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Eagles vs. Giants Postgame Show, Week 18 · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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  Speaker 1: sports podcast show in the world, over eleven and a
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  Speaker 1: half years strong, and Week eighteen of this Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four twenty twenty five season now in the books.
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  Speaker 1: They beat the New York Giants in the final game
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  Speaker 1: at the link by a score of twenty to thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee was the starting quarterback. We're gonna get into
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  Speaker 1: this game, our themes from the game, as well as
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  Speaker 1: grading each unit and the coaching. I am Jeff Warren
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hearing my good buddy from the Honorable Mention Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: us on.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the one and only Matt Rogers. Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you and good to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the pod here for this last Eagles regular
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  Speaker 1: season game.
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  Speaker 2: Man, thanks so much for jumping on.
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  Speaker 3: I was just telling my son, of course, Jeff, always
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  Speaker 3: great having you on my show, and always great to
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  Speaker 3: be on your show. I was just telling my son
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  Speaker 3: a second ago, like this is not normally how an
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  Speaker 3: Eagles regular season ends, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Back up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, safety in a game that doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 3: that much. But guys, you could tell, guys are still hitting,
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  Speaker 3: still playing hard. They get a pick to end it,
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  Speaker 3: beat a divisional rival, Pammela division rival who was actually
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  Speaker 3: trying to win the game. Give Malik Nighbors doing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of talk, oh, after a really great play, I
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  Speaker 3: got to say, that's it, absolutely him. So that's how
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing. I mean, fourteen and three. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: ties of franchise record for most wins in a season.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good from this perspective. I feel great
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  Speaker 3: for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, it's great, great having you on.
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  Speaker 1: And before we kind of before we get into some themes,
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  Speaker 1: obviously Week eighteen, there were a number of Eagles that
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  Speaker 1: were not active in this game, a number of starters.
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  Speaker 1: Those starters were Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, Davante Smith, Darius Slay,
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  Speaker 1: aj Brown, to Kobe Dean, Zach Bonn, Lane Johnson, Jordan Mailatta,
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  Speaker 1: Lyndon Dickerson, and Jalen Carter. So those were the inactives
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  Speaker 1: for this game. I just wanted to throw that out
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  Speaker 1: to folks before we dove into the themes, and really.
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  Speaker 3: I think those are the people we we declared before
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  Speaker 3: we came into Sunday, yes that they would not put
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  Speaker 3: a jersey on those are those are our truly and
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  Speaker 3: they've been disqualified from play essentially the game exactly. And
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I were a lot of other guys
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  Speaker 3: who who play for us but did not touch the
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  Speaker 3: field today.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, very true.
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  Speaker 1: In this game, I think from an overall picture standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: the game really gave off vibes of.
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  Speaker 2: A preseason type of game, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we were able to see just about all
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles back up, some who will be trying to
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  Speaker 1: make the team next year. And I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: interesting the refs really were letting these guys play today.
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  Speaker 1: Really didn't feel like a regular season game. Not too
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  Speaker 1: many flags were thrown in this game, I mean until
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  Speaker 1: the refs started having to throw flags on off sides
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  Speaker 1: with the Giants and some of the ridiculous stuff that
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  Speaker 1: the New York Giants were doing on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. But that being said, it was like a
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  Speaker 1: preseason game and I really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: It, man, I liked it.
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  Speaker 3: And elite neighbors to he is going to be somebody
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  Speaker 3: to be watched for a few years. Absolutely, absolutely because
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  Speaker 3: because Drew Lock suck today. I mean it was terrible, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: legitimately bad NFL quarterback play.
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  Speaker 2: He was, he absolutely was.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the other quarterback, Tanner McKee, for
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles perspective and within this Eagle offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: early in this game, it looked like Tanner McKee should
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  Speaker 1: be the backup quarterback of this Eagles team in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, his opening drive he went three of three
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  Speaker 1: for forty eight yards in a touchdown. Not to mention,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Matt, we saw so many rollouts,
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  Speaker 1: so much play action throughout.
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  Speaker 2: This game with McKee.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is something that so many of us
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  Speaker 1: have actually wanted Jalen Hurts, the Jalen Hurts offense to
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  Speaker 1: do for a lot of the season that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: see too much. I thought that was an interesting takeaway,
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  Speaker 1: at least from the Tanner McKee perspective. And maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: just a strength of his And in fact, Tanner McKee
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  Speaker 1: had one hundred and ninety yards in the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the game. It was the most passing yards in
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  Speaker 1: a half by an Eagles quarterback this season over, he
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  Speaker 1: went seventeen to twenty six in that first half there
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  Speaker 1: so on his second touchdown drive of the game in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, he was perfect five for five fifty
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  Speaker 1: yards through a nice touchdown to EJ. Jenkins, who had
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  Speaker 1: a great catch. It leads me believe, Matt that if
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  Speaker 1: McKee came in as the backup during the Commander's game
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  Speaker 1: from a couple of weeks ago, the Eagles possibly could
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  Speaker 1: have won that game instead of having Kenny Pickett under center.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, just the thought that I.
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  Speaker 3: Had Kenny, you know, I don't know. If I was
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  Speaker 3: on after that game, I would get Kenny in that game.
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  Speaker 2: A B.
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  Speaker 3: What would you with retroactive great? What did I give
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  Speaker 3: that game? I think I actually think I gave him
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  Speaker 3: a B or a B plus To be honest, I
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  Speaker 3: think I did. It was Yeah, pretty good Tanner. I
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  Speaker 3: think the thing with Tanner he wasn't perfect tall. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: thrower of football. Tanner is a better thrower of football.
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  Speaker 3: But you saw it in the second half, and you
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  Speaker 3: saw it at a certain point, just like this guy
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  Speaker 3: because he hasn't seen NFL level you know, complex defense,
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  Speaker 3: zone blitz man, blitz uh you know, fake it back out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that kind of stuff. Will He gives the
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  Speaker 3: best of quarterbacks to ever play. Tom Brady gives them fits.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you start playing with the pressure, and so
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  Speaker 3: Tanner hasn't seen enough of that yet. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: why the Eagles are more comfortable with Kenny as the backup,
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  Speaker 3: because he's played, he's been under fire, he's been whacked
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  Speaker 3: by Miles Garrett and all these other guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what you're saying makes sense up the football. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's fair. Fair with Tanner.
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  Speaker 3: You throw them in there against Tampa Bay or whatever
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  Speaker 3: something that you get a you know, forty five to three,
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  Speaker 3: Tanner by to pick sixes and you know, oh but
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  Speaker 3: he played well yeah, yeah he couldn't. But it's tough.
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  Speaker 3: I still feel more comfortable, Just for the record, I
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  Speaker 3: just feel more comfortable with Kenny, just because I know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm getting with Kenny.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 3: I want to continue to bring. Maybe next year, maybe
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  Speaker 3: they can get some for Kenny. Now, maybe Kenny made
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  Speaker 3: himself some funny Yeah, some some money. Sorry, not funny,
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  Speaker 3: not funny. Money's funny, not funny, mundy real money, Kenny. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But really it was an interesting It's an interesting thought
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  Speaker 1: process too of what the backup quarterback position means to
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  Speaker 1: this Eagles team. We know the backup position is really
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  Speaker 1: important to Howie Roseman in the front office, and especially
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  Speaker 1: after that Super Bowl win where Nick Foles really really
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  Speaker 1: took over in the playoffs, this team understands the backup
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  Speaker 1: quarterback is so important to this team, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: have Jalen Hurts not only going out with the concussion
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  Speaker 1: but also nursing a broken finger on his on his
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  Speaker 1: i think his left hand that he has going on
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  Speaker 1: right now, and really to have a competent quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee or even Kenny Pickett having the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: play a professional football team like like Tanner McKee did
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  Speaker 1: today with the New York Giants going up against their
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  Speaker 1: number ones for just about most of the game and
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  Speaker 1: they come out on top, there's something to be said
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: Matt oh, Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: While the city of aj Feely and Jeff Garcia and
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  Speaker 3: Nick Foles, yes, should should should know a thing or
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  Speaker 3: two about the backup quarterback. So I'm certain that in
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  Speaker 3: the at the training facility that they're very keen on that.
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  Speaker 3: And then and they're a great position. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 3: there's not likely to be. And this is why I
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  Speaker 3: hate to throw astray and not to take up too
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  Speaker 3: much of your time. No. No, you got to the
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  Speaker 3: forty nine Ers NFC Championship game where guys' bodies weren't
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  Speaker 3: making it, And that happens in football.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have multiple dressed quarterbacks who can freaking
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  Speaker 3: play right. And so this idea that that's not like,
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  Speaker 3: that's some kind of unforeseen consequence that the guy that
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  Speaker 3: people pay hundreds of millions of dollars to like multiple guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: build fronts and corners to stop the receivers for long
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  Speaker 3: enough to give the the DNS three four seconds to
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  Speaker 3: get to the quarterback. Yeah, they're gonna hit the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: and it will happen that they go out of the games.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, have three.
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  Speaker 3: Guys who could give you in a playoff game maybe
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  Speaker 3: C minus level football. I think from across the board
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  Speaker 3: from the Eagles quarterbacks, it's pretty impressive. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: you can say that for most football teams most years exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Look, it's it's it's a good situation. I think that
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles are in terms of their backup quarterback situation.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly saw it in this game again where the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles win twenty to thirteen, playing a lot of their
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  Speaker 1: backups and a lot of their third string guys, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and they were actually able to
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  Speaker 1: put a few points on the board because of that.
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  Speaker 1: Moving along with a theme real quick, before we get
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  Speaker 1: into the grades and before we get into what this
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  Speaker 1: playoff picture may potentially look like for the Eagles, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted to see what some of the quote
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  Speaker 1: backups and some of the guys we just really haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to see too much or haven't done much
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  Speaker 1: this season, see how they were gonna leave their mark
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  Speaker 1: in this game. And first and foremost, I want to
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  Speaker 1: give a shout out to one Johan Dotson. Eleven targets
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  Speaker 1: on the day, came down with seven balls for ninety
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  Speaker 1: four yards thirteen point four yards per reception. It was
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  Speaker 1: really nice to see because you go this entire season
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  Speaker 1: and me is a Penn State guy, knowing the talent
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  Speaker 1: that he has, knowing his route running ability, and going
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  Speaker 1: up against the New York Giants for string team, they're starters,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a lot of success in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And I really think in question why the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: offense hasn't included him more within their offensive game plan
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season, especially when they gave up a third
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  Speaker 1: round pick for him ninety four yards on the day.
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  Speaker 1: I loved seeing it. Of course, AJ Brown and Devonte
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  Speaker 1: Smith were not on the field, as they mentioned earlier
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  Speaker 1: as part of the inactive group, but I loved seeing
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  Speaker 1: what Johanna Dotson was able to do in this game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, do you have any thoughts on John.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna need to make a play if the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: are gonna go where they need to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna teams are gonna figure out a way
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  Speaker 3: to a certain degree bottle up Saquon, Devonte Aj. It
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  Speaker 3: could be Dallas, but I you know, I've made my
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  Speaker 3: my my thoughts hurt. I think Dallas is a good player,
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  Speaker 3: not a not an all pro level player, very good player,
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  Speaker 3: but whose body is not always with him, and so
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  Speaker 3: he may go out of a game for a period
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  Speaker 3: of the game or the whole game and be out.
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  Speaker 3: So it's gonna beat need to be And I'm is
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  Speaker 3: it gonna be Grant who makes a key play? Is
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  Speaker 3: it gonna be Kenny or is it gonna be Johann Dotson,
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  Speaker 3: And it very well could be.
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  Speaker 2: Will need to be one of them.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just gonna be Saquon Davonte aj Get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's yeah. No, I agree with
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  Speaker 1: you too. Another gentleman that I really wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: get some playing time, and I wasn't sure if we
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  Speaker 1: were gonna see him because we were seeing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Kenny Gainwell. But I wanted to see what Will
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  Speaker 1: Shipley was gonna do in this game if he got
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  Speaker 1: in from a rushing perspective, because look, Kenny Gamewell, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an unrestricted free agent after the season. I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine he would potentially be moving on to another
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  Speaker 1: team if another team did find him valuable. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the Eagles will resign him if he doesn't find
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  Speaker 1: something out on the open market. But with regard to
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  Speaker 1: Will Shipley didn't have the greatest stats in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Ten carries thirty two yards average three point two yards
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  Speaker 1: per care. But there were there was some little sparks
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  Speaker 1: here and there from Will Shipley where I said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what if he gets playing time, if he actually
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  Speaker 1: gets on the field every now and again. Perhaps he
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  Speaker 1: could be that that change of pace running back. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. I wanted to get your thoughts on that,
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  Speaker 1: but I was really happy to see will Shipley getting
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  Speaker 1: out there and actually making a contribution when he had
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  Speaker 1: his long run of seven yards on the day. He
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  Speaker 1: had some good runs. He was able to hit some
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  Speaker 1: of those gaps the way that he needed to, and
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  Speaker 1: it was I actually enjoyed watching the guy out there,
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  Speaker 1: even though he only had thirty two yards on the day.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: He was very preseason running back.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I got a se.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: My eyes hurt sometimes after some of those runs from
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  Speaker 3: willship To be honest, your unimpressed, yeah, very unimpressed with
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  Speaker 3: what I saw from will Shipley. I saw a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good throws from Tanner. I saw a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good routes. Yeah, all was caught, and I mean Shipley
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  Speaker 3: made a couple of guys miss. But is very clear
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  Speaker 3: I don't he does not possess elite NFL speed or
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  Speaker 3: even great NFL speed.
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  Speaker 2: He's I mean, you.
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  Speaker 3: In your in your the prelude to our talk right
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  Speaker 3: here about about Will Shipley, you said with his long
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  Speaker 3: run of the day of seven seven yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I was so looking forward to him, and really
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  Speaker 1: it was it was I don't know. I've always been
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  Speaker 1: rooting for the guy for whatever reason, I've always led
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  Speaker 1: for the guy.
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  Speaker 3: But but not but after today, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I always root for those guys, the fourth round picks, fourth, fifth, sixth,
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  Speaker 1: seventh round picks.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, I always root for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, Matt, do you have any other themes
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  Speaker 1: from this game that you that you really want to
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  Speaker 1: get into before we take a break and before we
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  Speaker 1: get to our grades from this game and really talk
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  Speaker 1: about what these playoffs are going to look like for
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  Speaker 1: this Philadelphia Eagles team.
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  Speaker 3: Health health, health. I don't think anybody even went out
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  Speaker 3: of this game with an injury today.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely correct, nobody injured. That's a great thing, even
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  Speaker 1: from a batup perspective.
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  Speaker 3: Right because you send in the guys, you you you're
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  Speaker 3: still gonna need some of these bodies. You only get
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  Speaker 3: to have fifty three, So yeah, you know, you you
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  Speaker 3: hope that these guys are depth guys. If you're if
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  Speaker 3: your top guys go out in the playoffs or something
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  Speaker 3: like that you're gonna call on these next level guys.
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  Speaker 3: And none of these guys went down with anything today.
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  Speaker 3: So health health Health, that's that's fantastic. Uh they they
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  Speaker 3: Now it'll be about guys making plays. Yeah, absolutely, throwing
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  Speaker 3: it up. And it's next Sunday and it's gonna looking
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  Speaker 3: like it's gonna uh a more theme. Looks like it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: Packers.
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  Speaker 3: The Packers lost today. Uh so that just seals that
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  Speaker 3: at that thing up automatically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it absolutely does.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah, what what happened with the Washington They're fine,
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  Speaker 1: They ended up winning. They beat the Dallas Cowboys by
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  Speaker 1: score twenty three to nineteen. Green Bay losing to.
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  Speaker 3: The Chery at nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Chicago and that was with Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Mariota starting for Washington. Chicago beats the Green Bay twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to twenty two. So, man, Green Bay is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be reeling after that. But I just wanted to say
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  Speaker 1: Jalo's hands hurting right, Yes it is. Yeah, Yes, went
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  Speaker 1: out with the injury. Christian Watson went out with a
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  Speaker 1: knee injury. We'll have to keep tabs on that throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week. But before we go to break.
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  Speaker 3: We will keep tabs, Yes, will keeps.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but before going to break, check in on it. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we'll check in on him, check.
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  Speaker 1: In on him every now and then. The New York
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  Speaker 1: Giants are just a bad football team, Matt. I had
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  Speaker 1: to say it.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to say it right before we lost to
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  Speaker 3: Tanna McKee. Jack. They freaking lost to Tanna McKee. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that just says it all. It does so, but it's
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  Speaker 3: always so fun talking with you, So please let's not
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  Speaker 3: but they freaking lost it Tanna McKee. Yes, and guys,
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  Speaker 3: fucking sh yes exactly.
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  Speaker 2: We can swear too if we want. That's all right,
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  Speaker 2: we can do explicit. But yeah, so I went with
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  Speaker 2: that one. We're having a great time here, all right, folks.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna take a quick break to pay some bills.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a bit with our grades.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back, and again we're with our
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube and listen on whatever podcast platform you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to us on a lot of great content always over
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: at the Honorable Mentioned Podcast. Let's get into grades. Grading
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm gonna give Tanner McKee a B plus
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: this week, which is not perfect by any stretch, but
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a third string quarterback being able to go up against
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: upon a curve B plus. Okay, curve B plus, I'm
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: giving them. I'm giving them a B plus. I mean
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Jalen would be a D miter. Oh absolutely, geez, two
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: very different quarterbacks. I think I've given Tanner McKee a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: B plus this week for what he did.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: He took him back.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Look, he went against a he went against a professional
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: football team. Weather number one defensive starters on the fields
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: beat him.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, ostensibly they're a professional team.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: We have to fact check that, Jeff, Yes, yes, who
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: knows what they are. We'll be back. We'll look into that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: What great do you give Tanner McKee this week?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Buddy, Ah, you've influenced me up.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I'll give him a B minus. And but for the record,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it's going to curve. Okay, there you go on a curve.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Let's move to the running backs. We saw a lot
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: of Kenny gain Well eleven carries for fourteen yards one
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: point three yards per carry. We also saw Will Shipley
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: and there, as I mentioned earlier, ten carries for thirty
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: two yards and it was only a total of fifty
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: one total yards rushing. Nice Smith got in there for
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a carry, and Tanner ended up carrying the ball a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: few times as well, only fifty one total yards from
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the running from the rushing attack, if you want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: call it an attack. But I'm gonna give the running
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: backs this week a C minus. What do you give them, buddy?
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Hell? No, hell nog Jeff as well. No, they have
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: to go to summer school. They didn't completely fail the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: test where they must do the grade over the class
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: where they must do there. You are coming into summer school, though,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: and don't come to summer school. You're'll be doing this class,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: this whole thing again. You guys were That was bad.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: The running backs weren't great.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: This was bad.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Fifty one yards Jeff, Yeah, fifty one.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It was surprising from Kenny Kenneth Gainwell, to be honest
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: with you, averaging one point three yards per carry. There
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: were way too many times when he was getting locked
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: up behind the line of scrimmage.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: He's a four.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: This is his fourth year in the league. You gotta
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: know better than that. And I would expect him, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: honestly would was expecting him to get at least fifty
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: yards in this game himself being a veteran and playing
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: with the second team as often as he has, especially
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: during practice, it was disappointing. That's how I'm going. Maybe
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I should go with a D plus, but I hate
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: saying the word plus. Maybe just give him a D.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go see minus for the running back
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: ken he gave you.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: You're still in the Christmas spirit.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I am the team's fourteen and three. I'm happy overall.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not too upset myself.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So great. What grade did you give him?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Did you give him a grade summer a summer school half?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: So a DNUS minus minus.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Money alright, sounds good. I love it, alright.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: The receivers and a lot of this, again is because
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of Johan Dotson. What's what I said earlier? Eleven targets,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: coming down with seven balls for ninety four yards Dallas Goddard.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: The coaching staff said they wanted to get some of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the rust off him since he was just activated from
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the ir and he he had six targets, came down
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: with four balls for fifty five yards. He averaged thirteen
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: point eight yards per reception. Nia Smith was targeted six times.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He came down with four balls for thirty thirty five yards.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Johnny Wilson targeted five times, he came down with three
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: balls for twenty four yards. A few other catches here
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and there.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: We've been E. J.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Jenkins and his touchdown reception for seven yards earlier. I'm
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: gonna give the receivers and tight ends overall, I'm gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: give them a B this week, straight up beat.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: What do you give them?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: The tanner and the receiver in the backup receivers they carried.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: The O line.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna prelude that it wasn't great. No, the running
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: backs were not great. It was it was those guys.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Great job on that scout team. They developed some chemistry.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just letting it go. Guys are are
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: where they're supposed to be. Very good job by them.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I will sponsor.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I will say, as we moved to the offensive line
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and that grade rate, Now, Matt, I will say, you
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: talked about how the offensive line wasn't great. I think
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: we saw the fourth quarter offensive line. Third quarter offensive
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: line really crap in the bed a lot.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I mean you had a lot of third stringers in there.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But I have to say the first two quarters. The
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: offensive line didn't perform horribly at least from a pass
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: pro standpoint. In the rushing game, not great at all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But from an overall standpoint, that's what we're grading here.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm giving the offensive line.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: A C this week. What do you give them?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's not It wasn't summer school.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It wasn't that. No, I don't think sad.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, But but it wasn't. It
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: wasn't dominant, it was it was passable. Yeah, it was
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: passable offensive line play in the NFL.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you right now, I think that I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: think a team like the Cleveland Browns or even the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals who struggle on the offensive line, I think
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they would have loved to have had the Eagles second
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: stringers out there in terms of if they had the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Eagles second string Yeah, yeah, So all right, well let's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: move the other side of the ball, the defensive line again.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You know, we saw a decent amount of Jordan Davis
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: for sure, but uh, we saw some other folks, you know,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: getting some getting some time. We're certainly gonna get the linebackers.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be talking about Jeremiah Trotter in just a bit,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: but uh, I'm gonna give the the defensive line. I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: gonna give them a B minus I think, And and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: where that comes from is yes. Overall, they gave up
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing today four yards per carry total
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Tyrone Tracy he only had fifty nine yards on the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: day average four point two yards per carry on fourteen carries.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Devin Singletary only carried the ball seven times for twenty
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: two yards. That being said, I think with a lot
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of the backups in there, they did a decent job.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna give him a B minus. What
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: do you give the defensive line?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I agree with that, I think especially these are one
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: of these that you do have to grade on a curve.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Like the offensive line. Yeah, that was a starting offensive line.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I would have said the grade was way worse. So
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the same kind of thing. These things continue to be
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: on a curve, and yep, to be in moments just
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: manhandling their team.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: It was impressive.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Moral Jemo, a bunch of those guys playing really well.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: They were just flat out not saying their names right
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: because nobody has seen them exactly.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody said Ojomo's name and it was just ojom ojumo
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or something like that, a Jima something.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: It was just flat out wrong. And then they also said,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: since we're fact checking, I guess we got into pact
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: checking of the broadcast. They said that they said that
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Zach Bond usually wears the green dot, and hey, I'm
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: not on TV, but I'm saying if I was on
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: TV and I said who usually wears the green dot,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I would have had the correct answer, because the correct
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: answer isn't.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Exactly So it's I have learned, especially in the podcast world.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Here a little bit more about the quote broadcasting aspect
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of life and sports life. The amount of screw ups
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that broadcasters have from game to game at times, it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: depends on the crew, of course, but I am telling
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you right now, whether it's baseball broadcasters or football broadcasters,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the amount of folks behind a microphone in their home
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: who do podcasts they can do a better job than
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: some of these folks is astounding. It's astounding, Like it
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: amazes me time and time again that you have these yahoos. Anyway,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I could go on and on about that, but let's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: grade the linebackers here that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Because Ian backers today Oran and oh, do you want
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to go first.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: No, No, go ahead, Why don't you go first? Because
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I I just wanted to say really quick. Jeremiah Trotter
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Junior was definitely a presence in this game on defense.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I always loved his pursuit to the ball. He wasn't perfect,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: there were some tackles he certainly missed. Were at a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: position every now and again, But from an overall consistency standpoint,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: him getting played, he gets more playing time at some
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: point in the future and continues to develop more. He's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: going to be a decent linebacker in this league.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I think I'm going with the promising C plus Jeck.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that I was gonna go with B
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: minus for the linebackers.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Actually same range. Really, I mean, I saw I'm worried
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: about and I hate to put this out there, but
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: since we're just analyzing the game and stuff, I'm worried
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: about Oron Burke's having.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: To play too much.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing him whiffing.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, lot, there was a lot of whiffs today.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, there were news to whip as well. Yes, yes,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Sidney Brown, Well that's gonna get to it. We're gonna
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: get to the secondary in just a bit here. Well,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: why don't we just go with the secondary because I
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: think we saw some good things and we didn't and we.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Saw So what did you give the linebackers? I'm sorry,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I gave them a B minus. Actually be minus B minus, Okay,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I think again.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I think when you have a lot of your second
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: string guys out there, your backup players, who are again
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: going against an offense that, yes, there's a Drew Locke
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is the starting quarterback, but you have Malik Neighbors. You know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he held him for sixty four yards, but his long
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: on the day was forty five yards. That touchdown reception
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: where Tristan McCollum he completely whiffed in terms of that tackle.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Pak probably shouldn't have had that touchdown. But Wandell Robinson
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: had forty three yards.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And you know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger, who we talked about an Opposition Territory podcast
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: this past week as a possible you know, sleeper in
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: this game, guy had two catches for nine yards. Like
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it's just it's not a great offensive unit, of course,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: but a lot of the backups ended up, you know,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you know, taking care of business for this Eagles defense.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That's why I give him a B minus.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I can, yeah, Yeah. They they're in the right place.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: They're just not wrapping up Tristan and Avante, Yeah, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Sydney Brown, they're just flying in like a missile. Yes,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: And they're gonna need to wrap up because they're they're not.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You know, they're not bringing enough. You know, they got
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: to bring the weight jacket that they need to wear.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I love the intensity, Yeah, I love the intensity. You
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: guys just don't got to finish exactly. You gotta You're
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: not big enough to be going in like your Brian Dawkins.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You need to go in there, hold the guy up
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: for a second, half a second for your other teammate
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to come and get him. You're not big enough to
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: just light guys up. And I think the uh, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: there's those moments in sports where you just have to
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: have a reality check with who you are.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Video game, So what do you what do you give them?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: What do you give the the secondary? Did you give them? Agreed?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I agree with the B minus A good gree Okay,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: sounds good.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Well let's move to the coaching.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with how this special teams look. Boy,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: bradon Man not great at kickoffs. Jake Elliot missed his
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: first field goal of the game after the offense the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: second drive of the game from forty one yards. He
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: really pulled it left. The Giant Special teams successfully ran
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a fake punt in this game, their first one all year.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: From what the broadcast teams said, Eagles special teams, they
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: were not ready for that fake punt. And I do
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: have to say, though, Keeley Ringo, you know, may not
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: be the greatest cornerback in the world. He had an
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: incredible open field tackle on some punk coverage in the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: third quarter. He's really been a special teams ace a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: lot throughout this year, making plays on special teams. But
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I think from a special teams perspective, I'm gonna give
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: them a C plus this week. What do you give
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: special teams? Maybe a B minus right around that area.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: From a play?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: So am I coaching? Am I?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Am I grading Coach Clay? Or am I grading the player? Well?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: How do we do this? Usually?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes we I don't know. Sometimes maybe it's unfair.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're go coach grading Coach Clay. Sometimes we're kind
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: of just grading how the special teams were. Overall, I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm grading how special teams was overall today,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: when you're not expecting the fake punt, you've got Jake
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Elliott missing field goals forty one yard or I don't know, it's.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Uh because I kind of because I asked that question,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: and I hate to belabor the point, but I asked
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: that question because when I think about like not being
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: ready for the fake punt, I think guys are coached
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: up on how to defend a fake punt. Yeah, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's like it's like if the pitcher's on
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the mound and you just let a guy run the
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: second without even because your eye on it. So I
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: think you just you just start yawning. You get in
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the motions of a of a football game. And I
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: don't want to thing coach Clay. While I say that,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I'm still I don't think C plus is a bad grade.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I just I just don't want I just want to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: make that distinction. I think that that's more player driven
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: as opposed to if that's coach stupp or not got.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: You, I got it, I got you.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio, I think he had this defensive unit with
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the talent he had. Yeah, I think he absolutely had
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: him playing. I'm giving him a B plus this week?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: What do you give him?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I wish I could go to I agree with the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: B plus. I wish I could go to A. But
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: like I said, what I said at the beginning of
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the show, and if you didn't remember that, just sproll
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: back to the beginning because it's been a.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Lot of fun.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, I said something about how Drew Locke played today
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: that I'm not going to repeat, but I still need
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: it one hundred exactly exactly.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: All right, Oh my gosh, all right? What about Wait?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Did you give him a grade? Did you give Vic Fangio?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I give a B plus B plus?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wish I could go to A.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: You I wish I could.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: I wish I just can't. Okay, pless is the max
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: on this great?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm giving the same B plus, believe it
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: or not to Kellen Moore and Nick Sirianni, because you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: there's only so much talent out there you could do
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: so much with. So I think we saw that with
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the backups, and again I love them making sure that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Johan Dotson was targeted eleven times in this game given
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: him the opportunity to not only shine, but to show
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: some route running prowess. And you know some yards after
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the catch as well. So B plus for me, what
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: do you give them?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah? B plus.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Imagine what Tanner could have done if if there was
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: a rushing attack.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it was.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: The water was very still. There was no rush.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely well, Matt, Buddy, like this Eagles team is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: going to be facing the Green Bay Packers at the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: link in the wild card matchup. Likely what the number two,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: number two seed in the NMB they're gonna be Eagles
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: are gonna be number two seed in the NFC, and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be an interesting matchup. The Eagles face
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers the very first game of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: season in Brazil.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: We know how that game went.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Eagles came out of Brazil with the victory, but it
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: was still it was one of those games where both
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: teams were getting a lot of rust off the very
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: first game of the year. Matt, and we're gonna see
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: two completely different teams than what Week one was. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, I mean,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: we're not. Even though this is going to be a prediction,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I haven't given it a lot of intelligent thought necessarily,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: but I really do think, especially in the link. The
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Eagles likely I believe likely to win this game. I'd
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: be surprised if they're not favored, perhaps by two and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a half points, maybe three point three and a half
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Heading into this game, I think the Eagles
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: very much can and will beat the Green Bay Packers
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to then advance to the Division Round.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't bet it at I think the two and
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: a half about right in terms of like, would I
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: be willing to investigate in that way.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, this is right.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: This is literally right after the Eagles Giants game when
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  Speaker 1: we're recording this, so we don't know anything at.
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  Speaker 3: This point, so iry to investigate something like that. However,
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  Speaker 3: in real life, I wouldn't be shocked to see This
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  Speaker 3: is not advice in terms of expenditures of money, just
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  Speaker 3: to be very okay, but I would not be shocked
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  Speaker 3: to see I would not be shocked to see the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles win by two score not two touchdowns, but two
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  Speaker 3: school score points and something like that. I think that
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  Speaker 3: this Eagles talking about knocking the rust off. I think
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  Speaker 3: Fangio was part of that. There were there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of blow ups of the secondary YEP that with
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  Speaker 3: personnel and had to do with scheme, those things have
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  Speaker 3: been cleaned up and it's mostly been in the secondary.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think Baker got a lot of had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun that he wouldn't have if the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles played him again. And I think Jordan loved the same,
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  Speaker 3: especially on the throwing hand. Yep, you know he'll be
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  Speaker 3: still be good. Jordan loves still going to be it
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  Speaker 3: still is and is going to play well. But see
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  Speaker 3: this Eagles team picking him off two, three times again?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'd love to see it, for sure. But it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting game and we're certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: be covering it and having a postgame podcast after the
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  Speaker 1: wild card playoff game. But hopefully it's not a post mortem. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it's not a post mortem. Better not be a
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  Speaker 1: post mortem. It's going to be a post game show.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully look into the divisional round for sure. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we want to be. Yes, it better be. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: crying here, yes, Oh gosh, that would be horrendous. But
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, throughout this regular season, Matt, it has
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  Speaker 1: been a pleasure and I appreciate you jumping on when
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  Speaker 1: you needed to fill in for the guys and really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, my friend, and again, folks, the honorable mentioned podcast.
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  Speaker 1: us on now.
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  Speaker 2: Any final thoughts, buddy before we head out here? Bill
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  Speaker 2: Bert's go Bert. It's a perfect ending, perfect ending.
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  Speaker 1: Folks, winning Week eighteen of this twenty twenty four twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five regular season, beating the New York Giants by
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  Speaker 1: a score of twenty to thirteen. It's gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: for us. Everybody, take care. We'll catch you next time.