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The Eagles Offense And Defense Are Looking Good In Training Camp! (PST Episode 628) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest
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  Speaker 1: running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world, twelve
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  Speaker 1: years strong. I'm Jeff Warren. I'm here Jackson. Yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: here at Jackson with Triple.
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  Speaker 2: X's baby man.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an old that's an old name. So when
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  Speaker 2: we first started.
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  Speaker 1: Hanging out in like late nineties, old bit, Yes, old bit.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Eric Leonard with us. Man, how you been,
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  Speaker 1: I I don't you weren't feeling all that well last
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  Speaker 1: week we had an abbreviated show last week you were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to jump on it felt bad for you, But well,
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  Speaker 1: feel better I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm better now. Yeah, I Im sorry.
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  Speaker 1: All the fans, all the tons of fans, the tons
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the letters were pouring in the flowers. It
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  Speaker 3: was getting a little crazy. So thank you all all
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  Speaker 3: my fans out there for caring.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, good to have you back, buddy, Good to have
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  Speaker 1: you back. And a lens on vacation. We're getting we're
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  Speaker 1: getting text messages from him and our and our group
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  Speaker 1: you know, thread and chat with the with our buddies.
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  Speaker 1: He's sending us sunset videos and sunrise I should say
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  Speaker 1: sunrise videos, ocean videos and stuff. I'm like, what what
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  Speaker 1: We've got a cinematograph for heres who's with his lady
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  Speaker 1: and enjoying life.
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  Speaker 2: The man got married and turned in an old lady.
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  Speaker 1: I do well with those coke bottled glasses.
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  Speaker 2: Just slapping the moon on him and he's he's pretty much there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, that that Homer Simpson, that episode where Homer's
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  Speaker 1: were of the moon move.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that would be Lenn's dream because he wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: to work on disability and we're work from home eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh, I know I could do a
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  Speaker 1: podcast on that. Speaking of really quick, we actually should
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned this. We have to do it. We've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about it for probably a year. We had you,
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  Speaker 1: Len and I have to do a process, the process. No,
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  Speaker 1: he actually didn't. No, I'm just saying we got to
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  Speaker 1: do it because I've actually mentioned it here on the show,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with some other folks that I've been interviewing
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, and like, we gotta do it. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: get it done because I'm I'm getting real, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: real shaky as it as the sixer season is upon us,
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  Speaker 1: here we need we need to talk about this, We
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  Speaker 1: need to get some things out here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I feel like it's gonna be a it
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  Speaker 3: might be a tough season to talk about the whole season,
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  Speaker 3: so maybe we should get the process out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to go over everything that led up to I
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  Speaker 2: think it's.
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  Speaker 3: A good idea this season because it's just because, like
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  Speaker 3: ten days ago, I hung out with Len and I
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  Speaker 3: said to him, did we got to get all three of.
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  Speaker 2: Us on the show?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And have a full blown two hour process show. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: because we know once we get going, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: go two hours. And I'm talking like multiple lists, yes,
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  Speaker 3: multiple like worst trade, worst signing, best like that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Just all right, you and I have to start creating
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of this format we do because we can't
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  Speaker 1: leave it up to him. Nothing's gonna have or happen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I did tell him that. I'm like, I know you
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  Speaker 3: don't really get involved like that, but I'll start to
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  Speaker 3: write it an outline and he's like, thanks, thanks, you
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  Speaker 3: know me too.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, god, well, we got a great show coming
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  Speaker 1: this week, folks. Right off the bat, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into a ton of major League Baseball and Phillies talk.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're gonna discuss how ESPN is now acquiring
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Network and some other NFL based media assets,
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  Speaker 1: what this means to ESPN as they remain quote, the
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  Speaker 1: King of Sports. And then from there, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: ton of Eagles talk coming your way. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into the big trade this week. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you wanna call it a big trade, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get into the trade with the Eagles and the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles got themselves a brand new cornerback. They gave the
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  Speaker 1: a defensive tackle to the Las Vegas Raiders. But then
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  Speaker 1: what we're throwing down on the table, we got a
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  Speaker 1: great discussion and interview with our friend Alexis Chasin from
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  Speaker 1: Bleeding Great Nation dot com. We're gonna dive into some
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  Speaker 1: Eagles storylines that are persisting throughout this training camp. Great
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  Speaker 1: great show coming your way. So let's get into this
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and Phillies portion of the show this week.
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  Speaker 1: Something I wanted to talk about last week, Eric bringing
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  Speaker 1: it around this week here to the show. Arguably the
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  Speaker 1: worst umpire call in Major League Baseball history, definitely this year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about major League Baseball history, but it
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  Speaker 1: is now up there. It happened just about a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago with umpire Brian Walsh during the game.
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  Speaker 1: He actually ended up making it. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: about nineteen calls that were mistakes, but the one call
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  Speaker 1: that was absolutely horrendous. If you're watching on YouTube right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be playing this call right in freight there
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  Speaker 1: it is. Wow, strike right down the middle. Strike right
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  Speaker 1: down the middle in a game. This is a game
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  Speaker 1: where the Orioles, Orioles and in Toronto Blue Jays are
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  Speaker 1: playing each other. In slow motion. Wow, right down the middle.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, er I was watching that. I was actually
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  Speaker 1: watching that on ESPN that night, and people were absolutely
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  Speaker 1: incensed by it, and they should have been. The Oriols
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  Speaker 1: broadcast was so shocked at their their announcers, Kevin Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Ben McDonald. They were just roasting the umpire like throughout,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for for a decent amount of time. It
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  Speaker 1: really begs the question should there really be robots during
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  Speaker 1: the course of Major League Baseball games? Here? At this point,
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  Speaker 1: this could be arguably the worst year for umpires in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. It really could. The amount of horrendous calls.
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  Speaker 1: We see it all the time in Phillies games. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember a time watching the Philadelphia Phillies where I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just absolutely baffled by some of the umpiring, especially
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  Speaker 1: behind home plate. So I don't know, man, I think
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  Speaker 1: robots are going to be coming here before you know it. So, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Eric's distracted. Oh what's what's happening here? Oh we've got somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Oh we've got a Oh she's gonna be on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Hi sill, he said, high sill, Hi Jeff, Hello, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: welcome channel subscribe. Yes, yes, yes, always good to see
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  Speaker 1: your daughter. Yeah, always good to see her. She's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be going to college soon.
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  Speaker 2: And she's out here in two weeks. Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know. All right, get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: To the show, back to the show. So yeah, talking
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  Speaker 1: about this, really, I think robots are going to be
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  Speaker 1: here before we know it. And and and I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of traditionalists out there. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks like Lenn probably not gonna want robots,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's it's gonna be coming, I think,
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  Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. Because baseball is getting more complex
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  Speaker 1: sports in general are getting more complex, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna need some technology to help us figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what are your thoughts here on this.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty simple technology. Honestly, it's not that quite. It's
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  Speaker 3: not that huge of a leap in my opinion. And
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  Speaker 3: the stupid rectangles on the screen anyway, we can all
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  Speaker 3: see it for ourselves. Why not just make that the
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  Speaker 3: strike zone teller like that? How hard is it?
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  Speaker 2: Seems like an easy one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play it again for the YouTube, guys, keep going,
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  Speaker 1: keep going, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's all there.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's that has been a staple of baseball programming
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  Speaker 3: now for like what three four years? Yeah, pretty much
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  Speaker 3: maybe five. It's it's it's been there. I mean all
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  Speaker 3: the stat cast uh uh, all the stat stuff on
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  Speaker 3: online too, like where they have the pitch like where
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  Speaker 3: the pitch goes and stuff we're landed. All uses is
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  Speaker 3: technology to just start implementing it during the game, because
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  Speaker 3: whether we like it or not, like the things the
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  Speaker 3: baseball has done recently, for all the dumb stuff they've done,
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  Speaker 3: like most recently the uh well that thing in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: It was the Reds and Braves are supposed to play
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  Speaker 3: last weekend. Yes, at that huge race track. Yes, apparently
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  Speaker 3: was a scar track, a gigantic disaster, like not even
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  Speaker 3: because of the rain that you can't help that, but
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  Speaker 3: like the outfield seats were up in like where the
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  Speaker 3: NASCAR thing is, and it was there was like.
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  Speaker 2: A whole like fifty sixty feet even behind the fence.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the crowd like it was horrible, but baseball's made
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  Speaker 3: some good decisions, like the pitch clock has saved the game.
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  Speaker 3: In my opinion, I couldn't watch three hour ten minute
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  Speaker 3: games on a Tuesday night. Absolutely, two hour twenty minute games.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 3: This is the next logical step because this year in particular,
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  Speaker 3: and even last year that it's interesting you say that's
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  Speaker 3: the worst umpiring call because the ones where they call
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  Speaker 3: strikes that are so far out of the zone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those to me are like worse than that one. But
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  Speaker 3: that one was really bad because it was right down center.
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  Speaker 3: But I do want to say this. He played the
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  Speaker 3: video again, just real quick. Yeah, yeah, let's get this
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  Speaker 3: up again real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so watch the ball. It's right down the middle, right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who's catching. Four is for the for
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  Speaker 3: the oal. It's probably the Rushman kid. But he watch
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  Speaker 3: what he does with the glove here. It comes right
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  Speaker 3: down the middle of the pike and he's still he's
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  Speaker 3: he's set up on the corner of home plate.
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  Speaker 1: But he's taking the gloves over, taking the glove over.
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  Speaker 3: He takes it over and swipes it where the ball
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  Speaker 3: almost winds up at the bottom left the bottom right.
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  Speaker 2: Hand corner of the strike zone box.
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  Speaker 3: If he had just caught it, maybe that just goes
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  Speaker 3: strike that the ball just crossed home plate.
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  Speaker 2: Your glove is there.
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  Speaker 3: Strike the pitch framing, the framing extravaganza. The has happened
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  Speaker 3: to catchers. It's wild, Like every catcher does that now,
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  Speaker 3: a quick swipe to get the ball into the zone.
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  Speaker 3: And those are some of your worst calls that are
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  Speaker 3: non strikes. Sure, this is the first time I've seen
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  Speaker 3: one where the guy, the guy actually framed it out
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  Speaker 3: of the strike.
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  Speaker 2: Zone called a ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Because and I was telling you before the show, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my daughter's boyfriend has been a catcher for years.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to college for it this year, and I
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  Speaker 3: was asking him about pitchering because I noticed it last year,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's just so every every catcher does it wildly now.
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  Speaker 3: And he was like at the young younger level, like
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the first things they start showing you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's not your stance. It's not like throwing like that
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  Speaker 3: stuff's important, like the big one. Honestly, the pitch training.
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  Speaker 1: Staff just bringing the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And in that one looks like Rushman got his picture
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  Speaker 3: of a ball because he decided to frame the pitch
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  Speaker 3: out of the strike zone. I you think the umpires again,
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  Speaker 3: this is why you need the robot thing, because the umpires,
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  Speaker 3: the umpires are behind the catcher. They're watching the glove, right,
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to watch the ball, but as soon as
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  Speaker 3: it's the glove and I think they make they missed
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  Speaker 3: time these calls sometimes, and that one is a good example.
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  Speaker 3: Robot robotic get be fulled by that right exactly to
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  Speaker 3: look where the ball crossed his plate, right, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, probably one of the most egregious definitely the most
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  Speaker 1: egregious um call this year for sure. But as we're
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: moving along here too, we also wanted to discuss the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there are two former Phillies who are now
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  Speaker 1: in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Just wanted to just
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  Speaker 1: really mention it real quick, the fact that we have
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  Speaker 1: Dick Allen and Billy Wagner. Billy Wagner finally getting in there. Eric,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: how many years have we talked about Billy Wagner possibly
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  Speaker 1: getting in? He finally gets in. He was traded to
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies in two thousand and four, saw real limited
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: opportunities in his first season due to injuries. Kind of
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: had a pretty nice two thousand and five year, picking
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  Speaker 1: up thirty eight saves with a one point five to
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  Speaker 1: one er. So not too bad in terms of Billy Wagner,
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of the legendary Dick Allen, I mean, wow,
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  Speaker 1: what a career he had. He was signed by the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies in nineteen sixty spent time in the minors before
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: making his major league debut in nineteen sixty three. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: he initially played third base with the team, ended up
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  Speaker 1: racking up forty one errors in nineteen sixty four, but
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  Speaker 1: his hitting really catapulted him to Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 1: and eventually among one of the greats in Major League
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  Speaker 1: baseball history. He finished his career with a two to
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  Speaker 1: ninety two batting average three hundred and fifty one home runs,
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  Speaker 1: one thy one hundred and nineteen RBIs in fifteen seasons
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  Speaker 1: and had a three seventy eight on base percentage and
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  Speaker 1: a five thirty four slugging percentage. So just a few
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  Speaker 1: stats there. Just wanted to mention this, it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: see some Phillies get into the Hall of Fame here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, okay, so Billy Wagner, Well, I'm gonna be honest,
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't I think him as met or
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  Speaker 3: an astro.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I don't really.
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  Speaker 2: Think him as a Philly.
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  Speaker 3: He was here for two years, and believe me, I
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: had I had partial season tickets for both those years,
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  Speaker 3: and it was electric when he came in. It was
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: very exciting because God knows the jose Maces.
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  Speaker 2: Of the world.
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  Speaker 3: The closers the Phillies had for years, the bullpen they
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  Speaker 3: had for years leading up to four War was a
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  Speaker 3: fucking disaster.
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  Speaker 2: I was there for a lot of those games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, where you're just sitting there like, oh, we're up
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  Speaker 3: to the thinning, We're gonna lose this game. Yeah, every
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: time you knew it was coming. But he did have
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  Speaker 3: a lecture two years. But I never thought him was
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  Speaker 3: a Philly to be honest, I think I think his stats,
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  Speaker 3: he's warranted to get in. I'll absolutely speak to Dick
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  Speaker 3: Allen again. My middle name Allen named after this guy,
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  Speaker 3: my dad's favorite baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: Ever.
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  Speaker 3: If you you talk about his rookie year in sixty four,
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  Speaker 3: he played all one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: He played one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Sixty two games at age twenty two on on arguably
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  Speaker 3: one of the better Phillies teams.
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  Speaker 2: Of all time. They're the Yeah, they're one the flop
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  Speaker 2: of sixty four. I think that they were up like
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  Speaker 2: twenty some games and they finally they wound up losing
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  Speaker 2: the pennant.
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  Speaker 3: But but man, just his stats that year, over two
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: hundred hits, thirty eight doubles, thirteen triples, thirty home runs.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't happen anymore. Man, that's just awesome. And he
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  Speaker 3: lovely in strikeouts two. That's That's what I'm talking about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then but and it wasn't with the Phillies, but
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  Speaker 3: his his his his al MVP season with the White
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  Speaker 3: Sox is seventy two. Mike God, yeah, what a monster.
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  Speaker 1: Well he traded him. Phillies traded him in what's sixty nine?
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  Speaker 1: They brought him back in seventy five when he and
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Mike Schmid they had the opportunity to play his teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and probably moved on from him a little early.
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  Speaker 3: They probably shouldn't have traded it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't have any he didn't have great
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: seasons at the end there with him. But man, his
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: ops twice in his career or four times, like over
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  Speaker 3: over a thousand. Yeah, just incredible career. And he deserved
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  Speaker 3: to be in. And it took a long Was it
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  Speaker 3: the veteran crew that got him in or is it
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  Speaker 3: just like one of those.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember either, to be honest, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's well deserved.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, he should have just been in.
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  Speaker 1: He should have just been in. That's why whole game
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  Speaker 1: freaking writers exactly. They're horrendous, just making it all about
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  Speaker 1: them all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And here's and let's just i'll just talk Frank, here's
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  Speaker 3: what sucks. The guy's dead to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's why I hate.
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  Speaker 3: This veteran thing for guys that should have been in
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  Speaker 3: the first place, because like it's always the guy's son
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  Speaker 3: crying be here it's like, yeah, well we all do,
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  Speaker 3: yes exactly. Asshole writers just can't like, did you see
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  Speaker 3: each your ros?
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  Speaker 2: Except the speech?
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  Speaker 3: He was amazing, Yes, and he even I think he
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  Speaker 3: even referenced that one writer who was like, oh I
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: didn't deserve to be in Are you serious?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that guy.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that whole Hall of Fame situation is a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, all right. Well, moving on with some Phillies
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  Speaker 1: talk here. We've got some listener feedback that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to dive into. We've got Ryan r. He shot us
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  Speaker 1: off an email in response to some topics we've been
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: getting into with the Phillies in terms of the trade
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: deadline and even the farm system. Here, Ryan says, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: been listening to the show since twenty seventeen and love
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the way it's grown. For me living in upstate New York,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: it's a great distraction from sports radio up here. I
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about the recent trade deadline and how
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: it seems that the Phillies may not have gone all
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: in as maybe the Padres did. As disappointing as it
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: may seem, and as much as as much as as
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: much hate as Dave Dombrowski gets at times on social media.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I want everybody to remember that before he got here,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the Phillies missed the playoffs for ten seasons. Ryan, thank
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you for that. Thank you, thank you for that reminder.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski has changed this franchise into a better run
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: organization with actual prospects worth being excited about. I'm old
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: enough to remember the nineteen eighty World Series, which I
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was eight at the time, which makes me also remember
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the long years of mediocrity between postseason appearances. Yes, winning
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a World Series is great, but we don't I'm sorry. Yes,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: winning World Series is great, but don't we also want
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to franchise that has a chance every year. Not trading
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Painter and Miller may have kept the Phillies from getting
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan or Mason Miller, but at least now we
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: have guys in our minor league system to get excited about,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: which to me points to an organization that is now
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: on a winning track for years to come, as opposed
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to having a core that wins ages, that wins ages
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: out and no one to replace them again. Love the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: show and love the theme music too, Ryan, Thanks so much, buddy,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate you taking the time to email us, folks.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: If you want to email us Philadelphia Sports Table at
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: gmail dot com, we'd love to read your email here
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: on the show and respond to it like we did
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: with Ryan's email there. So that being said, you know
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: what we were talking about this recently, Eric, the fact
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that you know, we didn't want them to trade some
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of the top prospects they did get rid of. Look,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I think I think Mick Abel could be, you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that fourth fifth pitcher in a rotation. At some point.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: We saw some good stuff from him. We saw a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: lot of hiccups from him as well. I don't know
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if he's gonna be a number one or number two.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's highly doubtful. But I'm glad what the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Phillies did at the trade deadline, and I'm glad that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Painter and Miller are still in the pipe line here.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I'm glad there's still those top prospects that the Phillies have.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: And he's absolutely right. Ryan is absolutely right about Dave Dombrowski.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And I cannot stand when a certain sector of Phillies'
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: nation craps on Dave Dombrowski, because you know what you're
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: not going to get it perfect all the time. But
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: he's taken this franchise, this organization and team and brought
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it back to some respectability, respectability, like major respectability. So
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know what were your thoughts with Ryan's email.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty spot on.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: No, he's pretty spot on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: First of all, anyone under thirty who criticizes this team
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: in Dobrowski in any aspect of it can shut the
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: fuck on.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I remember late nineties.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You were just saying jose Mesa too, you know that? Correct?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: How many games did you and I see with Len
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: at the vet jose Masa blue the fuck now many times?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: But like I remember, I remember post wait like three
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: years afterwards, twelve thirteen fourteen, when they didn't have any
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: prospects speaking to speaking here to to uh sorry, Ryan's Ryan's.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Email twenty fifteen.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It was horrendous.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: It's but but I have to kind of say, though,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: we traded a lot of our prospects away to have
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: those good teams at the end of the two thousand
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: and two thousands, but none of those prospects really did anything,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: It was like it was like a house of cards.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It felt like. But regardless of that, those teams were
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: horrible to watch.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So for Debrassity to commit and do what he did
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: to turn this team not just respect world, to actually
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: make a World Series so far, maybe make another one,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: can't hear the criticism completely agree with. I thought mick
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Abel should have absolutely been on the table, Yeah, no problem.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And to get Durand for him, and I forget the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: other guy they got rid of. Yeah, just I feel like.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: It's a steal, honestly, Yeah, because I think mcabele's ceiling
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: is a three, like a good three. I would about
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the other kid, yeah, yeah, yeah, just saying like that
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: was the right trade to make. They they brought in,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, if you're a Twins fan, how
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: do you even remotely cheer for this team or go
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: another game after they trade away their entire playoff roster
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: from last year they actually made the playoffs. But whatever,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I'll take it. The only the only thing I think
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Miller is the only guy up in the air where
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of like, I love Crawford and Painter.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I think those two are untouchable.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you had to move, say Aidan Miller for
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the Duran Thing and then Mick Abele for for Kwan
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: or a better outfield option than Harrison Bader, who I
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: know he hit out run the other night and he's young, fast,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: wrong like, but he's kind of a platoon guy.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: That that's the one spot.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Like I'm still afraid at the bottom of our order
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: going into the playoffs where man as a whole, Like
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: if you're six through, if you're seven through nine hitters
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a bat in like two ten, Yeah, that's just that's
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: just a free inning for the team, and especially in
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the playoffs with the pitching is going to be awesome.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I liked that they got another outfield bat, but if
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: if they if they had to move on from say Miller,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: because I just think Painter and Crawford have more elite
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: upside potential. Yeah, but you know, the way the way
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: stop's been playing, maybe you want to keep Aid and
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Miller around.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, but there's no there's no easy
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: answer here.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: That I I completely agree with him, like to not
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: get rid of like their top prospects. My only thing
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: would be, like, man, if you could maybe got one
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: more inch closer with Kwan or someone of that.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Caliber and you had to move Miller. I wouldn't have
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: been against it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, I hear you. You know, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you're talking about something I think that you know, it's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a good segue into where this team is at and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: where they need to be in the playoffs. And it's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: something you know, you and I were texting about, you
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: know this week, is you know, are the Phillies getting
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: too hot early? And I think that's a concern. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: think that's something that we need to really talk about
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: because what Kyle Schwarber is doing right now is astonishing.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You know, if he go if he goes cold in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the playoffs here, you know, which is it's not right
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: around the corner. But like once postseason starts, if we
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: got a cold Kyle Schwarber, it's gonna be rough. If
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: we got a cold Bryce Harper, it's gonna be a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: little rough here. You know, there are certain guys that
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: are just key contributors to this team. And you know
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we're talking about is are the Phillies getting too hot
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: too early here? And I think it's a I think
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: it's a storyline that's gonna persist here until maybe they
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: do start going cold. I just hope if there is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a cold streak. It happens just like right before the playoffs,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and I know that's ridiculous. Of course, that's what we want,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you know, that's of course what everybody wants. But I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: mean it's a I mean, it's a concern for sure.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I text you that the night. Was it last night?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, last night because I just had I looked
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: at the I was looking at my phone. I noticed
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: it's April or sorry, August fifth, and I'm like, man,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: we're just kicking the shit out of the Oriels.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: This is so much fun, Like.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: But it's August fifth, yeah, Like, why can't be like
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: August thirty first and we're doing this, you know what
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, like kind of slowly heading into the playoffs.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: But that was more so me just being like I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: had a little superstitious about the hot team in early
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: auguste that loses in the first round of the playoffs.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: With this team too. We've seen this with this team,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you know, especially last year. They were hot at certain
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: points of the the year. Come playoff time, man, they
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: got cold, they just did. We've seen it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Mhm. I mean the nice thing is uh, oh god,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: what's his name?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Is coming back. No, No, that al the closer. Oh
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he hadn't played in eighty days. Yeah, forgot his name.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: But he's coming back soon. And I know I can't
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: play in the playoffs, but that's actually might be a
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: huge help as long as he's been like playing. Yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: to have him in Duran and at the back of
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: our bullpen for the rest of the regular season. Yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I didn't really think of that until I heard he
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: was back. Because now you got a lefty and a
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: righty growth are closer, have closer material. Yeah, Like, man,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: that's actually a huge upside for this team and the.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Other unknown too. And honestly, like and yes, I'm sounding
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: optimistic saying this, we don't know what kind of Aaron
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Nola we're gonna get because he's coming back soon. And yes,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he absolutely shit the bed earlier this year. It seems
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: like in even number years or I'm sorry, odd number
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of years, even number of years, he performs amazing odd
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: number of years for some reason, he struggles and has
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: some challenges for some reason, but he comes back from
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: this injury and he kind of gets back into form.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be good news for this team.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I agree, and I think they.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I think they allowed Nola enough time to truly get healthy,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: because that was a pretty long break for the injury
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: he had. But like we talked about in a show
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: like that's also one that's nagging and kind of come back,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: and so they're playing so well, just let him sit
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: as long as he has to sit, you know what
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, a couple side notes, real fast, Kyle
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Schwarber forty more. One's nine sixty five ops plus eight
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: hundred to win NFL or n L m VP right now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I know tany plus eight hundred folks get on some
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: FanDuel not spawn a little bit. Yeah, I'm on Fandle
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: pay up exactly and then okay, so and one once
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Nola comes back. I thought about this today. Would you
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: relegate Walker or Lizardo to middle relief Walker now Lozardo?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I would too.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I think I think i'd keep Walker up, Yeah, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: have if you needed a left handed start, you have
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Lazardo there.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I just think Walker has been better than lazarda this year.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It's not even close.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Lazardo started out hot, but then yes, you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I think I said a show a few weeks ago, it's.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Like I think this is who he is.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, is why he's played with the Marlins for a
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: little bit and I was with the Philly He's a
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: mid four or five eer a guy yep that gets
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: you ten wins and ten losses every year.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, great Phillies talk here.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: We are going to be taking a break. But before that, again,
• 27:21
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• 27:26
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• 27:28
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• 28:02
  Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna be getting into some Eagles talk.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Stick with us, all right, we are back and we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: are gonna be diving into a story that just broke
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I think it was basically this morning as we're recording
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: this on Wednesday night, August sixth, quick discussion here on
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: ESPN acquiring the NFL Network. Yes, they have acquired the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: NFL Network financially and other NFL based media assets. ESPN
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: certainly remaining the King of sports. But the two sides
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: have agreed on a multi year extension of ESPN's rights
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to broadcast the NFL Draft. As we know, they've been
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: televising the draft since nineteen eighty and they're gonna be
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: streaming it on Disney Plus and Hulu for the first
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: time in two thousand and six. One media conglomerate just
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: gobbling up another media conglomerate here, Eric had something more
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and more of in the world, and uh, I don't know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it's going to lead to at
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: some point down the road except for a lot of more,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a lot a lot of more, a lot more rich folks,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a lot more rich folks, and uh, probably some more layoffs.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Right because because these these billionaire executives don't really give
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a crap about anybody, Well.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: They don't make enough more and more right, right, Eventually
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: we're going to be watching everything on Bezos TV and
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: that's it. There'll be one channel yep, pipeline right now
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: our forehead buy things stop yep. I will. I will
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: turn this into socialist session if you want me to.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I know you will move on. But the you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: just the common sense in me like, uh, you know ESPN.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I see the headline ESPN acquiring NFL network and NFL
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: based media assets. Okay, great, and within the articles you know, uh,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: the NFL now owns ten percent of you p.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, it goes off my back of
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: my head, like that's that doesn't seem right. That sounds
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: like a little there could be some conflict of interest
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: thing there in.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Terms of journalism and reporting.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I mean ESPN is supposed to be at heart a
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: journalism reporting thing and entertainment as well. I watched it
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: on again. I think the journalism reporting is kind of
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: got out the window. Yes, yes, I mean Pat McAfee
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: in a tanked up going bro the Dolphins dude, like wow,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: well insights, that's amazing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Just stephen A just yelling all the time. We can
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: just do his radio show. He doesn't yell all the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: time on his radio show.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Why don't they just put McAfee and stephen A together.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Stephen A screams and McAfee goes, bro stop, that's the
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: whole show.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: That should be. That should be the whole show. Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: But like okay, so what if, like what if there's
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: a disparaging story about like Roger Goodell the ESPN wants
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to do yeahcause he has Goodell just go excuse me,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah no, we're not doing that. Click and it's like
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff and the sports book stuff.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like if you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's the it's just the hypocrisy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: It's like if the NFL just come out and say,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: like we're cool with gambling, it's totally fine. Yeah, we
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: don't want our players doing it. They probably do, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: you know, it is what it is, rather than what
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: we take.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: A hard stance on gambling.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: And like, come on, you're down at Eagles games and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you see the fand OL stuff on the ribbon going
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: around the stadium or or draft kings, whichever one I'm forgetting,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: but still you see it it's in the stadiums. But
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: ESPN has its own sports book. It does, yes, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the NFL now is ten percent of a sports book.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've read. I've read some articles. We're like, well,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: the sports book's not known, but it's like it's the
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: ESPN sports book.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I shut the fuck up. I don't care seriously, but yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I just that part of the story. I'm like, that
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: made me feel icky.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like corporate greed, corporate, like we're gonna squash a
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: story if we don't like it like that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like the NFL would do something like.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: That, exactly, exactly exactly. Well, getting into some Eagles talk here,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Eagles made a trade Howie Roseman. Of course, you know
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we always we've been talking about it is how we
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: going to make a trade during training camp? Of course,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of course he's going to make a trade during training camp.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Made a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders and got
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: themselves what seems to be a pretty good cornerback. Is
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a guy who is probably gonna make the team. I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: would think they acquired cornerback j Coryan Bennett. They sent
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Thomas Booker, the fourth to Las Vegas. Just want to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: give our thoughts here on this trade. I thought it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: was interesting. I was reading some tweets and I was
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: over on our Bleedinggreen nation dot com where our friend
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Alexis Chason who's going to be joining us in a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: bit where she does some writing, or good friend Brandon
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Lee gout as well. They put up a tweet just
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: about Jacoryan Bennett's how he ranks among NFL cornerbacks with
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty plus snaps. Check this out, folks.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Eighteen receptions allowed, that's third in the NFL, thirty seven
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: targets that's tied for tenth in the NFL. Only as allowed,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy six yards that's second in the NFL.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Zero touchdowns allowed that's tied for first. Nine pass breakups
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: that is tied for fourth, and a sixty two point
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: four quarterback rating that is sixth in the NFL. That
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: is not bad. Look, there's certain contexts with this as well.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Bennett played well last year, but he suffered a knee
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: ending torn labrum. This year, he lost some ground with
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the Raiders cornerback battle. He was basically fourth, and that's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: what people are saying, Well, why was he fourth? On
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the depth chart behind Eric Stokes, Darien Porter and Hamery
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: and Richardson Pete Carroll. He prefers longer, taller cornerbacks. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Howie Roseman though, is seeing the stats. He's seeing the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: analytics and said, you know what, let's get this guy
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: as we aren't one hundred percent sure who that cornerback
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: two is going to be. After Daris Slay leaves in
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the off season, Keey Ringo and a Dori Jackson have
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: been battling it out for that number two cornerback spot
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: on this team. Eric, I think that I don't know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Jacory and Bennett is going to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: get that number two spot, but it makes the competition
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a lot more interesting. It makes camp a little bit
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: more interesting too.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, it's just one of those smart moves
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: by by Howie. Like no, no downside to it, yea,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: you know, was where they going to keep six tackles
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: round the team and keep Booker anyway?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Probably not? And like why not?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: He probably recognized that Pete Carroll went to LA I'm sorry,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas. And you know, contrary to like him being
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: like an offensive coach, he's actually a huge defensive coach.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: The legion of Boom were all like six two two
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: twenty at least and up.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the key to their their Super
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Bowl team winning team.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: So he just prefers tall, stronger, doesn't need not exactly speedy.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And the kid was traded.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: In like basically let go because he didn't fit in
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: with what you know, he was part of the Josh
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: McDaniels thing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: He wasn't part of peek regime.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: And it's Pete Carroll and it's like cool and how
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: he probably recognized that went and snatched him up. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: the stats speak for themselves. The improvement from his rookie
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: year to his second year huge. And you can't you
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: can't downplay going from a football situation.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Like the Raiders right where it's so depressing, it's an
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: awful place to play.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, I'm sure Pete Carroll's going to improve
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that team big time. They have an actual quarterback this year. Yeah,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: he's a he's a legit NFL coach. I'm sure they'll
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: be much better. But to have to play your first
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: two years in that dreadful, dread that dreadful arena in
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas, no quarterback, you have no chance of winning,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: and it's like, maybe he'll come here and get under
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Vic Fangio's tutelage. He's gonna it's gonna take time to
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: learn the defense. You know, everyone comes into Fanjia. It
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: takes time. But it's nice to throw an extra body
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: in there. And especially he's speedy fitting with Quinnion if
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: he can make if he you know, makes the team
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: or even potentially starts, but just to throw in that
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: mix of competition for and you lose a guy that
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: wasn't gonna make the team anyway.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Eagles get the better player. Like that's it's
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: as simple as that.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I can't wait to see what he's gonna do
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: too during camp, because look, I'm not the biggest of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Dori Jackson fan. I actually was when he was coming
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: out of college. But he gets drafted by the Tennessee Titans.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna develop well, just really never
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: did heads up to New York plays for the Giants.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I just I've seen a Dori Jackson get burnt way
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: way too many times and I just haven't been the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: biggest fan of him. Kiey Rango having a decent camp,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: but I think this particular talent with Bennett really really
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: gives that room. I mean, you want to see the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: competition like it Nerds like me who are following training
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: camp like consistently every day, I'm getting tweets and notifications
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: to my phone during camp from certain reporters about what
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is happening right at that particular point in time with
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the plays. Yeah, like this stuff is to me, this
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: is important about where this defense is going to go
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: this year because seriously, Darius Slay not not not perfect
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: by any stretch last season, but a big, big reason
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: why the defense was so so successful. And I think
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: that's been kind of an underrated storyline. This cornerback to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: position and who is going to take it, you know,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: opposite side of the field from Quinnon Mitchell and I'm
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: liking this move.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I am too, because you brought up a good point
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: just now. Not you know, the Eagles won the Super
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Bowl reminder everybody, Yeah, and like, but you know, not
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: a ton of talk on like how to improve the team,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: how to keep this going. I mean, I know there
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: has been some, but like one of the key things
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I think has not been talking about quite enough is
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: like losing one of your starting cornerbacks on a team
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: that had is such a solid, solid secondary, one of
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the one of the key reasons they won every game
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: in playoffs and killed that Chiefs team they shut down.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, the defensive line did their job, but like
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the secondary like stepped on their throat, you know, like
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: that was really the end of the game. And they
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: had the strongest secondary in football by the end of
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: the year, I think, And to lose one of the
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: key starters, it's like that's a big deal. And and
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: really not have anybody just step in, you know, they
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: didn't have a rookie just kind of just waiting in
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: the wings. Now Mitchell's now, Mitchell is your stud. He's
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: only his second year. I know he looked awesome, but
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: that is a lot of responsibility to be the top
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: cornerback at twenty three years old, second year in the league. Like,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping one of these guys steps up to help
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: him out because I don't want him to struggle because
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: he has to step into the main role.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: It may not be quite ready for it, So I
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: don't know. I think it's a big.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Storyline and one that could potentially be an issue down
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the road, because you know what a bad secondary can
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: do to a team.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Absolutely just horrendous.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, we're gonna be keeping tabs
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: on what happens with this Eagles team as we continue
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to dish out the content to you every week here
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: at the PST Podcast Show, and we're gonna be talking
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: to Alexis chasin in just a bit, Eric, do you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: have anything else? Before you head out of here? And
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: before I get to talking with Alexis here, I.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Will start the outline this weekend for the Process Show.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Odd seriously, that is gonna be such a fun show.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: It really was. We all need to just like get
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: all this stuff out. We got to get it out
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: of us.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: It's a long time coming because I'm already seeing, like
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: you know, NBA people are saying that embid contracts is
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: it's a disaster, and he's not happy. It's like, yes,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: we didn't even start the season exactly.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Nobody can all stop camp yet. Yes.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: PG thirteen is his knees like noodles already. No, how
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: do we know this? It's it's August. No, I just
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: think this season might be a shit show. So let's
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: let's go ahead of the way.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, buddy, I'm gonna let you go, and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: we are gonna head to break right now. When we
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: get back, we got more Eagles talk for you.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: And now on the table.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: We are back and to get into this Philadelphia Eagles
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: team during the course of training camp here and what's
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be happening during this twenty twenty five twenty twenty
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: six Eagles season. We've got our good friend from Bleedinggreen
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Nation dot com. Their website is working now. It's fantastic.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Looks great. We have our good friend, Alexis Chase. And
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: how you doing.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: I'm good?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I'm so excited. I am so
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: excited that football is almost here, whether it's college football,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: you know what, we got Pens eight football come in
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and I know you're happy about that. I'm kidding, folks.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Alexis is a huge Ohio State Buckeyes fan. She is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: living in Ohio. But but the Eagles are gonna be
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: here and football is gonna be here, So it's I
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: can't wait.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah and go big ten. We can at least.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: There you go, except for Michigan.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Always, except for Michigan exactly.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Now Harbaugh's not there, so like now I don't know
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: who I'm gonna hate over there now because I mean
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: of them, that's true. I mean, but he was really
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: hateable for a lot of years.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Still is. The Chargers have now really ascended up on
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: my rankings of teams I don't like because I love it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I love it all right, Well, let's get into this
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Eagles team training camp here. First. Let's start off on
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball here, and we got
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: to get into the fact that Howie Roseman is doing
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Howie Roseman things. We've seen this already during camp. He
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: traded defensive tackle Thomas Booker the fourth to the Raiders
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: for a cornerback, a cornerback in ja Coreyan Bennett. I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: love this trade quite frankly from everything that I've read.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: You know, you look at that the film on Bennett
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and what he is able to do against certain like
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: big time receivers in this league. Alexis again, I love
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: this trade, so wanted to get into it. I guess
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the first question would be, what do you think this
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: trade is reflective of, I mean, kille Ringo, perhaps not
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: developing the way they're hoping, not enough trust in a
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Dori Jackson. What do you think this trade is really
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: reflective of.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know that it's that they don't have
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: trust in those two guys, But I don't think like
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Ringo specifically has really taken much of a lead in
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: the competition. Yeah, and Vic Fangio hasn't been really as
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: complimentary towards Jackson as I feel like some of the
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: other players. So it makes me feel like they just
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: want to add in, you know, a little more competition there.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: I could even see it being Ringo and Bennett, But
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I feel like, since nobody has taken the lead, then
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: why not add somebody else in, especially somebody who's pretty young, Yeah,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: who seems to be productive when he does get the
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: opportunity to be on the field, So you know, why not.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Although Nick Sirianni will, of course say it's just a
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: depth edition, we're totally comfortable with the room.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Right exactly. So I also wonder too, and to follow
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: up with this, like, what should we really like about
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: this trade? I mean, and is there anything to dislike
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: about the trade? I can't really see anything to dislike
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: at this point. What do you think we should be
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: liking about this trade in terms of the future, whether
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: it's this this particular season, perhaps or maybe an well
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: into the future.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's good in terms of adding like
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: another young talented player in the secondary. It gives them
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: another option, especially as they're coming up on having to
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: pay a lot of these guys figure out who is
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: worth a second contract, right you know, Ringo now has
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: had a few years, so you know, is he going
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: to be the guy? Is he going to make that
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: step from special teams player to defensive guy? So I
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: think it's a good thing to add another young, potential
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: guy who might be worth a second contract.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: I think the negative for me is more so losing
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Booker just he was you know, productive last season, and
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: just in terms of depth, I'm more comfortable with the
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: cornerback depth right now than I am with the defensive
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: tackle debt. Yeah, so I you know, I don't really
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: necessarily like that trade off, but ultimately I think, you know,
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Bennet's a fine addition. You know, it seemed to another
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: how he did it again moment, so we'll have to see.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Well, talking about the defensive line, it's a great segue
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: into what I wanted to dive into next here, alexis
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: because the pass rushers are getting a lot of coverage
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: in training camp rightfully, so Moro Ojamo appears to be
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: developing well, even depth guys like Azi's O Laa and
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: josh uk is it U k o j I think so, yeah, Yeah,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: they've they've They've been having nice camps so far and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: in very good practices. I mean, the pass rush in
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: D line was a big area of concern for me
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: after this team lost a pretty significant veteran presence during
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the course of this offseason. So I'm wondering what are
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: your thoughts about the defensive line, perhaps in a little
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: bit more detail. I'd know that you said you're just
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: concerned about the defensive tackle depth, but as it pertains
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: even to the pass rush from what you and the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: folks of Bleedinggreen nation dot com have been reporting on
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: thus far during camp, what are your thoughts about this
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: D line and the pass rush really heading into this
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: season here.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: It seems like everyone has been planning for Morrow to
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: take over for Milton william Yeah. Like, as sad as
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Eagles fans were to lose Milton Williams, I feel like
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: the team definitely knew that was going to happen and
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: are expecting Morow to to really step up this year,
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: and uh so I'm not that worried. I would like
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: during the preseason to see you know, like rookie Ty
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Robinson step up. They've been really complimentary of Gabe Hall.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: Him specifically is why they supposedly were okay with trading
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Booker because Hall had really like taken a step up
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: this year. So I'll feel a little better after the
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: preseason in terms of that. I mean, we you know,
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Jordan Davis looks great and Jalen Carter's wonderful, but some
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: of those other guys seeing how that rotation is going
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: to work out. I'm also not super concerned about the
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: past rush. I don't know. I feel like with Nolan Smith,
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: like everyone is just you know, saying how much he's
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: really taken on a role and listening to him speak
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: this offseason, and how Brandon Graham kind of, you know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: handed him those reins to be a leader. And Jaylex
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Hunt is really coming on at.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes folks forget about Jaylex Hunt.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, and he's going to be so good. And so
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: I feel like them along, like with the linebackers, they're
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: talented enough, you know, and athletic enough to also be
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: in that mix. So I think Fangio has a lot
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: of different pieces that he can move around to the
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: pass rush. So again, to see some of the younger
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: guys step up during the preseason will give me a
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: lot more confidence. But like right now, like I'm not panicked, right,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: so I'll take it.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't think we should be panicked when it
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: comes to this Eagles team, like on either side of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the ball, you know, I mean, we thinks could be
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: a lot worse. I mean, we could be the Atlanta Falcons.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: You could be the Chicago Bears, you know where I have.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Been burned more than a few times with being you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: cautiously optimistic, so that it's true.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: All yes, we all have been for sure. All right, Well,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: move it along with the conversation here and really kind
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: of sticking to a defensive storyline. I mean, look, the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: rumors are floating around about if and when Micah Parsons
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: might be traded down in Dallas. You know you love
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to see this storyline, you really do. You love to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: see this storyline. The discord that's going on within Cowboys
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Nation just a terribly run organization as we're seeing as
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is getting older. But my goodness, the Eagles are. Honestly,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: you look around the web and the Eagles are actually
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: slated to be one of the teams where Parsons might
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: actually go to. Who knows the validity of this because
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the internet is going to internet, But I'm wondering, do you,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Alexis really see the Eagles trying to make a logical
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: move to acquire Michael Parsons from the Cowboys? And I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: guess the second question also would be what would what
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: would a package look like to get Parsons to this
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Bird's team? Because I've seen some crazy things out there.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking here?
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: It's very strange because logically, with the rosters that Eagles have,
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know that it makes sense to go after
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Micah Parsons, okay, But also when you have the opportunity
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: to go after one of the best, you know, defenders
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: in the National Football League, sometimes it doesn't need to
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: be logical. You just need to get him, ye, And
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: so I think it's really fun to think about. I
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: don't know, you know that the Cowboys would go that route,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, I don't even think Jerry Jones is
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: probably entertaining any phone calls, but you know, he's the
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: best gift all thirty one NFL teams not named the
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Cowboys could have. I don't know. I think he would
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: have to go for multiple first round picks, and honestly,
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: the Eagles have thirteen picks next year, so I don't
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: think the draft capital would really hinder them. I'm sure
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: you know the Cowboys would give us a bit of
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: an NFC East tax in there, But I like my
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: concern would be the next contract. I mean, he wants
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: that contract extension, and we're already paying all of our
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: offensive players. In two to three, all of our defensive
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: players are going to be up for those big contracts,
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: and so I don't as much of a magician as
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: how he is. I don't know where he could come
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: up with that money without losing several important pieces of
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: the future. So it might not be logical, But also
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: it's fun to think about.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: It is it's fun to think about. That's why I
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: wanted to ask if we're a podcast, Philly Sports podcast,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: we got to talk about the possibility whether or not
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: it is logical. So honestly, I'm with you. I don't
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: necessarily know that making a move like this would be
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the smartest from a financial perspective for this team well
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: into the future. When I think Howie Roseman has demonstrated
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: and shown over these past few seasons that he has
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: a good handle on team building. There's a plan, there's
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: a vision, and let's not screw with that right now
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: when that plan and vision have manifested into their second
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl win and a team that is likely going
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: to be pretty dominant this season and perhaps even in
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. So I don't want to put the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: car before the horse on that. But to kind of
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: wrap things up with regard to the Eagles defense here,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: and I know it's a general question for you, a Lexis,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: but you know who are you most excited to really
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: see develop on the defensive side of the ball during camp? Here?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: And why have you been looking at certain players on
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: this team?
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've got a big one, Sydney Brown. I have
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: been waiting for him to have his moment for three years. Yes,
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: and he finally is healthy. He has had a full
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: off season. Fangio is excited, which I feel like when
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: you get Fangio excited about a player, it's like, oh,
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: he must really be good, right, And I just I
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: love his energy. He runs one thousand miles an hour,
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: like all over the field, and so I just wanted
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: him to have his moment, and I like, this is
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: his chance because last year, even with the injury stuff, like,
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: it looked like it was his chance. But then you
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: know we have DJ Gardner Johnson and you know we
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: had other safeties that it was like, oh, well, is
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: he gonna be a starter, and then he was still
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: like the special teams guy. Yep, But I think he
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: has it. He reminds me kind of like Malcolm Jenkins
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: out there, just like everywhere the ball is, you see
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: him like he's there and he's trying to get the ball.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: So I really want him to like take it to
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: that next step.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I hope he does. I hope he does for sure. Again,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: folks were talking to Alexis Chason from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: She's on the interwebs out there. Should give her a
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: follow on Twitter, slash x and maybe over on TikTok
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: as well. Let everybody know where they can find you.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Alexis Yeah, Twitter and ex at Lovely Buckeye and on
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: TikTok at go Birds and Buckeyes.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, man, this Buckeyes thing. It's bothered.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I say that all the time whenever you come on
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's fair exactly.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's take a look at what we're
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: going to be seeing and what we have been seeing
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: thus far from this Eagles offense. Let's flip the script
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: here one point eighty. The Eagles, as we know, they
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: have one of the most dominant, if not the most
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: dominant offensive line in the league. We've talked to We've
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: talked about it, excuse me before, about how well an
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: offensive line plays and how well they gel together, is
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: how productive an offense is going to be at any
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: level of football. We've talked about that a number of
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: times here on this podcast show. I know you and
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I have spoken about it too as well when you've
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: been on the show, Alexis. So let's talk about a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: few guys and some storylines here. And the first guy
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I want to get into is Tyler Steen, the presumptive
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: starter at right guard. I mean, the right guard position
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: really has been kind of a revolving door over these years,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: really since Brandon Brooks kind of left left this team
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and retired. I'm wondering with Tyler Steen here. You know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: will he be able to make that jump and help
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: the offensive line continue to dominate. What are your thoughts here?
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: I think he can. I don't know that he's like
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: still the long term solution, okay for that position, Like
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: I still think you know, next year, Like, I don't
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: know that he's going to be the guy long term.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: But you know, everybody has really talked fondly about how
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: you know, he's taken a bigger role this year, how
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: much better shape he's in, things like that, And I
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: don't think they're just gassing him up just to do it,
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: you know. I think they do have other options and
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: other depth guys. I mean even Matt Pryor like could
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: do the job. So yeah, I think I think he
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: can do it, you know, And honestly, with Jeff Stotlin there,
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: like I wouldn't be surprised, Like he makes sure those
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: guys are plug and play ready.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. All right, Well let's move over to another
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: guy who I love watching and he's been getting a
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: lot of love on Twitter, slash x, just in terms
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: of Super Bowl play, what he did on the line,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: the type of vision that he has, how he's able
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to really take care of blocking those stunts, that are
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: coming from other defenses, and I'm talking about Landon Dickerson.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: My gosh, he's tough as nails. But the concern and
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: storyline I think here is that we've seen how he
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: can injure himself out there, and it's because he's so dominant,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: it's because he's just putting himself out there on the
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: line all the time. Should we be concerned about how
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: often he's been facing these injuries small injuries here and there,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: some you know, not as small. I don't know, have
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: you given this any thought?
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: Alexis Yeah, in a way like yes and no, I
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: am sort of always concerned about offensive line and getting injured.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: I feel like that group will get injured every year,
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: probably a few times. They'll wrap it up, They'll make
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: it work and keep it moving. I just feel like
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: that's the nature of their position in a way. So
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: that we saw that with Jason Kelce like he was
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: in but he still kept pushing. Lane Johnson pushes as
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: much as he can. Like, So yes, I'm worried, but
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: not any more than I am with all the other
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: guys on the line. Uh. And I think you know,
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: like you said, he's super tough, So yes, he'll be.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: There, okay, all right, And you mentioned the last gentleman
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get into, and he actually is top two,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: top three of course, Philadelphia Eagle. For me, I got
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: his jersey when he was a rookie down at the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: pro shop at the Link. And I'm talking about Lane Johnson.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: It's getting up there in age. It's getting up there
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: in age. And as much as I hate to say it, uh,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: you know, he's no spring Chicken anymore, but he is
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: not slowing down at all. You think he's gonna be
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: able to play at a high level this season, you know,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: even after getting that ninety nine rank in Madden. Here,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Lane?
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: I feel like he has never given me a reason
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: to doubt him. Yeah, everyer he comes back better than before,
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: somehow more in shape and more athletic. He and Kelsey
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: have both talked about how as you get older, you're
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: not maybe as physically gifted, so you have to be
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: more technically sound, which obviously makes them better players. But
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: then also I think Laane is getting better physically so like,
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: as much as you know he has to be technically sound,
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: he's also still super in shape, probably more in shape
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: than he was last year, and so I think he
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: set the bar for his position and I think he's
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: the guy who will top it again and reset the
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: bar this year.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Too when he posts those videos of him and his
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: home Jim. He's a freaking beast and a freak of nature.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: It's incredible, Alexis.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: I know, And you know what, Jordan Davis reminds me
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: of him now, where like he's so big but also
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: so toned that like it's it doesn't make sense kind
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: of but you're like, Wow, you are strong and probably
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: going to like hold guys at the line. So that'll
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: be good.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: That'll be fantastic. Yes, well, look, moving along here, I
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: want to get into some Jalen Hurts talk, you know.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Last thing. I want to be as a negative Nelly
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: at all with regard to Jalen Hurts because I love
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: the man. I love him for what he did last year,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: how he's developed as a player. His overall just logical
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and very mindful attitude about life is so refreshing as
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: an NFL player to watch, and the fact that he's
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: on my favorite pro team is great. But I'm interested
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: to see this season if Jalen Hurts is really able
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: to take those next steps in terms of getting the
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: ball to his intermediate route receivers in the middle of
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: the field. I mean, it has now for some time
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: been an ongoing storyline Alexis. It's something I hope he's
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: working on because it's going to open up this offense
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: even more in my opinion. So what are you hoping
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: to see from this Eagles offense this season when it
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: comes to the passing game, and even in terms of
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Jaalen Hurts getting the ball to his receiving.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: Corps, it's really comforting to know that, like anything we
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: may think about Jalen Hurts or think that he needs
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: to improve on, there's no doubt that he doesn't already
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: know that and is already working on it. Of all
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: the quarterbacks in the league, like some of them, I'm
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: sure like still on vacation somewhere and he's like, no,
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: I need to step up the passing game or you know,
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: whatever it may be. Yeah, So that's at least comforting.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: But for me, I'd like to see them get more
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: points early in games, like in the first quarter of games,
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: would be just so great. And you know, I think
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: that that also comes with getting the passing game going
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: a little bit more like, yes, it's great to run
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: Saquon and get their defense tired, and then in the
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: second half you've got them where you want them, but like,
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe get the passing game going earlier. And
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: I feel like I was rewatching, you know, some of
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: those documentaries and things, and the offense was so dominant
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: in the postseason run that it's easy to forget that.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: Like you spent half the season saying like, fix this,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: what are you doing right? Which is actually really encouraging
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: because there's there's so much to improve on, but they
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: were already also so good, so like the ceiling is
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: incredible to think about. So yes, seeing some of those
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: incremental improvements could make a really big difference. And so
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: I'm just hoping for like a faster start both in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: the season and in each game, I think.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: And that is a fantastic segue into this next and
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: last topic before I let you go, because yes, this
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: offense is very solid. We know that we have so
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: many returning players and veterans at just about every position
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: that we're going to be seeing on the field this season.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Who are you most excited to really see develop on
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the offensive? Side of the ball during camp here and why.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: I mean it may not have to be a starter,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: but I mean, who are you looking forward to seeing
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: developing through camp and maybe the early part of the season.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: It's gotta be Johan Dotson.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he filled his role so well last year. You know,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: he did what he was asked, He never complained, and
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: he got into Philly like just before the season. He
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: had no off season with the team, barely any training camp,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: and he still you know, was effective, Like he made
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: big plays when it mattered most Like if you look
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: at his film through the whole season, there are quite
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: a bit of you know, route issues and you know
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: things like that that if he cleans those up and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: has a whole off season with the offense and with
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts to like get their chemistry and timing on point, Like,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: I think he could really, you know, take that third
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: wide receiver spot and keep it. But you know, there
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: is a lot of competition in that room. But I
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: think he really he's earned the chance to like earn
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: the position.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, it was great talking to her folks, Alexis
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: Chason and follow her on the interwebs out there again,
• 1:02:22
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• 1:02:24
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• 1:02:28
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• 1:02:30
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• 1:02:33
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• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: over there. Alexis, it was great talking to you. Thank
• 1:02:40
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• 1:02:42
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• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I'd love to have you back on the show, my.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: Friend, absolutely, Thanks so much, and go Birds.
• 1:02:50
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