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Football at Four: Final Look at Eagles Injury Situation and Much More · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Foo Law and Flour is powered by the Inside of
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  the Birds podcast. It is brought to you by the
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  Fanatics Sportsbook at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City. And
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  the Eagles have just dropped their official injury report for
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  the game on Sunday against Kansas City Chiefs, and on
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  that injury report, Adam Kaplan Dallas Goddard has been ruled
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  out of the game, will Shipley cam Williams questionable for
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  Tanner McKee with obviously the big one there is Dallas Goddard.
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  It was trending in that direction all week long. We
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  did see some big injury news with the Chiefs as well,
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  but the Dallas Goddard injury, I guess we'll start there
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  because obviously seven catches last week on seven targets, he's
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  a blocker, and I don't know if all positions on
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  the field to drop off from Goddard to Calkatara where
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  that stands. They did win without Goddard last year, but
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  I guess no surprise that he's out. But now they're
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  going to play without Goddard in week two.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, it was a major problem last week with with
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  just what was going on with Frank Calfaterra. He shot
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  the blocker and now without Goddard, see, they don't have
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  Jack Stole, they don't have anyone else who could go
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  in there. I mean they did have. They went through
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  some other backup tight ends who could block better than
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  calcul Terror. So it's a problem. So what's going to
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  happen They have till four pm Eastern tomorrow. It'll be
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  either E. J. Jenkins or Cam Latu who comes up
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  to block to be that blocking guy in Calcutr will
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  be the move tight end. So it's a problem. I mean,
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  you can always go six offensive linemen, which some teams
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  have done. Colin granted, is not an in line tight end.
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  So it's a problem. There's no doubt about it. That's
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  it's a big loss, there's no question. I guess. The
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  one positive news is, hey Tanner Mkee's got a shot.
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  He through today, so that's a good sign. So's he's
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  gonna be fairly close. If he's not active for this game,
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  you would think he'd be righted the next week. So
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  that with his broken right thumb, that that's good news. Shipley,
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  of course, with nobody expected to play, so he is out,
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  the question will be for this game on what they
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  do with behind Barkley. Well, we know that AJ Dillon
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  will be up for the game. Kank Bixby is on
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  the roster. He practiced this week, He returned kicks. He
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  also covered kicks on special teams, so he has a
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  very good shot Mike to be up immediately. Now, I've
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  heard coaches talk about this over the years. You can
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  put in a package to play for the guy, just
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  to keep just whatever you think he can handle. You
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  could do that now if the Eagles want to bring
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  up another back, they could always do that. Now they
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  only have one guy on that roster on the practice squad.
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  That's aldrich estimate. The former Broncos back was a fifth rounder,
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  so he just got there Mike a week ago, so
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  he's not going to know a whole lot. So we'll
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  see what happens here, Mike. But the big thing is
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  the Goddard injury. It's disappointing. The Eagles offensive line did
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  not have one of their vintage games. It certainly was
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  one of the worst games that they've had in years.
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  It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't. To be clear, was
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  it not up to their standard. The good news is
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  though Lanard Dickerson barks something happen in pregame war mumps
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  we'll play, But that's not the issue right now. Mike
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  is how long will he last?
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  Speaker 1: Only he knows right, and that's a big thing. He
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  did start last week, wasn't able to finish. He missed
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  the final eleven snaps of the game real quick on Goddard.
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  How much does that change the passing game for them?
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  I mean, because obviously calc Terra is a good receiver,
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  but Goddard did catch seven ball. Now every year it's like, oh,
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  how they get Goddard Moore involve? How do you get
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  hit more involved? He hit seven catches? So how did
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  you see that changing the passing game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing downfield with him, but it was short
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  but he moved sticks a little bit, So yeah, I mean,
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  what will happen here? Is Mike Godar Typically it wasn't
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  this pass game because just the way the game flow went.
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  But as we know Godar typically is the third passing option.
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  We expect part of it. Because AJ Brown got one
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  late target and that was probably on purpose. The passing
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  game will go through AJ Brown in this game, Ben
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  Smith and probably a little of Dotson and a little
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  bit of calculate terra. But that's it. I'll tell you
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  what's encouraging their dots and looked good last week. They
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  took that big shot play and Mike and and we'll
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  get into the matchup right now. The way you beat
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  the cheeses you throw the football downfield. You saw how
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  the Eagles got them hurts with phenomenal throwing the ball
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  down field in the Super Bowl. Last week, the Chargers
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  took shot plays against the Chiefs. The Steve Spagnolo seemed
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  to be a little surprised at the aggressiveness of the
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  Charger passing game, with Justin Herbert that you got to
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  attack them, You got to attack them, you gotta. You
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  have to feel, Mike that the Eagles offensive line will
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  do a much better job that they They're very prideful
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  NFL's best offensive line. You expect them to play much
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  better and they know how to play an hour had
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  they beat them last time and they were there.
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  Speaker 1: They are the favorite in this game too. And one
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  of the reasons they are the favorite is, you know,
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  obviously some talent issues on not only Kansas City talent issues,
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  but some injury issues over there. They got some problems
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  along with suspension problems. So two big weapons for them.
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  Most likely he's not going to play in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Zavier Worthy is not expected to play. He is
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  a deep threat. What they're going to do is my
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  Hollywood Brown Marquise Hollywood Brown, a veteran receiver who's been
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  hard a lot in his career. He could run. They
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  hit one play deep for forty nine yards. Everything else
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  was underneath. The Chiefs mic are having a big problem
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  just like last season. It's been a very short area
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  pass the game offense. And we know that Travis Kelsey
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  doesn't move well anymore. Jujus Smith Schuster does run well anymore.
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  Taekwon Thorton is their shot play guy. He hit a
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  thirty nine yarder that was a design pass play. He
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  will wear a number eighty former second round pick for
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  the Patriots, but he's he's tall. But Finn that's it man.
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  Noah Gray's an athlete number eighty three. When they played
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  twelve personnel with two tight ends, we'll see Noah Gray,
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  who's a very athletic ted end number eighty three. But
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  this is to me where I think Eagles can match
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  up pretty well. The chief protection was inconsistent last week.
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  They're not good at left guard. They have a rookie
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  left tackle, Joshin from Ohio State. They're not going at
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  right tack with Jwan Taylor their leade at center and
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  right guard. There are some there, I'll tell you what.
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  There are some matchups where the Eagles defensive front could
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  exploit this this Chiefs offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see too. You know last year six sacks
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  in the game, four and a half of them game
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  from guys who aren't here anymore. So, how does Jalen's
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  hunt and obviously losing Milton Williams borrow a Joemo and
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  getting Jalen carter back? How that will check the huge
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  pass game here? Right? But can they can they get
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  to mahomes without blitzing? That was the story of the
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  Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is incredible. Well, Noel Smith, you know, you
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  know what happened. Unfortunately got hurt in that game. But
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  he didn't play well before he got hurt. They've got
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  to figure out and whether it's lighting up Johat Campbell
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  as an edge rusher. Is Darius Smith, by the way,
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  we're expecting him to play It certainly would be surprise
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  if he doesn't play now, nobody could tell you how
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  many stamps he could play. Josh Uche will go against
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  his former team. He was a complete non factor for
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  the Chiefs. See he was in a bad scheme fit.
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  They were on a forty three. He's a stand up
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  pass rusher. This is a good fit for him. I'm
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  interested to see how he can do. What will happen
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  is Mike nol Smith will line up over Juwan Taylor.
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  The only reason why he's still on the Chiefs is
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  his base salary of over twenty millions fully guaranteed, or
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  they would have cut him. So that is an advantage
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  for the Eagles. I'm interested to see there's sim pressure,
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  how they do it, how the Chiefs pick it up.
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  There's certainly some advantage this year with this this Eagles
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  defensive front versus the Chiefs offensive line. There's no question
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  about that. But you know what the game plan is.
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  If you want to beat the Eagles, throw against the
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  Droey Jackson, who's the Eagles right cornerback.
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  Speaker 1: Well, last year before we look at the game from
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  last night, real quick, last year, this game plan for
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  Steve Spagdola was not let's sae Quon Barkley beat him.
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  He didn't, but they still gave up a forty burger.
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  I wonder what kind of defense they map out for
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  this offense. Obviously we'll find out on Sunday at four
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  twenty five, right here on ninety seven to three ESPN.
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  But last night we saw two NFC contenders, and want
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  to get your thoughts on that, because they not only
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  lost the game Washington, but they might have lost a
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  little credibility and they lost some key talent.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting, Mike. Their offense did not look
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  good against the Giants, and they didn't look good last night.
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  They put up late yards, they never led in the game.
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  The Commanders with their loss to the Packers, and not
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  only that, Austin Eckler with the torn achilles suspected, so
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  that that's gonna end his season. Noel Brown, the third
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  receiver who had a knee injury come to the game,
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  had a grown injury. He couldn't finish on Bates. They're
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  why ted end. He's won the best blocking tight ends
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  in the NFL. He's a growin injury. And Dietrich Wise
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  lost with the torn quadriceps. Remember they're also without Sam Cosmi.
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  Their best guard. They've got a lot of injuries Washington,
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  and this helps the Eagle them till late in the
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  season and they play them too out of the final
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  three weeks. But Washington's got major injury concerns right now.
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  Speaker 1: Major injuries, Eckler. It's like a torn right achilles, you know, obviously,
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  and as a team that you know got older, right,
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  I mean that kind of got lost in the sauce
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  of Hey, they went to the NFC championship game, that
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  was a great story, and then to try to close
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  the gap, they went out and got older and they
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  looked like a older team last night.
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  Speaker 2: They do my good man, they did not. Their defense
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  has got problems and I'll probably regret this one. I
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  hate to say it after two games, but I I'll
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  admit it. I'll take leel if the Commanders don't win
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  the Visioncy. I I thought they'd take the next step. Now. Obviously,
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  you can't predict injuries. But Dietrick Wise, as they started
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  with a free agent signing, he was starting basis are
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  blocking ten end. We'll learn more over the weekend whether
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  he's gonna be available for Week three. Bill Krosky merit
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  it is gonna be their new starting running back. I
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  don't know as he'll play on third down, but he'll
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  wind up taking over at on early down. So they've
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  got some injury problems. It's not to Eagles and not
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  just the Chiefs. A lot of key a lot of
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  really good football teams right now dealing with a lot
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  of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and on the other side, yeat Green Bay, who
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  you know, everybody's gonna be piped about them now because
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  of the Parsons trade. But it's obvious that this is
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  a team that you know, went to the playoffs, had
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  a lot of expectations. The Eagles beat them, but they
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  are improved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them to win a divisioneer with the
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  Parsons trade. But the one issue that they had is
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  they just had Rashaun Garrett, the pass rusher. You had
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  Parsons now he was impactful last night. The boy Washington's
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  offensive line, which had a good week one, not very
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  good this game. They struggled and Jordan Love very efficient,
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  made some really good throws downfield. They're they're loaded with
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  pass targets. Unfortunately, Jayden Read, their number three receiver, broke
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  his collar bones. But he's going to be out for
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  a couple of months. That's a big one. But they're
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  a very deep at receiver. They're really well coached there.
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  They're what we call the regular season champions of the NFC.
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  And then what happens once Matt Lafour gets to the playoffs.
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  They really struggle for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there's a look at last night's Thursday night
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  game Football at four Adam Kaplan from the Inside of
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  the Birds podcast Inside at the Birds dot com, which
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  you can get on all podcasting platforms, getting you ready
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  for the Eagles and the Chiefs, and obviously the Eagles
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  here they would go to two and oho with the win,
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  that would drop the chief to oh too. And I
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  will tell you. We did our outside view with Joe Valario,
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  former Chief, and he did admit it feels like this
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  Chiefs team is starting to crack a little bit and
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  they are regressing. Is that the field around the league?
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  Speaker 2: It is, Mike, When folks look at this, this team,
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  it's a good team. Don't make me. Don't get me wrong.
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  Still win the to the Chargers. Until the last week's game,
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  the Chiefs has owned the Chargers and the Chiefs, excuse me,
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  The Chargers are very underrated and are great head coach
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  at chim Harball. But getting back to the Chiefs, it's
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  their past game which they struggle with. The running game
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  was not good last week. Their defense is good, well coached,
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  great scheme. They didn't execute like Spats wanted them to.
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  They're very vulnerable, Mike, They're just not the same team.
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  I'm picking the Eagles, Mike, in this game. I am
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  concerned about the Goddard absence, there's no question. But the
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  thing is my this offensive line. They're prideful, they know
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  they didn't play their best game last week. I expect
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  them to handle it. The look the Eagle is one
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  of the best road teams in the National Footall League
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  under Siriani. If you already won there, I'm expecting them
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  to play much better this week, and then we'll see.
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  I don't know it would be a shootout because the
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  Chiefs they're just not the same offense anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it all happens right here Sunday four, t ninety
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  seventy three ESPN, Meil rees and Mike Quick on the call.
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  He's Adam Kaplan. This is football at for Adam. We'll
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  talk to you Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Sounds good sense,