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  Speaker 1: This is the Pro Football Report, presented by BCWSA, a
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  Speaker 1: weekly recap of your Eagles and news around the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from Chickys and Pete's. Once again, here are
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  Speaker 1: your hosts from inside the Birds, Jeff Mosher and Andrew
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  Speaker 1: did check o.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, we are back here at Chickis
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  Speaker 2: and Pete's Live from Chickis and Peats in Martin, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: What a packed house, great crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wondering what's going on with the Philadelphia Eagles. And Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: there's more than just an offensive coordinator search going.
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  Speaker 3: On with this team.
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  Speaker 2: There's other real issues that are going to be presented
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  Speaker 2: to them this offseason. And the first thing we should
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  Speaker 2: really talk about is the health and the state of
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line, which, as we know, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: who your coaches, who your play call if your offensive
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  Speaker 2: line isn't better than it was last year. With all
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  Speaker 2: the injuries that they had, they're in trouble. And as
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  Speaker 2: of right now, Lane Johnson is he coming back?
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  Speaker 3: How's that foot? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Cam Jurgens did not play well despite making the Pro Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: and Landa Dickerson look beat up, was banged up and
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  Speaker 2: by a lot of as so four or five guys uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then the fifth guy who stayed healthy was the
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  Speaker 2: one who was acclimating all year and he became known
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  Speaker 2: as not Mikhai Beckton talking about of course right guard.
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  Speaker 4: Ye I thought he was okay, I I thought he
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  Speaker 4: was fine. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's a big question.
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  Speaker 4: Lanta Dickerson after the final game, I mean he said
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  Speaker 4: what we all could see that he was dealing with something, uh,
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  Speaker 4: dealing with a lot of things this season, and he
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  Speaker 4: was emotional after the game. You have to wonder, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's dealt with so many injuries in his career. Is
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  Speaker 4: this gonna be something that continues throughout his career? I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that it's gonna get better. Cam Jurgens, is
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  Speaker 4: he going to be more of the player that he
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  Speaker 4: was two years ago after holding now be a year
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  Speaker 4: removed from the back surgery or is this more or
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  Speaker 4: less who he is? And then Lane Johnson That's that's
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  Speaker 4: the big question.
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  Speaker 3: The big, big question.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the injury report is brought to you
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  Speaker 2: oh six three, six eight nine. That's two one five
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  Speaker 2: eight oh six three six eight nine. Yeah, the injury
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  Speaker 2: report and the Eagles aren't even playing. But I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the injury report for the Eagles right now is
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  Speaker 2: just as important as it might have been in week six, nine, thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: or or fifteen. Lane Johnson to me is the big
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  Speaker 2: one Andrew because he's getting he's getting older. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and assume he'll come back and
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  Speaker 2: play next year. And what we need to know is
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  Speaker 2: how bad. Obviously, the Eagles thought the Liz Frank's brain
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  Speaker 2: in his right foot, which is a midfoot sprain, was
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  Speaker 2: not going to be season ending.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't put him on IR.
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  Speaker 2: But then five weeks went by and he didn't play
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  Speaker 2: a game, and then he got out for practice and
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  Speaker 2: only made it to a limited part anticipant then all
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  Speaker 2: three days and then never played in the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: Ers game.
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  Speaker 5: And he hasn't really spoken to the media since. So
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  Speaker 5: it's October ninth. He hasn't spoken since October nine. October ninth,
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  Speaker 5: and aj Brown for those keeping score, it was December eighth.
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  Speaker 5: I was there in the Sofi Stadium locker room after
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  Speaker 5: the Chargers game.
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  Speaker 3: And what would that injury be, bruised, ego.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what that would be, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: mean for Lane Johnson, you know you you've been around
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  Speaker 4: him for a while, Jeff, you've covered him. Having such
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  Speaker 4: a storied career, it's tough to envision if you're, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a competitor like Lane to bow out after your ask
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  Speaker 4: your your your last eight games were spent injured and
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  Speaker 4: on the sideline watching.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred almost I would say ninety percent of the
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  Speaker 2: professional athletes I've covered have never wanted to end their
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  Speaker 2: career with a season ending injury. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 2: Brandon cram I mean, he works so hard to come
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  Speaker 2: back from that touring Tricep just to be able to
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  Speaker 2: play in the Super Bowl and then win it, and
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  Speaker 2: then of course the tour it again. But at least
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  Speaker 2: it won the Super Bowl. So I would be shocked. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I can't say shocked. At some point your body tells you, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're physically not capable of doing something. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I wonder about the state of his right foot right now.
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  Speaker 2: You got to think, with the time off and rehaber,
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  Speaker 2: maybe if he gets what he needs, he'll be okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess I'm leaving open the door that he
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  Speaker 2: might not.
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  Speaker 3: But even if he is.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew, I think at this point you got to go
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  Speaker 2: into next year having either drafted high or paid a
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  Speaker 2: lot more attention and no offense to Fred Johnson, but
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  Speaker 2: getting a successor type of tackle in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that goes with the question that I had as
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  Speaker 4: far as if you're an offensive coordinator, I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: have no way of knowing, but you're gonna be curious
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  Speaker 4: as to what is the state of the offensive line
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  Speaker 4: that two seasons ago, and it's not hyperbole, played at
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  Speaker 4: a historic level. What version am I getting next season?
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  Speaker 4: If you want to play this style, if you want
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  Speaker 4: to be run first, and we have an offensive line
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  Speaker 4: that's bruised and battered like it was last season, well
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  Speaker 4: then that's going to ultimately cap what you're able to
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  Speaker 4: do and as a play call. So these are questions
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  Speaker 4: that you're gonna have if you're a perspective candidate inquiring
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  Speaker 4: about these jobs or being or you know, being in
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  Speaker 4: these interviews.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't really studied it.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a theory that I ran past Jordan Mylotta
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  Speaker 2: on clean out day. I asked him if he felt
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  Speaker 2: that the collective toll of both practicing and executing the
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  Speaker 2: tush push over the years probably took more mileage off
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  Speaker 2: the offensive.
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  Speaker 3: Lineman than maybe they realized.
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  Speaker 2: And I was expecting him to say no, because you
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  Speaker 2: know how defensive they are a little bit about the
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  Speaker 2: push play, but he actually said maybe, and he'd be
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  Speaker 2: interested to see if there's any data on that. But
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  Speaker 2: then he went so far to say, look at the
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  Speaker 2: style of football that we played, don't just restrict it
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  Speaker 2: to the tush push.
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  Speaker 3: They've been a run heavy team. They ran more.
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  Speaker 2: Than any team in the NFL in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: brought everybody back for twenty twenty five for the most
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  Speaker 2: part other than Beckton, and continued to run ball against
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  Speaker 2: fronts that were coming after them. And so really you
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  Speaker 2: have to I look at teams like the Steelers, like
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens, the Packers, those teams commonly are dealing.
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  Speaker 3: With offensive line injuries, right. You see it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So the Eagles, who already put a lot of investment
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  Speaker 2: into backups, may have to double down on that going
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  Speaker 2: into next year with young backups ready to start multiple games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny. I had actually been saying that for
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  Speaker 4: most of the season. That so much was made in
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  Speaker 4: the offseason about how Saquon Barkley handling the ball four
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  Speaker 4: hundred and eighty two times playoffs included, would affect him
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, but not enough was made about
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  Speaker 4: how that style will play, that attrition would affect the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line. We probably should have all talked about it
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more. But it's a real thing that
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  Speaker 4: that grading style where you're constantly on the attack, and
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's no there's no there's no let up there.
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  Speaker 4: That's how they play football, right, And so I mean
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  Speaker 4: there are.
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  Speaker 2: Times they in the push play like three times in
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  Speaker 2: a row on the goal line with guys jumping over them, right,
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  Speaker 2: But then just the style of being run for his team, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Sakwon Barkley didn't get touched on that much that season.
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  Speaker 4: The offensive line was paving the way and taking on
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the punishment. And so you wonder if
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  Speaker 4: that wear and tear. I think it's fair to question
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  Speaker 4: whether or not that wear and tear severely impacted them
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  Speaker 4: this season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, you know this better than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles are at the forefront of NFL teams that
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  Speaker 2: do research, data analytics into every facet of the organization,
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  Speaker 2: and I am positive they will study this and they
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  Speaker 2: are also at the forefront of tailoring their practices to
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  Speaker 2: make sure.
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  Speaker 3: That guys are not overwork.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they were banged up as far as their level
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  Speaker 2: of play not being the same, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: they had twenty one of twenty two stars No. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty of twenty because Andrew mccooba had a broken but
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  Speaker 2: as far as fifty three man roster, though, twenty one
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  Speaker 2: of twenty two players were available for their playoff.
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  Speaker 4: Game, right, And my counter to that would be, and
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  Speaker 4: I've said this before when this subject comes up, just
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  Speaker 4: because someone's not listed on the injury report doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: that they aren't dealing with something that late in the season,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's dealing with something, yep. But you have others who
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  Speaker 4: will play through things and they clearly don't look like themselves.
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  Speaker 4: And so whenever I hear yeah, but the Eagles are
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  Speaker 4: pretty healthy for most teams according to the injury report. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: but Jordan Milata clearly look banged up all season. Cam
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  Speaker 4: Jurgens look banged up all season, and you look across
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  Speaker 4: the board, Jay, when Carter, there's so many guys that
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  Speaker 4: you can clearly see were sort of a shadow of
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  Speaker 4: themselves as we know them as. So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it's a little bit beyond the injury report.
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  Speaker 2: So I could theoretically see you could convince me that
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  Speaker 2: Mylotta and Jurgons just need more they'll be fine next year.
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  Speaker 2: Because Jurgens's back surgery was a micro dissected me. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like a fusion, you know, it wasn't supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be something highly restrictive. But he had it late, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he had they went to the Super Bowl. Sure he
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  Speaker 2: had it after that, and the next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ota starts up. So he may never had great recovery time.
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  Speaker 2: And same thing with my Lottter who never had like
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  Speaker 2: an official major injury that kept him out. I do
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  Speaker 2: have concerns long term about a what we talked about
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  Speaker 2: with Lane and b with Landon Dickerson, because this is
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  Speaker 2: a guy who came to the Eagles with what four
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  Speaker 2: lower body surgeries. I mean he had at least I trope,
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  Speaker 2: he had the ACL twice, I think, I mean he
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  Speaker 2: had already come to the Eagles with so many surgeries
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  Speaker 2: and then.
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  Speaker 3: Had two this past offseason before the season started.
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  Speaker 4: And then he had the meniscus right it was in
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  Speaker 4: the open practice, Then leading up to the opener, it
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  Speaker 4: was the back injury. Then he had an ankle, and
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  Speaker 4: then I think it was a knee at some other
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  Speaker 4: point in the season. He battled through all that. To
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  Speaker 4: his credit, Landon Dickerson as tough as nails, but he
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  Speaker 4: clearly wasn't operating at anywhere close to one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not magically going to get better as you
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  Speaker 4: advance and go into another season. You're another year older,
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  Speaker 4: another year of wear and tear. So those are fair questions.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm expecting the Eagles to address the offensive line
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  Speaker 4: in the upcoming draft. They have to if they want
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  Speaker 4: to play that style and they continue to lean into
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: their philosophical approach of building through the trenches. It shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be a surprise if that's where they look.
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  Speaker 2: When does the Andrew to check O Eagles only mock
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  Speaker 2: draft come out?
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  Speaker 3: That's got to be sis. I think we need it soon.
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  Speaker 2: We need to know about these centers, guards and tackles
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to be taking.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, you got it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, good, So I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles offensive line major major issue from an injury standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: and then real quick well as we got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more time obviously Jill and.
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  Speaker 3: Carter in the shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he did not play well at all
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  Speaker 4: in the In the postseason game against the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 4: he looked okay, he looked good against the Bills, he
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  Speaker 4: made some plays. But this is something to keep an
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  Speaker 4: eye on and far as far as where he goes
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  Speaker 4: with his treatment, because he sort of intimated when he
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: spoke to us that yeah, it might might need to
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  Speaker 4: revisit in the offseason. And that's your star player that
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: you're suddenly gonna have to make a big decision on
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: to give a lot of money to Sure, he's allowed
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: a ton of snaps over the past couple of seasons,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's something that's sort of flying a little
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  Speaker 4: under the radar that that does have some cause for concern.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd almost be surprised if you if it didn't
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  Speaker 2: get out there, or if we didn't find out that
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  Speaker 2: he underwent either at least one, maybe two procedures, like
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  Speaker 2: real procedures, not PRP one right, right, right, Because even
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  Speaker 2: two medical professionals told me that there's actually not a
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: lot of empirical data that shows that PRP injections work.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: They they're supposed to, like, you know, obviously regenerate the blood,
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  Speaker 2: make you feel better, but they're not long term treatments.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a tear or if you've got stretching
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  Speaker 2: out of the money, you probably have to get that
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  Speaker 2: surgically repaired to be one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: And that's their defensive centerpiece, one of them, him and
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  Speaker 4: Zach Bond, so they have to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, these solder issues for him go back
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  Speaker 2: to Georgia as well, So it's obviously another thing the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles are gonna have to think about before they go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and make him the highest paid defensive player of
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: the game, which I think we all thought he'd be
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  Speaker 2: in the running for going into sure this season. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: he's an undeniable talent. I think as long as the
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  Speaker 2: shoulders are fine, he'll be that kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: deep playoff team?
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  Speaker 3: Did you have in the Buffalo game?
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, that late in the season the Buffalo game, because
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: everything started to come together where it was like, I
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: don't know that the defense can continue to pick up
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: the tab. The offense just wasn't getting there and Jalen
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: wasn't running the football as much, and so that could
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: severely it deprives the offense of a component that makes
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: it special. And when I saw the reluctance there, I
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: don't know I had. I had my doubts as to
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: whether or not they were going to be able to
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: not necessarily even flip a switch, but get to the
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: level that they were at against the Minnesota Vikings or
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: even against the Raiders, be a competent offense that can
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: move the football. And it was it was going into
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: that forty nine Ers game that I wasn't necessarily as
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: confident as I was. Do I think they're a better
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: team than the forty nine ers. I do, and I
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: picked them up with and I picked them to win
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: that game. But looking back, I we should have seen
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: it coming. I should have seen it coming.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I felt after the Bears loss that
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: they were going to obviously make the playoffs but would
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: not do and not because I thought that that's how
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the defense was gonna play. But they weren't very good
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: offensively that either. They had won two amazing games against
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the Lions and Packers by the skins of their teeth,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: relying so much on the defense that I kept thinking,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: you just can't ask your defense to win every single week,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: week after week. And I couldn't pay much attention to
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: that Raiders game, right because that was the Raiders.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: No.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I think actually that first Commander's game was where I
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: realized that the offense was what it was and I
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: didn't think it was good. That's where I really had
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: to had questions because they were down.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: In that game.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Yep, they had to scratch and claws an inferior teams,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: and in that circumstance, I was thinking to myself, what
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: are they gonna do in the postseason? If you're being real,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: if you're being objective. It just never quite felt that way.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: And then when I saw the Buffalo Bills game, that's
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: when everything started to come together where I'm like, I
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: don't know if the defense is gonna be able to
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: carry this team because the offense was that anemic that
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that they're gonna be able to put
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: up seventeen to twenty in a postseason game.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Do you mean when the key to the game for Buffalo,
• 18:09
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• 18:21
  Speaker 2: The key to that game was, Oh, the Bills are
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: down three defensive tackles. They are literally starting two guys,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you know, off the street defensive tackle.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: The Eagles should be able to run the ball.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, they cannot run the ball against a team that
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: doesn't have its top three defensive tackles. That was a
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: very good indicator as you're saying that things are just
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: not going to go their way.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: For the long haul.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Now, we do have two exciting games in the NFL.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I'm very much looking forward to them. We have with
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the early game was the I believe Broncos Patriots right
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: in Denver. Now the Broncos lose their started quarterback in
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: it's almost hard to put that. He finished the game,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: he made a pass and then.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Made to last play, second last game, and then they.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Find out he's got a broken ankle and he's out.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: That's a tough deal. It is tougher bow Necks, by
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: the way, it really is.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: He was.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: He played a good game. I thought he answered a
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: lot of the a lot of the scrutiny and the
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: skepticism that was sort of looming over him going into
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: that game. Everyone everyone was waiting for him to have
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: this game where there was the three, the game that CJ.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Stroud had, right, and I thought that he really rose
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: to the occasion and you would like to see what
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: he was able to do in the next round. So
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: now it'll be Jared Stidham.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be And it kind of ruins that
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: matchup you were going to get of the two guys
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: drafted in the same class, Knicks and Drake May. Drake
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: May obviously taken a lot of earlier. What a great
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and unbelievable season he had. Yeah, I felt that once
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: they got past the Chargers and they were able to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: win a game in which they were uncomfortable offensively, because
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: let's face it, all year long, the Patriots have played
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: a cake schedule and they've had the shot play going
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: all year.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: They have been comfortable.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: They were uncomfortable for three quarters in that Chargias game.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Pull it out, and then I said, now I feel
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: like they're ready to play the Texans. And of course
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the Texans help hand them the game with all the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: turnovers and the four interceptions in the first half. But
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: to me, I like this matchup of this rising New
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: England team versus this Broncos team that was really ready
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: for it, and now they've got some adversity.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: And this is in Foxborough, right, No, it is in Denver, Denver,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: So you gotta worry about the altitude and that that
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: sometimes could be the equalizer there when teams visit. Sure,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: but Jared Stidham Sean Payton unsurprisingly expressed a lot of
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: confidence in his uh in his backup quarterback. I imagine
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: they're gonna take the game out of his hands a
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: little bit and try to hand it off to they
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: may they may get JK. Dobbins back his twenty one
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: day practice window open. Yep, you're gonna see a lot
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: of McLaughlin the running back and things like that. But
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I have imagined knowing Sean Payton and seeing his offenses,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I think he's going to really terror this to optimize
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: what Sidham can do well. Get the ball out of
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: his hands, short, easy completions, get into a rhythm, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: then hopefully, you know, if you're the Broncos, you want
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: to see your defense be able to kind of pin
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: their ears back with Nick Benito and patzer Ten to
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: be able to hold up there at Andrew.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I like the Broncos in this game, I really do.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I think their defense. I listened, Drake may has been good,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: but he's turned the ball over quite a bit. Throughout
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, the Broncos have played more sound football, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: their defense in Denver could be very suffocating, even for me.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So I actually like the Broncos as much as bleak
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: as it seems. And Hey, Nick Foles gave some encouragement.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: He reminded the Broncos on social media that the Patriots
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: struggle in these championship type games against backup quarterbacks.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I'm going with the Broncos too. I went with them
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: last week nice and I was alone in that with
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: three other people. They went against me on that, But yeah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I'm going with Denver here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: All right. By the way, happy thirty seventh birthday today.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I believe the Nick Foles is that right? He's a
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: year older than me. He's quite several years younger than me.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go talk about the keys to the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: game for Rams Seahawks. Now, the Rams have been my
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: team all year long. I thought going into the year
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: they had a chance to be the number one seed.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I had a feeling that by middle of the year.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I liked them as a super Bowl team. I've liked
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: them even to go on the road and win games.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: But I gotta say at this point, I'm struggling. I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: struggling to pick the Rams. They're not playing their greatest.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: There was a good win in Chicago, but this Seattle
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: team looks really tough.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: The great Sean McVeigh mismanaged that game and he still
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: found a way to beat the Bears.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't think Ben Johnson did a great job either,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: but the Bears could have very easily won that game.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: The Rams secondary has been exploited for the backstretch of
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: the season. They're a good football team. Offensively, they're flawed,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: they're undersized. Defensively, I like their pass rush, but their
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: secondary leaves a lot of a lot of questions there.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Whether or not Sam Darto can take advantage of that,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: we'll have to wait and see. But I love Seattle.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: They They are fast, flowing, they flow to the ball
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and then and they hit and they get after the quarterback.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: So I think that they're gonna make Matthew Stafford and
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: company a little uncomfortable there. I'm taking the Seattle Seahawks.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I don't want to come off my Super Bowl pick,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: especially since they've They've survived some adversity here the Rams
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and have put themselves in position to be in the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: But I think I'm gonna have to take the Seahawks
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: as well. I just think that they're playing on an
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: unbelievable level.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So to me, if I'm gonna say the key for
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, it's this, Uh, they do everything really really well.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: They lose Zach Charboney obviously to an injury. THEIG lost,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: so they're gonna have to rely a little bit more
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: on Kenneth Walker. I think if they can get the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: ball to Zach Sharboney.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: If they can get the ball to Jackson Smith and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Jigba eight to ten times, they got a really good
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: chance to win this game. If the Rams can figure
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: out a way to limit him, then I think that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: would tilt it toward the Rams.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they need to give Chris Carson a call. It's
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: what he's up to. Oh, Chris Carson, help out that backfield.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: But yeah, look Nothod Penny there you go.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a little bit uh yeah, he's a little
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: bit less removed from the NFL than Chris Carson, who
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: retired a while ago. But yeah, no, I think this
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: is gonna be a big opportunity for Sam Darnold here
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: to answer some questions, check off some boxes. This is
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: a game where he's gonna have to throw the football.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: He didn't have to do that against the forty nine ers.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I've been a Sam Donald defender over the past couple years.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: He's won fourteen games with two different franchises. That doesn't
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: happen by accident. But now it's time for him to
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: elevate his game to another level to get Seattle to
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: where they want to be.
• 24:36
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no, wow, that's a long time. Really, No,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no wow.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I've thought for sure you were gonna say yes.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: It occurred to me that it's still seven days. Where
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with my initial My initial thought here, No.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Is that a red flag if they haven't found their
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator seven days.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: It depends on how you interpret it. Could be, you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: diligence on their part, or it could be that coordinator perspective.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Coordinators are a little hesitant.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna say they have only because, like
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I said, I was researching, like when when coaching hires
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: are typically made, they're usually around this time.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Now, coordinator hires might be a little bit different. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: didn't look at that. We'll have to see, but uh, anyway,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: it's been fun talking some ball with you always.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I do want to say congratulations to Andrew Jones and
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Carlos Beltran from the Micro Baseball Hall of Fame, Andrew
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Jones and Chase Ottley about sixty per cent of the vote,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: eating that he fell short, but that was his highest
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: that he's gotten.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Did any outfield or cover as much ground as Andrew Jones?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: No, nobody covers as much ground as Andrew Jones. That's
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: gonna do it.
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