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2025 Philadelphia Eagles Season Preview! (PST Episode 632) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Hope you are doing well. We wanted
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Speaker 1: to let you know. This podcast episode was recorded on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: September third, twenty twenty five. By the time you hear this,
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Speaker 1: some things may have changed here there, but we hope
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Speaker 1: you enjoyed the show. Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table
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Speaker 1: podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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Speaker 1: in the world, twelve years strong. We've got a great
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Speaker 1: show coming your way. It is our Eagles season preview show.
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Speaker 1: As this twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six Eagles season
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Speaker 1: is just about underway here. If you're listening to this,
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Speaker 1: it might already have been underway. The Thursday night game
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Speaker 1: against the Eagles and Cowboys may have already taken place
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Speaker 1: by the time you're listening to this. I'm Jeff Warren.
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Speaker 1: Here are my good buddy, Len Hunt sicker buddy, how
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Speaker 1: are you, man?
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Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm I'm ready to see some Eagles football,
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Speaker 2: ready to see how they follow up on a on
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Speaker 2: a title defense.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and we're gonna get into some NFL predictions as well.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk division winners, wild card winners as well.
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Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a fantastic show. It
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Speaker 1: is all football basically this week, except for our listener feedback,
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Speaker 1: which we are going to get into in the plaint department.
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Speaker 1: It really is like that's what that's basically what it is.
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Speaker 1: It is the complaint I love that, the complaint department.
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Speaker 1: Why don't we call it that? It shouldn't even be
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Speaker 1: listener feedback anymore.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean they're not complaining about us, which is good.
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Speaker 2: That's true, you know, So as long as that's the case,
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Speaker 2: then we're doing what we're supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: I guess I love the complaint department aspect of this.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into that. But again, again really quick
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Speaker 1: in terms of the show outline for this week, get
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Speaker 1: getting some listener feedback with regard to Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: how people have to watch it as well as the Phillies. Then,
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Speaker 1: like I said, our NFL predictions for this upcoming season,
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Speaker 1: all division winners, wild card, who's going to win the
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Speaker 1: NFC and AFC championship games, the Super Bowl matchup super
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Speaker 1: Bowl winner. Gonna dive into those predictions, and then we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get into the Eagles fifty three man roster, talk
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Speaker 1: about concerns on offense and defense. What we're most excited
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Speaker 1: for about the offense and defense as well this year.
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Speaker 1: But then we're gonna get into the Eagles season predictions,
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Speaker 1: which is who's going to be the breakout guy on
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Speaker 1: the team this year, who is going to be the
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Speaker 1: Eagles rising star player, who's going to be the guy
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Speaker 1: that needs to rebound this year, the defensive player of
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Speaker 1: the year, the offensive player of the year, the Eagles
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Speaker 1: regular season record. We're gonna give all those predictions, and then,
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Speaker 1: as we do every year, it is a tradition here
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Speaker 1: at the PSD podcast show to talk to our good
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Speaker 1: friend Brandon Lee Gouten from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com to
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Speaker 1: get his take on what we can expect from the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles this coming season. Is part of our Eagle
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Speaker 1: season preview show. So lend buddy, why don't we get
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Speaker 1: into our listener feedback really quick here, and we are
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Speaker 1: going to start off with one of our good friends, April,
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Speaker 1: who lives down south, and she's responding actually to something
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Speaker 1: that Eric and I this past week, I should say,
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Speaker 1: on last week's show talked about. She said, hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: in response to this past week's show, I totally agree
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Speaker 1: with your ramp. My dad and I have a special
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Speaker 1: extra issue that we both live outside the greater Philadelphia area.
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Speaker 1: We pay for Major League Baseball MLB Network, but we
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Speaker 1: are blocked out for Atlanta Braves games. Do I need
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Speaker 1: to mention that we are two hundred and ten miles
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Speaker 1: from Truest Park and we pay to watch every MLB
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Speaker 1: game of choice, but cannot watch our preferred team, the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies whenever they play the Braves, regardless of where
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Speaker 1: they play. And do not get me started on the commercials.
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Speaker 1: I am absolutely ready to buy a Defender just so
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Speaker 1: I don't have to watch another single commercial about that
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Speaker 1: damn car. So that that was part one of the
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Speaker 1: complaint Department len part two. As we get into this,
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Speaker 1: it's more of a compliment to Eric. She says, always
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Speaker 1: love Eric, especially his hair. Ooh la la boy oh
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Speaker 1: la la. But I am head about that Eric exactly exactly.
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Speaker 1: But I've never loved him more than his take on
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Speaker 1: Jordan Romano. Every time he steps on the mound, I
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Speaker 1: lose a year off of my life. A la count
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Speaker 1: Rugan's life sucking machine from The Princess Bride Always loved
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Speaker 1: the Top three list guys, even if they are the
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Speaker 1: worst of keep up the awesome work and therapy that
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Speaker 1: is your show. So thanks so much for the email. April. Again, Len,
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Speaker 1: I love how you said it's the complaint department, but look,
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Speaker 1: she absolutely has a point. Major League Baseball. Like, I
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Speaker 1: was actually watching something online today where they're talking about
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Speaker 1: all the streaming services. They're talking about how sports are
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Speaker 1: being watched anymore, and specifically what's gonna be happening with
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Speaker 1: the NBA as well, and that people are just gonna
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Speaker 1: have to purchase every freaking streaming service out there in
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Speaker 1: order to watch their teams play, just these leagues and
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Speaker 1: associations if they want to enjoy the sport anymore. It's
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Speaker 1: it's really getting sad, it's getting pathetic, it's getting expensive,
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Speaker 1: and these these folks at the higher ups, they really
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Speaker 1: don't give a shit.
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Speaker 2: Well and and if you guys talked about this at all,
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Speaker 2: by all means let me know. But I have a
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Speaker 2: you mean you didn't listen to the show. I did
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Speaker 2: not listen to it this past week, kidding, that is correct. So,
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Speaker 2: and I hate to be dooming gloom here, but there
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Speaker 2: is a war coming down the pike. The owners won
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Speaker 2: a salary cap. The MLB Players Association had said, we'll
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Speaker 2: never do a salary cap. So the the CBA runs
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Speaker 2: out after the twenty twenty sixth season, after next season,
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Speaker 2: after that happens, there will By the way everybody's talking,
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing we're looking at probably another strike or another
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Speaker 2: lockout or another something. And if that cuts into any time.
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Speaker 2: I feel like we've had a few of these just
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Speaker 2: since we've started the show. And maybe I'm wrong. I
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Speaker 2: know we've had at least one. Now we're close close, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: So at that point, like you're really like, you know,
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Speaker 2: more than more than ever. People don't have a lot
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Speaker 2: of money, so now the millionaires are fighting the billionaires
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Speaker 2: and guess who doesn't care. So they if they do
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Speaker 2: that and they alien out, alienate their audience. And my
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Speaker 2: hope is that they okay, as a concession, whenever we
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Speaker 2: do come back, they say, all right, major League Baseball
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Speaker 2: app have no blackouts everybody. Because where I live right
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Speaker 2: now in central Pennsylvania, I can't watch the Phillies, I
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Speaker 2: can't watch the Pirates, I can't watch the Orioles, and
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Speaker 2: I can't watch the Nationals. That's four teams I can't
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Speaker 2: watch their games. So if they go down that route,
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Speaker 2: if they do a strike, I'm already ready to walk.
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Speaker 2: I'm already thinking ahead and I'm getting myself ready to walk.
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Speaker 2: So if you want to get me back, guess what
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Speaker 2: that MLB app it's all free or not all free? Okay,
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Speaker 2: I get you know you're going to have people, you know,
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Speaker 2: subscribeing to a service. But that blackout shit that I
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Speaker 2: can't watch my team, any of that stuff that's over
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Speaker 2: or else you that has to be if this happens,
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Speaker 2: that has to be a give back to the fans.
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Speaker 2: It has to be non negotiable because a man, you
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Speaker 2: were really playing with fire with, you know, doing another
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Speaker 2: one of these things. If it happens, and based on
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Speaker 2: the animosity between owners and players and the tough talk,
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Speaker 2: I've been here and I don't see a scenario in
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Speaker 2: which they get that hammered out. So that's that's my hope.
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Speaker 2: If they do it, and and when they come back,
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Speaker 2: you better get rid of the blackouts.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise there's gonna be a lot of pissed off people,
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of people leaving watching it.
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Speaker 1: I'm serious, Like I remember us talking about it before, like,
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Speaker 1: are people actually going to leave?
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Speaker 2: Because strike it's already a sport that's you know, you're, you're, you're,
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Speaker 2: it's a sport that requires attention, and more and more
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Speaker 2: and more people have less of an attention span. Great
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Speaker 2: point because of all that stuff. So you're trying like
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Speaker 2: hell to bring people back. If you go away again,
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Speaker 2: you better be ready to hand it over because that's
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Speaker 2: the only way you're getting people back. It's definitely the
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Speaker 2: only way they're getting me back if it goes down
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Speaker 2: that route. I should be able to go on that
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Speaker 2: app that I go on, and it shouldn't just be
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Speaker 2: you know, Padres versus Brewer as I'm watching it right
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Speaker 2: I should be able to watch every Phillies game right
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Speaker 2: there on that app.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely great feedback there, April and Len. That's pretty
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Speaker 1: good analysis about what we may be seeing in the future,
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Speaker 1: for sure. But moving along with listener feedback, we had
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Speaker 1: another email from longtime listener Francis and this is a
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Speaker 1: very simple email, Len, simple, straight to the point. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't screwing around at all. Francis is not screwing around
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Speaker 1: at all. Shot us an email off right after the
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Speaker 1: Phillies lost three games to the Mets in a row.
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Speaker 1: He says, dropping three straight against the Mets fucked them,
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Speaker 1: lazy motherfuckers. That's it. Nothing else to really say it all.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys, Hope you have a great holiday weekend.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It was so just in your face,
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Speaker 1: like you know what, I hate this team, but I
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Speaker 1: do what really quick, Lynn, I want to say, Francis,
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Speaker 1: that was like the most that's like the most Philly
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Speaker 1: sports type of email that you could have given to
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Speaker 1: the complaint department and to the listener feedback portion of
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Speaker 1: this show. I mean, it was so Philly of you
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Speaker 1: in that moment to do that. I loved it, Lynn.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's not wrong. I mean they better hope,
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Speaker 2: like hell, the Mets don't make the playoffs because if
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Speaker 2: they have to play the Mets again in the playoffs, sorry,
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Speaker 2: I'm not picking them, Yeah I can't. I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: based on what's happened this season, based on how it
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Speaker 2: ended last season, there's something about that team where there's
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Speaker 2: just some kind of bugaboo where they just swing it
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Speaker 2: awful shit. I just I don't know what happens when
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Speaker 2: they play that team, yep, but I just I have
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Speaker 2: no faith in them against the Mets.
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Speaker 1: It's you can't at this point, you can't, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen what we have seen. It's whether
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Speaker 1: it's they're getting in their head. And I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: the Phillies players, whether they are in their own heads,
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Speaker 1: especially when they're at City Field. It is absolutely astonishing
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Speaker 1: what this team goes through when playing the New York Mets.
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Speaker 1: So great, great emails, folks. We really appreciate you reaching out,
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Speaker 1: and if you are interested in writing us, sending us
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Speaker 1: an email Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. We
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Speaker 1: would love to read your email here on the show
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Speaker 1: and respond to it, as we did with Francis's email
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Speaker 1: and aprils as well. So, len, let's get into our
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Speaker 1: discussion this week about the professional football. We're going to
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Speaker 1: talk NFL predictions here for this upcoming season, then get
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Speaker 1: into some Eagles predictions as well. So let's start off
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Speaker 1: our NFL predictions here for this as my mic, I
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Speaker 1: hit my mic and it just picking went everywhere. Did
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Speaker 1: you see that? Holy crap?
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 1: Let's go through each division. We're gonna pick division winners
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Speaker 1: and the wildcard winners. At point lend. I mean, hey,
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Speaker 1: why don't we start off with the Let's start off
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Speaker 1: with the NFC. Let's go with the NFC North. Who
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Speaker 1: do you like in the NFC North to win the division?
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Speaker 2: I feel like this is going to be such a
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Speaker 2: trendy pick since they got Micah Parsons, But I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: go Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Green Bay as well. I think that
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Speaker 1: they are definitely the favorites. And yes, Michael Parsons really
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Speaker 1: does put them over the edge. And do I think
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love is going to be a better quarterback this season?
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Speaker 1: I absolutely do. He's has a young wide receiver corps
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Speaker 1: who I think is going to continue to develop with him.
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers for sure for me, So we're definitely
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Speaker 1: in agreement on that one. Is it Michaeh Parsons with
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Speaker 1: you in particular? Is that why you're thinking that he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to put them over the edge.
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Speaker 2: I feel like Jordan Love is going to take a
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Speaker 2: little bit more of a step forward this year. Parsons
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Speaker 2: is obviously going to help the defense. Yeah, And I
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Speaker 2: just feel like, you know, even though I'm going to
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Speaker 2: pick them spoiler alert is one of my wildcard teams.
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Speaker 2: I feel like there's got to be some kind of
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Speaker 2: come back to earth with Detroit, and I think that
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Speaker 2: I think the Green Bay takes that division.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move over to the NFC West. Let's do
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Speaker 1: the NFC West. I am going to be picking the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers to win this division. I
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Speaker 1: think this is a team that has remained quote consistent
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Speaker 1: when they don't have injuries. I cannot imagine this team
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Speaker 1: having as many injuries as they have had the past
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Speaker 1: couple of seasons.
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Speaker 2: They really took it on the chin last year.
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Speaker 1: Really yeah, But I think if they if they are
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Speaker 1: healthy and are able to stay healthy, I would imagine
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Speaker 1: they probably would. I cannot imagine them having a season
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Speaker 1: like last year from an injury perspective. I'm picking the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. Do you have in the
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Speaker 1: NFC West?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm also going forty nine ers and again, and
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Speaker 2: that's just basically because I just can't believe that's going
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Speaker 2: to happen to them with all those injuries two years
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Speaker 2: in a row. I just don't see it.
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Speaker 1: All Right, let's move to the NFC South. Who are
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Speaker 1: you thinking here? Oh my gosh, I I I gotta
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Speaker 1: read erics as well. I completely forgot about erics. Well,
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Speaker 1: why don't you dive into the NFC South at this point,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Eric's picks up here that he shot
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Speaker 1: us off a little earlier today.
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Speaker 2: So the South, I don't know what to make of it.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe in Carolina yet. The Saints, I think
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Speaker 2: might end up being one of the worst teams in
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Speaker 2: football this year. So I think it's a two horse race.
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Speaker 2: I mean, man, Michael Pennix might be one of the
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Speaker 2: more interesting players in Niagara football this year because I
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Speaker 2: think if he does what he can do what I
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Speaker 2: think he can do. I think Atlanta's got a good
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Speaker 2: shot at winning that division only because like isn't is
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Speaker 2: Tristan Wurfs. Is he out for the year for Tampa.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's out for the year. I'll
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Speaker 1: have to look that up. I don't know if it's this, he's.
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Speaker 2: Got an injury, Chris Godwins coming back from an injury. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's just a lot going on there. I'm gonna go Atlanta,
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Speaker 2: but I don't feel great about it. I could if
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Speaker 2: Tampa wins that division, it wouldn't shock me at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tristan Wurf's his return is uncertain. He's going to
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Speaker 1: miss at least the beginning of this season, So I
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Speaker 1: do think he'll be back at some point. And guess what,
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Speaker 1: I'm going with the Atlanta Falcons as well, just because
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Speaker 1: of what I said with Michael Pennix, and and you know,
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Speaker 1: I think if if if, oh my gosh, he's their
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Speaker 1: tight end. Uh pick Kyle Pitts. This guy has so
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Speaker 1: much talent and has been through the ringer with how
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Speaker 1: many quarterbacks during his young career.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember when he was how like people were
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Speaker 2: just going up like, oh man, this guy's going to
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Speaker 2: be kind of revolutionized the tight end position and all this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually has a quarterback that's able to throw
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Speaker 1: the ball to him. The thing about Michael Pennix was
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Speaker 1: he didn't always handle the rush well when it came
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Speaker 1: to that. That last game is last college game ever
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Speaker 1: against Michigan, he was on the run. He didn't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of pass pass rushing throughout the course of
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Speaker 1: his senior year when he was playing, and I think
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Speaker 1: that could be a bit a bit troublesome for him.
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Speaker 1: But still I think the Atlanta Falcons are gonna take
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Speaker 1: that division for sure. I'd be remissed if I didn't
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Speaker 1: read Eric's predictions here so far. In terms of the
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Speaker 1: NFC North, he also picked Green Bay. Lynn. He also
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Speaker 1: or I shouldn't say also, but he actually picked Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay to win the NFC North. Okay, And he picked
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. He thinks, uh, Sam Darnold's gonna gonna
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Speaker 1: maybe put on a bit of a show there and
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Speaker 1: get them to the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: It's I mean, certainly possible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, possible, for sure. I guess let's move to the
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Speaker 1: NFC East. Now, do you think it's gonna be the
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, Lynn? Do you think it is? What do
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Speaker 1: you think about the NFC East?
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Speaker 2: The whole uh no team has won the division? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: back to back years since what was it, three to four?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that that makes me like, hmm, but I.
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Speaker 1: I think, yes, that ship's gonna end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I I it's I just don't see enough. And
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Speaker 2: I think Daniels is a hell of a quarterback. But
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Speaker 2: I I feel like everybody is just waiting to crown him,
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Speaker 2: waiting to make him like the next Oh, he's the
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Speaker 2: best quarterback at least in the NFC.
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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some regression with him, to
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Speaker 1: be honest.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could. I could see a world in which
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Speaker 2: there's a step back, and that's you know, look, I'm
17:43
Speaker 2: not saying the Eagles are going to be a juggernaut.
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Speaker 2: I I there's some stuff with them that scares me.
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Speaker 2: I think they've got some holes, particularly defensively that I
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Speaker 2: think we're gonna have a couple of games here and
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Speaker 2: there where we're pretty damn frustrated with what we see.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get into that for sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah, so,
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Speaker 2: But I just I don't see enough for any of
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Speaker 2: these other teams to make me go away from the
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Speaker 2: Eagles unless they have like a forty nine ers type
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Speaker 2: season with injury. Absolutely, I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles too.
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Speaker 2: I think that that streak of not having a back
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Speaker 2: to back division winner, that shit ends this season.
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Speaker 1: It's done, So it's done. All right, Let's move over
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Speaker 1: to the AFC. Now, let's start with the AFC North.
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Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to be winning the
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Speaker 1: AFC North this this coming season.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine there's gonna be too many people not
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Speaker 2: picking the Bills.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be uh well, that's the that's the AFC East. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what did you say AFC North? I mean
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Speaker 1: IFC North. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm I'm blacking. Well, okay,
18:46
Speaker 1: same deal. Just swap out the Ravens for the Bills.
18:50
Speaker 1: Why don't we Why don't we just do the AFC
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Speaker 1: East and the AFC North right now? Because you and
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Speaker 1: I have the same exact yes for these And guess what,
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Speaker 1: so does everybody else? So does that? Everybody else? Buffalo
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Speaker 1: winning the AFC East, Baltimore winning the AFC North. Eric
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Speaker 1: has the same as well. What are your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: the AFC South.
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Speaker 2: You know, let's put it this way. The AFC South
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Speaker 2: is the only division where not everybody is going to
19:17
Speaker 2: have the same team, right, I mean we can we
19:21
Speaker 2: agree on that, I think so yep, Oh man, you
19:26
Speaker 2: want to talk about a division that, I mean talk
19:29
Speaker 2: about pooty Shards. Don't know what to make of these teams.
19:34
Speaker 2: Jacksonville seems perpetually like tripping over themselves. The Colts quarterback
19:39
Speaker 2: situation is abysmal. Yeah, I mean Ward over in Tennessee.
19:44
Speaker 2: I just he's a rookie it's an awful lot to
19:47
Speaker 2: put on him. It's Texans by default for.
19:50
Speaker 1: Me, Okay, Texans by default. I'm actually going to go
19:54
Speaker 1: with what Eric Eric thought too. I think Jacksonville is
19:57
Speaker 1: going to take that next step. I do. I mean,
20:00
Speaker 1: I believe it's going to happen finally, maybe one of
20:02
Speaker 1: these years. Christ I keep picking him every freaking year.
20:06
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen. It's gonna happen one of these years eventually, right, Yes, Look,
20:11
Speaker 1: I think Trevor Lawrence. Yes, he is a very high
20:13
Speaker 1: paid quarterback for the type of productivity that he gives
20:16
Speaker 1: this team way too many interceptions a year after a year.
20:19
Speaker 1: But I do think that Trevor Lawrence is going to
20:21
Speaker 1: really help this offense in a lot of ways this year.
20:23
Speaker 1: From a jority standpoint, He's going to be able to
20:26
Speaker 1: get the ball downfield in my opinion.
20:27
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's a guy that, you know, if you're
20:30
Speaker 2: looking for a leap candidate, a guy to really take
20:32
Speaker 2: a step forward this year. Yeah, if he happens to
20:35
Speaker 2: be that guy, then yeah, they're a slammed uck.
20:37
Speaker 1: I think in the South, well, Eric and I may
20:39
Speaker 1: be talking about the Houston Texans at some point Okay,
20:43
Speaker 1: that's where we're moving along with our predictions. So let's
20:45
Speaker 1: go now with the uh the AFC West at this point,
20:49
Speaker 1: I mean, the Chiefs I think are still going to
20:52
Speaker 1: remain on top. Patrick Mahomes, Yeah, he's taking some steps back,
20:56
Speaker 1: and certainly against Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl, but
20:59
Speaker 1: I think gets the Chief's division to lose here at
21:02
Speaker 1: this point. Are you think of the same thing, I.
21:04
Speaker 2: Mean until just like I won't pick Penn State to
21:08
Speaker 2: be Ohio beat Ohio State until they actually do, right,
21:10
Speaker 2: I'm not picking anybody to win the AFC West until
21:13
Speaker 2: they actually do so. Yeah, Kansas City, for me, I
21:17
Speaker 2: think that that Super Bowl against the Eagles is probably
21:21
Speaker 2: gonna leave a pretty nasty taste in their mouth. And
21:24
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a lot of guys on
21:25
Speaker 2: that team that are motivated to come back and say, hey,
21:29
Speaker 2: we're not dead yet.
21:31
Speaker 1: Yep.
21:31
Speaker 2: So I think that they're gonna I think they may
21:34
Speaker 2: have more of a chip on their shoulder than any
21:36
Speaker 2: team in football.
21:37
Speaker 1: All right, very good, and I think I think that's
21:40
Speaker 1: absolutely valid, of course, given the way that their season
21:43
Speaker 1: ended against the Eagles. So Eric also picked the Kansas
21:46
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. I forget if I had mentioned that. So
21:49
Speaker 1: let's go through the wild Yeah, let's go through the
21:51
Speaker 1: wild card here, NFC wild card Eric actually has the
21:56
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, San Francisco forty nine Ers, and Chicago Bears.
22:01
Speaker 1: Who do you have for your wild card? I'm gonna
22:04
Speaker 1: say Detroit, Yep, I'm going to say the Rams. Detroit's
22:09
Speaker 1: actually one of mine as well for the wild cards.
22:11
Speaker 1: So Rams, okay, yeph.
22:16
Speaker 2: Like I I like everything about the Vikings except the
22:19
Speaker 2: fact that they've got a rookie quarterback.
22:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't think it's that's a pretty good quarterback.
22:25
Speaker 2: I mean, he's heard all last year, so who's who's
22:28
Speaker 2: really to say? Yeah? Man, none of these other teams
22:32
Speaker 2: really looks. I'll I feel like they made a lot
22:37
Speaker 2: of strides on the defensive end in terms of people
22:40
Speaker 2: they brought in. I am terrified to gamble on Kyler Murray,
22:45
Speaker 2: but I'll go Arizona.
22:47
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I like the pick. I like. I
22:49
Speaker 1: think it's bold for sure.
22:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I like, I don't want to pick all
22:53
Speaker 2: the same teams. Yeah.
22:55
Speaker 1: Well, look, like I mentioned before, Detroit Lions I think
22:58
Speaker 1: are going to make the wild card spot. I do
23:00
Speaker 1: think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are gonna get Bucky Irving.
23:04
Speaker 1: I think is one of the one of the is
23:06
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the premier running backs in this league.
23:09
Speaker 1: They're going to rely on him heavily, especially within the
23:12
Speaker 1: red zone. And I I think Tampa Bay is gonna
23:16
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really close that Tampa Bay Atlanta Falcons
23:19
Speaker 1: uh uh rivalry that they have and who is gonna
23:22
Speaker 1: win that division? Again, I think the Atlanta Falcons are
23:24
Speaker 1: gonna win, but Tampa Bay gets in with a wild card.
23:27
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, Len, I think the Chicago
23:29
Speaker 1: Bears are going to be getting into the wild card spot.
23:33
Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of people are buying. And
23:35
Speaker 2: I know they got you know, Ben Johnson from the Lions,
23:38
Speaker 2: and I know it's another year in Call Williams development.
23:42
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean there's there's a lot to like there. So, yeah,
23:45
Speaker 2: that'll be a very interesting division, I think, from top
23:48
Speaker 2: to bottom of the North absolutely.
23:50
Speaker 1: All right, well let's go to the AFC wildcard spots.
23:53
Speaker 1: What do you think that's gonna look like? Well, right
23:58
Speaker 1: off the bat, I'm gonna go charge. Okay, so that
24:02
Speaker 1: the Chargers are gonna get there. All right.
24:04
Speaker 2: There's a part of me that wants to say the
24:06
Speaker 2: Bengals just because offensively they're just so loaded, but then
24:10
Speaker 2: defensively they're just so not.
24:12
Speaker 1: And they're not gonna get anywhere in the playoffs without defense.
24:15
Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, I mean, I'm just talking about getting there. Yeah.
24:19
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go Chargers. I'm gonna go, uh Broncos
24:27
Speaker 2: because I like what's going on there with Boonex. By default,
24:34
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Bengals. But I don't love that pick.
24:37
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Uh Eric is going with Cincy, just
24:43
Speaker 1: like you picking Cincony, Cincony, Cincy, Cinsony. Yeah, he's going
24:47
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans as well, and the Denver Broncos.
24:51
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you right now, I said I was
24:53
Speaker 1: gonna we may be hearing more about the Texans. Texans
24:56
Speaker 1: I think are absolutely gonna be there, Denver Broncos absolutely
24:59
Speaker 1: gonna be there. And I also actually think the Las
25:03
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. I think when one of our recent opposition
25:07
Speaker 1: Territory pods where we're talking about the Raiders, I think
25:11
Speaker 1: we could see some Chip Kelly resurgence this coming season.
25:15
Speaker 1: Since he is their offensive coordinator, and with Pete Carroll there,
25:19
Speaker 1: I think Las Vegas is gonna surprise some folks this year.
25:23
Speaker 1: They actually have a quarterback with Gino Smith now good
25:25
Speaker 1: relationship with Pete Carroll. It's gonna be It's gonna be
25:28
Speaker 1: really interesting to uh to watch for sure. What do
25:31
Speaker 1: you think, Lenn, the NFC Championship Game is gonna be
25:35
Speaker 1: When it's all said and done.
25:36
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Green Bay Detroit. I'm gonna go all
25:39
Speaker 2: NFC North matches.
25:40
Speaker 1: Oh, green Bay Detroit Eagles do not make it back
25:44
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. According to l.
25:47
Speaker 2: Hard to do it is. I look, I hope I'm wrong.
25:50
Speaker 2: I super hope I'm wrong.
25:52
Speaker 1: Yes, you know I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be going
25:56
Speaker 1: Eagles Green Bay Packers for my NFC Championship game. In fact,
26:02
Speaker 1: Eric has the Eric has the same thing Eagles Green
26:05
Speaker 1: Bay as well. Just reading here on his text to
26:08
Speaker 1: US and AFC Championship Game, what are your thoughts and
26:12
Speaker 1: predictions there?
26:13
Speaker 2: I just I don't want to be picking chalk all
26:16
Speaker 2: the time, So I'm gonna go Bill's ravens.
26:21
Speaker 1: Okay ooh, I like it. I like that Eric has
26:24
Speaker 1: Bills Kansas City again. Another another rematch, you know with
26:29
Speaker 1: these two teams. But for me, I like how you
26:31
Speaker 1: went with the Ravens. I'm gonna be going different too here.
26:34
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna be going Bills Broncos. I think the
26:37
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos are going to be a really, really good.
26:40
Speaker 2: Team this season. I can say it.
26:42
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely, one of the best defenses in the league.
26:45
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks, I think is going to be going absolutely
26:48
Speaker 1: crazy this year. He's got He's got some really good
26:51
Speaker 1: wide receivers up there. I think they're gonna have a
26:53
Speaker 1: one to two punch with their running back situation R. J.
26:56
Speaker 1: Harvey and JK. Dobbins as well as he is now healthy.
27:00
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm thinking for the AFC Championship Game.
27:03
Speaker 1: What do you think the Super Bowl is gonna be.
27:04
Speaker 2: Buddy, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna call this the Sophie's
27:09
Speaker 2: Choice Bowl. I'm gonna say Bill's Lions to two franchised,
27:14
Speaker 2: the two franchises that like if they were playing anybody
27:17
Speaker 2: other than your team, you would be rooting for them
27:20
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, like like just two like America's
27:24
Speaker 2: team candidates playing each other and in an underdog super Bowl,
27:28
Speaker 2: all right or right? Underdog city super Bowl?
27:31
Speaker 1: Eric has in the Super Bowl Bills versus Green Bay.
27:34
Speaker 1: Eric also thinks the Eagles are not getting back to
27:37
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Here, I'm actually gonna be going with
27:42
Speaker 1: an Eagles Bill's super Bowl. There you go, Homer, buddy,
27:49
Speaker 1: And who will be the super Bowl champion? Len? What
27:51
Speaker 1: are your thoughts there?
27:52
Speaker 2: Ah, I'm gonna say the Bills finally do it. They
27:57
Speaker 2: find Buffalo, finally, God bless those people. They finally have
28:01
Speaker 2: something to cheer about. You and Eric are on the
28:03
Speaker 2: same page. You and Eric are absolutely on the same page. Well,
28:06
Speaker 2: I know why Eric's picking Buffalo.
28:07
Speaker 1: I mean, his daughter's going to the University of Buffalo. Now,
28:10
Speaker 1: he's just up there. They are the city.
28:12
Speaker 2: They are officially his AFC team. I don't think there's
28:15
Speaker 2: any doubt.
28:16
Speaker 1: If the Eagles and Bills get into the super Bowl.
28:18
Speaker 1: I really do believe, Lenn, that the Eagles are repeating
28:22
Speaker 1: you better of course, are repeating you are the ultimate Homer.
28:28
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, be ready to wear that black hat,
28:31
Speaker 2: because if they play the Bills, nobody outside of the
28:35
Speaker 2: Greater Philadelphia area is gonna be rooting.
28:38
Speaker 1: Absolutely that is absolutely true, absolutely true. I love going
28:44
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28:47
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Speaker 1: bit to dive into a ton of Eagles talk here
29:35
Speaker 1: on our Eagles season preview. Stick with us, all right,
29:39
Speaker 1: we are back and let's dive into this Eagles team.
29:43
Speaker 1: Len want to dive into really quick and just let
29:47
Speaker 1: everybody know what this fifty three man roster looks like
29:50
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles. Okay, I'm gonna run through the
29:53
Speaker 1: offense first, then get into the defense, just so everybody's
29:56
Speaker 1: on the same page. Here at quarterback, we've got Jalen Hurts,
30:00
Speaker 1: Anna McKee, Sam Howell running back, Saquon Barkley, Will Shipley,
30:04
Speaker 1: and AJ Dillon. On the wide receiver standpoint, we have
30:09
Speaker 1: Aj Brown, John Metchi, Davonte Smith, Darius Cooper, Johan Dotson,
30:15
Speaker 1: and Johnny Wilson's on IR now at this point. For
30:18
Speaker 1: the tight end position, Dallas Goddard, Grant cal Katara, and
30:22
Speaker 1: Kylon Granson. Ben Van Simerin he's technically the fullback on
30:29
Speaker 1: the team.
30:29
Speaker 2: Here.
30:30
Speaker 1: Offensive lineman Jordan Mailatta, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens, Tyler Steen
30:35
Speaker 1: at right guard, Lane Johnson one of the best in
30:38
Speaker 1: the league at right tackle. Also Cameron Williams, Matt Pryor,
30:41
Speaker 1: Brett Toth, Kenyon Green, Fred Johnson, Drew Kendall, and Willie Limpkins.
30:47
Speaker 1: On IR. Miles Hinton is also on IR. Let's go
30:51
Speaker 1: over to the defense here, I'm gonna run through the starters,
30:54
Speaker 1: Maro Ojomo, Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, Junior. We've
30:59
Speaker 1: got in the line backers room here Zach Bond, Jeremiah
31:03
Speaker 1: Trotter Junior, Jaylex Hunt, and we also have got in
31:06
Speaker 1: the secondary Quinon Mitchell, read Blank and Ship, Sidney Brown,
31:10
Speaker 1: adri Jackson, Cooper Dejen and now to round out this defense,
31:15
Speaker 1: Mac Williams, Keeley Ringo, Andrew mccouba, Jacorey and Bennett, Joshua
31:20
Speaker 1: Ooja and also Jihad Campbell, smel Mondan and Aziz Ojelari
31:26
Speaker 1: as well Gabe hall Ty Robinson Byron Young. And we've
31:31
Speaker 1: also got Nikobe Dean who is going to be out
31:34
Speaker 1: for a bit more nursing his injury. Lewis is it
31:38
Speaker 1: sign scene C I n E. I'm not even honestly,
31:43
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure he's on I R at this point.
31:45
Speaker 1: And yeah, ogbo U can. Of course I'm gonna screw
31:50
Speaker 1: his name, you know, double Oh baby.
31:54
Speaker 2: I know it's gonna happen. And I was just waiting
31:57
Speaker 2: for it, and man, that makes me happy.
31:59
Speaker 1: Boy, I saved it for And guess what, oh boy,
32:03
Speaker 1: I just.
32:04
Speaker 2: Have this picture of you in a mirror, like twenty
32:06
Speaker 2: minutes before the show starting, just practicing your practicing and
32:10
Speaker 2: then just as soon as you get up to it,
32:12
Speaker 2: just falling down a flight of stairs.
32:14
Speaker 1: Ogbo og bo ogbo og bow in the mirror, Yes,
32:20
Speaker 1: real quick. Special teams folks, Jake Elliot, Braden Man, Cooper
32:25
Speaker 1: dejen Is punt returner. I already mentioned him, but Charlie
32:30
Speaker 1: Hewlett is going to be the long snapper as well.
32:33
Speaker 1: So that's our fifty three man roster heading into this season.
32:37
Speaker 1: But Len, it's you know, there are concerns, certainly with
32:41
Speaker 1: this team. There are definitely concerns with the Philadelphia Eagles
32:45
Speaker 1: heading into this season. Mainly we've been talking about a
32:48
Speaker 1: lot on the show. The secondary. It is one of
32:50
Speaker 1: the youngest in the entire NFL. Let's really dive into
32:55
Speaker 1: the concerns on offense and defense. I guess we'll start
32:57
Speaker 1: off with the defense. I mean, you're concerned about the
32:59
Speaker 1: secondary well at this point, right, yeah.
33:01
Speaker 2: And I'm sure anybody that follows this this team with
33:07
Speaker 2: any kind of like, you know, just more than a passing,
33:10
Speaker 2: you know, interest, knows that there's you know, that whole
33:14
Speaker 2: other side of the outside corner outside of on the
33:18
Speaker 2: other side of Quinn on Mitchell is scary and not
33:21
Speaker 2: in a good way. So yeah, I don't know. I
33:25
Speaker 2: think teams are going to be able to throw on them.
33:27
Speaker 2: It's going to be on Jackson and Bennett to really
33:31
Speaker 2: show that. Show teams, hey, you can't throw on me. Yeah,
33:35
Speaker 2: because okay, you moved the gene over there to the outside,
33:39
Speaker 2: then what happened on the nickel? Like, so you know,
33:42
Speaker 2: you pick your poison. You got to have an opening
33:45
Speaker 2: somewhere there. And I have a feeling that teams are
33:48
Speaker 2: going to game plan for that. And when when you know,
33:52
Speaker 2: they're going to see where those guys are, where where
33:55
Speaker 2: Mitchell and the Gene are, and they're going to go
33:57
Speaker 2: away from them. So Vic Fangio is gonna have to
34:00
Speaker 2: scheme for that, and it'll be interesting to see what
34:02
Speaker 2: he does there.
34:03
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and and look, my hope, all of our hope
34:06
Speaker 1: is that one of these cornerbacks really start to develop
34:09
Speaker 1: this year. Whether it's Jae Coryan Bennett or you know,
34:12
Speaker 1: whether it is Keeley Ringo. It could potentially happen, even
34:15
Speaker 1: though he's really fallen out of grace. But I just
34:19
Speaker 1: I just don't think of Dori Jackson, is it. I Mean,
34:21
Speaker 1: I've seen him in this league way too many times,
34:23
Speaker 1: especially when he's on the New York Giants, just getting
34:26
Speaker 1: getting getting overtaken, you know. Anyway, it's that's definitely a concern.
34:31
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also defensively, just want to get your get
34:36
Speaker 2: your opinion on this. The edge rushers, Nolan Smith, Jelex Hunt. Yeah,
34:43
Speaker 2: I mean, they're young, they're mean. I know they've they've
34:46
Speaker 2: they've you know, have flashed here and there. But are
34:49
Speaker 2: you sold on them?
34:51
Speaker 1: No, I'm not. This goes back to.
34:54
Speaker 2: The interior of the defensive line. I'm I'm solid on that.
34:57
Speaker 2: But the edge rushers, I just I I gotta see it.
35:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Look, and this is a this is a
35:04
Speaker 1: league too where you got a lot of mobile quarterbacks.
35:06
Speaker 1: You got a lot of fast quarterbacks who are getting
35:08
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket and able to make plays. You know,
35:11
Speaker 1: if Nolan Smith is able to continue what he did
35:14
Speaker 1: throughout the postseason last year, I'm feeling a little bit better.
35:17
Speaker 1: But you don't lose a veteran presence like this team
35:20
Speaker 1: did during the offseason and you're just able to pick
35:23
Speaker 1: things back up. It doesn't necessarily work like that. It's
35:26
Speaker 1: another major concern for me too. I'm glad you brought
35:28
Speaker 1: it up, so all right, Well, moving over to concerns
35:33
Speaker 1: about the offense. Len For me, there's two concerns I have.
35:38
Speaker 1: If Dallas Goddard goes down. Yes, last year it happened,
35:41
Speaker 1: Grant Calcata stepped up and he was okay. He was
35:44
Speaker 1: an okay tight end, But this team wasn't the same
35:47
Speaker 1: without Dallas Goddard. Dallas Goddard is what I mean. Look,
35:50
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley is one of the reasons why this team
35:53
Speaker 1: super Bowl champions, AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts, Davonte Smith, but
35:58
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard is all someone has been a key component
36:02
Speaker 1: to this team. I really want them to stay healthy
36:04
Speaker 1: for all seventeen games. Probably not gonna happen, But my
36:07
Speaker 1: concern is the depth at tight end. And it's also
36:10
Speaker 1: another concern I have is also Landon Dickerson, whether it's
36:14
Speaker 1: his back injury, the knee injury that he has been
36:16
Speaker 1: nursing during the course of camp. Landon Dickerson goes down,
36:19
Speaker 1: that could be a real situation here for the offensive
36:22
Speaker 1: line and how this offense performs consequently.
36:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I also have two concerns offensively, and you
36:31
Speaker 2: just mentioned one of them, Landon Dickerson. We don't know
36:34
Speaker 2: how serious that injury is. And I feel like maybe
36:37
Speaker 2: his Eagles fans were kind of maybe a little bit
36:41
Speaker 2: spoiled and we're just ready to go, Oh Staltland University,
36:44
Speaker 2: next man up, and you know, just assume that whoever
36:47
Speaker 2: they plug in there is, they're just gonna be fine.
36:51
Speaker 2: And maybe that'll happen. I don't know, But do you
36:55
Speaker 2: really wanna do you really want to bank on that
36:58
Speaker 2: if you don't have to? And Dickerson's just he's such
37:01
Speaker 2: a damn good player, yeah, and just one of my
37:05
Speaker 2: favorites on this team.
37:07
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I don't know if Kenyon Green
37:09
Speaker 1: is it. You know, I don't know if he's going
37:10
Speaker 1: to be able to fill those shoes. He won't. I mean,
37:12
Speaker 1: he won't be able to fill those shoes. So how
37:14
Speaker 1: then does Kevin Patulo go about scheming and and the
37:19
Speaker 1: play calling If Lindon Dickerson's not out, there could be
37:22
Speaker 1: a real big issue. I mean, the medical staff is
37:24
Speaker 1: going to have to be spot on this year with
37:27
Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson. Yeah, absolutely.
37:30
Speaker 2: And then the other concern I have, and it's you know,
37:33
Speaker 2: maybe I'm just you know, being fearful for no reason,
37:39
Speaker 2: but they they put some Miles on Saquan last year.
37:43
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's old. I'm not saying, you know,
37:45
Speaker 2: he still you know, seems as you know, like he's
37:48
Speaker 2: going to be as explosive as ever. But it just
37:50
Speaker 2: feel like they leaned awful heavy on him last year
37:54
Speaker 2: and are they gonna overdo it?
37:58
Speaker 1: Makes sense? Makes sense though.
38:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I your your tight end thing is totally
38:03
Speaker 2: valid as well, you know, absolutely, but yeah, just yeah,
38:06
Speaker 2: that kind of worries me a little bit.
38:08
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, you're concerned with Saquon valid and
38:11
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get into more of a discussion
38:14
Speaker 1: about Saquon and that expectation of what he did last year,
38:18
Speaker 1: could he do it again this year? With blg in
38:21
Speaker 1: just a little bit, Len, I'm actually not concerned about it.
38:24
Speaker 1: I honestly, I'm not. I think I hope you're right, guy. Yeah,
38:28
Speaker 1: I just believe that when you see that greatness, it's
38:32
Speaker 1: not going to drop.
38:33
Speaker 2: Off too much.
38:34
Speaker 1: I really don't because of what is in front of him. Again,
38:38
Speaker 1: going back to Landon Dickerson, that needs that guy needs
38:41
Speaker 1: to be in place though for it to happen. In
38:43
Speaker 1: my opinion, he is such a key to that left
38:46
Speaker 1: side of the field. And uh, I don't know, but
38:51
Speaker 1: I do actually do not share that same concern with
38:55
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna kill another two thousand, two thousand
38:58
Speaker 1: yard season.
38:59
Speaker 2: Here we go. You are out of your mind that,
39:02
Speaker 2: like seriously, and there's gonna be people that like just
39:04
Speaker 2: assume that's gonna and just like it's like winning the
39:07
Speaker 2: lottery for a million dollars and then the next day
39:09
Speaker 2: going out and buying another ticket for another million dollars.
39:12
Speaker 2: It's just like, oh, I just win it again. Just like, Okay,
39:17
Speaker 2: I mean I do I think he can get fifteen
39:20
Speaker 2: hundred yards this year? Yeah? I do, And that would
39:23
Speaker 2: be a perfectly damn good season. Yeah. But yeah, I
39:26
Speaker 2: just feel like and we I think we've talked about
39:29
Speaker 2: this at some point on the show where it's like, oh,
39:31
Speaker 2: he only rushed for fourteen fifteen hundred yards this year.
39:34
Speaker 2: I wonder what's wrong with him? Like, yeah, is that?
39:36
Speaker 2: Am I going to hear that sentence this year?
39:38
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting for sure. All Right, Well, let's
39:41
Speaker 1: move on to you know what we're most excited about
39:44
Speaker 1: with the offense and defense. I mean we're kind of
39:46
Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of obvious, I think. I mean,
39:49
Speaker 1: I'm excited again to see Saquon I'm excited to see
39:52
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts maybe take some steps forward in terms of
39:56
Speaker 1: over the field or over the middle of the field,
39:58
Speaker 1: passing those inner immediate routes that year after year we're saying, Okay,
40:02
Speaker 1: we want to see this from him. I'm really excited
40:05
Speaker 1: about that. From an offensive perspective, what are you excited about?
40:09
Speaker 2: I am too. I am I like, I don't know
40:13
Speaker 2: if he thinks about stuff like this, because I don't
40:15
Speaker 2: know if he genuinely cares, But is there a part
40:18
Speaker 2: of him that's been like, Okay, I've been in the
40:22
Speaker 2: league a couple of years. I've been improving every year
40:25
Speaker 2: I won a Super Bowl. I was the goddamn Super
40:28
Speaker 2: Bowl Envy. What why am I still like the ninth
40:32
Speaker 2: best quarterback in the league according to you people? Right?
40:35
Speaker 2: And again, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy
40:38
Speaker 2: that thinks about stuff like that or yeah yeah, But
40:42
Speaker 2: it would be interesting to see if he has a
40:45
Speaker 2: moment in this year where he's like, yeah, ninth best,
40:48
Speaker 2: huh yeah, like does something great and then you know,
40:51
Speaker 2: kind of says something to that effect. Again, I don't
40:53
Speaker 2: see it happening, But I'm looking forward to seeing his growth,
40:57
Speaker 2: his continued growth. I mean, I think the world of
41:00
Speaker 2: him as a leader. I just I mean, man, you
41:03
Speaker 2: want to talk about a guy that I just think
41:04
Speaker 2: gets it and I just have no concerns about as
41:08
Speaker 2: a person whatsoever. I mean, Jalen Hurts is more than
41:13
Speaker 2: anybody could ever ask for. Yeah, So I mean, if
41:16
Speaker 2: the if the guy on the field can't get anywhere
41:18
Speaker 2: close to the leader and the guy off the field, man,
41:22
Speaker 2: you're gonna have something special.
41:23
Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's move over the defense. What we're most excited
41:27
Speaker 1: for over there. I got to tell you from my standpoint,
41:30
Speaker 1: the dominance once again from a linebacker corps is what
41:33
Speaker 1: I am really looking forward to seeing how these guys grow.
41:37
Speaker 1: I don't think Zach Bond is going to be taking
41:38
Speaker 1: any steps back, you know. I think Jehad Campbell is
41:42
Speaker 1: going to be a forced guy.
41:44
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to seeing him because man, it
41:48
Speaker 2: just seems like just from the moment they drafted him,
41:50
Speaker 2: people are like Jesus Christ, they did it again. And
41:54
Speaker 2: and just from everything you've heard about him in camp,
41:56
Speaker 2: you're just like, oh man, they they might really have
42:00
Speaker 2: something here, and if you can have him and Bond
42:04
Speaker 2: at that linebacker position just causing havoc. Yeah, I just
42:08
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be just so fun to watch.
42:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm also excited for the refs to hopefully
42:14
Speaker 1: be throwing more flags when Jalen Carter is being held
42:17
Speaker 1: on every single play. Look, some of these Eagles games
42:19
Speaker 1: might go five hours because he's being held on every
42:22
Speaker 1: play and it's not getting it's not getting called. So
42:26
Speaker 1: I'm excited for more holding calls against Jayalen Card not
42:30
Speaker 1: against but you know, in favor of the Eagle, I.
42:32
Speaker 2: Don't want to see many of Yes, exactly exactly, I
42:36
Speaker 2: get what you're saying.
42:37
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's move on now to our last
42:39
Speaker 1: segment here, where we're gonna get into even more Eagles predictions.
42:44
Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk about the breakout guy, rising star guy,
42:47
Speaker 1: who needs to rebound, who defensive and offensive players of
42:51
Speaker 1: the year will be in the Eagles regular season record.
42:54
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about those predictions here. Then let's get
42:58
Speaker 1: into who you who you think is going to be
43:00
Speaker 1: the breakout guy this year. And I'm going to also
43:04
Speaker 1: read off some of Eric's uh uh thoughts on this
43:08
Speaker 1: as well, who do you who do you think is
43:09
Speaker 1: going to be the breakout guy?
43:12
Speaker 2: So there's a there's a part of me that wouldn't
43:15
Speaker 2: be surprised if all three of us have the same
43:17
Speaker 2: breakout guy. And I am basing mine off of leg
43:21
Speaker 2: Just a thing that this question was posed to the
43:23
Speaker 2: Eagles players and and the and my pick is I'm
43:28
Speaker 2: going to go with what they say, and so many
43:31
Speaker 2: of them picked Moro a Jomo and so I'm that's
43:36
Speaker 2: my They're the ones seeing him in camp every day.
43:38
Speaker 2: So if they're seeing something camp, then I'm going to
43:41
Speaker 2: pay attention to it, and I'm looking forward to seeing
43:44
Speaker 2: him play and seeing, you know, what he can do.
43:46
Speaker 2: And that's my guy.
43:48
Speaker 1: That's that's who my guy is as well. Believe it
43:50
Speaker 1: or not, Eric pick Nolan Smith. So Eric believes that
43:53
Speaker 1: this pass rush is not going to drop off too
43:56
Speaker 1: too much. Obviously with that, yes, but Moro Ojomo, you know,
44:00
Speaker 1: I think he's going to really not even just replace
44:05
Speaker 1: what we saw with Milton Williams last year. I think
44:07
Speaker 1: we're gonna see more productivity from that particular position because
44:11
Speaker 1: of Moro Ojomo and just his his that motor. I
44:16
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be getting into the backfield. I think
44:18
Speaker 1: he's gonna make quarterbacks just get out of the pocket quickly.
44:22
Speaker 1: So I'm with you with Moro Jomo. What about the
44:27
Speaker 1: the rising star player on this Eagles team? Who do
44:30
Speaker 1: you Who do you think that's gonna be? So, I mean,
44:33
Speaker 1: I want to say the obvious, which is Jihad Campbell.
44:38
Speaker 1: I'm going to go away from that a little bit,
44:41
Speaker 1: and my pick for this particular thing and the next
44:46
Speaker 1: thing are kind of related.
44:47
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Darius Cooper based on Oh, he's another
44:50
Speaker 2: guy that everybody in camp has been like, Holy hell. Yeah.
44:54
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm gonna go.
44:56
Speaker 1: You know, you know who I'm actually gonna pick because
44:59
Speaker 1: he's been on this team for a while. People actually
45:02
Speaker 1: think that he he is a veteran at this point.
45:06
Speaker 1: He gets some crap every now and then, but he
45:09
Speaker 1: has come up big in big time spots, and I
45:11
Speaker 1: think he understands the game from a defensive standpoint in
45:14
Speaker 1: terms of understanding and knowing the secondary. Vic Fangio loves him,
45:18
Speaker 1: and that's actually read blank and Ship. I think read
45:21
Speaker 1: Blank and Ship as the rising star as one of
45:24
Speaker 1: the better safeties in the league, in the entire league.
45:27
Speaker 1: We're talking like up there with Buddha Baker and other
45:32
Speaker 1: some of those other stars. I think Read Blankenship is
45:34
Speaker 1: definitely going to be the rising star.
45:36
Speaker 2: So okay, all.
45:37
Speaker 1: Right, let's move over now to the guy who needs
45:41
Speaker 1: to rebound.
45:42
Speaker 2: Well, who did Eric say for rising stars? O?
45:45
Speaker 1: Rising star? I'm sorry? Yeah, Quinon Mitchell actually okay, which
45:48
Speaker 1: I think, which I think is interesting because like I
45:51
Speaker 1: think he's already there as a star.
45:53
Speaker 2: Ye, what he did, I would tend to agree. But hey,
45:55
Speaker 2: if if there's another level there to unlock, then I'm.
45:58
Speaker 1: All for it, absolutely right. And the guy who needs
46:02
Speaker 1: to rebound, what are your thoughts here, Well, I.
46:05
Speaker 2: Told you they were related. I'm going to say, Johan Dotson.
46:07
Speaker 2: I'm going to say that that wide receiver three position
46:11
Speaker 2: is if he doesn't come out and perform, I think
46:15
Speaker 2: he's in jeopardy of losing it.
46:17
Speaker 1: Yeah. Eric has Nakobe Dean, which I think is a
46:22
Speaker 1: very interesting pick.
46:24
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's just like from the injury stealthy,
46:27
Speaker 2: I mean, he just needs to not get hurt. Yes, yeah, yeah.
46:30
Speaker 1: For me, it's actually going to be the start. The
46:33
Speaker 1: guy who's going to be starting cornerback across from Quinnon Mitchell,
46:38
Speaker 1: and that's a Dori Jackson. Yes, he's not been on
46:40
Speaker 1: this team, but man, Dori Jackson needs to have a
46:43
Speaker 1: rebound year if this secondary is going to be productive.
46:47
Speaker 1: Dory Jackson definitely is my pick because man, he just
46:52
Speaker 1: I am so freaking concerned when you've got.
46:54
Speaker 2: Needs to have a breakthrough year. Has he ever been not?
46:57
Speaker 2: Has he ever been like good to begin with?
46:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's struggled every now and then. He's played some
47:02
Speaker 1: decent games when he was with the Titans many years ago.
47:06
Speaker 1: But really, I am so freaking concerned about having Terry
47:11
Speaker 1: McLaurin in the division. Molik neighbors ceede Lamb. These guys
47:15
Speaker 1: who when they're in motion, they're gonna be motioning out
47:17
Speaker 1: to have that cornerback two covering them.
47:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, or look at like in look no further than
47:23
Speaker 2: tomorrow night's game against Dallas, I mean Pickens, I mean
47:28
Speaker 2: you know, if you're doing the whole fantasy thing, I'd
47:31
Speaker 2: be looking at him because you know they're gonna have
47:33
Speaker 2: Mitchell on Lamb. Yep, So Pickens might run wild and
47:37
Speaker 2: have a good game against the Eagles.
47:38
Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, Well, let's see. Wait, did I do
47:43
Speaker 1: my needs to be rebound? You said, well, you said
47:46
Speaker 1: Jackson didn't. Oh I did say jet Jesus man, I'm
47:49
Speaker 1: losing my mind here. All right, you got three more
47:52
Speaker 1: predictions folks here Eagles Defensive player of the Year and
47:55
Speaker 1: Offensive player of the Year. For Eric, it's a Jalen
48:00
Speaker 1: Harder for defensive player of the year. Who's your defensive player.
48:02
Speaker 2: Of the year?
48:03
Speaker 1: Oh, man, I mean I'm going with Jalen Carter myself.
48:07
Speaker 1: That's who my pick was.
48:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to kind of go with everybody else,
48:12
Speaker 2: but man, he's he's such a force. Dude.
48:15
Speaker 1: He's so he's so yeah.
48:18
Speaker 2: I and and he's he's gonna be one of those
48:20
Speaker 2: players that, like, even if he doesn't give the stats
48:22
Speaker 2: because he's getting double teamed and triple teamed, he's just
48:25
Speaker 2: gonna take up so much that you can't help but
48:28
Speaker 2: notice it it's happening. Yeah, And I think people around
48:31
Speaker 2: the league, even if he's not pulling up numbers, people
48:33
Speaker 2: are going to recognize that and be like, yeah, but
48:35
Speaker 2: look at all he's right, he's occupying for the for
48:38
Speaker 2: the rest of the Eagles defense. So yeah, it's hard
48:41
Speaker 2: not to say Jalen Carter.
48:43
Speaker 1: All right, offensive player of the year. I'm going with
48:45
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley based on what I said earlier. I know
48:48
Speaker 1: you have your concerns and not I shouldn't say concerns,
48:51
Speaker 1: but that whole, that whole idea of him being able
48:54
Speaker 1: to get two thousand yards again, and look, do I
48:57
Speaker 1: think it could happen. I actually really do think it
48:59
Speaker 1: could happen again. And I know him crazy. You said
49:02
Speaker 1: I was crazy for it. I'm going to remain crazy
49:04
Speaker 1: here with that prediction. But I think Saquon Barkley is
49:07
Speaker 1: going to be the offensive player of the Year for
49:09
Speaker 1: this team. Who do you think it's going to be?
49:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would like to go in a
49:14
Speaker 2: different direction, just to be contrarian, but I mean the
49:17
Speaker 2: Eagles have really shown last year that they operate best
49:22
Speaker 2: as a run first team. Yeah, and it I mean,
49:26
Speaker 2: unless you know, my worst fear has come to reality
49:29
Speaker 2: and he gets hurt, everything goes through him, So I mean,
49:34
Speaker 2: and not just as a runner, but I mean, you
49:37
Speaker 2: know he can do stuff out of the passing game too,
49:39
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I I mean, unless they move
49:43
Speaker 2: away from their offensive philosophy, which I think would be
49:46
Speaker 2: silly to do. How can it not be Saquon?
49:48
Speaker 1: Okay, Eric has Jalen Hurts actually as as the offensive
49:53
Speaker 1: player of the year.
49:55
Speaker 2: I'd be cool with that. I mean, you know, it's
49:58
Speaker 2: going with the quarterbacks never a bad op.
50:00
Speaker 1: That means he's growing. If Eric's correct, that means he's growing.
50:03
Speaker 1: And Jalen Hurts is also his MVP of this team
50:07
Speaker 1: as well. But I'm going with Saquon Barkley again, That's
50:10
Speaker 1: what I'm going for with MVP of the team. Who
50:12
Speaker 1: are you going for?
50:13
Speaker 2: If the defense holds up and all that happens, and
50:18
Speaker 2: you know, the guy does what we all think he's
50:21
Speaker 2: gonna do, I'm gonna I'm gonna go Jalen Carter just
50:23
Speaker 2: to be different.
50:23
Speaker 1: All right, Very good. I think that's very fair, very fair.
50:27
Speaker 1: And then to close us out here, buddy, before we
50:30
Speaker 1: go to our break and before we get to what
50:32
Speaker 1: we're thrown down on the table at Brandon le gouton
50:34
Speaker 1: that great discussion the Eagles regular season record, what do
50:38
Speaker 1: you think the regular season record is gonna be? Ill,
50:40
Speaker 1: let's you say just for a second, Eric is saying
50:42
Speaker 1: twelve and five. I am at thirteen and four. That's
50:47
Speaker 1: what I think is gonna.
50:48
Speaker 2: Be based on some of your predictions so far. I
50:50
Speaker 2: can't believe you're not at seventeen and now.
50:53
Speaker 1: Yes, you know what, they might be that next Dolphin
50:58
Speaker 1: team that just I was undefeated, They might they might
51:02
Speaker 1: do it. Lynn, this is a powerhouse team.
51:05
Speaker 2: You're gonna give me a goddamn aneurism. I mean, the
51:12
Speaker 2: schedule is, you know, they've got some some tough games,
51:16
Speaker 2: got very tough games. You're at Kansas City, You're at Buffalo,
51:20
Speaker 2: You're at LA facing the Chargers team that I think
51:23
Speaker 2: is going to be a playoff team. Detroit's coming to Philly,
51:28
Speaker 2: so they're I mean, that's a good team. You're at
51:30
Speaker 2: Green Bay. I mean, this is a tough schedule. I'm
51:33
Speaker 2: gonna go. I'm gonna go eleven and six.
51:37
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, wow, all right.
51:39
Speaker 2: Which again, I think his step I think is good
51:43
Speaker 2: enough to still win this division because I do think
51:46
Speaker 2: that I do think that Washington well, I do think
51:49
Speaker 2: that they end up in second place. I think they
51:51
Speaker 2: take a bit of a step back, just because I
51:53
Speaker 2: feel like that just happens so often. The teams like
51:56
Speaker 2: they they reach this level and they're like, oh man,
51:59
Speaker 2: they're for greatness, and then yeah, something always seems to happen.
52:02
Speaker 2: Something seems to happen. I just I think it's gonna
52:05
Speaker 2: happen to Washington this year. So but I still think
52:09
Speaker 2: eleven and six is healthy to win the NFC East.
52:13
Speaker 1: God forbid, Jalen Hurts could go down with an ACL
52:16
Speaker 1: injury and in the game against the Chiefs, and then
52:20
Speaker 1: we we got either Tanner McKee or Sam Hallett quarterback
52:23
Speaker 1: for the year. You know, And that's that's a situation.
52:26
Speaker 2: Right, isn't he. I mean it seems to be pretty
52:30
Speaker 2: happy with him.
52:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yes, it's still not terrible, but it's
52:34
Speaker 1: not yet hurt exactly exactly. All right, buddy, gonna let
52:38
Speaker 1: you go. But first and foremost, folks, if you're watching
52:41
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52:44
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52:47
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52:50
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52:53
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52:55
Speaker 1: much for sticking around again. We are going to be
52:57
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53:01
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53:04
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53:06
Speaker 1: we're gonna have that content coming your way. Any final words, buddy,
53:09
Speaker 1: before I let you go, before we get to BLG
53:12
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53:15
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53:19
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53:25
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Speaker 3: How you doing, buddy, I'm excited. Jeff the Eagles Cowboys
53:42
Speaker 3: Week one. I've been calling for this for years. I've
53:44
Speaker 3: been saying, how are we not getting this game in
53:47
Speaker 3: a week one spot when you have all these games
53:49
Speaker 3: between the Cowboys and Eagles where either Jalen Hurts is
53:52
Speaker 3: injured or Dak Prescott is injured. Yep, And finally, after
53:55
Speaker 3: twenty five years, it only take twenty five years we
53:57
Speaker 3: get an Eagles Cowboys a Week one game.
53:59
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's it's going to be great. The banner is
54:01
Speaker 1: going to be raised. I look, if you're listening to
54:04
Speaker 1: the what I mean by banner Super Bowl banner, unless
54:06
Speaker 1: you're you know, living under a rock and you're you're
54:08
Speaker 1: going to get a chance to see that buddy right
54:10
Speaker 1: from the press box. That is going to be incredible.
54:13
Speaker 1: Do you remember those feels from back in like twenty
54:15
Speaker 1: eighteen when it happened.
54:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so curious. I was like, what does
54:18
Speaker 3: it look like? Because I didn't know what to expect.
54:21
Speaker 3: I also didn't realize that they were going to be
54:23
Speaker 3: going it's basically double the width of all the other
54:25
Speaker 3: banners that they hang. Okayre in the rafts, yep, for
54:28
Speaker 3: you know, conference wins, division wins, stuff like that. Didn't
54:31
Speaker 3: expect that either.
54:32
Speaker 2: This time.
54:33
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure from some of the things that leaked
54:35
Speaker 3: it's going to be pretty similar to the twenty seventeen one.
54:38
Speaker 3: But the fact that there's going to be two of
54:40
Speaker 3: those hanging up there again is pretty unreal. Yes, if
54:43
Speaker 3: we could go back in time to the beginning, you know,
54:45
Speaker 3: the twenty seventeen season, I don't think we were expecting.
54:48
Speaker 1: That exactly exactly, all right, Yeah, that was a magical
54:51
Speaker 1: season for sure, given the injuries that year. We talk
54:53
Speaker 1: about that forever. But we want to get into what
54:56
Speaker 1: this upcoming Eagle season may look like. And I really
54:59
Speaker 1: want to to start off the conversation with you here
55:02
Speaker 1: is we're doing our Eagle season preview BLG. With you know,
55:06
Speaker 1: the offense. I really want to talk about what we
55:08
Speaker 1: are going to see and specifically with Jalen Hurts. Look,
55:11
Speaker 1: we know what type of player he is. He was
55:13
Speaker 1: the MVP of the Super Bowl last year. The discipline,
55:16
Speaker 1: the work he puts in consistently week after week even
55:20
Speaker 1: during the course of the off season, those stories are
55:23
Speaker 1: out there. But the question that I have is can
55:27
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts actually continue to grow as a quarterback in
55:31
Speaker 1: this league and within this Eagles organization? And what might
55:34
Speaker 1: that actually look like as we're heading into this season again,
55:38
Speaker 1: him coming off a Super Bowl where he was the MVP,
55:41
Speaker 1: what does this look like? I mean, can he continue
55:44
Speaker 1: to grow as a quarterback?
55:45
Speaker 2: BLG? I think he can.
55:47
Speaker 3: I mean he just turned twenty seven in August, so
55:50
Speaker 3: it so he's like kind of entering his prime here. Yeah,
55:53
Speaker 3: for your general average NFL player, obviously you know who
55:56
Speaker 3: knows Tom Brady playing into his mid forties, you know,
55:59
Speaker 3: right now, right for the normal player, I think, you know,
56:02
Speaker 3: he's in a good spot now, entering his prime, not
56:04
Speaker 3: only physically, but I think from a maturity standpoint too.
56:08
Speaker 3: And obviously Jalen Hurts has always come off as extremely mature,
56:11
Speaker 3: but it's different, you know, in terms of, like, you know,
56:13
Speaker 3: having a serious attitude versus having life experience. And I
56:16
Speaker 3: think that's a big thing to factor in here. All
56:18
Speaker 3: the talk about is how Jalen Hurts is feeling more
56:20
Speaker 3: confident than he has before, because I think he feels
56:23
Speaker 3: extremely validated, as he should by winning a Super Bowl,
56:25
Speaker 3: being Super Bowl MVP, and I think that can help
56:29
Speaker 3: him a lot. Not that he lacked confidence before, but
56:32
Speaker 3: this is like a new level and it's also a comfort.
56:34
Speaker 3: It's something to kind of maybe fall back on when
56:37
Speaker 3: you're doubting yourself or because anyone is naturally going to
56:39
Speaker 3: do that at some point in time, whether they show
56:41
Speaker 3: it or not. I think the big progression we see
56:44
Speaker 3: from Jalen Hurts this year is going to be having
56:48
Speaker 3: more of a role than he did last year in
56:50
Speaker 3: the passing attack. Obviously, the Eagles tried to do that
56:53
Speaker 3: early on in twenty twenty four it was not going
56:56
Speaker 3: too well. There's a lot of turnovers. They pivoted away
56:58
Speaker 3: from that that I think it's fair to say is
57:01
Speaker 3: because they were obviously there's limitations there that they didn't
57:05
Speaker 3: want to try to expose, and they're trying to hide
57:08
Speaker 3: a little bit. At the same time, we saw when
57:09
Speaker 3: Jaleen Hurts needed to pass, especially in the biggest games
57:12
Speaker 3: of the season, he was so it's not as simple
57:14
Speaker 3: as he can't do it at all. So probably going
57:16
Speaker 3: to try to look this stright the balance of that
57:18
Speaker 3: in theory a little bit more this year. Just the
57:21
Speaker 3: fact that Saklin Barkley touched the ball so much last season, YEP.
57:24
Speaker 3: I don't think it means they're going to go away
57:25
Speaker 3: from that by any means, but just by virtue of
57:28
Speaker 3: they're probably not going to be able to do that
57:30
Speaker 3: to the same extent. They're also probably not going to
57:33
Speaker 3: be in games where the script is always favorable. It's
57:36
Speaker 3: a tougher schedule, they're going to have to pass the
57:37
Speaker 3: ball wards naturally, and that onus is going to be
57:40
Speaker 3: on Jailen Hurts to kind of really step up and
57:43
Speaker 3: take ownership of the passing attack and improve in that regard.
57:47
Speaker 1: Stepping up in terms of the intermediate routes is something
57:49
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be looking at early on in
57:51
Speaker 1: this season to see if he has grown in that
57:53
Speaker 1: regard and especially over the middle. How many times have
57:55
Speaker 1: we heard and how many times have we been talking
57:58
Speaker 1: about those storylines? Is he going to be able to
58:00
Speaker 1: over the middle? We know that he loves throwing outside
58:02
Speaker 1: the hashes, he loves throwing towards the sidelines. That that
58:05
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to be looking at. But BLG,
58:07
Speaker 1: you mentioned one particular individual and Saquon Barkley, and you
58:12
Speaker 1: know what we may see from him, and I wanted
58:13
Speaker 1: to dive into that a little bit more. Of course,
58:16
Speaker 1: he was named on the NFL network the you know,
58:18
Speaker 1: the number one player in the league, rightfully so, and
58:22
Speaker 1: you know I saw your tweet recently about how he
58:24
Speaker 1: probably should have been named MVP of the league last season.
58:28
Speaker 1: I totally agree, absolutely, But the question is, you know,
58:31
Speaker 1: can he replicate what he actually did last season and
58:34
Speaker 1: does he need to replicate what he did last season
58:37
Speaker 1: for this Eagles offense to really have success to get
58:40
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and possibly repeat here because of who
58:44
Speaker 1: he was on the field, what are your thoughts here?
58:48
Speaker 3: Obviously how the season ends, like the playoffs and everything
58:51
Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. You know that that can't be
58:53
Speaker 3: factored into the MVP award that's voted on before that.
58:56
Speaker 3: But I still think even before that, we should have
58:59
Speaker 3: been able to say, hey, Sekwon Barkley is the main
59:02
Speaker 3: character of the twenty twenty four NFL season. Yeah, and
59:06
Speaker 3: MVP is a narrative award, and I feel like at
59:08
Speaker 3: some level you should think about it as like, wow,
59:11
Speaker 3: when we look back on twenty twenty four, let's say
59:13
Speaker 3: ten years or whatever from now, like, what was really
59:16
Speaker 3: the story of that season? It wasn't Josh Allen. Josh
59:18
Speaker 3: Allen's an incredible player. I'm this is you know, no
59:20
Speaker 3: shade to him. Obviously he is an MVP deserving kind
59:24
Speaker 3: of talent. No one's arguing otherwise, But there was not
59:27
Speaker 3: like his season. There was not the story of the
59:29
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four NFL season. It should have been Saklon
59:31
Speaker 3: Barkley spinning it forward to twenty twenty five. Here, maybe
59:36
Speaker 3: I'm a sucker. Maybe I shouldn't really be putting so
59:41
Speaker 3: much faith into a player coming off of a historically
59:44
Speaker 3: big workload, and you look at how those players perform
59:47
Speaker 3: after those seasons.
59:48
Speaker 2: Typically.
59:49
Speaker 3: We obviously have the recent example of Christian McCaffrey, you know,
59:52
Speaker 3: and what happened last year for the forty nine ers,
59:54
Speaker 3: and he just, you know, never was right for them.
59:57
Speaker 3: Is entirely possible that Seklin Barkley is coming off massive
1:00:00
Speaker 3: workload and it's just not the same thing as we
1:00:03
Speaker 3: saw last year.
1:00:04
Speaker 2: But that's honestly not how I feel. So I can't
1:00:06
Speaker 2: just that's not how.
1:00:07
Speaker 1: I feel either. I'm so glad you said that, actually,
1:00:10
Speaker 1: because I'm tired of this narrative. I think it can
1:00:12
Speaker 1: be replicated, maybe not exactly exactly, but right in the realm.
1:00:16
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said it.
1:00:18
Speaker 3: He looked great in training camp.
1:00:19
Speaker 2: And it's not just me saying this.
1:00:21
Speaker 3: I've heard other people say, other Beat reporters say, including
1:00:24
Speaker 3: my good friend John McMullen, Saquon looks better this year
1:00:27
Speaker 3: in training camp than he did last year. And like,
1:00:29
Speaker 3: that's not really that crazy to me from a standpoint
1:00:32
Speaker 3: of we see these freak running backs in the NFL,
1:00:35
Speaker 3: and they are very much the exception.
1:00:36
Speaker 2: Not the rule.
1:00:36
Speaker 3: But you look at Derrick Henry and how he's able
1:00:38
Speaker 3: to just somehow endlessly churn out keep going yard season
1:00:42
Speaker 3: just being ageless. Basically, and by all accounts, Saquon takes
1:00:47
Speaker 3: extremely good care of his body. A lot of NFL
1:00:49
Speaker 3: players do, not all of them, a lot of them,
1:00:51
Speaker 3: but I think even like of the players who take
1:00:53
Speaker 3: care of themselves really well, I think Saquon's like at
1:00:56
Speaker 3: the top level of that kind of conditioning and kind
1:00:58
Speaker 3: of just obsessive about being great and wanting to do this,
1:01:02
Speaker 3: and he is very much like a student of the game,
1:01:05
Speaker 3: and he really understands NFL history and values that He's
1:01:09
Speaker 3: very aware that no one has gone back to back
1:01:12
Speaker 3: two K seasons and I think he would love to
1:01:14
Speaker 3: be the first player to do that. Obviously, again, a
1:01:16
Speaker 3: lot of players would have loved to do that, but
1:01:17
Speaker 3: I think his want to is different than those guys,
1:01:20
Speaker 3: and he is more motivated and driven and just outright
1:01:23
Speaker 3: talented than allow those other players in those positions. And
1:01:26
Speaker 3: also from the Eagles offensive standpoint, I think, like I
1:01:29
Speaker 3: said earlier, they're probably ideally going to want to not
1:01:32
Speaker 3: have him touch the ball as much, but the reality
1:01:35
Speaker 3: that we'll face them is that probably He's just going
1:01:38
Speaker 3: to be the best answer, and they're going to have
1:01:39
Speaker 3: to do it because they want to win football games.
1:01:42
Speaker 3: And in a perfect world, you would like to manage
1:01:45
Speaker 3: the touches, but it doesn't work like that in the
1:01:46
Speaker 3: heat of the moment when you're in the game and
1:01:48
Speaker 3: you need a big play or you need your offense
1:01:50
Speaker 3: to get going, and there are times in training camp
1:01:53
Speaker 3: where the passing game would be out of singhs sometimes,
1:01:55
Speaker 3: And in fairness, they're missing Devontae Smith, they're missing aj
1:01:58
Speaker 3: Brown at different stretches. Those guys are healthy. It's obviously
1:02:01
Speaker 3: a big factor. But my point is I think there
1:02:03
Speaker 3: will be times throughout the season or the passing game
1:02:06
Speaker 3: I'm not that as terrible all around, but just might
1:02:08
Speaker 3: not be quite what you want it to be. And
1:02:10
Speaker 3: when you're in those situations, the easy button the press
1:02:13
Speaker 3: is going to be Saquon Barkley over and over and over.
1:02:16
Speaker 3: So I think it's going to be another big time
1:02:18
Speaker 3: year for Saquon Barkley.
1:02:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really good segue blg into the next
1:02:22
Speaker 1: topic here too, because of what the offense could be,
1:02:25
Speaker 1: what it should be, what we may see right out
1:02:28
Speaker 1: of the gate, because we're talking about Jalen Hurts, talking
1:02:31
Speaker 1: about Saquon Barkley, those expectations. But I do wonder if
1:02:35
Speaker 1: we're going to see any alterations to the offense under
1:02:38
Speaker 1: Kevin Patulo. I do wonder if we will. And yes,
1:02:41
Speaker 1: he's been in the system, the Egle system here for
1:02:43
Speaker 1: a while, been working with Nick Sirianni for quite some time.
1:02:46
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, though, do you think we will end up
1:02:48
Speaker 1: seeing any type of changes based on preserving Saquon, like
1:02:52
Speaker 1: you were just talking about, even what you know may
1:02:54
Speaker 1: happen with, say, with Landon Dickerson. I mean, we've been
1:02:57
Speaker 1: talking about that storyline on this show for a while now.
1:03:00
Speaker 1: It's I'm concerned about the left guard position just from
1:03:03
Speaker 1: a health standpoint and what that means to the offense
1:03:06
Speaker 1: in general in terms of the productivity getting the ball
1:03:09
Speaker 1: down the field in the run game, in the passing
1:03:11
Speaker 1: game as well. I don't know, do you think we're
1:03:13
Speaker 1: going to see the alterations here right out of the
1:03:15
Speaker 1: gate or is it going to be just you know,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: same old, same old what we've been used to seeing.
1:03:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do believe that Kevin Petulo is going to
1:03:23
Speaker 3: bring his own ideas to this offense. Okay, that's kind
1:03:25
Speaker 3: of been slept on a little bit from the standpoint
1:03:27
Speaker 3: of people. Just look at Kevin Petulo and the fact
1:03:30
Speaker 3: that he's been Nick Sirianni's right hand man and he
1:03:33
Speaker 3: almost has like no identity outside of it, all right,
1:03:35
Speaker 3: And I just don't agree with that, because he was
1:03:38
Speaker 3: in the NFL at other stops before he worked with
1:03:40
Speaker 3: Nick Sirianni. He worked notably with Chang Yily, so he
1:03:44
Speaker 3: has his own ideas. And also when you hear Kevin
1:03:46
Speaker 3: Batula talk, and this doesn't mean he's going to be
1:03:48
Speaker 3: a great or even good offensive coordinator, because there's plenty
1:03:51
Speaker 3: of like smart sounding people who might not be good
1:03:54
Speaker 3: at their job, especially in this circumstance. So uh, I
1:03:59
Speaker 3: think just because Evian Botulo comes off well in his
1:04:01
Speaker 3: press conferences again, doesn't mean he's going to be a
1:04:03
Speaker 3: great OC. But as far as what we know now
1:04:06
Speaker 3: before I see his track recer to play calling, he
1:04:08
Speaker 3: seems like a pretty bright guy. So I'm willing to
1:04:10
Speaker 3: give that guy some benefit of the doubt here, and
1:04:12
Speaker 3: I think he's going to have his own ideas. I
1:04:14
Speaker 3: don't think it's just oh, we're going to continue to
1:04:17
Speaker 3: do what we did last year, and I'm not going
1:04:18
Speaker 3: to put any kind of twists on it. We will
1:04:20
Speaker 3: those twists be, and there's been speculation it could be
1:04:22
Speaker 3: more shots down the field. That would seem natural from
1:04:24
Speaker 3: the standpoint of just not doing that much at all
1:04:27
Speaker 3: last year, and in part because they wanted to play
1:04:30
Speaker 3: such a you know, kee, take care of the ball,
1:04:32
Speaker 3: don't turn the ball over, don't risk turning them all
1:04:35
Speaker 3: over with Jealen Hurts. But they're probably going to have
1:04:38
Speaker 3: to go a little bit more in that direction than
1:04:39
Speaker 3: they did last year, as I just don't think they're
1:04:42
Speaker 3: going to be able to replicate exactly what they did
1:04:44
Speaker 3: once again. So you know, I don't think it's reinventing
1:04:47
Speaker 3: the wheel because they've had so much suc sense on
1:04:50
Speaker 3: offense that they're just not going to be like, oh,
1:04:52
Speaker 3: let's scrap everything we used to and try a bunch
1:04:54
Speaker 3: of new ideas. But I do think they realize that
1:04:57
Speaker 3: coming off of the twenty twenty two Super Bowl appearance
1:05:00
Speaker 3: season and maybe not kind of inventing the offense enough
1:05:04
Speaker 3: and by Jeffrey Lury talking about needing fresh ideas, Nickureianni
1:05:09
Speaker 3: kind of emitting the offense went stale at one point
1:05:12
Speaker 3: there they realized I think they're going to have to
1:05:14
Speaker 3: introduce some things here that freshen it up.
1:05:17
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1:05:19
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Speaker 1: We are back with our good friend Brandon Lee Goutin
1:06:19
Speaker 1: from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com at Brandon Gouten over on
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Speaker 1: the Twitter slash x, And I wanted to get into
1:06:26
Speaker 1: a topic we've gotten into every now and again when
1:06:29
Speaker 1: you are on BLG because I absolutely love talking about
1:06:32
Speaker 1: special teams. It's a critically important part of the game,
1:06:35
Speaker 1: but it's always towards the bottom of the ladder in
1:06:38
Speaker 1: terms of importance. But I want to get into Jake
1:06:40
Speaker 1: Elliott here because Jake had his worst regular season last year.
1:06:45
Speaker 1: He only made seventy seven point eight percent of his
1:06:47
Speaker 1: kicks and was ranked twenty sixth in the league during
1:06:50
Speaker 1: the course of the regular season. I'm wondering, man, is
1:06:53
Speaker 1: there a possibility from anything that you have heard of? Mean,
1:06:55
Speaker 1: is there a possibility that if he struggles this season
1:06:58
Speaker 1: kind of like he did last year, that he could
1:07:00
Speaker 1: potentially be on the chopping block here, you what are
1:07:02
Speaker 1: you thinking?
1:07:03
Speaker 3: That would be pretty concerning. I do think he's going
1:07:06
Speaker 3: to bounce back. I've been bullish on that just from
1:07:08
Speaker 3: a standpoint of even like last year, during the season,
1:07:11
Speaker 3: I was like, this is probably just one of those
1:07:13
Speaker 3: down years that kickers ten and a half. It's not
1:07:16
Speaker 3: abnormal for even good kickers in the NFL to just
1:07:19
Speaker 3: have a down year mixed in there. And you looked
1:07:22
Speaker 3: at last year's or last The last time Jake Elliott
1:07:25
Speaker 3: had a down year like this, it was in twenty
1:07:26
Speaker 3: twenty and he bounced back with his only Pro Bowl
1:07:30
Speaker 3: season the next year in twenty twenty one. So I'm
1:07:32
Speaker 3: expecting a bounce back from Jake. He looked good in
1:07:34
Speaker 3: training camp. Didn't really see any issues there. I believe
1:07:37
Speaker 3: he had two kicks from fifty plus just in the
1:07:39
Speaker 3: final preseason game, yes.
1:07:40
Speaker 1: It's the Jets.
1:07:41
Speaker 3: That's one more than he had all of last year
1:07:43
Speaker 3: in the regular season, when he was one to seven
1:07:46
Speaker 3: from fifty plus. So I think I've seen enough there
1:07:48
Speaker 3: to believe that, you know, to what extent he bounces back.
1:07:51
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I feel like he's going to
1:07:53
Speaker 3: be better at least than he was last year.
1:07:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well let's move over to the defense here, BLG,
1:07:57
Speaker 1: because I think a lot a lot of us here
1:08:00
Speaker 1: are a bit skeptical about cornerback two, what that position
1:08:04
Speaker 1: is going to be filling those roles throughout the early
1:08:07
Speaker 1: part of the season, how it's really going to shake out,
1:08:10
Speaker 1: and if it will be a shaky position for the defense.
1:08:13
Speaker 1: I mean, I am concerned at this point about it.
1:08:16
Speaker 1: Although based on what Vic Fangio has done with this defense,
1:08:19
Speaker 1: especially what he did last year after Week four, I
1:08:22
Speaker 1: think we have to trust him for sure. But I mean,
1:08:25
Speaker 1: are we going to see some tough times with such
1:08:27
Speaker 1: a young secondary right out of the gate this season?
1:08:31
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about these concerns that a lot
1:08:32
Speaker 1: of us are talking about here.
1:08:34
Speaker 3: I think it's a legitimate concern. Watching the cornerback two
1:08:38
Speaker 3: battle in training camp, there really wasn't a winner. It
1:08:41
Speaker 3: wasn't like Ray Jackson outshined Healthy Ringo. It's more of
1:08:44
Speaker 3: like Health Ringo totally lost the job. Got to that
1:08:47
Speaker 3: by the end of the training camp, had and currently
1:08:50
Speaker 3: on the Eagle's own depth chart. It's like fallen out
1:08:52
Speaker 3: of starting contention, which is really unfortunate because I think
1:08:55
Speaker 3: they were counting on him to make a leap. Yeah,
1:08:57
Speaker 3: and they brought in a Dory Jackson basically to be like, hey, Keeley,
1:09:01
Speaker 3: this is your competition. Beat this guy out. It's not
1:09:03
Speaker 3: a very high bar to clear. Doeory Jackson is not terrible.
1:09:06
Speaker 3: You know, he's been okay.
1:09:09
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen him playing those Giants games BLG
1:09:11
Speaker 1: and there's some dead there's some heat, broken coverages, and
1:09:14
Speaker 1: just some not good play in terms of secondary play.
1:09:17
Speaker 3: I think the specific weakness with him that has stood
1:09:20
Speaker 3: out here, especially more recently in his career. This will
1:09:24
Speaker 3: be his age thirty season. I think he's a little
1:09:27
Speaker 3: not trusting of his speed, so I think he tends
1:09:30
Speaker 3: to play off a little bit more than he probably should.
1:09:33
Speaker 3: And you know, worst case scenario not getting beat over
1:09:36
Speaker 3: the top, like you can kind of live with that.
1:09:38
Speaker 3: It's obviously what they want to do. They want to
1:09:39
Speaker 3: eliminate big explosive plays like that. At the same time,
1:09:44
Speaker 3: if it's just like easy for the other team to
1:09:46
Speaker 3: go and beat your guy because he's giving up so
1:09:49
Speaker 3: much underneath, Like, yeah, teams are going to expose that,
1:09:51
Speaker 3: They're going to find a way to march down the
1:09:53
Speaker 3: field and continue to take advantage of that. So Doriy
1:09:55
Speaker 3: Jackson is your Week one starter. I think that's okay.
1:09:58
Speaker 3: I don't think that means that he's even the starter
1:10:00
Speaker 3: by the second half. If things are going poorly, he
1:10:03
Speaker 3: could flip the switch there to Jakouri and Bennett, but
1:10:05
Speaker 3: that he goes traded for If Georgie Jackson makes it
1:10:08
Speaker 3: through great and then maybe at some point down the road,
1:10:11
Speaker 3: it's likely that Bennett probably takes over. It's possible that
1:10:15
Speaker 3: keithy Ringo works his way back into the mix. I
1:10:17
Speaker 3: don't feel optimistic about keithy Ringo's outlook after the summer
1:10:21
Speaker 3: he had, but I will say we weren't feeling great
1:10:23
Speaker 3: about Nolan Smith at this time last year either.
1:10:25
Speaker 1: That's great.
1:10:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on Apple's Apple situation. Yeah, But the point
1:10:28
Speaker 3: is sometimes over the course of a season, things can
1:10:30
Speaker 3: happen and players can get better. So and I think
1:10:32
Speaker 3: that's how the Eagles view. I don't think they've written
1:10:34
Speaker 3: off keithy Ringo forever. I obviously think they don't want
1:10:37
Speaker 3: him to play right now doesn't mean he can't be
1:10:39
Speaker 3: a factor later on if struggles of injuries, you know,
1:10:42
Speaker 3: give him an opportunity to play. But in the short term,
1:10:44
Speaker 3: to answer the question, I absolutely think it's a concern.
1:10:47
Speaker 3: There's some mitigating factors that egals have in terms of
1:10:50
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, they have big fangio that gives him
1:10:53
Speaker 3: a way to kind of work around that. You have
1:10:55
Speaker 3: situations where Doroy Jackson probably not going to be on
1:10:58
Speaker 3: the field in base defense, which don't play a ton right,
1:11:01
Speaker 3: but still it's you know, not recounting on him to
1:11:02
Speaker 3: play one hundred percent of the snaps or will be
1:11:04
Speaker 3: snaps there where it could be Koper's gene on the
1:11:07
Speaker 3: outside when the hegles are in that base defense. So
1:11:09
Speaker 3: there are some things you can kind of do to
1:11:10
Speaker 3: like work around it to some extent, But obviously it
1:11:14
Speaker 3: is a big concern.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: When you have receivers like Ceedee Lamb Malik neighbors in
1:11:19
Speaker 1: the division along with Terry McLaurin. You know, it's concerning,
1:11:23
Speaker 1: you know, how other offenses may scheme to make sure
1:11:25
Speaker 1: that their matchups are against one of Dori Jackson or
1:11:28
Speaker 1: Keeley Ringo. Quite frankly, so it's gonna be gonna be
1:11:32
Speaker 1: interesting to see how that pans out too. But before
1:11:34
Speaker 1: I let you go, buddy, just continuing to talk about
1:11:37
Speaker 1: the defense and some more of the strength of this defense.
1:11:41
Speaker 1: I mean, Jalen Carter is certainly going to be that
1:11:43
Speaker 1: dominant guy right in the middle of this field, you know,
1:11:47
Speaker 1: given that he stays healthy. But I'm hoping, you know,
1:11:50
Speaker 1: as we're concluding our discussion here, we can go through
1:11:52
Speaker 1: this defense and if you can give me a guy
1:11:56
Speaker 1: that you think or that you're actually keeping your eyes
1:11:58
Speaker 1: on this season to really have tremendous impact given the
1:12:02
Speaker 1: changes that we've actually seen with this defense since the
1:12:05
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So let's start off with the defensive line here, Like,
1:12:10
Speaker 1: who do you think is really going to have a
1:12:11
Speaker 1: tremendous impact Again, maybe outside of Jalen Carter, because we
1:12:15
Speaker 1: know what he is and who he what he means
1:12:17
Speaker 1: to this defense. Who is that for you on the
1:12:19
Speaker 1: defensive line that you think is going to have tremendous impact.
1:12:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Moro. Ojomo have a great
1:12:25
Speaker 2: training camp.
1:12:26
Speaker 3: He was awesome, just consistently getting into the backfield both
1:12:29
Speaker 3: as a pass rusher and against the run. Really reminded
1:12:32
Speaker 3: me of what we saw from Milton Williams in training
1:12:34
Speaker 3: camp last year. Just incredibly disruptive, Like you're not even
1:12:37
Speaker 3: watching him before the play and you're watching him by
1:12:40
Speaker 3: the end of the play because he just keeps popping
1:12:42
Speaker 3: up over and over. And I don't think that's just
1:12:45
Speaker 3: because there's some concern like, oh, he's going up against
1:12:47
Speaker 3: Tyler Steen and smoking him.
1:12:49
Speaker 2: Wasn't the case.
1:12:49
Speaker 3: He goes up against Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens at
1:12:52
Speaker 3: times too. It wasn't about them being terrible. It was
1:12:54
Speaker 3: about Moro Jomo just being a really good player. So
1:12:56
Speaker 3: I think that's big and another thing I'll add in there.
1:12:59
Speaker 3: Early in training camp, John Carter wasn't practicing due to
1:13:02
Speaker 3: a shoulder injury, Maura Jomo was still having all that success. Yeah,
1:13:05
Speaker 3: so that tells you too, this isn't just a matter
1:13:07
Speaker 3: of like, oh, it doesn't matter who you stick next to.
1:13:09
Speaker 3: Jim Carter, that guy can be awesome. No, Like Maura Jomo,
1:13:11
Speaker 3: I think's going to be a very good player. And
1:13:14
Speaker 3: certainly we'll benefit from Joe Carter getting a lot of attention.
1:13:17
Speaker 3: So I think that's the big name on the defensive
1:13:18
Speaker 3: line that I feel good about.
1:13:19
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, let's move to the linebacker corp here.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: I mean, who is that one tremendous impact player that
1:13:25
Speaker 1: you're going to be keeping your eyes on.
1:13:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I love Zach Bond. So but he's
1:13:29
Speaker 3: already we already know. I think we already know what
1:13:30
Speaker 3: Zach Bond is. He's awesome, is awesome, This is awesome
1:13:33
Speaker 3: last year. I think he could have a case to
1:13:36
Speaker 3: be the best off ball linebacker in the NFL after
1:13:39
Speaker 3: this season, depending on what we see from Fred Warner,
1:13:41
Speaker 3: who's obviously very great as well. So you could be
1:13:43
Speaker 3: splitting hairs there. But and no again, no disrespect to him.
1:13:46
Speaker 3: I just think Zach Bond is that good. But I'm
1:13:48
Speaker 3: going to go with John Campbell just from the standpoint
1:13:50
Speaker 3: of it's so much more interesting to.
1:13:51
Speaker 2: See what he will be.
1:13:53
Speaker 3: It's one of the youngest players on the Eagles roster
1:13:55
Speaker 3: at twenty one years old, and we saw him win
1:13:58
Speaker 3: a starting job at linebacker this training camp. And that
1:14:01
Speaker 3: wasn't just because like, oh, they gave it to him. Obviously,
1:14:04
Speaker 3: he's the first round pick. He's going to start, not
1:14:06
Speaker 3: the case. Jeremiah Chrotter Junior had a really good summer
1:14:09
Speaker 3: and got a lot of the first team reps there
1:14:11
Speaker 3: until late in training camp. It was actually the final
1:14:13
Speaker 3: practice that they had when Zach Bond and Johd Campbell
1:14:17
Speaker 3: were finally together for the first time. Part of that
1:14:20
Speaker 3: was Bond missed some a big period of training camp. Still,
1:14:22
Speaker 3: the fact that Johd Campbell has outperformed Jeremiah Chrotter junior
1:14:27
Speaker 3: and has earned that starting job as a rookie, just
1:14:30
Speaker 3: just an intriguing player to like physically look at. It's
1:14:32
Speaker 3: so big, he's athletic as well, and then when you
1:14:35
Speaker 3: just pair him with Zach Bond, you can think about, like, oh,
1:14:38
Speaker 3: the different things they might be able to do with
1:14:40
Speaker 3: those guys. And sometimes they're going to be rushing the
1:14:42
Speaker 3: passer are sometimes it's going to be dropping in the coverage.
1:14:44
Speaker 3: They're just that's a really intriguing duo and I can't
1:14:47
Speaker 3: wait to see.
1:14:47
Speaker 1: Them helping to generate turnovers too. I mean, that's what
1:14:50
Speaker 1: we need to see with this defense for sure this season.
1:14:52
Speaker 1: So what about the secondary. A tremendous impact player from
1:14:56
Speaker 1: the secondary this year? What are your thoughts?
1:14:58
Speaker 3: I think you know, so sometimes you look at a
1:15:01
Speaker 3: player who's already good, and it's not like the most
1:15:05
Speaker 3: fun thing to say they're good already. I know, we
1:15:07
Speaker 3: already know Quentyon Mitchell is really good. I think it's
1:15:10
Speaker 3: a different level for him this year. I think he's
1:15:12
Speaker 3: going to make a leap from what he was, which
1:15:14
Speaker 3: is already pretty amazing in year one two being like
1:15:17
Speaker 3: all pro kind of quarterback, lockdown guy in year two.
1:15:21
Speaker 3: Like again, he looked great last year and even in
1:15:23
Speaker 3: training camp, but it was a different level this summer
1:15:25
Speaker 3: where he's going up against A J. Brown and he's
1:15:27
Speaker 3: going against DeVante Smith, right, and let me be clear,
1:15:31
Speaker 3: like no one you know, like is able to slow
1:15:34
Speaker 3: down a J.
1:15:34
Speaker 2: Brown.
1:15:35
Speaker 3: Typically you could have a picture perfect coverage, it doesn't matter.
1:15:38
Speaker 3: Like AJ Brown is just going to win because he
1:15:40
Speaker 3: is awesome. And yet Quenton Mitchell a number of times
1:15:43
Speaker 3: this summer like shut him down, and I think that
1:15:45
Speaker 3: speaks to how good Quinnon can be. He also had
1:15:48
Speaker 3: a couple of interceptions in training camp. You would like
1:15:50
Speaker 3: to see that ball production take up here, and you know,
1:15:53
Speaker 3: the concern is really not about him as much as
1:15:55
Speaker 3: it's you know, how much will the other teams be
1:15:57
Speaker 3: able to take advantage of the cornerback two s and
1:16:00
Speaker 3: then maybe just throw away from Queen On Mitchell. So
1:16:02
Speaker 3: maybe he doesn't see targets because of that, but obviously
1:16:06
Speaker 3: that's also a testament to him. They're not gonna test him, right,
1:16:08
Speaker 3: and certainly the Eagles will will take that if they
1:16:10
Speaker 3: totally the team just totally ignore the guy he's covering
1:16:13
Speaker 3: and try to figure it out otherwise, it gives you
1:16:15
Speaker 3: options to kind of work around that. But yeah, I
1:16:17
Speaker 3: think Queen On Mitchell is gonna just take another leap
1:16:21
Speaker 3: forward this year and be talked about as one of
1:16:23
Speaker 3: these kind of lockdown corners, like you know, Revis Island,
1:16:27
Speaker 3: kind of just totally dominant. You don't test that guy, right.
1:16:29
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