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EAGLES POSTGAME: Eagles vs. Chargers, Week 14 · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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  Speaker 1: sports podcast show in the world, over twelve and a
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  Speaker 1: half years strong. In the Philadelphia Eagles losing Week fourteen
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  Speaker 1: of this season two the Los Angeles Chargers out in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles by a score of twenty two to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: in a game that went to overtime, In a game
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  Speaker 1: that this Eagles offense absolutely sucked in terms of playing
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  Speaker 1: professional football. My goodness, defense not looking too bad at all,
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  Speaker 1: but the Eagles offense, Jalen Hurts, the offensive line, even
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  Speaker 1: the receivers from time to time absolutely sucked. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into our themes from this game and dish
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  Speaker 1: out some grades as well. I'm Jeff Warren. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: at my good buddy Josh Shuster from Philadelphia soccernow dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, buddy, filling in for the guys. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: you have to actually at this point stayed up late
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  Speaker 1: to do this. I do appreciate it, buddy. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: and I say thank you, Josh, but I also say
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  Speaker 1: fuck you to this Eagles offense. What a bunch of bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: We watched. In this game, they had a mini bye week. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: this Eagles team basically had a mini bye week. We
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  Speaker 1: saw five turnovers and eleven plays in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you know ye Nick was involved this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Nick Sirianni, the head coach, apparently was involved in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the offensive coordinating and offensive game planning. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: we had a quarterback that through four interceptions in this
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  Speaker 1: game also so fumbled after one of those interceptions, he
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  Speaker 1: actually turned the ball over two times in one play,
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  Speaker 1: which actually made NFL history. No quarterback had actually done that.
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  Speaker 1: From a tweet that I saw from our old friend
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  Speaker 1: of the show, Ben Solak, so, I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: where to start in terms of the shit that is
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  Speaker 1: this offense. There's good stuff in this game from the
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  Speaker 1: from the Eagles defense, for sure, and we're gonna certainly
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. There was good stuff. Seven sacks, eleven
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  Speaker 1: quarterback hits. We're gonna dive into this Eagles defense for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but we gotta tell I'm gonna let you start, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I know every time that you know, we get on
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  Speaker 1: here and we do the postgame shows together, I know
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  Speaker 1: I usually go off and I go crazy at first
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hand that mantle
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  Speaker 1: over to you right now. Feel free, feel free, first
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  Speaker 1: theme of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't. I don't even have passion left.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough. They sucked it out of us, man, they
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  Speaker 1: really did it. It's just pain.
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  Speaker 2: I I the Eagles can't even muster in four quarters
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  Speaker 2: twenty points. I mean, this isn't you know the third
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  Speaker 2: week of September where we can kind of look and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're just trying to figure things out. I mean, all
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  Speaker 2: week we heard about how the energy is good, right,
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  Speaker 2: like Saquon was talking about that and giving interviews and
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  Speaker 2: Nick is getting more involved. Jeff, I'm gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 2: The offense was exactly the same, same, absolutely, except for
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Chargers have a horrible run defense, so
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles were able to run it a little more.
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  Speaker 2: So it makes sense in the second half that they
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  Speaker 2: decide to just not run the ball anymore after being
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  Speaker 2: completely successful in the first half, and they went to
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  Speaker 2: just deep throws or you know what's working over the
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  Speaker 2: middle of utilizing Goddard over the middle or aj Brown
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  Speaker 2: in contact areas. Right, that makes sense. The first play
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  Speaker 2: of the game. What they decide to do is aj
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  Speaker 2: Brown goes along. Why and at this rate, like, to
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  Speaker 2: be perfectly honest, it's probably better to throw an incomplete
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  Speaker 2: pass on first down than actually trying to run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And how we've gotten there. Yeah, because at least you
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  Speaker 2: start second and ten with an incomplete pass right right,
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  Speaker 2: opposed to second and eleven, thirteen fifteen. Yep, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I it is. I use a lot of words for
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  Speaker 2: my profession, and I don't have many left. I just
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what I watched tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, both way back, five.
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  Speaker 2: Turnovers, don't I don't even know what I watched tonight.
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  Speaker 1: This is the I'm dumbfounded. I think I think the rest
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  Speaker 1: of Eagles Nation is dumbfounded at this point. Both of
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  Speaker 1: these offenses in this game, both Eagles and Chargers offenses,
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem like they wanted to win this game. Both
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  Speaker 1: they both defenses were playing really well, but from an
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  Speaker 1: offensive standpoint. As we get into the theme. As we continued,
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  Speaker 1: I should say to dive into the themes here, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: where do we start. I wanted to see Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: play better than he did against Chicago. We all did
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  Speaker 1: you know the narrative coming out of that game? It
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  Speaker 1: was windy during that Black Friday game. Yes, he struggled
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  Speaker 1: with accuracy and more importantly, didn't seem to see receivers
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  Speaker 1: that were open. We wanted to see a little something
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  Speaker 1: different this week, and we saw the same Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: that we saw about a week and a half ago,
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  Speaker 1: if not a worse version, of course, of Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: with foreig interceptions. It was absolutely, absolutely How many times
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  Speaker 1: did we have to hear Troy Aikman say on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast that Hurts was missing wide open receivers. I must
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  Speaker 1: have that at least five or six times for God's sake.
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  Speaker 1: As bad as Jalen Hurts played though, as well, and
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  Speaker 1: it goes to what you initially said, Josh, goes to
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  Speaker 1: what you initially said about the time that this offensive
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff had the positive energy. I want to say this,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever deficiencies that Jalen Hurts has, and there are
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  Speaker 1: certainly a number of them, after this Week fourteen game
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  Speaker 1: against the Chargers, this coaching staff has done a horrible
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  Speaker 1: job of creating a game plan, an attacking type of
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  Speaker 1: game plan that actually highlights what Jalen Hurts does well.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to wrap my head around. And yes, Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts does do things well in this league and during
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  Speaker 1: his tenure as the Eagles quarterback the Super Bowl MVP,
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  Speaker 1: he does good things, but this coaching staff is doing
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  Speaker 1: a horrible job of creating a game plan that actually
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  Speaker 1: highlights what he does well. Before where we hit the
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  Speaker 1: record button, you're like, Jeff, you know, check out, check out,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is rushing four fucking carries for eight yards?
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: With three of those attempts coming in the first half?
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  Speaker 1: There you go, yes, absolutely, So we're talking themes of
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  Speaker 1: this game, and yes we're disappointed, we're pissed off. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all we want to do is just completely take a
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  Speaker 1: piss all over this game. Really, but I also wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see if the offensive line was gonna help Saquon
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  Speaker 1: Barkley out in this game, you know, and I guess
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  Speaker 1: they did. I would say they were, they were better.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't great in the run game at all. Saquon
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  Speaker 1: had to break a few off there, Josh and and
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  Speaker 1: and I think that right from the start of the
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  Speaker 1: game though, we started to see that exact same predictable
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  Speaker 1: play calling that we've been seeing week after week. You
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  Speaker 1: just knew on that opening drive they were gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: those hitch routes to the receivers every single time. Guess
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  Speaker 1: what they did. We saw it. I mean, they continued
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  Speaker 1: with going with eleven personnel just about the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: right out of the gate, predictable as always. Grant cal Katara,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, is still out on the perimeter blocking
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  Speaker 1: in the rushing attack for some reason when it does
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  Speaker 1: not work. Check this out. In the first quarter, the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers gained eighty three yards on nine plays, the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: gained sixty four yards on seventeen plays.
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  Speaker 2: And the Eagles got the ball first. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to point that.
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  Speaker 1: Out, absolutely, absolutely so. The theme there is you're getting
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles are getting yards, but they're doing hitch routes,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's no yards after the catch. There's hardly
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  Speaker 1: any yards after the catch at all. With this team.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, it's just it's so disenchanting to know the
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  Speaker 1: talent that is on this team. They're not playing well.
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  Speaker 1: The players themselves and the coaches are still doing the
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  Speaker 1: same fucking thing that they've been doing for weeks and
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  Speaker 1: weeks and weeks now. It's just there's so many other
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  Speaker 1: things to get into with this game. I'm gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: pontificating right now. Where do you want to go next?
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the direction here.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Eagles have two big problems. The first
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  Speaker 2: is I don't know how you figure out the offensive
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  Speaker 2: issue without causing major ripple effects. What I mean by
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  Speaker 2: that is, Okay, so you want to put Tanner McKee
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  Speaker 2: in to figure out if it's play calling or the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: How does that not blow up in your face?
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  Speaker 1: Right right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just I'm being realistic and I'm wearing
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  Speaker 2: a Jalen Hurts jersey right now. Yeah, I like Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 2: But I have listened to and this isn't just people
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  Speaker 2: calling into like WIP. I'm talking about former players, but
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  Speaker 2: talk about the fact that the playbook is extremely limited
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  Speaker 2: because of him. I don't know that the playbook is
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  Speaker 2: doing him any favors, but the problem is you can't
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  Speaker 2: bench him while he's making a bazillion dollars a year. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I looked, he's the eleventh highest paid quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: I go based off of catpit. That's what actually matters.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about signing botuses or any of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm looking at Cappit. He's the eleventh highest paid
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL. He has not played that way
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  Speaker 2: this year. He has not been good this year and
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  Speaker 2: tonight has really not been good. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you'll probably get the cookie cutting answers from him after
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  Speaker 2: the game, which is at this point, it's starting to
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  Speaker 2: get all my nerves, like I'm tired of him talking
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  Speaker 2: about how he needs to do better. It starts with him,
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  Speaker 2: YadA YadA, YadA, fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The other problem is, you know, you're looking at the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter and this isn't to make the AJ Brown
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  Speaker 2: thing a thing. He's just happy because he's getting the ball.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't care that they're losing. He doesn't care that
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  Speaker 2: it's tied, he doesn't care that they're winning. He's just
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  Speaker 2: happy when he gets the ball. And that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: problem because it's stopping DeVante Smith, who is the number
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  Speaker 2: one wide receiver on this team. Yeah, there's a very
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  Speaker 2: real situation that the Eagles are looking at. And I
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  Speaker 2: forget who mentioned it this week, but they talked about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that actually I guess it was Ike Reece,
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  Speaker 2: who has you know, come around been a Jalen Hurts defender.
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  Speaker 2: He you know, was a Bronco guy, a once guy,
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  Speaker 2: but he's come around and become a Hurts defender. And
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  Speaker 2: he talked about the fact that in watching football this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: you watch quarterbacks make their progressions and Hurts doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: He decides who was going to ahead of the ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the play, and that's what's going to The Other
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  Speaker 2: thing is, you know, I text you you know Will
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  Speaker 2: Shipley was out and and Meryl Reese talked about this
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago when Meryl, when Will Shipley is out, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a pass play. Yep, he's out for
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  Speaker 2: two consecutive plays. What do they do when those two
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  Speaker 2: consecutive plays pass plays? Like again, as a South Carolina fan,
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  Speaker 2: I watched Will Shipley run all over the South Carolina defense.
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  Speaker 2: For the record, actually has the most interceptions of any
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  Speaker 2: collegiate team in the NFL this year, so they actually
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  Speaker 2: have a legitimate defense. I watched him run all over
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  Speaker 2: the South Carolina defense for years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they don't run with it, Yeah they don't. They don't.
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  Speaker 1: They're not running with him at all out there. It's
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  Speaker 1: so so it's the predictability still of this offense.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the bigger problem. It doesn't matter if it's
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  Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby, it doesn't matter if it's Will Shipley. If
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  Speaker 2: we're at the point where we're talking about these two
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  Speaker 2: individuals making an impact, we got problems.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 2: I got it in my second point. My second point
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  Speaker 2: was I don't know where this team goes in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they need multiple players on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: they need two defensive ends, they need a second corner,
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  Speaker 2: they need depth at safety. I mean you can go
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  Speaker 2: all and if you get rid of aj Brown. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about needing a wide receiver because you don't
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  Speaker 2: have a slot wide receiver. Yeah, you still don't have
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  Speaker 2: a slot wide receiver. It's been years, Like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where this team goes in the draft. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. And you see that the holes that
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  Speaker 1: this team has as not just from a personnel standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: which they've certainly seem to have been exposed in different
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  Speaker 1: areas on the offense for sure, But I also want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about certain play calling and certain in game situations.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't mind here, Yeah, first one is going
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  Speaker 1: to that play call. It was third and eleven, there
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  Speaker 1: were about two minutes and twenty seconds left in the game.
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  Speaker 1: A horrendous play call by Kevin Petulo. It was a
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  Speaker 1: terrible throw by Jalen Hurtz out into the flats to
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  Speaker 1: Devonte Smith. I cannot understand that particular play call in
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  Speaker 1: that situation, in that in game situation where you are
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game, you are driving, it
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  Speaker 1: is third and eleven and you are going to throw
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  Speaker 1: that far behind the sticks. It just absolutely baffles me.
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  Speaker 1: From a scheming standpoint, an in game type of situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a call. In all honesty, everybody's been saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta fire Kevin Patoola like that, Like
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  Speaker 1: that particular play right there should have been like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we have to get rid of this guy. Absolutely have
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of him. We see it time and
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  Speaker 1: time again, these type of calls that are just baffling,
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  Speaker 1: and we're look, I'm a dope here in my home
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  Speaker 1: studio with a microphone in front of me. Yes, I've
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  Speaker 1: been watching football my whole life. I understand the game
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. A lot of folks out there understand the
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  Speaker 1: game much better than I do and provide this type
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  Speaker 1: of analysis as well. But if folks like myself are
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  Speaker 1: seeing this, other folks are seeing this as well. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand the lack of being able to alter and
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  Speaker 1: change things. I don't understand that. Yes, there's only a
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  Speaker 1: few more games left in the regular season, but why
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  Speaker 1: can't small alteration be made. We keep seeing the same shit,
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  Speaker 1: and it's crazy. It is absolutely crazy to me, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: that we see the same type of play designs week
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  Speaker 1: after week. But I'll say this, how about this, though
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles look the offense looks dramatically better when they
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  Speaker 1: mix up the tempo and utilize no huddle. It's truly
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  Speaker 1: like a night and day difference type of thing, Like
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  Speaker 1: we saw it a couple times tonight. And they were
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  Speaker 1: actually able to drive the ball down the field. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the old Chip Kelly way of doing things, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but my goodness, they were actually able to be productive
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  Speaker 1: in terms of going tempo. I it's so frustrating, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna get any better, folks, Folks, It's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna get any better. From now until the end of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season, and if and when this team is
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, it's just not gonna get any better here.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm already looking towards twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ring poker in for an example here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I am a pretty successful poker player. It was kind
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: of crazy for a pastor to be a successful but
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you know, my my school ran a tournament and I
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: finished very well every year that they ran. And part
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  Speaker 2: of it is is just being able to read people.
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  Speaker 2: And it's no difference with defensive coordinators reading an offense.
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  Speaker 2: There's two ways that you can use motion. One is
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  Speaker 2: to set it up where you keep the opposition guessing,
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  Speaker 2: and the other, in a poker term, is as a tell.
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  Speaker 2: And the way the Eagles are running motion right now
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  Speaker 2: it is absolutely a tell.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm gonna I'm gonna kick myself. Who was
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the Eagles linebacker Seth Yes, he's on WYP talks about
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  Speaker 2: it literally, it's become a weekly segment where he basically
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  Speaker 2: talks about the fact that when DeVante Smith goes into motion, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's run play. So not only do you have Smith
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  Speaker 2: in motion, it's a run play. You have Shipley in
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a pass play. They are tipping
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  Speaker 2: their hand in terms of what they have, and they
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  Speaker 2: are the best people to have at a poker table
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  Speaker 2: because you already know, right, like you can eliminate three
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  Speaker 2: people at the poker table because you know their tell yes,
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  Speaker 2: and it's super easy to tell. The problem for the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles is this offense, like they they dominated the first half. Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to guess at what the time of
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  Speaker 2: possession was by the end of the game?
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, I don't. I don't. I'm not gonna look. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna look, even though I have the stats up.
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  Speaker 1: Was it? Did the Eagles have twenty four twenty four minutes?
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  Speaker 2: No, they actually had twenty nine. But here's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: They were at about nineteen minutes of possession in the
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  Speaker 2: first half, nineteen of the thirty minutes of the first half. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they had possession on which means in the second half
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  Speaker 2: they just got completely obliterated.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your defense can't keep up with that. Like, I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you and my other
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'll use a final thought here, I felt
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: like I was setting a pretty low bar that Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 2: as the eleventh highest paid quarterback in the NFL, would
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  Speaker 2: be able to outperform a quarterback who literally had surgery
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, literally seven days ago, had surgery. He couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it in perfect literally perfect weather conditions. Now your
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: terminology of perfect perfect weather conditions is minus thirty, but
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  Speaker 2: it was seventy degrees on the field with no wind.
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  Speaker 2: I don't anyway, Yeah, I'll just leave it at that. Yeah,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I am. I don't understand why you're not running the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: ball in the fourth quarter. I don't. I don't get it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at the stats, So Saquon Barkley, right,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: who has had a very off season, I feel like
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: is kind of fair to say, right, like he hasn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: been great this.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Year, right, Yes, but if you look.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: At his stats, he had over one hundred yards tonight, yeah, right,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Like he averaged six yards to carry. But we're not
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: going to use him in the fourth quarter.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Right right, not going to utilize them at all. Yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: not going to utilize them at all. Didn't see any
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of those swing passes to him really at all throughout
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: this game.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. Yeah, Like Barkley is not a
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: great receiver, right, but if he he's having a night
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: where he's got six yards of carry, he's got over
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty yards on the game, why are
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: we not using him in the fourth quarter? Right? I
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: don't get that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And if he's able to break runs on the outside,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: like we saw a number of times tonight, Yeah, you
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: know what going through the A gap wasn't It wasn't
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a great thing tonight by any stretch when he was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: running trying to run through the A gap, not a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: lot was going on. Why because the Eagles interior offensive
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: line just stinks and they have this entire season. But
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: you're running him to the outside, he's able to break
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: some off, he's able to get six yards.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: He stopped trying to run it up the middle in
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the second half, Yeah, because he was aware that it
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: wasn't working. Because he's a smart player. I would be
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: very interested to see the breakdown of running plays in
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the first half in the second half. I don't have
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: it here with me, but I would be very interested anyway.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you got anything else for
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the do you want to move over the defense because
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I want to give the defense props. To be honest
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: with you, I really do as much as yes, it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a team game, a team effort. This defense really showed
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: us something. And I do want to say too. The
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: caveat is that this Chargers offensive line, the interior of
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that Chargers offensive line is not good. They are not
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: very talented. Left guard and tackles and both tackles were
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: out horrible offensive line. Absolutely they did, and that is
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: why this Eagles team had seven sacks, They had seven
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: tackles for loss. They had eleven quarterback hits. I mean
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert got the crap kicked out of him tonight,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and that team still ended up winning this game. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I gotta say the defense did its job. At the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: end of the day. The defense did its job, Josh,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and I don't know what more they can do. This
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is a crew that has to be incredibly frustrated with
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: what's going on on the other side of the ball.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They consist are keeping this team in games. They're consistently
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: keeping them in games. There was a stat that I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: saw and where do I have that stat? And I'm
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: not sure if I have it right now? And I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: don't have it right now, darn it, but just dealing
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: with the pressure, consistent pressure that they were able to get.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips has been such a fantastic addition. And I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: also got to give some props to one A Dori Jackson.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I have to look, I give him credit for playing
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: some very good defense in the first half. He was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: injured for a bit, came back. You know, he did
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: give up some yards here and there, but it wasn't
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: critical yards. It wasn't yards where there was a touchdown scored.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, he A Dori Jackson played extremely well tonight,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and I gotta give him props because he has been
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that one guy that we've all been shitting on for
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the majority of this season, and rightfully so during games.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: But I got to give him credit where it's due.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: He had a really good game tonight. Linebackers, my gosh,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: they were getting there. I mean, na, Kobe Dean probably
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: should have had another two sacks in this game. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the defensive front just absolutely dominant. Jordan Davis specifically, I
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: love that Daddy has been able to get this defense
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: where and Daddy is Vic Fangio. That's what I've been
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: calling him now over these past few weeks. You know,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: he's daddy because he's the grown up that is on
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this coaching staff right now who is actually making some
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: sort of difference with personnel on this team. Vic Fangio
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: is putting this defense in a good position to be
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a playoff team. In the playoffs, you need to have
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a solid defense. That's what this Eagles team has right now.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: But it's been squandered by the offense. So I don't
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: know if you have any thoughts on the defense before
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: we go to break, buddy, but I just want to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: give the defense their props in this game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel bad for him. I feel bad for
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the defense. You know, even tonight. You know, when you
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: look at rushing, you know, Hampton had the highest I'm
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: not going to count Herbert, but in terms of rushers,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: he had the highest yards per carry and it was around.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Four four point three.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And that's without Jalen Carter. Like that, that's a big thing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Great point.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I will never get upset in twenty twenty five at
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a defense giving up less than twenty points through four quarters.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I honestly don't think in twenty twenty five, with the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: game the way the game is officiated. With the way
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the game is moving towards offense, I don't think you
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: can be upset when the defense gives up nineteen points
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: or fewer. I'm not upset at the defense last week.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was the defense last week that cost.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Them in the game.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I agree, sure they didn't have a great appearance, but
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: they also kept him out of the end zone a lot.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: So I don't with Vic Fangio. You have to do
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the trade off, Right, you're gonna give up yards, They're
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: gonna move the ball. They may get into field goal range,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but they're not really getting in the end zone, right,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And I would rather have that give me a field
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: goal every day of the week over a touchdown because
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: it takes three field goals to get more points than
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: one touchdown.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And what this defense did this week as well,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: especially the secondary. When you hold lad McConkie to one
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: catch for twelve yards, he was targeted five times. Lad
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: McConkie came down with one ball for twelve yards. Keenan
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Allen was targeted three times. Yes, it came down with
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: all three balls, but only for twenty two yards. Trey
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Harris only caught one ball for eighteen yards, and Quentin Johnson,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: he was targeted three times, came down with two for
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: eight yards. This defense did their job, and then some tonight,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: especially in the passing game, they really did. So why
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: do we go to break here?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Not not not to my own horn. Oh okay, but
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I have Maconkey on my fantasy team, and my fantasy
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: team has been a disaster this year, and I desperately
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: needed something from him. Gonna chuck this up, not to Vic,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but to Josh Schuster's fantasy management of fantasy football this year.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You're welcome, Eagles fans. But yeah, it was they did
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: overall very good job. I don't think you'll see this
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: kind of sack output again this year. It just involved
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: both tackles being out and a horrible, horrible interior line play. Yea,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: they just happened to be able to get this many sacks.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep. All right, folks, We are going to take
• 28:00
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• 28:32
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the grades really quick, as we
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: do every week. There's gonna be a lot of f's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, so we'll be
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: back in just a bit. All right, We are back
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: here with my good buddy Joshchuster from Philadelphia soccernow dot
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: com filling in for the guys here again as the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles lose this game to the Los Angeles Chargers
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: by a score of twenty two to nineteen. Grading. Jalen
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Hurts grating on the offense as we always do. To start,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts gets an F for me twenty one to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: forty forty yards. He averaged six point six yards per
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: attempt for interceptions. He ended with a rating of thirty
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: one point two, probably one of his worst games that
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he's ever played in an Eagles uniform. He gets an F.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I would imagine you're giving him an F as well, josh.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, Jeff, Jeff, I saw your text message that instead
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: of breaking down the offensive grades, you want to break
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: down the first four episodes of Stranger Things, So I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: figured you should spend time talking about that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Well that still may it be more productive
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: than the Eagles offense.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen Hurts gets an F and I do a
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: lot to defend him. Tonight was just I I I
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: don't even have words, e F F.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do. Let's go to the running back
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley average, like you mentioned earlier, six point one
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: yards per carry on twenty carries, one hundred twenty two yards.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: This was the Saquon Barkley that we have come to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know for the most part. I mean, there were times
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: when he was stopped behind the line of scrimmage again
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: because that interior of the offensive line just not having
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a good season here in terms of the rush blocking.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: So I'm actually I'm gonna give Saquon Barkley this week
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a B. What do you give him?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: He gets an A?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jeff, there's only one play you know what he does.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: He gets an offense that gets an A.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like A J.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Brown had four drops tonight.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You know DeVante Smith wasn't around tonight, and that's not
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: through his own doing. He was wide open plenty. Yepquon
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: gets an A.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're absolutely right. He absolutely gets an A. I'm
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thinking too much of the offensive line on that one.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He absolutely gets an A. Moving to the receivers, though,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the receivers tonight a C plus. Actually
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you mentioned all those drops. But I do wonder, Josh,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I do want under if it's more the scheming, because
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: they're not scheming. These guys open either. No, they are open, well,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: some of them are, some of them are, some of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: them are. It depends on the play.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: There is an open wide receiver every single play, just
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: about and watch. Yes, there is an open wide receiver
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: every single play. So what that means to me is
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: like it's talked about, and I'm talking about former NFL players.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about some guy that calls in and says,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I watch the All twenty two. I don't believe that
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you watch that, But I believe former players. If they're
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: talking about how open. Players are I'm leaning more towards
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: we have a quarterback problem than we have an offensive
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: coordinator problem. Yeah, the players are being schemed open. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: just I don't we talk about the receivers. I'm going
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: to again go to the first play of the game.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: AJ Brown going down the field. That is not his strength.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Send him over the middle, send him into contested play catches.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: He's great that way. Why are we sending him deep
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: down the field on first down the first play of
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the game. If you want to do it, Davonte Smith,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, Don Dotson yeah yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Well what do you give that? What do you give
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the receivers? I was gonna go with C plus and
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of them is because of those drops, key
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: drops and key situations, specifically by A. J. Brown. What
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: are you going to give the receivers.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give A J.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Brown.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I don't care that he got one hundred yards. He
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: gets a D minus from me. Everyone else gets a B.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, like Goddard came up with very clutch throws tonight, right,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: very clutch catches tonight, Like I I need to separate
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: AJ Brown from the rest of the receiving core. AJ
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Brown at this point. He just wants his stats.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: The rest of the receiving corps did a good.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Job, okay, all right, Uh the offensive line really good,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: really pretty good in past protection quite frankly, run blocking
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: absolutely like I just didn't think they were fantastic and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: run blocking again, I think we'll yeah, Jeff, yeah, Jeff?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: What yards of carry? I think they did okay tonight
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: in terms of run blocking, it was better comparison.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It was better, It was better. I'm still going with
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a C. I'm actually going with a C. What do
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you give him?
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: You gotta give him at least the B plus we
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: have we have and not to mention, yeah, Cam, Jurgen's
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: going out again. I'm moving it to an A minus
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: like I, oh, you have your primary running back going
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: over one hundred and twenty yards over six yards of carry.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: They did fine. I am attributing that to Saquon himself.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I really am, I really am, because he was able
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to see those gaps, he was able to use his
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: vision more than he was able to utilize the blockers
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: with regard except for the fifty if what was it
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: fifty two yard? Or was that? Is that? What it was?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Is that? What it was fifty two yard touchdown. He
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: was able to utilize his blockers there the rest of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the game. There are plenty of.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Holes that were open for him, more so than previous weeks.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I gotta go back and here here's where, Yes.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: We can't be super critical on them, okay and then
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: not give them their flowers when they had a good game. Okay,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: So like it's got to be one or the other.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: It can't be both.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Okay, Okay, I think that's fair. I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: gonna keep my seat, I'm gonna keep my sea. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: thought it was an average showing you're wrong. I'm wrong.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Let's move over to the defensive line. They're they're gonna
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: get an A plus for me this week. What do
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you give them?
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, you know, we talk about all the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: injuries and just how terrible the Chargers offensive line is.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: But if you don't take advantage of it, doesn't mean
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: anything to get an A plus from me. They took
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: advantage of it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Same with the linebackers. I mean, the linebackers they're getting
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a plus as well. You would say the same. Yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: The one thing is that I'll add and I agree
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: with the grade. I'm not changing the grade. Zach Bond
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: has not been mentioned as much as I would like
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: him to be, okay, considering that he was one of
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the financial commitments. And again, Jeff, I'm very consistent with this,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Like I'm very hard on the offense, that's where all
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the financial commitments are. On the defense, Zach Bond is
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: their financial commitment. I need I need a little more.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Something I want to mention as well, which you
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: mentioned over in a text message to me, the lack
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of seeing Jihad Campbell out there. Yes, Johad Campbell is
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: is like nowhere since Nakobe Dean has come back. Not
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: sure and understand I don't understand why Vic Fangio is
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: not bringing him out there more. Maybe trying to implement
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: him in the pass rush a little bit more. You
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: made a good point over text message with that with me,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, this past draft
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: class really has not shown up this year at all.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, Campbell was playing when Nakobe Dean was out, but.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: We didn't good yeah and injured yep, right, yep.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So like.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: First round draft pick on a special teams player and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: it's not like they have this tremendous pass rush outside
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: of this week, right, I'm really struggling as to why
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: we're playing and I like BG, don't get me wrong,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: but he should be a rotation guy. Yeah, he's going
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to be a regular and really Jahad Campbell needs to
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: be on the end and he needs to figure it out. Yeah,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: it's just it's bizarre.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hope hopefully they will these next few weeks here
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: as this season comes to a conclusion for this team.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: So thank god.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yes. Anyway, the secondary, I'm gonna give the secondary an
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: A plus this week as well. Actually, I thought they
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: did fantastic. What are your thoughts?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Uh, I would I'll give him an A okay, I'm
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: not gonna go eight plus.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I'll give him an A okay. I thought it was
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: their best game of the season, to be honest, I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: really did, in terms of the talent that was on
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the offensive side, with those with the receivers that you
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: have again with lad McConkie Keenan Allen keeping them under
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: under I mean under one hundred yards, you know, like
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: basically it was one hundred and thirty nine total receiving yards,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: which is not considering that da Vidal Vidal Vidaal had
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a sixty yarder. You know, I thought it was pretty
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: impressive from the secondary.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I think part of it for me is the Chargers
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: offensive line was so horrible. Justin her Herbert had served
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: on Monday. The guy, I just I didn't expect great
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: things from them. I I don't know, I feel I'll
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: give him an a.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, are sounds good? All right, Let's get to the coaching.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Let's get first two special teams and our thoughts here.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Jake Elliott nailing a forty one yarder than a forty
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: six yarder he missed from forty eight yards and uh. Overall,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Bradon Man averaged fifty one point seven yards on three
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: punts in this game. A phrase that I never thought
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: that I would actually say is that I and I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: can't believe I'm going to say this sentence right now.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Britain Covey should have been returning punts for this Eagles
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: team all freaking season. There it is, my goodness. I mean,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: he was a spark in this game that was needed.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, the spark fizzled out, of course because the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: offense was coming onto the field, But my goodness, Britain
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Covey with with with with an incredible return game. He
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: was averaging on his punt returns eighteen yards per punt
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: return on three punt returns. His kick returns, he was
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: averaging twenty five point eight yards. You know, probably average there,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: but man, I'm gonna have his special teams this week
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: could be what do you give them?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's two different greates. Okay, we're talking
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: about the players. They get an A. The coaching staff
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: for special teams gets anth. Okay, I don't know why
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Covey has not been playing. I mean, we've gone through
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: a number of players at this point, yeah, who have
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: not been good. And I mean, I know Covey had
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: a rough start here in Philly, but last year he
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: was great.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't I don't.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Understand why he was not playing and returning kicks before now.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I just it's battling, absolutely baffling.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, and it's almost borderline criminal.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: So I think the players get an A. The coaching staff,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: considering it took until December eighth for them to figure
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: out that the best returner from last year should get
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: another run this year, they get an f.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: All right, Vic Fangio and the defensive coaching giving them
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: a straight up A. Here, what do you give him?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Yep, hey, I don't think we need I actually give
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: him an A plus. They were on the field longer
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: than the offense was by the end of the game,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: and they it took overtime for the Chargers to hit
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: three scores.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, let's let's move to the defense. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: mean move to the offense. Sorry, I just I just
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the offense. That's what I
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: just said. Let's keep on the defense here. Offense. Obviously,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say an F for coaching
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: this week. F do you give him an F?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I give him a Z.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: All we heard this week was that Nick Siriani is
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: is getting involved. All we heard about was how the
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: vibes are different on the offensive side of the ball,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: and then you come out and you give this is
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: just it's inexcusable. And it's not like the Chargers have
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: a great defense like I don't we're now following this
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: is three straight weeks of them facing a bottom third
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: defense in the NFL and not being able to put
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: up points. I don't this this is they aren't facing
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: playoff defenses. This is not good. The Cowboys, the Chargers
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: and the Bears do not have good defenses and they
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: cannot score points. The one refreshing thing that I will
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: say from tonight involving the offense is they didn't go
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: three and out a ton They gave you hope. It's
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the hope that kills you. To quote, I forget, I
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: forget the show anyway, the hope that kills you, and
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: they that tonight and just just horrible. It will, however,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: be a fun week of sports talk.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I do think it definitely will be. It really will
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: be with a lot of the with those cast of
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: characters at that WIP place down there. So yep, all right,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us folks again. The Philadelphia
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Eagles losing Week fourteen here against the Los Angeles Chargers
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: by a score of twenty two to nineteen out at
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: SOFI Stadium in Los Angeles. My good friend Josh Schuster
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: from Philadelphia soccernow dot com. Buddy, thanks so much for
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: taking the time to jump on join us here. I
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: always love talking to you, you know it. Always love
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: having ya on filling in for the guys here when
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: they're unable to do the postgame shows, and we'll certainly
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: get into some union talk at some point as well.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: My friends, So they're.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Spending money, Jess, Yes, they are spending money.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't even know.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: What to do.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Let's just enjoy that for the moment, right to enjoy.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: So, yes, no, they spend money then too.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Josh, good talking to you, my friend. Let's
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: talk again at some point down the road.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: All right, sounds good, Jeff. Always pleasure and.
• 43:12
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