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Football at Four: Updated Eagles OL Intel, Preseason Thoughts · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We have another season of football at four and Jeff
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Boscher's back after a little vaca, little rest and relaxation.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: You know, we were talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: The big story kind of was over the weekend Lane Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of saying this could potentially be his
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: last year and we like it.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, you were on vacation last week, so.
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  Speaker 1: When you were doing football at four the week before,
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  Speaker 1: your mind may not have been fully on that segment
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking about leaving. Do you worry about that with
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson that if you already you're thinking about retirement,
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  Speaker 1: your mind is on retirement.
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  Speaker 3: I'll offer a counterpoint. I was, actually I had I
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: was suffering from major pre vacation work stress, and I
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: was trying to get so much done in advance with
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  Speaker 3: Inside the Birds. There's a lot I do behind the
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  Speaker 3: scenes that not a lot of people knew how to do,
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  Speaker 3: so I had do training. I was one hundred percent focused,
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  Speaker 3: even more so than usual on the job at hand.
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  Speaker 3: And I would think for Lane Johnson if he knew
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  Speaker 3: this was his last year, and look, Lane's so great
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  Speaker 3: at what he does. It's it's not like he has
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  Speaker 3: to laser focus in more I understand. I thought I
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  Speaker 3: had the same thought you did. Man, You've got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on that you're candidly talking about
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  Speaker 3: outside your your your football life, right, that's taking your
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  Speaker 3: attention away and took away from camp, Like do you
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  Speaker 3: have one foot out the door? Do you have your
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  Speaker 3: your mind elsewhere? And I do think that that's an
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  Speaker 3: understandable question. But he's so good at what he does, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: and he has been for so long that I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: give him the benefit of the doubt here. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's fair to wonder. But you know, like when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing football, you can get real hurt if you're not
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  Speaker 3: fully focused on everything you're doing. And it's not like
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  Speaker 3: Lane to get to you know, to be in this
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  Speaker 3: position and not give it one hundred percent of effort
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  Speaker 3: and attention. That's why I think he left is to
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  Speaker 3: make sure everything was taking care of that needed to be,
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  Speaker 3: and he came back when he felt ready.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I know there was some murmurs over the
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  Speaker 1: offseason whether or not he actually thought about coming back,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, just Staltlin being out, he's got to
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  Speaker 1: learn a whole new role. I mean, how much different
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  Speaker 1: will his role be this year than it has been
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  Speaker 1: in the past. I guess is that an unknown or
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  Speaker 1: do we have an idea of what the tackles how
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  Speaker 1: they'll be different now with Chris Cooper as the offensive
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  Speaker 1: quordator and this new offense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean his role will not change. It's blocked
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  Speaker 3: the guy in front of you and block him well
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  Speaker 3: and keep keep him off a quarterback. How they go
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  Speaker 3: about doing that might be a little bit different. I
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  Speaker 3: think that there's a little bit too much made about
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  Speaker 3: the whole, like guard help and everything. I think that
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  Speaker 3: that's part of under center play action and having two
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  Speaker 3: tight ends out there and how you're blocking it up.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, for the most part, he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: the right tackle. He's gonna face probably a Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 3: or an All Pro edge almost every single week. And
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  Speaker 3: when it's third and five right, then he's gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to block that guy. And I don't think he's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be getting helped that much. He's still part of
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  Speaker 3: the success is being able to leave him on an
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  Speaker 3: island so that you can throw to your running back,
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  Speaker 3: you can throw to your tight end without that guy
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  Speaker 3: having to stay in too long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Because you know, one of the things in the past,
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  Speaker 1: you know, last year. I wonder how much that injury
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  Speaker 1: last year and him not being able to get back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really was frustrating for him. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: that whole Hard Knocks, They did a whole feature on
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  Speaker 1: how close he felt to coming back and then then
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't do it. You wondered if that's like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting hurt, I can't get back as fast. My family,
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  Speaker 1: my parents, he mentioned his parents getting older. How much
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  Speaker 1: the injury though, and all the injuries he's had over
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  Speaker 1: the years have kind of played a role in this
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  Speaker 1: being potentially it for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean there's a lot of wear and tear
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  Speaker 3: on the body, and there's no doubt about it. He's
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  Speaker 3: overcome a lot of injuries, the ankle surgeries from earlier
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  Speaker 3: in his career, the mental health obstacles that he's overcome
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  Speaker 3: this latest Liz Frank And you know, as you get older,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't get easier. And then as you get older,
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  Speaker 3: as he mentioned, there are forces outside of your football
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: career that pull at you. However, I'll say this, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: I also think that, like it's frustrating when you can't
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  Speaker 3: be who you want to be and you're that good
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  Speaker 3: of an athlete, and he wasn't able to be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: If Lingo Johnson goes out there and starts, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen to seventeen to eighteen games and deep into the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: play makes All Pro, makes Pro Bowl looks like the
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  Speaker 3: Lane Johnson that you knew, and the team does really well,
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  Speaker 3: it would not surprise me if he was back again
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty seven. Even though he's saying right now
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  Speaker 3: this is very likely his last year, he left some
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  Speaker 3: wiggle room. He actually said this is probably. He says,
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  Speaker 3: this is potentially probably going to be probably my last year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if that's not a word salad of probably
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  Speaker 3: and potentially, I don't know what is.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: I think some of his frustrations stemmed from just not
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  Speaker 3: being the guy that he expects to be last year,
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  Speaker 3: and if he can get back to that level and play,
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  Speaker 3: it would not surprise me if he stuck it out longer.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Moster Football at four powered by the Intil the
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  Speaker 1: Birds podcast, looking at the Eagles camp as they now
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  Speaker 1: get ready for a preseason game. Let's talk about a
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  Speaker 1: question that was asked to Nick Sirianni today. I want
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  Speaker 1: to get your take on it and what you think
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  Speaker 1: Jeff play in the preseason. They have not played in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason over the Sirianni era, no starters, But should
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  Speaker 1: the offense be out there to get some live reps?
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're not, So that's the that doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: matter what we think, you know, Look, the company line
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  Speaker 3: is when you have joint practices against teams, which still
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  Speaker 3: have against New England, right, I think they're doing it
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  Speaker 3: also against Are they doing against the Bengals too? Like
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  Speaker 3: one against Cincinnati? I think isn't. I have to go
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  Speaker 3: back and look, But they treat those like the first
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  Speaker 3: team offense in a preseason game because everything gets a
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  Speaker 3: little scripted there and they're able to work on everything
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  Speaker 3: in it's first versus first, which you can't always guarantee
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  Speaker 3: you're playing in a preseason game. So it's been a
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  Speaker 3: formula for them that they believe has worked and they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna stick to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think they should play you personally?
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  Speaker 2: Would you like?
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  Speaker 1: Because to me, I mean, you have a preseason game
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  Speaker 1: on August the fifteenth, when you don't play for like
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  Speaker 1: another month. I don't know how that's going to do it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: even if you have, like I don't know, a series
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  Speaker 1: or two. Is that really gonna carry over to your
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  Speaker 1: first regular season game a month later, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that there's some advantages and some disadvantages,
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  Speaker 3: but it's all sort of case by case. I think
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  Speaker 3: that if you told me that the Ravens are not
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  Speaker 3: going to play their first team defense, then I don't
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  Speaker 3: need to see the Eagles first team offense against Ravens backups.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that's what camp is, your offense against your
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  Speaker 3: backups and then occasionally scrimmage against the first team. So
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  Speaker 3: it's to me, it's not that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 3: I know people want to make a big deal about, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you're on like the stadium and there's a crowd and
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  Speaker 3: your play calling, and I think that there's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of of a fair argument to that. But these guys,
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  Speaker 3: it's not like the all it's like a team of rookies.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's a pretty veteran team. So if you
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  Speaker 3: told me the Ravens were playing their first team defense,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, there would be upside to playing
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  Speaker 3: your first team offense, But then there's also, of course,
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  Speaker 3: the risk of more injury or something happening, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: they like to protect their guys. You know, they like
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  Speaker 3: to save it for the practices where they can script
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  Speaker 3: it and they can control what goes on, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, get a better look at the guys fighting
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  Speaker 3: for jobs and get more film for those guys during
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  Speaker 3: the preseason games.
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  Speaker 1: Adams said the other day that he thinks that forty
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  Speaker 1: eight of the fifty three spots are up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: those last from forty eight to fifty three are up
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  Speaker 1: for grabs. So who do you think this is a
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  Speaker 1: big group of three games for. Who are some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys that you're gonna kind of be saying, all right,
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  Speaker 1: these three games teams might help those that group of players,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely backup offensive lineman we're talking about, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Drew Kendall to me is pretty solidified. But I do
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  Speaker 3: think it's big for markl Bell because he you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's he could push to be the top backup offensive tackle.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Fred Johnson's gonna be off the team,
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  Speaker 3: but they want to get Mark kel Bell. They want
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  Speaker 3: to see him develop. And if Lane Johnson gets hurt,
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously it'll be a decision about whether go
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  Speaker 3: to Fred or whether they think they can they can
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  Speaker 3: rely on on Mark L. Bell and kind of start
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  Speaker 3: that transition if this truly is Lane's last year. So
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  Speaker 3: Mark L. Bell reps I think be pretty interesting. And
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  Speaker 3: then again, I think Drew Kendall, you want to see
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  Speaker 3: him play well because they expect him to be the
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  Speaker 3: top interior backup. But there's gonna be another interior backup.
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  Speaker 3: Is that gonna be? Is it? Could it be Willie Lampkin,
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  Speaker 3: Is it gonna be Michael Jordan, the veteran that they
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  Speaker 3: brought in, is it somebody else? Michael Morris the sixth
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  Speaker 3: round pick. Those are the guys that I'll really be
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  Speaker 3: looking at to see how they fare because interior offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: as we all know, if you're when we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: the biggest questions facing the Eagles in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: offensive line depth, especially on the interior is one of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, there's a lot of interesting things there. You
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  Speaker 1: brought up Fred Johnson. I think everybody just assumes he
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  Speaker 1: has been the main guy they traded for him to
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  Speaker 1: bring him back. So is there a possibility that he
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  Speaker 1: is not on this roster?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I think I think that it's more
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  Speaker 3: it's unlikely that he's not part of the sixty nine
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  Speaker 3: man roster, right if you count the practice squad. If
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  Speaker 3: they can work something out where he starts off on
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  Speaker 3: the practice squad for a little bit and then makes
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  Speaker 3: it to the fifty three, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or spends most of the year on the practice squad
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  Speaker 3: and gets elevated at times, you know, depending on the
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  Speaker 3: injury situation. I don't think that they'll be ready to
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  Speaker 3: go into the season with Mark Helbell or rookie third
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  Speaker 3: round pick as the top back up, even if he's
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  Speaker 3: playing well. You need to have that veteran. So yes,
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  Speaker 3: Fred Johnson will be on the overall sixty nine, will
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  Speaker 3: be on the fifty three. That remains to be seen, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So that'll be something to watch here. On the
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: other thing, on the offense, where's your concern level with
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver situation with specifically Lemon not being ready?
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  Speaker 1: But then how that affects this group moving forward. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: now we're getting into the first preseason week and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't appear that he's yeah ready to practice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I know how frustrating that it is, especially
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  Speaker 3: for fans who want to see him. I would remind
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  Speaker 3: everybody that Cooper de jen missed a lot of training
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  Speaker 3: camp with a hamstring injury, did not make a big
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  Speaker 3: impact the first four weeks of that twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 3: year and then finally got on the field and the
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  Speaker 3: defense completely didn't about face. So it's you know, it's
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: clear right now that it's gonna be hard for Makayle
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  Speaker 3: Lemon to be a starter and maybe even a significant
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: contributor for the first few weeks in the season because
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  Speaker 3: he's missing He missed Ota time as well, right, So
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  Speaker 3: now this is a lot of time he's missed. But
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  Speaker 3: I will say this, I mean, like a he could join.
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  Speaker 1: Them through do you do you most though, think it's
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  Speaker 1: different in the situation than Cooper where you traded Aj Brown.
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  Speaker 1: You drafted this guy in the first round. The anticipation
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  Speaker 1: was he kind of softens that blow, whereas Cooper you
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: didn't know he was going to be Cooper de Gene.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean Cooper de Gene was a really
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  Speaker 3: high second round pick, right, and Lemon was at the
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: difference between Lemon at what twenty one right and what
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  Speaker 3: Cooper was thirty three, Like that's not a huge difference.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, I think expectations were pretty bad. I
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  Speaker 3: get what you're saying because now Cooper didn't have to
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: replace a legend, but the Eagles was struggling at corner.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Quinna I mentioned when Cooper were certainly saviors
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  Speaker 3: to that defense, and everything changed when Cooper Degene got
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  Speaker 3: into it. But I think with the situation with Lemon,
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  Speaker 3: because you have Dantavian Wicks along with DeVante Smith and
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  Speaker 3: Mike I mean, this is the second year in a row.
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  Speaker 3: I can't sit here and tell you that Darius Cooper
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  Speaker 3: is not one of the three best receivers on the Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't say that he's not. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying that he definitely is, but I'm definitely I'm intrigued.
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  Speaker 3: I think this kid was more than just a flash
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  Speaker 3: in the pan. I think he's showing that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he obviously didn't contribute toize a rookie because there was
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  Speaker 3: no room and there was a different offense, and he
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: got hurt early in the season, went on ir but
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  Speaker 3: he's getting every opportunity. He's shining now.
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  Speaker 2: And so what is he an outside?
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  Speaker 1: Is he an outside guy or is he a guyot?
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  Speaker 3: He's built like AJ Brown. He could certainly play the
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  Speaker 3: X they played on this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I was having this conversation with somebody this weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: you've got Smith, Lemon wis those three definitively? Are there
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  Speaker 1: other definitive ones for you?
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  Speaker 3: Those are the three locks? I think Marquise Brown based
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  Speaker 3: on salary and pedigree. I mean, it's gonna take a
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  Speaker 3: lot to get him off the roster. Okay, I think
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna I think he's about as close to a
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  Speaker 3: lock because of that as you can get at four
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  Speaker 3: and Cooper is five. Right now, that's your five. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if they decide to keep six, it comes down to
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Wilson as a special teams as a dirty work
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  Speaker 3: guy versus maybe Elijah Moore who's just having a really
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  Speaker 3: good camp but doesn't really contribute on special teams. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what they do there.
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  Speaker 1: But Moore was the guy that Adam brought up on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: having a really good camp, and you know, he's got
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  Speaker 1: a good pedigree in terms of second round big But
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  Speaker 1: if you're the fifth or sixth receiver how many Now
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  Speaker 1: that's different before if you were the fifth or sixth receiver.
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  Speaker 2: On this team, you wouldn't get any targets. But what
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  Speaker 2: about now?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that that's what I was about
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  Speaker 3: to say to you, is just because you were Darius
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  Speaker 3: Cooper and make it as the quote unquote fifth receiver
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  Speaker 3: who says you can't be in the top three when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to playing time at you know, maybe not
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  Speaker 3: week one, but you know, if you're playing really well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy gets listen. The guy's half the
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: battle was just just showing you belong, right, he did
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  Speaker 3: that last year. Then the other half is showing that
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  Speaker 3: you not only belong, but you can play. He is
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  Speaker 3: out there running against the first team defense. I was
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  Speaker 3: there Saturday. They practiced for two hours. He was running
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  Speaker 3: with the first team because there's no Devonte Smith, no
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  Speaker 3: Mkay Lemon right, and he's making plays, made plays to
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  Speaker 3: gain today. So you know, at this point, again, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to I'm not trying to put the the
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  Speaker 3: wagon before the cart. He obviously has to prove himself
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  Speaker 3: even more, but who is to say my point is
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  Speaker 3: that he's not as good as Dan Davian Wicks, or
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  Speaker 3: not good enough to be one of your top three
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  Speaker 3: receivers when you're in eleven personnel, especially if McKay Lemon's
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  Speaker 3: not ready to be in that top three yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, well, and then let me ask you this,
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  Speaker 1: if you kept an extra receiver, where do you see
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: uh Eli, his name is blanked on me right now? Hours, yes,
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  Speaker 1: where do you see him at this point? And is
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  Speaker 1: Calcutera a lock to make this because Johnny Munt you
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  Speaker 1: think makes lock?
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: No? No, I mean, have you has anybody talked about
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Grant Calcaterra since the start of camp.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you said this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying some of these guys that you're like,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: why they keep coming back? They keep coming back, and
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you know you got your That was Johnny Munt a
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  Speaker 1: lock for you.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's another lock to be on the sixty nine.
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  Speaker 3: There might be some roster tango at the start of
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: the year that he's on the practice squad as an
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: elevated guy because they're trying to go heavier at another position.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think right now, you know they want
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: to play a good twelve personnel. Dallas Goddard, Johnny Munt,
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  Speaker 3: I think that as the days go by, cam Allotso
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  Speaker 3: looks more and more like a guy who's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: on the fifty three because he can block, he can catch,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a dog on special teams.
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  Speaker 2: So those three, can you keep that many tight ends?
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  Speaker 3: You can keep three tight ends? Yeah, for sure. You
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  Speaker 3: could also keep two and Stasher your practice squad with
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously Dallas is one. You would think Eli is two.
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  Speaker 1: So is it between mont and lat Tu Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Probably. But I will say this, I think Eli Stowers
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  Speaker 3: is a pretty good as we sit here today, Eli
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  Speaker 3: Stowers is a pretty good bet to be inactive on
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  Speaker 3: game day for the first few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's and and you know that's a good point by you,
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  Speaker 1: because I figured the same thing is that if he
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  Speaker 1: he makes the roster, because you, I guess they could
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  Speaker 1: try to have some mysterious injury if they don't think
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: he's got a big role. Because to me, I ask you,
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  Speaker 1: what is a second pass catching tight ends role in
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  Speaker 1: this offense?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I And that's why they're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to have some some some stashes on their practice squad
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  Speaker 3: because Goddard can catch passes, but Month is not a
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  Speaker 3: pass catcher. I think a lot two has the ability
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  Speaker 3: to be more of a pass catcher. Some of that
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  Speaker 3: is on the quarterback. Are you're gonna get to that
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  Speaker 3: third I mean, the passing game is gonna go through
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  Speaker 3: the three guy, right, It's gonna go through uh DeVante Smith,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: It's gonna go through Dallas Godder, It's gonna go through
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  Speaker 3: whoever that number two receiver is, whether it's Wis or
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: or or it could be Lemon one day when he's back,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: or it could be Brown, it could be Darius Cooper.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: But like, there's not gonna be a whole lot opportunities
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  Speaker 3: for that second tight end to catch a lot of passes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But you do need somebody to be able to do it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I agree, all.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Right, Jeff Bocher. Now we're getting into the nitty gritty.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're starting to get some on field things that
• 17:58
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• 18:01
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