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The DiCecco Daily: Can The Eagles' Offense Be Fixed? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happened? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: check O Deli. It's Andrew de Checko, Eagles beat reporter
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  Speaker 1: for insidethirds dot Com. And for the next two days
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do podcasts where on the first day
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  Speaker 1: we outline my biggest issue with the offense, what I
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  Speaker 1: perceive it to be, and then on Tuesday, the podcast
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  Speaker 1: that comes out will be what I perceive to be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest issue on defense. Now, on offense, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of areas that you can point to, certainly offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator Kevin Patulo. He's the new face, the new ingredient
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  Speaker 1: to this formula, and it hasn't been pretty and he
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  Speaker 1: does warrant some criticism though he's a little bit further
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  Speaker 1: down full transparency in the pecking order if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to assign blame the way that I see it. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't been imaginative. It's been very stale. It looks
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  Speaker 1: to be basic at times, predictable, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: use that word. But you're not seeing anybody progress or
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  Speaker 1: develop under him. And I think it's more than anything
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  Speaker 1: sequencing and feel for calling plays. I've said it before,
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  Speaker 1: it's an art not a science. I've been a big
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  Speaker 1: defender of Kevin Patullo because I think he's I think
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. I think folks are a little too
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  Speaker 1: strong in their assessment of him, and it seems like
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  Speaker 1: everyone is inclined to point the finger solely at Kevin Petullo,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think that's you're not taking everything into account.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers as to why the offense
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  Speaker 1: isn't performing to standard, but that's just one of the issues.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at the play of Jalen Hurts as
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  Speaker 1: something that has increasingly become a little bit more magnified
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  Speaker 1: when the offense isn't performing.
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  Speaker 1: There's missed opportunities left on the field. There's ball placement issues.
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  Speaker 1: So you're looking and this isn't all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: there are instances where ball placement is clearly an issue.
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  Speaker 1: On those intermediate routes. In particular, you're not putting in
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  Speaker 1: it a place where receivers can get yards after the catch,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps more than anything, he's holding the ball for
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  Speaker 1: far too long. And that's something that it doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: you till it gets you, as he'll say, But there
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  Speaker 1: have been a lot of times where he is hesitant
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  Speaker 1: to pull the trigger, maybe not trusting what he's seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, I'm not a quarterback, I'm not a coach.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and speculate as to why.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just very evident watching jywhen Hurst every single week,
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  Speaker 1: and as someone who touches the ball on every play,
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  Speaker 1: as someone who is the leader of that side of
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  Speaker 1: the football, as someone who is a reigning Super Bowl MVP,
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  Speaker 1: expectations are noticeably or they're going to be understandably high.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a very good quarterback and has played at
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  Speaker 1: such a high level. But if you're looking at the
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  Speaker 1: offense in his totality and you're trying to assess where
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  Speaker 1: things are going wrong, he has a hand in that,
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  Speaker 1: just like Kevin Petullo. Just like the next aspect on
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  Speaker 1: this list, which is the offensive line. The offensive line
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  Speaker 1: has been banged up all season and they haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to generate that push up front all season. For
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  Speaker 1: most of the season. There's been moments, but it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been the style of dominance that we've grown accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: seeing under Jeff Stealin, even under Nick Siriani and the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. We talked a lot about Saquon Barkley and
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  Speaker 1: how maybe that volume of touches affect him this season
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty two touches including the postseason. I
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  Speaker 1: outline that a lot, but it's for a reason because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the conversation this offseason stemmed from what was, say,
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  Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley going to look like in year two after getting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, rewarded for the big season that he had.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that he looks any different to
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  Speaker 1: me than he does last year. He still has the
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  Speaker 1: same traits and characteristics, the acceleration, the power. He runs
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  Speaker 1: extremely physically to grind out those tough yards.
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  Speaker 1: you can look at other areas of his game where
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  Speaker 1: their things aren't coming nearly as easy as they happen
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  Speaker 1: to come last year, and those wide creases that he
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  Speaker 1: could just run through untouched, He's getting hit at the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage more often than not this season before
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  Speaker 1: he ever gets time to really generate some momentum moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: There is also a play and I know I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little bit all over the place here, but things are
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  Speaker 1: starting to come to me as we're talking about this subject.
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  Speaker 1: But that fifteen yard run that he had against the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: he probably house calls that last season. But I think
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  Speaker 1: he looks to be the same player, And I don't
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  Speaker 1: view that extraordinarily hefty workload that he had last year
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  Speaker 1: as something that has been a detriment to him this season.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see it. He says he's the same guy,
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  Speaker 1: he says he's healthy. I think that there are times
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  Speaker 1: where when you're used to seeing a lot of production
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  Speaker 1: and things just happen to occur so easily with that
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  Speaker 1: offensive line carving out truck size holes and you're ripping
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  Speaker 1: off sixty seventy yard runs on a regular basis and
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  Speaker 1: week out, and then this year it's tough sledding this year.
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  Speaker 1: You have to rely on patience and vision, and I
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  Speaker 1: think with that you can see that there are times
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  Speaker 1: where Saquon Barkley is pressing. That's evident to me watching
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  Speaker 1: it on whether you're watching it on TV, whether you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the coaches tape, whether you're watching it in the
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  Speaker 1: press box. Because things aren't there, you press and you
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  Speaker 1: try to hit a home run on every carry instead
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  Speaker 1: of taking what's in front of you and taking the
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  Speaker 1: four or five yard pickup and churning forward and keeping
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  Speaker 1: the offense on schedule. But from a larger perspective here,
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  Speaker 1: I view the biggest issue on offense to be the
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  Speaker 1: running game, because that's what everything plays off of.
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  Speaker 1: Foundationally, Nick Siriani wants this to be a run first
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  Speaker 1: offense where you lean on the running back, you take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of what has been the league's best offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: and you pick your spots in the passing game. Take
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  Speaker 1: you look for explo in the passing game, push the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field, but it's not the primary focus
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  Speaker 1: of the offense. So the run sets up the pass.
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  Speaker 1: In an ideal world, That's how Nick Sirianni views this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Those are his principles and ideologies, and he believes you
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  Speaker 1: protect the football, you run the football, and then that
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  Speaker 1: sets up the pass. That's the way that he views it.
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  Speaker 1: In the most simplistic sort of summary that I can
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  Speaker 1: provide here. And this is not ever going to be
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  Speaker 1: a high volume passing attack under Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: That's just not going to happen. That's not how it's
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  Speaker 1: intended to run. This is the way that Nick Sirianni
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  Speaker 1: wants the offense to run. And when you're not able
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  Speaker 1: to run the football, all of a sudden, it puts
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  Speaker 1: a spotlight on everything else. Everything becomes a lot harder.
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  Speaker 1: It almost looks like you're laboring down the field because
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  Speaker 1: guess what, that's not what this team is designed to do.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of eggs were put into the Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: offensive line basket, and then the work show in other
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  Speaker 1: aspects of the offense when you're not able to execute
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  Speaker 1: in the running game. And this is where you can
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  Speaker 1: see the issues in timing, ball placement. I go back
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  Speaker 1: to the ball placement thing because that has revealed itself
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  Speaker 1: on different occasions. Hesitant to pool the trigger. What you
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  Speaker 1: see then, from a play calling and a play design standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing routes that don't seem to be synchronized. Two
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  Speaker 1: players in the same area running routes that can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: You need to have more variance in those routes. But
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  Speaker 1: when you're struggling from that perspective, and you're struggling from
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  Speaker 1: a passing game perspective where Jaywin hasn't been in a
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  Speaker 1: rhythm as of late, that's why I think the running game,
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  Speaker 1: because everything stems from that. I think that is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest issue on offense. And if they had that running game,
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  Speaker 1: not even to the degree that they had it last season,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these conversations wouldn't be had about Patullo,
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  Speaker 1: about Jalen, about Nick Sirianni, because the offense would be
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  Speaker 1: humming along just like it was designed to do. But
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  Speaker 1: now that that's not there, obviously that hasn't been the case.
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  Speaker 1: So that to me is the biggest issue. As I
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  Speaker 1: continue to say and have said all season, it's not
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  Speaker 1: solely Kevin Petullo. There are different components, and we outline
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  Speaker 1: some of them here, but all of them that I
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  Speaker 1: can think of off the top of my head that
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  Speaker 1: are sort of baked in that make up the stew
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  Speaker 1: of what has been a lethargic and uninspired offensive performance
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  Speaker 1: for the better part of the season.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have an extended period here to go back
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  Speaker 1: to the drawing board. Maybe you add some wrinkles, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you make some changes, Maybe you try to find something
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  Speaker 1: to generate a spark to head this thing in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction and finish the season on a high note
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  Speaker 1: unlike twenty twenty three, and you want to go into
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  Speaker 1: the postseason with you know, firing on all cylinders. So
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a tough game in LA
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  Speaker 1: going to the West coast and playing. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens with Justin Herbert. He injured his non throwing hand
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  Speaker 1: and I believe he had surgery or today, So we'll
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  Speaker 1: try and see what the updates look like for that.
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  Speaker 1: But if he plays, it's going to be a tough game.
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  Speaker 1: If he doesn't play, you'll see Trey Lance there at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But the Eagles do have a couple of games against
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders. They played pretty well on Sunday Night football.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are a better football team, but if they
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  Speaker 1: continue to turn the football over and fail to execute
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  Speaker 1: from an offensive standpoint, there's only you know, any team
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  Speaker 1: can beat any team. I think what we've seen this
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  Speaker 1: year in the NFL is there hasn't been a team
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  Speaker 1: that has stood head and shoulders above the pack above
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, and I think it's anyone's It's anyone's game
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  Speaker 1: right now. Things are interesting. The Chicago Bears with the
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  Speaker 1: top seed, you have the Rams, and you have the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: But the Seahawks, they're a pretty damn good football team,
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  Speaker 1: so it's gonna get really interesting here. The Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are playing tremendous football right now, and I think they're
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  Speaker 1: starting to hit their stride. They have a big game
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night against the Lions. So there is a lot
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  Speaker 1: at play here over the next month of the season,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really looking forward to seeing how all these
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  Speaker 1: puzzle pieces fit into the equation. But going back to
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  Speaker 1: the original point, the biggest issue on offense from my perceptive.
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  Speaker 1: From my perspective is the lack of a running game,
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  Speaker 1: because that caused a ripple effect to other areas and
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  Speaker 1: put a spotlight on everything else. So something to think about. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I will be revealing my biggest issue
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  Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint. But for now, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it for this edition of a check o'daly. It's
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  Speaker 1: Andrew to checko here and I will catch you on
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  Speaker 1: the next one.