movie, which I was made aware of.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: We were going to have him on. We were going
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to do an interview with him.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Probably going to tape it Friday, so we'll run it
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: next week.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: His story, folks... It's just, it's remarkable coming out of
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the stands. Though he did play in the World Football League.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: But then it folded and he was in the stands
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: watching his favorite team growing up.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Then he played for them. Hard to believe, but true.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Well, just a little small sample of all the great
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: things we have coming up on Inside the Birds in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the coming days and weeks. That's going to do it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And of course, you know, we will definitely have the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: final injury report covered. in our Inside the Birds pregame
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: show and what those injuries mean for the matchup. That
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: will do it for this edition of Inside the Birds,
• 22:06
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• 22:10
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