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- 0:09Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the week fifteen, actually three to
- 0:13Speaker 1: two one, let me redo this week sixteen three two
- 0:17Speaker 1: and one. Hello everyone, welcome to Inside the Birds. It's
- 0:20Speaker 1: Adam Kaplan here for Week sixteen. It's a NFC East
- 0:25Speaker 1: Divisional matchup between the host Commanders and Eagles. And let's
- 0:29Speaker 1: get to the injuries, because this is really what this
- 0:31Speaker 1: show is about, which we do myself and Jeff Mosher
- 0:33Speaker 1: when Jeff's available for this Thursday show. We typically do
- 0:37Speaker 1: eight an injury report we updated will give you intel
- 0:39Speaker 1: on both teams on their injury report and any lineup changes.
- 0:42Speaker 2: So let's get to the visiting Eagles first.
- 0:46Speaker 1: And when you look at the Eagles injury report, it's
- 0:48Speaker 1: a little bit longer. There are some small concerns which
- 0:51Speaker 1: we'll get to in a second, but first before we
- 0:54Speaker 1: start and get it to those Eagles injuries, just want
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- 3:26Speaker 1: really actually means something. So we'll see what happens next
- 3:30Speaker 1: week for that game. But first is the Commando's hosting
- 3:32Speaker 1: the Eagles, and let's get to the Eagles injury.
- 3:35Speaker 2: So what's troubling here? Nothing troubling.
- 3:38Speaker 1: The really great news because anytime a player has a
- 3:40Speaker 1: stinger injury, it's not guaranteed he's gonna play.
- 3:43Speaker 2: He's gonna play. They have to massage it out, as
- 3:44Speaker 2: I understand it.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Jordan Howard's career ended from Eagles and Bears
- 3:49Speaker 1: running back mostly due to stingers. So you get you're
- 3:51Speaker 1: always worried about that. Sae Kwon Barkley running back. If
- 3:54Speaker 1: you watch the game, you saw him, like, if you're
- 3:57Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, you're seeing what I'm doing with my
- 3:59Speaker 1: neck left and right, all right, he was trying to
- 4:00Speaker 1: work out his neck. Well, it would turned out to
- 4:02Speaker 1: be a stinger. So the good thing is he took
- 4:06Speaker 1: all the starters for reps on Wednesday. He's good to go.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby had an illness on their Tuesday walk through,
- 4:12Speaker 1: the Atlanta walk through, which you have to have two
- 4:14Speaker 1: days after a game. He did participate in on a
- 4:16Speaker 1: limited basis. He took his normal reps. He's the number
- 4:19Speaker 1: two back Will Shipley is the three who helps a
- 4:21Speaker 1: lot out, obviously on third down and also on special teams.
- 4:25Speaker 1: But Bigsby has been a great story. He put it,
- 4:27Speaker 1: he looked good last week. Again, contacts folks don't look
- 4:30Speaker 1: at the yards per carry. Sure yardis is counting that
- 4:34Speaker 1: he looked really good. And I know people wondered, and
- 4:37Speaker 1: so did we here on inside the Birds. He was
- 4:39Speaker 1: awful as a kickoff returner. We know that was part
- 4:42Speaker 1: of it. There was never all he was going to
- 4:43Speaker 1: do for the Eagles.
- 4:44Speaker 2: They wanted.
- 4:44Speaker 1: His main job is they want him to be the
- 4:46Speaker 1: backup to Berkley, and it took him a while, but man,
- 4:49Speaker 1: he's taken that job by storm. In fact, we keep
- 4:51Speaker 1: asking for it. When are you going to use Bigsby
- 4:54Speaker 1: as a change up? Well, you've seen that he's done
- 4:56Speaker 1: a really good job and he's just completely different runner
- 4:58Speaker 1: than Barkley. That's what a change up is. You want
- 5:01Speaker 1: your number two back to not be so similar to
- 5:04Speaker 1: your starter. And that's why that that that looks good there.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Now let's get to the offensive line issues. Landon Dickerson. Now,
- 5:11Speaker 1: he had the CAF injury. He's dealing with it. He's
- 5:14Speaker 1: doing the best that he can on a shirt week.
- 5:16Speaker 1: They rested him. As long as he does something on Thursday,
- 5:19Speaker 1: you could expect him to play. Now. If he doesn't
- 5:21Speaker 1: practice Thursday, that would be concerning. But right now, and
- 5:25Speaker 1: we have more on the on the pregame show, and
- 5:27Speaker 1: we'll give you if there's any concern there for him
- 5:29Speaker 1: playing and then not playing, we'll give you who. We'll
- 5:31Speaker 1: have more insight about who the replacement would be. But
- 5:34Speaker 1: that's such something to keep an eye on. We know
- 5:35Speaker 1: about we know about the knee problems. Uh the postseason
- 5:40Speaker 1: surgery and then the meniscus trim right before the season started.
- 5:44Speaker 2: So got to keep an eye on him.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Fred Johnson with the ankle to the same ancle entry
- 5:48Speaker 1: from last week. I know they're being cautious. He's another one.
- 5:52Speaker 1: You you really want to watch what happens on Thursday,
- 5:55Speaker 1: which is today. Uh So we this is the last
- 5:59Speaker 1: day of practice. If he cannot play because Lane Johnson
- 6:03Speaker 1: hasn't done anything since he got hurt with the list
- 6:05Speaker 1: Fronk's brain, it would either be Matt pryor Brett Toath.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Now Tooth could play every position. Okay, that's the amazing
- 6:11Speaker 1: thing about this guy. He goes have stepped by him
- 6:13Speaker 1: for six years. I give them credit for it, on
- 6:15Speaker 1: and off the rusher for six years. And then Matt
- 6:17Speaker 1: Pryor is not a left guard. He is a right
- 6:21Speaker 1: tackle right guard. They cross train him briefly at left guard.
- 6:25Speaker 1: I remember making a note of it. He says, not
- 6:27Speaker 1: a left guard. Matt Prior's best off at right tackle.
- 6:30Speaker 1: He can play. He can play right guard because he
- 6:32Speaker 1: started there. That's something to keep an eye on in
- 6:35Speaker 1: today's practice, which is the last which is the tune up.
- 6:38Speaker 1: And then Friday they have a walk through before they
- 6:40Speaker 1: travel to well, they probably fly into Dallas. I would
- 6:44Speaker 1: think they used to by the way. They used to
- 6:47Speaker 1: actually take a train. He should actually take Amtrak, by
- 6:50Speaker 1: the way, for many years. But anyway, so we're going
- 6:52Speaker 1: to keep a track on that or what would happen
- 6:54Speaker 1: at right tackle in terms of injury there.
- 7:00Speaker 2: But also for the Eagles that we have to watch.
- 7:02Speaker 2: We just mentioned Lane Johnson and Fred Johnson.
- 7:06Speaker 1: No people want to know, like why did the Eagles
- 7:09Speaker 1: not put Lane on IR because they thought within four
- 7:12Speaker 1: to five weeks hit a chance to come back. Because
- 7:15Speaker 1: though it was a scary injury, it's not the rupture
- 7:18Speaker 1: which would keep him out six to eight months. It's
- 7:22Speaker 1: it's a sprain. It you have to say justice sprain,
- 7:24Speaker 1: but it is a sprain. And if you watch Hard
- 7:27Speaker 1: Knocks will give you a little bit of a heads up.
- 7:29Speaker 1: You could see him actually training to rehabit. So it's
- 7:32Speaker 1: kind of cool that NFL films he was able.
- 7:33Speaker 2: To get that.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Also, Cam Williams the sixth round of Texas their last
- 7:37Speaker 1: draft pick. Here's a project. He's recovered from a shoulder injury.
- 7:42Speaker 1: They're taking it slow with him. They just want to
- 7:44Speaker 1: get him into practice, get the practice tape, take a
- 7:46Speaker 1: look at him, get it ready for next season.
- 7:48Speaker 2: So that is in on offense. Oh other than okay,
- 7:51Speaker 2: another stinger.
- 7:51Speaker 1: My bad Cam Latsu, who's done a great job knowing
- 7:55Speaker 1: special teams where these a deemons, super physical.
- 7:58Speaker 2: We all know an Eagles fan watching this. Most of
- 8:01Speaker 2: you are.
- 8:01Speaker 1: I know there's some Commander fans are watching kick cal Kutara.
- 8:05Speaker 1: We just are dumbfounded by this. Everyone who works for us,
- 8:10Speaker 1: we've lamented it and in our patron members. Judy, if
- 8:13Speaker 1: she's watching, she and I have a good laugh when
- 8:16Speaker 1: we dore Wednesday Chat. Why Cam Lattu I know they're
- 8:21Speaker 1: using him as an offset full back. He's or an
- 8:23Speaker 1: F tight end. Why don't you use him more as
- 8:25Speaker 1: an inline ten end is beyond me. It makes no sense,
- 8:29Speaker 1: but hey, it is what it is. He's been a
- 8:30Speaker 1: good story. Former forty nine er. He goes love these
- 8:33Speaker 1: former forty nine er draft picks. So let's see what
- 8:36Speaker 1: he does here. He's actually important. They need him to
- 8:38Speaker 1: play for the run game now. Defensively, it starts with
- 8:42Speaker 1: Jalen Carter. He has enough practice since he had the procedures,
- 8:45Speaker 1: so we know what's going on there. And how about
- 8:47Speaker 1: Brandon Graham seven snaps and two sacks on the old
- 8:51Speaker 1: twenty two. Watched the hand usage from BG. He just
- 8:55Speaker 1: got up in that guy's chest and he moved the
- 8:59Speaker 1: kid back the guard and it was over. BG playing
- 9:03Speaker 1: left defensive tackle. By the way, for those want to
- 9:05Speaker 1: know what position he's we've been playing inside. Jalen Philips
- 9:09Speaker 1: is fine. He took all the starters reps doing the
- 9:11Speaker 1: walk thron on Wednesday. He had a concussion before, so
- 9:15Speaker 1: you just got to keep an eye on this with
- 9:16Speaker 1: his injury history. But been a really good story of development.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Zach Bond has got the lingering hand injury. He took
- 9:21Speaker 1: all the starters reps. He's good to go. So what
- 9:23Speaker 1: are we watching Eagles wise right now? Just making sure
- 9:26Speaker 1: Landon Dickson practices on Thursday today, making sure that Fred
- 9:31Speaker 1: Johnson works. We've got to watch this, got to watch this.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Those would be the ones for the Eagles. Now, let's
- 9:39Speaker 1: get to the Commandos because they've got a whole host
- 9:42Speaker 1: of problems. Okay, Jane Daniels will not play again the season.
- 9:46Speaker 1: They're letting him practice in limited fashion with the left
- 9:49Speaker 1: elbow dislocation. He reinjured it a couple of weeks ago.
- 9:53Speaker 1: They smartly shut him down, let him heal up, but
- 9:55Speaker 1: let him practice. That's the smart thing by Dan Quinn,
- 9:58Speaker 1: the medical staff.
- 9:59Speaker 2: I like that. Ida.
- 10:00Speaker 1: I mean Marcus Mariota to start, and in Mariota, you
- 10:04Speaker 1: know what, he's getting better. I've talking to people have
- 10:06Speaker 1: looked at his tape, and then backing him up is
- 10:09Speaker 1: the veterable Josh Johnson. He's been on over a third
- 10:13Speaker 1: of the NFL teams. He's I give this guy credit.
- 10:16Speaker 1: He turns forty in May and he's still going. Good
- 10:19Speaker 1: for Josh, who's at one time with the Bucks, he
- 10:23Speaker 1: was a guy who's he started some games. They really
- 10:26Speaker 1: liked him, but he could never put it together. But
- 10:28Speaker 1: he's a true journeyman. And I give this guy credit,
- 10:31Speaker 1: but he's still going strong. It's hard to believe out
- 10:34Speaker 1: of USD University of San Diego. So good for Josh
- 10:39Speaker 1: not hanging it up just yet. Also, when you look
- 10:44Speaker 1: at the commander's injury situation, Austin eckler Man, this has
- 10:51Speaker 1: crushed them. He tours Achilles in week two, put on
- 10:54Speaker 1: iron week three. They've missed him on third down. I
- 10:56Speaker 1: mean big time. Jeremy McNichols is a really good past protector,
- 11:00Speaker 1: I'm told that's why still in the league, a good
- 11:03Speaker 1: special teams player, but he's just not good enough as
- 11:05Speaker 1: a pass catcher. They really miss him here, there's no
- 11:08Speaker 1: doubt about it. Chris Rodriguez, who's taken over as the
- 11:10Speaker 1: main back the reason why I'm told they're doing this
- 11:13Speaker 1: because they think with Mariota they don't want him dropping
- 11:17Speaker 1: back a lot. And Krosskey Merritt is more explosive, but
- 11:22Speaker 1: he's not physical. He has no physicality at all in
- 11:25Speaker 1: his game. He's more of a between the tackles. Make
- 11:29Speaker 1: it A guy miss break a little bit outside explosive,
- 11:32Speaker 1: but he doesn't have any physicality to him, and they
- 11:34Speaker 1: want that with Rodriguez, and that's why. Rodriguez, by the way,
- 11:38Speaker 1: is a groin injury. He's expected to play this week.
- 11:42Speaker 1: So the guys that right now Washington would be concerned about,
- 11:48Speaker 1: of no, let's put.
- 11:49Speaker 2: It that way.
- 11:51Speaker 1: By the way, Tunsel he got some work Wednesday. Barring
- 11:54Speaker 1: a setback, he should be able to go with the
- 11:56Speaker 1: oblique injury. By the way, he has had a really
- 11:58Speaker 1: good season. It's been a good trade they give to
- 12:00Speaker 1: get him. The guys they concerned about is on defense
- 12:03Speaker 1: is Bobby Wagner, who's clearly slowing down. He's gonna be
- 12:06Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. They love his leadership. That's a
- 12:08Speaker 1: big reason why he's there. He's got a knee injury.
- 12:11Speaker 1: He hasn't done anything this week. Let's see what he
- 12:13Speaker 1: does today.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Now.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Drake Jackson, I want to talk about him. He's got
- 12:17Speaker 1: to growing in a knee injury. Another former forty nine er,
- 12:20Speaker 1: A second rounder in twenty two. He hasn't played since
- 12:24Speaker 1: twenty three with the Niners, and he was cut in
- 12:28Speaker 1: May by the Niners and he was activated the Niner.
- 12:34Speaker 1: The Commanders brought him in. He was activated off IR
- 12:37Speaker 1: in week fourteen. He's been practicing, he's trending towards playing
- 12:42Speaker 1: this week. It's not a done deal, but this is
- 12:44Speaker 1: his first full week of practice. He's healthy, he's fully
- 12:47Speaker 1: cleared in terms of practicing. So they're going to play him,
- 12:51Speaker 1: and there's a real shot that he plays here. He's
- 12:53Speaker 1: got talent. He missed eleven games in two years and
- 12:56Speaker 1: the Niners gave up on him. Man, that's hard to believe,
- 13:00Speaker 1: but they did. They're also down Ddrick Wise, who, by
- 13:05Speaker 1: the way, that there's a reason why the Commanders, I
- 13:07Speaker 1: know they got credit sized for being all his team
- 13:08Speaker 1: in the National FOOTBA League. My understanding was they kind
- 13:11Speaker 1: of went for it.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Not in spending money. They went with an older team.
- 13:15Speaker 1: They wanted to get more experienced because they were so
- 13:18Speaker 1: much better than probably they thought they would be in
- 13:20Speaker 1: year one with Jaden Daniels and new coaching staff that
- 13:23Speaker 1: they just want to add to with wiley veterans, smart
- 13:26Speaker 1: veterans who have been successful like Dietrich Wise. He had
- 13:30Speaker 1: a major injury right QUADTA in week two, put in
- 13:34Speaker 1: an iron week three. George Armstrong towards AC on week seven,
- 13:37Speaker 1: one on an Iron week eight. So the starting edges
- 13:39Speaker 1: are done. That's why you see Jacob Martin, former Temple player,
- 13:43Speaker 1: who is a really good player. Like eight or nine
- 13:45Speaker 1: years ago, probably eight years ago he would be he
- 13:49Speaker 1: probably wouldn't even be on the team, but now he's
- 13:51Speaker 1: playing a lot and starting because they just they ran
- 13:53Speaker 1: out of players.
- 13:53Speaker 2: But we'll see if Drake Jackson could play this week.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Lattimore Marshawn Lattimore to his ace and week nine IRN
- 14:01Speaker 1: week ten that trade has not worked out. Trey Amos
- 14:03Speaker 1: is the second pick out of Mississip broke his ankle
- 14:05Speaker 1: week ten, Iron Week eleven, he's done. Jonathan Jones, they
- 14:09Speaker 1: expect him to go this week. Former Patriot long but
- 14:13Speaker 1: he'd been in league a long time. Again, another older player,
- 14:15Speaker 1: well into his thirties. He's got a rib injury. He's
- 14:18Speaker 1: trending towards being able to play. So and of course
- 14:21Speaker 1: we do need to mention our old friend Zach Ertz
- 14:24Speaker 1: turn read ACL mid thirties. Now you want to I
- 14:26Speaker 1: Zach Wilk try to come back his second ACL injury. Look,
- 14:29Speaker 1: McCaffrey brooke his collarbone in week nine ir in Week ten.
- 14:32Speaker 1: They're just decimated by injury. We'll talk more about their
- 14:35Speaker 1: lineups and so forth on our pregame show. But they've
- 14:42Speaker 1: had such bad luck. You want to know why they
- 14:44Speaker 1: haven't been a good team and why they had eight
- 14:46Speaker 1: game losing streak. You can't lose this man many players.
- 14:50Speaker 1: You can't have your starting quarterback miss many weeks. There's
- 14:53Speaker 1: going to be a major drop off there is from
- 14:55Speaker 1: Danis to Mariota.
- 14:56Speaker 2: They just don't have the talent level.
- 14:58Speaker 1: And Adam Peters general managers, got to have a job
- 15:01Speaker 1: on his hands here. They have got their quarterback, that's
- 15:03Speaker 1: a great thing, but they've got addresser or receiver position.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Next year. Edge group they got to get much younger.
- 15:09Speaker 1: They need at least two edges, if not three. They're
- 15:12Speaker 1: gonna have to address the quarterback position once again. They're
- 15:15Speaker 1: just they need a lot of help. It is amazing.
- 15:17Speaker 1: This reminds me of what happened to the Giants where
- 15:19Speaker 1: they came out of nowhere in Brian dables first year
- 15:22Speaker 1: in twenty two and shock the world won a playoff
- 15:26Speaker 1: game at Minnesota and it was ever it was downhill
- 15:28Speaker 1: since then. But yes, they had injuries, but nothing quite
- 15:32Speaker 1: like this. This has been, This has been. You can't
- 15:35Speaker 1: predict injuries, but it's just been a nightmare for them.
- 15:38Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens. You never know what these
- 15:41Speaker 1: NFC East games. I've done a good job of picking
- 15:45Speaker 1: Eagles games, but obviously I have to lean towards the
- 15:49Speaker 1: Eagles here. I mean, we'll talk more about the point
- 15:51Speaker 1: spread on their pre game show, but that's it. For
- 15:54Speaker 1: the injuries and the lineup changes. We'll probably have a
- 15:56Speaker 1: little We're gonna have a little bit more in the Eagles,
- 15:57Speaker 1: especially if we hear anything from more sources of Washington's
- 16:01Speaker 1: injury or in terms of lineup change, will give them
- 16:03Speaker 1: to you on our pregame show with myself, Jeff Mosher,
- 16:06Speaker 1: and Greg Hosell.
- 16:07Speaker 2: All Right, folks, we appreciate you tuning in. We'll speak
- 16:11Speaker 2: to you very very soon. Thank you,