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Football at Four: Additional Thoughts on Eagles OC Job and More · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I have come to terms with who I think the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles next offensive coordinator will be. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: and more. Jeff Bosher from the Inside of the Birds
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  Speaker 1: podcast is here on the Sports Past Live on ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven three ESPN most Welcome back Man, Happy Wednesday to
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  Speaker 1: you Birds Day twenty. I don't know thirty forty fifty
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  Speaker 1: without a offensive coordinator here, but I now think I
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  Speaker 1: know who it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a leader? A guess? Are you coming
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  Speaker 2: to are you picking up tea leaves? Do you have
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  Speaker 2: any guess?
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  Speaker 3: At this point, I'd much rather just hear who you
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  Speaker 3: think is going to be the OC.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna be Sean Manyon. He will be the
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  Speaker 1: next offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: He's just because he's coming in for a second interview.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and he's coming in for a second interview.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles pride themselves on finding the guy that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: on anybody's radar, Andy Reid, Doug Peterson, Nick Sirianni, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy that they will say is the
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  Speaker 1: next thing. He's you know, there's people saying he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: They love him.
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  Speaker 1: He was gonna he's gonna be the next head coach
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  Speaker 1: in Green Bat YadA, YadA, YadA. I believe the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: are trying to find a way to spin this, to
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  Speaker 1: say we're gonna hire a guy who hasn't been a
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  Speaker 1: play caller before, YadA YadA.
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  Speaker 2: We this is our.
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  Speaker 1: Guy because there isn't another candidate out there that if
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  Speaker 1: they announced today, that anybody's gonna be excited about. So
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna say, we can't excite anybody, we'll just take
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  Speaker 1: the guy that we Not that they're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: that anyway, but we'll just take the In that case,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta spin any guy that we're gonna hire. Any
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  Speaker 1: if you hired Matt Naggy, a guy who has a
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  Speaker 1: winning record as a head coach, people aren't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: all that excited. So they're gonna have to spin any
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. So they might as well just pick
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  Speaker 1: the guy they like the best.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think in general, you should pick the guy
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  Speaker 3: that you like the bet after you cast a wise
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  Speaker 3: I say.
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  Speaker 1: That as if they're going to like do it based
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  Speaker 1: on what we and the fans think. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: I'm implying. My point is more like they have nothing
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  Speaker 1: like if this is the guy, and I think this
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  Speaker 1: will be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I get what you're saying, and they certainly have
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  Speaker 3: a track record of not only kicking tires on all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of candidates for coaching jobs, but of getting a.
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  Speaker 4: Guy that nobody's I mean nobody heard of Nick Sirianni, right,
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  Speaker 4: So they.
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  Speaker 2: Have not a lot of people heard of Doug Peterson either.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason that Doug was known in this market
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  Speaker 1: is because he played here and was with Andy. But
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  Speaker 1: I think if you were, like, if you went to
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee or Cincinnati or anywhere and said, hey, Doug Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't on anybody's radar.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So yes, they do have that track record and
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  Speaker 3: they have had success with finding the guy that not
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  Speaker 3: everybody wanted. And you know, if I had a formula
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  Speaker 3: that worked out really well for me in the past,
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  Speaker 3: I'd probably stick with it as well.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, then you'll have some contradictory formulas, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that would mean, for the third time in
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  Speaker 3: five offensive play callers, you're hiring with no experience doing so,
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  Speaker 3: and even less amount of NFL coaching experience doing so,
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  Speaker 3: and bringing him into your cocoon here and expecting.
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  Speaker 4: Him to succeed because you really like what he says.
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  Speaker 3: Philosophically, it's one thing to, you know, explain what you
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  Speaker 3: like to do, what you are, what your philosophies are,
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  Speaker 3: and it's another thing than to take the personnel given
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  Speaker 3: to you and to be.
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  Speaker 4: Able to do it. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this guy's only just this guy is very
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  Speaker 3: shortly removed from actually playing two years.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember him being a lousy quarterback in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what I want when I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: my next guy.
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  Speaker 2: I want a guy who's stunk on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding a little bit, but yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these are the guys who make it.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterbacks are always the great coaches, right, the Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 3: of the world, And you can go through and find
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And he is a guy that you know has
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  Speaker 1: been you know in here. Not even a play caller,
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  Speaker 1: he's not even an offensive coordinator. But he's one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys that you're just kind of like Josh McCown
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, like, ah, this guy right here,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably the guy that might end up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being something here. And as you said and I and
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  Speaker 1: I echo, is the Eagles, when they have hired from outside,
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  Speaker 1: not a pointing from within, they have won. They got
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid, he was a nobody, he was a quarterback coach,
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  Speaker 1: nobody ever heard of the guy. They got Doug Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: they got Nick Sirianni. So whenever they interview, whatever you said,
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  Speaker 1: whatever their you know, method is their due diligence. You
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  Speaker 1: really can't question them on it. It's when they have
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  Speaker 1: promoted from within that they have got themselves into into trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't really know that. There's a big
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  Speaker 4: difference on that. You know some of that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say the big difference and see if
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  Speaker 1: you agree or disagree motion is you have guys and
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  Speaker 1: you had success, and you don't want to rock the boat.
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  Speaker 1: It's hey, we went to the super Bowl with Shane.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just kind of streamline it to Brian. Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: won the super Bowl with Kellen. That's kind of streamline
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  Speaker 1: that to a voice that was here. So we don't
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  Speaker 1: want a new guy coming in and saying let's do
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  Speaker 1: this and do that and do this and do that. No,
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  Speaker 1: we want to do what we've been doing, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's backfired on them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe, but you can't you know that's that's
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  Speaker 3: not a bad line of thinking either. The whole point
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  Speaker 3: of bringing people into your program and promoting them and
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  Speaker 3: into your culture. And you hear Howie Roseman talk about
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  Speaker 3: this with his GM or his execs who become gms,
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  Speaker 3: that they consider that a merit badge.
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  Speaker 4: They came in here, they.
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  Speaker 3: Learned, they did their thing, they helped out the franchise
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  Speaker 3: in their role, and then moved on to do well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean not theoretically you want that. So there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: really wrong with that line of thinking. It's just that
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  Speaker 3: when it doesn't work out, it looks like your line
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  Speaker 3: of thinking was incorrect. But it doesn't mean that just
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  Speaker 3: because you're bring in somebody from the outside that that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it were for Kella Moore. Sure, that's one. You know, Well,
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  Speaker 4: I guess we'll have to go see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we can't really count Shane Steichen because that
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  Speaker 3: was a whole new staff in general coming You call
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  Speaker 3: that outside end inside. So, I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that there's one one way to look at it here, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: you just want to get the best guy, and obviously
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  Speaker 3: if you go with a guy like Sean Mannon, you know,
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  Speaker 3: then you probably have the ability to I mean, a
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  Speaker 3: guy like Sean Manion wants the opportunity. So some guys
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  Speaker 3: may be concerned about this, that and the other, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, the offense of the run games still
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  Speaker 3: in place from the offensive line coach, or whether or
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  Speaker 3: not a J.
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  Speaker 4: Brown's going to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Or getting along with Gillen hurts, you know, like that
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  Speaker 3: might be a turn off for guys who are higher profile,
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  Speaker 3: but not for someone who's starting to have the job.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you wrote about this at Philly Voice. Are they
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  Speaker 1: a victim of their own success here? It's interesting because
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  Speaker 1: they've won eleven games, they won the division back to back,
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  Speaker 1: and this.
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  Speaker 2: Year is viewed as kind of a fail.
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  Speaker 1: So the success of if you are not a super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl contender, you're almost viewed in this market now as
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  Speaker 1: you failed. Are you suggesting that these coaches don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've seen a lot of people or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I try not to pay attention to what social media says,
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  Speaker 3: but it's been out there that you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles fault, you know that they're not a good destination,
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  Speaker 3: No enough for that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, yes they've been good.
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  Speaker 3: But also you know, look they fire guys after eleven
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  Speaker 3: win seasons and one guy gets his house egged.
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  Speaker 4: And you know that, you know all different reasons.
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  Speaker 3: And Nick Sirianni, he's not someone people who want to
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  Speaker 3: go work with because you might have to run his offense.
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  Speaker 3: And I say, any anybody can say any of those things,
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  Speaker 3: and they're true.
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  Speaker 4: But would you trade that?
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  Speaker 3: Would you trade five straight trips in the playoffs, two
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  Speaker 3: super Bowl trips and a Super Bowl ring for making
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  Speaker 3: your offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 4: Job look more appealing? No?
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  Speaker 3: And the like only Aj Brown would do that apparently, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so most rational people wouldn't. So that's where the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: become a victim of their own success, is that they
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  Speaker 3: have done it this way and succeeded. But that's not
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  Speaker 3: the way that maybe the most attractive way that someone
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  Speaker 3: like Mike McDaniel O'Brian dable would want to conduct their
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  Speaker 3: way of doing things. And so why so the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: have to confront like they do.
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  Speaker 4: They change radically how they do things?
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  Speaker 3: Do they open up their offensive coordinator position as someone
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  Speaker 3: who's willing to come in and tear it down and
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  Speaker 3: gut it out and make changes and all that when
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  Speaker 3: they don't exactly know what that would lead to, or
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  Speaker 3: do they just trying to get the best version of
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  Speaker 3: what they've already had.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know what the right answer is, Mike,
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they have to?
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  Speaker 1: Like last year, one of the issues was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Patullo struggles and people are calling for him to be
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  Speaker 1: fired in season they didn't have anybody to go to,
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  Speaker 1: Like there was nobody on the staff that really had
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  Speaker 1: any sort of seniority or.
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  Speaker 2: A pass of handling that position.
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  Speaker 1: But like when they're interviewing this guy, is this a
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  Speaker 1: guy that they're looking at as hey, you're a one
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  Speaker 1: and done or you might be the guy that replaces
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  Speaker 1: Nick if things don't go well.
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  Speaker 2: A guy the way is like head coaching rabtas No.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt that if things don't go well, then the
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  Speaker 3: whole house gets cleaned. You know that that's the organizational
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  Speaker 3: history of it. You know that wouldn't happen now. I
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  Speaker 3: would tell you that. I think that if they hire
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  Speaker 3: a Sewan Mannion or at Declan Doyle, I know he's
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  Speaker 3: taking the thing mat.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just giving you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys right, it would be really smart for them to
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  Speaker 3: bring in a senior offensive advisor as well, But that's
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  Speaker 3: rule of thumb for me. This organization has not not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily succeeded in that regard because two years ago they
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  Speaker 3: did that with Sean Desig and they bring in Matt
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  Speaker 3: Patricia and that was an absolute mess.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes this organization is a tough.
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  Speaker 3: Tough time getting out of its own way because it
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  Speaker 3: it wants too many things it wants. You know, this
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  Speaker 3: goes back to Doug Peterson and let's have four different
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  Speaker 3: offensive minds in that last year when it blew up, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Eagles are a great organization, trust me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to downplay it, but there are some
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  Speaker 3: reasons why they hit these peaks and valleys and maybe
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  Speaker 3: like teams like you know, I think I brought up
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  Speaker 3: in the article, like the Patriots under Brady and the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs under Andy up until this year really haven't had
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  Speaker 3: those valleys. Because sometimes the Eagles have a tough time
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  Speaker 3: getting out of their own way.
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  Speaker 1: If I was to ask Jeff Mosher, what are the
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  Speaker 1: things that might what are the things that might be
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  Speaker 1: a distraction to this position, this job here because I
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  Speaker 1: was laughing this morn I said, I can arbitrarily throw
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  Speaker 1: out the number six and come up with six reasons
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  Speaker 1: why someone wouldn't want this job. Do you have reasons
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  Speaker 1: in your mind some of the key reasons why someone
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't look at this job as the Philadelphia Eagles, super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl and the Super Bowl, great offensive weapons, they put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money, they always draft, I mean they
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  Speaker 1: draft well, they're always gonna put the product on the field.
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  Speaker 2: What would some of.
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  Speaker 1: The reasons in your mind be that people are questioning
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  Speaker 1: this position as we almost hit February.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's We've kind of talked about a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of them, and this is just my opinion. I've
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  Speaker 3: run this up through people around the league to see
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  Speaker 3: if they agree or what insight they can provide.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, the Eagles have done it. We just talked about this.
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  Speaker 3: They've done it a certain way for five years. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so you're looking at do I have to do it
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  Speaker 3: their way?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean all the pop the coaches who are
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  Speaker 3: still here have to be here?
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  Speaker 4: Do you have to run the ball the way they've
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  Speaker 4: run the ball? Do I have to pass the ball?
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  Speaker 3: If not, if I'm allowed that full autonomy, well what
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  Speaker 3: does that mean? Because I don't. And then this leads
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  Speaker 3: to number two. Is the offensive line going to be healthy?
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  Speaker 3: Is Aj Brown gonna come back? You know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of question marks. If we win eleven games, but
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  Speaker 3: that's not good enough of losing the first round? Are
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  Speaker 3: you firing Nick Sirianni, because that means I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a job either. But if I go to Tennessee, I
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  Speaker 3: know that if I win like eight games, right then
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty well. I'm going to be a hero.
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  Speaker 3: If I win anywhere between six and eight games, it's
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  Speaker 3: an improvement. So those are three factors right there that
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  Speaker 3: would make you look at the job and give you
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  Speaker 3: a little pause.
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  Speaker 4: And that doesn't mean the job's bad. It just means
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  Speaker 4: there's question marks.
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  Speaker 3: People who just got fired, especially Mike McDaniel, Brian Diable,
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  Speaker 3: they don't The last thing these guys ever want to
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  Speaker 3: do is go take a job where there's a I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to call it a strong likelihood, but there's
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  Speaker 3: a question about will they get fired again the next year?
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  Speaker 3: And obviously, if the egos don't do well next year,
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  Speaker 3: Nick Siriani is going to definitely be on the hot
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  Speaker 3: seat and potentially be fired. We know the history of
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  Speaker 3: this organization here, so I'm sure that.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, these candidates all do research too.
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  Speaker 3: They ask around for people who've worked there, people who
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  Speaker 3: don't work there, or people who know the organization, and
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  Speaker 3: they get those kinds of information as well. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: those three right there, three or four that I just
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  Speaker 3: mentioned are are factors. We really don't know what this
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  Speaker 3: offense is gonna look like next year.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, No, no, we don't, and you know we could certainly.
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  Speaker 1: I said, if it's good and bad, right, you know
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  Speaker 1: where the Super Bowls going up this week, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at what's going on. The Eagle still don't have
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  Speaker 1: a coordinator, So that's something that you're discussing because if not,
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  Speaker 1: you're really breaking down this roster at nauseum and saying, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where do you start to look? Because pick
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  Speaker 1: twenty three to me can go in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different ways. And I know we're way off that draft,
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  Speaker 1: but you need a tight end. You don't have one
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  Speaker 1: on the roster other than LAT two, So you need
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  Speaker 1: a tight end. Is that a pick at twenty three?
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  Speaker 1: You need to rebuild the offensive line? Is that something
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  Speaker 1: you consider at that spot? You probably if you don't
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  Speaker 1: bring Jalen Phillips back, you need an edge rusher again,
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  Speaker 1: a corner opposite of Quinnon. You need probably to look
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  Speaker 1: at that spot. You probably don't draft a safety, but
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  Speaker 1: if Red blankets it leads, you probably got to consider
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  Speaker 1: that somewhere in this draft class. So you're pretty unsettled
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  Speaker 1: there because if Mcoopa comes back and he's your senior
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  Speaker 1: guy at that position, this roster definitely has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions in it for a team that won the
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  Speaker 1: division for the second year in a row and is
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl a year away from a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's be fair, like, Howie has a great
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  Speaker 3: track record of making things work and making it good.
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  Speaker 3: So there's always that I'm not saying they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be terrible, but I think if you're an offensive coordinator specifically,
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  Speaker 3: and you know the team has been built around its
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  Speaker 3: offensive line and you just saw that, you know, two
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  Speaker 3: guys were really banged up on three and one of
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  Speaker 3: them you don't know is he' retiring? Is he coming
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  Speaker 3: back to play? How's his foot. He couldn't he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get back on the field. Like you know, you have
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  Speaker 3: to make these decisions in a short amount of time too,
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  Speaker 3: most of the time because you got other people calling
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  Speaker 3: you with with more offers and things like that. So
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  Speaker 3: oh and you know, like there's also the fish bowl
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  Speaker 3: of Philadelphia. That's not for everybody, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Jeff Boscher from the Inside the Birds podcast Football
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  Speaker 1: at four. And of course the offseason, as we just said,
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  Speaker 1: you got the draft, free agency, they got their own
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  Speaker 1: free agent questions too, with Reid blanket Ship being one,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips being another, Nakobe Dean being probably high on
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  Speaker 1: that list as somebody that you're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: figure out. I would imagine you let him walk because
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  Speaker 1: you have Campbell there. So you have those three key
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  Speaker 1: names because last year you had these key decisions and
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you let most of those guys walk out the door.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: You rebuilt the defense pretty quickly. But can you take
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the hits of losing blanket Ship, losing Phillips, losing Dean.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: There's three more starters.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Now you have one guy in house with Campbell that
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you think that you have, but there's a lot did
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Hallie Roseman's gonna have to do this offseason, which I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: think got to hit you pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, for sure, it certainly didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: My colleague get Philly Voice, Nick Tricom, wrote a really
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: good column today about you know, winning it in twenty
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: seventeen and tough decisions and then trying to replace holes
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: and it just didn't go well, and they progressively got worse.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Obviously the Eagles have been able.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: To withstand that the second time round, you know, after
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: going to the Super Bowl and winning it and keeping
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: the roster. I mean, he's how he was drafted so
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: much better last few years than he did in twenty
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: seventeen and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: But there are questions and you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't afford that much slippage, you know, and it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to be perfect every season or offseason.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Every once in a while, you got to have a
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: fifty three that's not miles and miles ahead of everybody
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: else's and actually win on your own coaching and personnel acumen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a big thing. You just said, they've hit
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: on so many of these guys.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: At what point does that magic pixie does finally, you
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: know where you've hit on Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: and you know Nolan s Yeah, Coop for every single
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: one of these guys. What was the last time they
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: had a first or second round you know, like a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: guy that they drifted high?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: What's that rager? Probably that long ago?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Wow? Yeah?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: And that whole draft was, other than Herts, was abysmal.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It was Davion Taylor in the third round, and Kevan
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Wallace in the fourth round, and Drag Driscoll in the
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: fourth round and John Hidetown in the fifth. I believe
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: in Qles Watkins in the sequall. I'm doing this completely
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: by the way, off my head. I think I'm doing
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: pretty good here. But that was a horrific, horrific draft,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: except for the fact that they got a starting quarterback
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: slash Super Bowl MVP out of it. But ever since
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: then they've been pretty pretty decent. On Day one and two,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Day three not so great.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: All right, Jeff Boucher and the Inside of the Birds podcast,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: which of course we have all off season long rebuilding
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: these Eagles. We'll be at the super Bowl next week.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: You won't be there. Adam is gonna be at radio
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Rowan Adam will be a part of our show throughout
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the Wednesday, Thursday Friday. You'll be hearing him on Football
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: four and a little bit more throughout the show, and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be hopefully talking to some of these Eagles
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: players about this season. We do have Donovan McNabb coming
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: on next week. That is one guy that we will
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: talk about the quarterback position there and hopefully a couple
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: of others, you know, to find out what they think
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about what happened this season and why things didn't go
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: as planned, specifically on the offensive sidewalk. You know what's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: interesting too, motion One of the guests that we're working
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: on is one of the defensive backs from the Rams,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Quinton Leak. And I want to talk to Quinton Lake
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: because in that game against the Eagles, he had his
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: best day of the season.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: It's four.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I think he had four pass defenses in that game.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It was the most add in a game all season long.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm asking wondering about why do you have so
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: many pass breakups in that game? Was there offense that vanilla?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So I want to get some insight from a Rams
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: corner about this Eagles pass offense.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: So he's going to be joining us on the show.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe they blitzed heavily in the first half
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: and then completely stopped in the second half, and that's
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: when the Eagles went in the tank. So probably some
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: good questions there on whether that was intentional, Did they
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: think showing him one thing and then showing him another
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: thing was the plan or that, you know, I would
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: love to know all that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're working on that one as well, So
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: looking forward to next week. Jeff Bocher from the Inside
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of the Birds podcast Philly Voice dot com.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Thanks man, see you guys.