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Football at Four: Setting the Stage For Eagles-Packers · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: at four. Jeff Moscher, a Mosher Monday takes a look
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Speaker 1: at the matchups between the Eagles and the Packers, and
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Speaker 1: you know that extra day we kind of look over things.
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Speaker 1: But there was some news over the weekend. Most let's
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Speaker 1: dive into it. JayR Alexander will not travel. He is
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Speaker 1: not gonna be there. I don't know if it's a
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Speaker 1: huge surprise or lost for this team. I guess what
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Speaker 1: it does kind of say is, you know, they're not
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Speaker 1: really all that anticipating him helping them all that much.
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Speaker 1: But the other guys, Phillips and Carter, I guess, will
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Speaker 1: play in the game. Do we think Jalen Phillips will
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Speaker 1: have a role a big role, like a normal flow
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Speaker 1: of snaps tonight in this game?
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Speaker 2: Good questions First of all, Mike, congratulations to you on
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Speaker 2: professionally broadcasting a basketball game over the professional.
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Speaker 3: Basketball game for the weekend. Very excited, Thank you, great accomplishment.
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Speaker 2: Secondly, let's let's go backwards here, because you mentioned Nolan Smith, right,
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Speaker 2: he has technically not yet been activated.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, Alexander.
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Speaker 3: Oh, jayra I.
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Speaker 2: Thought, well, I thought you also said that Smith and Phillips,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna Carter Carter Carter. Okay, we'll get into that
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Speaker 2: in a second. Yeah, So Jay R Alexander. Look, I
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Speaker 2: think it should be.
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Speaker 3: Noted that he popped up on the injury.
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Speaker 2: Report as coaches decision slash knee because he said he
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Speaker 2: felt healthier than he's ever been. But the knee is
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Speaker 2: the reason that his conditioning wasn't right, that he couldn't
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Speaker 2: get on the field for the Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 3: And obviously he's only been with.
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Speaker 2: The Eagles for a week and they play a specific
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Speaker 2: style of his own coverage that we talk about, the
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Speaker 2: carry deliver concepts that are not just really easily learnable
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Speaker 2: in one week, and if you haven't played in that
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Speaker 2: kind of system before then it's difficult to go out
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Speaker 2: there and know your assignment, So it looks like he's
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Speaker 2: gonna need some time both to learn the defense and
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Speaker 2: also to get and make sure his knee is right.
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Speaker 2: And that was the whole thing. It's like a dart throw.
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Speaker 2: He may never be right. He may never see the
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Speaker 2: field for the philoff the Eagles, and if he doesn't,
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Speaker 2: I mean, no harm done as far as what they
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Speaker 2: gave up.
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Speaker 3: But that's the situation with him.
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Speaker 2: And obviously I expect Jalen Phillips to play a pretty.
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Speaker 3: Decent amount tonight.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's got no restrictions, no reason to scale back,
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Speaker 2: and he's part of a pass rush that is pretty
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Speaker 2: good here. Vic Fangio tends to rely on the three
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Speaker 2: man rotations, so you imagine that the starters will be
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Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips and Jelex Hunt and.
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Speaker 3: You know, we'll see if Uce gets in there.
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Speaker 2: And again, they have time here to activate Nolan Smith
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Speaker 2: if they want to. They have fifty two right now
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Speaker 2: on the roster. I believe he did go.
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Speaker 1: With it, and he said he said he was gonna play.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he did say he was gonna play.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, there are a lot of guys
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Speaker 2: that have said it's not really his decision. I've heard
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Speaker 2: that before and guys didn't play.
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Speaker 1: Well like tonight. You know, you would think Jalen Phillips
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Speaker 1: if he practiced all week and he knows Vic's offense.
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Speaker 1: Do you see any reason why he would be limited
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Speaker 1: in terms of snapcount? Like, hey, you're here, you know
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Speaker 1: the defense you're gonna play with, how we envision you.
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Speaker 3: Play, and which which player is at Phillips? Yes, yeah, No,
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Speaker 3: I mean like you don't Vic. Vic is not He's
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Speaker 3: not Jim Schwartz at all. He has not let me
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Speaker 3: get like eight edges in there and rotate them all.
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Speaker 2: He's of the mindset that if you're playing and you're
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Speaker 2: playing well, and look what he did with you know,
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Speaker 2: Zadarius Smith that first game, and then like when Aziz
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Speaker 2: Ojel already played that first game and he was playing well,
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Speaker 2: they kept throwing him out there and throwing him out there.
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Speaker 3: So I don't see any reason for them, Especially in
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Speaker 3: a big game.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna need some pass rush, and this is a
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Speaker 2: guy who's been healthy this year and productive, so play
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Speaker 2: him as much as you can play him. I imagine
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Speaker 2: that'll be Vick's mantra. And I'm very curious to see
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Speaker 2: what goes on with Michael Carter. I imagine that I would
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Speaker 2: suspect that they'll start the game with Cooper de gen
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Speaker 2: will play outside corner and base. He'll move into the
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Speaker 2: nickel in nickel obviously, and then out the outside corner
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Speaker 2: in nickel. I suspect will either be Killer Ringo, maybe
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Speaker 2: Adri Jackson, and then maybe if there's a dime package,
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Speaker 2: we'll see Michael Carter or maybe we'll get surprised and
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Speaker 2: we'll see Michael Carter play some some nickel back in
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Speaker 2: de Gene on the outside.
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Speaker 3: That's an unlikely scenario to me, but it's possible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I want to get your take
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Speaker 1: on there. The one thing about the Packers to me
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Speaker 1: is like they don't have that number one wide receiver, right, Like,
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Speaker 1: there's not that guy and then Kraft goes down. What
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Speaker 1: do you think of the matchup of the secondary against
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Speaker 1: their passing game.
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Speaker 3: I think that they're You're right.
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Speaker 2: I think you're nailing on the down significant number of weapons.
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Speaker 2: You know, Jayden Reid from the start of the year
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Speaker 2: is not with them. And Tucker Craft, who is one
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Speaker 2: arguably having a top five tight end type year, and
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Speaker 2: is that kind of player is out. They're banged up
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Speaker 2: with Matthew Golden, their rookie, it sounds like he's gonna play.
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Speaker 2: I know there are other rookie Savion Williams banged up.
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Speaker 2: So right now you're looking at their top of the
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Speaker 2: receivers and you're looking at Romeo Dobbs, good player, Christian Watson,
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Speaker 2: who I think has been really good in the two
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Speaker 2: weeks that he's been back.
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Speaker 3: He's been a deep threat.
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Speaker 2: He's already caught like two or three balls over twenty
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Speaker 2: or thirty yards. So that's a guy that tonight you're
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Speaker 2: watching to see how the Eagles handle him. And then
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Speaker 2: after that, you know you're looking at like Dontavian Wicks
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Speaker 2: if he can play, and see what he can give you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a bad receiving corps, but without Craft,
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Speaker 2: without Jayden Reed there, they're certainly not where they want
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Speaker 2: to be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like.
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Speaker 1: A pitching staff with a lot of number twos and threes,
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Speaker 1: like there's no ace of his staff here. We just
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Speaker 1: had Aman Green on and he talked about Josh Jacobs
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Speaker 1: in the run game and like you know, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: much like Saquon and he talked to me. He said,
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Speaker 1: the one year I had eighteen hundred yards, and then
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Speaker 1: the next year it was a lot more difficult as
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Speaker 1: teams kind of tried now to say you're not going
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Speaker 1: to do things. So I'm interested to see if they
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Speaker 1: try to establish Josh Jacobs in this game and get
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Speaker 1: their running game going, because you would think Philly will
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Speaker 1: try to get their run game going the way that
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Speaker 1: Carolina was able to run the ball last week against
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay defense.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and real quick, Mike, to your point, Nolan Smith
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Speaker 2: was just announced to be activated to the fifty three man.
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Speaker 2: All right, Again, they don't have to make a corresponding move.
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Speaker 3: They were down fifty two.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't appear as if to Corey and Bennett then
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Speaker 2: will be active, or else they would have announced it.
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Speaker 2: So it looked like they'll have till I think the
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Speaker 2: eleventh or twelve.
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Speaker 3: Well, what's today, today's tenth. Yeah, I think they only have.
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Speaker 2: One or two days left to get him on the
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Speaker 2: fifty three, which sure you imagine will come in that
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Speaker 2: timeframe unless there's something wrong and they just shut him
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Speaker 2: shut him down longer.
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Speaker 3: So well, they'd have to shut him out for the
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Speaker 3: year if that the case.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, Yeah, so back to your question about Josh Jacobs. Listen, this,
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Speaker 2: this is Matt Lafleur's deal. He is a he is
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Speaker 2: considered a I like matlafly I think he's a really
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Speaker 2: good head coach, but he is conservative and in that
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Speaker 2: he likes to have that heavy run balance. And when
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Speaker 2: you lose Tucker Craft and you're already down Jayden Reid,
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Speaker 2: you imagine you want to run the ball if you
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Speaker 2: can as much as possible. So but they haven't really
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Speaker 2: ran the ball like kind of like the Eagles. They
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Speaker 2: have not been as effective running the ball lately. They
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Speaker 2: I think Josh Jacobs is under four yards per carry,
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Speaker 2: which is not normally his style. He's not the explosive
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Speaker 2: runner that Saquon is, but he is a grinder and
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Speaker 2: he's a carry a bunch of guys runner, and he
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Speaker 2: can catch the ball pretty well. They're gonna have to
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Speaker 2: figure out a way the Packers are to be able
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Speaker 2: to lean on him and get him to be more
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Speaker 2: effective for their offense as a hole, to be more
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Speaker 2: effective real quick.
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Speaker 1: I want to go to the Nolan Smith. They are
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Speaker 1: activating him to the fifty three and elevating Patrick Johnson
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Speaker 1: for the game with Phillips here, who do you think
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Speaker 1: that affects the most, Nolan or Jalx.
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Speaker 3: I would think Jalox Hunt and that his.
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Speaker 1: Snaps will get scaled back a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean you're asking long term more than tonight, right.
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Speaker 1: Just yeah, just for the season. Yeah, for like the
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Speaker 1: picture here, Now that Jalen Phillips is here, you must
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Speaker 1: assume that he's gonna be I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: in every down player, but you just talked about they don't.
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Speaker 3: Like, well, you know he's out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Point let me let me rephrase that or reanswer that.
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Speaker 2: Because Vick is so heavy on a three man rotes,
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Speaker 2: at least he's been so far, I can see a
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Speaker 2: situation where Jaln Phillips plays a lot and on the
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Speaker 2: other side you get more of a fifty to fifty
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Speaker 2: type rotation between Jalx Hunt and Nolan Smith. You know,
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Speaker 2: they obviously want to be able to keep Nolan Smith healthy.
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Speaker 3: He's had some injuries.
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Speaker 2: I think really the people most impacted are the ouchas Ojelari,
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Speaker 2: who's on IR right now. I mean, you know, Ojelari
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Speaker 2: could become a release candidate by the time he's ready
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Speaker 2: to be healthy, especially when they if they want to
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Speaker 2: have Ja Corey and Bennett back or you know, Willie
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Speaker 2: Lampkin or somebody else.
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Speaker 3: Right, So, I think the.
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Speaker 2: Backups uch and obviously Patrick Johnson's just gonna be there
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Speaker 2: for special teams.
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Speaker 3: And Brandon Graham, I don't know. I really don't know
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Speaker 3: how many reps Brandon Graham is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be able to give them or get on
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Speaker 2: a on a game to game basis.
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Speaker 1: Right well, and and you know Brandon is not obviously
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Speaker 1: a release Kennedy, He's gonna stick around, So you're right,
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Speaker 1: somebody else might have to be the odd man out there.
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Speaker 1: I'm really gonna look forward to the snaps for Phillips
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Speaker 1: and how they use him and then whose snaps go down,
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Speaker 1: because the other guy would be Joha Campbell. What kind
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Speaker 1: of role do you see him having?
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Speaker 2: Oh, man like, it's not I don't see any nickel
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Speaker 2: end role for him. I know he's practiced in that lately,
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Speaker 2: and that's means you know, pass Rusher outside Ed Rusher
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Speaker 2: and a four man front. I don't see that happening
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Speaker 2: with all the bodies that they got there now, and
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Speaker 2: I and I don't see him getting full time snaps
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Speaker 2: at off ball linebacker because Nikobe, Dean says, does such
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Speaker 2: a good job of just having the defense stabilize, getting
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Speaker 2: everybody lined up. That not only eases your front end,
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Speaker 2: and these is your back end as well. So I think,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he's gonna just sit on
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Speaker 2: the bench and click dust by any means. But I
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Speaker 2: think there's gonna be a time share there with him
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Speaker 2: and Nakobe at off ball linebacker.
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Speaker 3: But unless there's you know, you get some injuries again at.
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Speaker 2: Edge, I just don't I don't see Campbell really factoring in.
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Speaker 2: Maybe on the five to two front he comes down
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Speaker 2: and play some edge against the run, but that's that's
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Speaker 2: not a pass rusher role. It's just an extra body
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Speaker 2: to create a six man surface.
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Speaker 1: Yeah and listen, Yeah, well we'll see, you know, the
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Speaker 1: Eagles defense kind of the two games last year, it
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Speaker 1: was kind of two different games. The first game was
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Speaker 1: a little bit more, you know, obviously that's the first
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Speaker 1: game of the year, you're on a different surface in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: The playoff game, they you know, they played much better
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Speaker 1: and kind of dominated the game defensively in that one.
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering three turnovers or four turnovers I think in
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Speaker 2: that game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and the Eagles, by the way, if only
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Speaker 1: three turnovers the whole season this year, which is unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And I said always like, if you're Philadelphia, we talked
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Speaker 1: about this with Alman Green. Is okay, you saw the
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Speaker 1: opponent the week before run twenty six times for one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards. You're the running back saying hey, coach,
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Speaker 1: let's try to watch what they did and do that
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Speaker 1: and try to do some take some plays out of
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Speaker 1: that playbook and go that way. You wonder if Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: which has been going under center more, does say let's
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Speaker 1: turn around and get Saquon going again for a second
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Speaker 1: week in a row and try to emulate a little
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Speaker 1: bit here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that has nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: the Packers game against the Panthers last week, and everything
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Speaker 2: to do with who are the Eagles, What do they
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Speaker 2: want to do? What are to succeed? How do they
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Speaker 2: want to live? And they want they want to have
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Speaker 2: that run game that is their bread and butter, and
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Speaker 2: they were excited about the return of it against the
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Speaker 2: Giants going into the buy And.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to want to do that against.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even if they come out throwing a little bit,
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Speaker 2: trying to loosen up that Green Bay pass rush, that
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Speaker 2: doesn't I mean, they're eventually foundationally going to want to
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Speaker 2: be a strong run game. That's why you have that
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Speaker 2: line in Saquon Barkley. All Right, the Packers have been
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Speaker 2: a good run defense that if you watched the Panthers
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Speaker 2: game right and knew nothing about the Packers, you would
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Speaker 2: think Jordan Love is not a horrible quarterback but a
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Speaker 2: very dangerous risk taker, and that the Packers have issues
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Speaker 2: against the run. But they actually rank high against the run,
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Speaker 2: and Jordan Love for the most part, has only thrown
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Speaker 2: I think three interceptions this year. He's not the guy
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Speaker 2: who used to be counted on for a weekly interception
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Speaker 2: like he was at the beginning of last year and
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Speaker 2: the year and before.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and listen, I've been kind of down on the
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Speaker 1: Packers more so than everybody else. I feel like the
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Speaker 1: Parsons trade elevated them to a level that maybe they're
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Speaker 1: quite not at. And last year everybody loved them and
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Speaker 1: they got knocked out right off the bat here, and
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Speaker 1: I think last year people elevated them. They got beat
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Speaker 1: and then this year, they made the Parsons trade andvated
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Speaker 1: them to a level that I don't think they can reach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I put my hand up. I was there.
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Speaker 3: I thought that they were one of the top teams
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Speaker 3: in the NFC.
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Speaker 2: And then when they beat the Lions in the season
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Speaker 2: opener pretty pretty convincingly, at I looked at them like, oh, hey,
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Speaker 2: they're they're for real. You know, I always allow one
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Speaker 2: team a stinker every year, right, the Eagles had theirs
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Speaker 2: against the Giants, and I forget I you know, you
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Speaker 2: go through the teams and you say, everybody has a stinker,
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Speaker 2: but the Packers have more than one. The last the
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Speaker 2: Browns they lost to the Panthers and they tied the Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: So they're clearly not functioning on all cylinders.
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Speaker 3: They're still but I still think that they're.
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Speaker 2: If they go up and win in Green Bay, I
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Speaker 2: will say that is a very good win. That is
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Speaker 2: an excellent win. And by the way, it's a really
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Speaker 2: important win. If you're looking at the seedings and the
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Speaker 2: playoffs and time breakers.
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Speaker 1: Well listen, and we were talking about this earlier in Philly.
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Speaker 1: Right now, by the way, Seattle is actually the number
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Speaker 1: one seed because they played yesterday and had that seventh win.
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Speaker 1: But this is a big spot if you want to
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Speaker 1: try to get home field advantage all the way. And now,
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Speaker 1: remember this year Philly was the two seed. They needed
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Speaker 1: a Detroit loss to get that home field advantage for
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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. So you know, this game here
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Speaker 1: with the Packers, you really because you do have a
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Speaker 1: tiebreaker over the Rams, you do have a tiebreaker over
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But there's so many teams in play for
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Speaker 1: the number one seed right now. So it's a major
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Speaker 1: major league game for that. So I think it's a
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Speaker 1: fun game going on the road, and we talk about
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Speaker 1: spots here Philly coming off of bye Jeff, Packers coming
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Speaker 1: off a bad loss last week, you almost feel like
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Speaker 1: they've got to be focused. And to see them lose
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Speaker 1: two straight home games if they're a legitimate Super Bowl contender,
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Speaker 1: that's tough to see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is tough to see. You know, it's funny.
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Speaker 2: I was doing some of the like what would the
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Speaker 2: playoffs look? But right now if the Eagles won this
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Speaker 2: game and lost this game, and just either way, you
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Speaker 2: remember who last year the wild card was, like the
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Speaker 2: two wildcard teams were good like the Commanders were a
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Speaker 2: twelve win wild card team and the the the Vikings
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Speaker 2: were I think a thirteen win wildcard team.
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Speaker 3: And here you're looking, and.
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Speaker 2: Right now Seattle wins. At NFC West, you got the
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Speaker 2: Rams and the Lions as your top two wildcard teams.
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Speaker 2: Those are probably teams are gonna win eleven to thirteen games,
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Speaker 2: and the Bears right now are seventh.
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Speaker 3: They look pretty good.
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Speaker 2: So a really important game, a significant game, but also
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Speaker 2: a lot of football have to be played. That NC
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Speaker 2: West has got to figure itself out and the NFC
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Speaker 2: North has got to figure itself out.
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Speaker 3: But either way, the NFC looks pretty tight. And once
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Speaker 3: those Bucks get help, you, I.
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Speaker 2: Know, everybody can look at the Bucks right now and
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Speaker 2: be like, man, they lost the Patriots, they're not as good.
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Speaker 2: Wait till you get Bucky Irving back, right and wait
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Speaker 2: till you get Chris Gobwin back, and maybe they get
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Speaker 2: Michael what's his face? Mike Evans back too out of
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Speaker 2: them at the Broken colle I don't know for the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: but they're a tough team. They were in that Patriots
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Speaker 2: game for quite a bit. So NFC just looks mighty difficult.
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Speaker 1: Very much oh this is it. Look this game tonight
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Speaker 1: because of that, you could be Now, Philly's in a
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Speaker 1: little different position because their division situation, because their division,
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Speaker 1: they're you know, most likely going to win the division.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, they're locking through a top four seed.
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Speaker 1: That's nice, correct, Whereas if you're a Green Bay and
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Speaker 1: you lose, you have detrud on your heels. If you're Seattle,
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Speaker 1: you got the ramp the forty nine ers. Tampa Bay
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Speaker 1: kind of has the same situation that Philly's in, but
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Speaker 1: Carolina is hanging in that race a little bit. And
16:12
Speaker 1: after Tampa Bay lost yesterday, Tampa's got a tough giar.
16:15
Speaker 1: They played Bufalo this week coming up actually Tampa.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, Buffaloes have three stinkers. You know, they're a
16:20
Speaker 2: team that can't get the benefit of the loss.
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Speaker 1: To the Dolphins yesterday.
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Speaker 3: For God's sake, No, Mike, they didn't lose. They got
16:27
Speaker 3: by the Dolphins, all right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, obviously, you know when you have that
16:34
Speaker 1: extra day, especially coming off of Bie. It's been a
16:36
Speaker 1: lot of talk and breaking this whole thing down, but ultimately,
16:39
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people think that the Eagles
16:40
Speaker 1: are the better team, but this is a tough spot
16:43
Speaker 1: for them. Do you agree?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, well, I mean I think that I
16:48
Speaker 3: think that the NFC is weird.
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Speaker 2: I think that the two teams that have the most
16:52
Speaker 2: talent are the Eagles and the Lions when you just
16:56
Speaker 2: look at blue chip talent in the NFC. But the
16:59
Speaker 2: teams that are playing the best football by far. I mean,
17:02
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks are playing at a level that is
17:05
Speaker 2: just unreal right now. So they're just playing a really good,
17:09
Speaker 2: good ball And I thought Tampa Bay, before the injuries,
17:12
Speaker 2: was playing like almost ahead of its actual fifty three
17:15
Speaker 2: man roster talent. They were just playing on another level.
17:18
Speaker 3: And then I got a bunch of injuries.
17:19
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think the Eagles are more talented than
17:22
Speaker 2: the Packers from top to bottom, but that doesn't always
17:25
Speaker 2: mean anything. You know, They're way more talented than the Giants,
17:27
Speaker 2: and they lost by seventeen.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, mosh, we'll break it all down Wednesday
17:32
Speaker 1: when you're back here. And of course they're right back
17:34
Speaker 1: at it, the Eagles are. They gotta play the Lions
17:36
Speaker 1: on Sunday night next week, so we'll see how these
17:39
Speaker 1: two games unfold. It's gonna be a big stretch Packers tonight,
17:42
Speaker 1: Lions on Sunday, foul by Dallas, and then Chicago on
17:45
Speaker 1: Black Friday. Is a tough month for Philadelphia. In the
17:48
Speaker 1: seeding game, we'll see out all on folds right here
17:51
Speaker 1: on ninety seven three ESPN.
17:53
Speaker 2: Remember when everybody thought the first five games were the
17:55
Speaker 2: gauntlet and then you know, but you just never know
17:56
Speaker 2: who's gonna be. Like, the Cowboys can score a lot
17:58
Speaker 2: of points, the Bears are looking good. It's back to
18:00
Speaker 2: the gaultlet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Cowboys actually got a defensive player that
18:04
Speaker 1: can walk in chew gum.
18:05
Speaker 3: Yeah. How about that?
18:08
Speaker 1: By the way, the Jets won yesterday without the two
18:11
Speaker 1: guys playing defense for them. How about that?
18:13
Speaker 2: This has been the most I know we say it
18:15
Speaker 2: every week, two week two week league, but I feel
18:16
Speaker 2: like this year more than ever. For whatever reason, I've
18:19
Speaker 2: been following the Falcons every week to see what they do.
18:22
Speaker 3: They are the craziest team I've ever seen.
18:25
Speaker 2: The Falcons will play awful for like two weeks, then
18:28
Speaker 2: they'll play pretty tough. They'll beat something like they beat
18:30
Speaker 2: the Bills. Then they go and play the Colts tough.
18:32
Speaker 2: Blow it, But that's like they are. And the Panthers.
18:35
Speaker 2: The Panthers and the Falcons are a microcosm of the
18:38
Speaker 2: NFL this year.
18:39
Speaker 3: They don't make any sense.
18:40
Speaker 2: How do you lose the Saints at home after you
18:43
Speaker 2: beat the Packers in Green Bay?
18:44
Speaker 3: How is that possible?
18:47
Speaker 1: How does anybody lose to the Dolphins? By the way,
18:49
Speaker 1: that's unbelievable this season. You're right, is upside down and
18:53
Speaker 1: inside out. All right. The guys from Inside the Birds
18:55
Speaker 1: will have plenty more on the Inside the Birds podcast,
18:58
Speaker 1: which you can get on all podcasts testing platforms, and
19:01
Speaker 1: of course tomorrow right here on Football at four, Adam
19:04
Speaker 1: will be here to recap it. Jeff will be back
19:06
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and we'll keep an eye on that Jaquori E.
19:09
Speaker 1: Bennett thing for Wednesday too, because if he's not activated
19:11
Speaker 1: by Wednesday, that means he is out for the year
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Speaker 1: for the Eagles. All right, Jeff, thanks Bud.
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Speaker 3: All right, Mike, shout out to the money. Thanks take care,