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Birds Weekly With Derrick Gunn, Barrett Brooks: Can We Realistically Pick The Eagles Vs. Commanders? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Week 8 is upon us as the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Eagles get ready to take on the Washington Commanders in
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night encounter. This is Birds Weekly presented by
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  Speaker 1: the Inside the Birds Network. For my man, former Eagle,
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  Speaker 1: former Steeler, former Denver Bronco for a minute, former, what, Packer,
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Lion?
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  Speaker 2: I collected many checks from many owners.
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  Speaker 1: Barrett Brooks, I'm Derrick Gunn, and B. Brooks. Both of
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  Speaker 1: these teams suck. I'm going to just tell it like
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  Speaker 1: it is. They both suck right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Washington is bringing up the rear of the NFC East.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are right above them.
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  Speaker 2: And B.
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  Speaker 1: Brooks, you know, we talked earlier in the week about
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee making a turn and looking more comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: the offense. I expect him to grow even more so
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  Speaker 1: because Washington's defense is not as bad as Dallas' defense
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  Speaker 1: on paper. But Washington's defense– It's not all that great.
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  Speaker 1: So I expect Tanner to have a measure of success
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  Speaker 1: against Washington. I think that he played well enough to
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  Speaker 1: win last week. He played good, man.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way he was going to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and dink and dunk. They customized the offense around
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  Speaker 3: his skill set. You could see the natural progression of
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  Speaker 3: him learning and being around that system for one week
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  Speaker 3: by himself being the starter, having all the starter reps.
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  Speaker 2: That was great.
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  Speaker 3: And plus, he has some guys around him that can play.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Landon Dickinson being back is huge. Kendall being
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  Speaker 3: back is huge. All that stuff is big because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: health is wealth, man. And the more people you give back,
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  Speaker 3: the better you're going to get. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if we're going to have Saquon going forward. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see. But I'll say this. When he was in
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  Speaker 3: the game, they were balling. They would do what they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do. You know, play action was working because
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  Speaker 3: they ran the ball consistently. He's definitely somebody that defenses
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  Speaker 3: have to focus on. Now, You're talking about a commander's
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  Speaker 3: team that they almost beat us the first time we met.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 3: And their defense isn't as bad. I mean, Frankie Lou,
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  Speaker 3: he's like a pain in my butt, man. He gets
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  Speaker 3: on my nerves always doing something crazy, man, or hitting somebody.
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  Speaker 2: He's just one of those guys that he just want
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  Speaker 2: to make life just bad, man.
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  Speaker 3: I just want him on my team, bro, but he's
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  Speaker 3: a thorn, man. I mean, and He's a baller, and
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  Speaker 3: I look at the rest of their defense.
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  Speaker 2: Sonny Stiles, the rookie from Ohio State?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Straight baller.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Straight baller.
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  Speaker 3: Say what you want to say?
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  Speaker 2: Rasul Douglas has been balling, too. Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 1: The old man, Rasul Douglas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I like their safety, Nick Cross.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: He plays a physical brand of football.
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  Speaker 2: He's a fast player. You know, he ran like a 4-3-4-D.
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  Speaker 2: Really good safety, man.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they have enough that they can make
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  Speaker 3: life hard on us if.
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  Speaker 2: We go out there and try to do the same
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  Speaker 2: thing we did against Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be a long day for our defense again, though,
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  Speaker 3: because I really do like their offense, man.
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels can play.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And if he has some more weapons, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of guys hurt also. Terry McLaurin's out.
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  Speaker 3: Out for the season, yep. So I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Stephon Diggs, I don't like him, but I got to
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  Speaker 3: respect Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're Sean Mannion, after you've seen what Tanner
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  Speaker 1: McKee could do for the first two quarters plus against Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: if you're working with Tanner and you're Sean Mannion, where
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  Speaker 1: do you take him to the next level now for
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  Speaker 1: the next game on a short week? What are some
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  Speaker 1: of the things you want to see Tanner do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better against Washington on Sunday night?
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  Speaker 3: Well, more and more, I'll be asking him, what do
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  Speaker 3: you like best now? Now you're going into your third game.
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  Speaker 3: What route combinations do you like? What can you check to?
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  Speaker 3: If you see this blitz, how can you counter this blitz?
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  Speaker 3: I think the blitz pickup will get better for him.
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  Speaker 3: Side adjustments will get better for him. Calling his own
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  Speaker 3: plays will get better for him. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing. He'll put us in a better position
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  Speaker 3: because he can definitely get the ball out on time.
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  Speaker 3: He definitely does that very, very well. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a big thing. His big thing is It's making sure
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  Speaker 3: he keeps the offense on time and doing that. We
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  Speaker 3: can win some games, man, with him.
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  Speaker 1: Who's running the football for the Eagles? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got to establish some kind of ground game. So, I mean, now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm holding on.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have auditions or something, man.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're wrong for that, B.
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  Speaker 2: Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: You're wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying, man, but I'm just looking. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: the roster. You got Damian Pierce and Saquon Barkley, the
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  Speaker 3: only two running backs on the 53-man roster right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're both hurt. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Both of them are hurt. Both of them are out
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  Speaker 2: right now. On the P-Squad, who would we pick? I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen anything like this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We got Jada Blue. Okay. From Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it?
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it? I mean, come on, man. I'm trying, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying. I'm really trying. I think.
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  Speaker 3: We did put Elijah Moore out there as a runner back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: But Elijah Moore's a receiver, and he was just faking.
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  Speaker 3: They were just putting him out there to fake something.
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  Speaker 3: So a gadget play.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing I want to see is which Eagles
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  Speaker 1: defense shows up against Washington State. Because leading up to
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  Speaker 1: this game, if I'm Vic Fangio, I'm establishing the fear
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  Speaker 1: of God in my defensive players after what they did
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night against Dallas. There is no excuse on
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  Speaker 1: this planet for that collection of talent to have a
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  Speaker 1: similar game as to what they did Monday night against
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Washington has good receivers. They have Antonio Williams.
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  Speaker 1: They have Stephon Diggs. They have Traylon Burks. Those guys
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  Speaker 1: ain't C.D. Lamb and George Pickens. I expect to see
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  Speaker 1: a much better better performance by this Eagles defense. If
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  Speaker 1: I don't, we're going to be screaming bloody murder come Monday, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday of next week about this defense basically is quitting
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  Speaker 1: on Vic Fangio.
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  Speaker 3: That's absolutely right, man, because there's no excuse for them
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  Speaker 3: to play the way they play and express with the
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  Speaker 3: talent they have.
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  Speaker 2: Now, can you get guys playing physical? That's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Can you get more out of the two cornerstone guys at.
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  Speaker 3: The defensive line? That's the whole thing for me. If
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  Speaker 3: I can get those guys to play on the other
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  Speaker 3: side of the line of scrimmage, along with Mauro Jomo,
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  Speaker 3: we got a fighting chance. But if those guys don't
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  Speaker 3: turn it up, it don't matter what we do. It'll
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  Speaker 3: be a track meet again for their running backs.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a track meet, man.
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  Speaker 3: And we just can't afford to run a track with
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  Speaker 3: anybody because we can't go tit for tat.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just don't have it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and Rashad White is a good running back.
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  Speaker 2: He's killed us before in Tampa Bay. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we have Rashad White. Eckler is back, too.
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  Speaker 1: What? We've got to figure out a way, man. We've
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  Speaker 1: got to figure out a way. Take me inside the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. You are Nick Sirianni. You're in the locker
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  Speaker 1: room an hour before kickoff. You're looking to your right,
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  Speaker 1: your left, in front of you, behind you. You're looking
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  Speaker 1: into the faces of your players. And what are you
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  Speaker 1: telling them?
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  Speaker 3: If you don't want to play physical, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to play this lame, like a gladiator sport, then you
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  Speaker 3: need to get up out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Period.
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  Speaker 3: Because if I don't see 50, no, was it 46?
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  Speaker 3: 46 men out there just going all out, then you
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  Speaker 3: need not walk back into this locker room. Because we
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  Speaker 3: pay you too much money to be out there just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, freestyling and just going through the motions. We
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  Speaker 3: need guys that want to go out there and rip
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  Speaker 3: somebody's heads off.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? We need somebody to rip
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  Speaker 2: up trees by the roots. That's what we need.
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  Speaker 3: We need some intensity, man. We don't have any intensity
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  Speaker 3: on that side of the ball. I mean, you got
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  Speaker 3: guys who want to say, all right, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: want to reroute. We didn't reroute any receivers. We go
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  Speaker 3: up there, play title, like we're going to reroute them,
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  Speaker 3: and then back straight up. Don't even do that, dude,
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to do that. If you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get up there, put your hands on them. You're fast enough.
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  Speaker 2: You're quick enough to run with them. They just don't
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  Speaker 2: do it, man.
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  Speaker 3: So until they get some physicality, some want to, It's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a tough, tough rest of the season, man.
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  Speaker 2: All right, B.
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  Speaker 1: Brooks, give me a score for Sunday night's game.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: 21-17. Who?
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  Speaker 2: Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Homer Brooks?
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  Speaker 1: Picking against the Eagles? Man, I'm tired of lying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just tired of lying. You've been lying to me for years.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you tired of it now?
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  Speaker 2: For years.
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  Speaker 3: And for years, this team would back me up. But
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  Speaker 3: they can't back me up anymore, so I got to
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  Speaker 3: tell the truth. I cannot tell a lie.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that this team can barely score 21 points,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it. And I know Washington is not
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  Speaker 1: a juggernaut on both sides of the ball. They're a
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  Speaker 1: decent team. They're a competitive team. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that tied the Giants in overtime. And then
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  Speaker 1: the next week, They came within six points of beating
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco. They should have beat San Francisco. So now
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  Speaker 1: they're well-rested and coming off a bye with those two
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  Speaker 1: things in the back of their minds. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: went toe-to-toe with the Giants who lead our division, and
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco, one of the toughest teams in all of football,
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  Speaker 1: we came close to beating. We owe San Francisco the
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  Speaker 1: 23 points, and we should have beat them when we
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  Speaker 1: beat ourselves. So I'm taking Washington in this game 24-17.
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  Speaker 1: That's my story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm singing to it. We got next. We got next.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to beat the Eagles now. That's where they
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  Speaker 2: are right now, man.
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  Speaker 1: That's wrong. That's wrong. I hope we're both wrong come
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night, man, after we watch this game. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope we have something positive to talk about next week
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  Speaker 1: after this game. So until the Washington Eagles game is
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  Speaker 1: all said and done, for B. Brooks, I'm D. Gunn.
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  Speaker 1: This has been Birds Weekly presented by the Inside the
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  Speaker 1: Birds Network. So long, everybody.