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Inside The Birds Week 2 Pregame Show With Greg Cosell: Philadelphia Eagles Vs. Kansas City Chiefs · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Inside the Birds pregame Show.
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It's Week two and the NFL schedule makers man, they
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had drama on their mind. They had the Eagles open
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up against their rivals on Thursday night against Dallas, and
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now Week two is a Super Bowl rematch, the Eagles
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out in Kansas City to face the Chiefs. The Eagles
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are one to oh, Chiefs zero to one, and have
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never been oh and two in the Andy Reid Patrick
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Mahomes era, So obviously the stage is set. I'm Jeff
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Mosher alongside Adam Kaplan and of course joining us as
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always for all season long on the pregame show to
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break it down is Greg Cosell, and he breaks down
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more tape than anybody who doesn't work in the NFL,
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and probably more than some people who do work in
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the NFL, as Greg watches every single team. You see
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him on ESPN's and NFL matchups show. Welcome, gentlemen, We've
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got a great game to break down. Exciting game, and
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Adam will start with you. Just in general, these are
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not the same teams that met seven months ago. Similar
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some changes on both sides, some injuries on both sides.
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Speaker 2: We'll get Yeah, Look, the Chiefs have rebuilt their left
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side of their offensive line. They needed to and they've
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done that. You mentioned the injuries, which we'll get to
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that's going to impact this game pretty mostly the same
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defensive players and the Eagles. And the Eagles have one
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change obviously, an offensive new coordinator. Bags is back. He's phenomenal.
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We know that Matt Naggi's back and he read oversee
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the offense. But we'll get into some of the personnel matchups,
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and I think there's some really good ones where I
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think the Eagles will have an advantage, but we'll get
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into that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg, One thing we'll also get into is both
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of these teams are trying to do a little bit
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different offensively. The Chiefs have talked about their wanting to
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get the deep ball back into what they do. That
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might be complicated by some injuries we'll talk about. And
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then obviously, the Eagles talked about evolving as an offense.
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And after Week one, you know, obviously it wasn't the
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most poetic offense, but they did what they needed to
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do to win.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure, Well, both those things, I'm not sure.
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Week one, the Chiefs really did not have a vertical
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passing game at all. And we'll get into more detail
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about the Chiefs passing game because I'm sort of confused
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by it, particularly with Andy Reid as the head coach,
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and I think the Eagles, you know, it'll be interesting.
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It was week one. Week one is always tough to
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make a judgment about the entire season, obviously, but what
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we saw from the Eagles week one was kind of
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what they are. And you know, look, we know that
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AJ Brown isn't getting one target every week. But you know,
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we'll get more into the details of that. But I
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think they kind of played the way we kind of
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expect them to play. Now, whether that changes over time,
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I guess we'll see.
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Speaker 1: All right, absolutely, Now again, injuries are going to play
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a role in this game. Let's start with the Eagles, Adam.
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We talked about it all week long. If Dallas Goddard
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can't play, it is a major impact on their offense,
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even though we have acknowledge they've won plenty of games
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when Dallas got it in the past, has missed, but
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he will not play, has been ruled out of the
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game with a shot. It's a knee. It's a knee.
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Speaker 2: Ind Nay he don't even practice this week. Yeah, that's
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that's not a good sign. So, you know, we it's funny.
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Andrew was telling us Andrew de Checko, who writes for
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us and does the dely Tochecko. Andrew was telling us
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that he definitely saw in training camp or cam Lattu
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who's changed his number for the second time or actually
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third whatever, second time at least uh, he showed that
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he can block a little bit. So we'll see. But
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the bottom line is they just don't have it. They
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just don't have a guy that's been developed yet. Cam
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Lotso has never played in an NFL game. This is
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his third year in the NFL, So we'll see what happens.
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But you know, there was a little bit of a
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mind good news Jeff. On Friday, Tanner McKee surprisingly worked.
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Speaker 3: LANDA.
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Speaker 2: Dickerson, as we expected, is clear for the game, but
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that's not the real story. The issue and the challenges.
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Will he last through the game with its bad back?
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I don't like these bad backs with offensive linemen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, trust neither does Jeff Stoutlin or anybody else involved
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with the With the Eagles, it's he's tough as nails.
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He usually does play. But you're right to bring out.
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Will he last the entire game against a very good
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Chiefs interior guy like Chris Jones too, So we'll keep
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an eye on that. Staying with the running game, Adham,
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though will Shipley did not practice. You know, our friend
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and reported earlier in the week it's a broken rib.
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They're saying it's an oblique either way, he didn't practice.
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He's out. Cameron Williams, a backup ot, also out. So
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good news is yes, Dickerson will play. Jillox Hunt, who
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was on the injury report with a hip full participant,
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expected to play, and maybe we'll see what happens with
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Tanner McKee. That is good news that he's back on
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the field. Let's talk about the Chiefs injuries. I've watched
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the play many times. If those who haven't seen it,
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there was a crossing route between our mesh route between
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Travis Kelcey and Xavier Worthy and boided. Worthy looked like
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he was on the opposite side of it. He looked
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like the defender because he took an elbow from Kelsey
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and he wound up suffering a dislocated shoulder. They're calling
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it correct at him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's not expected to play. He did get
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some work on thurs Year Friday, but he's just not
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cleared yet for contact, so he is out. In taekwon
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Thornton was the guy, and we'll get into what Jeff
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Greg saw on tape a Taekwon Thornton. I saw it
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at Patriots camp. One of the many things one of
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the issues with him was weight. He needs to put
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weight on. He just never factor hurt a lot. By
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the way, with the Patriots spent at least two times
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on on injury reserve, So uh they Jeff, they are
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really light at receiver position. They just don't have very
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much death yep. And Gorton can run though, that's why
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he was the second round pick.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And we will get into that with Greg and yourself
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and myself and what their offense might look like without it,
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because it's not just that they don't have Xavier Worthy.
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They also don't have Rashi Rice for this game and
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four more as he serves a six game suspension. Adam
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any other injuries on the chief side that are worth noting.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's pretty much it.
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Speaker 3: They had.
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Speaker 2: They had a bunch of players listed, but they're all
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been cleared to play, so but obviously the big one
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is there is that is that the receiver position? And yeah,
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it's uh, I know, Andy look is the master at
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at at creating space and and and getting guys open.
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But man, Greg, I don't know about you, but I
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just I wonder about this Chiefs pass the game, which
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you've told us could be a little bit compressed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a little confused, to be honest. I mean,
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the foundation of their passing game and really goes back
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the last couple of years, quite frankly, but it was
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evident again in their Week one matchup against the Chargers.
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It's all quick, rhythm, short timing throws. Now Mahomes will
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take a few deep shots, but there was really no
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significant intermediate passing game, either outside or between the numbers.
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And I'm kind of surprised by that. But again, you know,
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I'm not there. I don't know how they coach it,
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but they don't really have that, and they really haven't
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had that to any meaningful degree over the last couple
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of years. You know, keep in mind, and this is
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just a statement of fact. Okay, Well, before I say that,
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one point I want to make is mahomes running ability
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has really become a significant part of their offense, and
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he's really good at it. His feel for spatial awareness
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is as good as we've probably ever seen, and he
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just has a great sense of when to get out
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of the pocket and he makes that's really a meaningful
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part of their offense. But the point I was going
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to make was they've the last two years, they've only
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averaged twenty two points a game, and that's like fifteenth
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or sixteenth in the NFL, Whereas their defense has been
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top five in the NFL in each of the last
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two years in points allowed. So in some ways their
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offense has not really been consistent. But the ability of
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Mahomes to make special plays, which is nonparel is kind
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of bails them out if those things don't happen. Look,
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I'm sure a lot of people are surprised in the
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Week one matchup when they marched right down Mahomes hit
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that special play, that special Mahomes play to Brown for
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forty nine yards that put them in the red zone.
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I guarantee everybody watching Unfortunately I was sleeping, but I
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guarantee everybody watching probably felt they're winning this game now
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because they're down in the red zone. It's Mahomes and
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it obviously did not happen. And to show you that
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the lack of depth at wide receiver, the fourth down
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play was a fadeable to Jarvis Brownlee. You know, it's
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just it's it. They've been kind of an odd, really
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good team the last couple of years, you know, So
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it's it's it's it's difficult for someone like me who
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just sits and grinds on tape much.
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Speaker 1: How much do you think, Greg, and I'll get your
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opinion too, the lack of It's very easy to say
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that their their scoring is down, their offenses down. It
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must be a wide receiver quarterback thing. But they also
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don't have a running back in Isaiah Pacheco. That has
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been the template that Andy Reid has used in the past,
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which is a Brian Westbrook type or a lash when
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you can catch the ball. When he got there, he
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had Jamal Tarles at the end, but it was still
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able to do those things. Is that do you think
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making their offense a little bit more tell tale and difficult?
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Speaker 3: You know? The only thing the only way I can
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answer that, And I think that's a fair statement. Chef
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by the way, is a lot of people believe that
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if your offense is sort of struggling, okay, you know,
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to sustain I'm not talking about the big playability of mahomes,
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which we.
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Speaker 1: Know is great.
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Speaker 3: That the way teams get their offense back on track
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is not by throwing the ball, but by running the ball.
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And that's why I think your points valid. They don't
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really have that run game where you can say, Okay,
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you know, we're not really doing what we want offensively,
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let's stabilize it by lining up running our staple ground
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game that we feel we can run against anybody. You know,
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usually good running teams just feel like, hey, we can
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line up and run the ball. You know, we have
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our three staple running plays. We're going to line up.
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They can put twenty people out there on defense, we're
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going to gain seven yards. You know. That's you know,
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they don't really have that. So that is so your
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point's right. So it's been a very odd offense, but
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the magic of mahomes very often bails them out, and
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you're almost surprised when it doesn't, as was I'm sure
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the case on in that opener when it didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: Right right, Adam. That was supposed to be Charles Edwards
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Hilaire was supposed to be that guy, and it just
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never penned out for them. Edwards Lai, Yeah, yeah, Clyde
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where yeah yeah, out of LSU, right, And because of that,
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they've sort of been you know, I feel like a
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couple of years ago when they at least had McKinnon,
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if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, oh, he was good at
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a player.
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Speaker 3: For them, and they I'm not a run game guy
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in the sense that you're going to line up and
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and you know, he's not a hammer in the run game.
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Speaker 2: He was phenomenal in the red zone. Jack McKinnon, Yeah,
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good point.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah. It just feels like they're run their run game.
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In their run game, versatility has been an issue. Let's
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let's also talk about I mean, listen, you want to
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throw the ball deep, but you don't have her sheet Rice,
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who's not necessarily the deepest threat, but you don't Yeah,
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and you don't have have Worthy in this game. I
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have no idea where they go. Where do they go
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for offense from here? Consistent offense?
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Speaker 3: Well, that is sort of the point I was trying
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to make, you know, So it becomes a defense that
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ideally holds the game together. And in the week one
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matchup that was uncharacteristic of the Chiefs defense, there were
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some you know, some things I probably will get worked
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out because backs has been doing it for a long
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time and it's you know, a few people. I think
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Justin Reid might be a bigger loss than people think,
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because you know, he was an incredibly smart, savvy player.
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So Jade Hicks is becoming the starter now and for
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the first time, he played in the dime last year,
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so it's just different. But you know, if the defense holds,
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they're in the games, and then Mahomes makes enough plays
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because that's who he is. But if they have to
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keep scoring and scoring, you know, again, I'm not saying
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they can't. Look, you know, when people hear comments like this,
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they think all these things are absolute. You know, they're
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not absolutes. Nothing is an absolute, you know. So you know,
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could they theoretically come out against the Eagles who are
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playing with some different personnel on defense that are still
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trying to get acclimated and put up thirty Sure they could.
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You know, the quarterback's pretty good. Sure they could. But
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you know, just watching them over these last couple of years,
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it really hasn't been sort of a consistent pass game.
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It's been plays, individual plays random.
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Speaker 2: I think it's actually it's almost like it's random.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't quite figure it out.
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Speaker 2: And also the other thing I want to touch on
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before we switch the other side of the football their
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offensive line.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Jean Taylor.
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Speaker 2: The reason why he's still on the team is because
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of his contract. All his cash is full of ganteed.
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It's around twenty million, so they couldn't cut him. Okay,
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he's a declining player. I know, Jeff, you had some
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information on sumotea the left guard, and Greg could obviously
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chime in. Kingsley sumote was a kid from BYU. Correct, Yeah,
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they KIDU. You know, they back of the guard, right
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right right.
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Speaker 1: So I was gonna say, I just I watched about
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seventy percent of the pass UH snaps from from Week
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one against the Chargers, and I thought both Sue Maataea
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and Josh Simmons a left tackle, and I wanted to
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bring this up with Greg. Two struggled on some stuff
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that was sort of basic under center play action. They
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gave up some pressures. Three men rush Simmons got beat
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to the inside and Forrest it wasn't. I do think
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that there were times you saw Jesse Minter try to
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try to throw some stuff at them, But there was
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also some basic stuff that I thought that they struggled
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with Greg your oppression.
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Speaker 3: Well, and I think that's one reason I'm certain that
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week one everything was well, not everything. A good part
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of their pass game a higher percentage was quick rhythm
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timing throws because then the ball gets out, because, as
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Adam probably remembers from sitting with myself and run Chiworski
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for years, if you go three step drop timing, the
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ball's out in one point five to one point six seconds.
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And even if you're a left guard and left tackle
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maybe struggle with the block, it's a non factor. The
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ball's out. So you know, that could be one very
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valid reason why they did a lot of that, as
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those guys get a feel. Sue Mattea was a dominant
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run blocker in college, but pass protection was where he
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needed to work, and most people believed he would be
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a guard in the NFL, which is where he's playing.
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And Simmons is incredibly gifted in terms of athletic movement,
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and I think he's going to be a really good player.
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But you know, the Chargers attack that side with a
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lot of different things. The Eagles don't do that kind
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of stuff usually. Now, again, you never know how a
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game is going to play out, what Vic Fangio may
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have in mind, But normally the Eagles are not overly
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creative with their rush. They rush for They're not a
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high percentage stunt team, so you know, they kind of
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line up and rush the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then so what you'll have is we'll see
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how the edge rush rotation is. We'll see if Zadarias
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Smith gets on. But obviously against the Cowboys you had
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a combination of Jelex Hunt and Josh Uche lined up
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over left tackle for the most part, and then I
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believe it was a Joemo and Davis over the left
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guard at times. So I feel like that. I feel
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like with Jalen carterback especially, this will be a really
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big area for the Eagles to capitalize. And if you're
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looking at it from a Chiefs perspective, I think you're
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feeling happier that this game is well. No, from Eagles perspective,
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you're happy that this game is early before Simmons and
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Seue Matea figure some things out, because I think that
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that's a better response than having a left guard playing
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left tackle and then a third stringer playing left guard
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like this, Right, but clearly these guys have some work
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to do and having to face the Eagles week two
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is probably not great for that.
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Speaker 3: One point you just made that. I'd love to respond
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to you about Jayalen Carter playing almost always. I would say,
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I don't have the number right in front of me,
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but I would bet ninety percent of the time last
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year he lined up at left defensive tackle. You wonder
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if he'll get some snaps at right defensive tackle against
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Sue Mattea. You just especially since a Joemo did not
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really have a good game last week, and who knows.
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You know, this is just something I thought of right
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when you said it, that could Carter get some snaps
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against Sue Mateya, because you know, Carter is obviously great
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and we'll we'll see, you know, maybe he will, maybe
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you won't, But just something to possibly look for.
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Speaker 1: Would that be real quick? Would that be disadvantage? Well,
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I'm wondering if they did that, if then the automatic
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double team would be center and left guard on Jalen
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Carter and then Ojomo has to go up against They
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may not do that, you know, you don't know, Yeah, yeah,
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all right, it'll be interesting to see, Adam what you're
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You're gonna mention something there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they gave uh, they had a number
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of quarterback pressures the chargers of Marlon Tuey, Polo's brother
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Tooley I had a great game, boyot uh. I know,
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we hate the word blueprint, but they obviously found something
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that worked. And yeah, they have two leade players on
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the interior their offensive line, but this is a beatable
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offensive line, and they did not play well last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they did not. So it'll be very interesting
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to see what as Andy Reid tries to figure out
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how to get a more consistent, rhythmic offense going and
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get the ball deep. How much his offensive line will
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allow Patrick Mahomes to do that. On the flip side,
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when you look at the Eagles defense, the red circle
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will be drawn around on Dori Jackson, and I wonder
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exactly how Andy will try to figure out a way
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to get some of his whether it's Marquise Brown, whether
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it's Thornton, to try to get him isolated on on
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a Dori Jackson if he ken Greg.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, teams will they're going to go after
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Dori Jackson. I think that's obvious how they do it
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and with who they do it with. I guess that
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remains to be seen. You know, you mentioned Taekwon Thornton.
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You know, he did attempt a few deep balls to
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Thornton in this game and he hit and he hit
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a big time throw to him late in the first
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half to set up a field goal, which you know
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was thirty eight yards. The Chargers weren't cover one Robert,
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which is is a coverage the Eagles you know, play rarely,
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but they have played it. You know, you mentioned about
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I think it was Adam that just said I can't remember.
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I think it was Adam who just said about. You know,
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is there any kind of blueprint? You know, you have
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to remember the Chargers are different from the Eagles on defense,
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like for instance, I made a note watching that tape
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that the Chargers on third and two to six yards
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to go for a first down, they played three two
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six dining, They kept their two linebackers on the field.
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They used Henley as a spy on Mahomes and they
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played man coverage behind it. Okay, that's what they did
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on third and two to six. The Eagles are not
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going to do that. You know, that's not really part
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of the Vic Fangio approach. So you know, every team
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tries to do things, gets to the same objective, but
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they do it differently. The Eagles are not going to
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do it that way. So that doesn't you know, and
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keep in mind, I think we have to go back
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and use the Super Bowl as a blueprint for how
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the Eagles thought about it. Now, it doesn't mean they're
20:45
going to do exactly the same thing. But here was
20:47
the Eagles plan in the Super Bowl. Okay, it was
20:50
a four man pass rush. They did not plits one time.
20:52
They did not rush five one time. In their quarter
20:56
structure a four across which they lined up in almost
20:59
on every single they had their two outside corners. It
21:03
was Mitchell at right corner, Sleigh at left corner, playing
21:06
man to man. Now will they do that with Jackson unknown?
21:09
But this is what they did. And then they squeezed
21:12
everything in the middle of the field because based on
21:16
their film study, they determined that Mahomes does not really
21:21
work outside the numbers unless he's taking a deep shot,
21:24
and everything about their pass game or the high percentage
21:28
is in the middle of the field. So they squeezed
21:31
the middle in multiple ways. That was their game plan.
21:34
Approach clearly worked. Now the Chiefs know this too, so
21:39
you know, will it be similar, will they try to
21:43
do it in different ways? Will they take a totally
21:46
different approach? You know these are things week two, at
21:49
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Speaker 3: All right.
22:53
Speaker 1: So that's a look at the Eagles defense against the
22:57
offense and of course against the Chiefs offense. And of
22:59
course this will be the debut this game for Jaille
23:01
and Carter, assuming he doesn't get kicked out before the
23:03
game starts, hoping that one would hope he's learned. Yeah, well, listen,
23:10
if you're the Chiefs, you know, when you're in the
23:12
warm ups pre game, you might be walking in his
23:15
direction trying to stir him up. We've seen that happen before.
23:19
Oh for sure, get under a guy's skin and see
23:21
what happens. So let's take a look, let's spin it around.
23:24
Let's talk about the Eagles offense against his Chiefs defense.
23:28
But I wanted to start by sort of having Greg
23:30
expand on what looked like not a great effort or
23:34
not not effort, but not a great production from the
23:37
Chiefs defense. Against the Chargers. I mean they made they
23:41
made Justin Herbert look like the quarterback everybody's been waiting Justin.
23:44
Speaker 3: For her well, I think Justin Herbert's basically done that
23:46
his whole career. Just people thinking that, you know, in
23:48
the playoffs. It hasn't been great, but he's kind of
23:50
done that kind of thing most of his career. But
23:54
you know, it was interesting. One of the things that
23:58
really stood out in that game, and it was the
24:03
success that they had with play action, which is not
24:06
really a big deal for the Eagles, especially from under center,
24:10
which is it's a totally different offense than they're facing
24:13
this week, you know, because what the Chargers are, because
24:17
you have to remember it Tarbaugh and Greg Roman, is
24:20
they play with a fullback Scott Mattlock. They play with
24:22
a fullback, so you know, they line up in twenty
24:26
one personnel quite a bit. That's sort of foundational to
24:30
what they do. Okay, so you know you're not getting
24:33
that from the Eagles. But one of the things that
24:36
stood out was the play action pass game. Herbert was
24:39
nine for eleven for one hundred and sixty nine yards
24:42
in the play action pass game and five for six
24:45
for ninety one yards from conventional play action where he
24:48
was under center. Now that's not what the Eagles are
24:50
going to do. But what was interesting in that game
24:53
is the inability, the total inability of the Chiefs to
24:57
generate any pressure from their four man D line pass rush.
25:01
They could not generate any pressure whatsoever, and there were,
25:06
for some reason, way too many voids in their own
25:09
coverage concepts. You'd have to believe, since neither one of
25:12
those things has really been common to Spagnolo over the
25:15
last number of years, that those things would get cleaned up.
25:19
You'd have to believe that. Maybe they don't, but you'd
25:21
have to believe that those things will get cleaned up
25:23
to some degree.
25:27
Speaker 1: What was there? Was it mostly a four man pressure
25:30
pressure scheme by Spags against that or did he try to,
25:34
you know, cook something?
25:35
Speaker 3: Well? They rushed five or more, including four snaps of
25:37
zero Jeff on fifteen of Herbert's forty one dropbacks, and
25:41
Herbert ate up the pressure. He was ten for thirteen
25:44
for one sixty five and a touchdown. Now they were
25:46
two sacks, but for the most part he ate it up.
25:49
They also showed some sim pressure concepts, so the audience
25:53
understands what that means is is it's a four man
25:57
pass rush, but your fourth rusher is either a lineer
26:00
or a defensive back, and they drop out a defensive lineman.
26:04
But they ate up the Chiefs pressure concepts in that game,
26:07
which is something you also don't see that often. So
26:10
it was overall, the things we expect from the Chiefs
26:14
in a good way did not happen that way in
26:17
the first game. But there's a strong history of success
26:22
doing those things. So you know, there's no answer to
26:26
the question till they play the game. We're just presenting,
26:29
you know, the way it is.
26:31
Speaker 2: By the way, real quick, on Herbert, Herbert run the
26:33
ball a lot where they mostly designed some scrambles. What
26:35
were your thoughts on on kind of the way that
26:37
Greg Roman used Herbert in the run game if he did, Did.
26:41
Speaker 3: He run a lot? I know he ran had some
26:43
big runs. At seven.
26:44
Speaker 2: He actually had seven rushers, which seems to me a
26:46
little bit more.
26:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, were more obviously the last one. The last one
26:50
was interesting because Chris Jones just made a mistake, you know,
26:54
by going inside and you know he shouldn't have, and
26:58
that that opened the edge for for Herbert and he
27:01
just ran nineteen yards and that wrapped up the game.
27:05
I'm trying to think, you know, just think back on
27:07
some of the Herbert you know when they scrambles. I can't.
27:11
I don't remember that. My guess is that they were
27:14
probably scrambles because they don't use him. I mean that
27:18
nineteen yard which was to wrap up the game obviously,
27:20
but they don't normally use him as a as a runner,
27:23
you know, in that sense where there are design runs
27:26
for Herbert.
27:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the guy had what plaid there for
27:29
shitest last year, he had an ankle injuries, had a
27:32
shoulder injury. They probably want to be judicious and how
27:35
they run him. But yeah, that Chris Jones inside pressure
27:39
that he shouldn't have reminded me of the conversations we
27:42
had about the Cowboys who did the same thing Week
27:45
one against Jillen Hurtz and provided him an outside lane.
27:49
And I wonder going into this game if if Spagnolo
27:55
will look at the Super Bowl and say, maybe I
28:00
shouldn't try to devote everything to taking away Saquan because
28:04
Jalen could beat me through the air, or say, let's
28:06
see if he can do it twice in a row at.
28:09
Speaker 3: Him, Well, I think, oh, I'm sorry, go ahead at him.
28:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say a couple of things. Hurts
28:13
crushed them on the ground and of the air. Obviously
28:15
they had the couple the shot plays. The big one
28:19
was to DeVante Smith, but he also crushed them in
28:22
the run game. And the thing is, and we talked
28:24
about this last week, Hurts looks more explosive. Is the
28:27
second year that I think, Jeff, we talked about the
28:29
twenty three look. He did not look as quite as explosive.
28:33
He looked really good last week running the football, and
28:36
Spags was asked about it. You're playing Hurts. It's interesting
28:38
he knows what's common because Jeff as I turned it
28:42
back to you last week. Okay, they threw the ball
28:46
once downfield and was phenomenal. Hurts made a great throw,
28:48
great catch by Dodson. You saw what the Super Bowl
28:51
brought to you. If you stop Barkley bombs away quite frankly,
28:55
let's let's be honest. The chief secondary is not great
28:58
at corner other than McDuffie, who's not the in the world.
29:01
You with Smith and Brown, okay, and Dotson is now
29:05
a part of it. Their playing even if they even
29:09
if Barkley's getting off the good start, you gotta have
29:11
shot plays in this game.
29:13
Speaker 3: I think the feeling from the Chiefs is that Jalen
29:16
made three great throws in the Super Bowl. Don't forget,
29:19
he threw for two twenty and he hit the shot play,
29:22
so and that counts obviously, But you know, game in
29:26
a moment in the game, when they had just gotten
29:27
the ball back on a turnover, they were in shot
29:29
play territory, which is between the forties, and he hit
29:32
it and made a great throw, just like he made
29:33
a great throw to Dotson. But let's assume the game
29:37
was a little different than they didn't hit a shot play.
29:39
It would have been a normal Eagles passing game where
29:41
he throws for one to seventy, which has kind of
29:44
become kind of normal. So they felt that he hit
29:47
three big throws. And the biggest one, believe it or not,
29:49
was not necessarily the touchdown to Smith, even though it
29:52
seemed it kind of put the game away when it
29:54
half a growth. But they the one that they really
29:57
felt was the biggest was third and seven to aj
30:00
Brown on the sideline, which was a back shoulder throw
30:04
which he Jalen Hurts couldn't have handed it to him
30:07
any better. It was an unbelievably great throw, and because
30:11
McDuffie had great coverage, but the throw was so good,
30:14
so they felt that, you know, hey, he made three
30:16
and I can't remember the other throw that they thought
30:18
was great, but they thought he made three great throws.
30:22
I don't think that they're going dramatically change how they play.
30:26
I could be wrong, but the killer was scrambles, and
30:29
it often is with Jalen, and that just like we
30:31
talked about Mahomes, that has to be factored in. You know,
30:35
those scrambles when you play the Eagles. That's why the Chiefs,
30:38
for instance, you know, with Mahomes, why they spied him.
30:42
You know, you have to take into account Jalen's ability
30:46
on third and let's say third and five to scramble.
30:49
It's a big, big deal. You know, you can't just
30:52
act like, oh no, it's you know, it's a big deal.
30:55
And he makes a lot of sort of morale breaking,
30:58
backbreaking plays when he screwed ambles on third down.
31:01
Speaker 2: Jeff, if you ever watched Josh Allen, right, Greg just
31:04
brought up he brought up before I did the backbreaking scrambles.
31:09
I know, I know that the Bills do design a
31:11
decent amount of them, but when you've when when you
31:14
think you've got it defended. I've talked defensive coaches, it's
31:16
so humiliating because you did, you got what you thought
31:20
you'd get, and somehow he's too elusive, or someone has
31:23
a coverage bust, or or you didn't follow him in
31:26
like you were taught, or someone goes upfield, which we've
31:28
talked about. I just can't imagine hurts last week was
31:32
just ridiculous and and and Greg talked about it on
31:35
inside the tape. We're not criticizing Matt Eberflis, but we're
31:38
trying to figure out what was What were you guys
31:40
trying to do?
31:41
Speaker 3: Because here to beat it.
31:42
Speaker 1: Right and and I guarantee you he'll the Eagles are
31:45
will see an entirely different game plan. It was one
31:48
hundred percent zone. I believe that Eberlous played in the
31:51
in the in the season opener. Greg, I think you
31:53
had mentioned that and inside the tape that he played
31:55
literal maybe every snap. If it wasn't a one hundred
31:58
percent zone, it was very that.
32:00
Speaker 3: But I mean it was Yeah, they played high, high
32:03
percentage zone as I recall.
32:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's not necessarily what they're going to see.
32:09
No Sagnuolo, who's gonna mix it up, but he's gonna
32:11
send more pressure. He's going to try to make Hurts
32:14
think pre end post snap.
32:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know it's this will be a different deal.
32:19
I mean, Spags will play man. I mean it's not. Again,
32:23
maybe when you play Hurts there are some situations you're
32:26
not as comfortable playing man coverage. But it's not as
32:29
if he you know, he's not gonna play man the point,
32:31
your point is correct. They didn't play the Cowboys didn't
32:34
play any snaps of cover. One that won't happen in
32:37
this game, I don't believe.
32:38
Speaker 1: So let's discuss the lack of Dallas Goddard. It's very easy,
32:41
and I'm sure a lot of people will listen to
32:43
this and leave a comment in the YouTube second commented
32:45
section and say, why are you guys even discussing this?
32:48
Every time Dallas missed eight games last year, I think
32:50
the Eagles were seven to one without him. They ran
32:53
the ball fine, but it's not just it's the culmination
32:57
you don't have your fullback you know you're gonna try
32:59
to play this lato a little bit there, Maybe Kylon grantson,
33:02
you don't have Johnny Wilson to be a good blocker
33:05
out of your eleven personnel, which I believe the Eagles
33:07
had the highest EPA per run out of eleven personnel
33:10
last year. So Johnny Wilson played a role in that.
33:13
You've got a left guard who is starting but is
33:16
banged up. You've got a center who didn't exactly play
33:19
great against the Cowboys. So to me, it's the totality
33:23
of it all. And I do think if the Eagles
33:24
struggle to run the ball against the Chiefs, and they
33:28
may not, and it'll be moved if they don't, but
33:30
if they do, then it's a sign potentially for two
33:34
straight weeks that all right, maybe the rushing offense is
33:37
going to need some help here. And Dallas Goddard is
33:39
not that easily replaceable because of his value as a
33:43
blocker end as a pass catcher.
33:45
Speaker 2: Adam, Yeah, And I want to ask Greg on that.
33:48
Jeff Cameron Lattu went to Alabama as an edge rusher,
33:52
moved his secondyear to tight end. His numbers were not
33:54
great in college, but he went in a third round. Greg,
33:57
do you remember even watching tape of cam Lato or did?
34:00
Speaker 3: I'm going to pull it up because I did so.
34:03
He was in the twenty twenty three draft. Correct, Correct
34:06
you ever played an NFL game? I'm pretty sure I
34:07
watched him, but I remember liking him, you know, for
34:10
what he for what he is. You know, let's see
34:13
Cameron lot too.
34:15
Speaker 1: By the way, he is on this just for people listening,
34:18
he is a He's on the practice squad for the Eagles,
34:20
so he'd have to be elevated to be able to
34:23
play in the game on Sunday. But to your point, Adam,
34:27
he has switched his number from eighty seven to I
34:29
think thirty nine, which is, you know, an indication that
34:33
you're more of a fullback than a tight end, and
34:35
the coaches openly talked about his ability to play that
34:38
kind of a role.
34:40
Speaker 2: The thing was Greg had told us that he'd heard
34:43
or I don't know he spoke with but Greg, you
34:45
told us last year that Van Summeran might have the
34:47
best hands on the team. He's a really good athlete.
34:49
Yeah yeah, yeah, So, Kim lat two, what do you
34:53
got if in your notes that you found.
34:55
Speaker 3: Funny because I kind of liked him coming out. I mean,
34:58
I knew what he was. I said, I said, a
35:00
lot two will never likely be a truly dynamic receiving
35:04
threat as a number one tight end, But there was
35:07
more there than his Alabama tape showed, and I believe
35:10
that that could come out at the next level. Now,
35:12
obviously somebody thought that he was a third round pick.
35:16
That's not a throwaway pick. I said that he was
35:19
a solid tight end prospect with strong efficiencies both as
35:23
a run blocker and pass receiver. That's what I thought.
35:27
He was asked to do a lot at Alabama, and
35:30
it began with its location versatility within the formation, lining
35:33
up in multiple spots in addition to being deployed as
35:36
the main motion receiver in the offense. He was featured
35:40
primarily as a run blocker, but had a meaningful role
35:43
in the passing game. So you know, he don't forget.
35:46
He was there with Jamir Gibbs, so he ran blocked.
35:50
I mean he run blocked a lot. It wasn't you know.
35:52
He's he's one of those guys that lined up attached
35:55
to the tackle and he was a blocker. So you know,
36:00
if he's really good at it. First of all, I'm
36:02
guarantee he's better than Calkatara. So you know, I'm not
36:06
saying he's going to sit here and play thirty snaps,
36:08
but you know, you could see him in that role.
36:11
Speaker 2: There you go, Jeff, We've got to answer they got
36:13
somebody who can block. He had seven tight ends in
36:15
training camp. Okay, yeah, and now there without god or
36:20
we know, Calcaterra is limited as a blocker. And we're
36:23
being nice a lot too. Who's now Yeah, he is
36:26
now with his third number with the Eagles, so they
36:29
give him a little bit of guaranteed money. By the way,
36:31
I know they would later release him, but I'm kind.
36:33
Speaker 3: Of again, everything is team specific, and I think he
36:36
got injured his first year, and you know, and that
36:38
probably messed him up. But you know, he was a
36:41
third round pick. He was He's not a throwaway pick,
36:44
and he was not a throwaway prospect. You know, it's
36:46
not like a sixth or seventh round pick where you know, hell, okay,
36:49
he got cut. I mean he was a third round pick. Yeah,
36:52
and I thought that was a valid spot for him
36:54
based on his college tape.
36:56
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Well, I mean I think the chances are
36:59
pretty good that he might get out there because.
37:01
Speaker 3: Of because grandson's not a blocker either, right.
37:04
Speaker 1: Right, Ranson is not a blocker. Adam, You've always said
37:07
you can always throw an extra offensive lineman onto the
37:10
field if you're really trying to establish the run as well.
37:13
And so we'll see, maybe Matt Pryor makes a little
37:16
bit of a cameo there as the extra offensive lineman
37:19
if they really just feel like they have to, you know,
37:21
pound this run and get their run game going. I
37:24
wonder how much newcomer Tank Bigsby. Oh yeah, A look
37:28
in this offensive and what he brings to it. Greg,
37:30
He's not somebody who catches the ball a whole lot.
37:34
So you have aj Dillon and now you have Tank Bigsby.
37:38
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, I just one quick point before Bigsby.
37:42
I'm still waiting for the game. And Anam made a
37:44
really good point a little bit ago about the corners
37:47
for the Chiefs. I'm waiting for the game where the
37:49
Eagles come out throwing. I really, Am, I thought, you know,
37:52
week one, I thought it would happen. But week one,
37:54
maybe you're not ready to do that. You know, hurts
37:56
didn't playing the preseason. You know, I'm waiting for that
37:59
game because you know they they do have two really
38:01
good wide outs. If Dotson can be Dotson, he was
38:04
a first round pick on merit. Pretty much everybody thought
38:07
he was a first round pick. You know that, Jeff.
38:09
He was at Penn State and he was very good.
38:12
So you know, I'm waiting for that to happen. I
38:15
think it could be this week. We'll see. But're getting
38:19
back to bigsby another player I really liked coming out
38:22
at Auburn. I think he's a better back than AJ Dillon.
38:26
To me, that's not even a comparison. But again, he
38:30
just got there. I don't know does that is he
38:33
Is he active this week? Ad I don't know what
38:35
he is on the fifty three, But yeah, they.
38:38
Speaker 2: Had him returning kicks, covering kicks. And here's a guy
38:42
last year, I mean, I know talking him to the
38:44
Jaguars last year, he had a great preseason, good training camp. Uh,
38:50
pretty solid first half because they got a little bit
38:53
down at ETN. He struggl last season. He had a
38:55
great week one last week, but so they started to
38:58
have a time share and it just didn't quite work out.
39:00
Like they had hoped in the second half. But Greg's right,
39:03
got you don't become what was you? A third round pick?
39:06
Speaker 3: Yeah?
39:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trent, what's that another one? Just like lots of
39:11
the third round pick. It's crazy with you, they have
39:13
a fascination.
39:14
Speaker 3: With He might have been, if memory not that this
39:16
means anything. You know, there's a lot of guys like this.
39:18
He may have been, if memory serves me correctly, the
39:21
number one rated running back coming out of high school
39:23
in the country.
39:23
Speaker 2: He may have been other than Auburn, you know.
39:26
Speaker 3: I think he's either from Georgia or Alabama.
39:29
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, interesting, Well it'll be I mean he's in
39:34
between the tackles runner, Greg correct, that's so he fixed.
39:37
Speaker 3: He's got a little juice to him. I mean, he's
39:39
not a burner, but he's not just a grinder. He's
39:43
got a little juice to him. Yeah.
39:45
Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, to answer your question, you know,
39:47
or or to expand on your comment, you keep waiting
39:50
for the game where the Eagles come out throwing. I
39:53
think A. J. Brown is in your corner. I think
39:56
he's also that the Eagles come out throwing, and he
40:00
wouldn't mind if the ball went to him. We've seen
40:02
this before, whether it's him or Davante, they get like
40:05
zero one target and then the next week it's like
40:08
the ball can't stop coming at him. Right, So I
40:10
would expect a pretty big and concerted effort, big game
40:14
and concerted effort to get the ball to AJ Brown
40:17
right from the start of the same you guys, And.
40:19
Speaker 3: There's ways to do it. You know. That doesn't mean
40:21
you drop back seven yards and throw it forty yards
40:23
down of the field. I mean there's so many ways
40:26
you know, you can run ourpos you can, you know,
40:28
and AJ Brown is as good as slant and glanced
40:31
receiver as there is in the league. You know, you
40:33
have active linebackers that are going to be really reactive
40:36
to to the hurts. You know, in Bolton and Tranquil
40:39
both really smart players, you know, So you know there's
40:44
ways to do this without just you know, hey, let's
40:46
drop back and toss it all over the yard. I'm
40:49
not suggesting that's the way the pass game would look,
40:52
but there's many ways to get into a pass game
40:55
and have it be effective.
40:56
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Speaker 3: We predictably forgot about this this week, and I got
43:39
I didn't even think about this.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you didn't put like a good hard five minutes time.
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Speaker 3: I totally forgot that. We have to pick a player
43:46
of the game in the score on my mind.
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Speaker 1: Just I'll do your favorite. I'll start with Adam Adam,
43:51
who's gonna win the game? And who's going to be
43:52
the game MVP.
43:53
Speaker 2: First of it's gonna be really warm in this game.
43:55
Holy smokes, it's going to be the low nineties.
43:57
Speaker 3: Can you believe that? Are you serious? Yes?
44:00
Speaker 1: Yes, well Midsummer Kansas City m Yeah.
44:03
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a minute, this can't be right. No,
44:05
that whether or not commap is never wrong.
44:07
Speaker 3: Yeah.
44:08
Speaker 2: So I like the Eagles twenty seven to twenty four.
44:12
Speaker 1: Wow, all right, and why are they going to win
44:15
that game? Who's going to be the main players?
44:17
Speaker 3: They're gonna score three more points than Yeah, I think
44:20
that's why I believe.
44:23
Speaker 2: I believe the way they're gonna win is throwing the
44:25
football downfield. It's not the amount of tempts, it's the
44:27
shot plays, right, what an unreal throw?
44:30
Speaker 3: Dot? He hurts?
44:31
Speaker 2: How the dotson last week? Greg's right, they didn't throw
44:33
the ball a lot against the Chiefs, but when they
44:35
did downfield, they had great success. We took all the
44:38
way he wanted about, Oh that they should They felt
44:40
they should have stopped it, but they didn't. And but
44:42
guess what, their corners aren't any better. They signed Fulton,
44:46
who's backing up, Who's an inconsistent player. Watson should not
44:50
be starting. Jalen Watson's not a starting quality player. He's
44:53
a good He's a seventh row. He should be a backup.
44:55
I'm stunned that they have not addressed that position. I'm
44:57
throwing the football. I'm throwing the football, all right?
45:01
Speaker 3: You feel very strongly about that. I see No, I
45:03
just feel like it's I know, Bags is great.
45:06
Speaker 2: I'm not taking anything away from him, but the way,
45:08
and you saw the tape, the Chargers had some success
45:11
throwing the football.
45:12
Speaker 3: They had a lot of success throwing the football.
45:14
Speaker 1: Lot Adam, who's your MVP.
45:17
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with number eleven, AJ Brown.
45:21
Speaker 1: That would make a lot of sense, all right, Greg
45:23
Adam to give a nice long winded answer. Yeah, it's
45:26
time to think about that.
45:27
Speaker 3: I you know, I feel like that this is just
45:33
a really hard g Look, people are going to look
45:34
at the Super Bowl and assume that, oh, the you know,
45:36
the Eagles are just better than the Chiefs, and you know,
45:39
look it's weak two. Theoretically, anything could happen. I mean,
45:44
you know, it's one of those The Chiefs have been
45:47
pretty good over the last number of years. The quarterback's
45:49
pretty good. You know, Andy Reid's been doing this a
45:51
long time. There's just a part of me that thinks
45:55
they're going to come back. And you know, they lost
45:58
Week one there at home. It's it's their true home opener.
46:01
I don't even know who the home team was in Brazil,
46:02
it doesn't matter. The Chiefs were not an arrogant I
46:06
think the crowd's going to be nuts, you know. I
46:09
just think that they're going to play well, and I
46:12
think it's going to be a really intense game. There's
46:15
a part of me that just thinks that the Chiefs
46:17
are winning this game and it's going to be like
46:19
a twenty seven to twenty six kind of game. You know,
46:22
it's just going to be one of those games, and
46:24
that the Chiefs are going to come out on top.
46:26
It could be the Eagles, but I'm going to pick
46:27
the Chiefs, and you know, I just I just have
46:32
to pick Mahomes. He's had so much success in his career,
46:36
and he didn't have a bad game against the Chargers,
46:38
but it wasn't like a special game, you know, And
46:41
I just think that he's, you know, particularly coming off
46:45
that Super Bowl where you know, I mean he was bad.
46:49
I mean, there's no way, and he admitted that even
46:51
in the press conference after the game. He pretty much
46:53
admitted I was bad. You know, it happens. It's the NFL.
46:58
Speaker 1: So I'm going to pick Mahomes, all right, all right,
47:01
so Chiefs win? All Right. I'm with you, Greg, because
47:03
I can feel like the way you presented that, I
47:06
feel like the Eagles are the better team, they have
47:08
the better roster. They may win more games than the
47:12
the Chiefs this year, but I do feel like the
47:14
Super Bowl made people forget that the Chiefs were fifteen
47:16
and one last year. They were not a bad team.
47:19
Speaker 3: And by the way, he'd been in Super Bowls prior
47:22
to that.
47:22
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but they're not the same team, guys, No, I.
47:26
Speaker 3: Know, I know, but they they you know, it's funny, Adam,
47:28
And again not did. But even the year before when
47:30
they won the Super Bowl, people said, well, they're not
47:33
the same team, and they won the Super Bowl.
47:35
Speaker 1: You know there's something you know again, I'm listening.
47:38
Speaker 2: I know what you get. There's something to the same players,
47:41
get it.
47:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm admitting I think the Eagles are the better team,
47:44
the better roster, but that doesn't always mean you win
47:47
every any given Sunday. And I just feel like, like
47:49
Greg said, the Chiefs are going to come home, and
47:52
I have a feeling it's going to be a big
47:53
game for Chris Jones for them. O line that struggled
47:56
a lit fair, that's fair. Yeah, so I could see
48:00
a couple of sacks, forced fumble, things like that. So
48:02
I picked the Chiefs to win as well. By the way,
48:05
the Eagles, I believe last night checked for one and
48:07
a half point favorites, which just shows you like there's
48:10
no clear favorite for this game. Obviously, it's good for
48:13
the Eagles to be a favorite on the road against
48:15
the Chiefs, but I picked the Chiefs to win twenty
48:17
six to twenty four. Chris Jones as the game.
48:21
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we all agree, you know, and
48:23
I hope people understand we do this. We have a
48:25
good time with it. But it's not like, you know,
48:28
if people think, oh, you don't know what you were
48:30
talking about. You picked the Chiefs and the Eagles want
48:32
I mean, that's not what this is really about, right,
48:34
you know, and you know me and you see my
48:37
notes and other people will as well, now, which is wonderful.
48:39
But you know, I could give you five reasons why
48:42
each team could win, and they they all could happen,
48:45
or three of them can happen, or you know, these
48:48
games are so hard to truly pick, and then you
48:51
pick a score and we have fun with it.
48:52
Speaker 2: That's why we love it because no one really knows.
48:55
Speaker 3: Great.
48:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, all right, So that's gonna do it for
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