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  Speaker 1: the Ravens. You know some similarities. Here is Adam Kaplan
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  Speaker 1: joined duscas Adam. The Eagles are team with new coaches
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  Speaker 1: and new schemes going into the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing today, Adam, Josh.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the first football weekend. How about that? Huh?
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  Speaker 3: How about the first season weekend in the National Football League?
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  Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to this, Yes, So the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: will play at Baltimore and the Eagles and Ravens have
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  Speaker 3: two first time play callers and offense they've got. The
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  Speaker 3: Ravens have Declan Doyle, the youngest offensive quorder in the
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  Speaker 3: National FOOTBA League, along with David Blou who I saw
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  Speaker 3: earlier this week with the Commanders. They're both going to
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  Speaker 3: run a West Coast offense. Declan Doyle brings in West
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  Speaker 3: Coast terminology. Now he's his background is with Sean Payton
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  Speaker 3: and then he spent one year with Ben Johnson as
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  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson's non play calling offensive coordinated with the Bears
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  Speaker 3: last season, so he's a young play caller. They've jumped.
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  Speaker 3: This is the crazy thing. For the first time nearly
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  Speaker 3: twenty years, the Ravens will not carry a fullback. They
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  Speaker 3: are going to be They're gonna run actually more eleven
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  Speaker 3: personnel they've probably ever run. With Zay Flowers. They've got
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  Speaker 3: his big contract. Tess Walker, h third year player out
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  Speaker 3: of North Carolina. Rashat Bateman. You all injured, but talent.
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  Speaker 3: Rashat Babman Jacobe Lane. By the way, if you're into
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  Speaker 3: fantasy football, this is a guy you want. Dynasty leagues.
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  Speaker 3: Kids got a great camp. Tall kidd out of us
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  Speaker 3: See who I watched early this week in Ravens camp,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to play a lot. So when they
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  Speaker 3: play the Eagles, you're going to see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Tess Walker. You get a lot to see a lot
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  Speaker 3: of You're going to see a lot of Jacobe Lane
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  Speaker 3: and Elijah Sarat, a fourth front receiver out of IU.
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  Speaker 3: So you just go to see a lot of these guys.
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  Speaker 3: And you know Vic Fangio will be having a lot
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  Speaker 3: of his backups as we know on the field, but
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see a lot of these young receivers
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  Speaker 3: with Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you mentioned about how the Eagle is going to
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  Speaker 1: have some backup, so you just mentioned no fullback. Is
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  Speaker 1: there something particular you do want to see when there
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  Speaker 1: is more eleven personnel from the Ravens on the field
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  Speaker 1: versus the Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now that when they do that, Josh, here's what
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see. Mac McWilliams, who's coming on in
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  Speaker 3: the last week and a half of camp. He now
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  Speaker 3: is their fourth corner over at Tokran Bennett. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to see a lot of him, Ambry Thomas, Sean Wade, Dree,
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  Speaker 3: Castro Fields, whoever's healthy out of that group is going
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  Speaker 3: to play, and they're going to play a lot because
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles are going to keep probably five corners. They
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  Speaker 3: won't keep six, but they'll keep five. Mac Mickwilliams when
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  Speaker 3: they go to nickel may play inside, he may play nickel.
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  Speaker 3: Jakrane Bennet is really a corner, not a nickel. And
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  Speaker 3: Ambry Thomas is a guy who for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years started for the forty nine orso. Too many injuries,
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  Speaker 3: but he's yet yet another X forty nine or one
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  Speaker 3: of these guys could push for that number five job.
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  Speaker 3: But the big one to me, Josh is Jakaran Bennett,
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  Speaker 3: who they acquired last year in that trade for Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Booker the d tackle, and Bennett is just not He's
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  Speaker 3: not performed like last year. You know, they made the
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  Speaker 3: trade late, he didn't get the scheme. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: full off season, no more excuses, and that's a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow night at seven point thirty, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: seeing if Corring Bennett could start taking charge of a
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  Speaker 3: role for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, no more excuses.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to put up or shut up for Bennett
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  Speaker 1: with the Eagles, let's flip to the other side. The
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  Speaker 1: Ravens also have a new scheme because jesse Mincher, the
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  Speaker 1: former Chargers former Michigan University of Michigan DC.
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  Speaker 2: He is now the head coach in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mitcher is going to run a thirty four point.
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  Speaker 3: He's brilliant. He's with not a ton of talent with
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers. They had a great defense. Eagles did face
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  Speaker 3: them last year in Los Angeles if you remember so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they want of Nate Wiggins, not that they would play
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  Speaker 3: their starters, but Nate Wiggins got hurt. I was there,
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  Speaker 3: got hurt against Jakobe Lane, and thankfully the injury is
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  Speaker 3: not super serious. But what you're going to see there
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  Speaker 3: is Zion Young, their second round edge rusher this year.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see him in this game. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to see TJ. Tampa, who was a fourth round corner
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  Speaker 3: two years ago in twenty twenty four. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: see a lot of him. Trent Simpson will probably started
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  Speaker 3: inside Becker in this game. You canna see with Sean Benny,
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  Speaker 3: who's a now he got hurt. If he's not, if
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  Speaker 3: he's healthy, he'll play in this game. He got hurt
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  Speaker 3: and the practice I was in he played for Jesse
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  Speaker 3: Minterer at Michigan. So you'll see guys like that Mike
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  Speaker 3: Green will see how much he plays. Who's a second
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  Speaker 3: round at trusher last year. Tavis Robinson, who's on a
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  Speaker 3: fine ros rookie deal. He was a fourth rounder in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three out of Mississippi. So you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see some of those guys with this backup offensive line
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  Speaker 3: group and backup offense for the Eagles in this game.
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  Speaker 1: preseason game number one, Adam for you, is there a
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  Speaker 1: particular bird that you're looking at who will get time
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow against this new scheme.
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  Speaker 3: Of getting yep, and it's going to be Tanner McKee
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  Speaker 3: number sixteen. I just I am stunned that he has
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  Speaker 3: not won the job at where it's not obvious. It's
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  Speaker 3: definitely not obvious. Dalton and Tanner McKee are even I'm disappointed,
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  Speaker 3: and that McKee is not. I've just stunned that he
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  Speaker 3: has not taken a hold of this job. And of
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  Speaker 3: course you will see called Payton late. But Tanner McKean
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  Speaker 3: needs to really take hold of this job, and he's
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  Speaker 3: got three preseason games to do it. He would be
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  Speaker 3: one Mark l Bell number seventy two, their third round
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  Speaker 3: pick out of University of Miami. Want to see how
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  Speaker 3: he plays this He should be starting in this game.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be another guy. You know what I want to
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  Speaker 3: see do welld receiver is Hollywood Brown. I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: see Tanner McKee hit him on a down for your
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  Speaker 3: pass because that's the one thing that's missing with this group.
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  Speaker 3: We're not seeing a lot of nine routes, deep routes.
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  Speaker 3: I need to see more of that, Josh, We're just
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  Speaker 3: not I don't know why he's number zero. When you
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  Speaker 3: watch the game tomorrow night. Darris Cooper's been phenomenal. He's
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  Speaker 3: been Cooper been terrific by the way Cooper lately last
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  Speaker 3: week he's been a little bit better than Wicks. But
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see Danis Cooper obviously and seeing how in
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  Speaker 3: a starting role. I don't care that's against backups. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to see how he performs. It's too bad
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  Speaker 3: we're not gonna see Mackay levin, Josh. It's disappointing. They
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  Speaker 3: have to get him ready for the regular season, but
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  Speaker 3: he's really missing some more important reps. Here.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew de Checko is on with us book very highly
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  Speaker 1: of Cooper yesterday for Yesterday Football and for here on.
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  Speaker 2: Ninety seven three ESPN. Adam is speaking of the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: So you mentioned about Tanner McKee, so one of the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles would have accomplished I'm assuming they might want some
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  Speaker 1: clarity here on is McKee gonna take that step or
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  Speaker 1: is Adulton gonna lock down QB two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And with the McKee here, we want to see
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  Speaker 3: him be decisive, Okay. Jet's one thing I didn't mention, Josh.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a great arm, way better than Dalton's. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but he's not playing with consistent timing it. That's what
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  Speaker 3: you say with practice. It's just not I it surprises
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  Speaker 3: me because that's never been a problem for him. His
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  Speaker 3: mobility is not the problem, has nothing to do with it. It's
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  Speaker 3: just we got to see more from him there and
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  Speaker 3: then time picks me's but phenomenal camp. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: we need to learn any more from him. And then
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  Speaker 3: before we get the defense, Josh, some of these backup
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  Speaker 3: offensive linemen we know ready about Threw Kennell Jake Major
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  Speaker 3: has been a nice surprise Umber seventy five. You could
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  Speaker 3: play garter center, Willie Lampkin. Okay, Willie Lampkin cross train
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  Speaker 3: at guards, at guard lately and center. Let's see what
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  Speaker 3: he looks like in this game. These look for the
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  Speaker 3: first time like many years, Josh, they finally have some
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  Speaker 3: talented developmental backup offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: Before movie of the Defense, Adam, I could you get
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  Speaker 1: some clarity on the McKey situation for you? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think McKee is having these struggles because it's a new
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  Speaker 1: offense or do you think it might be something else.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great question. The terminology has changed that going
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  Speaker 3: to the West Coast verbage system. It's not the numbering
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  Speaker 3: system anymore. It's hard to know, Josh, but I can
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  Speaker 3: only go but what I see what I'm told. He's
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  Speaker 3: just hesitating. It's never been him before, Josh. I you
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  Speaker 3: know Hurts. Look, Hurts is obviously for him too. He's
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  Speaker 3: been inconsistent, but better lately. And remember Hurts is having
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  Speaker 3: to do this without Smith for almost two weeks and
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  Speaker 3: Lemon for almost allf training camp. So let's see what
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  Speaker 3: happens here, Josh. Tomorrow night I'm looking forward to seeing.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, Tara McKee's coming out party as
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  Speaker 3: a rookie was against these said Ravens where he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: doing well in camp, and man, did he look good
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  Speaker 3: against them. We were kind of surprised because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: have the mobility has now. But that's where he you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's where we saw it four years.
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  Speaker 2: Ago, Adam.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching that game at a local establishment down here,
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  Speaker 1: McKee versus the Ravens two years ago. The number of
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  Speaker 1: people who were losing their minds watching that game. And
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't not a normal sports bar. I was at
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  Speaker 1: like a very more you know, summary establishment. The number
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  Speaker 1: of people we're talking about the key at this summer
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  Speaker 1: bar was absolutely ridiculous two years ago.
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  Speaker 3: We know why because we didn't he didn't do anything
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  Speaker 3: in training camp. This this is I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: this rookie season. I could be wrong when we saw
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  Speaker 3: this game, but I'm pretty certain it was. But it
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  Speaker 3: was one of these things You're like, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: It's I get it. It's against a back against a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of backups. He's a third string quarterback, but arms
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  Speaker 3: trans is armstrength, yep, And it was just it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of wow. I was just kind of but he
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  Speaker 3: was so stiff moving moving in training camp. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of skeptical. And then he took off.
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  Speaker 3: His second training camp was really good and he's been good,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but the struggle started for him and that
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  Speaker 3: Washington last week eighteen game, Josh did not play well
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  Speaker 3: and they brought it in Andy Dalton a compete against him.
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  Speaker 3: That's really real. I mean, there's no question it's it's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely a competition.
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  Speaker 1: Adam flipping it over to the defense. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations we had with Andrew Duscheko yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: about the defense because we know we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: see the mean, you're not gonna see a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: snap for Carter or Jordan Davis or you know, Zach Bourn.
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  Speaker 1: But who on defense needs to make a mark. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned before Mac McWilliams and Jakorean Bennett, but who won
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  Speaker 1: the defensive front needs to do it, no.
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  Speaker 3: Doubt about it. It's Ty Robinson. I know there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people in Scotting that Jeff and I
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  Speaker 3: know who raved about the s guy before the draft
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  Speaker 3: last year. And look they saying the wrong. Yeahdam it's
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  Speaker 3: only his second year, but it's also not guaranteed to
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  Speaker 3: make the team. Howie Roseman has cut a fourth round
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  Speaker 3: pick prior to a second season. That was Donal Prumfrey,
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  Speaker 3: who quite frankly, they could have cut your one, no
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  Speaker 3: one would have cared because he was awful for them.
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  Speaker 3: He actually wound up never playing it down in the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League. Ty Robinson is more talented this but
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  Speaker 3: he's very raw. Technique. Stuff was not good last summer.
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  Speaker 3: His preseason tape was not good at all, and he's
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  Speaker 3: not really he's just not He's just not pushing for anything.
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  Speaker 3: Barr Youngest is the top backup that's not up to debate.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, I know, people bring up you orp
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  Speaker 3: and the Eagles won't play Hi until they think he's ready. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if he plays tomorrow night, they think he's ready and
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  Speaker 3: to at least get some snaps. But tyro Robinson is
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  Speaker 3: my guy for this entire game because Byron young is
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  Speaker 3: on the final years rookie deal. They and Marrow Joonas
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  Speaker 3: not got his extension yet, so they got to get
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  Speaker 3: Ty Robinson going here, no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned guys way before my mind goes back
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  Speaker 1: to Ada. Remember Davion Taylor. He was a third round
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  Speaker 1: pick and the Eagles cut him two years after drafting him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well he he went up going to the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 3: Agannon brought him in, he did special teams and he's
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  Speaker 3: out of the league. That that was a major reach.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when after he was drafted, we told the
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  Speaker 3: two if you go wow, they win around this kid.
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  Speaker 3: Is that he's very raw from a processing standpoint, should
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  Speaker 3: go on to the sixth round, not the third. But
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  Speaker 3: he could run. But yeah, that was a total miss that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, look how he prior to twenty one, how
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  Speaker 3: he was at bottom half of the National Foot League drafter.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's just the truth. It's not our job
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  Speaker 3: to take any side. He would tell you what we know,
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  Speaker 3: what we see and what we hear. Now he's a
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  Speaker 3: top five drafter. It's I can't explain it to you
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  Speaker 3: other than he started drafting in the SEC. I think
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  Speaker 3: that kind of helped him. Bat On Jordia, you think, yeah, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and but you know what the Quinon Mitchell pick was
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  Speaker 3: that that's not a power five school to take a
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  Speaker 3: kid from Toledo. That was gussy didn't play man covers
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  Speaker 3: in college. Howie's an elite drafter. Now Jax Hunts another
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  Speaker 3: one from not a power school. Yes, uh, and he
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  Speaker 3: he's just he's great. We we we we don't rip people.
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  Speaker 3: We tell the truth. We were very critical of him,
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  Speaker 3: rightfully so, but he's turned it around because he's he's
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  Speaker 3: a much better film watcher and he's just doing a
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  Speaker 3: much better job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That that draft time from Jill Hurts ended up
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  Speaker 1: completely like the one of the worst drafts of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Josh. By the way, Tessa, what they drafted Hurts to
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  Speaker 3: be a backup? Yes, people ripped us for saying that,
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  Speaker 3: but then they told us, okay, right, they didn't draft
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  Speaker 3: they drafted Hurts. Remember they extended Wentz in June of
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. They drafted Hurts to the second round in April,
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten months Come on, folks, ten months after. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: they drafted Hurts as a back. They didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't know that Wentz would go in the tank.
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  Speaker 3: But it is what it is. And hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: if they didn't draft Hurts, who knows they would have
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  Speaker 3: gotten all that that draft wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely for more insights.
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  Speaker 1: Course, after Eagles preseason game number one in all of
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  Speaker 2: Adam great stuff today.
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  Speaker 1: A man.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,