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Dallas Goedert Impressed With Deep Eagles TE Room, Eyeing Late-Career Pro Bowl Berth · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special edition of Inside the Birds.
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  I'm Jeff Mosher with Adam Kaplan, and we are really
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  excited to be joined by the man who led the
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  Philadelphia Eagles in catches and receiving yards in the playoffs
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  en route to a Super Bowl win. And that is
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  none other than Super Bowl champion Eagles tight end Dallas Goddard. Dallas,
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  what's going on? And you know, it's kind of cool
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  on a team with Aj Brown Devonte Smith to be
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  introduced as the guy who led the Eagles in catches
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  and receiving yards in the postseason, is it not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean it's still kind of hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Especially because I don't think I led in a single
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  game of receiving yards. It was you know, Aj would
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  have a good game, I'd be right below him and
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  Schmidy wouldn't do anything. Then the next game, Schmidy would
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  have a big game, I'd be below him, and you know,
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  it was definitely a really fun playoff experience.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. And now, of course everybody gets a turn, right,
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  That's how the Eagles offen was. And we know that
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  you're joining us today and it's your turn right to
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  use that platform that you have now to talk about
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  your just own personal struggle and to educate people on
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  plaque psoriasis. So you have partnered with Amgen and you
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  are encouraging people to visit your website dallasgstory dot com
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  to get your story and tips and really to get
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  educated about talking to a doctor. If you're dealing with
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  plaque soriasis, how how long have you dealt with it
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  and how have you coped with it throughout your life
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  and career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so ever since I was ten years old, I've
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  lived with plaque sariases and it causes rough, laky patches
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  on my skin, but it actually starts within the body.
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  Being a football player can be challenging because you know,
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  all I care about and all I want to focus
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  my attention on is football. But when you have these
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  plaques showing up and they're itchy, sometimes that can distract you.
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  Uh And then you know, So I talked to my
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  doctors and I was able to find a treatment option
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  that better fit my lifestyle and work for me. And
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  like you said, I've partnered with Amgen and I'm on
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  an ams in medicine, and uh, you know, it's been
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  a great journey to share my story and try to
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  raise awareness for plax rises and uh, you know, hopefully
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  I can impact some kids' life and make their journey
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  a little bit easier. But like you said, you can
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  visit dallasgstory dot com to hear more about my story
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  and get tips about talking to your doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, it's a ten year old, Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, as a little kid, how in the world, Like,
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  when you find this out you're diagnosed with there's some issue.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when when when they tell you have to
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  deal with this? Were you like, Wow, I'm just little kid?
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  What does this mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 4: How were you educated on? Did your parents?
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  Speaker 5: Like your parents get involved, they take you to doctor?
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  Like what was the process of all this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my mom was a really big impact of it.
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  You know, she has a sister and I got a
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  couple of cousins. I'd also struggle with plaquiosis, so you
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  just lean.
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  Speaker 2: On their support.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I remember being a kid and having to get a
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  topical ointment to put on it, and it would be
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  all over my back and hard to reach places, so
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  I'd have to have my mom help me. I was
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  supposed to do it twice a day and as a
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  ten year old kid trying to be consistent with things
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  like that, I always got tough. And then even until today,
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  you know, until I got on the medicine with amngine,
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  I always tried to treat it with a topical And
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  now I'm treating it with their medicine in a different way.
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  And if it's in my lifestyle and it's it's been
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  a little bit easier.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, you know what, maybe the side benefit of
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  also a little ointment, little lather up is that it's
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  hard to tackle you on that football field. You might
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  get people slide enough. No, that's really I'm sure you're
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  not the only NFL player that has to deal with
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  I know a lot of people in my family deal
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  with it, and so I'm sure it's a topic of
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  discussion along the league and how you how you can
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  just do your job without being uncomfortable and itchy. But
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  let's talk about your job, because you're back for another
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  year at least with the Philadelphia Eagles, an offense with
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  a lot of firepower that we talked about. But one
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  thing that I've heard aj Nick Sirianni Jalen Hurts talk
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  about that I'd like to hear your viewpoint is on
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  the idea of evolving offensively. It seems like maybe the
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  lessons from twenty twenty three when Nick at the end
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  of the year said we got stale, we got to
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  freshen things up. You guys don't want to have to
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  go through that again. So how does this offense evolve
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  when it's also been so successful at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that end of the twenty three season was,
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  you know, a big learning moment for all of us.
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  You know, it's we were sitting at ten and one,
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  maybe not playing.
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  Speaker 3: Great football, but it was getting us by and and
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  once it stopped working, we didn't have anything else to
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  really rely on.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, okay, well we'll.
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  Speaker 3: Fix it next week, and you know, nothing really changed
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  and it didn't get fixed, and we spent a lot
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  of time that offseason just self scouting, figuring things out,
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  and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, obviously it kind of paid off.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, when you have good players, it makes everything a
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  little bit easier. But yeah, uh, the evolving thing goes
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  in so many different ways. You just don't want to
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  be predictable as an offense. And you know, whether it's formations,
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  whether it's spots that you put certain people in you know,
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  we we ran into a time where DeVante was in
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  the same spot and he was running the same same
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  route every time, and you know, it worked a lot,
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  but eventually they figured it out and it didn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just it's finding.
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  Speaker 3: That fine balance of doing what you've been successful at
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  and finding a way to set up the defense have
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  him think that we're gonna do something and we hit
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  him with some completely else. And you know, we got
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  the new offensive coordinator, Kevin Patulo this year, and I'm
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  really excited for him to be able to take the
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  lessons that he learned from the last three coordinators that
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  we had here and evolve it into his own offense.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be exciting to see where he takes us.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: Tell us about Jason Michael, your tight end coach, because
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  I remember talking to Jack Stall about him and he
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  really spoke highly of him.
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  Speaker 4: What can you tell us about Jason?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he's been one of my favorite coaches
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  that I've had in my entire football career from a
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  little kid till now. He's He's an incredibly smart coach.
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  He was a coordinator offensive coordinator in Tennessee. So he
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  understands the game of football very well. But my favorite
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  thing is, you know, he's instilled a lot of confidence
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  in me from the time he got there. If I'm
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  believing in me, you know, telling me to try stuff
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  at practice. When I first got into the league, all
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  I cared about was winning the route and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, making the catch.
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  Speaker 3: And he had the confidence in me and he allowed
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  me to be like, well, it doesn't matter if you
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  don't win the route in practice, but at least you
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  know that it will work or it won't work. And
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  he gave me the freedom to do a little bit more.
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  And you know, that's been a big part of my growth.
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  I believe in my career. So a lot of my
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  success is credited to him and just his belief and
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  you know, helping me evolve my game.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us, I mean, you've been considered one of the
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  best tight ends in the league for a while, and
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  it was I was checking just some stats and background
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  on you, and it just occurred to me before coming
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  on camera with you that you'd never made it a
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  Pro Bowl. A lot of that is because I know
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  you've had hurt last year, you missed seven games. Certainly
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  your stats projected over seventeen games might get you into
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  that category. So I wonder everybody wants to win a
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  Super Bowl, But can you have a complete career in
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  your mind without at least making one Pro Bowl team?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to be able to make one.
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  Obviously my first For three and a half years, I
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  was a backup tight end behind Zach and then the
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  last three years I've actually been on IR or short
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  term IR at the end of the season, which made
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  me ineligible for Pro Bowl holdings. I think if I
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  didn't get put on IR in twenty twenty two, I
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  probably make it that year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know.
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  Speaker 3: There's many different ways that I look at it. You know,
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  obviously winning the Super Bowls the most important thing. I'd
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  love to be a Pro bowler. I'd love to make
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  that all pro I always look at Greg Olsen, who
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  I go and talk to a tight end university here
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  coming up. I don't think he made his first Pro
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  Bowl until year seven, maybe year eight, and I think
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  he had five or six of them.
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  Speaker 2: So there's still there's still hope for me.
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  Speaker 3: And if I put together a good season and stay healthy,
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  I think I got a good shot to make one.
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  But you know, throughout my career, uh, I just want
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  to put the team in a successful position to win
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  games and have success like we did last year, because
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  I don't think a Pro Bowl would triumph playoff experience
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  in a Super Bowl run like we've had multiple times
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  in my career.
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  Speaker 5: Dallas, correctly, I from wrong. Is part of why your
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  first name is Dallas, because you're Dallas a Cowboys fan. Again,
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  if was I right or wrong about that? Yeah, nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, how'd your dad deal with this beginning?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's one of those things where nobody
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  wants to be a bandwagon jumper. But you know, I
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  wasn't an Eagles fan until I got drafted by him,
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  and now now I'm a diehard. I feel like I
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  fit into the city. I actually had another brother in law.
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  He was a Vikings fan, and you know, I got
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  drafted after or the Eagles beat them in the NFC
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  Championship game, and he said, you know, Dallas, I don't
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  care where you get drafted where I could never be
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  an Eagles fan.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's he's the biggest Eagles fan. He fits
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  right in.
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  Speaker 3: He's on the pages commenting on other people, and you know,
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  so when you have somebody you know, that place for
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  a team, it makes it a little bit easier.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, either that or your entire professional career is just
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  an insult to family members.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I keep thinking about the touchdown against the Packers in
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  the playoffs. You know, you you that was vintage Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Got it right.
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  Speaker 1: It swings to you on the sideline, you break like
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  three tackles and the next thing you know, you broke
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  tackles multiple times on the way to the end zone
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  in that game. Is that when you when you think
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  about all the great touchdowns of your career, is that
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  one kind of stand up and pop out because you
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  guys were winning, but offensively it felt like you were
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  struggling at that point and really needed a breakthrough there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely near the top of my favorite touchdowns.
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  That one was pretty cool. I always go back to
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  the Giants one. It might have been Super Bowl year,
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  the twenty twenty two year, I wasn't pretty cool. One
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  hand one yep, kind of spun in there, but yeah,
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  you know, I feel like that one gave us a
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  spark as a team. Like you said, just we we
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  weren't really clicking on all parts, but I felt like
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  it brought energy to the stadium. It brought energy to
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  the sideline. I remember going to the sideline and talking
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  to Jlyx Hunt that was that was pretty cool. He
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  was just telling me how cool it was and how
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  good I am, and you know, hyping me up, which
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  I loved at the time.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that that play was one of my favorites
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  all time.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: One more thing I got to ask you, correct if
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  I'm wrong. I believe you were a walk on were
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  you're not coming to South South Dakota State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, walk on school.
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  Speaker 3: Start, didn't even didn't even get to go to training
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  camp and had to wait until after the first game
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  to join the team.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, how is it possible with your.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Went to a small school that in high school we
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  weren't very good at football. And if you don't have
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  an offensive line, if you don't have a good quarterback,
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  you know, you don't have the opportunity to showcase your
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  skill set. But yeah, it was Actually I got to
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  give credit to There was a pastor from a town
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  that we played, and he told the head coach at
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  South Dakota State. They were good friends. He's like, you
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  should go look at this guy. And the head coach
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  at South Dakota State came and looked at my film
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  and said, yeah, I don't know what you see in him,
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  but being a South Dakota guy, he allowed me to
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  be a school start walk on and you know I
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  was able to kind of prove my worth.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: How about that guy owes your pastor a lot?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, too awesome. Dallas. One more thing before we again
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  remind everybody about your your advocacy for plexoriasis. This Eagles
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  tight end maybe as deep as it has ever been
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  with some guys who have come from elsewhere and a coyple.
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  Harrison Bryant was a Macki Award winner, right Kylan Grantson.
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  We saw him do some things with the Colts as
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  far as stretching the field Calcatara back e j Jenkins.
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  So just give us a little scouting report on this
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  tight end room after Dallas Goddard and what it looks
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  like compared to what it's been in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said, it's probably the deepest it's ever
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  been since, you know, maybe my rookie year with me
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  Zach and Rich Rod. We had a decent little team,
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  decent little group there, but still not as deep. We
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  have a lot of people that have played a lot
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  of football. It's cool to pick their brains see what
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  they see. You know, they asked me questions of why
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  do certain things? I asked them questions. But it's it's
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  different than it's been too. You know, in the past,
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  it was me a tight end that can kind of
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  do it all, Grant more of a pass catcher, Jack
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  more of a run blocker. And now we have a
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  few more people that are true three down tight ends.
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  We have a couple more receiving tight ends. We have
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  a couple more that can do it all, and obviously
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  we'll all be asked to do it all. But like
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  you said, it's a it's a good group. And I
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  think the competition that we have in the group is
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  elevating the entire room.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you want to see.
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  Speaker 3: Like you always hear, iron sharpens iron, and I think
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  that's what we're doing in that room right now, which
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  which is a great thing to have.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, I would say that. And the rich get richer, right,
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  I mean, the offensive weaponry just gets more. So great
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  stuff Doullas. Again, we thank you for joining us. Tell
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  us more about your partnership with am Gen and what
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  people will learn if they go to dallasgstory dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you just kind of nailed it.
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  Speaker 3: If they go to dallasgstory dot com, they're gonna learn
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  more about my story, some of the things that I've
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  dealt with throughout my life, throughout my career. And then
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  there's also tips on there about talking to your doctor
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  and finding a treatment plan that works, works for you
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  and fits into your lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're very happy that you partner with Amgen, you
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  found a treatment for your plaque riasis, and we encourage
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  everybody to check out dallasgstory dot com, especially those and
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  even if you just have family members who suffer from plaxariasis.
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  Speaker 2: I know I have.
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  Speaker 1: Some to get educated to get the advocacy and then
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  reach out to their doctor. Once again, Super Bowl Champion
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  tight end for the Eagles, Dallas Goddard. We appreciate your
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  presence and your appearance here today on Inside the Birds
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  for Dallas Goddard. Adam Kaplan, I'm Jeff Mosher, thanks for
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  joining us on this Inside the Bird special