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All right, everybody, you're listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the Philadephia
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Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the
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world. Week one of the Eagles twenty three twenty four season now in the
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books. The Eagles beating the New England Patriots on the road up in Foxboro
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by a score of twenty five to twenty didn't seem like a win, did
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it, folks? For those of you listening, I don't know about you,
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but it did not necessarily seem like a win, and certainly wasn't a
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decisive win at all by the standards we had coming into this game and coming
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into this season. I am Jeff Warren. I'm here with my good buddy
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Eric Leonard er Man. We're gonna go through our themes of the game,
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some of our takeaways, and then get into our grades, as we do
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and have been doing every year that we've been doing this podcast. So I
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guess, first and foremost we had we had Tony Romo and Jim Nance to
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start us off, which honestly I didn't mind too much. I was like,
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I hope they don't stick us with a bunch of real schlups. We
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didn't have that. I know you'd like to talk about the announcers on our
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postgame shows, So I don't know about you, buddy, but I was
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happy about that. That's the most important thing for me talking about this Eagles
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matchup right off the bat men, I actually would have liked to have some
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like Iron Eagle shitty great d announcing team, Like yeah, like everything about
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this game that's just kind of neat. I mean, Jim Nance is a
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bore. Yes, Tony Romo's turned to an absolute bore of a color analyst.
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He does, he does the stuff already. He sounds like he's John
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Madden, you know, eighty years old. He's like fifty years old.
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Yeah. The weather was terrible. Their crowd is not the best. It's
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not a good stadium. Tom Brady of course, was very boring at halftime.
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Of course, he's never been very exciting. And it was just a
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bad game overall from start to finish. Both teams terrible. This is one
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thing I text all you guys, I've never really watched Mac Jones play football,
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and man, I got a strong Chad Pennington, but not as good
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Chad Pennington vibe. I like that I like that comp Yeah, he's kind
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got a rag arm. He's kind of got a like when he had I
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think almost said two or three times, like you got a zing that ball
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in there? He out loud was like you need to throw that ball harder
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to an NFL quarterback. That's that's kind of pathetic, right. I don't
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watch every football game, but that's kind of sad. It is. It
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absolutely is kind of sad. I believe on our text thread you said he's
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a noodle armed idiot. Yeah, I did. I want to to get
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it straight. I wanted to get everything proper as it should be here on
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our first Eagles post podcast show, that was a noodle arm idiot. There
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were some other explatives out there for him, but I had just really unimpressive.
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Both teams just really sloppy. The coordinators and you said they were at
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top of it before we started recording first year coordinators. I will give credit
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to I thought the defensive coordinator. I thought the defense came out really aggressive.
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The front was really good. I mean, can get into it later,
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but like New England, cod barely rushed the ball and that was very
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evident. All I had to do was shut mac Jones down and they couldn't
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really do that, even though he's a noodle arm idiot. Like I said,
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but my takeaway the game sloppy. But you gotta wa you got it.
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You gotta win on the road in a messy, rainy, crappy game
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against one of the best coaches ever sports. I'll take it. So yeah,
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but you gotta take the win. Yeah, absolutely, folks. We
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gotta take the win anyway we can take it. And it absolutely happened.
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Eagles want to know on the season thus far. But in terms of like,
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in terms of the themes of the game, Eric, I think the
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biggest one of the biggest themes was that we definitely have two new coordinators for
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this Eagles team. Brian Johnson the offensive coordinator, shown Decide the defensive coordinator.
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Two rookie coordinators. In terms of who they are for this Philadelphia Eagles
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team, they were absolutely schooled a number of times today and and and I
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just look at especially that fourth and two play at the end of the fourth
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quarter. It wasn't necessary to run Jalen Hurts on the play. And by
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and by the way, is well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm
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thinking, I'm thinking of the passing play. I'm thinking of the passing play.
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I love how they're running the ball up until then, but then they
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decide on the fourth and two to pass it. But but when the Eagles
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dig get the ball back in the Patriots territory, it wasn't necessary for Jalen
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Hurts to run the play on that particular type of play where he mumbled the
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ball at the end of the fourth quarter. It wasn't necessary. That was
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an unnecessary play to call, And that goes to show Brian Johnson's just lack
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of in game experience. He's gonna get there, I think, but still
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could have cost this team the game right there. Well, and if I
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wouldn't remember, I think the play call was a quick, quick throw over
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the mill to the tight end. Yeah, and they hadn't thrown him all
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game. I think once they've throwned the god her his head like yeah,
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one target, no catches and in that spot, like, how are you
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not? How is it that a quick in on both your great receivers on
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either end, Smith and Brownie? How was that not the play call?
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How can how can a J brown not go one yard in? One yard
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in one yard step forward? One in. That's two yards catch. That's
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every time right, absolutely said he goes Dallas got the middle who hasn't didn't
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see a damn ball all game, and I guess to play. I guess
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the thought was, oh, we're gonna catch them off guard. Well,
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you're you're also playing against what you said. They got schooled well Bill Belichick,
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who's the offensive coordinator for the Patriots, Bill O'Brien. O'Brien, Yeah,
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it's been around, like I know, like maybe it's not the greatest
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coach of all time, but yeah, they got out coach today and thank
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god, still won the game. But even Nick Sirianni looked kind of silly
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today against Bill Belichick. But again, thank goodness for the I would say
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that defensive line was extremely aggressive. I will give I'll give our coordinator that,
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and thank god we have Darius Slayton the team because without that interception on
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that pick six, ye, we don't win the game. They're they got
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four days to get the coaching right now. They're not gonna be facing the
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best coach in NFL history. Far from it. We're playing a team that
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just lost to Tampa at home and their home opener. But that you know,
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you've got four days, but you're going home and again, awful game.
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And then that's the kind of game if you lose the the negativity is
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like off the charts. You win, it's it's not too bad right out
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of sloppy, but we gotta win on the road. It was this was
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a much This could have been a much worse loss if they had lost.
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If that makes sense, absolutely, no to piggyback off what you're saying right
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there, and it's absolutely My next point, in my next theme of this
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particular game is that there was a lot of rust on Jalen Hurts. There
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was a lot of rust on the offensive line throughout this game. And that's
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what you get when a lot of these guys just don't play throughout the preseason.
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Yes, you don't want your players being hurt throughout the preseason. And
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I'm not saying Jalen Hurts should have been out there for six quarters of the
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preseason playing and just getting acclimated to things. No, I'm not saying that
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at all. But what you said just now, Eric goes to the point
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where there is a lot of rust that is still on this team, and
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we saw it throughout the NFL today in general, on this Sunday here September
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ten, twenty twenty three, saw a lot of rust on a lot of
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different players right out of the gate. And here's another point that I think
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is interesting in another theme. And I don't know if Sirianni is gonna be
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talking about this. I don't know if Brian Johnson's gonna be talking about this
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at all. But I saw an interesting tweet from our friend of the pod
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who was on recently OJ Spivey, and he said, why go out and
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acquire a big running back like Rashad Penny only to sit him in the first
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game of the season. Rashad Penny a two hundred and twenty pound running back,
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and yes, Kenny Gainwell, while he was very instrumental in moving the
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ball and moving the chains throughout the day, a two hundred pound running back,
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they could have used Rashad Penny out there in a number of short yardage
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type of equations and even on those show that fourth and two towards the end
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of the game there they could have used Rashad Penny four shure and yes,
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Kenny Gainwell did have fifty four yards on fourteen carries. He only average three
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point nine yards per carry, and he was instrumental in the passing game,
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catching four balls for twenty yards. And I'm not saying that he wasn't a
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good player today by any stretch, But why have for shot Penny. Why
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go out and actually get him in free agency and bring him to the Philadelphia
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Eagles if you're gonna sit him. Meanwhile, DeAndre Swift, the other running
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back that you go out and you acquire through a trade with the Detroit Lions,
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had one carry for three yards today. I was a little baffled by
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how the rushing attack really went today. And again I think goes back to
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the fact that we got we got a rookie offensive coordinator in Brian Johnson.
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You know, we saw it from from the offensive side. The defensive side
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was Seawan Desai. There were a lot of up and downs in this game,
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honestly, a lot more downs. Ball kind of bounced the Eagle's way,
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which is why they got this twenty five twenty win. But again with
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the running back situation, I was a little baffled by it. Eric I
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honestly I went back and looked at the h The notes did are like opening
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late or preseason notes or I got pregame notes. Sorry. Was Rashod Penny
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like, was he active? Yeah? He was active in the preseason.
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I mean he was getting touches and carries, and even for this game,
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I when I didn't see I didn't hear his name once. I was like,
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I actually looked it up. Was he hurt or did he just not
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playing the preseason enough? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, And they
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didn't barely use Swift. They had no plan at running back, that's for
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sure. Besides running, Jalen Hurts and Kenneth gained well with fourteen carries.
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I mean, geez a lot. Yeah, but I couldn't help it.
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Like that fumble he had was very reminiscent of the Super Bowl. Yeah,
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it was a bummer. It was a perfect shot, but you know,
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we gotta look at the positives really, Like, honestly, the defensive line
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was actually better, I would say than I could have imagined. Thank God.
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From yes, yeah, yeah, I mean, and okay, I'll
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take some credit here. I said the score was going to be twenty seven
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to twenty on the show this past week. You did, and the offense
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was going to be really sloppy and rusty. You did. I was two
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points off. I didn't think Mac Jones would put up like four almost four
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hundred yards on us, but that was like, no, you know,
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I'll get to that in a second, right right, Yeah, yeah,
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well, I you know, I think I even said during the show,
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we have an issue at corner and safety and that's okay because we're gonna have
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the best defensive line. Where where we might get in trouble as linebackers,
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I'm not sure. Yeah, but the offense like okay, so we'll just
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put it out there. You and I picked Eagles Bengals super Bowl. Yes,
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right now, in this moment, maybe not the greatest, but I
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did say I think I think the best teams are going to struggle for because
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they don't never play anyone in the preseason. So by week five, weeks
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six, US and the Bengals are just rolling through teams. Then I'll be
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like, okay, we'll feel a little better after this game. Right now,
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you know, I have te Higgins and both my fantasy teams zero points,
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City Buddy, thank you. It's a lot. That team looks sloppy.
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But I again, I think I think by week three four is where
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you're gonna see the offense going, and I'm hoping Penny's part of that swift
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part of that, and hopefully Dallas Goddard would be nice if he was part
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of that too, I would be great. And if that momentum keeps going
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with the defensive defensive lineman stuff, that's that's where we'll start to just roll
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through teams. Absolutely, all right, we got to talk about them from
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the defensive side. Now, I think we've pretty much gone through the offensive
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standpoint I really quick though, before we get to the defense, I want
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to give some props to DeVante Smith A J. Brown balling out there like
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they usually do. And what I mean by that is they each had ten
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targets in this game. They each came down with seven balls. Each had
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seven receptions. A J. Brown seventy nine yards on the day, DeVante
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Smith forty seven yards on the day. Quez Watkins he caught both of his
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passes. Folks for the Quays Watkins haters out there, he only had two
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balls thrown his way, but he caught both of them for seventeen yards and
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we had that amazing And see that's where Jay, this is where Jalen Hurts
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is so incredible and DeVante Smith as well. That touchdown that Jalen hurts through
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to DeVante Smith in the end zone, Holy freaking crap. He couldn't have
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placed it any better underneath the arms of the defender. There was only one
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place that he could have actually put that ball perfectly, and he did it
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to perfection. So of course it's there again. It's a rusty game right
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to start the season. I think we're going to start to see some good
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things over Holy over these next few weeks. As Eric was saying, but
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from the defensive side. Now, Eric, boy, you said, man,
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the linebackers wholely freaking shit, Nakobe Dean getting schooled in pass coverage for
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most of the game, and then I'm seeing this, He's going out just
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Zach Hunningham and ellis also just a complete liability when it came to them in
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pass coverage. We want to know why Mac Jones had the majority of those
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three hundred and sixteen total yards on the day was because of the lack of
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just ability to cover from the linebacker corps and the miscommunication with the linebacker corps
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and the secondary as well. Holy shit, man, Ducai has to get
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this figured out. He really does I know next week Kirk Cousins Week two.
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I know he's not the greatest quarterback in the world, but he will
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be able to pick apart the middle of the field like Mac Jones did today.
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If this isn't straightened out, yeah, well, and this is also
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I was going to say at the top of the show, like this is
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kind of a cliche for a team that made the Super Bowl the previous year.
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Every team is gunning for you now, you know, like Bill Belichick
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had this one circled. It's like, you guys, beat me the super
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Bowl. You just made the Super Bowl. Tom Brady's here in the house,
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I'm going to bring my a game, and he did. He coached
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a hell of a game given the talent he has on both sides of the
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ball. But yeah, the secondary and this just lack of linebackers. With
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Kirk Cousins and that offensive juggernaut, I know they didn't play well to hit,
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but they were kind of probably playing their first preseason game, just like
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Jalen Hurts was today, as was most of the other players, including the
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offensive line. They looked really rusty. But I'm hoping by this game,
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as He's like, there's this will be their second preseason game, but I
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can't stand up about the defensive line. Jordan Davis was just dominant. He
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was kind of they drafted last year and I'm I'm on Twitter just looking up
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Jail car Jaalen Carter didn't see the didn't see the field a ton, but
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every single time he was out there, he had a sack today. I
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don't know how many pressures. His first play in the first quarter, he
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just bowled through the guard, just ran him right over and almost sack Mac.
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He's going to be a menace. And once he understands, like once
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he fully understands the position and like where you're supposed to be in this defense
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with him and Davis out there at the same time, what what what are
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teams like Kirk Cousins can try and throw to his Addison and Jefferson only wants
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or Maddis whatever his name is. It won't matter if Davison Carter in his
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face at the end higher timing like they they started to look like, oh
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my god, this might be one of the most terroristic tackle duos in the
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league, like like soon absolutely absolutely, I'm glad you brought it up.
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I'm glad you brought up Jalen Carter. I mean, I think already after
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Week one could potentially be up up in the top five of being the rookie
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of the year. Yes, I know it's only week one, Folks calmed
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down, but as Eric was saying, you take a look at the box
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score, and it's like, okay, one tackle, one sack, one
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tackle for a loss, however, and one quarterback hit. However, he
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was containing where he needed to contain within his gaps. When you saw it
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out there, he was. He was an absolute beast out there doing his
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job what he needed to do. And it's one of the reasons why Romandre
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Stevenson on twelve carries only had twenty five yards two point one yards per carry.
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Now, wasn't all on Jalen Carter, but when he was out there
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making plays. It's one of the reasons why this rushing game from the Patriots,
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they only put up seventy six yards rushing in this game, three point
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five yards per rush. Eric, You're absolutely right there. I mean,
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if there is one unit we're gonna grade in a little bit, If there's
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one unit that actually does deserve an A this week, I think it's a
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defensive line man easily because Josh Wett two totally yep. The tackles took up
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a lot of the took a lot of the heat and loud sweat. That
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was not a pun. Okay, I swear to God's sweat heat. I
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was not trying for that. He looked fucking awesome today. And he's one
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of those guys that he's he's he's like Greg Ward and that you're like,
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is he's telling the roster But he's really good though it's not like Greg Ward,
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where who just who just has a roster spot to it for eternity,
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Josh Sweat is still in this team, looks as good as ever, like
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actually gets better season by season. I'm glad we resigned him, and I'm
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I'm I'm hoping he keeps it up because our are our boy that we both
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picked to be defensive, you know, MVP of the year for for the
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Eagles on Reddick nowhere to be found today on But but we're gonna need Sweat
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because I don't know who that other edge rush edge rusher is going to be
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outside of Reddick on this roster. I don't really see one, really,
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I mean, I'm just going through the stats. Now, I mean Derek
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Barnett, Brandon Graham, but they're older players, right, Yeah, but
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it could have been an anomaly today for Hassan Reddick. Seriously, maybe first
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game yips or something like that. I'm watching him and they were double teaming
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him a little bit here and there, but there was it was just him
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one on one throughout much of the game. Well, and here's the here's
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the thing about the Pats. They're not horror They're not a horrible team.
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Like when you said they were going to be, I was like, I
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think their offensive line is pretty good. I think they're defense is gonna be
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pretty solid. They're well coached, Like, I don't think it'll be the
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worst team in the league. So for our defensive tackles to do that to
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their offensive line that's been together for quite some time and hold this team to
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three and a half yards per rush on twenty two carries, Holy hell,
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I mean and Mac Jones Lollypop Macaroni arm throws. A couple of eight made
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it to the receivers because they're wide open down the middle of the field.
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But for the most part, they kind of dominated his team. If they
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had sacked him on one or two more times. I think we win,
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like by more than five points. So yeah, alright, very good here,
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folks. We are going to get into some grades when we come back.
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Oh well, first, really quick, folks, just want to take
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you through some box score stuff. Jalen Hurts twenty two or thirty three,
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one hundred and seventy yards averaged five point two yards per attempt, averaged five
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point two yards per temp. Folks, we're gonna be doing some gratings in
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a little bit here. One touchdowny average and then he had a rating of
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eighty nine point two. Here Mac Jones ended with a rating of ninety one
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point three. Keep that in mind and throw three touchdowns. Eagles rushing ninety
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seven yards on the day, they averaged three point nine yards per rush,
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and then with the receiving one hundred and seventy yards seven point seven yards per
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reception. So keep that in mind in terms of some box score of facts
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and figures here. But we are going to take a quick break and we
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will be back in just a bit. We're gonna get into our grades.
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Stick around, all right, we are back, Eric, Let's get into
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our grades. Unless you have any other themes, I forgot before the break
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to ask if you had any other themes or takeaways from the game that you
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wanted to get into, just real quick. On next Gen stats, I
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just saw this. Jalen Carter's six pressures were tied for the most pressures by
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any rookie defensive tackle over the last five seasons. Amazing. Oh, boy's
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gonna keep getting better, folks. Yes, Oh my gosh, it was
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the one bright spot in this game. Oh my gosh, it's honestly like
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this. The tackle duo reminds me of like Jerome Brown, Clyde Simmonson and
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like that. Yeah yeah, I mean there's no Reggie White on this team,
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but that that level of tackle between the two. Davis and Carter stay
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healthy. Yeah, all right, very good. Let's get into the grades,
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grade by unit, and then we're gonna get into the coaching grades.
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So let's start first with a quarterback. As I mentioned before the break,
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Jalen Hurts with one hundred and seventy yards on the day, only average five
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point two yards per attempt short yardage passes throughout the day, one touchdown,
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no interceptions. He was sacked three times, had a rating of eighty nine
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point two I am going to give Jalen Hurts this week a C minus.
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Eric, what do you give him? Because of his first game? I
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probably would have, you know, great amount of curves part, but the
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fumball just did it for me like that. You cannot lose that ball in
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this weather. You know. It's just like one little mistake and losing a
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dumb game like this, and it almost killed him. I got a C
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minus as well. He would have got a C plus without the fumball.
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Okay, all right, let's move to the running backs. Kenneth gained well
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fifty four yards on the day. Jalen Hurts, while he's not a running
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back, but he had thirty seven yards rushing on the day. Boston Scott
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carried the ball once three yards. DeAndre Swift carried the ball once three yards.
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Again, the running back situation very very perplexed by it. So I'm
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basically gonna give like Kenny Gainwell, I'm gonna give him a C this week.
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And you know what, he wasn't necessarily helped by the offensive line.
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We're gonna get to that in just a bit. But I'm gonna give Kenny
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Gainewell, And see, what do you give him am I just doing all
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the rushers? Are you just going game? Because he only he's only one
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actually ran them just by unit, like running back running back by unit.
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I'm just I'm I'm kind of surprised. Like when they when the when the
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broadcast came up and it was just pouring rain, I'm like, well,
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they're gonna be running the ball all day long. This is an awesome swift
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penny game, right, DeAndre for the what's his name for their side and
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Zeke and both teams ran the ball not even fifty times combined turn into a
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passing which is why the game is probably such a shitty sloppy mess. Right,
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But yeah, it's I got to tie it to the quarterbacks great C
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minus and I'm sure the offensive line is gonna get a similar grade. Very
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sloppy, not a great game, but I think the defensive line deserves the
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majority of the bad grade. I would say, okay, well move over
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to the next skilled position unit, the wide receivers and tight ends receiving.
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On the day today, I wish Dallas Gotter would have had more than one
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target. He came down with zero balls. No, that one target he
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wasn't able to come down with and honestly it was because it was some good
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defense by the Patriots the secondary there, so we had I mentioned DeVante DeVante
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Smith, A. J. Brown, and Quez Watkins earlier. I'm gonna
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give the receiving Corps overall a B because I really do think they did what
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they needed to do today. It really sucked that AJ Brown kind of bobbled
23:33
the ball on that long bomb from from Hurts to him. Uh you know,
23:37
it was overturned by the officials, probably should have been overturned. But
23:41
I'm gonna give the receiving Corps B. I think they did the majority of
23:45
what they were asked to do today. They did their jobs. What do
23:47
you think I mean, they did what they could do. It was It
23:52
was a messy, sloppy game. I'm sure the ball stuck trying to catch
23:56
it, but they they are open for the most part. I wish they
24:02
would have went deep a couple more times just to see what the hell right,
24:04
yep, to try and like blow that game open, and I think
24:10
I think Brown and Smith probably could have done it. I would have a
24:11
little too conservative, I would say for the first game, Okay, when
24:15
he had, when he had, when you kind of had their your foot
24:18
on the Patriot's throat. That's when a more aggressive, more seasoned coordinator goes,
24:23
you know what, fuck it, let's we're going for one here,
24:26
Let's go up fourteen instead of seven, right, and then they should have
24:29
done it, but not not the problem, not the fall of the passing
24:30
corps, and uh b, we're gonna be okay, all right, same
24:37
same grade there. Offensive line, folks, the bread and butter of what
24:41
the Philadelphia Eagles have been aside from the defensive line, but the offensive line,
24:45
known as the best, the best in pro football, did not look
24:51
like the best in pro football today. Cam Jurgen's not looking like the best.
24:56
Jordan Malata a number of penalties today. It was a sloppy game,
25:00
I think from the offensive line, and again maybe a case of the yips.
25:03
Maybe it was a case of the first game of the season. They
25:06
just needed to get this out of the way, get their bodies man handled
25:08
out there to get to get going here in this season. But I mean,
25:12
I'm gonna give him a c eric. I mean, there were too
25:15
many times when Kenneth Gainwell's trying to run somewhere he needed to go into a
25:21
specific gap, and all of a sudden, there's an offensive lineman right there.
25:23
Yes, Kenneth Gainwell should have probably seen where that offensive lineman may have
25:26
been going. But there was just a lot of there was a lot of
25:30
slop and rust from this offensive line. Maybe I should use the word rust.
25:33
But still, regardless of that rust, it's a C grade for me.
25:37
What do you give the offensive line? I'm gonna do an analogy,
25:42
and it's it's you and I went to Penn State together, right, and
25:45
you and your family went to the Penn State football game this saturday. Yeah,
25:48
we were there this weekend. Yep. Yeah. It just reminded me
25:51
like that classes are just just started again for up at Penn State. And
25:56
remember your freshman year. The first week classes you went to every single one
26:00
with your backpack, your notes. You're ready to take notes, like you're
26:03
all into it. I was setting you ready to go? Yeah, setting
26:07
ready to go. I couldn't wait by your senior year. You know,
26:11
the first week of classes are bullshit. You can skip them and you go
26:14
up and it's always the first week going into Labor Day and you just party
26:18
straight through the week through that following Monday. You kind of you start a
26:21
class on that Tuesday following Labor Day. Yes, and I feel like that's
26:23
what the Eagles offensive line was in this game. How many of them even
26:29
played in the preseason. They looked really rusty and like a little beer bellied
26:33
out like I would have been, you know, after the first week of
26:37
college. And Jason, Jason Kelsey's doing this thing with his podcast. It's
26:41
a very popular pod. I hey, I subscribe to it. Listen.
26:45
You know he and his brother. He looks like he was going over notes
26:48
for the podcast last night and rather than game game time. Not all right,
26:52
but that's not I don't care. He's in a Hall of Famer.
26:55
Yes, by next week, the week after it, they'll be fine.
26:57
I was fine. I wanted to you know, graduately the B plus average,
27:00
so the first week is bullshit, I give but you know, I
27:03
do have to give them a D plus. But I know they'll pick it
27:07
up. All right, all right, sounds good. That's it for the
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offense. Moving over the defense, defensive line. As I mentioned earlier,
27:14
if there's one unit that's gonna get an A from me, And yes,
27:17
I know there was only a total of two sacks in this game. Jordan
27:22
Davis half a sack, Josh Sweat half a sack, Jalen Carter with a
27:26
sack, and uh, you know it's it was disappointing from a sack standpoint,
27:30
but the pressure that the that this front put on the New England Patriots
27:36
there, they're the reason why this team ended up inevitably winning this game.
27:41
In my opinion, they actually get an A for me. What do you
27:42
give the defensive line, buddy? Easily they were the only bright spot of
27:48
the entire game, including the offensive line side of the ball. Again,
27:53
I've always been a huge fan of the defense. Like even it's thirty five
27:57
years an Eagles fan, I'm always been a defense of guy. Was always
28:00
my favorite players, and you know, those late eighties defensive teams were always
28:06
my favorite. And then even though four team defensively they were pretty damn awesome.
28:08
And I had this team has that kind of feel, the nastiness up
28:12
front, and I think this was a really good, like primer for what
28:17
the season's going to look like. From those defensive tackles. A they kept
28:21
us in the game. They saved this game. Quite frankly, the offense
28:23
did nothing to provide them, even like an inch of space to save this
28:30
game for them, so they definitely get in it. All right, very
28:32
good. Let's move to the linebackers here, folks. Wow the linebackers have
28:37
any of the roster? Oh my god, I think there's three. They
28:41
only kept three, like we were talking about, Zach Hunningham, Christian Ellis
28:45
and Nakobe Dean. Dear lord, I mean the Kobe Dean had seven total
28:51
tackles on the day, Zach Hunningham had four, Christian Ellis had four as
28:55
well. But again, the past coverage was absolutely horrible and the fact that
29:00
there's only three on the roster is pretty scary. And Nakobe Dean going out
29:03
with an ankle injury in the fourth quarter that should be very concerning to us.
29:08
There are too many times Zach Cunningham just completely getting burnt from ramondre Stevenson
29:15
around the corner, just getting the edge, and Zach Cunningham just having absolutely
29:19
no chance at all. And look, it's talent versus talent, speed versus
29:23
speed, I get it, but man, this linebacker corps was rough to
29:27
watch throughout the day. I'm actually gonna give him a D. I'm gonna
29:32
give him a D and maybe it does come down to talent at the end
29:33
of the day. Nikobe Dean in his second year, first year starting and
29:38
then going out with an injury, which really stinks. Hope he's going to
29:41
be all right. Of course they'd certainly need him. We want to see
29:45
him out here, we want him to develop, for sure, But I'm
29:48
giving him a D man, what do you give the linebacker corps? I
29:52
mean, so we talked about the rushing stats for the Patriots and was just
29:57
wasn't there. But then just jumped down to the receiving and you know,
30:00
Rmandre Stevenson was six receptions sixty four yards. Hunter Henry, I'm only five
30:06
catches for fifty six yards, but he was open like at least ten more
30:10
times and Mac Jones couldn't noodle the ball to him. Mike Jasecki was wide
30:14
open a bunch, And and those are your running back, running backs and
30:18
the tight ends, those are all the linebackers responsibility. They were terrible today
30:22
and they're they're if if if that's if, that's what you've got for the
30:26
rest of the year. One injury and all of a sudden you're like you're
30:30
you're in like you're in red alert mode at that position. You know,
30:37
I give him a D plus, I guess just because none of those receivers
30:41
caught touch Hunter Henry did. But man, it think of a team with
30:45
a like just would be half decent running back offensive line tight end combination.
30:51
Like yeah, I mean, we could talk about later, but I watched
30:53
the Niners against the Steelers. I picked the Steelers win the division. Wow,
30:57
I don't know, but I was. I'm ready to send your text
31:00
after that one. Yeah, but didn't you pick the Cincinnati to win the
31:07
win the division, like go to the super Bowl? But no, I'm
31:11
just saying, like, but I was watching that game and I'm like,
31:14
wow, the Niners are like yeah, they're ready, like their game ready
31:18
already, and they have a vicious tight end like running back offensive line combo.
31:22
We had to play then we get we get demolished. So I'm glad
31:26
we got this one out of the way against a crappy team. But man,
31:27
you saw what could what could come of that linebacking crew against a decent
31:32
team down the road To give me a dep plus. But that's one to
31:34
watch where it could be it could be an F minus the rest of the
31:37
way absolutely absolutely. I'm interested to hear what the secondary is going to be,
31:44
the defensive backfield, what you're grade is going to be. Because we've
31:47
got Darius Slay with the pick six, which was great. I thought Reid
31:51
Blank and Ship was all over the place making tackles. In fact, he
31:53
led the team in tackles with twelve total, nine solo on the day.
31:59
I thought James Bradberry did a fantastic job as well. But there were times
32:04
when you well, not times when but if you look at the receiving three
32:08
hundred and sixteen yards that Mac Jones put up, my gosh, and I
32:13
know that's not all Slay. I know it's not all on Bradberry, and
32:17
I know it's not all on Read Blank and Ship, but there were a
32:21
number of times in coverage where they were just way too off the ball.
32:24
And maybe it was the cover three nonsense that we saw a ton of throughout
32:29
this game. From Seawan to said, maybe maybe that's what it was too.
32:32
So I am gonna I'm actually gonna go with an A minus and it's
32:37
because of Darius Slay and that pick six. That pick six doesn't happen,
32:42
we probably don't win this game. I mean a lot of different things had
32:45
to happen for the Eagles to win this game and for them to keep this
32:50
game extremely, extremely close. But that pick six from Darius Slay was absolutely
32:53
huge. It was at the right place at the right time and did what
32:57
he needed to do to score. I'm actually gonna give the secondary of the
33:01
defensive backs, I'm actually gonna give an a minus. What are you thinking?
33:06
I mean, I probably shouldn't grade give grades out based on future potential.
33:13
A kick in the ass. Yeah, probably No, I mean just
33:15
this game, I know, but if so, I will give the secondary
33:19
a B plus, not the AI minus. Okay, and I'll say this
33:22
again, some of the receivers were just two open. Kendrick Borne was what
33:25
wide open a couple of times. Yes, And the reason I the reason
33:30
I wanted to give him a lower score is that you looked at Mac Jones
33:32
and I've made fun of this whole show. Man. If if they if
33:36
they go against a better quarterback like Kirk Cousins that's coming up in four days,
33:40
right like that, he'll he would, he'll carve us up if we
33:45
played that way again. Yeah, now again, it was the first game
33:47
They're coming home. Not only do we have for four days, they they
33:52
the vikings of four days two so they're they're up against the same thing and
33:54
they got it. You know, they have to travel on the road and
33:55
everything. So maybe we'll be in a much better position, you know,
34:00
organizationally on the defensive side. But it's a little scary knowing that some of
34:05
the quarterbacks they are playing this year, if that's what the secondary is gonna
34:07
look like against someone like a noodle arm idiot like Mac Jones, So diddiot,
34:13
I love it all right. Coaching, we'll go through these really quick
34:16
special teams, special teams, folks, we've got We've got Michael Clay.
34:22
They signed Michael Clay to an extension. Folks. My goodness there what they
34:29
had to burn. The special teams was responsible for two burn timeouts in this
34:34
game. That is absolutely unacceptable. It is so unacceptable. You know,
34:39
although the guys who were actually out there kind of getting the job done,
34:44
whether it was Jake Elliott, you know, he did miss an extra point
34:46
in the first quarter, but other than that, absolutely positive. As long
34:51
of the day was fifty six yards Aaron siposs forty nine point three yards per
34:55
punt, Aaron Sippos still should he stinks he shouldn't be out there there.
35:00
He really shouldn't. Britain Covey, though he had a twenty five yard return,
35:04
Quas Watkins had an eleven yard kick return. I was absolutely astonished by
35:07
that that one. He was back there and he actually gave him a few
35:12
yards here and there. But look, there was some hard hitting on the
35:15
special teams. It is what you want to see. Guys are trying to
35:19
make a name for themselves. I think, aside from Jake Elliot's missed extra
35:22
point, but I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna give him a B minus.
35:25
I'm actually gonna give him a B minus. And that's because Michael Clay
35:30
didn't. He was responsible again for two burnt timeouts. For God's sake,
35:34
that is absolutely unacceptable in a game like this. If that freaking if they
35:37
didn't they didn't have a time out at the end of the game, if
35:40
there had been a situation where there was something that needed to be challenged,
35:45
there was no way that they would have been able to do it because these
35:47
time out I think I think now that I'm thinking about I'm getting really emotional
35:52
right here. Maybe those two timeouts were in the first half. I'm forgetting
35:53
anyway. Anyway, I'm gonna give him a B. Special teams, What
35:58
do you give special teams? Well, and we all know that I love
36:00
Nick Sirianni, but he needs at least one extra timeout because he's gonna screw
36:06
on up two, which they did, and the one you're talking about was
36:08
on fourth down defensively near the end of the game. Yeah, they wasted
36:15
there. So yeah, three wasted timeouts out of what's six football game?
36:20
Not good? Not good. I'm gonna give them, though, a B
36:22
plus because Jake Elliott won this entire fucking game for them. He's the p
36:28
of the game. He gets the game ball, he gets the champagne dumped
36:30
on him. Without Jake Ellie, we do not win this game, not
36:32
even close. All right, sounds good defensive coaching. Sewan To said.
36:38
I'm gonna give Sean to said this week because I'm gonna give him a C.
36:43
You know it was rough right out of the gate. We're talking about
36:45
the rust throughout the course of this post game show. I'm gonna give him
36:47
a SEA. What do you give him? I'll give him a C plus.
36:52
Nice first game, I did not like how he came out super aggressive
36:57
on the front with the with the front four, front seven, and but
37:00
then he kind of, you just kind of went away from it in the
37:04
second quarter. Yeah, I feel like I feel like they got a lead
37:07
and he was like, okay, I'm gonna sit back now, and he
37:09
got soft and lazy in the middle. That's one Hunter. Henry kind of
37:12
started to take it over the game for them offensively, and then he got
37:15
aggressive again around the fourth quarter when they needed to. I want that same
37:19
I don't want the Jim Schwartz blitzing every goddamn time thing. But I again,
37:24
I said it earlier. You're up sixteen nothing. I want those coordinators
37:29
going, okay, let's get another return over and then let's scow down score.
37:31
Make this twenty three nothing and we go home as opposed to sixteen nothing,
37:36
and it gets kind of lazy. They kind of sag back, and
37:38
all of a sudden, it at sixteen to ten. You're like, what
37:39
the we had this come on? Now, it's now it's a game now,
37:44
and now we're biting her fingernails. Half of Philadelphias going the gay seasons
37:46
over and all you had to do. Was kind of glad you have the
37:52
better line. That was so obvious that Carter and Davis were destroying them.
37:57
And all you needed was one bat, one more interest or sack for for
38:00
or for a fumble. You go down to score another one games over C
38:05
plus, but keep you got to keep that pressure up when you're especially on
38:07
the road, if you're up sixteen nothing against an inferior team. That was
38:10
that was That's that's where I would give him. That's where he loses all
38:14
the grades is holding back once he got the lead. Absolutely. All right,
38:19
let's move over to the offensive side of things. We've got Brian Johnson
38:24
of course and Nick Sirianni, of course. And it was certainly up and
38:30
down for these gentlemen, a little more down than up again, rust we
38:32
went through the whole thing. I am going to give Nick Sirianni and Brian
38:37
Johnson. I'm gonna give him a C plus this week. I'm gonna give
38:39
him a C plus. I don't know, what are you? What are
38:42
you doing? D plus? I mean, I it wasn't I think it's
38:49
fair. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not like the offensive line was
38:52
ready to go. But besides that, you you were. Did Pats have
38:55
a good pretty good defense? They have some some really good, really rough
39:00
guys in the front seven, But I don't know. I just I that's
39:05
a that's a team you should beat, like thirty to fifteen pretty easily.
39:07
Yeah, and again if the defense had kept up the pressure. But again
39:12
the offense didn't either, And I didn't really were they holding back? Were
39:15
they holding some plays in for the Vikings game? Because I didn't see a
39:17
single play that I was like, Oh, that's innovative, but really that's
39:22
really impressive from the new coordinator. It was like, well, I that
39:24
looks like that looked like preseason to me. I didn't see anything special whatsoever.
39:29
I'm hoping there it was kind of a practice game for them. Don't
39:32
if that was don't let those get as close or word of advice to you
39:37
guys. So what great? Did I give the game a D plus?
39:43
It wasn't very Yeah. It it left me noodle armed? Okay, really
39:49
yeah? I left you a noodle armed idiot? Yes, I love That
39:54
reminds me of another another name and phrase that we like to use every Now
40:00
I'm not gonna say it. Yea, it starts with an M. Anyway,
40:05
good postgame show. Let us know what you're thinking about. The season
40:07
opener for the Philadelphiagles up in Foxborough, where again they beat the New England
40:13
Patriots by a score of twenty five to twenty. They go one and zero
40:17
on the season thus far. They take on the Minnesota Vikings and the home
40:22
opener this coming Thursday. We're certainly gonna be getting into that. We got
40:28
some great content coming your way this week. I was I was actually surprised
40:31
by something, Eric, and I'm not sure it's it's kind of a side
40:37
here. I was surprised, because tomorrow is nine to eleven, that we
40:40
didn't see the nine to eleven pomp and circumstance type of stuff, you know,
40:45
that we usually tend to see. And maybe, yes, maybe after
40:49
you know, twenty two years, things are starting to fade in terms of
40:52
that. But I was actually kind of surprised that we didn't see anything like
40:55
that throughout the day. Maybe I missed it, Maybe maybe I missed it
40:59
quite frank. My in laws were over during the one o'clock games for like
41:02
about an hour and a half and stuff, because they recently came back from
41:06
vacation. I wanted to show us some pictures and stuff like that, which
41:08
was nice to them. And anyway, long story short, I was just
41:12
kind of like thinking to myself, Wow, it's nine to eleven, and
41:15
I just I just what that day has meant to a lot of us throughout
41:19
the course of our lives and people that we knew and things like that.
41:22
I was kind of kind of taken aback in a way that I was like,
41:25
Wow, are we at the point right now where you know, we're
41:29
not really recognizing what that day was twenty two years later? I think we're
41:34
getting to that point, Eric, So I just wanted to throw that out
41:37
there until you know, a lot of our veterans and stuff out there who
41:38
are listening, so I want to thank you for your service. I know
41:40
we've got a few that right into the show, and those fallen heroes on
41:45
nine to eleven just certainly, certainly I was certainly thinking about them on this
41:50
day. I don't know, did you find that bizarret all? Yeah,
41:52
maybe I missed it. But I'm not trying to bash the NFL here,
41:57
but they do like the latch on and that kind of stuff they do,
42:00
Yeah, and and and nothing they don't care about the truth or whatever.
42:02
I'm not saying that, but they do like to be part of the Do
42:06
you like to create pomp and circumstances or circumstance for that kind of thing from
42:09
a PR standpoint, yeah, yeah, they bring the flag out. And
42:13
but you just said something, and I've just made me think of a conversation
42:16
I had recently with a younger employee of mine that it's been It was twenty
42:21
two years ago and this this employee was born two thousand and one, like
42:25
right after it happened. Oh gosh, and we got to talking about it,
42:28
and yeah, and he was kind of like, yeah, I mean
42:31
to my generation, it's like Pearl Harbor. Yeah, like it doesn't.
42:36
It's so far like it's like a history book thing, if history book still
42:39
matter. It's like an Internet thing, you know, like it never you
42:43
know, and and unfortunately this society, there's so much weirdness around that whole
42:47
thing. And the Internet's kind of destroyed, like there's conspiracy theories about it,
42:52
and it definitely splintered people. And maybe the NFL was like this this
42:55
go around, like ah, you know what, let's wait till the twenty
42:59
five year anniversary, you know, it's it's almost because we've become so splintered
43:02
and weird about these kinds of things, like there's just hands off. It's
43:06
a like again, it turned into probably a huge PR conversation and they were
43:09
like, oh, let's not touch that one this year, which is insane
43:12
considering it was what happened to in our country and it's such a part of
43:15
history. But absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Yep.
43:19
Alright, folks, Well that's gonna do it for us here again.
43:22
We've got some great shows coming your way this week. Again, let us
43:25
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44:02
the threads yet, buddy? No, No, I don't even know how
44:08
long I'm gonna be on that thing. Anyway. I don't think it's it's
44:12
going nowhere. It really is. Was it was like, what was the
44:16
one mastadon? I think, oh, yeah, I'm on Mastadon too,
44:21
and I but I haven't been on there in like a couple of months.
44:23
I started an account, I looked at it for a day and I'm like,
44:27
this is dumb. I'm like, I'm not here. It's it's the
44:30
seriously, folks, as it start, maybe we could have a different conversation
44:32
about this another time. I think the idea, concept and just overall culture
44:37
of microblogging, which is what Twitter is and stuff, I think I think
44:42
we are starting to see the downward spiral of it. It's gonna be around
44:45
for a little while longer, but I think Twitter is gonna go bankrupt at
44:49
some point. I really believe that Threads really isn't gonna go anywhere. Blue
44:52
Sky, Mastodon, all these other words. I think. I think the
44:54
era of microblogging is becoming less and less in important to folks, and uh
45:01
and just just what its influence is. Anyway. I have no idea why
45:05
I'm saying this is the end of our postgame show anyway. I don't know.
45:10
I just Levin is is is Rogan's podcast exactly? Oh my god.
45:15
Alright, alright, folks, you all take care and we'll catch you next time.