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ITB: What Was Learned From Eagles Second Preseason Game? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back. What's going on everybody? It's
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Mosher and Adam Kaplan and we are two preseason
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: games down, one to go. That'll be this upcoming weekend
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  Speaker 1: against the Bengals, and then that's it for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a lot of roster decisions after that, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we get into the regular season. But Adam,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles did play Saturday night, their second preseason game
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  Speaker 1: against the Patriots. We were looking for some things more conceptually,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit individually too. I think we saw some
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  Speaker 1: good things we can talk about obviously some things that
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  Speaker 1: aren't great, but again it's the preseason. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to start just offense, you know, because one thing we
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  Speaker 1: said conceptually is you just want to see some getting
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  Speaker 1: to line of scrimmage, getting play calls. And then this
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  Speaker 1: Sean Manyon offense start to look like a Sewan Manyon offense,
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  Speaker 1: which we didn't really get chance see in the first
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  Speaker 1: game because they had so few reps. But I thought,
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  Speaker 1: and getting your viewpoint on it, that we saw it.
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  Speaker 1: We saw the under center, We saw the bootlegs, the
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  Speaker 1: play actions, the easy I don't want to call them layups,
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  Speaker 1: but you know those those schemed open type of plays
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  Speaker 1: there that were there to be made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the cross or to Cooper from the key was
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  Speaker 2: was exactly what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: That's a West Coast crosser.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure every every offense has it, but
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  Speaker 2: specifically West Coast. That's the timing route. That was really good.
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  Speaker 2: Running game was fantastic. Shipley's had a Shipley had a
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  Speaker 2: great week off. He fits this offense well. Man the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks is really he's really come on mostly
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  Speaker 2: on outside zone.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: That that whether it's a toss right or a handoff
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  Speaker 2: and he goes outside and the line goes with them.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful things he's got. He's he's got a
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  Speaker 2: great explosion. And this he added. If you watch the
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  Speaker 2: game closely, you saw the inside run. Okay, nice run.
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  Speaker 2: Also had one up the middle.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday because they ran the really well Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, he does you really do that?
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  Speaker 2: In fact, that's he's not gonna knock on him from
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  Speaker 2: scouting standpoint is lack of lower body strength.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we saw it.
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  Speaker 2: So he's really coming on this outside zone. Thinks for real,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're all going to do well. That Bigsby's
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  Speaker 2: been big. Spy's clearly too. There's no competition for it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, he had this little toe injury, so
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  Speaker 2: he didn't he didn't have to. He didn't do a
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  Speaker 2: lot this week. But Shipley to me, stood out and
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  Speaker 2: he also looked great in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And really if we're going to talk about Shipley
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  Speaker 1: and even even Carson Steele, oh boy, the man of
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  Speaker 1: steel out there hurtling. Uh, we really got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the offensive line because I think we always say
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  Speaker 1: you don't make too much of preseason, but you do
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  Speaker 1: want to see development. And uh for the third round
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  Speaker 1: pick Mark hill bellet right tackle, land not Landon. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Kendall the center, Willie Lampkin will get into a second,
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  Speaker 1: but and Jake Majors playing right guard. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was undeniable that in their opportunities. And you can say
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  Speaker 1: it's against backups, it doesn't matter because they are too
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  Speaker 1: They moved people, they worked in See what I liked
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  Speaker 1: is they worked in sync on reach blocks in that
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  Speaker 1: outside zone, without penalties, without confusion, and then they move people.
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  Speaker 1: They're you know, obviously Mark Helbell is huge, he should
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  Speaker 1: move people Kendall was put on weight. You could see
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  Speaker 1: he's stronger. And when you get a guy, when you
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  Speaker 1: get a guy like Jake Major's in there and we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the short arm but playing right guard, but
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  Speaker 1: when he's surrounded by two guys who were experienced and
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  Speaker 1: starting to come into their own that there was good
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  Speaker 1: symmetry there. And the left side of the line was
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  Speaker 1: good too, But those three really stood out, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you got I think you have to feel good
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  Speaker 1: about the concept of them their depth being better this
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  Speaker 1: year than it was last year. Well, maybe we'll be
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  Speaker 1: completely wrong about that, but I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: There are major questions, because it's true, there were a
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  Speaker 2: major questions. It's coming into training camp about the backup
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  Speaker 2: interior lineman, center and guard. Yes, Kendall was clear clearly
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  Speaker 2: has had a good offseason. He's he's put the strength
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  Speaker 2: on which he needed to do. He got much bigger physically.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't guarantee any of them, but it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: And Okay, so center looks it's it's actually in pretty
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  Speaker 2: good shape because Kendall obviously if they need him to be,
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  Speaker 2: he's their backup center.
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  Speaker 3: But what we.
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  Speaker 2: Needed to find out what Kennell was Kenny play guard
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  Speaker 2: because most most teams we spoke with thought he's not
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  Speaker 2: a guard, He's a center.
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  Speaker 3: He's built like a center.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a guard like his dad, dad Pete, who
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  Speaker 2: was who was at I think I saw on Wednesday's
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  Speaker 2: practice bigger, physically, taller too than Drew. But there are
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  Speaker 2: major questions where they could play guard. But he's done
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  Speaker 2: a good job. I give him credit. He's he's done
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  Speaker 2: a good job. In fact, that greg O Selt he
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  Speaker 2: called it, he said he could be like Drew Dollman.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm mistaken, I have to add double check with
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  Speaker 2: greg He came up with a comp on him and
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  Speaker 2: I could have sworn with Drew and they retired Falcons center. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the guy got paid a lot of money, so that
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty good it's a pretty good one. I'll
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  Speaker 2: double check with him. But so yeah, so ken Ol
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  Speaker 2: obviously could be the backup center. Coming to trans camp,
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  Speaker 2: he was the backup center, but Willie Lampkin along comes
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  Speaker 2: Willy Lampkin, who got off the slow starting training camp
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  Speaker 2: first week running only with the third team. They started
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  Speaker 2: to move them up a little bit, taking advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: Some dominant practice reps. By the way throughout last week, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this game, you see what the RAM saw and the
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  Speaker 2: RAMS knew it if they.
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  Speaker 3: Put him on i R.
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  Speaker 2: The way it works with with nonvested players, if you
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  Speaker 2: put them on i R, they're done for the season
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, you know, if you if you see
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  Speaker 2: what they could have done, if they could have held them,
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  Speaker 2: they could have they could have held his roster spot,
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  Speaker 2: and you have it's it's a dumb rule, like you
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  Speaker 2: have to do it. You have to do it once
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  Speaker 2: the fifty three set, then you can put them on
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  Speaker 2: IR and then he just gone for as long as
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  Speaker 2: you want them to be. But they waved him injured
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  Speaker 2: because they did they wanted the roster spot and that
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  Speaker 2: cost him. And he's he's developing rapidly. All the questions
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  Speaker 2: we had about Chris Cooper and the lack of player development, Look,
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  Speaker 2: it's a two weeks of training camp. Does something mean
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  Speaker 2: they've developed? But they're on their way. You want to
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  Speaker 2: see something that's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean if they had to play be good
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  Speaker 2: at all. It just means that what we've been told,
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  Speaker 2: what we know, what we've seen, it looks good right now.
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  Speaker 2: Lampkin at center number sixty one was unbelievably dominant stabs.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Jake Majors, who've seen Tom at garden center,
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned Mark Cupp by the way Fred Johnson started
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  Speaker 2: left tackle, and on your point about in Unison, they
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  Speaker 2: all five were.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this was.
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  Speaker 2: They don't control how they play against They control their
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  Speaker 2: effort and their technique and playing well. And they did
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  Speaker 2: it was and I don't see it was shocking, was surprising.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they at times it was like I don't
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  Speaker 2: even see the coaching tape. I could see off TV
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  Speaker 2: by slowing it down, which I did, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty dominant snap there. We'll find out more
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  Speaker 2: as we find out what the coaching tape looked like,
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  Speaker 2: but I was impressed. This is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give show Amendment some credit to for
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  Speaker 1: play calling, because you know, you're you're not game planning
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  Speaker 1: typically for your opponent in the preseason, but you are
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  Speaker 1: trying to put your offense in winnable situations. You're trying
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  Speaker 1: to see things, and clearly he did see the way
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots defending that they were vulnerable to that tunnel screen,
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  Speaker 1: and he kept throwing it more than one. He threw
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  Speaker 1: it a few times, he threw it once, two wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: He threw it a couple of times, obviously to Carson.
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  Speaker 1: Steele got some big gains off that. So I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he saw something and he's going to continue to attack it,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to see how his players respond when
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  Speaker 1: they're running a play well against a certain look on defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the preseason's about. That he coached this one
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  Speaker 1: from upstairs. Okay, the booth. So first game and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna do I don't think we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do cluse and effect to your first game offense didn't
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  Speaker 1: go well. He was on the field. Second game, off
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  Speaker 1: did better. He was up in the booth. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that's gonna be a comfort thing for him, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't care whatever's comfortable with his fine. But I
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  Speaker 1: did like the way he called the game. I like
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  Speaker 1: the way he blended the run with the pass, and
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  Speaker 1: I just thought in general, you saw harmony. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: saw a good rhythm and good flow and that was
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  Speaker 1: important even though not playing well right because I know
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  Speaker 1: he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I got the quotes from the Patriots and we posted
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  Speaker 2: him for a Patreon members both Dalton and McKee were
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  Speaker 2: very complimentary about uh Sean mannion and and and what
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  Speaker 2: he called and how he called it and how comfortable
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  Speaker 2: he was and yeah he was you can say he
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  Speaker 2: was in his bag. Now the check See, I have
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  Speaker 2: to ask technically, was that a screen or was that
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  Speaker 2: a checkdown?
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  Speaker 3: The one to steal the twenty eight yarder.
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  Speaker 1: The first one?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that was that? That to me, I I
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  Speaker 3: got it. I have to ask.
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  Speaker 1: I get the because of the way he came in
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball. He didn't just like get the
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  Speaker 1: ball and have a convoy of blockers. He almost looked
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  Speaker 1: like he stopped and then broke into it. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like it was a design tunnel. But you're right, like,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes those can be checkofs that look like that exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it might have been a checked him. But well,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that just stunned me is Steve left them
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  Speaker 2: in receptions. Wasn't just the twenty eight yard in the touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: He let him in targets and receptions. Now, nothing's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: It's super highly unlikely he'll make it. Okay, there's no
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  Speaker 2: room for him. He'll never dress if everybody's healthy, he
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: would never play right, Like, yeah you could, you could.
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  Speaker 2: The only way he'd play would be on special teams.
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  Speaker 2: But to take up a rusher spot like this. This
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  Speaker 2: is why you have Keeley Ringo and other good special
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  Speaker 2: teams players. But the thing is thirty other teams have
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  Speaker 2: access to this tape. Okay, remember when you cut, he's nonvested.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to go for waivers. So just understand, Bigsby's
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: on the fine overs rookie deal. Will's in his third
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: year of his four year Deal's got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years left. But there's a path for him if they
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  Speaker 2: cut him and he goes through waivers unclaimed.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely to bring him back to practice for him. He need.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't done anything until this point. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where like, okay, why is he
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  Speaker 2: even here? Kind of and then he just blows up.
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  Speaker 2: He was great, He looked great, He looked explosive. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: that the Saquon leap was interesting. Coaches don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: Typically he get hurt. Gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 3: So he was good.
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  Speaker 2: Darris Cooper on on the slant on the Crossers great
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  Speaker 2: at the twenty five yarder Covey with a man's touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That was interesting that I was like, wait, is that Covey.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good. I mean it was just like everything
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  Speaker 2: worked out well. I mean, we'll get to the defense.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, to summer, to summarize this, McKee, Mckey's not
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  Speaker 2: the two. I mean, I don't know what else he
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  Speaker 2: has to obviously have to play the third game he
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  Speaker 2: better not do badly.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he's the two.
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  Speaker 1: The thing McKee to me Adam in that game. And again,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: what you're looking to see that you can project as
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  Speaker 1: real as a poet for example. What I can't project
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  Speaker 1: is real is that just because running backs led Shipley
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  Speaker 1: and Steele caught a lot of passes Hollever receiving yards.
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  Speaker 1: I am not gonna sit here and do a dance
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  Speaker 1: with you like we did a few years ago about yay,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be throwing to the running backs in this offense. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was a second quarterback, a four string
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  Speaker 1: running back. We have no idea what Jalen Arts and
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  Speaker 1: the first teamers are going to do. However, I will
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  Speaker 1: sit here and I think you would agree and say
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: you were looking for McKie to just like get in
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  Speaker 1: and look comfortable within the offense and make the throws
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  Speaker 1: that he typically has made in preseason games. And when
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: he started off, I thought he was a little, I
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: don't want to say uncomfortable, but he dirted a few passes.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he just was still trying to find it.
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  Speaker 1: And then as the game went on, I thought he
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: just he just started to find it. He started to
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: look like I'm getting it now. The light bulb's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Manion's giving me some play calls where there's going to
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: be some guys who are going to be open or
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: at least one on one, And then he started to
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: become a distributor. And that to me, like you're saying,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know how if you're the Eagles coaches, you
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  Speaker 1: look at these practices and think I want Andy Dalton
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  Speaker 1: over Tanner McKee.
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  Speaker 2: Just by the way, I would also add to me,
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  Speaker 2: and McKey took the lead this week.
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  Speaker 3: He's better in Dalton in practices.
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  Speaker 2: I practice, Yes, I had four or five agendas last week,
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  Speaker 2: four or five things I want to get cleared, Like
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: just watch a lot. As I keep telling people, no
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: reporter could watch every play. So when they they're acting
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: like they know everything, they don't. We'd have to talk
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  Speaker 2: to a coach or front off executive to know exactly
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: what happened for the coaching for the practice tape. So
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: I laugh when well, I won't bring up some of
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  Speaker 2: these reporters, but I'm like laughing when they think they
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: know what they saw, Like, couldn't you talk to like
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: you are you absolutely sure? Right? You know, I run by,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: I run stuff by people like what it looked like
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  Speaker 2: and how did you feel about it? But McKay to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's McKee will be the two bit barring something highly infestane.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the way I say it.
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  Speaker 2: And then oh, the one thing about Stowers that you
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  Speaker 2: want to add, Remember Dalton missed him that he yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he had leverage on that. He like Stowers had leverage
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  Speaker 2: on that. On the defender he had overthrows it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you got to make that throw that.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, man, that's Confederate. You've got to hit him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then right before that, it was Cooper right who
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  Speaker 1: was just right there. Actually I think it was Cooper who,
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  Speaker 1: more like Stowers, was just in the middle of his
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  Speaker 1: own and go out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was over his hands into the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be in his hands. Come on, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta make that throw.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. And those were two back to
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  Speaker 1: back opportunities that you got to make your fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: in this league, seventeen years, you got to make it,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and he did so. And I do think they're just
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: from and going back to the offensive line. You know
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  Speaker 1: the kid that they draft in the six round, he
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  Speaker 1: moves really well. Yeah, I mean he's got some work
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  Speaker 1: to do, which you knew he was only a one
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  Speaker 1: year starter. I think thirteen starts of Georgia. He's got
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  Speaker 1: some some work to do. But I thought he looked
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: like a guy who's a pretty good fluid mover there
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  Speaker 1: working uh late in the uh late a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, Actually it's really interesting. Major's played every snap.
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  Speaker 1: Every the new Darien Canard.
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  Speaker 2: Right right right, and then they wound up trading Canard.
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  Speaker 3: Can he make it?
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  Speaker 4: Though?
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  Speaker 1: At him?
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  Speaker 5: Can he mean I'm sitting here in my showcase for
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  Speaker 5: the showcase, Well that's what I was wondering, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, can he make it when you're already gonna
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  Speaker 5: keep Kendall and most likely Willy Lampkin like how many
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  Speaker 5: guys are you gonna keep.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You're gonna keep fred fred Taiale, You're gonna keep Freddy T.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna keep Freddy J. Fred Johnson, You're gonna keep
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Mark L.
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  Speaker 2: Bell.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna keep Kendall. So that's eight right there. With
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  Speaker 1: the starting five, you're probably nine, right, So then it
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: comes down to like Majors and Michael Morris and are
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: they gonna keep eleven? I don't know how he's threatened
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  Speaker 1: to do it. He said he would if you had to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think hitting at this point. And
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Camra Williams are part of the discussion anymore. And the kids,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: like the kid who you like got hurt, he's been hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So that uh John John Ojuku, Yeah, it's too bad
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  Speaker 2: because they cross trained the guard. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was interesting.
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  Speaker 3: You know he actually.
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  Speaker 2: I have to look it up with the Titans if
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: you played guard. I know he played multiple positions for them.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: But yeah, and then look, they don't have fourth corner
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: right now, and we're going to get the defense about
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: a minute thirty forty five seconds.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: But that's you know, that's the balance is the roster.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Issue, because then you've got Wairo, you got the international kids.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: They count against the fifty three, which is stupid. It's
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: a dumb role.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: You got it backwards.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: When I got the world clarified it sentiment, I was
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: all right, it's the exact opposite. They don't count against
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the nightey, but they count against the fifty three. It's
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: so dumb.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: But don't they wait, they don't count against the initial
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: but then once they clear that, you have to still
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: put them on the fifty three. But then don't you
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: get to use the exemption?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Well no, they know they have. You could keep seventy,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: you could keep a practic squad. You get to keep
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: one international plan the seventeen.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, I actually reading the rules.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I don't have it in front of me. Actually have
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: the exact rule of the rates that the teams have.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Gotten that someone sent it to me.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Uh huh. And I was just like, this is the
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: dumbest thing. It should be the exact opposite. Yeah, because
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: these kids aren't going to be ready to play. Why
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: would you?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I would I would agree with you on Maru. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: would say, if you draft a player though, that's on you.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Like if you draft like they did with and a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: lot of but I'm saying, if you draft a guy
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: as opposed to just an undrafted free agent, then you've
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: given you put stock in him, then then you probably
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: don't deserve an exemption for it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah well, oh well all right, So that's it. On offense,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: it's really we just covered it. I mean, it's it's
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: a line was dominant. I'm looking at my notes here,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: stot that was not Stowar's problem.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: He was missed on. He only got two targets that
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: he was overthrown one of them. Cooper was active, he
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: looked good. Yeah, he was phenomenal. Yeah, Steel is amazing.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Yep uh.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: And then you know, o line dominating. M Key had
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: a better week than Alton. That's about it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, if you're coming out of this game
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: looking for something to be concerned about, it's something we
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: already discussed going into the game, and it's what are
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: they doing at tight end? Because again, kaim Lotto was
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: out there. I thought he was throwing good blocks, looking athletic,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: but he never gets the ball. So yeah, he did
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: have one catch, right, but he doesn't typically get the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: ball thrown his way. But it's just to me, behind
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: god heard there's a missmash of uncertainty as opposed to
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: trying to find a guy who can do multiple things.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They I think Howie may have to be active here
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: at the at the roster cutdown to try to bring
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: in somebody who's a why that can catch a little
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe a veteran.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: It's it's extremely rare to find a guy does both.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm not.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Saying like someone who does it as well as Goddard.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But even if it's like a Jack Stole, just somebody
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: who can catch the ball a little.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, but he's but Jack actually was more
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: of a receiving tight end quite a bit, and it's
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: career and braska then he became a blocker only right. Really,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: it's this is why I was saying the last show
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: is that Calcaterra. He may not be on the fifty three,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: we'll see, but he's going to be on the practice squad.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I don't see anyway. He's not on sixty nine men roster. Oh,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: by the way, real quick Sunday at six pm Eastern,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the rosters have to be down to fifty three. Right
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Monday at one o'clock waiver claims and right after waiver
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: claims are processed, you can have your practice squad after
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: one pm Eastern on Monday. So right, that's the timeline.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: And as always, teams never wait. The game is Friday
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: night here in Philly against the Bengals. Wouldn't surprise me
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: if we see some names come out on Saturday.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: There you go, and still Smart showing up well. But
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: again he's running thirday. He's running with backups against deep backups,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: so it's hard.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: To cut any but but again, the thing is for him.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: He gets good.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Tape out there, practice squad possibility. He's pretty athletic. He's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a little smaller, and you'd like, yeah, that's a problemse
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: we always say about death has nothing to do with
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: how many players you have.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: It's the quality of the player. It's not a fifty
• 19:01
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  Speaker 1: always say after the preseason games, you'll start to see
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see Monday what happens there. Defense Ty Robinson obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, oh boy, he's got this really good club
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: move that I mean, it's his only move, but it
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: seems to work really well. I just thought he played
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: with also some tenacity. He split his second sack. He
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: split a double team. And I don't know if you heard.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Ross Tucker is so funny. He was analyzing everything from
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: an offensive lineman standpoint.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he kept.
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  Speaker 1: Going, man, looks really poor technique by the Patriots offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: And then you remember who he's working for, and he's like, hey,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: but that's not the Eagle.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah he does that. Yeah, I've got that. It's all good.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what we told on ty Robinson, Like what's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: his issue? Yeah, he's got lower body stiffness. We're told
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that's the issue, the stiffness. If he does not have
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: good technique, he can't win because he they'll they'll just
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: push him down like he gets moved. So he's got
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: he's got to use his hands correctly. It's got great
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: burst like that you saw them on the sacks. He's
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: got great burst.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: But you can he gets stood up like he could
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: get stood up. That was on his college stape at Nebraska. Yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and that's why we were told part of he kind
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of unlearned the techniques that he learned at Nebraska. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it's got to be like being deprogrammed. And then being
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: reprogrammed the way that Clint Hurt wants it done. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: just understand, and that's why his first year was a
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: total washout. He was so far behind. But he's come on,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Vic said it. I was there, I saw it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I heard it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I shake my head, like did he really need to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: say that? But it's hilarious. He was on life support.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Now he's got he's got plenty of life. It's he's
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: he's I don't see how he's not on the scene.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: This is what you want because remember Byron Young's contracts
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: up after the season.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: By the way, Vinnie Curry was a little bit like that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He's a guy who had as from the edge, great burst,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like quick burst off the line of scrimmage, but not
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: like great athletic, twitchy and change of direction. So there
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: would be a lot of times where he'd force a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: quarterback who had some mobility out off the pocket, but
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: then he couldn't like reverse course and get that quarterback down.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And that's why he would mainly a rundown defender and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, not as much of a situational pass right.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Well, but he was good and white nine he was.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he had great burst. He would almost create
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the pressure and then somebody else would finish it off
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a whole lot.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good landing and Vinnie's energy. We love Vinnie. So
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: uh you are Bernard he had, he showed up a
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: little bit. See what we learned about you are.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Bernard Is and the and guys who were either seven
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: front picks who are undirected free agents or international players.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: They don't play.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: As a veteran coach told me over the years that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: they don't play the first one. They have to protect
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: themselves so they can't get hurt. You can't let it like.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: They have to be able to detect themselves. Sounds ridiculous,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: but that's what this coach told me. And then you
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: want to see what we've taught them. You know they're
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: going to screw up. They're in particular in case they're
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: new to football, but you want to see if they
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: could apply what they've learned, and you are dead. He
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: did and wayroo sack and a jab step. I was like, whoa,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that was beautiful. I'm like, okay, yeah, coach coaches are
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: coaches are in their bag. Man, They've got these guys
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: like that. Look they're ways away from ever contributing. He
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: just want to see some progress on tape, and they did, and.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Have about game Hole Gabe Hole even got in there
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and and and call some chaos up front and he
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: was in there in the Jimon Robinson, I don't know
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: what Vic does. He does this a lot, right. He
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: plays those guys like your top backups. They were playing
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in the first court. They were balling there. Finally they
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: come out and then all of a sudden you see
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: him back in the game, like late in the third
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: quarter or fourth quarter. It's like Vic's going for the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: juggular and trying to win games. But it was funny
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to see both of those guys come back out a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: little bit later in the second half.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, on your point, game Hall
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: played the second most amount of snaps.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's something who knows.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: It's just id on that well, Ty Robinson, I mean
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: this this is a good problem to have.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Now. The question is long term, is you a great
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: fit for the scheme? Right, We'll have to see.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: But if you're Hollie and and Clint Hurt and Vic Fanger,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you gotta be loving us.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: This is what this is why he was drafted. But
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: you want that explosion. What the hands?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: He There's nothing to do about the lower body stiffness.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: There's absolutely nothing you can do with it. Nothing you
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: can do about it. But sure as health his upper body,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: there's a lot you can do. So uh try that
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: by the as we move on here, trot junior splitz
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: is just ridiculous. Now I get it. They're playing with
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the backup quarterback and backup linemen. They did spot it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Who cares you when you time up the snaps?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good? I know they're pretty good.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I mean that just to me just says like you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: have elite awareness football, IQ. It doesn't matter if it's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: ninth string. You timed up a cadence and literally sacked the.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Guy before you get it beautiful. I was like, it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: funny before before they could before they could rerun it,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: you know, I have on on VUC and FiOS. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: have rewind the ability to put it in slow motion,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: and I was like, this is wow, even fast, right,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: you know it's pretty good.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I've heard people Adam tell stories about Reggie White, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you might know this better than me, having been in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: piarly all your life, but that part of his greatness
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: wasn't just the strength, wasn't just the power, but that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: people like Tackles would say who played with me, I'd
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: watched him say he could get off the snap faster
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: than and he knew the snap count all the time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And when you're that smart and you've already got talent
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and you add that to it, it just makes you
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that much better of a football player. And so we
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: know Trotter Junior is not the greatest athlete. He's not
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the fastest guy. He's not gonna win a whole body
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: beautiful contests and measurables. But he is just always in
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the right place at the right time. And I'll tell
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you what. The ankle tackle that he made on on Devedo,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: who probably could have ran for about fifteen twenty more
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: yards after he dodged. You know, Mondon came out of blitz,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: he kind of climbed around. It was headed upfield and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Trotter came around and tackledhim at the ankles. Took the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: wrong angle to me, right right, but always in the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: right place. Try it. I'm starting with sympathy for the guy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: It's like there's just no way he can start, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: he deserves to somewhere.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: But no, that's why I brought up to Andrew.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Is there any way, you know, I posted to him
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: and I talked about this with you on our Friday show.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Is it there any way?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: We know Vic doesn't do this, we get it, but
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: is there any way he could find a role for
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Trotter that's not just to play on special teams?
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Like, is there a situational role?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: There's no way to know this because it's not they're
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: not debuting this in a practice and training camp and.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: They're not going to become a four to three overnight
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: either on h No, they're not doing that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they only played they play two inside backers.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, you know, third down Nichols or could
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: be a Nickel, whatever the case may be. I'm just wondering,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: really if there's anything. But so, look, we already know
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: how great he is, uh, and then you know they
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: they need the fourth corner things a real problem like
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that's I'm looking at my list here of to do
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: list for Howie.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with Ambry Thomas and.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Well he actually if you watch the play, he actually
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: came as soon as the play started, he went like
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: that and just slip he hesitated, went right by him,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: uh for the touchdown. But yeah, obviously this is not
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: good for Ambry Thomas's chances.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: So iob I'd mentioned this here.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the practice squad obviously tries to
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the three. Monon right now, to me, is only special
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: teams player you need kind of need for. I understand
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: he counts and he's going to be on the team. Yeah,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: as a special teams player. But again, here's here's why
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you need to think Ford folks. Somebody gets hurt, trot starts.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: She was your third linebacker. You don't have one. You
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: don't know who that? Are you ready for?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Is Montan ready to That means if Monin is the
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: third guy, is he ready to play sidific role?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. He show's ready to play.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know how many teams fourth
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: linebacker you would say is. I get it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just telling you, like I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you because I've gone through all the
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  Speaker 2: practices and all the information gathering, I'm like, well, what
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  Speaker 2: because Howie has a history of not there's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to trade for one that's the third guy. I just
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  Speaker 2: talk about practice squad. What could how we do You
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  Speaker 2: mentioned Titan. I totally agree with you. They need if
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: if God gets hurt, they're in major trouble, major trouble. Okay,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: for all that he does obviously offense, I mean they've
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  Speaker 2: got guys could catch the ball like Calcaterra, but he
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  Speaker 2: can't block uh veteran guard because they've stepped it up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit here with Kendall. Again, he hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: in a regular season game. At least he shown he
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  Speaker 2: could play it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can probably get Michael Ruin on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I mean right, that's exactly what I'm thinking. So on, and.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, you can do that at linebacker. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a million available after the cutdown. Who the veteran
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  Speaker 1: who can go in there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it didn't work out with your crane, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: who's hurt anyway, He just he it hadn't happened, right,
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  Speaker 2: and it hasn't happened from mac Co claims they badly
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  Speaker 2: need a fourth corner.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, pastoral fields for those who don't
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  Speaker 1: realize when on injured or reserve.
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  Speaker 2: So right, yeah, he did some good things at training camp.
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  Speaker 2: He get another forty nine er who they've added, but
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  Speaker 2: to finish this out to me and that's where the
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  Speaker 2: sixty nine men roster one of those practice squad guys.
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  Speaker 2: If not a trade, they really need a veteran. Jonathan
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Jones has been hard. He thirty three into a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't gamble, don't get they need one more practice Squad's fine,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's trade or practice squad, they need. As you said,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: clubs have leverage. Now after we let me explain the
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: week one situation. Veterans who have not applied for what's
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: called termination pay are eligible to gain at their full
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: salary if they're on the roster a week one. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: that's why you see a lot. That's the roster tango,
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  Speaker 2: which we talked about nine years ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's our ninth year.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of it is understanding the rules and saying, okay,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you know what you tell the agent. Listen, we want them,
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  Speaker 2: but we can't guarantee you Sally for the full season.
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  Speaker 2: About we sign him to the practice squad. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 2: if you really want to be here, we'll sign you
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  Speaker 2: the practice squad, But if you want to be on
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  Speaker 2: the fifty three, we can't do it until after week one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it would make sense. And the only thing
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: is this is the one position where it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: find some guys that you feel confident in to even
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  Speaker 1: do that, right, and.
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  Speaker 3: You see who's cut? Yea, who's available?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Veterans Vested veterans four years or more do not go
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: through waivers until the trade deadline. Until after the trade
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: deadline in late October, then everyone in the NFL subject
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to waivers if they're cut.
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  Speaker 1: But so are you able to do that thing where
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a guy gets cut you don't like him, but you think, like,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: all right, that's like, let's say the Giants cut Banks
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: because they can't stand him anymore. He's available, But what
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: are you gonna see? Youn say, oh, but this guy,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't played well. You know, you get
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  Speaker 1: into that position where.
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  Speaker 3: You have to money.
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  Speaker 2: Is that you have to look at the money because
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: he was a first round pick, right, But to me,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: clubs have such leverage and plus you know the Eagles
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: are going to be a good team.
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  Speaker 3: They're always good for twenty tho.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the way they think they have things rolling and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: players love playing here. You talk to agents, I mean
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: it is like they complain because we did a whole
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: show in this Jeff and I at our second year.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: The injury stuff, the way injuries were handled and just
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: players are complaining, But man, I have not heard anything
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: twenty one on or I should take very little complaints,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: which is not the way it's with the other thirty
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: one teams. There's but it's how is a deal maker.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: They pay their players well here. Coaches like the coaches
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: by the way, are paid pretty well here from what
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: we've been told. So it's just a situation where they
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: got a good thing going. And if you're a veteran
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: one to win, why the hell wouldn't you want to
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: be here? Right no, right post to other teams where
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: there's certainty. Nick Nick has made the playoffs every year
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: for the Knicks, who won and Nick fired after the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: first preseason.
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  Speaker 3: You should see it. If folks don't know what we're
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: talking about, look at.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Our look at the comment.
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  Speaker 2: You can't believe we don't. We don't answer questions there,
• 35:21
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• 35:24
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• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We thank for everyone all the renewals recently, but we
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: clean it up a little bit. But every once in
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: a while, say really you want Nick fired now?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Really? Really?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, it happened, It does it's funny, all right. So
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: this will be an interesting week for the Eagles because
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: if they move things around them. First of all, practices
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: are summer are still open to the media, which is interesting.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: The usually shut it down, but today Monday they're not
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: going to start practicing until twelve twenty. Tuesday night is
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: obviously the open practice at the Link that'll be around
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: six o'clock. Uh. And then Wednesday they're having a three
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: o'clock practice. I'm not quite sure why they all of
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a sudden switched and decided to do all these funky
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: times And then of course thursdays to walk through before
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Friday with games, but no more of those. I like
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the morning practices, but now the afternoons. But that's good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I'll be Monday, Wednesday, You're gonna be at the one
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so the Nicole will be at all of them.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a big week here on Inside
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the Birds. Is this roster cut down approaches and we'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: have a lot more intel going forward. That's gonna do
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