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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. We wanted to let you know that we
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recorded this particular Table Talk podcast episode on Monday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty
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three. By the time you hear this, some things may have changed,
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but we hope you enjoy the show. All right, folks, you're listening
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to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running
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weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world. That's right over ten and a
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half years strong. But we got a lot of great content coming your way.
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We got a great discussion this week on our Table Talk Interview show.
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We're gonna be getting into this world of Philly sports. A few of these
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teams, the Eagles, the Phillies, the Sixers, how things are looking
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for these organizations for these teams as we're moving forward. We have got a
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great discussion coming your way. Let's get right to it. And it is
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great to have him back on the PSD podcast show here for our Table Talk
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Interview show this week coming to us from the Philly Sports Network, specifically his
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podcast Every Morning Trending in the am two year anniversary coming up here, and
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actually I think we're right at the two year anniversary It's great having him on
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the podcast. Great friend of the show, mister Phil Steiffele. How you
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doing, buddy, pretty good? Thanks for having me back on again,
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Jeff. It's a busy week for me, it's a busy week for you.
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I mean, Halloween, election, Eagles, Philly Sixer's so much happening
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that, you know, I'm glad to be back on for this specific week.
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I had to celebrate two years of trending in the AM. Absolutely,
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you're doing a great job over there. Seriously, I know the grind,
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you know, we talked about it before hitting the record button, the grind
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of doing a podcast week in week out, day in day out, it
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can be pretty grueling. But I think the one thing that you have probably
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realized after two years, us after ten and a half years, it's the
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passion, the passion for sports, specifically Philly sports. That's why we do
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what we do. And I love it. I still love it after all
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this time, and you obviously are as well. You know. It's funny
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because after the Phillies lost first episode I did the next day after they got
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knocked out of the NLCS, it was like kind of like I titled it
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like a therapy session Phillies fans. I said, it's tough being a Philadelphia
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sports fan. I mean, let's be honest, how many titles in Philadelphia
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sports history do we have? Not many? And that's really what trend in
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the am every single day has become for me, is kind of like the
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cathartic way, yeah, for me to deal with my crazy Philadelphia sports fandom
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to get those emotions so they're not just hanging around all day long, every
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day exactly. That's what Lenn and I were talking about on the show this
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past week, a regular show that we upload every Thursday. We were talking
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about the fact that we needed that cathartic conversation about the Phillies, just the
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heartbreaking moments that we've had over the course of this past year, whether it
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be the Eagles Super Bowl loss, the Union losing in the finals, losing
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the World Series last year with this Phillies team, and then not being able
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to get back to the World Series, losing the NLCS. It's definitely cathartic
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to be able to do this podcast, but you bring up the Phillies,
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phil and like, it really has been just a tough week since losing the
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NLCS, and you know, I talked about Len and our discussion last week.
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I mean, we certainly don't have a crystal ball about what's going to
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happen in the future, but the core of this group is still going to
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be together in twenty twenty four, and I think the window for a possible
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championship it isn't closed at all, not by a long shot. So what
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are your thoughts about the future of this Phillies organization and team where they're gonna
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be going next year. I mean, I think you hit it now on
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the head there. It's really hard the first couple of days, even week
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after, you know, such a heartbreaking loss to you know, really objectively
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look at it, But you hit the nail on the head there. This
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is a team that's built for a long window, I mean Trey Turner,
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Brace Harper specifically here for a long time. You've got young arms in the
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farm system that will be coming up in the next couple of years, yep.
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And you've got an owner in John Middleton that's not afraid to spend money,
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and this offseason he is going to have to spend money if they expect
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to get back to the NLCS Good World Series next year. And so the
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window is open, the future is bright. It's just hard to look positively
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still, just you know, six days after, you know, the NLCS
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ended. That's all. I don't know about you. I haven't watched one
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pitch of the World Series yet, so because I'm not over the end of
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that season. I watched about fifteen minutes of it a few nights ago,
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and I was like, I can't do it. I was like, I
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can't take it. I can't deal with it having these two teams and here
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one of these two teams is going to end up being World Series champions.
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But you know, I look at baseball and it's so bizarre how a team
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like the Phillies they got hot, they got hot a little too early,
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quote a little too early in the playoffs, and a team like the Diamondbacks
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getting hot right when they needed to get hot. And it's just the fact
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that sports come down to that sometimes, specifically with professional baseball. It's just
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my numbing, it's mind numbing that that's actually what happens with the Phillies last
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year in the playoffs, and that's how they they didn't get into the playoffs
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till the second last day of the year. Last year, Yeah, then
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got howt it once they got in the playoffs and carried that to the World
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Series. So the Diamondbacks are kind of running off the Phillies, you know,
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way of doing things from last year. Yeah. Absolutely, Well you
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mentioned the fact, Phil that this team, this Phillies organization, is gonna
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be spending some money this offseason. We know Dave Dombrowski and John Middleton they're
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gonna be spending some bucks here as he has been doing over these past few
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seasons for sure, And and this offseason they're gonna be addressing some areas with
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regard to bringing players in during free agency that they need to be filling some
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spots for sure. What are your biggest position priorities for this offseason as it
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pertains to the Phillies, you know, as we're reflecting on this postseason the
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season in general, what are those big position priorities for you? Well,
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I think before you even address the two positions, you have two questions you
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have to ask. One is what is Bryce Harper going to do? Is
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he gonna stay at first base or is he going to go back to the
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outfield. I think at one point you would have said probably back to the
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outfield, but he kind of actually proved that he's a pretty good first baseman.
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Yeah, and that would kind of protect his arm long term. You
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put him back out in that outfield, then you risk his arm getting hurt
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again. So if he's going to stay at first base, that answers one
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question. If he's going to go back to the outfield, then you got
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to find a way to move Nick Castellona. So there's a lot of moving
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pieces. So I think offensively speaking, money wise, you've got to sit
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down with Bryce Harper and find out what his what his plan, what he
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wants to do, because let's be honest, Bryce Harper, what he wants
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is what he gets. You know, you want to turn JT. He
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got him. He wants to play first base, he got it, you
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know what I mean. So you got to answer that question first, and
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then you've got to answer the second question is would you pay Aaron Nola the
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big money to stay here? And can you can you come to an agreement
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to keep Aaron Nola? And I think they do need to spend that big
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money keep Aaronola. The free agent market is not, you know, loaded
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with a lot of stud pitchers. You need to bring Aaron Nola back and
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then after that then you could talk about it. The most overpaid position in
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sports is the closer, yep. But it's also one of the most important
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positions. And you should never pay a big money closer until you have that
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World Series window. Phileast have that World Series window. So there's some names
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out there that could be that big money closer. You got to go out
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and once you figure out Aaron Nola, once you figure out Bryce Harper,
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your top priority then is to go get that big money closer. So we
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don't have the Craig kimberl situation being burned out thirty eight years old at the
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end of the season exactly. I mean, the fact that we saw Craig
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Kimberrel do what he did even mid season was amazing. It was fantastic.
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But it's just him completely getting it all out early, getting the great mass
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out early, and just he was a liability in this postseason. So I
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love what you say about the closer, and it's obviously a subject we're gonna
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be talking about more on this. I know you're gonna be talking about it
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on trending in the AM a lot more in the coming weeks. And months
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for sure. But let's move over to the Philadelphia Eagles here, my gosh,
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I mean, they're seven to one here and currently best record in the
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NFL, the game yesterday against the Commanders. How this team is looking halfway
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through this season? First, I want again, I want to get into
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some positives and now we're going to get in some negatives with this team,
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because this is not a perfect team by any stretch of the imagination. When
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you look at the positives with this Eagles team. Of course, Jalen Hurts,
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AJ Brown, Devonte Smith, those were the three individuals that won this
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game for this team yesterday. Other positives with this team too. What are
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your thoughts, Phil because you know that I think there's some under the radar
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positives as well when it comes to this Eagles team. What are your thoughts?
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I mean, first and foremost, can I repeat what you just said
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there through eight weeks or the number one team in the NFL. They the
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only one lost team in the NFL. Yes, we reiterate that point right
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there, because I drove that home on my morning show on Monday. The
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fact that there's seven to one in an NFL where there's so much parody you
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just saw the Chiefs lost to you know, lose to Denver. You know,
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so the four nine ers have now what two of their last three or
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three whatever it is. Yeah, Purdy's not Superman. Obviously. This Eagles
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team has not been perfect by the shadow of doubt. The fact that they
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are seven and one with how they have played, it just goes to show
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how much intangibles leadership and those those guys at top, Nick syry I and
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Jalen Hurts what they mean to this team. You look at it. Yesterday,
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Jalen Hurts has a turnover the Eagles fault, well yesterday if hanging on
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when we're we're doing this Monday morning. I don't know when this is dropped,
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but you know, you fall behind fourteen and three and you have those
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turnovers in the red zone, and they never missed a beat. They never
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got too low on themselves. They never got this, you know, down
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on themselves. And I think that intangible been saying it since day one with
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Jalen Hurts. Intangibles win championships, not super awesome one hand a touchdown grabs,
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not big pick sixes and stuff like that. Intangibles win and that's what
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this team has and have had now for two years. And they talk about
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a Phillies window for World Series and championships. The Eagles championship window is going
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to be open as long as those intangibles remain in place. I love you
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talking about the intangibles because on the postgame show yesterday, my co host and
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I are talking specifically about how Jalen Hurts fumbles doing the brother Lushov fumbles the
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ball and he didn't miss a beat. It did not affect him for the
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rest of the game like we see with quarterbacks in the NFL. I mean
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even going back with an Eagles nation with regard to Carson Wentz, he would
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have had a situation like that, it would have been the end of the
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game basically for him because it would have been in his head. Jalen Hurts
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is able to recalibrate and he's able to get his mind frame back to a
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space where he knows what he needs to do in order to point put points
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on the board, the get the offense down the field. Those intangibles are
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absolutely essential, the intangibles. It's not just him. It inspires the rest
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of the team. Yes, because the defense was making mistakes too. Yeah,
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you know, throughout the first half of that Eagles game. And again,
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now the Eagles defense wasn't as good as it's been in weeks prior,
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but they did hold the Washington Commanders. I almost said redskins there. The
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Washington Commanders to two touchdowns, but one of them was in garbage time with
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a minute left in the game. So they basically held team that put up
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twenty plus points in the first half seven points in the second half because they
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rallied behind those intangibles of their leader. When you get into that huddle,
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yeah, we just turned the ball over. I don't care. It drives
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totally different. You know, the players they look at him and think about
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it this way. This is what I always think about. You've got Jason
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Kelcey Lane Johnson, a g mur that superstars, future Hall of famers,
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and they look at Jalen Hurts and he inspires them. Someone like Jason Kelsey
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would be normally the guy doing the inspiration. No, no, no,
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no, they looked to young twenty five year old Jalen Hurts for their inspiration
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for those leadership. But it just speaks volumes of the character that Jail Hurts
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is. Absolutely let's look on the other side of things in terms of some
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of the negatives with this team, because as we know, there certainly are
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We talked about him in our post game show yesterday specifically with the defense,
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even from an offensive perspective and coaching. There were definitely some negatives yesterday during
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the Commanders and what we've seen over the course of these past eight weeks as
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well. When negative, when you're looking at the negatives and where this team
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needs to improve, like, what's really sticking out for you, Phil,
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first and foremost, they need to improve, Their coordinators need to continue to
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improve and get better. And it was gonna be my biggest question coming into
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the season, Brian Johnson go on DECI how they were going to handle this
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year first time for excuse me, Brian Johnson, you know, second time
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for Shon Decai in these roles, and you're starting to see improvements. But
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you know, for as much as we've been down on Brian Johnson, he
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actually showed a little improvement this week. And as much as we were high
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on Shan Decai, he didn't have his best coach game yesterday. How much
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of that goes to injuries, how much that goes to depth on this team.
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Yep, I don't know, but defensively speaking, you know, Seawan
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Decai has got to be better, and you know we got the trade deadline,
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you know this week. You know, it's a very unpopular opinion.
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I actually think we actually need on the defensive line. Everybody just thinks because
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a Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis Pletcher Cox it's so great. Jalen Carr has
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been banged up a lot this year. You've got banged up again yesterday.
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Jordan Davis banged up again. Need some help there. And I talked about
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it on the Monday Morning you know show. Last year, the Eagle secondary,
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James Bradbury and Darius Slay, we're rate at one of the greatest duos
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in the NFL for cornerbacks. This year, we're not getting after the quarterback
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as well, and all of a sudden, James Bradbury and Darius Slay are
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looking not quite as unstoppable as they once were. Getting after the quarterback directly
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correlates to, you know, your cornerback and your secondary play, and the
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secondary is suffering partly because of the defensive line. It's not a popular opinion
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to say that because of the names on that defensive line. If I see
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the defensive line, I keep joking for weeks now, the Eagles lead the
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league in almost sacks, and that's kind of why this secondary is struggling to
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an extent, because they're almost getting sacks every play there. Yeah, and
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right every quarterback can step it up and finding the open receiver, you know
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in the secondary. Yeah, a lot of quarterbacks that the Eagles are facing
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and this Eagles defense is facing, and they're just getting the ball out quick.
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We saw what happened yesterday with the Commander's game and Sam Halle just getting
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that ball out so quick, especially during the first half. But you know,
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I'm moving along here too. You know, the Eagles are certainly surprising
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us in certain ways, and you know there are other teams in the NFL
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that are a bit surprising. During the course of this twenty twenty three twenty
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twenty four season. A few things I've been surprised at. One the Bucks,
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the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are not as bad as we thought. Phil And
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like even a rookie like CJ. Stroud is much better his rookie season than
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I thought he would be with a team that is rebuilding and looking to contend
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just years down the road. C J Stroud not doing that terrible of a
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job for his rookie season, And I'm wondering, do you have a couple
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things that have surprised you about this NFL season thus far? What are those
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things? I'm surprised, not so much much as you know, validation for
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some of the thoughts I had coming into this, okay, but obviously the
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Niners not being as good as everyone said they were going to be. Obviously
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there's still one of the biggest challenges in the NFC to the Eagles, and
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we face them in a few weeks. I'm Rock Purty looking human is a
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surprise, because, let's be honest, I spent so much time first half
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of the season talking about, if you're gonna give Jalen Hurtson whatever his record
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is now twenty two and two or whatever, Rock Purty in the regular season
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was what ten and oh eleven, oh twelve and oh whatever it was until
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you started losing, you had to give him credit. I'm surprised how quickly
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he's come back down to earth. I'm surprised at how low the Chiefs have
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looked and their two losses they look really bad in their two losses. The
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surprises to me are more on the downward side of things, like the Bengals
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looking bad and then finding ways to come back in the last couple of weeks.
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They are the things that surprised me the most. And also the Cowboys.
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You know, you know, the Cowboys have surprised me. They we
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keep saying the loss to the car knows they lost to the Cardinals, but
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they've actually, considering all the drama surrounding their team, actually shown like a
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little bit of that, you know, intangible of being able to recover from
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a really god awful loss against the Arizona Cardinals. What we two or week
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three whenever that was. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's It's a very
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surprising season in a lot of ways. I'll tell you right now. My
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fantasy football teams, Holy crap, I am surprised by what is happening there.
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Fantasy is so bizarrest here man two second side Tangent Fantasy Football, Philadelphia
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Sports Network. We have a fourteen team league. Never done a deep fourteen
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team and it's a keeper league. Nine know, the fourteen teams are either
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four and three or three and four coming into this week, and I'm terrible.
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I've lost four weeks in a row. I traded away half my team
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for future draft picks and stuff like that. Yeah, and now, all
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of a sudden, since I've traded away back Prescott, Ceed Lamb, Mark
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Andrews, Jon Robinson, I've traded all these guys away, picked up a
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future first, a future third, a future fourth. Now all of a
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sudden, I'm winning again. Oh, I don't understand what's going on there.
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It's great, that's great. Fantasy is so bizarre this year, it's
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just crazy. So again, folks, we're talking to Phil stifle at Beard
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opinions mean nothing on my show, all about your opinions. All right,
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very good, as we're moving along here and closing things out on this table
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talk interview discussion here, Phil is getting the Philadelphia seventy six ers and been
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an interesting few games thus far here. And even though Sixers, you know,
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they lost their first game of the season to the Bucks, they only
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lost that game by a point, and there was some real promising stuff that
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we not only saw in that game, but in these early games as well.
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With this team. We just not understanding how things are gonna go because
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of the James hard and crap that this organization and team is going through.
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I know that many of us have been down on this Sixers team, and
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for good reason, you know, even before the start of the season,
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just because of this drama and how it's going to affect potential play on the
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court. Where are you at with this team right now? I know we're
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recording this right at the end of October, as we're heading into November.
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Here, where are you at with this team? Do you have any hope
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here? I mean, first off, I love how you said that the
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James Harden crap. I love how you praised that right there, because that's
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what it is. Basically. Look, I'm coming into this season with a
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very open mind, not just because of the James hard and crat, just
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because of a new system coming off of the four hundreds straight, you know,
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second round exit of the playoffs, the very open minded on what this
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season's going to be. And with or without James Harden. I knew there
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were going to be some early season struggles as Joel Embiid tries to figure out
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a new way of playing basketball, as Tyres Maxey tries to step up into
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that, you know, much bigger role, Tobias Harris is going to have
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a bigger role this year, all these things, I know there's going to
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be some growing pains, But so far through three games, I mean,
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Tyris Maxey, I mean the steps I'm already seeing. I don't want to
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overreact. I know I know I'm already seen in his game from last year
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this year. Last year he deferred, and I talked about it so many
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times on trending in the am that that Tyras Maxey when he was on the
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floor with Joel and James Harden, even though he was probably the better scoring
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option, would always defer. Starting to see at the last couple of games,
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he knows that he is the leading guy here, you know, at
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a point guard. He knows that he needs to be more aggressive, and
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he's showing. And I was watching the Portland game a lot, and there's
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just something special coming out of Tyres Maxey, and that gives me positivity moving
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forward. But I'm going to keep that open minded attitude knowing there are going
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to be some bumps in the road here. Nick Nurse is totally different than
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Doc Rivers, and we are going to see bumps in the road. But
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Tyres Maxey, as long as he continues to progress at the end of the
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season, we're gonna be right back where we were last year at the top
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of the Eastern Conference. Yeah. I think the fact that we are seeing
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a different type of offensive style with Nick Nurse at the helmet's head coach that
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has been really really nice to see. For sure, film really absolutely and
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Nick Nurse. We knew we were going to see something different from him,
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and you're definitely hearing it from the players in their comments through training camp in
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the first few days, Yeah, of the season, you know, kind
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of subtle digs at Doc Rivers to an extent that they liked this style.
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There's a lot of different personalities, bringing in Pat Beverly, Kelly Oubrey,
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these kind of personalities to this team. It's just kind of like a refresh
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this team, in this organization. It's something that was desperately needed, you
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know, at this point of the process or whatever you want to call it.
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So it's definitely the positive thing going forward. We just got to get
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rid of the James Harden crap and then we actually focus on Jeff basketball.
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All right. To close this out here, I got a two part question
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for you, Phil, and there is certainly no easy answer here, I
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don't think, in my opinion, to these particular questions because it's the million
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dollar question for six the Sixers, fans, Sixers organization as we try to
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look to the future, how did the Sixers try to keep Joe el Embiid
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long term? What do you think I read over the list of questions you
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were going to send me for this this recording, and I saw that last
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one at the bottom. I'm like, how do I answer this? I
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will know? Look, the first and foremost, Joe em Bide loves Philadelphia.
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Yes, he is tailor made with his personality for the Philadelphia sports fans.
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He wants to finish his career here without a doubt. He also wants
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to win, and he does truly care about his legacy, and his legacy
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is on the line. I mean, he's not going to play ten or
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twelve more years. He needs a title. The first thing to keep him
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healthy, in my opinion, is how quickly they get rid of James Harden.
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He is not going to enjoy answering questions for three or four or five
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more months. Yeah, what do you think of James Harten? What do
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you think of this? What do you think of that? You got it?
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Darryl Mory needs to move on for Joel Embiid's you know, mental state
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quickly from James Harden. He does. I understand. Daryl Morey wants to
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get as much as he can for James Harden. Whatever problem with trading or
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moving on from Joel Embiid. While that topic has been brought up and thrown
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around, You're never going to get true value for a guy like Joel Biid,
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So you've got to continue to go all in. Move James Harden,
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move to Bias Harris. You've got two MAX slots you know, you know
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for free agency next off season. Letting Joel Embiid be I don't know,
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I don't know what the right words. Let him have some say in the
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conversation over the James Harden thing and the max free agent slots next year.
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I think we'll keep him happy. And that's like with Bryce Harper, Yeah,
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having a say in who gets brought in here, and that didn't him
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have a say? I think that. I mean, is it a coincidence
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that he's playing for Team USA in the Olympics next year, right with two
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MAX slots that offseason? Yeah? Absolutely, Well that's a great segue into
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the last thing I was going to ask you here, is it even possible
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to keep him long term? And basically what you're saying is, yeah,
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it is, you know, let him have that much more of a say
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in potential personnel decisions. And where the team is going, the direction of
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the Sixers as well. I think it's possible to keep him here long term,
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I really do. I think where there's a will, there's a way.
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With this particular team and organization and Joel Embiid, I think it's possible.
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You think it's possible too, right, I mean it's possible, but
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it's also hard to trade somebody like Joel Embiid. Yeah, I'm sure you
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saw that the rumors coming from New York Knicks media about a couple first round
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picks and a couple of that was non retal mover players. Yes, it's
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garbage, and you're not gonna trade Joel Embiid for that. Joel Embiide would
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I would say that if James Harden wasn't trading, being traded or sitting out
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and he was causing more of a distraction, he might, you know,
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maybe push his way out of town a little bit more. But I think
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the current direction of the team is leaving the door open for keeping him here
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and keeping him happy and if you give him some say. I hate how
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the NBA players have so much more control than the teams or you know,
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or whatnot over the league. But Jonas has control over the Bucks. Hence
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Dame Lillard's there. You know, Jason Tatum's got control over the Celtics,
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Lebron, over the entire NBA. Give Joel that ability to have some say
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in what's done, and they'll keep them having it. It's his If it
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doesn't work out, it's his fault. It's not Darren Morriy's fault. It's
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not the organization's fault. James Harden or it's Joan beats Fall. Find him
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on Twitter at Beard Acknowledge trending in the am over at the Philly Sports Network.
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Phil Steifel, my friend, thank you so much for joining us here
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on table talk this week. It's great talking to you. Keep up the
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great work you're doing and come back join us down the road. I'd love
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to have you back on buddy. Thanks a lot, Jeff, I greatly
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appreciate this, and you do great work as well. So everybody have a
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great one and have a hoppy Halloween week here. You know, all right,
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folks, I know we didn't have time to get into the Flyers of
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the Union specifically. We of course know the Flyers are going through a rebuild
25:10
right now. We've been seeing some promising stuff from some of these players on
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the ice, and of course, as we know, with the Philadelphia Union
25:18
winning their first playoff game this past weekend, things are looking okay for them
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as they face New England in the postseason. However, when we talk about
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the Phillies, the Eagles, the Sixers, as we just did with Phil,
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you know, I think there's a lot of promising stuff here, and
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I know with regard to the Sixers, you know, there is definitely two
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sides of the equation here because a lot of us, as you know,
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Phil and I are talking about, want em beat here for the long term,
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and we truly hope that that is going to happen. However, when
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we look at the Eagles, we look at the Phillies, two organizations and
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teams that really, really have bright futures, and the window is really open
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for both of these teams. So it was a great discussion. Thanks so
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much, Phil for jumping on the Table Talk Podcast interview show this week.
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