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ITB: Eagles Injury Report Getting Shorter vs. Cowboys · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, It's Adam Kaplan and Andrew to Checko inside
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Speaker 1: the Birds Thursday, Andrew to check O. Good to see you,
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Speaker 1: my friend. We just did the pro football report for
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Speaker 1: friends at WBCB. Good to see you, man.
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Speaker 2: Good to see you too. Look, I'm gonna try and
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Speaker 2: pinch hit for Jeff here, big.
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Speaker 1: Right right motion. Jeff will be back. We'll do the
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Speaker 1: we'll do the the pregame show with myself, Jeff and
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Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. Will do that over the weekend. But first
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Speaker 1: of all, Andrew, it's Cowboys week. Yes, it's it's the
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Speaker 1: rematch on Sunday at four pm Eastern and for twenty
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Speaker 1: five pm Eastern. He guys, we're of the Kelly Greens
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Speaker 1: on the road, which is so cool, bizarre, you know
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Speaker 1: of itself, Nick Sirianni. By the way, Andrew five or
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Speaker 1: four versus Dallas, he's one of the last three meetings. So Andrew,
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Speaker 1: let's get to it. Man, it's Dallas week. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to the injury report in a second, just as an overview,
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Speaker 1: because you know Dallas won. They won their game against
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Speaker 1: the Raiders on the road. They're four to five and one.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about the Cowboys coming to this game.
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Speaker 1: Where they're at.
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Speaker 2: Now, they look pretty good. They put up thirty three
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Speaker 2: points against the Raiders. You look at the opponent and
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Speaker 2: you have to also take that into account. But they
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Speaker 2: have about five different players now almost half the defense.
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Speaker 2: You have savone Ravel who's coming back. You have Demarvi
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Speaker 2: and Overshown who's a nice pass rusher, Malik Hooker, and
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Speaker 2: then of course the two trade acquisitions in Quinnin Williams
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Speaker 2: and Logan Wilson that weren't All of those players weren't
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Speaker 2: available when the last time the Eagles played the Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: So it's still a porous defense. They're still trying to
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Speaker 2: find their way, but they do have some different pieces
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Speaker 2: there that I think present a little bit different of
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Speaker 2: a challenge this time around.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you. All right, let's get to the
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Speaker 1: injury report. All right, So on it Andrew cam Jurgens,
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Speaker 1: but not for the knee. The knee is off of it.
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Speaker 1: Now we know what the injury is, a concussion. See,
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Speaker 1: the key is he's going to have to get cleared
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Speaker 1: before they try on Saturday, after the walkthrough. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to get clear by then. So you
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Speaker 1: got that, so now we know, but at least the
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Speaker 1: knee Ander is off the injured report. Lane Johnson obviously
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Speaker 1: with the spring Foot's not gonna play. Fred Johnson will
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Speaker 1: fill in. Let let's get to the definitely offensive line
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Speaker 1: because it's really interesting. Uh, we'll get to the transaction
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Speaker 1: with mileson in a couple of minutes. But okay, so
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Speaker 1: what would happen now if Jargons is out? We know
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Speaker 1: it's Toth, Well, would it be Dickerson back up Tooth?
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Speaker 1: Or Ken? Because Kennell really is barely it's barely been active.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on who the backup center would be?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I guess in game it would be Drew
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Speaker 2: Kendall because Jeff Stoutlond historically doesn't like to alter multiple positions,
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Speaker 2: so Ken will be. But depending on the on the
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Speaker 2: flow of the game, I could see them maybe sliding
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Speaker 2: landing over Landon is very good center. He can there's
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Speaker 2: not much he can't do from the interior position. But
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Speaker 2: I think the simple answer would be Drew kendall.
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Speaker 1: All. Right now, right tackle Fred Johnson. We know that
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Speaker 1: he's filling in for Lane Johnson, So the back of
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Speaker 1: would be Matt Pryor. Here's the question, assuming Kendall is
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Speaker 1: active on Sunday, did we see him get I thought
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Speaker 1: we saw some left guard stops? Am I correct? In
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Speaker 1: training camp? Do you remember?
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Speaker 2: I think he was mostly on the right side?
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Speaker 1: Was the right? Oh? Okay?
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Speaker 2: Primarily?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, who's the backup left guard in the game
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Speaker 1: on Sunday if Toath is starting at center? Prior got
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Speaker 1: a little. I saw it, but man, they stopped doing it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where they go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they seem to like him on the right side,
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Speaker 2: but in this situation, you may have to go prior
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Speaker 2: just so you're not toggling multiple positions. Then you're asking uh,
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Speaker 2: someone else to play left guard, and maybe like let's say,
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Speaker 2: let's say, for example, Brett to to play left guard,
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Speaker 2: and then you're asking someone else to come in cold
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Speaker 2: and play center or even sliding landing over it. It's
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Speaker 2: just it's kind of a mess. There's no real easy
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Speaker 2: answer here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you look at the press squad, there's
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Speaker 1: no as ready to play Jake Majors as a young
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Speaker 1: journeyman who's really not been a fact, he's never really played.
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Speaker 1: Holland Pierce, who's Oh, they also have.
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Speaker 2: Joey Lampkin, Willie Lampkin. By the way, his and I
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Speaker 2: are still twenty one day practice window I think expires
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Speaker 2: November twenty seventh for them.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so they have more time. It would be because
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Speaker 1: he's never played in an NFL game. It would be fascinating
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Speaker 1: if somehow they activated him and he becomes like this
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Speaker 1: good quality backup guard. But he could also he's been
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Speaker 1: crushery in any way with it that it's truly interesting him.
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Speaker 1: But they really want to get this to the off
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Speaker 1: season where he could really show what he can do.
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Speaker 1: So the good thing is Andrew speak of the injury
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Speaker 1: report and who's off of it. Dickerson's off it with
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Speaker 1: the quaterceps, Stein's off it with the ol Blake and
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Speaker 1: Nold Smith triceps. At least they're not on the report.
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Speaker 1: So really, right now, it's just to me Jurgons. That's
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Speaker 1: the way. The only guys who didn't work on Wednesday
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Speaker 1: were Jurgens and Lanes, So we'll see what happens now.
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Speaker 1: The transactions were interesting. They worked out all around the
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Speaker 1: enforcer Zach Pascal on Tuesday, didn't sign him, but remember
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Speaker 1: Johnny Wilson, you know what Andrew, we haven't talked about
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Speaker 1: it in months. I gotta say they miss him as
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Speaker 1: a blocking receiver.
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Speaker 2: I saw Johnny Wilson a couple of weeks ago. He
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Speaker 2: was at one of the Friday practices. It was good
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Speaker 2: to see him. We asked Will Shipley about him. Johnny
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Speaker 2: and Will are pretty good friends. We asked him about
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Speaker 2: that on the WBCB show. Yeah. I mean, if you
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Speaker 2: look back at Nick Sirianni's offenses over his time in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: he tends to look for that gritty, grimy blocking receiver
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Speaker 2: who's willing to do the dirty work. Whether it's Zach
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Speaker 2: Pascal Alamide, z A Kiyas, they think they have that,
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Speaker 2: and Darius Kober at least that's the vision that they
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Speaker 2: have for him. He's a big guy, and Nick Sirianni
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Speaker 2: likes his blocking prowess, so that's something that they covered
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Speaker 2: in the open. It's interesting that they that they worked
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Speaker 2: him out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think if if they thought he could
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Speaker 1: still help them, they'd sign to the practice squad and
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Speaker 1: to see how he does. But we'll see what happens
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Speaker 1: going forward in future weeks. And as I hinted on
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Speaker 1: a football for on Tuesday, the Eagles were going to
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Speaker 1: activate Miles hitting to the twenty one day window. They
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Speaker 1: did that on Wednesday. Just be careful, folks, he's never
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Speaker 1: been he's never practiced before in the regular season when
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Speaker 1: you were played. Obviously, he's a rookie. He had a
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Speaker 1: back injury. They got they just got to see what
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Speaker 1: they have. They've got twenty one days from Wednesday to
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Speaker 1: see if he can help them. Now he's a guy
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Speaker 1: Andrew I could see if he looks really good in practice,
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Speaker 1: they activate him because they're running out of linemen here.
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Speaker 1: With Lane's injury. There's no guarante he's going to come
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Speaker 1: back this season. So let's see what happens with Miles Hinton.
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Speaker 1: Who's who's a left tackle, and this is the guy
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Speaker 1: they wanted to develop.
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Speaker 2: You know what's interesting is sue O Pett is no
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Speaker 2: longer on the practice squad. He would have been a
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Speaker 2: logical choice had he been around to be elevated on
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Speaker 2: to this game.
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Speaker 1: Totally forgot that they cut him last week. In fact,
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Speaker 1: was he gone after He might have been gone after
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Speaker 1: a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: He I think he lasted You might be right. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that he quite lasted a week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just I've not seen this kind of
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Speaker 1: practice shuffle. Practice got shuffled by how he ever, this
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Speaker 1: is even for him. This is a lot I don't
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Speaker 1: quite understand it.
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Speaker 2: But there's been a few players that have lasted the
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Speaker 2: full season on the practice squad. I think E. J. Jenkins,
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Speaker 2: Andre Sam, Kyle McCord. There's some of the only ones
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Speaker 2: that come to mind.
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Speaker 1: Actually with the international player, how do you say, Felix.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh luke, Felix full wallow.
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Speaker 1: Right, here's one for here's a question for you. Because
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Speaker 1: they've got there, they've got their Pupmer Turner clearly in
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Speaker 1: Xavier Gibson Covey, he's still not he's not he's has
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Speaker 1: he been active for a game this year? I don't
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Speaker 1: recall it.
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Speaker 2: No, he's been on there. Actually, he's another guy who's
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Speaker 2: been on the practice squad since week one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I'm looking at my chart. Yes, one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent correct. He was waved, he cleared, and he got
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Speaker 1: signed to the practice squad from remember he got waved
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Speaker 1: by the Rams, he cleared the Egal sign to the
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Speaker 1: practice squad week one. I just I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: Covey did did really well, but I guess he could
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Speaker 1: be an emergency guy obviously if if Gibson gets hurt,
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Speaker 1: they're be an emergency guy. But it's a shame. I
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Speaker 1: I find it interesting that they decided not to let
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Speaker 1: him be the guy and they had Gibs in it.
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Speaker 1: That that one. I think about it as a surprise
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Speaker 1: to me. But he looks good so far, right, I
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Speaker 1: mean he's been fine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think maybe they like his juice and maybe
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Speaker 2: ability as a as a depth receiver more that that's
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Speaker 2: the only thing that I can think of. He's a
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Speaker 2: little bit more explosive, and I mean they both have
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Speaker 2: a lot of experience in doing it, so it doesn't
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Speaker 2: come down.
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Speaker 1: To that, correct. Yeah, Oh yeah, Look Covey was the
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Speaker 1: best at one year.
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Speaker 1: H O. Other thing, I'm just looking at any other
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Speaker 1: injury potential issues.
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Speaker 1: Okay, actually I'm looking at my chart. Yeah, that's the ad.
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Speaker 1: It's a shoulder Andrew This is new for him. I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at his entire cities and he was not listed
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Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury at all with the Dolphins. He
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Speaker 1: did works on on Wednesday. We'll see where Thursday and
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Speaker 1: Friday look. But yeah, he's obviously been incredible so far.
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Speaker 1: But the big thing for me is Jackerson off the
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Speaker 1: injured report. I know he's had a number of injuries.
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Speaker 1: Stein Havy oblique and Nolan Smith is that that's that's
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Speaker 1: good well. And by the way, we'll see going forward
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Speaker 1: if they playing more snaps. You know, he hasn't been
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Speaker 1: back for very long. I'll be interested to see. I
12:16
Speaker 1: know Cafangio is not a bit. He doesn't play a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys. BG's the fourth. He did get a
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Speaker 1: handful of snaps. That's one thing I'm interested to see
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Speaker 1: going ford Injrewy does VIC because he's he's not Jim
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Speaker 1: Shorts with with shuffling like Shorts would play like five guys.
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Speaker 1: He don't do that. I'll be interest to see if
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Speaker 1: Nolan actually gets more snaps this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Vic actually said that. I think it was his
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Speaker 2: year with the San Francisco forty nine ers where they
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Speaker 2: went the whole season with three edge rushers. Obviously that's
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Speaker 2: not the norm, not idea. He doesn't, he doesn't. It
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Speaker 2: just kind of underscores what you were just saying that
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Speaker 2: doesn't typically deploy a hefty rotation there. So now they're
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Speaker 2: at four and josh Usche for the second week in
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Speaker 2: a row, hasn't played any defensive snaps.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the Cowboys injury report. So
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Speaker 1: the only injury report of note that they have, and
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Speaker 1: he was added Prescott, Dak Prescott. He has amp injury.
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Speaker 1: He did participate in the walkthrough Wednesday. There's been no
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Speaker 1: worry as of now that he's not going to play,
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Speaker 1: but he's something to watch as we go forward. Now,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Demarvin Overshowing returned last week started by the
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Speaker 1: way versus the Raiders. He said, the worst lot three
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Speaker 1: major knee injuries. He's such a good football player. Good
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Speaker 1: for him that he's healthy. Revel, as you mentioned, he
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Speaker 1: played nineteen staffs versus the Raiders. Trayvon Diggs. They don't
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Speaker 1: know when he's coming back. He's the guy who it's
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Speaker 1: the craziest thing. He's supposed to have a concussion in
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Speaker 1: his house. You know that. I know the questions about it,
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Speaker 1: so I know some of the reporters did locally. But
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Speaker 1: Ravel played, he had nineteen snaps and Malie Cooker, by
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Speaker 1: the way, he returned, he started. He got off fire
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Speaker 1: last week, So Andrew, this is actually the healthiest that
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been all season. Let's sing ot They've
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Speaker 1: had a ton of injuries.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious to see what they throw out the
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Speaker 2: Eagles from a defensive standpoint, but I think the bigger
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Speaker 2: game within the game could be this, you know, reinvigorated
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Speaker 2: Eagles pass rush going against a Dallas offensive line that's
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Speaker 2: healthy and they're pretty formidable. So that's what I'm really
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Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing. And I think that could determine
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Speaker 2: the flow of the game because the past two weeks,
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Speaker 2: whether it was Jordan Love or Jared Goff, they've done
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Speaker 2: a nice job for harassing the quarterback and rattling them
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Speaker 2: early I.
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Speaker 1: Would agree with that, because you know, it's interesting if
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Speaker 1: you look back at week one, it is fascinating how
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Speaker 1: things have changed. Campbell no longer started. He started week one,
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Speaker 1: it was Hunt Noel Smith. Smith would later get hurt.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have Beja, they didn't have Phillips. It's just interesting, mcooba.
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Speaker 1: It had been pretty inconsistent, to say the least. But
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Speaker 1: now he's starting to play better. Jackson did start week one.
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Speaker 1: We know he's been in and out of a lot
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Speaker 1: of injury, not playing so well, and I was playing
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Speaker 1: a little bit better. Now you fast forward to hear
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Speaker 1: Gervonte Williams is still there starting running back. Kenny f
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Speaker 1: Mary is still starting. Jack Sanborn got hurt, he started,
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Speaker 1: and he had a concussion. Now overshrew and took his job. Anyway, Digaz,
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Speaker 1: it was obviously still starting. This is right around. They
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Speaker 1: remember they got Kenny Clark right for the season. Started,
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Speaker 1: Kenny Clark starting, Dante Fowler's a minor injury. But look
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Speaker 1: it's and Hooker's back now, so it's it's a fasting matchup.
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Speaker 1: You got it. Look, we'll see you mentioned the earlier.
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Speaker 1: You're not wrong. It's obviously the Coby's defense has but
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Speaker 1: mostly terrible this season, but this has also been part
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Speaker 1: of it. There's been health let's see how the matchups are.
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Speaker 1: You know it Dallas. If they could protect they've had
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Speaker 1: some issues on the interior. If they could protect, Dak
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Speaker 1: could spend it. He's had a very good year, and
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Speaker 1: you know how good they are at receiver. But you
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Speaker 1: just nailed it. He goes depth is elite right now.
16:46
Speaker 1: They can't even get to share on the field because
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Speaker 1: they don't have no they have no need for him.
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Speaker 1: You don't play vic. You mentioned it, by the way,
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Speaker 1: was that the year they got went to the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl with the Niners, they only.
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Speaker 2: Put that may have been? That may have been? He
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Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier in the season during one of his pressers, and.
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Speaker 1: I probably Smith had to be one of them, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: how to be one of them? But yeah, that's a
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you do that. And the guys
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Speaker 1: don't get worn out.
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Speaker 2: If you remember, I think in the postseason they went
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Speaker 2: down to the last season with the Eagles, they went
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Speaker 2: down to a three player of rotation out of necessity.
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Speaker 2: But he'd done it before, so he probably felt comfortable.
17:24
Speaker 1: Right. So that that's the Cowboys' injury report. Now let's
17:26
Speaker 1: get back to you on this. So locker room Wednesday,
17:30
Speaker 1: you got a little bit of practice. What did you
17:31
Speaker 1: learn on Wednesday from being with Eagles Wednesday practice.
17:36
Speaker 2: We're out there five or ten minutes, So the first
17:38
Speaker 2: player you're looking for is is Cam Jurgen's out there?
17:41
Speaker 2: He was not. There was no sign of them, nor
17:43
Speaker 2: Lane Johnson wasn't out there either, and that was to
17:46
Speaker 2: be expected. But in the locker room we heard from
17:48
Speaker 2: Fred Johnson, Jordan Davis. I talked to a couple of
17:52
Speaker 2: players for a story that I'm working on. I needed
17:54
Speaker 2: a couple quotes. It's a story about Brett Toth and
17:58
Speaker 2: his leadership behind the scenes with two of the younger linemen,
18:01
Speaker 2: Drew Kendall and Jake Majors, and kind of what he
18:04
Speaker 2: provides from that area. And you know, I talked a
18:07
Speaker 2: little bit to Jahad Campbell.
18:08
Speaker 3: Uh.
18:09
Speaker 2: He has a funny nickname Megatron, and I wanted to
18:12
Speaker 2: know that. I was curious about the origins of that,
18:14
Speaker 2: so he enjoyed sharing that background. Yeah, I mean it
18:17
Speaker 2: was Wednesdays are always the busiest day in the locker room.
18:20
Speaker 2: It's the first day back. There's always a lot of
18:22
Speaker 2: cameras and things like that there.
18:26
Speaker 1: And then you've got so you've got first obviously the
18:29
Speaker 1: daily to check o's and you've got the Mac mcwilliam's
18:32
Speaker 1: rookie Diary. Mac was a guy, Andrew, I think we
18:37
Speaker 1: all would say we were really impressed at times with
18:38
Speaker 1: him in training camp, and and you know, he just
18:42
Speaker 1: he's he's been active, what once or twice for four games?
18:47
Speaker 1: Four four? Did he play on specials at all?
18:50
Speaker 2: Barely? He played seven snaps on defense against the Giants
18:53
Speaker 2: in that blowout. But I think just the eleven combined
18:56
Speaker 2: snaps this season, if I got on that just not
18:58
Speaker 2: a lot.
19:00
Speaker 1: So we talked a little bit of this on the
19:02
Speaker 1: WBCB Shoe by the way, folks, you can hear it
19:04
Speaker 1: on all our platforms. We put it up as Andrew
19:06
Speaker 1: and I. But how is Mac like? Because I know
19:11
Speaker 1: you talked to him a lot, I don't know what
19:14
Speaker 1: was his expectations coming into the season. I'm curious.
19:18
Speaker 2: I don't know that he had any expectations. Just show
19:20
Speaker 2: up for work every day, try to improve, and let
19:23
Speaker 2: the chips fall where they may. He has the right
19:25
Speaker 2: mindset for a rookie, and especially for a defensive back.
19:29
Speaker 2: He said, I'm just taking everything one day at a
19:31
Speaker 2: time and trying to keep my head down. In fact,
19:33
Speaker 2: his favorite quote the most impactful quote in his life
19:36
Speaker 2: is keep your head down and keep working. And he
19:38
Speaker 2: said his brother Fish told him that, and I think
19:40
Speaker 2: that kind of shed some light on his ability to
19:45
Speaker 2: kind of keep everything in perspective and be where his
19:48
Speaker 2: feet are.
19:49
Speaker 1: So now that you know the Eagles are healthy, you know,
19:51
Speaker 1: other than laying offsets major and you talked to Fred Johnson,
19:56
Speaker 1: how do you because the Cowboys offenses is really really
19:59
Speaker 1: good in terms of the passing game, how do you
20:01
Speaker 1: see this game playing out? We know a little bit
20:03
Speaker 1: more information obvious after Wednesday. How do you feel about
20:06
Speaker 1: this game for the Eagles?
20:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it will actually be a
20:09
Speaker 2: back and forth affair, a higher scoring when I think
20:12
Speaker 2: George Pickens for Dallas is going to have a major
20:14
Speaker 2: impact in this game. Dak Prescott's playing at a high level,
20:17
Speaker 2: but the Eagles are playing in optimal conditions. They're playing
20:20
Speaker 2: inside there. You know, you had two games where you
20:25
Speaker 2: can look at the Green Bay and the Fridgie conditions
20:28
Speaker 2: or the wind with the Lions, and regardless of what
20:30
Speaker 2: you may hear, the win definitely had an impact on
20:32
Speaker 2: both teams. I think you're going to see more of
20:36
Speaker 2: the offense that they've shown in Spurts they should be
20:38
Speaker 2: able to score twenty to twenty four points in this game.
20:41
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a big ass And.
20:43
Speaker 1: It's funny you say it because with our Patreon level
20:45
Speaker 1: three members on Wednesday, Waite a wild one. It was
20:48
Speaker 1: funny because I said, wouldn't be funny because you've seen
20:50
Speaker 1: this with Hurts over the years, the Pittsburgh game, other
20:52
Speaker 1: games where he's really feeling it that they're geting to
20:55
Speaker 1: throw fest. We know the Eagles don't like to play
20:57
Speaker 1: that way. It's the way that they win, right, wouldn't
20:59
Speaker 1: be great? It was like forty eight forty four and
21:02
Speaker 1: somehow the egos won the game for the Eagles. Fans
21:04
Speaker 1: listen obviously, but you're like, wow, where's this because the
21:07
Speaker 1: defense will go where they're gonna say where's this bin?
21:08
Speaker 1: But just just I'm with you, I see it as
21:10
Speaker 1: a super high scoring game because honestly, at some point, Andrew,
21:15
Speaker 1: some team is gonna say we're going after Joey Jackson
21:17
Speaker 1: all game, because no one's really doing that. I don't
21:20
Speaker 1: no one could kind of figure out why. I mean, yes,
21:22
Speaker 1: they got a Dory on the crosser one other play,
21:25
Speaker 1: but after that he was fine. Obviously the pressure helped.
21:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the pressure played a big part.
21:29
Speaker 1: Yes. Now obviously the wind, let's face it, Gop does
21:32
Speaker 1: not have a strong arm like Heart's hurts Art. It's
21:34
Speaker 1: got a strong arm. But because as you said, there
21:37
Speaker 1: are no conditions you have to worry about. I am
21:38
Speaker 1: so fascinated it safe to be a throw fest. I
21:41
Speaker 1: would love that just from a visual standpoint, because it's
21:43
Speaker 1: hard to watch this offense. Man, I'm sorry, I'm just
21:45
Speaker 1: being honest. From a visual standpoint, I want to see
21:49
Speaker 1: what more more pass the game? But uh, based on
21:52
Speaker 1: the way George Pickens's you know he's playing for a
21:54
Speaker 1: new contract. See, he's a great player. Jake Ferguson very
21:57
Speaker 1: underrated tight end. Do you like coming in? By the way,
22:01
Speaker 1: before we get out of what were your expectations for
22:02
Speaker 1: the Cowboys this he's coming in.
22:05
Speaker 2: I thought that they were gonna start out fast and
22:07
Speaker 2: then sort of fizzle out like they tend to do.
22:09
Speaker 2: I didn't know that they were built to sustainably be
22:12
Speaker 2: a team that was gonna be able to stack wins
22:14
Speaker 2: and things like that. They're just very inconsistent. But Dak
22:18
Speaker 2: Prescott's a good quarterback, and I liked the pieces that
22:20
Speaker 2: they had offensively enough so that I thought that they
22:23
Speaker 2: might be able to generate some early momentum. And then
22:26
Speaker 2: ultimately the Cowboys typically are going to Cowboy, and that's
22:30
Speaker 2: where they're just not able to They're they're just not
22:34
Speaker 2: able to put it all together, whether it's off the
22:37
Speaker 2: field or whether it's injuries or whatever. They just seem
22:40
Speaker 2: to have sort of a dark cloud over them and
22:43
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, they can't really string anything sustainable together.
22:47
Speaker 1: It's funny, that's what Jason and Viot like, Cowboys are
22:49
Speaker 1: going to Cowboy. They chargers are going to charge her,
22:53
Speaker 1: And Jason would say cowboys are going to Cowboy. They
22:55
Speaker 1: just something always seems to happen. This has the makings
22:59
Speaker 1: because it's as you said, indoors and we know Dak
23:03
Speaker 1: Dak could spin at him and he's he's got a
23:05
Speaker 1: good year.
23:06
Speaker 2: Yeah he is.
23:06
Speaker 1: Brad Scheimer super aggressive as a play called Church of
23:09
Speaker 1: the Past game and Hurts has these games where you
23:12
Speaker 1: never know what it's coming. When it comes, it could
23:14
Speaker 1: it could be Wow, Pittsburgh game is really the one.
23:17
Speaker 1: Last year obviously was the big one. We'll see what happens.
23:19
Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to this one. This is good.
23:23
Speaker 2: So going into the Lions game, Adam, I sort of
23:25
Speaker 2: equated that to the game that the Eagles had in
23:28
Speaker 2: Baltimore last season, where it was an ugly game. It
23:31
Speaker 2: was a defensive slug fest. Much was made about the
23:35
Speaker 2: Ravens and their physicality, and that game kind of mirrored
23:38
Speaker 2: that and this game. Funny you mentioned the Steelers game.
23:41
Speaker 2: I could sort of see it taking on that kind
23:44
Speaker 2: of a personality, although I think the Cowboys will be
23:47
Speaker 2: able to move the ball a little bit more effectively
23:49
Speaker 2: than the Steelers did that day.
23:52
Speaker 1: Yes, obviously the Eagles were at home, and I just
23:55
Speaker 1: remember saying, like you could tell what Hurts is feeling it.
23:59
Speaker 1: There's just I don't know what it is when you
24:00
Speaker 1: watch a quarterback when he's on, there's just something they go, Okay,
24:04
Speaker 1: there's this is going to be pretty interesting today. I'm
24:07
Speaker 1: really hopeful that the game will be like that because
24:09
Speaker 1: we kind of need that, having to watch the Eagles
24:10
Speaker 1: every week in the past. Game fans owe it, you know,
24:13
Speaker 1: all the Hurts fans and everyone else who watches this
24:17
Speaker 1: team like us, you know, and just nationally because everyone's
24:21
Speaker 1: asking about all these stories that are coming out and
24:23
Speaker 1: I know you're doing it. People are asking you for interviews.
24:24
Speaker 1: They are actually me like crazy for interviews. I'm like, okay, hey, listen. Anyway,
24:28
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and Eagles need to break.
24:30
Speaker 1: They need to be on the road and get in
24:32
Speaker 1: a pass fest. We'll see what happens, but good stuff
24:34
Speaker 1: from you, my friend. Most will be back for the
24:36
Speaker 1: next show for inert to checko. I'm Adam Kaplan. Thanks
24:40
Speaker 1: for listening to Inside the Birds.