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ITB: Intel, Analysis On Philadelphia Eagles 2026 Schedule · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back. What's going on?
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: Everybody?
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: It's Jeff Moser and Adam Kaplan And finally, mercifully, our
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: lives can now carry on because the Eagles have released
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: their schedule and so have the other NFL teams. We
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: know who the Eagles. We were already knew who the
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Eagles were playing, Adam, we just didn't know when. Now
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: we know, and yeah, we can move on with our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look the NFL and talking to them about scheduling.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: The NFL kind of tells you what they think of
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  Speaker 2: your team. When you get five or more primetime games,
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: they think you're going to be good. Now, they're not
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  Speaker 2: always right, you know. They put out their crystal ball,
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  Speaker 2: they see what they say. So really, if you look
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  Speaker 2: at their primetime schedule, by the way, they have five,
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: which is what I thought would get in twenty one
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: because of Syrianni first year twenty twenties extra Doug Peterson
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  Speaker 2: that he got fired, they only had two. They made
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs year one. What are they getting twenty two?
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl? Year five? The next year because they got
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: the super Bowl, they were great. They're they're back to
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  Speaker 2: being a national team. That's what NFL calls those teams.
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  Speaker 2: The teams are consistently good, like digos are called a
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  Speaker 2: national team. In twenty three, they got six and they sucked.
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  Speaker 2: Well that you know what happened? You know that was
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  Speaker 2: at that was that was a meltdown year both sides
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  Speaker 2: of the football. Twenty four they had four, not five.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's out there that they have five. They
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  Speaker 2: did not have five, they had four. I went over
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: that schedule a lot. I'm doing some research for various
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  Speaker 2: market Tipeeerian during the week on radio, and the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: have led the NFL in primetime games going back oh
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: so many years. I mean so many years. It's they
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: don't win it every year, but overall, if you go
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  Speaker 2: back several years, at least ten years, it's if they
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  Speaker 2: lead them. But you know what's incredible, The Eagles since
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  Speaker 2: two thousand have had the most Monday night games. How
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about that is interesting?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Forty four right, yeah, and so so twenty five
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  Speaker 2: last year they had five and this year they have
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  Speaker 2: five prime times. So the NFL is telling what they think.
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  Speaker 2: They think they're gonna be very good team.
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  Speaker 1: So let me let me ask you this, and I
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  Speaker 1: agree with that do you see? All right? So they
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  Speaker 1: have two games on Thursday, two on Monday, and two
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night games. Are you saying that you don't see
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  Speaker 1: the Thursday game as a primetime game?
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  Speaker 2: Is that that?
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  Speaker 1: What the Christmas Eve game?
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  Speaker 2: I think? Are we talking about twenty four?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: This year?
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  Speaker 2: This year? Five? This year? No? No? What I was? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, let's say listen, I'm saying this year they
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  Speaker 1: have two Thursday, two Monday, and two Sundays, so that
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  Speaker 1: would be six. But if you don't count, isn't one
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  Speaker 1: of the games on Thursday like a day game because
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  Speaker 1: it's a Christmas Eve or something? Maybe that that might
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  Speaker 1: be where we have the discrepancy.
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  Speaker 2: It has primetime to me has to be East seven
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  Speaker 2: o'clock because there was a because if remember when they
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: did the annoying Monday doubleheader, Monday night double header, ones
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  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock, one at ten. Yeah, that's debatable. Some
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  Speaker 2: people say, oh, it's not primetime.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you're right right, So for our discussion,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's the week fifteen game that's five o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's not primetime, it's a Saturday gametime Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know Saturday at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not man's that's you know, that's just that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a specialty day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so so I'll tell you what just off
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  Speaker 2: the bat here, right, get so you obviously we want
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  Speaker 2: to hear what games you like the Week three game
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  Speaker 2: at Chicago, and believe me, you want this game to
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  Speaker 2: be early at Chicago. You don't want it to be
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  Speaker 2: late with the winter. I know coaches have told me
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  Speaker 2: over the years by the way their buys and what
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  Speaker 2: week ten mm hmm, yeah, you'd rather you want Coaches
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  Speaker 2: will tell you as if told me, they'd like to
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  Speaker 2: have it in the middle of the season. If it's
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  Speaker 2: either going to be earlier late, they'd rather have it late.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want it early. They really don't like it early.
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  Speaker 2: They've been told to me several times, we want it
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  Speaker 2: late if if it's going to be either or like that,
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  Speaker 2: but late. Of course, they don't have a choice. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're allowed to submit to the NFL what you like
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  Speaker 2: to have. In terms of travel, they can only accommodate
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  Speaker 2: so much. It's done by computer. They do the best
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  Speaker 2: that they can, and obviously they have The NFL has
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  Speaker 2: to know about events that are around when the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: would normally play on a Sunday afternoon or Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL wants to know that so that they schedule
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  Speaker 2: it accordingly. So that's part of it. But oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So the games that I'm interested in would be the
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  Speaker 2: Monday night game September twenty eighth at the Bears, very much,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a fun one. Then that the following Sunday
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  Speaker 2: on a short week at home against the Rams at
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock game. By the way, one o'clock game. How
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  Speaker 2: about that in week numeroal four? And then you know
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars were really good last season. Yeah, ninety, of
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  Speaker 2: course I love that one. That nine to thirty Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: It's in Tottenham. That's international. Third time the Eagles will
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  Speaker 2: play internationally. We're actually is it third time in let
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  Speaker 2: me see what the notes say here.
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  Speaker 1: It's the third time internationally, second time in London.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha right.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I want a really fascinating stat Adam,
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  Speaker 1: because this is the second time in a row that
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  Speaker 1: their road game at Jacksonville is in London. They actually
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  Speaker 1: have not played in Jacksonville, Florida since twenty ten. Sixteen
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  Speaker 1: years will have gone by after this upcoming season that
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  Speaker 1: they have not.
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  Speaker 2: Played twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, twenty ten is the last time they actually played
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  Speaker 1: a football game in Jacksonville against the Jaguars, or just
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  Speaker 1: in general.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, they okay that game, Okay, Beg's first year twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think about how long ago that was.
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, boy, there's real quick. Just because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know you're gonna bring it up. But this is great.
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  Speaker 2: Name the trio because the Eagles around a forty three
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  Speaker 2: named the trio of Eagles linebackers. Wow, oh god.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty ten yeah, oh man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the starting tight end with sella call, he smokes,
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  Speaker 2: open up a twelve personnel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go, Moses Folk up close.
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  Speaker 2: No, Keem Jordan, Yes, I know you're gonna get that,
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  Speaker 2: mar Cheney. No. The other one was my question to
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  Speaker 2: Sean McDermott. I said about his quickness side to.
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  Speaker 1: Side, and Ernie sid Water, Ernie Simms.
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  Speaker 2: Ernie Simms, course, Ernie and a guy who was the
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  Speaker 2: would be champ unfortunately towards Acol at the fright night
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  Speaker 2: or flight nights. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And then just
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  Speaker 2: a couple other names for that Winston Justice at right
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  Speaker 2: tackle for anyone, don't look it up. Give me in
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  Speaker 2: twelve personnel, give me the tight end. If you get this, dude,
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking you out the lunch next time. I see.
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  Speaker 2: If you get this, you'll never get it.
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  Speaker 1: So this is twenty ten. Yep, Brent Selleck is one
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  Speaker 1: of the tight ends. All right, we're past L. J.
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  Speaker 1: Smith era. I don't even think it's Matt Shoble.
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  Speaker 2: No. Oh oh, I'm going to give you the number.
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: There's no way you'll get it. I'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: If I think of what happened to them in twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: That guy was last year, right, Donovan's last year. They
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  Speaker 1: ended the year with two bad losses to the Cowboy.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty ten was not Donovan was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh this is the first year. You're right, this is
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  Speaker 1: the first year with that quarterback. Yeah, I'm sorry. So
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  Speaker 1: let's see. This is Jacksonville. I remember Michael Vick started
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  Speaker 1: that game.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Corract the other tight end?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Mercedes?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, he was.
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  Speaker 2: No, God, it was the same number. He was never
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  Speaker 2: an Eagle.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was with the Jags at the time, right, But.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying Eagles twelve. They oput twelve personnel. It was
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  Speaker 2: eighty This guy was eighty nine. I don't know. This
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  Speaker 2: guy's name has never been brought up on our show.
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  Speaker 2: I totally forgot he played for the Eagles. Okay, he
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  Speaker 2: was an undersized tight end. Garrett Mills, Oh my god,
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: you could have given me five hundred. I told you
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get it. I totally forgot that
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  Speaker 2: he played for the Eagles. Uh sat, Samuel Ellis, Hobbs
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: Q or got Q and and Nate Allen were the safety.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just thought these folks would find it interesting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: smoked him by the way they smoked him there at
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  Speaker 2: twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's even more obscure than like Luther Broton.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 1: I actually ran into him. He's you know, he went
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: to Furman College. So Furman played Yukon here in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: during the NCAA basketball tournament, and he was there well
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  Speaker 1: with the Furman folks. So uh oh oh, he actually
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  Speaker 1: recognized me. We know each other here outside the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: So that's so great. Yea, it was cool to see
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  Speaker 1: you man. He was, you know, because Furman gave you
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  Speaker 1: kind of a really good game and he was really
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  Speaker 1: fired up there. Yeah, all right, but anyway, well beyond that, So, Adam,
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing up a good point here about this early schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is an interesting part of the schedule
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  Speaker 1: because honestly, the first two weeks they should you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're home against Commanders to open the season. I think
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders will be improved, but the Eagles are a
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  Speaker 1: better team, uh, and their home and then you go
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  Speaker 1: to Tennessee. They got to adjust their new coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: They're from a talent standpoint, they shouldn't be the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: So I could see the Eagles being two and oh.
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  Speaker 1: But you kind of get into what I think is
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  Speaker 1: sort of a non divisional murderers row there against four
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  Speaker 1: teams that were all in the playoffs last year. The Bears,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, the Jaguars, and the Panthers. Yes, they were
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They won their division.
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  Speaker 2: They may not losing.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good, yeah, with a losing record, but the point
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  Speaker 1: is they've got they signed Jalen Phillips, they expect to
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  Speaker 1: be better. That's four fairly good teams to home, two road,
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  Speaker 1: and then right after that you get right into a
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  Speaker 1: stretch of NFC East games, Cowboys, Commanders, Giants going into
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  Speaker 1: the Bays. So you don't have four I don't see
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  Speaker 1: a real soft saut spot, meaning two weeks in a
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  Speaker 1: row where you're not where you're facing like easily winnable
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  Speaker 1: teams in that seven game stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you look at their scuts, remember last year
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: they didn't have back to back home games, which is absurd. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so they have a pocket in weeks fourteenth or sixteen
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  Speaker 2: at home Colts Seahawks on that Saturday you mentioned, and
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: the Texans on a Thursday night. Now what you'd rather have?
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: You really don't want to be traveling to the West
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  Speaker 2: Coast late in the season. Unfortunately, in weeks seventeen they're
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: at the Niners on a Sunday night, and then, as
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  Speaker 2: they do with every single game in Week eighteen, it's
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  Speaker 2: to be determined that games at the Giants, which is fine,
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: that's the East Coast game, same same time zone. So
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: in terms of changing time zones, let me see, let's
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  Speaker 2: see a Central time Cowboys, Pacific time, Cardinals, Civic time, Niners.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's that's those games are in the second
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  Speaker 2: half of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well that's kind of tough right Week twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving in Dallas. Now you get the rescue, you play
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  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, but then week thirteen you're at Arizona, who,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: by the way, Jillen Hurts is one and three against
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals in his career. That's sort of mind boggling.
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  Speaker 2: But that's well out again. I remember the awful game
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  Speaker 2: of twenty three when they came in here and at
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: they put up over thirty. That was this terrible game. Yeah,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: terrible game. Yeah yeah. So I would say to start
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  Speaker 2: the games that to me are fascinating at the Bears
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  Speaker 2: week three, Monday night hosting the Rams at one o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: In week four, we know what happened last year that
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: was crazy. The block kick, yep, the Jackson, the game
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  Speaker 2: in England Tottenham Stadium, and then the Pittsburgh game after
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: the bye Pittsburgh. It should be really good. When I
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  Speaker 2: do want strength to schedule, it's strictly based on the
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  Speaker 2: way these teams look this year. I mean, they're not
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  Speaker 2: playing last year's teams, but you look at what they
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: did last year. But it's all what they look like
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: right now and coaching changes. Do you believe in it?
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  Speaker 2: Sure there's gonna be someur prize surprises like Jaguars didn't
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  Speaker 2: see that, you know, ye did see this being as
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: good as say were, there always gonna be surprises. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, now the Colts game of that that home
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  Speaker 2: stretch of three games at home, Colts look to be mediocre.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones coming up with another major injury. Yeah, Seahawks, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks should be good. Remember now they've got a first
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  Speaker 2: time Yeah. Well, they got a first time play caller
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  Speaker 2: on offense, Brian Florey. So you know that that's that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem in the Texans. Oh, I'm sure they'll be
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  Speaker 2: elite defensively. Their offensive line still worries me. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: really addressed it well enough. Then. Of course, Week seventeen
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  Speaker 2: is the game at the Niners. Man that that game
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  Speaker 2: could have so much meaning. Now the league told me
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  Speaker 2: when I asked him over the years about this. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: Mike North, who's by the way, I think he's from Philly,
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  Speaker 2: Philly area, who's the schedulings are taken over for Howard
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  Speaker 2: Katz retired. Mike said, like, see, they don't they're not
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  Speaker 2: remember that for years they used to have like the
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  Speaker 2: final quarter of the December would have be all divisional games.
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  Speaker 2: They don't do that anymore, the league, the league's partners
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  Speaker 2: have told them CBS, NBC, ESPN, Fox, Now, Amazon Now, Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: They've made it clear they just want great matchups. They
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  Speaker 2: don't care which week it is. I thought that was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I get that, but I was like, man, really like
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  Speaker 2: I at the Giants in Week eighteen. That's fine, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I'd like to see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the divisional games late. But so yeah, the fact I
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: remember was it, didn't you say that you hated Dallas
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  Speaker 2: in Week one? Didn't you hate that?
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  Speaker 1: I hate it. I so much more preferred this year,
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  Speaker 1: the way this schedule is, where it's middle of the year.
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  Speaker 1: They first play each other on Week seven, and then
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  Speaker 1: they'll play again week twelve. I hate it when it's
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  Speaker 1: the first game. I hate it when it's the last
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  Speaker 1: game two unless both teams are playing for something, which
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: sometimes doesn't always happen, you know. So that's why I
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  Speaker 1: think seven and twelve are pretty perfect, especially with Week
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: twelve being Thanksgiving. I think it's really cool that de
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Egals are playing on Thanksgiving. The reporter in me hates
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: the fact that they're playing on Christmas Eve because you know,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: nobody wants to be working on Christmas Eve. Who celebrates?
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: But you know that that's life and it should be
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  Speaker 1: a good game.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just understand that with the scheduling, the NFL has
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: made it pretty clear like they're not going to always
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  Speaker 2: get it right when they put like I think twenty
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: twenty two, I think they put the Broncos on prime
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: because it's Russell Wilson's the first year after the trade.
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  Speaker 2: But they're going to be great. They sucked, so they'll
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: flex them out and then they'll flex teams in that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they they just didn't know the team would
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  Speaker 2: be good enough, like Washington would be a great story
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  Speaker 2: two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Did anyone have them on their bingo card? They'd be
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: as good as they were come out of nowhere. No,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: in Jane Jalend's first year, so and and and they'll
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  Speaker 2: they'll do that. They'll they'll start moving teams out and
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I'd have to look it up. But remember when ESPN
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: and other networks bet on Tim Tebow being a big thing.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: It was horrendous. Obviously, yes, the Jets, but ESPN w
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: was was setting folks to practice. They were doing NFL
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: live there. That's how embarrassing it was. They they learned
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: from that. That was a mistake. But the league they
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: do their best to learn about the clubs in the
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: off season, and they're not going to get always right.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But that's why they flex schedule.
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  Speaker 1: With thank goodness, I want to point out an oddity
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: in the schedule at them that might favor the Eagles
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: in the long term. Right, So, because they were a
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: first place team last year, they have to play the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: first place teams in the NFC North, NFC South, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the AFC North, right. And last year was one of
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: those strange years where the Bears won the NFC North,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: the Panthers, with a losing record, won the NFC South,
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  Speaker 1: and the Steelers, who are always good but obviously they
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: haven't been great in a while, they beat out the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Ravens right in the AFC North. So because of that,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the Eagles will play the Bears, Panthers, and Steelers this year.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at the Cowboys, who finished second
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: last year in the NFC East, they have to play
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the second place teams in those divisions, So they have
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to play the Packers, the Bucks, and the Ravens, which
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: sort of sounds like the teams you would expect to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: play if you were a first place finisher. So it's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a weird because I, you know, I just think that
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the Steelers, yeah, they were a first place team. They're not.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I don't see them as a great team. They're always
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: tough to beat, for sure, but they're not. I'd rather
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: play the Steelers in the Ravens. That's just me. And
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: then yeah, I'd rather play the Bears and the Packers.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Even though the Bears did great things last year. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: just think Packers are annually good. The Bears sort of exploded.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: They won all those fourth quarter games last year. It's
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be hard to sustain. I like Ben Jonson, I'm
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: sure he's gonna do great things there. I'm just saying, like,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: if you give me a choice, play the Bears to
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: play the Packers, I'd probably take the Bears because they
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: might be a team that takes a little bit of
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a step back too. That was a funny.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: That's the Bears are one of the teams I think
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that will take a step back based on sometimes I
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: had to come out of nowhere, man. I remember talking
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: to the Giants about it in twenty two, Like they
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: knew they weren't as good as their record would indicate,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and they did win a playoff game at Minnesota on
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the road, suppressive, but they were disaster after that. So
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: it happens every year. There's a team that comes out
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: of nowhere. No one's expecting it, and you know, it's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: tough because the fans get all riled up. They oh,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: this is unbelievable, this is great, and the next year
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: they suck. Washington got you know, they went for it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: They sung a lot of older players. It didn't work,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and they played the Eagles week one. That that's fascinating.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That could that game is interesting. Oh, by the way,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the preseason games at Baltimore at New England there Eagles
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: are gonna have joined practices a practice, are practices practices
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: practices up there? They might have two, we don't know yet.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: They had won the last time, I think. And then
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: they host the Bengals on a Friday night. So at
• 18:21
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• 18:26
  Speaker 2: games and open up against Washington. I think Washington's gonna
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: bounce back. Now. The oddsmakers still have the Eagles as
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a sleigh favorite by the way to win the NFC East.
• 18:36
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  Speaker 1: one and up. Yeah, I think Washington is better. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know that they're like more than eight to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: nine wins better. But still that's an improvement on last
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: year when they were they won five games. So one
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: other really interesting thing to me, Adam, is that the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna play four teams coming off a bye week.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: That's a lot o wow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, four teams coming off of bye, and that includes
• 22:37
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• 22:40
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• 22:48
  Speaker 1: rest and they get another divisional team that's coming off
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of bye. That's you know, obviously everybody's gonna have to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: deal with that. I don't know how many. I don't
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: know who leads the NFL. It might be the Eagles
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: in playing teams coming bye, but four seems a lot.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: That is a lot. And look, look there's a. There's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: an advantage to that, you know, for those those clubs,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you know, coming off of buy the role rested teams
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: off of buy more off than not do what do well.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: By the way, it's the eighth time the Eagles will
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: play on Thanksgiving, uh in franchise history. Nice and the
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: overall the Eagles are six and one on Thanksgiving. That's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: pretty darn good. Yeah, pretty pretty good. And you know Syriana,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: by the way, is very good in primetime. It's another thing,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: it's it's look for there's some fans that simply hate Sirianni.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: They can't stand him. His opening press conference is so
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: bad and they could they've held it again. The guy
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: could win five Super Bowls. They still think he's an idiot, right, Yes,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: but at some point you got to say, it is
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: pretty incredible this guy's record. Yeah, I mean he's I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: don't know what people want, man, you know these of
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: course they have the same people wanted Holley out and
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: then when how it became great? Now they turn their attention,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: but it is what it is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think of ending the year Week seventeen?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Week eighteen, both games on the road at San Francisco
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and then.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: By the way, after they have three home games, yeah
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: in a row.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah that would you'd love to have one home game
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: or else. Those games not mean anything.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Right, although here's the one little note we should make
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: m So they play Christmas Eve at home it gainst
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the Sexans, Okay, which is a Thursday. If you're going
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: to travel. The good thing is you they've got plenty
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: of time to rest because they don't play to the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: following Sunday, January third at the Niners and that's a
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Sunday Day primetime game on nbc SO and then the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: week eighteen game. All you know, it's at the Giants.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You don't know what day it is, you don't know
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what time it is, and the league will will obviously
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: let you know, but I don't. In terms of how
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: we see these teams this year, the tough the games
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that you know are going to should be tough would
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: be at Chicago, the Rams at home. Obviously with Stafford,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: they should be good. They're really well coached. The Pittsburgh
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: game after he goes by, I know that's in Philly
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: against the Steelers. I just feel like the Steels should
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: be really good. The back is always an issue, of course,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just feel like their ceiling is always like
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: ten wins like that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I know, I hear, I know, I know, I know,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I know. The Seahawks game, that's that Saturday game at
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: five eastern. Yeah, in week four, in week fifteen and
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the Texan game.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, back to back like that Seahawks Texan you're talking
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: about to me, the five defenses in the league.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now they'll how they'll be at home for it,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: but it'll be a short week on that Thursday, the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve game, So it's I don't think it's that dawning.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a little bit of a we as
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: we called it. In twenty three, it was like the Gauntlet.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: It was maybe the hardest, like six or seven games
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: in a row I've ever seen, whereas I don't I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: don't see anything like that here. I mean, there's a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: couple of challenging patches. But it last year was so bizarre,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: not getting back to back home games. I don't think
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I've ever seen that before. That was strange.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And then also the bizarre thing that seems to have disappeared,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: thankfully from the schedule, was that stupid for two years
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in a row, right, they had you played a division
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: rival twice in three weeks last year? Well, they did
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: it twice last year, right, it was like Giants, Vikings, Giants,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and then at the end of the year it was
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Commandos somebody Commandos. Right, that was annoying. I think that's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: dumb playing the same division team twice in a three weeks.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Oh it was okay, Yeah, this was dumb. Week six
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: at the Giants, so they got smoked right at the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Vikings they won. Then the Giants came into Philly, the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Eagles laid up thirty eight on them. Right. Then they
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: had it's at and then right at the end of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the year they went man right, And I remember when
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: it came out. I was excited about it because I
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: was like, wow, Washington's gone off in this unbelievable year.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: It'd be great. And then Washington sucked.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't good. It was Commander's Bill's Commanders, if
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I if I remember.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Correctly, and it was it was commanded yeah. Yeah. And
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you know the Week eight team eighteen games when everyone
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: was rested, McKee started a quarterback, right, and that awful
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: game in the bad weather in Buffalo, the Eagles somehow
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: won a high score baseball game thirteen to twelve.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, yeah, well you don't have to worry
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: about any about that kind of craziness this this year.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So that's good too.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: That is a look at the twenty twenty six Eagles schedule,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and in the second half of this podcast, which we'll
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: start now, we're gonna go win lost, win loss for
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: not just kidding. I just wanted to see Adam's are going.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I've ever I don't think I've ever done it. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: don't think i've I mean, I deal with friends, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: we go, okay, what do you think? Yeah, but it there,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: safety will be. Safety will be resolved by the start
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of the season. If not training camp. They know how
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: He's made it very clear. They know they have to
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: do something. Yeah, I mean, that's that's a that's a
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: position that's gotta it's got a resolve it. It doesn't
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: look very good. I mean, it's that's that's right now.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: It's the most problematic position by four in the football team.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It really is. How we must have something up his
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: sleeve because it looks pretty bleak at the moment. So
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: we'll have to see what they do. He pulls trades
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: out of somewhere.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you'd rather signs to a veteran who can
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: play coming and starting, because you'd rather not give up
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a draft pick for the guy might be only here
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: for one, you know, one season. Yeah, by the way,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: we passed the compensatory, but we've passed it where it
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: counts towards it, so.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: We have yep, all right, good stuff. That's gonna do
• 28:52
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