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Football at Four: A Quick Discussion on Some Eagles 2026 Matchups · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And football and for powered by the Inside of the
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there this Saturday night, Josh. Lenny Kravitz
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  Speaker 1: is in town now Andrew to checko. Big music guy.
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  Speaker 1: You Kravitz guy there at to check o.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Lenny Kravitz.
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  Speaker 1: I got an extra ticket. You want to come Saturday night? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually I think there's like sold out, the Kravit
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  Speaker 1: show sold out. But yeah, I've got a huge Kravitz guy.
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  Speaker 1: More so, I think he's just gonna put on a show.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's a showman that you gotta like. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's bad or anything. I just I'm not like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, I gotta go see Lenny Kravits. But
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  Speaker 1: he's a showman, right, he would be a showman that
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  Speaker 1: you got to see in person one time iconic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I would buy
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  Speaker 2: a ticket for Lenny Kravitz, but I am a fan
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  Speaker 2: of music. I actually just saw a cheap trick in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and Tom Kiefer last week.
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  Speaker 1: That's so up your alley. I love it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: I got a bunch of concerts are going to coming
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  Speaker 1: up here. Kravitz is won gonna go see Blues Traveler,
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  Speaker 1: Probably not up your alley there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the summer. Love John Popper, love a harmonica, man, anything
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  Speaker 1: that goes harmonica. Now you three eleven, you into three
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  Speaker 1: eleven at all?
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  Speaker 2: I could get into some three eleven. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I go too deep into their catalog, but of
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  Speaker 2: course you know the song down all mixed up, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff that I remember a lot when as I
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  Speaker 2: was growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one thing, I'm gonna try to find a concert
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  Speaker 1: that I can get you to go to with me,
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  Speaker 1: because I gotta go to a concert with you one
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  Speaker 1: of these times.
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  Speaker 2: All right, did you get go?
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  Speaker 1: I know the Sixers pressers coming up, but everybody needs
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  Speaker 1: their football at four, and I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: leaks are coming out today. So let's first get the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Are they doing the Eagles? You think this is a
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  Speaker 1: good schedule for them? They're getting the Thanksgiving Christmas eve,
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  Speaker 1: They got eight standalone games. Do you like that or
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  Speaker 1: is that kind of give you some some doubts on?
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, they're gonna be all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Well as a Beat reporter. I don't like it, but
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of the cost of doing business. When you're
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  Speaker 2: a team like the Eagles mic that are our positioned
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  Speaker 2: to win and win a championship, and you have a
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  Speaker 2: star studded roster with so many storylines and questions prevailing,
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  Speaker 2: it makes a lot of sense as to why they're
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  Speaker 2: going to always be get those standalone games. And fans
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  Speaker 2: travel well and they're always in the mix for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, so that's it's not really a big mystery.
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  Speaker 2: But they're certainly not doing Eagles any favors there.
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  Speaker 1: I like the Thanksgiving at Dallas, I'm cool with that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also cool with the Christmas Eve. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that if I'm an Eagles fan season ticket holder, though,
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  Speaker 1: I want the Christmas Eve game at home. I've been
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  Speaker 1: lobbying for years Andrew that one of the sports leagues,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA or the NHL or somebody needs to take
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  Speaker 1: over Christmas Eve. You know, you're at your family's house,
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  Speaker 1: everybody eats early, and then the Hawaii bowls on, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta have something more high profile than Hawaii Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been carrying the torch for that based off
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  Speaker 2: some of the conversations we've had over the years. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I like it because it's at home. It's not Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 2: That was a couple of years ago when they played
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  Speaker 2: the Giants. So I could get behind it and it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily affect me all that much. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that there's gonna be some that have these traditions where
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  Speaker 2: you know, they like to watch the game by themselves,
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  Speaker 2: they have certain things that they like to do. But
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  Speaker 2: it could be a lot worse like Thanksgiving. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for me in traveling, it's not necessarily the
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  Speaker 2: most idea.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what about London. You got Jacksonville London twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: they went to London. I like the London game. One
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  Speaker 1: of my best sports experiences evers was Philly's Mets in London.
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  Speaker 1: Loved it, had such a good time. I like the
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  Speaker 1: London game. And then it looks like you'll have to
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  Speaker 1: buy the next week there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that works out. And look, I don't mind the
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  Speaker 2: London game. That doesn't necessarily favor either team. They both
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  Speaker 2: have to travel now. Jacksonville logistically has it down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more pat than the Eagles will. But the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles are the best team and I encourage a lot
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  Speaker 2: of folks if you haven't been to London and you
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  Speaker 2: have the opportunity to go to this game, carve out
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  Speaker 2: an extra day or two to really explore because it's
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  Speaker 2: quite an opportunity. But yeah, that adds a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of an interesting wrinkle into the Eagles early slate.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I think that's at Wembley, by the way, So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to go see some history, get over there.
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  Speaker 1: Five prime time. They got a lot of eight standalone games.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got the Bears Monday night early, you got
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you're going to get on a Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: you got the Commanders, you got the Niners. But that
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  Speaker 1: one little stretch there, you got three straight division games
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  Speaker 1: right there in the middle of the season. We have
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  Speaker 1: seen them play division games back to back to back,
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  Speaker 1: usually late in the year. But I think this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be very interesting having those games right there
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. Cowboys, Giants, Commanders, Bang
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  Speaker 1: bang bang. It could really put a lot of definition
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  Speaker 1: on the NFC East.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like that because labor in the year,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those teams are out of it and
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  Speaker 2: the games don't have the same meaning as they would
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  Speaker 2: earlier or even in the middle of the year, because
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  Speaker 2: as they're currently constructed, I think the NFC East is
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  Speaker 2: trending towards being a much more competitive division than we've
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  Speaker 2: grown accustomed to seeing over the years where the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: would just dominate. So I like the way at that
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  Speaker 2: structure for sure, because one, you don't necessarily have to
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  Speaker 2: worry so much about injuries. I know Jayden Daniels is
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  Speaker 2: a player who's often banged up. Jackson Dart the way
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  Speaker 2: that he plays as well, but at that point in
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  Speaker 2: the season, one would think that they would still be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, operating at full strength, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Last one on the schedule, it's Week seventeen to eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: back to back. You have road games, back to back
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  Speaker 1: road games, one against San Francisco. That one could be
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  Speaker 1: a huge game. They've got that Saturday nighter against Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Week fifteen, Seattle San Fran. Those two games in the
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  Speaker 1: last three weeks, four weeks of the season. Kind of
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  Speaker 1: tough way to end it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really tough close out. Seattle, the defending
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champions, a really good defense, but they're coming
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  Speaker 2: to Philadelphia. It's been a house of horrors for the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles going to Seattle, and that's quite you know, quite
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  Speaker 2: a trek to get out there. But the one that
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  Speaker 2: I'm most fascinated with is the Week seventeen matchup against
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  Speaker 2: the San Francisco forty nine Ers. It gives me an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to go out there and see family first and foremost.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I like the way that the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers have really built their roster and it should be
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  Speaker 2: a really, really really good matchup I think, between two
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  Speaker 2: teams that I expect to be there when all is
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  Speaker 2: said and done heading into the postseason. And that gives
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles, while it's not the postseason, it gives them
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to have, you know, a get back type
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  Speaker 2: of game.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, just released Steelers Eagles Week eleven for
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, so you'll get that cross state rivalry Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Week eleven for twenty five. This Ryan Fowler has
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  Speaker 1: been the MVP of the schedule release here. Uh how
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  Speaker 1: does that work?
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  Speaker 2: Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: Does someone say hey, I got one for you and
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you another one in like two hours?
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  Speaker 2: Like it's yeah, I guess, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He was also very good with the thirty visits as well,
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  Speaker 2: so a really good addition. NBC Sports Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, man, well, I'm gonna find a concert for us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know, man, just shoot me a message and uh,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if it we'll see if it meets the
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  Speaker 2: uh if it beats the criteria.
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