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  Speaker 1: As always, we've got a great show coming your way
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  Speaker 1: here on opposition territory. As we preview this week five matchup,
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: over in England. My gosh, we're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: coming Sunday and joining us this week. We've had him
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  Speaker 1: on the show before. Absolutely love him. Great content. We
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  Speaker 1: at a big cat country.com. And also I believe he
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  Speaker 1: does the Duval dive podcast, a former university of central
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  Speaker 1: Florida cornerback, our friend, Travis Holmes. How you doing buddy?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Jaguars are three and one, so I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: really well.
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  Speaker 1: 3-1. Yes, great. Things started here. Look, I'm viewing the
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars as a team here in the NFL that
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  Speaker 1: is basically on a roll when I look at the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles and what they have done. So yes, Jacksonville Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, 3-1 this season. One of the top
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  Speaker 1: teams in the AFC trying to get to that next echelon.
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  Speaker 1: And as we talked about earlier this year when we
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  Speaker 1: had John, trying to get back to not only the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: but to take that next step perhaps Super Bowl bound
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  Speaker 1: we don't know yet we're heading into week five but
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles two and two on the season they
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  Speaker 1: seem absolutely lost on offense they have no offensive identity
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  Speaker 1: and as of us recording this two of the starting
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen on this team to start the season are
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  Speaker 1: no longer here Cam Juergens being traded to the Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: Ravens Lane Johnson retiring. There's just a ton of questions
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  Speaker 1: heading into week five with regard to the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: all the injuries that they have sustained the past couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks on offense and defense. It's exhausting. It's exhausting here. Travis,
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  Speaker 1: how do you see the Jaguars really trying to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of an Eagles team that is quite frankly floundering
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  Speaker 1: at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: This is fun because you feel like you feel like
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  Speaker 3: the team's floundering and you're not wrong to have that
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  Speaker 3: thought process. Obviously, with the midseason, midweek retirement, that's not common.
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  Speaker 3: And then in that same week, they end up trading
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  Speaker 3: a multiple time Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was two time Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, two time Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, all right, that's that's big.
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  Speaker 3: That's, again, not generally normal combined with both of those
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  Speaker 3: things happening at the same time. And you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: the fact that you have to have three of your
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  Speaker 3: week one starting offensive linemen not being there overall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 3: The Jaguars obviously should hopefully be able to dominate in
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  Speaker 3: some ways in the trenches.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you can look at this
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  Speaker 3: two different ways. And that's the part that I'm kind
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  Speaker 3: of just split on this. There's two ways to say one.
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  Speaker 3: I think Philadelphia Eagles fans. And again, I'm not the
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles local person. But from my perspective, have known
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  Speaker 3: for a while this offense has not been what it
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  Speaker 3: should be.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I think that will be a reasonable starting point to
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  Speaker 3: the conversation of saying even last season when this Philadelphia
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  Speaker 3: Eagles team won, I believe it was 11 games. many
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles fans and media that I spoke with told
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  Speaker 3: me it's just not right.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Because they don't have that identity. That identity is
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  Speaker 1: not there.
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  Speaker 3: You were looking for the answer and it just wasn't,
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  Speaker 3: it didn't identify, it didn't present itself. So in making
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  Speaker 3: these moves, when they're making these moves, one could argue
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  Speaker 3: that you're simply the first person to turn back, which,
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  Speaker 3: and if you're going in the wrong direction, the first
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  Speaker 3: person to turn back is actually ahead.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going to be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: painful process before realizing that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what I'm wondering if this is for Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 3: just to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: You have a younger line.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you're starting over a little bit, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of teams in the NFL don't have dominant lines.
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  Speaker 2: With multiple pro bowlers, multiple all pros on it. And
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  Speaker 2: they're doing just fine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's just me taking a step back from the ledge,
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  Speaker 3: not having emotions attached to this, everything that's going on
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  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I say all that to say, as much as
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  Speaker 3: folks may be down on Philly, I am still of
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  Speaker 3: the mindset that the Jacksonville Jaguars probably have seven ways
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  Speaker 3: out of 10 to win this football game. But in
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  Speaker 3: my mind, that still means that there are three opportunities
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  Speaker 3: for the Philadelphia Eagles to walk into Sunday and upset
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  Speaker 3: this Jacksonville Jaguars team if they're not prepared.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's very fair. I really do. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a very fair assessment because I know at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, and we talk about it on
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  Speaker 1: the Opposition Territory podcast almost every week, is that no
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  Speaker 1: NFL team is perfect. There are strengths. There are weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get into those strengths and weaknesses with this
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars team as we're looking at this matchup against
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Let's start off with the biggest strength on
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars at this point. Travis, what is that biggest
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  Speaker 1: strength and why?
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  Speaker 3: Biggest strength is easily, clearly the fact that the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars were number one in the league and stopping the
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  Speaker 3: run last year. And I believe if at the time
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking to you, I believe they're number two.
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  Speaker 1: They're top three for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Right now.
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  Speaker 3: So the fact that they're able to erase the run
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  Speaker 3: game from basically since Liam Coleman has been hired, they
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  Speaker 3: haven't given up 75 yards on the ground to any
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  Speaker 3: individual running back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The conversation there. So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Jonathan Taylor Thomas, sorry, Jonathan Taylor, uh, in our,
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  Speaker 3: in our division and everything. And that's just not, and
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  Speaker 3: it's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think the fact, the ability to erase a game, uh,
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  Speaker 3: an entire part of a game for an opposing offense.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 3: With that, still be able to tell you, we're not
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  Speaker 3: just going to make sure you can't run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: We're also going to tell you when you do pass
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  Speaker 3: the ball, this is how you're going to have passed
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  Speaker 3: it against us. because of how we play our coverages.
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  Speaker 3: That's a different part of Anthony Campanella's defense. Most people
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  Speaker 3: don't notice. You're probably not going to beat this Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars team going deep balls down the sideline. It's just
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  Speaker 3: the way that they play coverage with the umbrella over
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  Speaker 3: the top, and they're not going to allow that to be.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to play zone defense, play these guys back
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  Speaker 3: from 30-yard line all the way down to the red zone,
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  Speaker 3: and then they'll start playing man coverage only when you
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  Speaker 3: get into the red zone. You get down there, which
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  Speaker 3: is why they're 29th in the league um and yards
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  Speaker 3: allowed per drive while also being second in the league
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  Speaker 3: in points per drive because they just don't they get
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  Speaker 3: into the they allow you to get to the red
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  Speaker 3: zone they don't care and they're just like all right
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  Speaker 3: no more and they shut the door yeah it's incredible
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  Speaker 3: so that's their strength is not just their scheme and
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  Speaker 3: coaching knowing who they are knowing what guys they have
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  Speaker 3: but also they're going to dictate to you how the
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  Speaker 3: game goes as a defense and tell you you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to run the ball one And when you pass
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  Speaker 3: the ball, it won't be explosive down the sidelines. Your
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  Speaker 3: best opportunity may be like post routes, crosses across the
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  Speaker 3: field and trying to beat guys in a foot race
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  Speaker 3: in that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're telling you how you're going to pass it also.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'd love a poster out every now and then.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love some mesh concepts every now and then. That'd
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  Speaker 1: be fantastic for this Philadelphia Eagles offense. But we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Jaguars and let's flip the coin here. Travis,
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  Speaker 1: biggest weakness on this team. What do you think that
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  Speaker 1: is and why?
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  Speaker 2: We're probably still looking at the well, this is fun because.
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  Speaker 3: I would have originally told you I would have probably
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  Speaker 3: said it was going to be the defensive line, the
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  Speaker 3: pass rush. And as far as that's concerned, interior defensive line,
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  Speaker 3: to be clear, you got Josh Hines, Alan, you got
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  Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker on the outside. Those guys have been dominant
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  Speaker 3: for multiple years now. It's just a it's the Rick Armstead.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Devon Hamilton kind of conversation on the interior
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  Speaker 3: D line. I'm going to probably put that as my
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  Speaker 3: one B. It would have been my one A at
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  Speaker 3: the start of the year, but I'm putting it as
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  Speaker 3: one B only because the interior Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars offensive line. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Has slowly started to become an issue, especially since that
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  Speaker 3: Denver Broncos game.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of a liability.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think it was going to be one. You
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  Speaker 3: had Robert Hainsey, who was a really good center. You
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  Speaker 3: have Ezra Cleveland, who was a dominant left guard. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I would have, going into the season, said he was
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  Speaker 3: the best Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman. And now, with him
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  Speaker 3: switching from left guard to right guard this season, he
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  Speaker 3: has been a... top two, if not top one liabilities
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  Speaker 3: as far as the office of line play is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't know what, is it just switching sides?
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  Speaker 2: But because of that.
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  Speaker 3: And knowing who we're going up against, knowing that you
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  Speaker 3: guys have two monstrosities on that defensive line, that becomes
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  Speaker 3: a concern, I would say, at least. So I would
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  Speaker 3: say that's probably one of the bigger weaknesses and one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest opportunities, maybe even for this Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 3: defensive front to control this game.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we're talking about the defense, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to shift over to the offense. And one gentleman
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  Speaker 1: in particular, somebody who got a lot of scrutiny coming
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  Speaker 1: out of college, his first five, couple seasons, not great.
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  Speaker 1: And that is at the quarterback position. One of the
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  Speaker 1: most important positions in sports, as we all know. And
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  Speaker 1: the last time that you were on the show back
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  Speaker 1: in May, Travis, and we talked about Trevor Lawrence taking
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  Speaker 1: those next steps with his development. I'm wondering, yes, after
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  Speaker 1: four weeks, it's only been four weeks, but how have
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  Speaker 1: you seen his development manifest itself as we're heading into
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  Speaker 1: week five here?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to tell me.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a lot of conversation in the media this
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  Speaker 3: past week about how Joe Burrows had such a great
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  Speaker 3: game and maybe even a better game than Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 3: this past week against the Jaguars because he threw for like.
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  Speaker 2: 415 yards and right. Right. For, you know, under 200.
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  Speaker 3: And when I look at Trevor Lawrence development, I see
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  Speaker 3: that materializing when I see that he's thrown for just
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  Speaker 3: 200 yards and a touchdown, but no interceptions, no turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: I see, not looking at the bot scores, but see
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  Speaker 3: looking at the film, the fact that they gave up
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  Speaker 3: four sacks. But I'm looking at this game and this
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  Speaker 3: materially looks no different than week six last season against
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  Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks when they gave up eight sacks. The
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  Speaker 3: only difference in this game, literally the only difference in
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  Speaker 3: this game, is Trevor Lawrence. Not putting the ball in
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  Speaker 3: harm's way, not running around back here taking sacks. His
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  Speaker 3: third step hits the ground. He's giving up the check
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  Speaker 3: down to Brenton Strange. He's giving up the check down
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  Speaker 3: to the running backs. And that's what actually changed this
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  Speaker 3: past game for me. I said it in the postgame.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, the difference in this game was Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the offensive line. I still have concerns.
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  Speaker 2: He.
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  Speaker 3: It's taking those guys on their shoulders and game managing
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  Speaker 3: this thing like an NFL veteran. Like he doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: to be a superhero and he's OK just saying allowing
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  Speaker 3: the game to come to him. That is development. That
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  Speaker 3: is the growth that I was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Most importantly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's man. It's going to be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see what he does in terms of any pass rush
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  Speaker 1: that can actually get to him from the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: because the Philadelphia Eagles pass rush has not been great either. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we love look, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: That's like 30th in the league in pressures.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not, it's crazy. It's crazy what's happening with
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  Speaker 1: this team. It really is. But again, folks, we are
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  Speaker 1: talking to our buddy Travis Holmes from Big Cat Country
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  Speaker 3: my MySpace, it might even still be out there somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I love it. We got to bring MySpace back, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. All right, folks, we're going to take a break.
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  Speaker 1: When we get back, we're going to be continuing this
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  Speaker 1: preview of the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars matchup week five.
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  Speaker 1: Stick with us. We'll be right back. All right. We
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  Speaker 1: are back. Oh, sorry, buddy. You're taking a sip there.
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  Speaker 1: We are back diving into this week five matchup, Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars over in England. Let's get into some matchups here, Travis,
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  Speaker 1: because first up, look, the Eagles rushing attack and third
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  Speaker 1: string running back will Shipley going up against this Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: defensive front. One of the best One of the best stories,
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  Speaker 1: I think, in the NFL that not too many folks
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  Speaker 1: are actually talking about the dominance of this defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You'd mentioned earlier in our discussion, the Jags rank, like
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, second in the NFL rushing yards allowed 74.3
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  Speaker 1: yards per game.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about your thoughts when it comes to this particular matchup.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking trenches. And then what this Eagles rushing attack
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  Speaker 1: is going to look like. And I'm thinking it's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be like 1.7 yards per carry on maybe
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  Speaker 1: 20 carries here. I'm not sure, but what are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts here? That's really the one, though.
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  Speaker 3: That's really the real big question because it's not to
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  Speaker 3: say that because the Philadelphia Eagles have given up multiple
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  Speaker 3: pro bowl and all pro level offensive linemen that they
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  Speaker 3: won't still be able to run the ball. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: so naive to say this because I fell into this
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  Speaker 3: trap last year against that Seattle Seahawks team when that
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  Speaker 3: had injuries up and down the roster in that week
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  Speaker 3: six game. And they came out and did exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to do in that game. So I'm just
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  Speaker 3: not ready to go to the level of saying, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be, they'll be, they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I think with that, with the, Philadelphia Eagles, again, as
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  Speaker 3: I said earlier, I don't know that they necessarily made
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  Speaker 3: bad moves because you're talking about the Cam trade, but
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  Speaker 3: If you were to ask many people in Philadelphia, they
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  Speaker 3: will say that his play has been down since he's
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  Speaker 3: been moved to guard ever since the offseason injury and
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  Speaker 3: surgery and everything else. Like there's some there's some nuance
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  Speaker 3: to say there is no there's an opportunity to say
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  Speaker 3: that maybe it may be level. Like maybe it may
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  Speaker 3: not be a huge step down or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a guy who's better at run blocking, but worse
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  Speaker 3: at pass blocking or vice versa. So there can be
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity for the Eagles to at least stay balanced,
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  Speaker 3: stay neutral as far as that's concerned in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't expect you guys to have much success
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  Speaker 3: because I don't expect any NFL team to have much
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  Speaker 3: success against Devon Hamilton on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair.
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  Speaker 3: But if you can stay just reasonably balanced when you
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  Speaker 3: have to respect that play action pass from that run
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  Speaker 3: game or the run fake. you have an opportunity because
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  Speaker 3: I think your receiver core actually does have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: against this Jacksonville Jaguars secondary between the.
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  Speaker 2: Thirties, between the thirties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe if you're getting this close up here and there,
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  Speaker 3: that can change the ball game. But overall, I don't
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  Speaker 3: see much success because I don't see much success for anyone,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe that, you know, Damian Pierce can be, you
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  Speaker 3: guys is a, I don't know, Jake Browning for us.
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  Speaker 2: We have bad, bad issues with backups just in general.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, Look, no backups are perfect. Of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every NFL team has their challenges in terms of backups.
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  Speaker 2: But no, we have challenges playing against backups where they have.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually a really long multi. Let's go with eight
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  Speaker 2: year issue.
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  Speaker 3: OK, Jacksonville Jaguars got random backups just come out and.
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  Speaker 2: Just like, what is what is this? How do we
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  Speaker 2: keep loosening against? fill in the blank backup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a long, it could be Will Shipley or
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  Speaker 1: Damian Pierce.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Legitimate another Florida boy.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. Well, as we're moving along with the conversation here, I,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: when we look at this Eagle secondary going up against
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: these Jaguars receivers, I mean, it's, I, I'm, I was
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: shocked this past week that Parker Washington didn't produce it
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: really at all in week four, because he is a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: damn good player. He is a damn good receiver. It's
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: fantastic going up to the catch point as well. Well,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the Eagles secondary played pretty well last week. It was
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: basically their first time this season kind of really playing well.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: How do you see this matchup really manifesting itself? Jaguars
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: receivers against the Eagles secondary. What are your thoughts here?
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't see last week's game as a game where
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Parker Washington didn't.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it as a game where he struggled.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I see it as a game where he wasn't targeted.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Like he just wasn't the primary focus in the game.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I think that they knew, especially how the game was
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: going early on, that he just it was a Brenton
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Strange game against the Bengals defense that had multiple injuries
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: in the secondary and already struggled dramatically against tight ends.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: You knew it was going to be a Brenton strange game.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Like even, uh, even Nate Brokercher had two targets in
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: the game. Washington had three, like that tells you everything
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you need to know as far as how this game
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: was going. Like Brenton strange with that. Basically the tight
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: ends had 10 targets in the game. Parker Washington had three.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: They didn't need Parker Washington as far as that's concerned.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And then even with all that said and done, he
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: still dropped the touchdown pass.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Theoretically he had two drops because one of them should
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: have been passing the parents and, they didn't call it
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: because the rest called 24 freaking penalties in the game,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: but somehow missed that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: He's getting mauled at the goal line and then drops the,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: the long ball that, you know, at the one yard line,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: that would have been a touchdown basically. So even with
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: his quote unquote, lack of production, I didn't think that
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati did anything significant or drastic to take him out
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of the game. I just think it truly looked like
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: they've showed on tape. It doesn't have to be Parker Washington.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It just happens to be a Brenton strange week.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I think this probably will be a Parker Washington week person.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a big time Parker
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Washington week. I think it's going to be big time, Travis.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: So seeing how this matchup manifests, it's going to be
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: interesting because I think you guys actually do have a
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: really good secondary.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Like we will.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: And like you from Seattle, like Andrew McCool, but everyone
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville loves him. Like they love them since draft time.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: That was kind of the thing. The one that got away,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I guess we'll say. Same thing, honestly, for Quinn and Mitchell,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: but I don't think there was a real opportunity for
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville from the truly in the land of Jacksonville in
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: that way.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Overall, you have a good secondary.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: And you seem to have a good defensive line as
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: far as, you know, the persons who are there. They
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: just haven't been producing for fill in the blank reason.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: They haven't been getting home. They haven't been getting home.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: And with the umbrella defense that loves to play, he
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: doesn't really want to bring extra guys. So then that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: kind of where you are at the end of the day.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: But I think they're going to have those opportunities because
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you are generally going to play those two high safety looks,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: those four, those cover quarters and cover two and all
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of that. Well, Trevor's going to try to eat in
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the middle of the field. So you're going to be
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: flooding the zone. He's going to want to throw it
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to that flooded zone. It's going to be, in a
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: lot of ways, strength versus strength, though.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to eat up Jihad Campbell. I mean,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Jihad Campbell has been so rough in coverage this year.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It's just been rough. He's needing to develop so much.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: He didn't even practice on Wednesday now for some reason
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: yeah some uh injury i forgot what it was it's just.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: It's just been a challenge on both sides of the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: ball for this eagles team but as we conclude our
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: discussion my friend on our opposition territory shows every week
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: we talk about sneaky players that the eagles fans need
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to look out for both on the offensive side of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the ball defensive side of the ball from the opposing
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: team so Who's your sneaky player for us to look
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: out for on the Jaguars offense this coming week?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Man, I hate these trick questions, man.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Because I mean, I can't name Travis Hunter. Everybody knows
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: who that kid is. I can't name Brian Thomas Jr.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Because everybody knows who he is from his rookie season.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Even though if you were to ask him over the
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: last two years, he hasn't been producing at all.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So whatever. Can't name Bashaw Tootin because fantasy football exists.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And there you go.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to go with Josh Cameron, Jacksonville Jaguars
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: third-round receiver, the one that basically made most of his
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: waves because he's the person who took half of Brian
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Thomas Jr.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: 's snaps. Okay. Yeah. In the three game week four.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: And he's kind of been slowly eating into those that
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: snap share because he's a dominant blocker. He's a 225 pounds,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: six foot one, basically Parker Washington reimagined molded receiver. That's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: kind of who he is. It's like almost like a
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: running back in the open field. So he had a,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: what was that? 33 yard reception last week off a
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: boot action. He's just one of one of those dogs,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: as far as that's concerned, one of those true team
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: player kind of guys. That guy is also a good
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: punt returner and kick returner. I'm looking at him as
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: far as a very sneaky guy who I think he
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: can get one to two red zone targets this week.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: And the fact that he already has two touchdowns on
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the season, Brian Thomas Jr. has just the one. Yeah. I, they,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: they really trust his contested catch skills. He is something
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that one of his strengths coming out of college. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: now they kind of proved it in joint practices where
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: he had like five touchdowns in the two first two
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: joint practices. And now just showing it in the season
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: where this is a red zone guy. So if you
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: get into the red zone and this, if it's not
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Britain strange in one of those tidings, I could absolutely
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: see someone like a Josh Cameron in that way. Sneaky,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: not because you don't see him from the stat side,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: but you see him on the touchdown side. So in
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that way, he's kind of noticeable.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. Well, on the opposite side of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the ball defense, who is that sneaky player on the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: defense that us Eagles fans are going to be needing
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to watch out for?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: My favorite sneaky player on the Jacksonville Jaguars defense is
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Dennis Gardick. He's the Jaguars starting Sam linebacker. And because
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the B.J. Green was starting the season as their third
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: rotational edge is on IR for at least another week.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: They've been using him a lot more frequently.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Like last season, it was like he would get 40%
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: to 50% snap share. This year, it's closer to that
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: 60% to 70% because they're using him more of that
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: rotational edge kind of role. When they put Trayvon Walker
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: in as their three technique or defensive tackle spot, they
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: kick him inside. They use Dennis Gardeck instead as their
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: third edge. He's been pretty dang good in– he's been
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: given he's the reason jordan lewis's interception just happened last
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: week uh josh hines allen impacted the quarterback most people
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: probably didn't notice that dennis gardick actually tipped the ball
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: yeah and i'm like all right that's three weeks in
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a row that this dude has made an impactful play
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: as far as rushing the passer and he just kind
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: of does it under the radar it's like two sacks
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: here or three pressures here or a tip ball here
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: he's just kind of that guy who just gets it
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: done kind of quietly i think that's that's the dude
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: for this week for me All right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Very good. I'm going to let you go, buddy. Thanks
• 23:23
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• 23:27
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• 23:49
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• 23:51
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• 23:52
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