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Birds Weekly: Ray Didinger, Derrick Gunn Preview Week 13 Eagles vs. Bears On Black Friday · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: We welcome you to this preview edition of Birds Weekly,
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Speaker 1: presented by the Inside the Birds Network. For that famous
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Speaker 1: guy right there, Ray Dendre, I'm the infamous Derek Gunn.
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Speaker 1: And on a short week, people are still reeling from
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Speaker 1: their devastating loss to the Dallas Cowboys, but no time
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Speaker 1: to crowdver spilled milk because they have to get right
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Speaker 1: back on it on a short week and get ready
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Speaker 1: for a Chicago Bears team that has been one of
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Speaker 1: the talks of the NFC and one of the talks
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Speaker 1: of the National Football League. This is a Bears team
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Speaker 1: that rolls into town for a day after Thanksgiving showdown.
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Speaker 1: They are eight and three atop the NFC North. They
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Speaker 1: are riding a four game winning streak, and Ray, I
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Speaker 1: think it's safe to say the Bears have been one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest surprises in the National Football.
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Speaker 2: League this year. Yeah, they have been. I think most
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Speaker 2: people who know who Bench Johnson is. He was the
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator in Detroit under Dan Campbell and really helped
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Speaker 2: resurrect that Detroit team. Certainly helped resurrect Jared Goff as
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Speaker 2: a quarterback, and everybody knew he was kind of a
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Speaker 2: head coach in waiting, and he finally got his opportunity
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Speaker 2: here in Chicago.
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Speaker 3: So I think everybody.
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Speaker 2: Kind of thought that the hitd make the Bears better,
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Speaker 2: But I don't think anybody really thought he would have
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Speaker 2: them in this spot coming into Thanksgiving week. I mean,
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Speaker 2: especially when they started the row in two and I
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Speaker 2: started to row and two and everybody said, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's going to take him some time. And since then
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Speaker 2: of one eight out of nine right now, they come
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Speaker 2: into this game with the Eagles and they're tied, I
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Speaker 2: mean they're both eight and three. So yeah, to say
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Speaker 2: that Ben Johnson is ahead of schedule, yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: that's real safe to say. I mean, if you were
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Speaker 2: if I were to ask you right now, if somebody
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Speaker 2: handed you a ballot and said pick your NFL coach
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Speaker 2: of the year, I think most people would say, what's
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Speaker 2: a choice between Mike Vrabel and Ben Johnson?
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Speaker 3: You know, And at this point I.
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Speaker 2: Would probably lean towards Verrabel considering where the Patriots are,
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Speaker 2: but Ben Johns would get some votes, and he should
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Speaker 2: because he's done a really good job with this team.
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Speaker 1: When you look at the teams that are jockeying for
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Speaker 1: playoff positioning, Just a few days ago, the Eagles were
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Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC. Now they're the
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Speaker 1: number two seed behind the La Rams, who are basically
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Speaker 1: blowing everybody off the map right now. The Chicago Bears,
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Speaker 1: as you just said, a moment ago, identical eight and
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Speaker 1: three record with the Eagles. I would say this is
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Speaker 1: I never like to use this word, but I think
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Speaker 1: in this situation, it's very pertinent. This is a must
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Speaker 1: win situation for the Eagles. When you're talking about the
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Speaker 1: head to head matchups and who could end up going
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Speaker 1: where to play who come the second half of the
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Speaker 1: NFL season.
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Speaker 2: It's very important. It's very important for those reasons. It's
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Speaker 2: also just very important to just put the Dallas game
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Speaker 2: If the Eagles should lose this game at home to
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Speaker 2: the Bears, on top of what they're already feeling after
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Speaker 2: the loss in Dallas, I mean, that's the kind of
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Speaker 2: thing that can start to snowball on you and the
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Speaker 2: Eagles can't allow that to start to happen, because then
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Speaker 2: all the conversation is going to be up here we
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Speaker 2: are twenty twenty three all over again, you know, and
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Speaker 2: Lord knows, I don't want to have those conversations.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you don't.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of what you're staring at here.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Bears team is dangerous. I mean if
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Speaker 2: you look at them statistically, I mean, first of all,
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Speaker 2: you look at the record eight and three, they're in
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Speaker 2: a tie with you. Okay, you got to respect that.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's some things about what they do and
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Speaker 2: where they are that seem a little in conc ruis,
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Speaker 2: you know. I mean they're you look statistically, i mean,
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Speaker 2: their defense I think is like twenty fifth in the league.
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Speaker 2: But they're winning, They're making plays, they're winning games in
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Speaker 2: weird ways. That have won i think four games on
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Speaker 2: their final possession, and teams that do that every time
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Speaker 2: they do that. If you have a young team, which
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Speaker 2: the Bears are, every week they get.
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Speaker 3: More confidence, you know.
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Speaker 2: And right now they're a dangerous team because they're a
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Speaker 2: young team with a lot of talent that's now just
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Speaker 2: starting to believe in themselves.
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Speaker 3: And they're not.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to come in here afraid of the
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Speaker 2: Eagles even a little bit. And and especially after they
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Speaker 2: spend all week watching the tape of what happened to
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Speaker 2: the Eagles in Dallas, the Bears are going to look
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Speaker 2: at this and say, hey, we can beat these guys.
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Speaker 2: And so the Eagles are going to have to really
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Speaker 2: take care of business here. The Bears are they're very
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Speaker 2: simple formula. I mean, offensively they are. They're a physical, tough,
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Speaker 2: come atch you football team. DeAndre Swift, Philly native and
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Speaker 2: former Eagle, having a really good year. I mean he's
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Speaker 2: averaging almost five yards of carry. And Ben Johnson's philosophy,
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Speaker 2: it's sort of like what he did in Detroit is
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Speaker 2: they run the ball, run the ball, run the ball
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Speaker 2: very effectively, and let their quarterback work out of play action.
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Speaker 2: And it is suited Caleb Williams perfectly, their young quarterback.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's still he needs to start completing a
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Speaker 2: higher percent of his passes. I think he's under sixty
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Speaker 2: percent completion. He needs to improve upon. But he's not
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Speaker 2: making the big mistakes like he did before. So Ben
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Speaker 2: Johnson's doing a good job of bringing him along. And
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Speaker 2: this game for the Eagles is going to be They're
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Speaker 2: going to have to get more pressure on him than
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Speaker 2: you did on Dak Prescott.
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Speaker 3: Or you could be in for another long day.
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Speaker 1: You know, you always worry about young quarterbacks having that
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Speaker 1: sophomore jinx and not that Caleb has been lights out,
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Speaker 1: but Ben Johnson has done wonders for him in terms
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Speaker 1: of helping him grasp and understand the quarterback position at
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Speaker 1: this level. He still makes a lot of mistakes, as
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Speaker 1: you talked about before we taped some of the mistakes
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Speaker 1: he still you saw him make when he was playing
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Speaker 1: at USC, but he has utilized his legs as much
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Speaker 1: as his army has a strong arm, but he's also
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Speaker 1: utilizing his legs which has done a lot of damage
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Speaker 1: and has helped this team propel itself to where it
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Speaker 1: is now eight up and three down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he he still has and when he came
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Speaker 2: out of college for all of the honors and everything
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Speaker 2: that he earned, and he deserved it.
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Speaker 3: He was a really good college.
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Speaker 2: Heck, he's the number one pick in the draft for
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Speaker 2: a reason obviously, but he had a lot of bad habits.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was one of those super talented young
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Speaker 2: guys that didn't get coached a whole heck of a lot.
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Speaker 2: You know, coach has just kind of said, look, he's
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Speaker 2: he knows what he's doing. He has his own way
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Speaker 2: of doing things. Just let him go. And so the
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Speaker 2: way he carries the ball, the way he doesn't protect
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Speaker 2: it in a crowd, I mean, you saw him get
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Speaker 2: stripped of the end zone this past game results in
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Speaker 2: a touchdown. I mean, that's the kind of stuff he's
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Speaker 2: got to get out of his game. And Ben Johnson
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Speaker 2: will get that out of his game. He's not quite
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Speaker 2: there yet, but you see that just in the way
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Speaker 2: he sees the field and the decisions he makes with
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Speaker 2: the football. I mean, he's definitely making strides. And they've
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Speaker 2: got some pretty good receivers here too. And as I said,
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Speaker 2: their philosophy is really we're going to run the ball
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Speaker 2: and run successfully and have done that, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to allow the quarterback to work a lot of play action,
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Speaker 2: get easy reads in the secondary, and take the safe throw.
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Speaker 2: And that's what Ben Johnson's coaching Caleb Williams to do
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Speaker 2: and part of the reason why the Bears are eight
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Speaker 2: and three.
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Speaker 1: You were talking about the young talent in this Bears organization.
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Speaker 1: And you had alluded to a moment ago about how
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Speaker 1: they've won four games in their last possession, They've actually
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Speaker 1: won five games in the last two minutes of a game.
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Speaker 1: And when you have a new head coach, new coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: and the coach is getting used to his collection the players,
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Speaker 1: the players have to get used to a coach. When
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Speaker 1: you're able to do this while you're still on a
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Speaker 1: learning curve, what does this do to enhance the confidence
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Speaker 3: No No.
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Speaker 2: I think when most people coming into the season were
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Speaker 2: doing their forecasting, you know, they were looking at the
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Speaker 2: NFC North and thinking, you know, that's a really tough division,
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Speaker 2: and it is, you know, I mean, you look at
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Speaker 2: the teams in that division. You have you know, got
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Speaker 2: the lines, you get the Bears, you get the Packers,
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Speaker 2: you got the Vikings, all good teams. I think most
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Speaker 2: most people that were forecasting the season, we're becking the
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Speaker 2: Bears to finish fourth. Not that they didn't think they
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Speaker 2: were a team that was probably going to improve. Not
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Speaker 2: that they didn't think they were a team that didn't
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Speaker 2: have any talent, but they were just in a really,
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Speaker 2: really tough division top to bottom.
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Speaker 3: And it's been proven be that. I mean, the.
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Speaker 2: Vikings haven't been when people thought they were going to be,
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Speaker 2: but the Packers and Alliance looked like they could be
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Speaker 2: playoff teams. And the Bears have more than held their own.
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Speaker 2: And you know, they're getting contributions from surprising guys. I
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Speaker 2: mean Kevin Bayard, who came to the Eagles in a
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Speaker 2: trade deadline deal a couple of years ago and basically
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Speaker 2: did nothing while he was here. He's with the Bears
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Speaker 2: now and he's one of the league leaders in interceptions.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's playing in Chicago the way Howie Roseman
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Speaker 2: hoped he would play in Philadelphia, but he's gotten the
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Speaker 2: opportunity in Chicago. And that's what they are now. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're leading the league in takeaways by leaps and bounds.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're the number one takeaway defense in all football.
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Speaker 2: It's part of it's a big part of the reason
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Speaker 2: why they're eighting three. And you know, that's one of
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Speaker 2: the things that the Eagles, who aren't the ultimate turnover
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Speaker 2: averse offense history of football not want to turn the
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Speaker 2: ball over. Well, this is going to be a real
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Speaker 2: challenge because that's how the Bears win. The Bears win
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Speaker 2: by forcing you to make those mistakes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're plus sixteen in the takeaway department. So they're
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Speaker 1: very opportunistic defense. Uh, and it's going to be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see can their opportunistic defense find a way to
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Speaker 1: get this Eagles offense to commit some miscues an offense
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Speaker 1: that doesn't make a lot of miscues. I e. They
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Speaker 1: did make a couple you know, glaring ones in that
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Speaker 1: game against the Dallas Cowboys, but you know, hopefully that
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Speaker 1: doesn't carry over into this particular game. But I can't
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Speaker 1: figure out this defense rate, to be honest, they're not
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Speaker 1: a high ranking defense. They don't sack the quarterback much.
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Speaker 1: They only have twenty three quarterback sacks. But they do
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Speaker 1: just enough to give their offense a chance to put
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Speaker 1: put put wins in a basket. And that's what they've done.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: One of the entresting aspects of this matchup is that
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Speaker 2: it matches up the Bears defense, which is the worst.
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Speaker 2: This is a terrible stat but the men have overcome
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Speaker 2: the worst defense in the league on first down, teams
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Speaker 2: that their opponents are averaging almost seven yards a snap
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Speaker 2: on first down. So the Bears defense on first down
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Speaker 2: is the worst in the league, and they're going up
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Speaker 2: against the Eagles offense, which is one of the worst
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Speaker 2: first down offenses in the league. I mean, you get
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Speaker 2: nothing on first down, they can mostly negative plays. Well,
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Speaker 2: the Bears have given up more first down yardage than
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Speaker 2: anybody in football. So in sort of a reverse way,
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Speaker 2: that matchup might help determine this game is who wins
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Speaker 2: who wins first down because simple point of fact, neither
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Speaker 2: team has been.
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Speaker 3: Very good at it.
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Speaker 2: And so that's one of the reasons why you look
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Speaker 2: at the Bears team and a lot of their statistics
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Speaker 2: don't seem to equate to eight and three. They just don't,
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Speaker 2: I mean our twenty seventh defense overall. But man, this
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Speaker 2: gets back to what everybody has always talked about, and it's.
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Speaker 3: A truism is giveaway, takeaway turnover ratio.
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Speaker 2: Man, that is the bottom line in pro football every
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Speaker 2: Sunday or in this case, Friday.
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Speaker 1: And this is an Eagles team that could be at
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Speaker 1: a severe deficit on the back end of their defense.
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Speaker 1: Andrew McCombe is out now with a fracture in his leg.
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Speaker 1: We saw Dorry Jackson throw his helmet down and he
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Speaker 1: was shaking his head as he walked off the field.
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Speaker 1: He's in concussion protocol, his second concussion. And we're still
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Speaker 1: waiting to find out more about re blaken Ship's injury
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Speaker 1: as well. You know, he grabbed his leg and hobbled
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Speaker 1: off the field. If even two of those guys are
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Speaker 1: not playing right, what does this Eagles defense do to
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Speaker 1: take some of the burden off the back end? What
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Speaker 1: did the front seven have to do? It takes some
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Speaker 1: of the burden off the back end of that defense.
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Speaker 2: Well, it starts with the pass rush because I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, you just know you're going to be thin
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Speaker 2: in the secondary. There is no way you can't be.
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Speaker 2: I don't think on a short week there's any way
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Speaker 2: Dori Jackson is going to be ready to play.
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Speaker 3: I just I just don't think he's going to be
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Speaker 3: ready to play.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Mukuba is certainly out. Blanket Ship maybe. I mean
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be it's gonna be a challenge. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Vic Fangio is going to have to you know, get
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Speaker 2: some band aids and mask and tape and.
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Speaker 3: Wire to put that thing together.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Michael Carter, you might have to
16:45
Speaker 2: play some I think that the thing that everybody was
16:49
Speaker 2: asking for weeks leading up to it was maybe they
16:52
Speaker 2: need to put cooper'sgen you know, out on the corner
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Speaker 2: and let him be CB two. Well, I think you
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Speaker 2: saw what happened in this game. Look, George Pickens is
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Speaker 2: a handful for anybody, much less a guy who's playing
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Speaker 2: a little out of position.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: I think I think what that game in Dallas showed
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Speaker 2: you was exactly what Vic Fangio is saying all along
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Speaker 2: to that question.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Cooper Degene is really good in
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Speaker 3: the slot. That's what he is, that's what he does.
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Speaker 2: He might do it better than anybody in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to move him out of there. I
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Speaker 2: think you saw why. So if I don't think they're
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Speaker 2: going to do that again, and if a Dori Jackson
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Speaker 2: can't play, and I kind of think he won't, this
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Speaker 2: suggests to me that it's it's it's Ringo, it's Kille Ringo.
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Speaker 2: I think it's I think that that's probably what you're
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Speaker 2: going to get here, and that's going to be you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a very it's a very tricky game. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you look at it and you say, yeah, it certainly
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Speaker 2: favors the Eagles, it would seem to, especially at home.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, you've got a lot of You've got
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Speaker 2: a lot of questions on the back end right now,
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Speaker 2: and I think the best way and the surest way
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Speaker 2: to answer those is to crank up the pass rush
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Speaker 2: and get a lot of heat on Caleb Williams and
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Speaker 2: you force him and to hurry in his throws and
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Speaker 2: maybe making some mistakes. To this point, he hasn't made
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Speaker 2: many this year, but if you want to win this game,
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Speaker 2: I think you better force him in a few.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent in terms of
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Speaker 1: putting the pressure on the Ray. But the one thing
18:21
Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to have to be defensively that
18:25
Speaker 1: they have for the most part, except they got out
18:27
Speaker 1: of Carroc stepped out of character against Dallas. You're gonna
18:30
Speaker 1: have to seal the lanes because if you put the
18:32
Speaker 1: pressure on this guy and you go too far up
18:33
Speaker 1: the field, he will step up on you. And he
18:35
Speaker 1: doesn't have jogger speed. This kid's got sprint of speed
18:38
Speaker 1: and I've watched him burn a lot of defenses with
18:40
Speaker 1: his legs. So this Eagle's front, even if they send
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Speaker 1: extra men, you better be very different disciplined in terms
18:47
Speaker 1: of stealing the gaps because if not, you're going to
18:50
Speaker 1: be looking at the back of his jersey. Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing is with this Bears team, because
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Speaker 2: of the way they've played this year, and because of
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Speaker 2: the number of games they have won, right at the wire,
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Speaker 2: coming from behind, drive at the end, final possession kinds
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Speaker 2: of things, They're never going to feel like they're out
19:15
Speaker 2: of this game. You know, they're coming in here and
19:17
Speaker 2: they're going to play you sixty minutes, four quarters. And
19:22
Speaker 2: the fact is they've won enough of those games that
19:24
Speaker 2: they believe they can do it again. Home await doesn't
19:26
Speaker 2: seem to matter to them. So the Eagles and everybody's
19:31
Speaker 2: talked about it. You and I have talked about a lot.
19:32
Speaker 2: The Eagles have not been a team that's been really
19:34
Speaker 2: good playing four quarter football. Had stretches, they've had patches,
19:38
Speaker 2: they've had moments where they played really well, but playing
19:42
Speaker 2: really good beginning to end.
19:45
Speaker 3: That hasn't really been the way they've played this year.
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Speaker 2: But they're going to have to play that this week
19:49
Speaker 2: because the Bears are going to play them right down
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Speaker 2: to the final gun.
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Speaker 1: And you know this Eagles team rate is three times
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Speaker 1: three times this season, they have not scored any point
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Speaker 1: in a half of football. That's the second most in
20:04
Speaker 1: the National Football League. You better put some points up
20:07
Speaker 1: on his Bears team because this Bear's team is scoring
20:10
Speaker 1: twenty six points a game. So you better put some
20:12
Speaker 1: points upon his board and sustain those points. Not do
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Speaker 1: what you did against Dallas. Score X amount of points
20:18
Speaker 1: and they basically call it today because like you said,
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Speaker 1: the Bears, they're gonna keep coming and keep coming, and
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Speaker 1: I think they're too young to know they're not supposed
20:25
Speaker 1: to win these type of games.
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Speaker 3: Off right exactly right.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I mean, we've talk a lot about
22:01
Speaker 2: this being a really big game for the Eagles at
22:03
Speaker 2: this point, and it is, for sure, but it's equally
22:07
Speaker 2: big for the Bears, you know, because they're they're eight
22:11
Speaker 2: and three, yes, but they're in an even tougher division
22:13
Speaker 2: where the Eagles are right now, I mean, and so
22:16
Speaker 2: they really they need every win they can get because
22:19
Speaker 2: they still got games coming up with the Packers and
22:22
Speaker 2: with the Lions. So this is a really big game.
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Speaker 2: Big game for the Eagles, but it's an equally big
22:27
Speaker 2: game for the Bears if they're really hoping to get
22:29
Speaker 2: to the postseason.
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Speaker 3: All right, Ray, who do you like in this game?
22:35
Speaker 3: I like the Eagles.
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Speaker 2: I like the I think that that was an awful
22:42
Speaker 2: loss down in Dallas. I think they're still smarting from that.
22:48
Speaker 2: I expect them to bounce back from that. And as
22:52
Speaker 2: I said at the beginning of this conversation, one of
22:55
Speaker 2: the things that the Bears have allowed the Bears to
22:57
Speaker 2: get to eight and three is to take factor. They
23:01
Speaker 2: force turnovers, they take the ball away. That's really how
23:04
Speaker 2: they've won a lot of these comeback games. And I
23:07
Speaker 2: know the Eagles had a couple of mistakes in the
23:09
Speaker 2: Dallas game, but that they really haven't done that much.
23:12
Speaker 2: I mean, there teams, they just don't turn the ball over.
23:15
Speaker 2: So the fact that that's the nature of the way
23:18
Speaker 2: they play and that is so much a part of
23:21
Speaker 2: what the Bears want to do and that's how they
23:23
Speaker 2: beat you that you know. I think the Eagles will
23:25
Speaker 2: protect the football, and if they protect the football, they'll win.
23:28
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be a high scoring game,
23:31
Speaker 2: but I would say something along the lines of, you know,
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Speaker 2: twenty three fourteen Eagles.
23:36
Speaker 1: I'm going to say twenty four to twenty three. I
23:40
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are going to have to fight tooth
23:43
Speaker 1: and nail to scratch out this win, especially if they're
23:46
Speaker 1: shorthanded on the back end of this defense. I think
23:49
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is going to escape for a few big
23:51
Speaker 1: runs to make this game interesting. But I think the Eagles,
23:55
Speaker 1: who is smarting and embarrassed from what happened down in Dallas.
23:59
Speaker 1: They keep talking to out focus discipline, finishing drives, finishing halves.
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Speaker 3: I want to see it.
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Speaker 1: You have a short week, you're licking your wounds, you're
24:09
Speaker 1: at home the day after Thanksgiving, You're the only National
24:12
Speaker 1: Football League game on that day. I think they eat
24:15
Speaker 1: this win out and breathe the sigh of relief twenty
24:18
Speaker 1: four to twenty three. Hey, before I let you go,
24:21
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Speaker 1: you're excited about.
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24:46
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Speaker 3: Unit All right for Rai Dingder, I'm Derek Gunn.
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Speaker 1: This has been a Birds weekly preview of the Eagles
25:17
Speaker 1: in the Chicago Bears. We'll be back here next week
25:20
Speaker 1: to wrap it all up and talk about hopefully and
25:22
Speaker 1: Eagles win and getting them back on track. Until then,
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Speaker 1: so long, everybody,