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Football at Four: Offensive Keys For Another Eagles Super Bowl Run? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And Football at four is powered by the Inside of
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  the Birds Podcast. It's brought to you by Bet three
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  sixty five. Whatever the sport, whatever the moment, it's never
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  ordinary at Bet three six five. Well, we are inside
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  almost one week now. Tuesday will be one week till
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  Eagles report Wednesday. They'll be on the field fifty five
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  days until the Eagles begin the regular season against the
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  Dallas Cowboys. We've got you covered. What is the key
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  to another Eagles Super Bowl run? With an offense that
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  was highly explosive but has some new faces calling the plays.
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  Let's get into that now for today's edition of Football
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  at four. Adam Kaplan from the Inside of the Birds
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  podcast joins me for another edition of Football at four
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  on the Sports Bash.
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  Speaker 2: Adam, Happy Friday, Buddy, Same.
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  Speaker 3: To you, Mike. Yeah, So I wanted to kind of
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  take a look at this because we've talked about this
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  with our Patreon group. What would it take for the
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  Eagles to make another Super Bowl run?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 3: You obviously have questions for training camp, will do that
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  another time, but how could they get back the Super Bowl?
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  What needs to happen? Well, we know that they're only
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  going to new starter on offense at right guard. So
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  that's we'll discuss that later. But the big thing Mike
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  is now Jalen Hurts will have a six play caller
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  as a professional quarterback. Remember he Peterson in year one.
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  In twenty twenty, Nick Gianni for around the first half
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  of twenty one, then change Stike can take took over
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  to finish that season, and then as you know, he
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  had twenty twenty two. Then after that he became the
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  head coach of the Colts twenty three Brian Johnson. He
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  was let go Kella Moore last season. He's now the
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  Saints head coach and now Kevin Petulo. Mike, so we've
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  talked about Batullo a while. What you're looking for to
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  have to have a smooth transition. We've talked about that.
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  This is hurts fifth year with Batulo. Batulo knows him
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  very well. Until they have a very good working relationship,
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  you know. It's the trends of the weaknesses and what
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  Jalen likes, and I expect them to have a very
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  good communication. It's the thing that Mike we've talked about before,
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  is where Nick Sirianni's got to have his hands off
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  of this. I know that your Nick's very close to Kevin.
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  This is not a secret, but he's got to let Kevin,
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  who's first time play caller, grow in the job. But
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  there's got to be a smooth transition go from More
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  to Petula.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's the number one is you take
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  a look at More last year to Kevin Petula.
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  Speaker 2: How much freedom did Kellen Moore have?
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  Speaker 1: And there is that group of people out there that
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  are wondering, now that the relationship between Petula and Nick
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  is closer, will Nick feel like he could cross that line?
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  Did Kellen Moore did a good job of kind of
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  giving him the heisman?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought that Kellen did a good job of
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  adjusting from the guy that is a heavy eleven personnel
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  play color and then it's probably a lot of ten
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  if if he had it, if he had a good
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  group of receivers like with the Chargers, as he understand
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  it that Kellen not only did he run a lot of eleven,
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  he wanted to run a lot of ten. But that
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  was a season where keenan Allen unfortunately got hurt, Jeff
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  Palmer got hurt, so he didn't have enough receivers. But
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  just to the personnel you have it. Kellen did a
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  really good job. And I said this before. It's a shame,
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  you know, good for Kellen to become a head coach.
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  But more and Hurts really grew late in the season.
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  We've talked about the Pittsburgh game, best game he's had
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  in two years. Hurts was phenomenal in that game. You
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  saw the Super Bowl obviously where Hurts won, the m
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  v P go some we saw some good things the
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  final court of the season, plus playoffs, but again, Kevin
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  Patullo now is the play caller.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the famous Is that what you all
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  wanted to see? Is that what you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Love it?
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  Speaker 2: I love that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? That was Yeah? What was it? Did he say
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  that that? What was the term that he used? The
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  shackles or the what did he what did he say?
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  Like it's some like the training was whatever he said?
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  He had some funny turn which made me laughing. I
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  thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Jeff and I talked a lot about Jalen
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  on Wednesday show. If you guys want to go back
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  and listen to that edition of Football at four Right now,
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  Adam Kaplan's with us. I want to get your thoughts
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  on the right guard spot is the one new spot.
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  Speaker 2: What if that is a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Banner told me this. Jeff and I, when we've
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  had him all over the years, we give Joe a
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  little guff about the linebacker position. Joe acknowledged it was
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  a challenge, but he said, listen, you could be just
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  okay at a position and be very good to dominate others.
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  But what he did say is, and I took note
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  of this, it can't be a weakness. Well, we don't
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  know what right guard is. We know that Tyler Stein's
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  a clear favorite. Degals clearly want him to win it.
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  Matt Pryors Rik Kenyon agree who they traded for. He
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  was part of the trade for Garden Johnson going to
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  the Sexans. But Stein alleges they have to win it.
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  It can't be a weakness or a problem. If the problem, Mike,
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  you know, talking to coaches over the years, like they
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  look at the guard position. Hey, you can hide a guy,
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  but it can't be a problem, Mike. So that's my
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  second key right now for a Super Bowl run. It
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  can't be a problem where it costs too much pressure
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  up the middle in past protection or on a zone
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  cut where Barckley's trying to run where the plays designed
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  to go to the right and it's the cutup field
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  and Steve gets beat. So whoever's starting there, so that
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  cannot be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: To sum this up, Yeah, we know that right guard's
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  up for grads. We think Steen is the favorite there,
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  but we'll see that competition when we get to training camp.
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  All right, Adam Kaplan, we knew a lot of reporting
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  in the off season about Goddard's future.
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  Speaker 2: He is back here. What does that mean for the
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  tight end position? Now?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I remember when we put this
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  information out that they were looking hard to trade Goddard.
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  I'm like, well, let's see what they do. Well, they signed.
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  They signed a couple veterans, Kyln Granson, who's an f
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  tight end. That means and that means they moved tight end.
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  He's he's too small, you know, he's under six foot two,
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  but he's an athletic guy who can move. And then
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  Harrison Brian who's a two eight ten end who could
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  block and could run after the catch. But neither projected
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  to be a starter. So what are they going to do?
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  And then as you know, Mike, as you noted somehow
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  they brought him back and that's a good thing. You know,
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  he's had a one year deal. He took a pay
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  cut of about five million. But he's back. And the
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  question is, Mike, now they have six other tight ends.
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  What if God it gets hurt Mike. We know how
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  they've you know, with Jack Stalls no longer on the
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  team is now with the Saints and Grand Cocuterro's and
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  the final years rookie deal, they were able to sort
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  of Jimmy Rigg it together. But it's a it's a problem, man.
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  I I they got it. They've got to somehow get
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  through this.
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  Speaker 2: I like Jimmy Rigging getting a mention here on that.
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  Yeah a lot, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, we'll see how that tight end position offs.
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  Obviously Goddard is back, but what is around them. We're
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  looking at some keys to another super Bowl run from
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  the Eagles offense. Can't say namy you remember, you know
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  we had Brittain Covey on at the Super Bowl back
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  in Vegas and he had told us he thought they
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  didn't change enough offensively that that teams started to figure
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  them out. In that twenty twenty three season that went awry.
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  So can they make some changes here with the new coordinator.
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  And one of the things they're going to need to
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  figure out is what is behind Saquon Barkley. Can't use
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  him as much this year as you did last year?
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  Speaker 2: Can you?
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  Speaker 3: No, we don't. Well, let's put it this way. It
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  might be a five to ten percent reduction. What I've
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  talked about, Mike consistently since mid marches. If they're not
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  big seventeen points more in the fourth quarter, start start
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  taking Barkley out. Put Dylan in. That's Aj Dillon, who's
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  an a one year minimum deal. But here's the problem
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  with Dylan. We don't know what he looks like because
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  he didn't play last season. So what happens Mike if
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  he doesn't perform well or he's not on the football team, Well,
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  there are guys out there at Gus Edwards, Jamal Williams,
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  Jeff Wilson, Deontay Foreman. They're plenty of power backs. That's
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  not gonna be a problem for the Eagles to find somebody.
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  And then will Shipley is more explosive, but he's not
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  a guy that projects to handle volume. Carrie. So to me, Mike,
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  if Barkley Getshart. They're going to be more of a
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  passing team. That that's you know, to answer your question,
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  that's that's the way that would look.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's you know, they brought in aj Dillon
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  as you know you mentioned, he's got to be a
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  guy that they can count on too, right, I mean,
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  this can't be a situation like the guy Penny that
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  they got from uh from Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: That's terrible or shot Pennon could play anymore unfortunately, and
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  then Mike to finish us out. Now, see, Tanner McKay's
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  going to be the two that as we told people March,
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  the spital To conjecture that Donovan Thompson Robinson could be
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  the two, that was total nonsense. Tanner McKey is going
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  to be the two. But he's got to continue that improvement.
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  He had big improvement from year one to year two.
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  Now it's year two to year three. And then look
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  and then don't forget. You know, Colin McCord could be
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  replacing for Tanner McKee in a couple of years to
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  be the number two. That's kind of our thinking. By
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  the way, why they draft McCord.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and we talked about that the other day, is
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  the possibility that you develop McKee to possibly move them
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  and then you have a McCord step in uh to
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  that spot.
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  Speaker 2: So not a lot of questions on offense.
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  Speaker 1: They got pretty much everybody back except for the right
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  guard spot. That will be the one battle there. But
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  will the transition be smooth? Will right guard be a problem?
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  How will they kind of develop that second tight end?
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  Can aj Dillon kind of be that a factor behind
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  Saquon Barkley? And you need improvement behind Jalen Hurts in
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  the event that he misses a game or two. Remember
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  he missed time last year. You had to go to
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  Kenny Pickett. Can Canter McKey win games if needed? There
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  is a look at some of the keys for the
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  offense to make another Super Bowl run. Adam kaplan football
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  at four here on the Sports Bash Live on a
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  Happy Hour Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Adam, thank you. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: We got the football at four keys to a Eagles
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  Super Bowl run for the offense