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Football at Four: Detailing Eagles Upcoming Training Camp Battles · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Today's edition of Football at four, powered by the Inside
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of the Birds podcast. Here on the Sports Bash. What's
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going on, Mocher? How are you on a Monday?
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Speaker 3: I could be better. I wish the weather was a
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little nicer, but otherwise not so bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's a Monday Mosher mailbag, so getting a
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good mood man. A lot of the people want to
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hear your answers to their questions. We got a lot
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of mail bank question today. And you know we're less
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than a month to training camp. I know you're excited.
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, very very excited for the fact that there's
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three weeks to go.
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Speaker 1: Well, when you say three weeks, it really starts to
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resonate three weeks until the Eagle veterans.
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Speaker 2: And players all report.
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Speaker 1: That will be on a Tuesday, by the way, So
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three weeks tomorrow the Eagles will be at the Novacare
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Complex and Jeff Boscher from inside the Birds, of course
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they'll have so much coverage of the training camp and everything,
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plus his.
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Speaker 2: Workover at Phillyvoice dot com.
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Speaker 1: If you have an Eagles question, we can probably fit
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a couple more in today six, nine, four oh three, nine,
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seven to three, but most we got a bunch of them.
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So let's dive into the Mosher Monday Mailbag edition of
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the Sports Bash on this Football at four and we'll
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start off with one from Kevin and Smithville. As you
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just said, three weeks to go before the start of
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training camp and a lot of people would like to
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hear from you on this particular topic. What is the
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biggest position battle to watch in Eagles camp?
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Speaker 2: Kevin from Smithville, Well, you know, I.
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Speaker 4: Guess the one that's probably the most significant one in
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terms of starting in potentially team success is adri Jackson.
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Versus Killey Ringo at the left cornerback spot. I mean
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that's because I think it's it feels like a fifty
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to fifty competition or may the best man win. No
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true leader in the clubhouse. But obviously you know they've
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got a lot of spots to fill. There's gonna be
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can somebody unseat Moro Jomo? You know, I even look
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at the four man rush and say, well, we know
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Jalen Carter inside and Moro Jomo we would soon would
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be the other one. But could Ty Robinson get in? There?
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Is there a true like number two running back battle
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between Dylan and Will Shipley to the point where whoever
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wins it is going to ordinary five chev bon shared
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workload off of Sa Kwon Barkley, and if it's Shipley,
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does that add a little element to the passing game.
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So there are some contextual position battles that are really
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interested seeing number three wide receiver or whether that's more
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tight end flex, but really for overall team success, right,
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the spot that everybody's really looking at is that spot
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to replace Darius Slay right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know there's a bunch of battles the right
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guard spot, as you mentioned, some of them, but the
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biggest one could be who wins that opposite corner from
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quinnyon Mitchell because that's a pretty important one, right, that's
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a pretty important one. We saw al important. You know,
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Darius Slay was of this defense a year ago. Good question,
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Kevin in Smithville, and I know a lot of people
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are going to be wondering as they get to training camp.
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Speaker 2: There, let's go to James in Summer's point.
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Speaker 1: James wants to know is Nakobe Dean locked in as
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a starter or could someone make a push and keep
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him off the field.
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Speaker 4: So that's a tough one to answer, because I would
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say he's comes back to play. He's one hundred percent
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healthy and still the same to Kobe Dean that he
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was prior to the Beateeller tendon tear. But it's not
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just also prior to the Teller, right, He's now had
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the Jones surgery on his foot.
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Speaker 3: He's his time with the foot now.
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Speaker 4: The the Beteller tendon. He had some injuries in college,
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so eventually that stuff can kind of the wear and
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hair can make you lesser of a player. And so
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we have to see, you know, I remember Nate Allen
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coming back from the We all thought Nate Allen was gonna.
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Speaker 3: Be the guy, right.
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Speaker 4: It's after so many misfires at safety when they let
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Brian Dawkins walk out the door.
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Speaker 3: And then Nate had a really significant injury and.
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Speaker 4: He came back and he was okay, but he only
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got a one year deal.
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Speaker 3: He never got like a long term extension. He just
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didn't look like the same player.
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Speaker 4: So you hope that na Kobe Dean is and if
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he is, he's the he's this yeh. He'll start next
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to next to Zach Bond and then they will use
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Johid Campbell in whatever role that whether it's ed rusher
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or also a linebacker or too.
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Speaker 3: They'll figure it out.
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Speaker 4: But if Nikobe Deane comes back in his final year
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here and he doesn't look like the same player, that
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I don't think anything's guaranteed.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get this one from this one just
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came in actually to the top of the list here
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from Bobby and Wildwood. Bobby wants to know what's the
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weakest area.
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Speaker 2: For the Birds.
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Speaker 1: Well, if that's an interesting question, we don't really think.
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We don't think of weak spots, right, everything's the best, right.
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Speaker 3: Right, Like, so if you micro or zero in.
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Speaker 4: You say number three receivers pretty weak right now, but
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they can cover that up by having two great, you know,
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outside receivers and then moving other receivers in the slot.
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I think overall, safety without CJ. Gardner Johnson at the moment,
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if we're talking about just a position, is probably the
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weakest position, only because Andrew.
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Speaker 3: Mccouba has not played an NFL down yet.
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Speaker 4: Replankaship's a nice safety, but I think we've talked about
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this before. We kind of have to see how he
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plays when he's not next to see J. Cardner Johnson,
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because in twenty twenty three, when there was no CJ.
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Gardner Johnson, Reid didn't wasn't as good. You know, he
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was part of that implosion too down the stretch, and
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he didn't play his best football.
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Speaker 3: So sometimes having a guy like CJ. Freeze up read
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to play a certain way.
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Speaker 4: So I would say safety at the moment looks like
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quote unquote weakest spot on the team.
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Speaker 2: Let's go Steven Vinelyn. I like this question, this one.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's an offseason where you get a lot
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of questions duplicitous, but this one we haven't heard much
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of and he concerned about the depth behind Lane Johnson,
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who's another year older, and Jordan my Alta. He missed
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four games last year. They lost Fred Johnson, So who
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is the depth behind Johnson? In my lotta if someone
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got hurt, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean, I can understand why that would be a concern,
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but I'm not particularly concerned, only because I mean, Fred
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Johnson came to the Eagles as a guy who would you.
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Speaker 3: Know, play for the Bengals. He was he had started
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some games for them.
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Speaker 4: It's not like he came as a as this amazing
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one year kind of signing.
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Speaker 3: He didn't earn an extension for another year.
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Speaker 4: But Kendall Lamb has a lot of starting experience with
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the Miami Dolphins, and I think somebody before that.
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Speaker 3: So he's on the team. And you've got Matt.
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Speaker 4: Pryor, who has played both right tackle and right guard.
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Right now, he's playing right guard, but he's played right
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tackle before. And those are two veterans. Right off the bat.
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They drafted Miles Hinton, so that's another guy. You know,
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I'm not expecting much from the other right tackle that
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they drafted, Texas Camera Williams, because he's more of a
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project but Darien Canard is a guy they carried all
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last year on the team and he played really well,
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I thought in the preseason games.
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Speaker 3: So I think they have a lot of options, and
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that's all you.
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Speaker 4: Can ask for at this moment is giving yourself both
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young options and veteran options.
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Speaker 1: And they have well, you know, the fact that they
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lost Fred Johnson last year. You know, it's like who
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was brought here to replace him? And I and the
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first guy who was the guy for the Dolphins, Yeah,
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Kendall Lambs.
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Speaker 4: He's got a decent amount of games in this league
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and has played.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's not probo la again. But you're not
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looking at that.
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Speaker 2: Well, that happened so long ago, you almost forgot that
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they brought him in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and he's.
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Speaker 4: Playing, although he had a recent like controversy where I
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get some quotes for misattributed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But the guy has played for He's thirty two, he's
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played for four teams, ten years, forty four starts.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Boscher from the Inside the Birds podcast It's our
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Football at four Monday Moscher mail Bag. Every Monday, Jeff
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Mosher answers your questions Uh, let's go to g O
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and eht which young wide receiver has the best shot
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to stick?
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Speaker 2: Smith, Wilson, Danny Gray.
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Speaker 4: I tell you what, what's really interesting about this trio, Mike,
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is that all of them have a shot for different reasons.
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Speaker 3: So let's break this.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what you know.
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Speaker 1: You could tell that the people listened to football at
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four in the de checho segments because Gray is a
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name that he brings up very often. And now it's
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infiltrating your mail bag.
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Speaker 3: That's right, and Gray, So start with Gray.
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Speaker 4: Then Danny Gray, who was a third round pick, by
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the way, I believe it was a third or fourth round,
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third round pick I think of the forty nine ers,
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so clearly one team thought pretty good of.
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Speaker 3: This guy at one point.
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Speaker 4: He has four to three speed, all right, And if
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you really look at the Eagles wide receiver group, yeah,
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third round pick.
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Speaker 2: If you look at the.
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Speaker 4: Eagles wide receiver group, they have a lot of talent,
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especially with AJ Brown DeVante Smith, but not a lot
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of guys running four to three.
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Speaker 3: Now, a lot of guys.
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Speaker 4: Remember when Quz Watkins was on the team a couple
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of years ago and he was limited, he.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't as good as Devontae Smith or A. J.
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Speaker 4: Brown, not nearly, but he had a role right because
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you could stretch the field from that slot position. And
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so that will be Danny Gray's feather in his cap
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that he can stretch the field probably as good as
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anybody that they have in that entire wide receiver group.
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And speed, we know that catches a coach's attention. You
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can't coach it, So that gives Danny Gray makes him
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an interesting guy to watch. Johnny Wilson is six foot
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seven Mike. You don't find a whole lot of that either.
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And they used him last year as a blocking receiver
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and sort of a backup tight end and when they
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wanted a run out of eleven personnel but have a
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bigger body in there, and he's got that and Danny
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Gray can't do that, and Ania Smith can't do that,
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and that makes him not only a good blocking receiver,
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especially if you want to get your screen game going
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or your run game going out of eleven personnel, but
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your red zone offense. I mean, a six foot seven
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guy is a guy you could just throw it up to. Now,
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Ania Smith is the only one of these three who
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is just so naturally fitted for the slot, which the
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Eagles really don't have right, A natural slot receiver, a
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guy who knows how to win two way routes, a
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guy who's played that position is underside like short, so
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perfect for that position, but also compactly built so that
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could give him the leg up. So they all bring
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something different to the table.
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Speaker 1: Good stuff. There a question there by a goo in EHG.
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Let's go to a Paul in Northfield for the most
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your mail bag, is there a veteran player who spot
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on the roster is not secure that you'll be watching.
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Speaker 4: A veteran player? Well, I mean there's a couple of it,
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like a Dorri Jackson. If he doesn't beat out Killy
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Ringo may not make the team.
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Speaker 1: I mean they've got so they don't keep him around
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as just as the backup in case someone got hurt.
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Speaker 3: He could.
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Speaker 4: I'm not saying he definitely doesn't. I'm saying it's potential
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that he wouldn't make the team if he doesn't beat
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out Killey Ringo. Because remember you still have Eli Rix,
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you have Mac McWilliams. They drafted right, so that's another corner.
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You've got Cooper to Jean, so you can't keep six corners, right,
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You've got a lot of corners. So I wouldn't say
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he's guaranteed to make it. If he doesn't beat out
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Killey Ringo, that that will be. That's that's one guy.
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I think some of the offensive lineman I mentioned, whether
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it's Kendall Lamb or Matt pryor are not definite by
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any stretch of the means to make the team. And
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I would say aj Dillon is not ven definitely.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine those two tight ends are probably battling
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for roster spot.
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Speaker 4: Good point too, They're not going to keep five tight
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ends and right now they have five.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Marcus and Maar Mora once
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ad on the motion mail bag. Who is Jeff bo
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NFC team that is flying under the radar going into
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training camp?
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Speaker 4: Man, we spent so much to all right, the NFC
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team flying under the radar. So I'm not going to
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pick the forty nine ers because I think people kind
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of are now starting to talk about them as like
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a real good bounce back type of team. Mine under
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the radar team would be probably from the NFC West.
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It would probably be the Seahawks. Kids say I have
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a ton of faith in Sam Darnold, and I do
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know that they got rid of of DK Metcalf, but
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Jackson Smith and Jiggler.
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Speaker 3: Really came on.
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Speaker 4: They do have a similar Their new offensive coordinator is Kubiak,
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who does a lot of things from the McVeigh tree,
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just like Kevin O'Connell. They do have good running backs
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with Kenneth Walker and Sharburney, so they'll get that play
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action game going. Their defense under Mike McDonald is going
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to be built up in year two now, and he
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did a great job as the Ravens coordinator.
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Speaker 3: And I think that there's.
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Speaker 4: A I think that I was gonna either pick them
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or the Cardinals, because I also like what the Cardinals
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have done. But I there's something about the way they're
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up and down the Cardinals that I can't go with them.
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But one of those two teams is going to be
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a nice little sleeper team going under the radar right now?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: Uh six O nine four three nine seven three. If
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you want to get a question for the most your
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mail bag, let's go to Tim in Wildwood Crests. I
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was just down a Wildwood Crest actually, Tim more rushing
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touchdowns this year, Hurts or Saquon?
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Speaker 3: You were in the Crest over the weekend, No.
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Speaker 2: Last weekend, two weekends ago.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say I was in Wildwood myself over the weekend.
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I didn't know. But either way, the Hurts or Saquon
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more rushing touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: I like the question because I guess it means, you know,
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do they go crazy with the tush push to just
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like jam it up the take that everybody, or the
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Saquon you know, because Saquon got a lot of touchdowns,
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take it from him. So maybe he doesn't get the
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two thousand yards this year, but against like twenty scores.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So last year Hurts had, if I remember correctly,
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I'm going looking.
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Speaker 3: Up real quick, how many touchdowns he had rushing? Fourteen?
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Speaker 5: It was my guest, yes, fourteen, And Barkley had more
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than that, right, because he had an otherworldly type of
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year he had, real quick, he had thirteen.
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Speaker 3: No, he had thirteen. So I'm gonna go Hurts again
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because it's really hard.
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Speaker 4: To have a year like Saint Kwan Barkley had and
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then go have a better year the next year.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: So, but for Hurts, he's very consistently in that number
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because of all the goal line touchdown that he gets.
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Speaker 3: Saw the hurts.
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Speaker 1: Hurts is to play from Jeff Bosher. If you want
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to bet that one, blame him if you don't get
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it right. All right, let's go to William in Lower Township.
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More important to the Eagles defense success this year? Carter
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or Smith?
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Speaker 3: Carter?
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Speaker 4: Carter, Carter makes everybody else better. I don't think we
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can say that about Nolan Smith yet. I mean, I
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haven't seen that. I think Nolan Smith does a nice job.
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He's turned speed power, he's learned his position, He's making
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pressures happen, and you know, you can definitely argue he
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put two Pro Bowl right guards out of out of
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commission in the playoffs, So that really does help when
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you put a guard out right. He did it in
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the Packers on that to Elgin, I can't remember the
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guy's name, the left guard for the Packers.
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Speaker 3: He's really good.
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Speaker 4: But you remember he came across on a sort of
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a pole and Smith put him out, and then he
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put out somebody in from Kansas City. But I think
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Jalen Smith has the trickle down effect where he gets
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the double teams and lets everybody else eat off the
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one and ones, So it's always Jalen Carter.
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Speaker 1: All right, So Carter would be the answer for the
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most important guy to the Eagles success, you know, and
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Nolan Smith, you know as the outside Edge. There's the
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article that you guys wrote about over and inside the Birds.
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I think Andrew had the fact that Jalx Hunt looks
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like a guy who's putting some workouts in together there
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gotten himself a lot stronger.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrew had a great story.
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Speaker 4: Caught up with Jele Hunch trainer down in Houston and
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really went into detail and they're what the training regimen
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revolve evolves and why it involves that. It was really
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good detail from Andrew. Great story. Everybody should check it out.
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Inside the Burgs dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Clarence from West Deptford.
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Speaker 1: Most your mail bag, Jeff, do you look at the
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Eagles as the clear favorite in the c I would
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imagine that Clarence, and some of these are people who
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have been listening to your series here in the NFC stuff,
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so he wants to know the Eagles the clear favorite
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in the NFC.
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Speaker 3: You ever see a movie Airplane, Mike.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of them.
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Speaker 3: Actually, remember when he says Roger. Roger over over, do
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you have clearance Clarence.
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Speaker 4: So that's a good because clear and Clarence are in
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the in the same in the question here, So that
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made me think of that.
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Speaker 2: Gotcha.
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Speaker 3: Do I think are the clear favorite? Yes, I think
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the Eagles.
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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean they're gonna win, but I think that
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they still have the most talent in the NFC East.
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And the only reason that you wouldn't is the history
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says that in twenty years no team is repeat.
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Speaker 2: But no, this is in the NFC though.
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Speaker 3: Oh as the NFC.
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Speaker 4: Yes, no, no, Well, I see them as the favorite,
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So I guess that if you're the favorite, you're the
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clear favorite.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that.
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Speaker 4: The Rams are pretty close, and I think the Lions.
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The Lions have probably the second most talent in the NFC.
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I just don't know about losing both coordinators. If the
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Lions were bringing everybody back from coordinators with the fifty three.
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Speaker 3: And a half, I would actually make them the favorite.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the conference. So the Eagles are plus
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three hundred, Detroit is plus four to seventy five, Washington
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is plus nine hundred. San fran is plus one thousand,
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the Packers are a thousand, the Rams are plus eleven hundred,
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Tampa plus thirteen hundred, So the Eagles are plus three hundred,
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the Lions are plus four to seventy five. Would we
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characterize that as a clear favorite?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: And I'm really curious now about the Rams because I
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do feel like I'm on Rams Island. I don't know
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how they got any worse by getting DeVante Adams and
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losing Cooper Cup.
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Speaker 3: I feel like that makes them actually significantly better.
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Speaker 4: And I think they have the best coaching staff or
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right up there with anybody else in the conference or
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in the NFL. And I don't think they had too
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many losses that I look at and say that that's
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gonna hurt them. Michael Wait and those young pass rushers
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they had, Mike Verse, he was a beast.
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Speaker 3: Even against the Eagles, he was a beast. So is Fast.
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Speaker 4: I have a hard time picking the Rams. They are
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not going to be a good team. However, as you mentioned,
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they're not like they're not like right behind the Eagles
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in any kind of like favorite odds on for any sportsbook.
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Speaker 1: So oh, in fact, when I just read those off,
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we're the Rams plus twenty two hundred.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get it.
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Speaker 1: I think actually, sorry that was for that is actually
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their their odds are plus eleven hundred for the NFC
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twenty two hundreds for the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Yeah that surprises me, but what do I know. I'm
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just a sports writer.
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Speaker 1: We are football at four here on the Sports Bass
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Live ninety seven three ESPN. Don't forget to download all
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we get ready three weeks to uh equals Camp. By
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the way, we have a poll question up. You want
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to answer the pole question? Oh sure, big moment of
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the game. Who do you put up to the plate
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to get that hit? Is it Harper or Schwarber? Who
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do you trust more the hit?
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Speaker 3: Harper? Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: You Harper.
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Speaker 4: By the way, my answer to the lineup to debate
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that you you and Josh were going through is to
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sort of split the middle. I would say, if I'm
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facing a right hander, I would take Harper two, Schwarber
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three right, and then Turner leads off and then you
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combat bone forth. I mean, you can bat wherever like
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Hasias on. But then against left hand I'm sorry that yeah,
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against left handers, I would probably move Boom into the
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third hole and split, so Harper Boom Schwarber, And I
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know that that means Schwarber doesn't automatically get up.
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Speaker 3: But you're talking about having the.
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Speaker 4: Lead MLB leader and hits leading off, and then two
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guys in Boom and Harper are really high on base percentage.
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So like all likelihood, Schwarber will get up in the
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first inning because one of those three is probably gonna
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get on.
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Speaker 1: Base well, and if he gets up, it's generally going
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to be in an RBI situation exactly.
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Speaker 3: That's so I have no problem with him batting forth
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against lefties.
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Speaker 1: Well, they got Schwarber hitting two, Harper hitting three tonight.
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That's the way the Phillies went with the lineup. In
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Bryce Harper's return to the lineup, he is back for
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the Phills as they take on the Padres.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, So I'm sor.
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Speaker 4: The only thing I think about that is, let's say,
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like Turner's steal a lot of bases, he's getting a
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lot of hits, he's on second.
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Speaker 3: If you want this is really.
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Speaker 4: Over analyzing it, over analytics, but Harper uses all fields.
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Schwarber is only going to hit the ball to right
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field right for the most part, sometimes home run the center.
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Speaker 3: Like, I'm thinking about moving this runner from second to.
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Speaker 4: Third, the guy who's hitting the ball to all that's
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why I want Swarber third.
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Speaker 3: Is that who said Schwarber is third behind?
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Speaker 2: No, Schwerber's hitting second tonight and Harper's hitting third.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, so Swarber it would be behind her, so yes,
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so he could.
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Speaker 4: Move A fly ball would move Turner from second to third,
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whereas Harper is more likely to like line out to
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left field because he uses all fields and not be
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able to move that runner.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that's what we're thinking it, but.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, well, the one thing that intrigues me is the
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fact that Schwarber will now have the best protection he's
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ever had behind it. We've never seen him have Harper
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behind Shorebert. So now they're saying you have to pitch
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to Schwarber.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I like it. I think they're ready to take
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off here.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Boscher Football at four, and don't forget check out
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all his work over at Philly Voice dot com, where
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he does opine about the Phillies from time to time.
21:52
You could check that out at Phillyvoice dot com here
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on sportsbats but Football four is back again tomorrow uh
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with Andrew excuse me with a Hi Kapellen just back
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on Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: Thanks man, take care, h