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Football at Four: Eagles the Day After Their Big Win over The Bills · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: And it is now signed for football.
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Speaker 2: For Jeff Moscher inside, the Bird's gonna join us today. Jeff,
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Speaker 2: what an ending yesterday, to say the least, by the
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. Nick Ernshaw filling in for Mike Gilpg my
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Speaker 2: on site producer, and Jeff, I want to start with
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Speaker 2: the defense. I'm gonna start you with a positive note. Okay,
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Speaker 2: the defense was spectacular yesterday. They got to Josh Allen
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Speaker 2: five times and Jalen Carter he was right in the
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Speaker 2: middle of it.
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Speaker 1: What did you make of the return of Jalen Carter?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we talked about this last week. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's either gonna feel better because he took three not
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Speaker 3: took three weeks off, but he didn't play or practice
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Speaker 3: in three weeks, or because the PRP injections really help.
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Speaker 3: You know. I've spoke to a few medical professionals who
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Speaker 3: don't really who say that there's really not enough of
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Speaker 3: a data of efficacy on these things to really say
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Speaker 3: that their work. But any in any case, if you
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Speaker 3: give a guy, you know, three weeks off, he's gonna
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Speaker 3: look a little bit more spry. And he even said
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Speaker 3: to reporters, you know, he couldn't do a push up
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Speaker 3: before you know, his arms were hurting that much, and
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Speaker 3: now he can and I thought he obviously again came
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Speaker 3: through with two of the biggest plays in the game,
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Speaker 3: the sack on Josh Allen and of course maybe the
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Speaker 3: biggest play, the pat block.
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Speaker 4: I think you have to give a guy a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of credit, a defensive lineman when they make plays
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Speaker 3: that are outside of their normal jurisdiction. I mean, this guy,
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Speaker 3: you guys have seen this, right, he tries to intercept
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Speaker 3: the spike on several which just shows you how much
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Speaker 3: hustle and desire that he's got. And of course we've
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Speaker 3: seen him and Jordan Davis block kicks on special teams
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Speaker 3: this season, so this is a good sign for him
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Speaker 3: and for the Eagles front. I just have to wonder
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Speaker 3: as he can he'll probably you know, if they rest too,
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Speaker 3: he won't play against the Commanders, But can the shoulders
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Speaker 3: hold up over the grind of the playoff, which is
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Speaker 3: you know, going to be most likely four games and
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Speaker 3: in four.
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Speaker 4: To five weeks.
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Speaker 3: And I even he said it like he's not one
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Speaker 3: hundred percent, so I'm sure some of this will start
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Speaker 3: to impact him. But if he can play at that level,
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Speaker 3: that's pretty good for the Eagles.
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Speaker 2: Mosher yesterday defensively, I mean they held him to twelve points.
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Speaker 2: James Cook seventy four year yards on twenty carries. What
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Speaker 2: was your biggest takeaway from the defense as a whole,
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Speaker 2: going into Buffalo, tough weather conditions against Josh Allen and
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Speaker 2: coming away with a victory.
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Speaker 1: Like they did.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that, You know, I definitely had some
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Speaker 3: questions despite how dominant they were against the Raiders and
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Speaker 3: against the Commanders, because I really wanted to see them
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Speaker 3: going up against and even the Chargers had that really
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Speaker 3: beat up offensive line.
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Speaker 4: I mean you've if you watch any Chargers game since.
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Speaker 3: Then, it's amazing how good they've been offensively, or justin Herbert,
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Speaker 3: because that guy gets beat up every single time the
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Speaker 3: ball gets snapped to him. But this Bill's offensive line
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Speaker 3: is a good offensive line. Their running game is fantastic,
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Speaker 3: and the Eagles shut it down. So if they were
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Speaker 3: an lingering questions since the Bears game really about how
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Speaker 3: efficient how effective they can be against the run, which
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Speaker 3: is where it all has to start for them, don't
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Speaker 3: should be answering.
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Speaker 4: I think they're in a really good place and to
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Speaker 4: be able to do all that without Nikobe Dean. I
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Speaker 4: think was really good. There's nothing bad to say against
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Speaker 4: about the defense.
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Speaker 3: I don't even think some of the plays the Bill's
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Speaker 3: made in the second half that were big plays, we're
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Speaker 3: bad defensive plays. I mean, they really almost pitched a
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Speaker 3: perfect game there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean those Brandon Cooks catches where just.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Mosch I wanted to ask you about Sirianni after the game.
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Speaker 6: He said, if you come out of this game focused
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Speaker 6: on the negative, you're going to have a quote unquote
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Speaker 6: miserable existence. And he talked about how hard it is
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Speaker 6: to win in Buffalo. You got to give yourself points
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Speaker 6: for these tough wins. Do you get a sense from
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Speaker 6: him and the coaching staff that they know how bad
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Speaker 6: the offense has been in some of these tough wins
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Speaker 6: that they've talked about, or is this just their formula
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Speaker 6: for success and they're gonna keep running it until, uh,
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Speaker 6: you know, they turn into a pumpkin.
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Speaker 3: I tell you, I've always thought Nick Sirianni had the
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Speaker 3: right temperament and mindset for what he's got to deal
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Speaker 3: with in Philadelphia, and I still think he does. However,
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Speaker 3: and it's really hard to read too much into a
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Speaker 3: clip of something you see. But there's that video of
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Speaker 3: him walking into the stadium after the wind and he's
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Speaker 3: like hamming it up, and uh now, what's everybody gonna say?
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Speaker 4: And right next to him is A J. Brown looking
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Speaker 4: at him like what.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea if A Brown even understood orknew
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Speaker 3: So I'm not really judging it off a J.
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Speaker 4: Brown's blank look.
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Speaker 3: But I do think it's a little awkward to sit
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Speaker 3: there and pound your chest after because nobody else seemed
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Speaker 3: to be doing it, right. I mean, it's okay to
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Speaker 3: be happy with a win. It's okay to tell the
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Speaker 3: media to tell your team that that was a hard
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Speaker 3: fought win, that that's fine. It was just a very
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Speaker 3: strange flex though, to be like, what are they gonna
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Speaker 3: say about us now?
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Speaker 4: I think that's what he says. There's something of that
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Speaker 4: when when what they're saying about you.
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Speaker 3: Now is how lucky you were to win that game
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Speaker 3: and how if this keeps up, which I mean, we're
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Speaker 3: week seventeen pillows, right, it's not even about keeping up.
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Speaker 3: If this is who the Eagles are, very well co
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Speaker 3: come back to bite them in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Football four Powered by the Inside the Birds podcast. Jeff
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Speaker 2: Moscher also Philly Voice joining us right now, and Jeff,
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Speaker 2: I tuned into the postgame show with you and Kaplan
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Speaker 2: last night.
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Speaker 1: A little bit, and you made a great analogy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you said, you're trying not to be negative, but you're
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Speaker 1: just disappointed.
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Speaker 2: They're like like a kid, like you just disappointed them.
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Speaker 2: You're not mad at them, but you're just disappointed in
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Speaker 2: the way the offense has played this year. I mean
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Speaker 2: that second half, the philosophy coming out of halftime, I mean, run, run, pass.
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Speaker 1: It was so predictable.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what do you make of the way they
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Speaker 2: came out of halftime yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Well, I tried.
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Speaker 3: It's hard because when you own run that few places,
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Speaker 3: it's very I have no empirical evidence to say if
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Speaker 3: they went past past run that they would have been
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Speaker 3: in any better right, Like.
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Speaker 4: We just we do not know.
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Speaker 3: I feel though, fair in being critical because I felt
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Speaker 3: and you probably heard me and me and Kaplin a
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Speaker 3: little bit arguing about it, like in the first half,
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Speaker 3: even though they were more aggressive in the first half,
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Speaker 3: which is true, they came out throwing them all times.
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Speaker 3: There were two or three plays in this first half
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Speaker 3: that I felt were almost harbingers for the second half,
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Speaker 3: like submissive type plays. I mean they were at the
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Speaker 3: thirteen yard line up ten to nothing, second quarter, you know,
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Speaker 3: not too much time left, and you got a chance
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Speaker 3: to put the ball on the end zone there it's
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Speaker 3: third and eight, and you so no matter what, like
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Speaker 3: if you put the ball in the end zone and
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Speaker 3: you don't get a touchdown, you still kick the field
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Speaker 3: go anywhere, right, I guess you're mitigating against turnover, which
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Speaker 3: bothers me sometimes. But they threw that little swing screen
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Speaker 3: to Dallas, got her for three yards, and I thought
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Speaker 3: you didn't even throw a forward pass there.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you have the Bills on the ropes.
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Speaker 3: You need points because the Bills have a history of,
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Speaker 3: especially in their stadium, coming back, and you were moving
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Speaker 3: the ball. Well, I just felt that that was submissive.
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Speaker 3: There was a second and long run that was submissive.
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Speaker 3: And so even though and I understood Adam's point about,
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Speaker 3: yes they were aggressive in the first half, but it's
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Speaker 3: like the analogy I make would be like you're not
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Speaker 3: a straight A student if you get five a's and
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Speaker 3: one b. So they weren't a super aggressive team to
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Speaker 3: be in the first half because I'm knocking them for
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Speaker 3: two or three submissive plays that I believe started to
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Speaker 3: set the stage for how they were going to play
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Speaker 3: in the second half.
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Speaker 2: Right and looking at the second half, they had five
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Speaker 2: third downs of third and six or more. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's not a formula to win football games and drive
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Speaker 2: down the field, Jeff So, I mean when they're in
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Speaker 2: these third.
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Speaker 4: They've lived in third and long all year along, I know, right, So, I.
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Speaker 2: Mean looking at that, based upon you know they were,
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Speaker 2: it seemed like they were more aggressive. I mean the
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Speaker 2: first three plays of the game they went past, past,
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Speaker 2: past to start it. So that's why I think people
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Speaker 2: were like, oh, they were really aggressive in the first half, yes,
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Speaker 2: and then the second half it was just a total opposite.
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Speaker 2: I mean, why why go back and revert back to.
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Speaker 1: What you've done and didn't work early on in the season.
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Speaker 1: Why do that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, you know, I mean maybe because
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Speaker 3: they ran the ball pretty decently in the first half,
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Speaker 3: they I'm gonna listen, of course, they expected that they
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Speaker 3: were gonna get good runs when they weren't. There was
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Speaker 3: a play though, where they went under center and handed
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Speaker 3: it off to Berkley and he got annihilated. And if
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Speaker 3: you if you just look at the play before the
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Speaker 3: ball is snapped and the Bills have everybody in the box,
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Speaker 3: it seemed like a pretty good time to either change
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Speaker 3: the play call, like flip the direction of the runs
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Speaker 3: or it was not up the middle, or just check
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Speaker 3: into something else.
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Speaker 4: But we've seen this all year. They don't do that.
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Speaker 3: They wait for a second left on the clock to
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Speaker 3: snap the ball so that the defense is surveyed them
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Speaker 3: for about an hour, it seems like, and diagnosed the play.
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Speaker 3: So you have a whole lot of issues there that
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Speaker 3: you've seen all year long, and you're asking why, And
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Speaker 3: I can't tell you why other than they look at
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Speaker 3: the They seem to look at the overall record and
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Speaker 3: think because we win.
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Speaker 4: But I mean, that's great until you don't win.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, It's it's like playing the over unders and you
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Speaker 6: play the under, you know, ten straight times, and then
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Speaker 6: that one time you get bit when the game goes over.
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Speaker 5: At least that's what happens to me all the time.
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Speaker 6: But Mosher, I want to ask you about the offensive
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Speaker 6: line you talked about Barker. The phone number, Yeah, Gambler,
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Speaker 6: they got to post it somewhere in here. Uh, the
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Speaker 6: offensive line. You talked about Barkley getting hit in the backfield.
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Speaker 6: I think that was the Cam Jurgens whiff maybe you're
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Speaker 6: referring to.
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Speaker 4: But I think that was earlier.
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Speaker 5: Maybe, but I mean he he had a bad whiff.
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Speaker 6: Fred Johnson almost got injured because Tyler Steen got pushed
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Speaker 6: back into him.
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Speaker 5: He went nuts on the sidelines.
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Speaker 6: What do you think of the offensive line yesterday and
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Speaker 6: the second half?
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Speaker 5: I mean, was that why they couldn't really do much?
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Speaker 5: I mean, did you understand the play calling from a
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Speaker 5: sense they try to run.
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Speaker 6: The ball, try to eat the clock up. They were
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Speaker 6: up thirteen to nothing in Buffalo and they just couldn't.
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Speaker 6: They just could not run the ball. Did you understand
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Speaker 6: the play calling from that side of things?
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, like I said, I understood if they
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Speaker 3: expected that they were going to run the ball.
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Speaker 4: Bet I don't believe. I don't think.
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Speaker 3: I said it in the postgame show sort of like
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Speaker 3: tongue in cheek, that they were coaching as if they
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Speaker 3: were up twenty six nothing, not thirteen nothing. I don't
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Speaker 3: think they were calling plays to take time off the clock.
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Speaker 3: I mean they didn't have enough plays to be able
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Speaker 3: to do that. Although I do think by that third
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Speaker 3: possession of the second half when they did go run,
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Speaker 3: run pass like early.
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Speaker 4: In the fourth quarter, I did think that they.
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Speaker 3: Were getting into that moment because at that point you're
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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. Now your third quarter offense was
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Speaker 3: not very good, and you're kind of doing the same thing.
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Speaker 4: Just hoping as your defense just holds them and holds them.
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Speaker 3: You're just probably thinking, Bam, you know, we're gonna just
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Speaker 3: keep our defense will keep bailing us out. So I
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Speaker 3: do think there was some of that leader as a
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Speaker 3: game went on. I just don't know in the third
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Speaker 3: quarter what they thought that they were going to get
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Speaker 3: or what they were hoping to get, but they weren't
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Speaker 3: getting it.
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Speaker 2: We're talking with Jeff Moscher inside the Birds Football at four. Jeff,
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Speaker 2: when we talk about the offense, Jalen Hurts somehow seems
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Speaker 2: to find a wess record against Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes,
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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson is unbelievable seven to one over
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Speaker 2: the past couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Right, So for Jalen, I know the second half was
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Speaker 1: a struggle.
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Speaker 2: They did not He did not complete a pass for
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Speaker 2: the second time in the second half.
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Speaker 1: And still won the game.
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Speaker 4: This year.
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Speaker 2: Just tell me about how he continues to find ways
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Speaker 2: to win, and it just shows that maybe I guess
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Speaker 2: he's just a big game quarterback. He doesn't need to
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Speaker 2: put up those numbers like all those other quarterbacks that
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Speaker 2: I just listed.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't.
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Speaker 3: This is not It just doesn't feel like the game
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Speaker 3: to use that as the comparison, because they could have
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Speaker 3: lost it just as easily as they want it, right,
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Speaker 3: and it wasn't his fault either way. I'm not saying
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Speaker 3: you had a bad game. I don't think oh for
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Speaker 3: seven was like he was.
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Speaker 4: He was terrible. He wasn't great, but he wasn't terrible.
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Speaker 3: I just what I would say to that is I
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Speaker 3: think that Jalen Hurts has made strides this year as
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Speaker 3: a passer. I thought that ball that he threw in
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Speaker 3: the first half on the fourth possession, maybe second possesion
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Speaker 3: of the second quarter to DeVante Smith between two defenders
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Speaker 3: was one of his best throws of the season, and
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Speaker 3: he's made a couple of those kind of throws lately,
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Speaker 3: like the Chargers are the same DeVante Smith third and
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Speaker 3: long right, And it bottles my mind that they put
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Speaker 3: the ball in his hands in those situations, he makes
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Speaker 3: those throws, and then they sort of not let him
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Speaker 3: do that as the game goes on, and I, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I know, you know, this is not a guy you
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Speaker 3: want drop him.
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Speaker 4: Back forty times. Totally understand that. But he was in
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Speaker 4: a good rhythm.
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Speaker 3: And I felt like the play call and got him
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Speaker 3: out of that rhythm, got the whole offense out of
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Speaker 3: that rhythm. And you know, I think if the Eagles
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Speaker 3: are gonna lose, right, I would almost rather see him
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Speaker 3: go down like thirty four to thirty and say, hey,
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Speaker 3: you know, they left it all on the table with
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Speaker 3: their passing game and tried because they know that they're
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Speaker 3: just not getting that impactful run game.
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Speaker 4: That they got last year back.
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Speaker 3: And you almost could probably be more at peace with
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Speaker 3: it than if they lose a game thirteen to twelve
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Speaker 3: in the playoffs because they just did the same thing
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Speaker 3: over and over again.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, is that them like playing scared, like just risk averse,
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Speaker 6: like not wanting to make that costly turnover and they
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Speaker 6: might just go down like that.
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Speaker 4: They don't call it that.
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Speaker 5: They don't want to call that mark.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even Jalen Hurts do you think Jalen hurts
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Speaker 3: the ball, people would sort of kind of go all
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Speaker 3: aj Brown on it and say, hey, let me throw
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Speaker 3: the ball little more when we're doing well like that.
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Speaker 3: But he he defends the decisions as much as Nick
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Speaker 3: Cuianni or anyone else, and he says that this is
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Speaker 3: the smart way to play. And you know, if you're
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Speaker 3: into analytics, and it's correct because they win. You know,
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Speaker 3: they've wonted like a seventy five percent clip this year,
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Speaker 3: so if you count the beginning of the year end
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Speaker 3: this year. So it's hard to argue with until you
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Speaker 3: lose a game. And I think, as the Eagles have
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Speaker 3: showed you this year against the Giants, against the Bears,
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Speaker 3: against the Bronco or like, they're not as flawless as
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Speaker 3: they were last year.
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Speaker 4: Right last year at this time, we felt, man.
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Speaker 3: It's either them or the Lions, and they're probably just
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Speaker 3: as good, if not better than the Lions. We never
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Speaker 3: got that matchup, and as soon as the Lions were out,
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Speaker 3: it was like the Eagles are going to.
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Speaker 4: Be in the super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: And then as soon as the Super Bowl and you
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Speaker 3: saw how the Chiefs were playing, it felt like inevitable.
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Speaker 4: This year I think we can all agree.
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Speaker 3: At least, it feels like the gap between the Eagles
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Speaker 3: and other teams are not only closer, but the Eagles
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Speaker 3: may not be the best team in the NFC. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I think the Rams are the most complete team or
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Speaker 3: played the best football from start to finish than the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: Not to say the Eagles can't beat any of these teams,
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Speaker 3: but the gap just isn't there.
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Speaker 6: You mentioned last year Detroit was the one seed, the
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Speaker 6: Eagles were the two seed. Lions got clipped. Eagles became
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Speaker 6: the one seed. This year they have a chance to
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Speaker 6: become the two seed again, but they're gonna need help
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Speaker 6: to do that. Siriano was asked about playing the starters
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Speaker 6: in week eighteen. He kind of said, we're not there yet,
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Speaker 6: but we do see the value in resting our guys
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Speaker 6: because we've done it before and we've succeeded with that.
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Speaker 5: Where do you stand on Week eighteen, Jeff?
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Speaker 3: So, all right, if you guys may have to help
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Speaker 3: me out, just so that I understand, I've been busy
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Speaker 3: with some Philly Voice stuff today. The Bears would have
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Speaker 3: to lose is it more than just the Bears would
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Speaker 3: have to lose?
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Speaker 4: For the Eagles to get.
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Speaker 2: Just the Bears have to lose to the Lions. The
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Speaker 2: Eagles have to beat the Commanders.
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Speaker 1: That is how they get the two.
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Speaker 3: Seed, right, and the Bears are gonna play the early
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Speaker 3: game correct at the NFL simultaneously, yep, the.
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Speaker 4: Right, listen.
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Speaker 3: I personally think the number two seed is very important
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Speaker 3: at the extra home game, right, Like, if it's there,
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Speaker 3: you should go for it. I don't know what Nick
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Speaker 3: Sirianni is gonna do, but I mean, if it's there,
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Speaker 3: at least you should go for it with your eye
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Speaker 3: on the scoreboard. And you know, if the Bears are
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Speaker 3: pulling away and you feel good, you can take guys out,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 1: But I.
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Speaker 5: Mean that is their m just the rest of their guys.
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Speaker 6: They really see the value when not playing their guys
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Speaker 6: when they don't have to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's not really been a This is a
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Speaker 3: different situation where there's a big difference between me and
16:32
Speaker 3: obviously the two in three seed as far as home game.
16:34
Speaker 3: So I think that that would merit maybe some a
16:38
Speaker 3: different course of action.
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Speaker 2: And if you're the two seed, you would play the
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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers in the first round. I mean, that's
16:45
Speaker 2: difference than then it's different than San Francisco or the Rams,
16:49
Speaker 2: et cetera.
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Speaker 1: Like that would be a more favorable matchup.
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Speaker 2: But Jeff, I mean, how much trust do you have
16:54
Speaker 2: in the Lions to beat the Chicago Bears, Especially with
16:57
Speaker 2: Chicago coming off of a loss last night, They're going
17:00
Speaker 2: want to find a way to win in the final
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Speaker 2: week of the year.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, there's certainly worse teams that they could
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Speaker 3: be playing. A Lions have had a disappointing season, but
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Speaker 3: they are eight to eight and they will I think
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Speaker 3: they've got the right guy and Dan Campbell to motivate
17:12
Speaker 3: them to want to win that game.
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Speaker 4: So I mean, I would think that this is not going.
17:19
Speaker 3: To be a cakewalk for the Bears by any stretch,
17:23
Speaker 3: so that will keep things interesting. But like going back
17:26
Speaker 3: to that conversation, the two seed would get you, most
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Speaker 3: likely right the Packers.
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Speaker 4: The way the Packers have been, they're a little beat up.
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Speaker 3: I know Jordan Love was out, He'll probably be back,
17:37
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna know if the Rams wind up getting
17:39
Speaker 3: the six seed or the the Niners get to say,
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Speaker 3: is that any better?
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Speaker 4: I mean, it almost makes me think.
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Speaker 3: The three to six matchup might be well, let's see
17:47
Speaker 3: if they get the Yeah, it almost makes me think
17:50
Speaker 3: that you should go for the two seed to get
17:52
Speaker 3: the Packers, because that might.
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Speaker 4: Actually be a better opponent than the Rams or the Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Are the Niners, right, so you would so you would
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Speaker 2: start everybody next week going into the game and then
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Speaker 2: scoreboard watch.
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Speaker 1: Would that be my best case scenario?
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Speaker 3: I would go for the two seed. I think it's important.
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Speaker 3: I think getting a home game, another home game is
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Speaker 3: a big thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Mosher, before we let you go.
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Speaker 2: Lane Johnson most likely going to be back for the postseason.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about next week.
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Speaker 2: But how much of a difference will he make to
18:21
Speaker 2: this offense, if any, in the running game if he
18:25
Speaker 2: is to return for the postseason.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Lane Johnson has played.
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Speaker 3: I think he's I'm trying to think of ten or
18:34
Speaker 3: eleven games this year, and while he's great, it's not
18:39
Speaker 3: like the Eagles have had a fantastic running game at
18:42
Speaker 3: all at any point this year.
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Speaker 4: So he certainly helps.
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Speaker 3: And you've wont him back, but I don't think Fred
18:48
Speaker 3: has been a liability very much, if at all.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Lane's played.
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Speaker 3: Ten games and the Eagles have not had a great
18:56
Speaker 3: running game in any of the Taniello maybe against the
18:59
Speaker 3: Giant stats. I think a couple of good moments. But
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Speaker 3: I guess I'm saying is I don't think it's going
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Speaker 3: to make some kind of huge difference in the run game,
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Speaker 3: which is the area of the offense that must be.
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Speaker 4: Must improve, or well, listen the.
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Speaker 3: Air of the offense that if it did get back
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Speaker 3: to last year's for him, you'd feel really.
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Speaker 4: Really good about the Eagles winning the Super Bowl again.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, that'll wrap it up for us at
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Speaker 2: football at four. We appreciate you jumping on today with
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Speaker 2: the BC team.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know, we appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Have a happy new Year. We'll talk to you soon.
19:31
Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll talk to mister Mike Gil when he
19:33
Speaker 2: returns back to the Sports Bash.
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Speaker 4: Thanks Jeff, sir.
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Speaker 3: Happy new Year guys, and Pete be careful man, save
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Speaker 3: that money brother.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get in the number on the way out.
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