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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. We recorded this Opposition Territory podcast on Tuesday,
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January ninth, twenty twenty four. By the time you hear this,
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some things may have changed, but we hope you enjoy the show. All
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right, everybody, you're listening to Opposition Territory here at the Philadelphia Sports Table
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podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world,
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that's right over ten and a half years strong. We've got a great discussion
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coming your way. This could very well be the Philadelphia Eagles last game of
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the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season as we head into the wild Card
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playoff week Monday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers down at James Stadium. And
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you know, there isn't too much hope that this Eagles defense is really gonna
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turn things around, and we're certainly gonna be talking about the state of the
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers a little bit more to some matchups with our guest. I
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guess we should just get right into it. Let's do it. And it's
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great to have back on the podcast coming to us from a to Z Sports
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love talking to him. When it comes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, NFL
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football in general, we've got the one and only Evan Winner. How you
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doing, Buddy, I'm doing great, Jeff Man. It's, you know,
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like we were talking out about before it came on the show. It's
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a yearly tradition at this point, Books and Eagles, so no place to
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be right now talking some football with you. Man. I appreciate it,
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my man, always appreciate you giving the PSC podcast show the time. And
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Evan underscore A to z Again at Evan underscore A to Z. And let's
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get into this matchup that we're gonna be seeing wild card matchup Monday Night Football.
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I go back to the beginning of the season, Evan and not too
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many folks thought that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would get into the playoffs this year
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and actually end up winning their division. I remember talking to my co host
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about this and we're like, oh, yeah, this team's gonna be playing
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for the number one seed. No way, no way. Look where we
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are now. Look what has happened with this Tampa Bay Buccaneers team and up
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and down season, of course, but the division winners facing the Philadelphia Eagles.
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And I'm wondering, based on where the expectations were during the beginning of
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the season, what kind of atmosphere as we've gone through the season here,
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Like, what kind of atmosphere do you think we're gonna be seeing at Raymond
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James Stadium on Monday Night in terms of expectations of where this team possibly could
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go with regard to the playoffs? What do you think how Bucks nation is
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going to be feeling here? Yeah, it's honestly, it's kind of tough
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because Todd Bowles is a very polarizing figure down in Tampa Bay. And even
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whenever the Bucks were playing their best football over the year, you know,
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a few weeks ago against Green Bay, when Baker finished with the perfect passer
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rating and all that other stuff, there was still a lot there's still it
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wasn't enough to convince the doubters or even so much more of the haters that
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you know, Bowls should be keeping his job. And lo and behold,
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they lose to the Saints the next week, and they got, you know,
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a rough game against Carolina this past week so and then there's always been
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the thing about Tampa Bay fans just being wishy washy in general. I mean,
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even whenever Tom Brady was around, you still had a lot of season
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ticket holders selling their tickets. Now, granted, I'm not just to take
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a quick sidetrack here, I'm not always too opposed to that idea, because
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you can make some good money off that stuff. You could pay for your
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season tickets in one weekend, you know, and then go to all their
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games. You do you at the end of the day, and when Tom
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Brady's in town, obviously your tickets are going to be worth a lot.
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So there's that context to be you know, to consider as well, but
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just overall Tampa Bay fans in general, because I've always been kind of wishy
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washy when it comes to going to these games. And then there's also this
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idea so like you could harken back to as recently as last year when the
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Bucks went eight to nine, won the NFC South and then got clobbered by
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Dallas in the playoffs. Finished with the nineteenth pick. They needed a lot
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more talent than what was available at the nineteenth pick, even though they got
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stud in Colidge Ja, KANSASI so there is that feeling of, well,
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do you want to beat the Eagles and then probably get beat in the divisional
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round by you know, the Cowboys or whomever, or the forty nine ers,
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you know, whoever they would play, and then finish with the twenty
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twenty first pick going in the next year with a lot of big questions.
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You know, there's always that. Yeah, so I do think there is
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going There is going to be a crowd presence, but in terms of,
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like, you know, full throat making life hell for Jalen Hurts, you
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know, Eagles getting false starts because they can't hear the snap counts. I
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don't expect that to happen. It'll be a good crowd, but it's not
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going to be anything too boisterous. Yeah, Eagles Nation usually travels very well.
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I mean, it's been a storyline throughout the NFL that Feagles fans travel
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very well. I don't know if that's going to be happening this week,
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given where this team is at. So the atmosphere will be very interesting.
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Let's get into the quarterback situation. The quarterback matchup Evan Baker Mayfield against Jalen
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Hurts. Here Jalen Hurts and the Eagles offense in general certainly haven't looked like
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Jalen Hurts and the Eagles offense now for some time. They just can't.
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It's amazing to me how they just can't understand the blitz where it's coming from,
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and the fact that opponents are blitzing them like over sixty percent of the
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time during games. It's really pretty incredible. It's astonishing to watch week after
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week. Then again, we've seen some inconsistencies from Baker Mayfield as well down
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the stretch. Here. You did mention his perfect game, but he's really
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been up and down throughout this season as well, but has provided consistency to
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the quarterback position. I think overall for Tampa Bay. How would you assess
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where both quarterbacks are heading into this wild card week? Hurt great word,
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man, great word? I mean, oh my god. And then like
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I even heard on Good Morning Football this morning that I didn't see this or
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hear this right after the game, so this was new to me. But
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apparently Hurts was using the finger to like anchor his bag watching out like it's
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crazy. But anyways, yeah, you know, Baker had the ribs issue
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going into the Panthers game. I am a very very firm believer that that
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really affected his performance in that game. He was off. I mean,
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he was making some bad throws. He made a few bad decisions as well,
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but a lot of his throws were off, and it really, it
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really held the Bucks back and is a big reason why they only scored nine
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points. And but you know, in terms of where he's at just in
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general in terms of his play, and he also heard his ankle last week
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as well, so that's something to watch for this week too. But you
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know, he had, like I said, I had that great three run
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three game stretch leading up to these last two games. Eight touchdowns, no
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interceptions, the perfect pastor rating against Green Bay. Bucks offense looked like it
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had finally found its footing, finally started humming. And then since then,
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two interceptions, two touchdowns in the last two against you know, a decent
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Saints defense, a really bad Panthers defense. So it's it's all about the
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pass rush with him. And we'll get into this a little bit more later.
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I only take away too much from later, but when he he just
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liked the Eagles. Whenever he gets blitzed, whenever he gets pressured. He's
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got really good stats when he's pressured, but a lot of it's because he
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can escape the pressure and he finds open guys. But when when he gets
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blitzed and there's no way for him to adjust the pocket or you know,
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buy some more time, he just panics. He freaks out, He reads,
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and he gets too aggressive. He tries to be a home run or
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a you know, hero so and so forth, and that's what drags his
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game down more than anything. So you know, he's got to be level
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headed. You know, obviously, first playoff game since he won for Cleveland
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a few years ago, you know, a big, big statement game from
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him, especially where he's at at this point in his career. He's earned
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a mega deal, not a mega deal, but he's earned you know,
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a good quarterback contract next year, multi year deal probably gonna be worth thirty
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thirty five to forty million per year. He's earned all that, and with
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a big performance against the Eagles, it's only going to go up. So
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you know he's got to he's got to stay calm, collected and you know,
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just go through the motions, do his thing on Saturday night and with
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Jalen Hurts, Yeah, Honestly, man, I haven't watched enough Eagles to
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fully assess where he's at, but just from the peripheral and the research that
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I have done, yeah, he's I think he's in his own head man
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at this point. You know, he's not used to lose it like this
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at all in his career, obviously being in Philly, big time media,
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high bed, just hearing it from all different angles and obviously across the country
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too, just because of what the Eagles have done the last two weeks.
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So you know, he's got to find a way to just get back to
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being Jalen Hurts man, just being that bully, you know. Stop.
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I mean, he doesn't get too emotional in games, but you can see
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where things are bothering him. Yeah, just throw off out the window.
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If the big mistake happens right off the bats Monday night, then just keep
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moving on. Don't even worry about it. Just keep moving like He's got
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to find a way to keep pushing through. But yeah, in terms of
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just an overall standpoint, I would say they're both in an interesting spot.
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Absolutely absolutely. Look, Jalen Hurts, like you said, he's in his
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own head and I think it translates to every single aspect of what is happening
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on the field with its Eagles offense. Evan, we can look to this
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past week. I'm watching the game and I see the tush push, the
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brotherly shove as we all know that that particular play and how weak it actually
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was. It was weak looking where he was barely able to get past the
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line of scrimmage as he usually usually got another yard or two past the line
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of scrimmage on the toush push, and it was barely there, and the
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team barely was able to execute that particular play that is virtually unstoppable against the
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New York Giants. And I'm thinking to myself, wow, you know,
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the execution on the field, even with that play that's almost money in the
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bank, that looks like it is taking its toll as well. So it's
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gonna be really interesting to see, you know, you know where Mentally,
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I think after the first quarter, we're gonna get a good sense of where
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both of these teams are gonna be a both these quarterbacks, I should say,
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are going to be. And I kind of wanted to keep with the
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Bucks offense, you know, talking about Baker Mayfield, but I wanted to
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talk about the rushing attacks, specifically with the Buccaneers because they have the least
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amount of rushing yards of any team during the regular season. I think it's
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one thy five hundred and nine yards three point four yards per carry. Yet
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this is an Eagles team that has given up in this Eagles defense. They've
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given up one hundred and nine rushing yards against the Giants. Just this past
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week, they gave up two hundred and twenty one yards rushing to the Arizona
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Cardinals, and then the week prior to that, when they played the Giants
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for the first time in the season, they gave up one hundred and six
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yards on the ground. This Eagles defense is very vulnerable. As you and
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I were talking about four and as the listeners of this show now, I've
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called this defense, this Eagles defense what tissue paper here? You know,
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we've just seen a number of times during the latter part of this season how
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vulnerable this run defense is. So I'm wondering, do you think the Bucks,
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even though the run game isn't strong with them, do you think they
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may try to lean on it a little bit more Given the challenges that the
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Eagles have had as of late on defense stopping the run. Yeah, what
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are your thoughts here, Yeah, they'll definitely try to lean on the run
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more. And the Bucks are they're a running team, you know, they
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run the ball a lot and even at to a fault at times. And
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we'll talk about that here in a little bit. But yeah, Dave Canols
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is totally fine with forty carries a game, but now he's not going to
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force the issue. So Tampa Bay, Yeah, they could go into this
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game with the plan to, hey, we're going to run the hell out
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of the ball. But you know, if it's six to nothing game in
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the at the beginning of the third quarter, whatever side's in the lead,
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and the Bucks are averaging two yards a clip, He's going to start backing
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away. He's going to start using it in more efficient manners, you know,
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maybe like on a first instead of running it on first and ten,
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call a play action pass. Yeah, because that's that's your true neutral down
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where the defense never knows really what you're going to do. It could literally
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be either one and then he would use the play action pass to open up
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the run game, which I know to some football minds out there just sounds
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completely crazy. But but yeah, so they're definitely going to run on it
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more man, and this the ground game has looked good at times. I
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mean, there was a three game stretch where they think I think they had
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over one hundred and twenty yards per game, or in each game they had
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at least four yards per carry. There was a game or they had like
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six point six yards of carry, But overall it has been a disappointing product.
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A lot of that is because of the offensive line. They had a
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lot of shake up, you know, moving Tristan Wurthse to left tackles and
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Luke getting to the right tackle, which has worked out. Both moves have
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worked out, but there was still just that cohesive that, you know,
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that gelling they had to get used to. And the offensive line is definitely
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in a better spot than it was back in Week three, that's for sure,
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but they're still issues. But yeah, they're going to try to definitely
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lean on the run, man, and it'll be interesting to see if they
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can get it going because if they do, and I think Baker's injuries are
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another reason why they're going to lean on it, But yeah, if they
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do, then if the Bucks can run in this game, they are going
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to beat the Eagles. I can guarantee that. Yeah, we maybe get
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into that a little bit more. As in our discussion here and again,
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folks were talking to Evan Winter from A to Z Sports. Check out everything
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they're doing over there. Get on Google just search A to Z sports and
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you're gonna find some great, great content. And move over to the Bucks
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defense here. I wanted to get into what we are going to be seeing
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from them this time around in this particular game. Look, the Eagles rush
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for two hundred and one yards in Week three this season against this Bucks defensive
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front. That's when the Philadelphia Eagles, you know, actually had an offensive
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game plan that worked. So do you see the Eagles having challenges doing this
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perhaps once again at this particular point in the season, when both of these
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teams have we said, I'd like to say the Bucks have grown in a
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lot of various ways, while the Eagles, of course, have regressed in
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a lot of ways. So should we be expecting something different from the Bucks
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defense this time around? Uh? Maybe not giving up two hundred and one
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yards on the ground. What are your thoughts? Yeah? And for one
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reason mainly, and it's calij Ja Canci. He was not healthy. He
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had the calf injury back in Week three. Didn't play. Yep, even
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Carlton Davis missed that game. But he's not as near as an impact play.
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He's a good corner, but he's not as near as much as an
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impact player as Clijeja Cansi's been, And that's gonna make a difference. Man.
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I don't know if you watched the Panthers game, but there was,
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Yes, I did, Okay, so I don't know. It's a tough
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game. Oh my god. I was just sitting there watching this whole time.
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I'm like, they are really about to f around and find out and
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lose this game. But yeah, so there was this one play. I
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don't know if you caught it, and not a lot of people did,
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you know, It's just something I caught. But I can't remember who the
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Panthers player was. I want to say, as Djhark it was a skill
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player, I remember that much. But he was trying to get out of
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the backfield. You know, the the Bucks had flushed him outside. Klaijah
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Kansi was out running this dude, a skilled player, Klijah Canty, a
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defensive lineman. How fast like he that's how quickly he was closing the a
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like he was out running this guy as this guy was going up that the
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guy wasn't going sideways, he was going up the field. And I'm just
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like, holy crap, this dude is so fast, so quick. He's
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got the motor, he's got good power for his size and his stature.
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But yeah, he's a disruptor man, and he is going to give the
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Eagles problems on Monday Night. And if he doesn't, it's because they're double
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teaming him, which should open up for ya YadA Yabi, a guy who
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wasn't really a factor back in Week three and has really come on since then.
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So those two players right there, they have really progressed since week three,
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And in terms of giving the Eagles fits, the best way to do
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it is have a pass rush, get that front seven, corral herds,
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keep them in the cylinder, all that other stuff while getting the interior push,
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which they can do with Vitevea. So I would definitely expect a lot
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more out of the Bucks defense this time around. Now the ground game,
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or the ground or the running defense is a little suspect. They've allowed one
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hundred yards and back to back games to the Saints and Panthers, who are
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definitely not known for their offense. Yeah, and they really had issues with
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the Panthers and their outside runs. So when the Panthers would go outside off
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tackle, which the Eagles like to do, you know, the Bucks had
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a lot of trouble with that last week. So I definitely think the Eagles
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can find some success. But yeah, expect a lot more from the Bucks
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defense this time around. I think with the Bucks front four, like front
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four, front five, whoever they put up there, I think it's going
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to be so much for the Eagles offensive line, who, yes, is
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a good offensive line, but even they have regressed over the course of this
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season quite frankly. And I think we're gonna see a ton of blitzing again
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from I say again, from what we saw in the Giants game this past
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week, Evan against the Eagles, I think the Bucks are gonna need to
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blitz. I think not need to, but they're just gonna want to blitz
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because the Eagles have no answers. Yeah, there are no answers for it
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at the point in the season, and that's where I think we are going
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to see whether it's Jalen hurts or running back. We're going to continue to
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see some turnovers that have plagued this offense for a lot of this season,
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so be interesting to watch for sure. So all right, let's move on
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to our two part questions here, as we always get into on our Opposition
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Territory podcast. So getting into these matchups here, I'm wondering, you know,
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as as you're looking at this Eagles team, you're looking at the Bucks,
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who you know extremely well, where do you think the Bucks are most
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vulnerable on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah, it's actually a good
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question because back in Week three it was easy and I remember I go to
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you straight up forward, it was the interior offensive line. Yeah, sure
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enough. You know they got work the entire game. You know, the
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interior offensive line has since improved obviously, the receivers or the receivers, the
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tight ends, I mean, Kate Adden has really taken some steps, yes,
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Rashad all that stuff. So I guess I'm just gonna have to say
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the running game, I mean, you know, it's just consistent enough.
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You know, the Saints held him the one point nine yards per carry back
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in Week seventeen, I mean, just absolutely atrocious. Yeah, when the
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ground game is off, it is off, and there just hasn't been enough
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consistency to even say it's really improved over the year. You still just don't
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really know, you don't know how to feel about the run game. So
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I would definitely say the rushing attack. But again, if they can get
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that going, it's going to open up so much for the offense. So
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you know, we'll see, all right, And where do you think on
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the opposite side of the equation, where do you think the Bucks are most
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vulnerable on the defensive side of the ball. Yeah, so missus, I
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got let me clarify a little bit of this going into it. So,
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yeah, we're talking about the blitzing, right, Yeah, Bucks are and
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to blitz the hell out of the Eagles. And that's because it's Todd Bowles.
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That's just what he does, right. But at the same time,
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he does like to send just four. Now, whether it's your you know
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standard, you know, you've got your three four base defense out there,
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and you you know, you rush two of your defensive linemen and two of
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the outside linebackers. You know what. However, or maybe it's a zone
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pressure where bring a guy up to line of scrimmage, but he drops back
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and you send four. However, the four man pass rush is constituted in
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whatever context, that's their weakness because and there's a like I said, Todd
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Bowles likes the blitz, but he also has to blitz in order to get
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pressure most of the time because for whatever and this is why they drafted Elijah
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CANSI typically Todd Bowles is three to four fronts. He likes the it's a
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it's a one gap defense, but it's is his defensive line kind of have
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two gap responsibilities where they're just more there to eat up blocks right and take
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up space and free up the linebackers to do their thing. And the edge
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rushers, well, they drafted Elijah Canty because they realize that that just doesn't
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work anymore that in terms of and especially if they want to get a four
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man pass rush, especially since they're in a lot of nickel. So now
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you're gonna have Vitavea and Elijah, then you're four and then you're five,
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you know, defensive backs or however you're mixing up the defense. So it's
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always been an issue. For whatever reason, the Bucks just can't get pressure
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with four guys. I just don't know what it is. I just don't
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know what it's been. It's gotten a little bit better, but it's still
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a big vulnerability. And if they can't get four, you know, I
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know the Eagles have problems with the Blitz, but the Bucks are still gonna
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have to find ways to get home with four on Monday, and you can't
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they're gonna have Yeah, that's a similarity with the Philadelphia Eagles. They just
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can't get pressure with four and that was their strength last year. They had
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historical seasons incredible. Yeah, it's an incredible I don't know. They don't
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have a Javon Hargrave in the interior of that defensive line. Could be an
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issue, could have been the issue all season. I thought, Yes,
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that's exactly all right. To close us out here, another two part question
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for you about what both teams are going to need to hit on for a
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win this week. So let's start with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What's one
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thing they're going to need to hit on this week in this wild card playoff
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game for a win against the Eagles. So this is what this is what
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I teased earlier, and it's situational football. If there is one issue,
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one big issue with this coaching staff. They just make some of the wildest
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calls that just low your mind in the weirdest moments, and a lot of
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times it's in clutch moments. And just a perfect example, going back to
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Carolina last week, right before halftime, the Bucks are driving right, they're
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trying to get, you know, just some more points on the board right
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before the half. It's first and ten from the Carolina thirty three, nineteen
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seconds left on the clock. The Bucks only have one time out left.
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They call a run play. What are you doing? You're gonna have to
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call a time out after that play unless you're dude bounced out to the outside.
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And then and then after that, you're putting yourself in just a not
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great position with still two more downs, and you're gonna have to throw it
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because there's by that time, by the time he gets tackled, there's probably
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gonna be what fifteen seconds left on the clock, maybe thirteen seconds left on
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the clock when you call your time out, So you've got two obvious passes,
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so you're not that sets the defense up. They could pick it off.
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Whatever. It was such a bad call, and guess what happened on
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the run. I guess they were trying to be cute, but Chase Edmonds
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gets taken down for a six yard loss, the ball gets pushed back to
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thirty nine. Now it's second and sixteen. Now you really got to pass.
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And they still had to call the time out anyway on the lost cartage.
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So now the defense, you're in a second and sixteen, you're at
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the thirty nine, you're like on the fringes of field goal range. They
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got so lucky that Chase McLoughlin made the fifty seven yard field goal that he
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had to make before halftime in order them up six to zero, and it
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ended up being the difference in the game because the Bucks won by nine points.
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If he misses that field goal, Panthers are still in this game throughout
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the entire way. So stuff like that cannot happen on Monday night. I
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know Nick Sirianni is getting blasted right now, and he is not doing a
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good coaching job obviously. Matt Patricia is not doing good job. Brian Johnson's
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not doing a good job. But holy hell, man, if the Bucks
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do stuff like that on Monday Night, they're not winning this game. And
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they can't do it. I remember your tweets. I remember reading your tweets.
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You were baffled and then very upset. I remember your tweets. I
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mean, hey man, we know football like you know, but we're not
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coaches. But if we just instantly see something like that and are able to
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be like no, no, then yeah, obviously it's just a horrible gaff
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on the coaches. I just could not believe it. Couldn't believe it.
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Yep. All right, Well, to finish us off here, what is
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the one thing the Eagles are going to need to hit on for a win
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this week against the Buccaneers. What do you think the Eagles are going to
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need to hit on. I think a lot of things, But what are
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you thinking? The pass rush? Man? They gotta get the pass rush
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going, because if you can, if you can get Baker like we talked
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about earlier, if you can get him scrambled in the brain not scrambling around,
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and if you can get him rushed and all that stuff, then you
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know he's gonna make mistakes. And plus with his injuries, you know,
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like I said, last week, ribs were clearly an issue. Now he's
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got that ankle which he was limping throughout the entire game as you saw.
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Ye, if they can get after him, it'll get them behind schedule.
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The Bucks are not an offense that can overcome getting behind schedule on a consistent
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basis. So yeah, Eagles get if they get the pass rush going.
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And I'm not talking about one and a half sacks and a few pressures.
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I mean they're gonna have to get them down about three or four times and
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possibly more. They're going to be in his face all night long. But
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if they can do that, they'll they'll they'll win this game easily. He's
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Evan Winner. Folks A to z sports dot com. Check out everything that's
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going on over there at Evan Underscore A to z on Twitter. My friend,
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it was great talking to you, always great conversations about about the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers, Eagles, NFL football in general. Let's do some more talking,
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you know, during the off season for sure, and I'd love to
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have you back on the show, my friend anytime. Man. Always great
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information coming from Evan with regard to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and again they
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do some really great workover at A to z sports dot com. Check them
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out and give him a follow as well. Folks, Philadelphia Eagles. Seriously,
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I may put mustard on my shoe and eat it if they actually win.
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I just don't think this defense can be fixed. And Baker Mayfield has
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shown that he can be a really, really good quarterback and he can chew
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up vulnerabilities within defenses in this league. We've seen it a number of times
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this season, and this Eagles defense is the worst defense, the worst defense
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heading into the NFL playoffs, NFC and the AFC. I'm sorry, that's
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the way it is. That's the way it is. That's how they have
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been performing over the course of these past couple weeks. They're the worst defense
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in the league. And I think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to continue
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to expose those weaknesses and those vulnerabilities. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I am predicting,
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are going to win this game, and the Philadelphia Eagles' and US fans
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we're gonna be looking at the offseason sooner rather than later. So that being
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said, again, many thanks to Evan for jumping on opposition territory here follow
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me on threads at. Mister Jeff Warren, you can follow the show on
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threads at Philadelphia Sports Table. If you are still on Twitter x at Philadelphia
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PS, you can follow me at Jeffrey Underscore Warren as well. I would
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love to say enjoy the game, enjoy the playoffs, but I have a
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feeling we all know what's coming. So that being said, folks, take
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care. We'll catch you next time.