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Caplan Eagles Schedule Intel: Eagles Face Major Tests Down The Stretch · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello again everyone. It's Adam Kaplan here for Inside the
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Birds and this is our final installment of the schedule show.
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This will be games thirteen through seventeenth for the Eagles.
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But when I give you a couple of notes before
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we get started, because on when was it? This was Wednesday?
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There were some good news in Eagles practice at training
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camp as they opened their first practice. Jehan Campbell clearly
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a couple weeks ahead of schedule. Was he able to
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get on the practice field. They put him in and
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out of reps. He was purposely limited. They remember he
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didn't really have an offseason, and with the heat and everything,
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this is his first official practice, so they gave him
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limited reps. With the bottom line, as he was on
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the field, it mostly inside backer, did a little bit
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of edge. But the bottom line is this is great
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news and we're not going to read into anything. We
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never do Inside the Birds. We've covered this business between
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myself and Jeff Mosher Andrew to checker, Andrew to check Oh,
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you talking about me twenty seven years Jeff around twenty
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Andrew five or six. I mean we kind of know better.
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You make note of everything. You're read into absolutely nothing.
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It's day one, don't go crazy. What we typically do
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to give you a kind of an idea of how
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you should look at information that's out there, not just
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from us, for anything you read in social media, from
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any reporter. What we do is we take a comprehensive
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look after a week. Yes, we have basically daily updates,
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whether online or shows like this or regularly inside the
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Bird Show. And by the way, we're going to have
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a huge one me Jeff and Andrew. We'll be doing
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one for Friday morning at six am Eastern, which will
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break down the first two days. Remember they're off on Friday.
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I'm sorry, they have a walk through on Friday. By rule,
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you can't practice three days in a row yet. So
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but after a week, and this is what we've mentioned before,
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we felt very strongly that after one week Isaiah Rodgers
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had won the starting cornerback job opposite actually the number
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three cornerback job over Keeley Ringo. We just felt it
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was gonna go do in and perform well. And Rogers
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was so far ahead after one week, which is you
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don't normally see that. Remember Rogers. What another great story
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about Rogers was he had the broken hand and he
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still went into after missing a little bit of time
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in the regular season when he had to fill in
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or play, he played. He did a great job. That's
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why you know he got a nice free agent deal
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was actually between the Eagles and the Vikings to retain
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his services, but to go to get his services, I
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should say. But bottom line is, don't go crazy of
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what you see in the first day or two. We
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just you don't read into anything, but you storys. Make
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a note of it. Where guys are We've talked about
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this before, where guys have been lined up, and what
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the depth charts look like. But then you know, you
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see how it progresses. It changes man a lot, so
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don't go crazy with it. Another note for the folks
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on Patreon, you're ready have seen these videos or phenomenal
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the Eagles twenty seventeen team. John did a great breakdown
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offensive point in it for OTAs and then we did
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a second one just on training camp. It's phenomenal. We're
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a Patreon you're missing it. We had a great chat
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on Wednesday night and folks, you got to see these things.
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We do it every week all year, fifty two weeks. Folks,
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we do it. We do it every week, and we've
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done that for a couple of years. And this is
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stuff you're not gonna here anywhere, no holds barred, any
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Patreon dot com, slash inside the Birds. All right, and
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with that, let's get started. So Week fourteen right in
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games thirteen through seventeen at SOFI and Monday Night game
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December eighth, eight fifteen, Eastern Veagles will play at the Chargers.
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They love playing in Sofi obviously with the Rams. The
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Chargers are Rams, they play their home games there, but
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the Eagles will play the Rams there. They do very well there.
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The Chargers, who don't get a great home crowd. We
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know what happened in seventeen at the former Home Depot
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Center where the Chargers were playing until this sofar was built.
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The Eagles on that stateiument rocked. It was like seventy
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five percent Eagle fans. So I'm sure it'll be heavy
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Eagles presence. So what are the Eagles looking at when
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their defense is on the field. You're seeing Greg Roman.
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You know what's coming. Most sophisticated running game of the
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National FOOTBA League is a GM told me, he goes
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It's very unorthodox. Not just with full backs, it's with
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he'll go thirteen personnel, he'll play three tight ends, a
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lot of twelve some eleven. Now here's who they lost
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this year. JK. Dobbins, who led him in rushing. He's
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now with Denver. They cut Gus Edwards. They lost Josh Palmer,
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which doesn't surprise me because this regime did not draft him.
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Josh Palmer's drafted by Tom Telesco, who is no longer
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in the NFL. He's actually doing some media, so good
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for Tom. But Josh Palmer sign a free agent deal
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with Buffalo. Who do they add Trey Lance to be
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a backup quarterback? Marion Hampton, one of my favorite running
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backs for this draft out of North Carolina's super explosive
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Najee Harris, who unfortunately had the fireworks accident, so he'll
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be ready for the regular season, but there's no exact
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timeline when he'll be back during August for training camp.
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But Nahim Heinsey just signed. Good for Nahim to come
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back and mostly see time in training camp on third
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downson as a kickoff returner. They added Trey Harris, who
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they really like out of Mississippi State. The second round receiver.
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They signed Mike Wins, but he retired at thirty years
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old and you had a bunch of injuries and he
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would have given him some depth at receiver where they're
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a little bit light. They signed Tyler Conklin, who's a
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good tight end and athletic tight end. Makai Beckton will
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start at guard. So what are the Eagles going to
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face when they when the Chargers are in eleven personnel
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will be Quentin Johnston, who's their ex receiver who you
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know what I know. People think he's a bus. He's
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not a bust. He did improve last season. He's not
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where he needs to be, but he did show someone
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I prove me he's a big target, downfield target. Lad
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McConkie was phenomenal as a rookie. He's their Z receiver.
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Trey Harris has good, really good size. So what they
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may do is have Harris as a ZEE and McConkie
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strictly as their X. Well, we'll see how they they
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do that, but they'll be able to play eleven with
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those guys. Jalen Rager, you know, I know he's a
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bust for the Eagles, but still hanging on. They brought
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him back for another season. Brendon Rice, Jerry Rice's son
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is still there when they go when they go twelve,
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it's gonna be Will Disley as their wide tight end
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their in line, and Conklin will be their move tight end.
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And you know who. They have a very athletic ten end,
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a Rondi gads You remember his dad for the Dolphins,
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who is a longtime receiver. So Gadsden, who's going to
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be more of a move tight end. He's a willing blocker.
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But Disley's a pretty good blocker. So they're gonna have
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enough on offense now their offensive line with Rashan Slater
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their left tackle, Joe All, who the Titans wanted Bareley
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last year to be their left tackle, but the Chargers
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beat him to it. Mkai Becka will be the right guard.
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Zion Johnson and Bradley Boseman make up the rest of
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their interior their offensive line. Good signing of Andre James
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who will back up at center. The former starting center
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for the Raiders now a Trey Pipkins who could play
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right tackle, he could play guard. He started at both,
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so they'll have depth and behind Justin Herbert the quarterback
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will behind a Key and Lance and Scott Matlocke. They're
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one of the teams that you use as a fullback.
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Scott matt Locke was a six round full back two
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years ago, a former defensive tackle. So they're loaded on offense.
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Folks that that's not the problem. Can the Eagles put pressure,
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particularly on the interior where they're not great the Chargers,
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But Kay Beckton our understanding with him was yes, obviously
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it was a great story playing guard he never played
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before prior to last season. He wasn't quite as good
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as people thought he was, but he was solid. There's
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some technique issues with him last year, but you have
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to expect that when you've moved from a different position.
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But a great story of development and there look they're
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gonna give they could get some Eagles some fits, especially
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with Marion Hampton and with all the changes the Eagles
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have on the front on the on their front seven.
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We got to see if they could stop the run.
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But we'll learn more about that in training camp. So
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that's that's that's what we're looking at with the Chargers
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offense and then the Eagles defense. You all know about now.
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Defensively for the Chargers under Jesse min Or. His dad,
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Rick is part of the staff. Rick used to be
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part if you remember, of Chip Kelly staff. And Rick
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was the former head coach at University Cincinnati and he
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knows the Harball brothers. So Jesse runs a thirty four front,
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does a great job. They did a lot with a
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little talent. They don't blitz very much, only twenty four
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percent blitz rate last season. They don't play a lot
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of man under twenty percent man. They lost a lot
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of players. Both their starring D tackles are gone. Punaford
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sign a big free agent deal with the Rams. Morgan Fox,
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veteran D tackle, signed with the Falcons. Joey Bosa they
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cut It was one of the bet better addressers for
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many years. He signed with Buffalo. Christian Fulton, a very
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inconsistent former second round pick of the Titans, did okay
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at times with the Chargers, but in consistent. He signed
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with the Chiefs and the Sante Samuel's a free agent
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coming back from the neck issue. They did sign Ben
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Saint just who got bench last season. With watching Dante
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Jackson is now kind of a journeyman in the corner.
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When you look at their situation on defense, I know
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it's well coached. They brought to Sean Hannen from Miami.
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He's a journeyman d tackle Tier Tart, Philly's own. It's
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been a great story of development considering he was signed
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as an undirected free agent with the Titans. He's kind
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of moved on a little bit. They're not really good
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with their front three now. Tweet to Polo two Marlin Twey,
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Polo two's brother, is a big time talent. He's in
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his thirty years an edge ruscher. He's really good. Max
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still there getting done in his mid thirties. Budger Pree
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got a new deal. They like this. Kyle Kannard, who's
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a fourth round rookie out of South Carolina's kind of interesting. Now, look,
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the Eagles have an elite offensive line. You're not really worried.
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I mean you have to tweet. Polo two is a
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really talented edge rusher. They're good at inside backer with
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Junior Colson and Dale Dayan Henley a third he was
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a third round pick two years ago, is really good.
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Denzel Perriman probably won't start. He's an older player with
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a lot of injuries, but they're good there. The problem
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that I have with the chargers of that corner Tarheed
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Still it was a great story of development as a
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fifth round corner, really so excuse me as a fifth
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round nickel. Great story out of Maryland, but at corner
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it's a little shaky. With the aforementioned Dante Jackson and
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Saint just can't trust him. We'll see where they line
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up Jaseah Taylor. They're really good at safety. Fact, they'll
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play some big nickel, which they did last year with Moulden,
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the great Derwin James and Alohi Gilman. I mean, they
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have depth, but man, I don't see a big time
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corner out of there. If I'm the Eagles, I'm spreading
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them out. I'm going deep and you know the Eagles
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will be able to handle them. That's a game for me.
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On paper, I would have the Eagles as a two
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or three point favorite. Let's go to Week fifteen. This
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game is at home against another AFC West opponent on
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the fourteenth of December, one pm Eastern start. So the Raiders,
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the Las Vegas Raiders will be traveling to Philly on
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three different time zones. That's like ten am for them.
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That's never good. Now, what did the Raiders do. We'll
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look at their offense first versus Eagles defense. It's Gino Smith,
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who Chip Kelly loved for that draft in twenty thirteen.
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But as I reported at that point, and the Eagles
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did not have a good pre draft meeting with them,
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and they moved off of them. But they're kind of
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reunited in a way. Well, they never worked together, but
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that was Chip's guy, ash Genty, the lock first round pick.
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They weren't really hiding it. Gino and ash Genty. They're
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gonna run the ball. They're gonna be a low volume
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pass game offense. They brought a Raheem Mostert, who actually
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Chip signed or Howie signed it. He was with the
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Eagles in twenty fifteen. I believe so Chip knows him.
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He also I think he might have had him. Did
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you have him with a Niners in twenty sixteen. I'm
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not sure, but I know he Chip knows him. Mostart
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is still fast, but he's not the same player he
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once was. Once was Jack Besh. Their second round receivers
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more of a slot receiver, Alex Kappa Man. It's not
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good when you're cut when the Bengals are a lesser
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average offensive line when they cut you. He's a guard,
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by the way, that that would worry me a little bit.
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Now the Raiders with Colton Miller at left tackle, power
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shouts will be will start at center. Dylan Parham. There's
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a really good guard out of Memphis. He's in his
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third year. Yeah, third, fourth year, fourth year Kapa probably
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will start at right guard. DJ Glaize at right tackle.
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Most likely. Not a great offensive line. This is an
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offensive line that can be beat at receiver. They're fast,
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but not very deep, not very talented. Trey Tucker did
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not work out as a starter. That was a mistake
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last season. He's a fourth receiver nine of two. When
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they go eleven. Besh could play inside or outside. He
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could be their z Jacoby Myers has done very well,
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by the way, signed by Josh McDaniels Dave Sigler when
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they when coming over from the Raiders when they were
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running their front office. Myers is still there, but they're
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just not very deep a receiver. Trey Tucker can run,
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but he was totally miscast. It's really folks, you know,
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it's all about Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer be either
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y tight end and Ian Thomas comes over to give
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him depth of tight end. To me, you know it's
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coming a lot of twelve personnel. You just got to
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get a physical with Brock Bowers. He's not the most
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physical guy, but he's super athletic. Do you know, loves
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to throw the deep ball intermediate area. You know they'll
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do that with Trey Tucker and this kid Dante Thornton,
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a fourth rounder out of Tennessee, who could run, who's
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got length, he's over six four. You got to keep
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an eye on him. But again they're not very talented there.
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You just got to slow down Bowers. Ashton Jets super physical,
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he's gonna grind carries mostrt and Zimir White will be
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probably Zimir White and Dylan Lobby. Unfortunately, I hope he
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makes a team. He's explosive. They got to forget a
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way to use him. He goes match up very well.
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Eaton O'Connell by the way, back up Tunis he gos defense,
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matches a well, gets this offense. I don't see the
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Raiders in Philly doing much on offense now. Defensively, they
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run a thirty four front, and I gotta tell you
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they're really well coached from Patrick Graham. Graham runs the
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Belichick system higher than average. Man covered twenty nine percent,
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Plet's rate just above the league average around twenty six percent.
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They lost Chasen, the former first round edge thresher from
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the Jaguars who arrived his career. He's more of a
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backup Devine Diablo who signed with the Falcons Roberts Blaine.
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They also lost him very underrated inside backers signed with
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the Patriots. Mayrigg who was drafted by Mike Mike Mayock
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a really good player by the way, sign a big
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free agent do with Carolina. And they lost Marcus Apps,
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who unfortunately had the AC injury a couple years ago,
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signed with New England as well. Brought in a Landon
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Roberts from the Steelers, Jermaine Pratt who's cut by the Bengals. Corner,
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they're not very good. Eric Stokes, a former first round
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pick for the Packers who have been in disappointment. Garian
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Porter though they've gotten the draft tall, one of the
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tallest corners for the draft. And Jeremy Chinno had a
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good year with Washington. So to me, they're not very talented.
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But where they're talented. Where their talent is there is
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on that front four with the great Crosby. He had
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a high ankle sprain Laser that's why his numbers were down.
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Malcolm Kotzy didn't play last season due to knee injury.
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Christian Wilkins is coming up with that foot injury. Got
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to keep an eye on him. But they're talented. Tyri
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Wilson could play inside a nickel who hasn't really made
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it yet as an edge rusher. We mentioned the linebackers.
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The secondary is where they got all sorts of problems.
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They could probably mix in match, but they're really weak
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at corner. And this is a team if you could protect,
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the Eagles could protect against anyone. I'm going after that secondary.
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This is a game that the Eagles should blow them out.
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If the Eagles are at least average against the run,
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they'll blow this team out. Now let's go to Week sixteen.
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I can't wait for this one. And let me explain
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to you. This game is at Washington on a Saturday,
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number twentieth. The time is not determined now understand. And
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I talked to the league about this in their media
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call in the spring after the schedule was announced. The
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reason why they have these late they want meaningful games
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late in the season. They're projecting. They believe in in
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the Commanders, and they do a projection of how they
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think teams are going to do, and they want them in.
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This probably will be some sort of primetime game. They
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are now back to the mega national team. It's been a
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couple decades since they were one, but they were a
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big time national team in the seventies and eighties and
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not so much after Dan to Night about the team,
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but they're expected to be good. Now let's let's let's
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let's look at what they added. Krosskey Meriti is a
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change up seventh round pick who's got a chance to
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make the team. Do you see me obviously in a trades.
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Reunited with Adam Peters, the Washington general manager, the former
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personnel director for the Niners. And Jalon Jalen Lane, who's
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a really athletic slot receiver who's who's a pretty talented kid.
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Interesting to see what he does for them. It will
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help them run more eleven personnel because they're not very
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deep receiver. Everybody knows. Everybody knows what's happening with the
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receiver corps here and Terry McLaurin. Folks never sweat these deals.
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They're trying to get it done. They know they have
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to do it. Remember, if you're a Commander fan, you're listening,
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this season starts a September. Don't worry about it. They
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know they're going to get a deal done. They're not
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trading him. Don't worry about it. People overrate this stuff.
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It always gets done. Ninety nine times out of one hundred,
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it gets done. Let's put it that way. They also
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added Josh Connolly, who's going to who's not played right
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tackle before. He's moved from left to right tackle. Got
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to see how he does. Army Tunseel in the trade
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at left tackle. So they've upgraded significantly. At left tackle.
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They're gonna have better deathing offensive line. See that was
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the problem last year. They had poor depth. Now they've
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got depth. They got to figure out if Brandon Coleman's
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gonna be their left guard. Cosme's coming back from the
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acol injury. He's got an outside chance for a week one.
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Connery will wind up being the They're right, we know
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Tunsl's are left. The oddish who didn't have a great
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season last year will be their center there. But you know,
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it's funny I say that they're offensive line overachieved, coached
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very well by Bobby Johnson, but they know they had
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to do something. And I give Adam Peters credit, he
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really addressed it. But I have a real problem with
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the run game. Brian Robinson is a downhill power runner,
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no explosion. They need Krossky merrit Ja Corey Krosskey Merritt,
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the seventh rounder. They need him to be a change up,
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give us some juice at running back. They badly need it.
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He's out of Arizona. He's a little bit older, he's
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twenty four years old, and he's older because of a
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transfer issue. But he's talented and of course Austin Echle
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will help him a third down. It's receiver is kinda
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with McLaurin, Luke McCaffrey, who I always had a good
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off season. Deebo is an inside outside receiver. No Brown
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is coming back from an injury. Jaalen Lane should want
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up being their slo. We'll see if Michael Gallup, who
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came out of retirement, has anything left. Chris Moore, he's
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more of a special teams player. Kg Osbourne is there.
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But you know the bottom line is they're not super
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deeper receiver. Deeper than they've been, but not super deep.
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Ertz is still there catching this ten yard passes, getting
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first down. Sean Bates is. They're why Ben Sinnett, who
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you know, I'm told was just not ready from a
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metal standpoint, he's slipped behind. They need him to be
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a factor. He's pretty athletic. You could play him at fullback.
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He's obviously a f tight end. You can move him.
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Told Turner's still there. Fanniever's rookie deal. He's a athletic
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tight end. There's enough and obviously Daniels and Mariot will
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be the backup. There's enough there for them to have
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a very good offense. But in terms of playing the Eagles.
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The thing the first time they played the Commanders in
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the regular season, this is when Daniels had the ribbinger.
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He wasn't himself. That was in Philly. The second game
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is when Gardner Johnson got shucked. Now it wasn't like
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their defense is playing well in that game. It did
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not play well. But you saw how the Eagles boat
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race them in the playoffs after Like the half was
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it was somewhat competitive. Then the Eagles absolutely crushed them
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the second half, but it was the game was never doubt.
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It is a matter of how much they were going
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to beat them by. But bottom line is Washington's offense
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is intriguing. They're going to be better up front. Let's
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take a look now at the Washington defense now with
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Dan Quinn and he knows he had to do it.
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They had. They were one of the top blets and
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teams of the National Football League over thirty one percent.
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That's that's high in today's NFL. A lot of man coverage.
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Their top five man coverage team with thirty six percent
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last season. I don't see that changing. Who do they
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lose Jonathan Allen, who they cut Dante Faller, who went
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back to Dallas. Ben Saint Jeush's we told you about
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in Sherman Chin who we told you about the Ada.
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Javon Kinlong came off the best season of his career.
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He saigned a big year, a big free agent deal
21:53
coming over from the Jets. Dietrichwise, who we like a lot.
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Grec Osl really likes him. Come from New England. He's
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had more of a rotational end. Trey Amos, a second
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round pick at a Mississippi, Jonathan Jones who could play
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inside or outside of the corner, and Will Hours. So
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when you look at their defense for Washington, they don't
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have a big time ed rusher. They're gonna have a
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between Armstrong von Miller obviously, who they just signed. We'll
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see if he could play around a third or thirty
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to forty percent of their snaps, Cleveland, Ferrell and Wise.
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Those four, there's enough there in a rotation, but they
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don't have a big time edge rusher. They're still strong
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upfront with Doron Payne, kin Law, Johnny Newton, Edie Eddie Goldman.
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If he's committed to playing, they're going to be fine
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up front. But they just don't have that big time
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edge rusher, and that's a problem. That's why you'll see Louv.
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That's why lou Vu blitzes. And and by the way,
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they should be good against the run. Bobby Wagner's he's
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just not quite what he once was. They're fine up front,
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but they're not dominant, and you've got to get a
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pass rusher against Hertz, We's gonna tear you apart. The
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Eagles are too deep at receiver. At the tight end position,
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they're actually deeper. And it's a question of because by
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the way, with the Chargers they could be they lost
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their two d tackles. Walkley should rip the Chargers apart,
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and with Washington, you see what happened in the playoffs.
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So I'm not convinced that they could. They could control
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the Eagles offense. Now, are they strong enough at corner?
23:25
If Amos is a player, you won. If Latimer could
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stay healthy, it's been eight years, he's had hamster problems.
23:32
Their plan, I'm totals to keep saying. They want to
23:34
move sand Restole to Nickel. He played very well outside.
23:37
That's their planet. We'll see if they stick with it.
23:40
They got Kwan Marke and kwand Martin who could play nickel,
23:43
which he's played. He could play safety, which he's going
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to play with Will Howrison comes over from Normans. As
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I mentioned, Percy Butler will be their third tight end.
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It's their third safety. So by the way, they Temple's
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Jordan McGee, who will back up Wagner about Look, there's
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talent on defense that they have to be more aggressive
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because they just don't have enough talent. Overall, this is
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a team. The Eagles are clearly better than them. I
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would install them. They are to me just overall a
24:09
five point on a neutral field. The Eagles are a
24:12
five point better team to me. And that's who they
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play in Week sixteen and Week eighteen, and that next
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game in week eighteen. The Eagles will host Washington in
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Week eighteen. That's a Sunday game, but the time is
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not determined. That's January fourth, by the way. Now, let's
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get back to week seventeen after they play Washington, the
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first time they play at Buffalo. This is all my goodness.
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Great Now, if they have a blizzard, this will be
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a snow game. Boy, I'd love to see a snow
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game this week seventeen game is a four to twenty
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five game on December twenty eighth at Buffalo. Buffalo's offense.
24:54
They did add Josh Palmer, who will start a very
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sneaky ad Is Eligen wi Or he could play the
25:00
Z or could play slot, and Amari Cooper at a
25:04
rist injury lst year just didn't work out. Unfortunately, you
25:08
got James Cook at running back. Who boy, he was
25:10
better than I thought. He's more explosive than Dalvin. Dalvin's
25:13
more powerful. His older brother Ray Davis out of Temple
25:17
and all the other schools. Ray Davis, you might remember
25:20
him as a fourth runner out of Kentucky who also
25:22
was a Temple transfer. He's a little bit older. He
25:25
turns twenty six in November. And Ty Johnson is a
25:29
change up. They're not great at receiver. They have death
25:33
with Palmer, Kiliershak here could play insider outside. Kean Coleman
25:37
is their ex receiver did not work out. He's going
25:39
to get another chance. Curtis Samuel. The big reason why
25:42
he's on the team is the guaranteed money this season,
25:44
so they need Samuel to step up. He goes obviously
25:46
know him formerly of Washington in Carolina, Leviscus Channaultz what
25:50
we call a power slot, so they have death, but
25:53
they're just not very talented receiver. We're in the big
25:56
plays downfield that that would worry me. Tight end the
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athletic Dawson Knox and Dalton Cato. It's funny Duson Dawston
26:04
Knox was an athletic tight end. Now he's more of
26:06
their why ten end. Dalton Kata has removed tight end.
26:10
Good offensive line, not great. Spencer Brown's their right tackle,
26:15
Deon Dawkins out of Temples. Their left David Edwards has
26:18
been okay at left guard coming over from the Rams.
26:20
Connor McGovern who's a veteran center coming over from Dallas,
26:24
has been there a couple years, and of Cyrus Torrence,
26:28
who's the second round a couple of years ago. It's
26:30
an okay line. Eagles. Delon could eat against them if
26:33
they're playing at their best. And obviously the uber taloned
26:37
Josh Allen. You know he could run. You know he's
26:39
got a rocket arm. You got to make this guy
26:43
make throws when he doesn't want to do that, make
26:44
him throw it early, don't give him time. And then
26:48
I call him crazy legs because he's a zig zag runner.
26:52
He's super explosive for a guy that size, he moves
26:54
better than you think. I've talked to coach has gone
26:56
against him, they go It's one thing to see him
26:59
on tape, but it's a different when you're actually going
27:01
against them live. It's hard. Mister Bisky will be the backup.
27:06
But the good thing is, again they're not very good
27:09
at receiver in terms of overall talent. That now they
27:13
became over running team than they you probably would think
27:15
last year. I think because they're deep at receiver, they
27:18
could play more eleven than they did last year. Now,
27:21
the question for the Eagles is how good are they
27:23
going to be at second corner. That's gonna be a problem.
27:25
At right corner back until Ringo or Dorry Jackson shows
27:29
me something that's gonna be a that's going to be
27:31
the problem. The teams want to spread the Eagles out
27:34
because not only we don't know who their second corner
27:36
is going to be one and how good it's going
27:37
to be, we don't know how good the third corner's
27:39
going to be. So you know what's coming with Buffalo.
27:41
I mean, they've got James Cook is explosive, he's a
27:46
screen runner, screen catcher, so you got to watch this.
27:49
This is a fun match of Vic Fangeru's defense. Make
27:53
Josh Allen hold on the ball and if he's if
27:55
he's going to run, Folks, you got to be disciplined.
27:57
Now let's talk about the defense of the Bills versus
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the Eagles offense and Buffalo. Very aggressive and free agency
28:05
in the draft. TJ. Sanders the second round out of
28:08
South Carolina detackle Larry Ogunjobi comes over from the Steelers.
28:12
Now he's got a six game suspension. And the Steelers
28:15
I could tell, were kind of down on them. They
28:18
kind of moved on. They didn't seem as a start anymore.
28:20
They might They signed Michael Heck Michael Hoyd excuse maybe
28:23
the intrusher from the Rams has been a really nice story,
28:25
but he too has got a six game suspension. Nick
28:28
Bosa comes over from from from the Charge in Shaq
28:32
Thompson will be a backup and Maxwell Hashton the first
28:34
round corner of Kentucky. They did cut Von Miller and
28:38
they have Sould Douglas as a free agent. Now there
28:42
were heavy zone team, folks, only twenty percent man. They
28:46
rarely blitzed on near the bottom at ninety percent blitz rate.
28:51
They're very strong at the tackle day Kwon Jones, Ed
28:55
Oliver Ogun, Joby t J. Sanders, the edges. See, here's
28:59
the problem with their edge group. They're deep with Hoyt Russo,
29:05
Joey Bosa, Epinesz is more of a power in. But
29:08
the thing is they don't have a big time pass rusher.
29:12
That's the problem. We don't know about Joey Bosa with
29:15
all of his injuries, and you have to wonder what
29:18
he's got left. He just turned thirty. That's the problem
29:24
with them, folks, that this is where and it's good
29:26
of a job as Brandon being is done. He's just
29:28
he completely missed on von Miller and he can't blame him.
29:31
They tried it he Miler towards acl and that that's
29:34
just the problem. They need a big time edge rusher.
29:38
That's the thing that they're missing. They're they're really good
29:40
at lineback with Milano, but Milana's hurt a lot and
29:44
Chrol Bernard Benford out of Villanova has been a good
29:47
story at corner. Who I mentioned Harriston Tron Johnson's one
29:50
of the best Nichols in football. They're not very good
29:52
at safety with Bishop and Rap and Hamlin. We'll see
29:57
about Jordan Hancock, the fifth rounder. It's a nice defense.
30:00
They're super disciplined. Eagles should not have a problem holding
30:05
up with with their offense, with their with their offensive line.
30:08
I don't love their corner group tree Davis White's back
30:11
there by the way, corner, former first rounder for them,
30:13
and he's near the end of his career. A lot
30:14
of injuries. But this is a defense that you can beat.
30:19
It's just you got to pick your poison. You got
30:21
to be disciplined because because you got to isolate when
30:27
you go against McDermott's defense about who you want to exploit,
30:32
because it's hard. While they're not that talented, there's they're
30:35
really well coached. And Bobby Babbage's defense coordinator, by the way,
30:39
remember remember his dad, Bob, who coached for McDermott. Chris
30:43
Taber's our special teams coach. By that was really really good. Look,
30:46
they're they're good. They're very good football team in the
30:48
top four, top five of the National Football League, but
30:50
they're beatable. Eagles, by the way, one of the best
30:52
road teams in the National Footballague since Nick Sirianni took over. Uh,
30:57
they don't, they don't. They fear nobody. And now if
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it's a snow game, it's not like Vegles haven't played
31:03
in some snow They did against the Rams, so this
31:06
will be a fun game. This is obviously one of
31:08
our favorites of the year. We gave you the intel
31:10
in Washington, and obviously we'll learn more and I'll give
31:13
you on our inside the Bird shows when I I'm
31:15
on my training camp tour, I'll give you an idea
31:18
because I'll be at Washington's camp and if I get
31:20
to the Chargers, we'll have notes with them, and yeah,
31:22
I'll have notes on a lot of the teams that
31:23
I visit, So stay tuned for that. Thanks for listening,
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and we'll talk to you next time. See you then,