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Eagles Training Camp Has Begun! (PST Episode 576) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: What's going on everybody. We wanted to let you know.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast episode was recorded on Wednesday, July twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. By the time you hear this, some
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  Speaker 1: things may have changed here or there, but we hope
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy the show. Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table
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  Speaker 1: podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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  Speaker 1: in the world, eleven years strong. We got a great
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  Speaker 1: show for you this week. We're gonna be getting into
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  Speaker 1: some Phillies talk, of course, right off the bat, second
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  Speaker 1: half the season has started, team struggling a little bit here.
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  Speaker 1: From there, we're gonna talk about an Olympics story, actually
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  Speaker 1: a quote pre Olympics story, the Canadians women's soccer coach
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  Speaker 1: and team boy. They were being naughty doing a little
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  Speaker 1: spying on another team. And from there we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into some quick basketball talk WNBA All Star Game, the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers making a signing with a veteran guard, and then
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  Speaker 1: from there we got a ton of Eagles talk. Our
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  Speaker 1: guests this week and what we're throwing down on the table.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a Lexus Chasin from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the start of training camp. What we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seeing here. So I'm Jeff Warren. I'm here,
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  Speaker 1: my buddy Eric Leonard.
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  Speaker 2: Eric.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I started working again like five weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good to have a job, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And like you know, like we don't do physical labor,
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  Speaker 2: you and I no for work, but just the mental
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  Speaker 2: like not doing a damn thing for like three and
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  Speaker 2: a half months besides looking for a god and walking
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  Speaker 2: your dog and just doing nothing. Just the mental stress
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  Speaker 2: and like actually doing a doing a job again. Holy hell, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hired just from that. And it's I'm as tired
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  Speaker 2: as the Phillies, look right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you have a new experience too, because you've
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  Speaker 1: always worked in an office atmosphere, an office environment. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of remote work that you are doing,
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  Speaker 1: and that in itself is a different experience. And folks,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't work remotely, look, I've been doing it
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  Speaker 1: since the pandemic. The nonprofit that I work for, my
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  Speaker 1: boss wants a hybrid of that. I do go into
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  Speaker 1: an office every now and again, but I mainly work
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  Speaker 1: from home. And there are stressors at home too, there
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  Speaker 1: are distractions. You have to be like, you just have
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  Speaker 1: to be mentally able to go from one thing to another,
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  Speaker 1: to another to another, and that gets taxing during the
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  Speaker 1: course of a day. And you're going through that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just like I took a spare room and
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  Speaker 2: turned into an office and just to pass the time sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, nobody works eight straight hours. No, nobody
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  Speaker 2: does it. She does that, right, So I'll notice one
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  Speaker 2: of the thing, like I missed a spot of paint
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  Speaker 2: in that corner ship. You know, just sit there and
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  Speaker 2: look at it like a minute or two. Well I'll
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  Speaker 2: be like I didn't do wordle yet. Let mean wordle right,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, like little little things distract you because there's
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  Speaker 2: no one like in an aufice. Like you're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to work and you know, some guy, some guy you
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  Speaker 2: can't stand, comes by just the game last night because
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  Speaker 2: he knows you do you know they do a podcast, right?
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna talk about that on the podcast this
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  Speaker 1: next week?
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  Speaker 2: He's like a Pirates fan, Like, no, I don't, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: talk about that crap.
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  Speaker 1: You have kids like I do. During the course of
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  Speaker 1: the summer, they are home and they'll come up to you, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: can't you drive me to the amusement park?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Please? I'm in the middle of writing a press release here,
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  Speaker 1: no I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Or or I'm on a I'm on a call with
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  Speaker 2: three of my German peers, trying to understand them.
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  Speaker 1: My son will pocket You're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna do something later today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, man, I love this too. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: love my kids. Of course they they they're honor students,
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  Speaker 1: they are in National Junior Honor Society. They're smart kids
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. But sometimes, like the perception, you gotta you
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  Speaker 1: gotta understand what's going on around you a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: because there are times I'm on a zoom call, for
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  Speaker 1: God's sake, with something work related. I'm talking. Do they
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  Speaker 1: think I'm just talking to myself out loud? And then
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  Speaker 1: they'll just come over, Hey, dad, do you mind if
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  Speaker 1: you make me? And I'm like, and I'm like pointing
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  Speaker 1: to my computer. I'm like, I'm on my call.
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  Speaker 2: Here, you know, Oh sorry, I mean I did tell
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  Speaker 2: them the one time. This would be like you getting
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  Speaker 2: in a car and driving to my old office and
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  Speaker 2: just walking in, going dude, are we gonna do something?
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  Speaker 2: In the middle of a one on one with one
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  Speaker 2: of my people, Like, oh my god, I love that
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  Speaker 2: we're complaining about our kids here during the summer.
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  Speaker 1: We really love our families, folks.
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  Speaker 2: We do. But we'll say that right now. We're both solo. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so our families are out of the house and we
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  Speaker 2: love our families, Jeff and I. But yes, it is
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  Speaker 2: really nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying it's like a mental holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I mean, I come home and my
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  Speaker 2: dog jumps up and he's like it's time to go out,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, come on, man, why do you
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  Speaker 2: go with him? To have nothing to do?
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh my god. We should just have an entire
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  Speaker 1: podcast on this. Forget the forget the Phillies, forget the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I've been in boxers and a T shirt all day long.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, calls on can so I whatever, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have to, That's how you gotta do it, folks, boxers,
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  Speaker 1: T shirt and for the ladies out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever undergarments you have, just sit around all day. And I'm.
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  Speaker 2: So you think he'd be in panty and bras Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Now I feel weird. All right, great show, folks, Let's
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  Speaker 1: get into some Phillies talk here right off the bat, God,
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  Speaker 1: what the first half of the season, and we all,
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  Speaker 1: I think, had this concern coming down the All Star break.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, all right, are they gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: keep it up? We've talked about it here in the
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  Speaker 1: show a number of times, but boy, they are really
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  Speaker 1: having a tough time out of the gate here. The
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  Speaker 1: offense has been nothing more than just stagnant. They're sixty
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  Speaker 1: four and thirty seven on the season. However, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. They're nine and eight in the month of
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  Speaker 1: July as we're recording this. So what should the level
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  Speaker 1: of concern be for fans? I don't, Eric, think the
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  Speaker 1: sky is falling by any stretch. They had a tough
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  Speaker 1: time against the Pirates, they lost the series Minnesota just
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  Speaker 1: this past week here, and they're gonna be facing the Guardians,
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  Speaker 1: who are a very very good team. Like these next
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  Speaker 1: like basically three to four series are going to be
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  Speaker 1: really tough for this team. They're gonna be tested. And
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  Speaker 1: we know that they had a quote easier schedule in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, first half of the season.
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  Speaker 1: The second half of the season, the schedule gets a
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  Speaker 1: little tough. Do I think the sky's falling? Eric, No,
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  Speaker 1: But this offense needs to come alive soon does because
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  Speaker 1: guys need to start hitting home ers. They just do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this that's what this roster is, and they
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  Speaker 1: just haven't been doing it. Again, I'm not completely concerned,
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  Speaker 1: but it does think when when you've got runners in
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  Speaker 1: scoring position how many times and nothing happens. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what are your thoughts here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I had to rate my concern one
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  Speaker 2: to ten, like a three, it's really not that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking three or four.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're an older team, They're they're bound. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna say swoon. Swoon is like a full on like,
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  Speaker 2: oh shit, we're in trouble, right. But the stagnant is
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  Speaker 2: a great term for it, because they were red hot
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  Speaker 2: in the first half and we're just we're just awesome
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  Speaker 2: to watch. Their offense was exciting. The pitching was just
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  Speaker 2: it was commanding, and they had eight All Stars. It
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  Speaker 2: was if you watch the El Star game, it really
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  Speaker 2: was like the Phillies moment. At one point the whole
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  Speaker 2: infield was except for second base, was all Phillies. That
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  Speaker 2: was kind of cool. Yeah to see, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: you can't negate some of their opponents recently, like the
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  Speaker 2: Pirates were hot as hell before the All Star break.
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  Speaker 2: We ran into kind of a buzz saw. Honestly, they
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  Speaker 2: think we didn't have to see schemes, but we are
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  Speaker 2: able to take one out of three. The Twins are
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  Speaker 2: no pushover, neither of the Guardian. So they played some
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  Speaker 2: good teams and they again they're kind of they're an
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  Speaker 2: age team and they're trying to bring real mood to
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  Speaker 2: it back into the fold. He was out for how long.
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  Speaker 2: You know he's.
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  Speaker 1: Struggling to get back. Yeah, he's definitely struggling to get back.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to take some time. And and you know,
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  Speaker 2: as long as they have some really solid pitching, the
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  Speaker 2: pitching is is what's going to keep them afloat. There's
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  Speaker 2: still three games above everyone else even after today, So
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  Speaker 2: I again my concerns. Out of three. The one thing
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  Speaker 2: I do like is that I don't think they popped
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  Speaker 2: their cherry whatever the term is in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, I don't think they blew their load. This
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  Speaker 2: is getting very sexy, and I just think that they
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  Speaker 2: play some really good teams. They're an older team. Real
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  Speaker 2: Muto is coming back. It's gonna take some time. But
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  Speaker 2: what I do like the reason that I like that
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  Speaker 2: they're stagnant right now, and even though the pitching is good,
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  Speaker 2: I think this will be more incentive for them to
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  Speaker 2: make some moves for the deadline, which is like in
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  Speaker 2: a week or so, right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: If it came out just blasting and one like eight,
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  Speaker 2: when I eight and one or whatever, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they won't make any moves. But now, like maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe this will push the front off to be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we do have to make some tweaks. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: make one big move and some minor tweaks because I
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  Speaker 2: think one more solid rotation pitcher would really be good.
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  Speaker 2: And and one more yeah, because because Alvarado is He's
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  Speaker 2: even said in interviews like I'm not good right now.
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  Speaker 2: I suck. So I would bring in maybe a closer
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  Speaker 2: just in case maybe he becomes like the eighth seventh
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  Speaker 2: inning guy or whatever if if Alverado comes back, but
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  Speaker 2: like just and obviously another bat or so for the outfield, but.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta be a right hander.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with real Muto if he takes like a
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  Speaker 2: month or so to come back, you need another right
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  Speaker 2: hand like strong bat in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely. I do think Dave Dombrowski is gonna
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  Speaker 1: make moves. It's not gonna surprise me if he does.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna surprise me if he doesn't make any moves.
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  Speaker 1: If he doesn't, eric that means that he believes that
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  Speaker 1: this team is gonna be able to get back to
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  Speaker 1: that form earlier in the season. I just don't think
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  Speaker 1: that that's gonna happen, though, definitely gonna need a bullpen arm.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the other starter quite frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: think they would Key. I think they may go to
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  Speaker 1: a six man rotation at some point, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they need that right handed outfielder at
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  Speaker 1: this point too, So I don't know. I do think
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  Speaker 1: a six man rotation is coming, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I do too. But I just think there's there's plenty
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  Speaker 2: of there's really good starters out there on the trade market,
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  Speaker 2: which is why I think maybe Don Browski's like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, we have a window of like two to
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  Speaker 2: three years, why not just go all the freak in
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  Speaker 2: this year and just see what the hell we can do.
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  Speaker 2: We have the best record in baseball. Yeah, let's put
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  Speaker 2: up we're destroying the NL. Let's put the foot of
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  Speaker 2: the throat kind of deal and just trade some of
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  Speaker 2: our best prospects and let's just go all in this year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to see that, but
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  Speaker 2: I could see maybe they're like, you know what our
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  Speaker 2: teams like in their early thirties, let's just go for it.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if they do go after guy like Tanner Scott,
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  Speaker 1: left hand pitcher from the Marlins. I think, based on
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  Speaker 1: need alone, Scott is probably the best fit for the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies right now. He's got a one point sixty five
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  Speaker 1: ERA and seventeen saves for Miami. I think he's that
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  Speaker 1: type of bullpen guy that they would like to bring
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  Speaker 1: in here if they can get him up here, if
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  Speaker 1: it's the right type of deal. And even somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Robert junior centerfielder from the White Sox, twenty six
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  Speaker 1: years old, has a Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, and All
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  Speaker 1: Star appearance under his belt at this point, and he
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  Speaker 1: could be a really good spot in that center field.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I believe he's a right hander. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a right hander. So those are two guys I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta guy like Garrett Crochet on that
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  Speaker 2: same team on the White Sox. The White Socks are
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  Speaker 2: right for the Pickens. I think that's when the teams
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  Speaker 2: are going to just sell hard. I mean, what would
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  Speaker 2: it take to get Crochet and and that kid you
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  Speaker 2: know off the White Sox hands. I'm sure you have
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of from prospects. Man. Maybe if you
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  Speaker 2: get a right hand Matt and and a starting pitcher
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  Speaker 2: who's having a really good year.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this, John Stone has said it on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast last week. If you got to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Payner to bring in somebody that's going to solidify
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  Speaker 1: things for this pitching staff. You know what you can do,
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  Speaker 1: you do it that you do it. He's your top prospect.
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  Speaker 1: But still, this is this, this is the year that
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  Speaker 1: they potentially get to the World Series, potentially win it
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  Speaker 1: with this roster. I say you do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think adding a six six twenty five year
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  Speaker 2: old lefty hand or like like Crochet would just be yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what a I mean, he might be your fifth starter
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  Speaker 2: with Sanchez how well he's pitching, like what an amazing
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  Speaker 2: what like just just just the other team looking at
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  Speaker 2: like okay in the playoffs, like we're going to face
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  Speaker 2: these we don't get a break, right, no freaking break. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna get to any one walker. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get these five. Holy crap, Like, what do we do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, you got any other phillies talk before we
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  Speaker 1: get into some spying and cheating in sports.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I honestly, we'll see what they do against against
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  Speaker 2: the Guardians. And you know, they come back from the
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  Speaker 2: l Star break. Half the team was on the road
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  Speaker 2: probably you know, either on vacation or at the All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game, and they go right on the road. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't been home yet. So I let's see they do
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  Speaker 2: against the Guardians. If they take two out of three
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  Speaker 2: and then head home and there's still like four games
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  Speaker 2: over everyone else and in the league, all this talk
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  Speaker 2: would be like mood.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely all right, Well, let's move on to that
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  Speaker 1: next story. We're gonna be getting into spying and cheating
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  Speaker 1: and sports has really gone to the next level as
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  Speaker 1: it pertains to the Olympics. You know, just when you think, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I could couldn't get any worse for the Olympics when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to cheating, well here we go. The Canadian
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  Speaker 1: women's soccer coach has been kicked off the Olympics squad
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  Speaker 1: after their team had been caught using a drone to
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  Speaker 1: spy on New Zealand during a training session. Here Eric,
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  Speaker 1: nothing ever ceases to amaze me when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: Olympic cheating. Look, teams try to get advantages all the
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  Speaker 1: time in sports, whether it's baseball, soccer, football, hockey, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: teams try to get the advantage. So what the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots did many years ago in the world of football,
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  Speaker 1: See what the Houston Astros did and how they they
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  Speaker 1: were penalized to an extent for what they had done
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  Speaker 1: in terms of their cheating. But this kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I feel like this goes above
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  Speaker 1: and be up. Maybe it's because I use a drone
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  Speaker 1: during the course of my days with my filmmaking and
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  Speaker 1: my small business that I have on the side where
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  Speaker 1: I do videography. But man, if you got a good drone,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have a good drone. If you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna cheat on your opponents who are on the field
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  Speaker 1: doing so, you're gonna have to decent size drone. Why
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  Speaker 1: are you putting that up in the air for people
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  Speaker 1: to see. I just I'm amazed by this story. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: figure gonna get caught? What do you think? And if
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  Speaker 1: the drone is so small, probably not the best quality
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  Speaker 1: camera unless it's a DJI thing. Anyway, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get into the nuts and bolts of it. But
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  Speaker 1: really nothing ceases to amaze me anymore with cheating. This
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  Speaker 1: one really appeared to be stupid though in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I do like the fact that technology is
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  Speaker 2: taking cheating to a whole other level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Really, it almost feels like the Patriots thing is almost
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  Speaker 2: like like like having a like a crib note in
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  Speaker 2: your hands in high school. Yeah, charried to this. Now
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  Speaker 2: we've come a long way. I mean the help that
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  Speaker 2: the Astros are like banging trash cans baseball. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: a couple of thoughts. Here is New Zealand that good
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  Speaker 2: at soccer that they need to be cheating?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Canadian women's teams are pretty good. Like
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  Speaker 2: I can understand, like we're playing Spain. We really got
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: to pick it up in Brazil, right right, right, it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: New Zealand. I did you need that leg up? Like
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I think you're like, it just doesn't make sense to me.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Why isn't the US team doing this instead of losing
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: the freaking Panama Yes, in the Kopa, I don't know.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: It's and you talked about you talked about drones. I
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: was thinking like did they have a crappy drone that
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: was just like literally hovering over the field, as like,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: why is there a drone there? I can see it
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: has a Canadian flag on it right.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Off of it. What's going on? Yeah?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: It just seems so like why, Like I don't know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: just why risk it? Like it's a it's an Olympic team.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Those those women work really fucking hard to make the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: team and make it get there, and you're going to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: risk all of their risk that whole team's like reputation
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: to get the leg up on the New Zealand women's team.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: That that is absurd.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: So also, I can't speak for all drones out there.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I've not used all drones, Eric, I can speak for
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: my drone and a lot of other ones they have
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: on them blinking lights. Here we go blank blank blank
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: here look at me. I'm hovering over you right now.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I hope you can't see me. It's incredible to me.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: It's incredible to me.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: And what what were they going to get out of
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the footage? Right, well, because the right winger turned this
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: way and said it this way on a pass, like what,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: what are you gonna get?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: It's soccer.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, I've gotten really into it the past year or
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: so because my son plays now and I want to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: understand it, and there's plays. But for the most part,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: it's like, it's not it's not like football.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: It's not like basketball. Picking all kinds of different like passing,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. I watch it, I'm like, Okay,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I kind of understand it. I know the strategies. If
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: they have different penalty kick stuff from the corner, I
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: get that, but like, I don't know what they're gonna
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: get out of it. And by the way, shout out
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to Simon. I hope the New Zealand women win this
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: whole thing now. Yes, nobody believes in them. This is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: an ultimate story now because we're you're gonna cheat and
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: we're gonna kick your ass.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Now, there you go.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping for his sake. They take the goal.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: All right, very good, very good. All right, let's take
• 18:09
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• 18:48
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• 18:52
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• 18:53
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• 18:57
  Speaker 2: is unbeliever Every tweet I like, I'll go ahead and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: look at the other like the responses half of them
• 19:03
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• 19:06
  Speaker 2: or so. No, it's unbelievable. It's like I did this
• 19:10
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• 19:12
  Speaker 2: like only OnlyFans women, Yes, you like hot dogs, check
• 19:15
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• 19:17
  Speaker 1: It's like that was just only liking Wieners for real.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We will
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: be back with some basketball talk and some Eagles talk.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Stick with us, all right, we are back and we
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: want to get into some WNBA talk some Sixers talk
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: as well. Eric, We've been talking a number of times
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: on this podcast platform over many, many, many months about
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: how women's basketball, women's sports in general have just been
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: increasing in popularity, and the WNBA All Star Game is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: no exception to that at all. They brought it broke
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the viewership record for a WNBA All Star Game, three
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: point four four million viewers, the third most watched WNBA event. Ever,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it's not just about Caitlin Clark anymore. It's not just
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: about her. It's about the sport itself, one getting the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: recognition that it deserves, but two, the athleticism that you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: can see during the course of a WNBA game, the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: product that they are putting out on the court. Folks
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: are starting to realize, and it's sad it's taken this long,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and it has taken storylines like Caitlyn Clark to get
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to this point where people are really starting to appreciate
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: women's sports even that much more, and women's basketball the WNBA,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they are on the rise even more here and it's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: really good to see Eric.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It is the good thing too, It's not just Kaitlyn Clark. Yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: they're like a lot of players are getting pub now.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, Angel Reese is friggin fantastic great basketball player,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Cameron Bray and Kelsey Plumb, Breonna Stewart, They're also part
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of the reason that it was like almost three and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a half million viewers for the All Star Game. But
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I'll share this with you. I read a blog the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: other day about the w NBA's like newfound fame or
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: whatever you wanted, popularity, and the guy made an argument
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: where I kind of I agree with it, and then
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I equated it to the NBA, and I thought in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: different terms. I took my I took the male piece
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: out of it. It may kind of made myself into
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: a female look at looking at the NBA. So so
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the blog was basically like, it's not just Caitlin Clark,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It's not just these really good players. They're they're starting
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to push kind of more of a sex appeal for WNBA,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: which which had never tried before. Right with the with
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Instagram out there, now a lot of the game int
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: like a lot of the Instagram accounts now show like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: you know, the NBA players huge on the end, the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: players coming into the arena right, what they're wearing, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the w NBA has definitely taken that on kind of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: an influencer vibe right right, and then and they dress,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: they dress a certain way and and I absolutely agree
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: with him. Probably the sex appeal thing absolutely brought in
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: different viewers that probably would not have watched prior. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: then I was like, you know what, I think the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: NBA has been doing that for a long time too,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and I never noticed it because I'm.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: A guy, and that's a really good point.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And I was thinking about, like this happened a couple
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of years ago where they started doing the same thing
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: on Instagram where they show the players coming in and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: guys like Russell Westbrook wearing like belly shirts right and
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you see as like twelve pack abs, and the NBA
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: is full of like good looking guys like that's just
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the way great athletes and phenomenal shape and probably very
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: sexy to the female side of the of the NBA,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: which I never considered before I read this blog and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I was like, the NBA has been doing this for
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a long time, but for a couple of years now,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and pushing fashion and pushing the player entries coming into
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the arenas and pushing like, like not just basketball players,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: they're good looking dudes too. And I think female fanship
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: for the for the NBA has probably grown the past
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: couple of years. And I just never thought about it
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: like that, And I was like, man, I it's it
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: just kind of it blow my mind. But I'm like,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I never thought of that. And to take yourself out
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of a to take your own mentality out of it,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and like look at it from an un objective, Yeah,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you're like, holy crap. You know what. The NBA has
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: been doing this for a long time, and the w
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: NBA finally started doing it. And guess what, now there's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: three and a half people watching the Elstar Game. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought I thought that was kind
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: of interesting that he made that point. I wish you
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: would again. Well, I mean I made it for him
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: because I'm smarter than the blogger, but I was like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the men's the men's game has been doing it just
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: as much as the women's game, but they started kind
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: of earlier.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, goes back to your good friend and our friend
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of the show, Mac mac Ramaham and his text message
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to you this past week about guys having tight bodies
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that playing basketball. I had to throw that in there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: It's perfect to throw.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: In to just say, hey, we signed this guy. He's hot,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: he's got a type bod.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It's the NBA.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: They all do Like what are you talking about?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Exactly? They're all athletes. Do all of them do it? Boy?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Could you imagine if they would do this for for
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: football or even baseball. There's some good looking dudes in baseball.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Well, said h Sarah said. My wife said to me,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: like a year or two ago, when the Phillies were
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: constantly having Budweiser parties after playoff wins, yes and all
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: shirts off, Yes, and Sarah she was like, I didn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: realize they all had six packs.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: The most part. I was like, yeah, they're athletes, they
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: have to be in really good shape.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: White and you would you would say, true, yes, absolutely,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you would. The ladies would be honestly, the ladies would
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be going crazy on Twitter during the the after game,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: like the champagne stuff is being just tossed around. The
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: beer stuff is getting tossed everywhere. Like you said, the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: guy's shirts are off, the ladies are going absolutely insane, rightfully, So.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I think it's just obvious that, like football players are
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: big and jacked because you can see.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It, yeah, because of what the game is too.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Whereas the baseball players they're in those kind of baggy
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: uniforms a little bit and then after the game they
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: take their shirts offs, like oh yeah, they're high. They're
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: top level athletes that work out every freaking day. Yes,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: like they're watching it, not like the old the eighties
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: players that are oh my god, you compare eight nineteen
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: eighties baseball to now. I were looking at old baseball
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: cards this past weekend. It was just fun to sit
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: out and like I was just showing them like some
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: of the players and some of the slobs that played
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: in the league for twenty years, absolutely disastrous physically, Like.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: How do they I've got it. Look, I'm not calling
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: them a slob by any stretch of the imagination. But
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: over here on my wall, I have an autograph photo
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of John Kruck, not necessarily the most athletic guy in
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Over here, I mean, look at the ninety three Phillies
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: right take away the guys that were jacked up on steroids. Yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the rest of that team. No, yeah, yes, messes, lot
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of messes.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Great story. I love your angle on that too, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I think I think that's something important. I'd love to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: hear from some of the ladies out there about that
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports table at gmail dot com. You know, what
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on on Eric's take with regard to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: these entrances, the entrances with regard to WNBA and how
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: we should be looking at it. So all right, well,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: look really quick in terms of this basketball talk, before
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we get to what are Eagles talk, is gonna be
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the Sixers. They're gonna be signed. It looks like they're
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be signing veteran guard Reggie Jackson here and then
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they still have one more spot to fill on the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: roster once they get that done. But boy, I don't know.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know about Reggie Jackson. He was he was
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pretty good about twenty years ago, right, thirty years ago.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, no, this is actually damn good sign.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: It's not bad at all.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Hornets, the Hornets bought him out. He cleared
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: waivers and it was kind of a free agent and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: he could have won it anywhere. He was kind of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: a the Nuggets were capped out. They had to make
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that move, and he just won a championship a year ago,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: so U that's right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah with the Nuggets, he was he think he avers
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: like twelve points a game. He was like a twenty
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: minute rotation guard and perfect, perfect rotation guard for this team. Yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: like if if MAXI needs a breather for two three minutes,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: he's he's instant offense off the bench. Not not much
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of a defender, but just one of those signs like sure,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: if he's cheap, sign him, great rotation, you're you're again.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: You got a winno of two years tops, and why
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: not bring in then he one more, one more body.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I would say, he's gonna be signing minimum right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Something like that. Yeah, because he they bought him out,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: so he's got his cash in pockets. So then he
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: one more big guy. He can kind of gets rebounds
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: banged down load. Not not a center, but like a forward.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe he can score a little bit, but they have
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: one more spot for that. I'm Suremorial will uh kind
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: of maintain his financial flexibility there because you might get
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: that guy not during the offseason maybe like when the
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: buyout season starts. Yeah, but no again, like we that's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: a whole nother show. But man, Morey's offseason perfection. Yeah,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I mean it's the best you could have done.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: So absolutely, I didn't realize when I was looking at
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: his stats, you know, as I put this on the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: agenda for US. Yes, he's thirty four years old, but
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: during that twenty twenty one run with the Clippers the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals back in twenty twenty one, seventeen point
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: eight points, he averaged and forty percent three point shooting.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And then that's just a few years ago. Now do
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I expect that to happen? Of course now, no, But really,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: if he's even if you can even sniff that, if
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you can even sniff it, I am totally cool with it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, he should be able to replicate that, because
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: he's not. He's only going to not those numbers, but
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: like to replicate the like per thirty six numbers, because
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: he's only going to play like twelve to fifteen minutes
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: a game tops. And he's a nice player to have
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in case Maxic goes down with like a week one injury,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: like a ham stringth thing. That's a great option to
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: have for thirty minutes a game when when like when
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that's inevitaly gonna happen to one of the starters. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I love it. Caleb Martin's a nice pickup. Two he
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: might get hurt. It's just a nice guy to between
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: him and oh my god, a Lowry, Kyle Lowry. Those
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: are really good veteran presence on the team that you
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: know it's a veteran team, whether there's no other way
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: to look at it, Yeah, you know. And again championship
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: pedigree he just won two years ago with the Nuggets. Yep.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, before we head out here and take
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: our break, we're going to get into some Eagles talk
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna do something we'd never done here. We're
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: gonna do a bingo a little bit of a bingo card. Yes,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it's a quote top three list. You know, we'd like
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to do our top three lists. But what's on our
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Eagles bingo card for training camp? You know, what are
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: we gonna be able to cross off the list or
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: or the squares? I should say, what are we gonna
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: be able to cross off the squares? In terms of
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Eagles training camp? On our Bingo cards here. So that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna get in to now before we get
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to what we're thrown down on the table, Eric, I'm
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: gonna let you start first in terms of your Bingo card.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: You know, when you're we're looking at Twitter, or we're
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: reading articles, or we're actually listening to commentary or listening
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to other podcasts. What are some things that are on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: your bingo card here? I don't know if you have
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a top three or if you just have three you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: want to get into. So you started off, buddy.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I have three. Can just give you a quick like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: reminiscing about bingo game itself. I remember I remember being
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: like nine years old and I used to go I
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: used to go to bingo all the time with my
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: mom and like some of her older friends, and these
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: have Bengo halls back in the day, like like big
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Ones yea yeah, and the women were like keep keep
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the blotters yes in their purse and just bring them
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: all out and just the smell of that, and back
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: then you could smoke everywhere. I remember just being nine
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: years old and women just blowing smoke in my face
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: and I'm just sitting there playing bingo. With them and like,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: this is totally cool. I guess like I'm the blotters
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the between the smell and the smoke. I'm high, I'm
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: nine years old. There's no reason this should not be happening.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: This is a cute but that was my bingo thought.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I think one of the one of the big ones. Uh,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: there's no top three, but there seems to be a
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of fans, a lot of people
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: on Twitter x whatever Mackai Beckton, a lot of really
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of like reliance that he's going to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: be this starting right guard, and I'm I'm like, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: think we need temper our expectations with this guy a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: little bit. There's I see people pen penciling him in
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: to be the starter, and I'm like, this guy's three
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five pounds. He was a kind of
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: a bust draft pick from the Jets. He apparently puked.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: This isn't this is in the headline? Yeah after an
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: hour and and he's an injury casualty. He's hurt all
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the time. And I see people on Twitter's being like, well,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be our right guard. It's like, is he really?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And do we want someone like that next to the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: center who's taking over Jason Kelsey spot has never been
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a starting center.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of concerns there.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: And I know right guard is not the biggest, most
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: important position. We have two great tackles, but that that,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to me is one that jumps out like I hope that.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I hope that gets gets figured out. I hope the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: kid from Alabama when when's the job? And Becton's a
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: backup at first, but i just see his name out
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: there a lot, and I'm like after today with the
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: puke and I'm like, wow, Yeah, that scares me that
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the middle of the offensive line is like so new. Yes,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: and and that's we got a running back, a quarterback
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: that's head and off here concerning I'll say that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a good square on
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the Bingo car to have Mackai Beckton because we don't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen with this position. I am
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: grateful for I'm grateful for Jeff Stoutlin, and I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that's probably why Howie Roseman brought Becton in here to say, Okay,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he is a first round pick for a reason. He
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was graded as a first round pick. He was taken
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: as a first round pick. Let's seef Jeff Stoutlin can
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: do anything with him. I am confident that whoever is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: going to be starting at right guard on this offensive
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: line is definitely going to be the right one. If
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's Mackai Becton, then that means, you know what Stouton
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: saw something or was able to develop him enough throughout
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: training camp that there's the confidence in him. I have
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a feeling it's going to be Tyler Steen. That's what
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be. Yeah, I do too, because
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that's who they drafted, that's who they wanted to draft.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I think how he just bringing him in is real.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I thought was more for a depth perspective, you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: let him learn under under Jeff Stoutlin's system, but have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Beckton there as a as an insurance piece basically if
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: something does happen with that right side of the line.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: And maybe because he's the name and the draft bust,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: he's getting all the pub and then maybe that's why
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: his name's out there so much and he puked Everywhereay,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that he's because of his name and
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: his stature of what happened in his career so far.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: That's why he's the name. It's he's gonna kind of
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: just be the backup in me. I just hate putting
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: him next to the new kid in center. If Kelsey
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: was the center and this guy was, he's going to
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: try to ease him in, Like I'd feel okay with
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: him being next to my lotta yeah, and and Kelsey sure,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: but like no, that scared me a little good. I
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: hope it is the.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Name, all right, very good. Well, one of my Bengo
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: squares here, which I think we are gonna actually think
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have hear this more so than off or
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: more so than not, and it's probably gonna get blotted.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: If you have a Bengo card with this on, it's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: definitely gonna get blotted within the next day or two.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I'm shing one right now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's adjusting to the new system. That quote, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: got a couple of quotes form my Bengo card. We're
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: gonna hear that a lot because there's a new defensive
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: coordinator in Vic Fangio and there's a new offensive coordinator
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: in Kellen Moore. He's adjusting to the new system. Whether
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it's the quarterback, running back, offensive line like we were
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: talking about, or whether it's the cornerbacks in a stacked
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: cornerback room that we have now. But everybody's got to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: get used to what Vic Fangio is going to be doing.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: We're going to be hearing that phrase, I think a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: decent amount, and I think that's going to get xed
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: off the Bengo cards sooner rather than later. He's adjusting
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to the new system.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Eric, and I feel a lot better about it having
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: veteran coordinators as opposed to last year, where you had
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: holy shit.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: What an experiment that was?
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Oh my failed experiment. Yes, the first half of the year. Yeah,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I feel much better with Fangio and what's the kid's name?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Offensive coordinator Kellin Moore was yeah, and Kelling call a kid,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: he's probably might but yeah, I just that's always going
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to be the narrative when you have two new coordinators.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: But I feel much safer and more of a veteran
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: team too. You know, Yeah, I talked about defensive line
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: being young, but like you know, you got for Hurts,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: this is how many years now, right, you got Saquon
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: coming in the defense is another year older. I know
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: they lost I know, I know, Fletcher Cox is gone,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: but I do feel better. It's a system I have
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: a little more faith in than I did last year.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. By the way, Kellen Moore's thirty six. Not as
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: old as you.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Oh shit, he's a little old boy.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: My goodness, I forgot.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I forgot how old I am? Yes, all right, Well,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: what's the younger than me too?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I know the whole freaking team. I'd be Fangio was
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: younger than us.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Is he really?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding? Oh, I'm feeling old baby? All right? What's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: second on your Bengo card here?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: This isn't the biggest one, but it's it's it's interesting
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: because you have you have two top tier wide receivers, right,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and I think the big question after Defonte Parker kind
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: of announced his retirement is like, who is the thirdie receiver?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Because that's always really important. Dallas Goddard great tight end,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: checkered history injury wise, so that third receiver is big.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: And if I mean, I hear a lot of good
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: things about Paris Campbell. I've read a lot. I've seen
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: blogs where man Paris Campbell was a steal. Right, Paris
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Campbell gets hurt too, So that's that's part of the problem.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And I don't know who the third is gonna be.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I hope he can stay healthy. But I think that
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: third wide receiver position is going to be massive for
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: this team because it's gonna be They're gonna spread the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: ball out right, They got Saquon coming to the back.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: They have a lot of weapons. But I think at
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: certain times a certain games, that third receiver is going
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: to be very important to the offense. And who's that
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: going to be? John Ross? I'm not sure.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, John, I don't think he's played in
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: three years. I'm gonna be talking to Alexis Chason about this,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the whole wide receiver three four and five. I mean,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Britain Covey is like.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: John Ross, you're a fantasy football guys, John Ross is
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: one of those I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna take
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a flyer.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Gonna take a flyer, yeah exactly, Yeah in the fourth round.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've taken the flyer on that asshole many times.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Good value, good value.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Take me right, my ass many times.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking to Alexis about this and just
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a bit, but it is a big concern for me.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Davante Smith coming out of college winning the Heisman, so
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: many folks saying he ain't gonna last in the NFL. Well, folks,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you know what he has. He has done a good
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: job staying healthy. But guess what. Health only lasts for
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: so long in the NFL. And I've got a major
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: concern with if aj Brown goes down with a hamstring
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: ACL type of injury. He's a huge guy, always working out,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: he's he's got a great body. I'm not necessarily worried
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: about like some guy tackling him and he gets hurt.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It's more the ACL tissue type of injury. And with
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Davante Smith, maybe he maybe somebody like knocks him out
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: or has a concussion. I am worried about the depth
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: with this wide receiver corps quite frankly, I think that's
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a really good one.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Eric. Oh, you would you be concerned if John Ross
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: and Paris Campbell were two starting wide receivers?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Very much?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: So, yes, get me too. It'd be a lot of
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of hurts in one. Oh gosh, yeah, all right,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Well you're telling you right, the injury aspect of it. Yes,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, your your w R two is out.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: You got like a WR five playing the two all
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, bringing.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Covey's out there. For God's sake, you know he's probab.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I would say he's probably gonna make There's two new
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers. Are they gonna get out there?
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: No?
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Probably not. I mean it's it's gonna be rough. It's
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: gonna be rough if there are wide receiver injuries with
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the first two. Uh. But my second bingo card square
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: here is this is another quote. I think we're gonna
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: hear this a decent amount. There was a lot of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: intensity today. I think that. I think that's one we're
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: gonna hear a lot of I just wanted to throw
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: that one in there for fun, just because it's one
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: of those hack lines that we consistently hear throughout training camp,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the start of the NFL season,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: with all teams, not just the Eagles team. There was
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of intensity today. Maybe maybe I can already
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: take that off my Bengo card. I'm sure there was
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: probably some tweets out there today if I go back
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and look at Eagles training camp Twitter to see what
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: was going on. But yeah, there was a lot of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: intensity today. Eric, that's that's what I'm gonna that's that's
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: that's my number two one here.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Well, we've we've done the show. We've done the show,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: and we did the list of what do you call it,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: like sayings or like gimmicks that are used in announcers
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: and stuff. That's a big one. Yes, for training camp,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of intensity. And it's one of those like, yeah,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: there should be. They're getting ready to for gladiator battles. Yes,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: for the next four months, there should be some intensity like.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Getting paid millions and almost killing each other.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, should be. I agree with that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, what's your what's your final one? Your
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: third one or first one or what's your last square here?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeh uh my, my my next one has to It
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: kind of ties into the Makai Beckton kid and Na
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Kobe Dean fighting for that like starting linebacker spot. Yea.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: You know, we talked a few weeks ago about you
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: know Howie and just being a a brilliant GM but
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: kind of a shaky drafter sometimes. Right, he takes takes
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the best value and Ni Kobe Dean when he drafted him,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: was probably the best value. A lot of pedigree and
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: and he's he's had to shake the first two seasons.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: He's just not hasn't been the guy. And right now
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: that the linebacker spot is the spots are very sketchy.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Devin White does not exactly like twist my nipples, I'll
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: say that. And if Nikobe Deane can't beat him out,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, like Tampa Bay, just let him walk. And
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: if he can't beat out Devon White, you got to
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: start to realize, like this is this kid even ever
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: gonna make it? Like I know he's really young, it's
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: his third season, but man, if you can't beat out
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: kind of an also like a like a an also
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: ran throwaway that we signed for one year deal, then
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: what are you doing in the league. That's I think
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: that's a big one because again, linebacker spots not the
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: strongest part of our defense or any any part of
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the roster. I think if he can't win, you have
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: to start to question, like is he even going to
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: be in the league.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You kind of piggybacked off my first one too. Actually,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: so my last Bengo square is linebacker injury. Because you're
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: talking about Nakobe Dean, he hasn't been able to produce
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: anything because he's been injured for the past two years.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: This is his final shot. It really is to prove
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: that one he can stay healthy in two that he
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: can understand a defense and be a major contributor at
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a position that has been just lacking talent for so
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: many years. Yes, TJ. Edwards was great, but they let
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: him go to Chicago. Zach Bond apparently not that bad
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: of a pickup. But we have to see what he's
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: going to be able to do. And like you said
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: with Devin White, he's not the best in coverage and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a problem in Vic Fangio's scheme
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: where linebackers need to cover and then safeties need to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: cover as well. So all that being said, linebacker injury
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: for me is a major concern because one or two
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: of these guys go down, Vic Fangio is going to
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: have one hell of a time trying to figure out
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: what the hell to do in the middle of the field.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Because like the other names involved, like Orn Brooks, I mean,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: you got Trotter Junior and Brandon Smith Junior. Yeah not,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not confidence building, I'll say that right, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: And the moves they made last year to try to
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: fill those spots didn't really work out either.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: So.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I can see this being a major problem for the
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Eagles and them scrambling to find another name to fill
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: in those spots, and Fangio kind of going, Okay, I
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: have I have players at all their positions, but I
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: have no linebackers, right, Yeah, it's kind of important. But yeah,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I think the na Kobe Dean thing is probably a
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: top three Eagle story. Yeah, going to the yeah, preceived
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: pre into the training camp. Sorry, I'm thinking yeah.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well that was a good discussion there.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: We got more Eagles talk coming your way with Alexis
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Chasin from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com. Buddy, I'm gonna let
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: you go here. Any any final thoughts before we head
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: out here for a break.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I think Nikobe Deane's to change his number. Seventeen is
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: just not a linebacker number.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: It does thinks, doesn't it.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's terrible, It doesn't look right. Yeah, never, it never
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: has to me.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I hated the number set. We move. May have to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: do a top three list of worse numbers. Worst Jersey numbers.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Seventeen and forty nine are horrendous to me.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Name me a good number seventeen any sport.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's gonna take me a while.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: What number was Wilbur Montgomery? Wilburt Montgomery was an he
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: thirty four, Yeah, thirty one, thirty one, there is one
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: good seventeen. I can't remember. He was an Eagle too,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: But it's just not a good linebacker number. It doesn't work.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Was it was it? Jim mcman or, No, he was seven?
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Wait? Who's seven?
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Jim mc mahon.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim McMahon was seven. I think we gotta figure
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: this out at some point.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the number just doesn't like scream linebacker to me,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I don't like it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely correct. Seventeen and forty nine, stink folks. All right, Eric,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: will let you go again. Follow Eric on threads at
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Slen ten twenty three. Can follow me at mister Jeff
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Warren in the show Philadelphia Sports Table. We're gonna take
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back, all right. We're
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: jumping right in here again. Before we take the break.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: We literally stopped recording thirty seconds ago, and Eric says to.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Me, Harold Carmichael was number seventeen.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: There you go, freaking idiots.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: I am a lifetime Eagles fan. That is graceful. I
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: am still embarrassed. One of the best receivers in Eagles history.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: The biggest hands you've ever seen is six sixty six.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: That I'm shamed. Eric.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: When I was on vacation, I was reading an Eagles
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: trivia book at the beach. For God's sake, Eric Carmichael
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: was in there a number of times.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Listen, my dad has a Harold Carmichael jersey in his
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: bar basement sign in a frame number seventeen. How do
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I not know?
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're taking the break now, we'll be
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: right back. All right, we're back. Let's get into more
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Eagles talk here. Got a great discussion come your way
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: with one of our favorites here. It's what we're thrown
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: down on the table and now on the table joining
• 46:36
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• 46:38
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• 46:44
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• 46:46
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• 46:56
  Speaker 1: alexis chasin, how you doing, Lexus, I'm great.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited. Training camp, We've got football.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: It's here, it's here, It's finally here. Honestly, it seemed
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: like it happened in the blink of an eye. It
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: really did. And like there's so many storylines that we're
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be all following with this Eagles team as training
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: camp you mentioned is here and there. There's one in
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: particular I wanted to start off with you because I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily think it's getting enough attention. It's it's getting
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: some attention, but this one particular storyline don't. I don't
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: necessarily think it's getting its due. And it's the depth
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. Who is gonna be wide
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: receiver three, wide receiver four? What role are they gonna
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: play in this new Kellen Moore offense, Alexis, here's here's
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: we got? Okay? After AJ Brown and Davonte Smith, you've
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: got guys like Paris Campbell, John Ross, who I didn't
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: even realize was still in the NFL. He hasn't played
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a game in apparently three years. They're gonna be competing
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: for that role and these backup roles. There's two new
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers Britain Covey trying to get a spot
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: on the roster as well in terms of that depth.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if you have the same concern.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I think this is going to become more of a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: prevalent storyline as we continue to move on throughout training camp.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the wide receiver depth and
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: how it may look like after AJ Brown and Davante Smith.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I agree, I don't think it's getting talked about quite
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: enough because when you have the best wide receiver duo
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: in the league, you tend to overlook the depth issue.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going to be a little Ohio State
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: biased here, but I think Paris Campbell can absolutely fill that,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: you know, third role we have. I know that, you know,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Davante Adams decided to retire instead, he was definitely going
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: to be the other big guy.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I also think that Vonte Parker, oh yeah, sorry,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Ponte Parker all Thedvante thinking, oh my gosh, what happened here?
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Did he come over from the Raiders and now all
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: of a sudden he's retiring? What did I miss?
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: There are not that not that Parker and Adams are
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: the same, but you know, yes, and I do think
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: that they probably have a bigger role for Sa Kwon
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Barkley in the receiving game too.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Good point.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: So I'm not concerned about the depth. But Howie Roseman
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: during the training camp press conference, like before they hit
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: the practice field did say that that's kind of a
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: fluid situation and something they're keeping an eye on, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: that's one of the competitions that they're excited about. So
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: it definitely alluded to the fact that they're aware of,
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: you know, what is that depth going to be, And
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: how he always talks about adding talent no matter what,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: so I'm sure he's aware of who might else be
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: available to add into this group if they don't show up.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I think that's a really good
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: point too. And again, like we have had to deal
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: with wide receiver three and a lack of productivity over
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the years with regard to this particular position and the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: depth at wide receiver too. I mean, how many years
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: of Greg Ward did we have to deal with? How
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: many years you know of Quz Watkins did we have
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: to deal with? If it's Paris Campbell, if he's able
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: to make some sort of depth based resurgence, then hey,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm all for it and I would love
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: to see it. I mean, John Ross, I really don't
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: have too too much hope for but I do have to.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I do have hope for the rookie wide receivers. I
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: know they were later picks in this draft, but this
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: is an opportunity for them to shine and really showcase
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: what their talent is. And again one of those type
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: of storylines. I really think we got to keep our
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: eyes on here because if Davante Smith or AJ Brown
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: go down, this team could be in trouble from receiving perspective.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And last year we had Alamide Zachius and he
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: was great and he definitely filled that role, but he
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: also wasn't you know, they never really needed him to
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: become more than what he was good point, and so
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, Paris Campbell could definitely fill that
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: or even a rookie you know with some you know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: training camp reps. So I definitely think they're going to
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: be okay. But like you said, I mean, either way,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: almost no matter who is behind them, if something happens
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: to AJ Brown, or DeVante Smith. It's a problem regardless
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: of who they have.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think it needs to be a more prevalent storyline.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Hope the national reporters, even the folks over Bleeding Green Nation,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: let's get let's get more info on this, Let's get
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: more let's get more analysis on this, for sure. But
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: speaking of receivers, Alexis, you know, I'm really looking forward
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: to seeing what Dallas Goddard does this season, because look,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the reality is, he seems like he's been quote trending
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: downward over the past couple of years in terms of yards,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: terms of receptions. He's not a huge threat in the
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: end zone. Let's be honest. You look at the numbers,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: you look at the play calls, and I know this
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: new Kellen Moore offense could show us something a little
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: bit different, but Dallas Goddard is sort of trending downward here.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, do you think the Eagles need to address
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the tight end positions sooner rather than later, Not just
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: like this season necessarily because Dallas Goddard is a very
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: good tight end. He is, He's a good receiver. But
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I think this is another underlying storyline here that is
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: going to need to be addressed in the future. What
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts here about Goddard the tight end position
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: moving forward here?
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely think eventually, you know, maybe three or
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: four years, I think Goddard is. I would rank him,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: you know, among like number eight to twelve in the
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: top you know tight ends in the league, which it's
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: still pretty good, but you do want your tight end
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: to be the guy that when there's you know, a
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: contested catch for a touchdown, he's got to be able
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: to win. And I'm not saying Goddard can't, but he's
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: definitely not been utilized in that capacity. Like you would
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: expect a guy who towers over everyone to be more
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: of a factor in that, like just throw it up high,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: let him get it. And I wonder if maybe they
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: don't need him to be that because AJ Brown is
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: so much that, you know, he might not be taller
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: than all of the guys covering him like Goddard is,
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: but you know, when contested catches come, he's getting it.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: So I do think that he might need to step up,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: But so I think for the deal that he's on,
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: he's probably fine. When you do have AJ Brown, Devonte
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Smith and Saquon Barkley. Like you know, as long as
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: he can make the play.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: On third down it's kind of the yeah, like sixty
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: percent of the time, I'm okay with it, and.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I'm fine if that they're I mean, I look at
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: the stats from last season. I mean, only fifty nine receptions,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: only three touchdowns last year, five hundred and ninety two
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: yards almost six hundred yards, which, like you said, I
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: don't think is terrible at all. Maybe that again in
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: terms of ranking number ten to number twelve tight end
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: perhaps in the league. But I think, you know that's
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: what's important. How is he being utilized? Is it on
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: third downs? Is he able to go up to the
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: catch point, bring it down, convert on first downs? If
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: that's what it's going to be, I am absolutely fine
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: with it in this new Kellen Moore offense. But you
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: look at the stats, and I know stats don't always
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: tell the full story. I just see a tight end
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: that is kind of downward trending in certain ways, and
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: he's he's got a ton of talent. It amazed me
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: he's actually been here since twenty eighteen. I can't believe
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: it's been that many years. So far, it seems like
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago he was drafted. But anyway,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: I digress.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: No, I think it's really interesting because you know, we
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: live through like Brett Sellick being this amazing tight end,
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: but he wasn't a receiving tight end. So then when
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: you know it transitioned to Zach Ertz, I feel like
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: we got a little spoiled because he was so special
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: in that regard. And then it goes to Goddard who's
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: maybe not quite as electric as a pass catcher, but
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: he's a lot bigger than Ertz ye at least you
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: know it looks that way, and so he kind of
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: has more of the size factor and is kind of
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: the perfect combination in my opinion, between Selek and Ertz
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: in terms of their like skill set. Like I think
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Goddard is pretty good at blocking that maybe Ertz wasn't
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: always the best at. But he also can catch the
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: ball when Selik might not have been able to. So
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I think looking at him to be or excel in
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: one over the other might be unfair to his like
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: talent that you know, being a middle of the line
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: receiving threat but also being able to you know, do
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: the blocking and other like things that they're asked to do.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe that's where he is and maybe that's
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: what the team needs him to do.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, and based on where we're at in training
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: camp from the tweets that I am seeing from Eagles
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Beat reporters, this new Kellen Moore offense has really taken shape.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: At this point. Everybody is just so happy that we
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: are seeing pre snap motion and everybody everybody's just elated
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: by that. And it kind of like, you know, leads
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: me to you know, as we get into this next
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: topic here, like even if we have some legit questions
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: about the receivers, you know, they are still some of
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the best skill position players that one Saquon Barkley has
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: ever been around since his days at Penn State. And
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: even though a lot of us are excited about Saquon Barkley,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: sometimes I think we kind of forget that he's really
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: going to be behind there and how much of a
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: dynamic difference maker he is going to make when his
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: number is called, because he's a legit three down back
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: and he's going to help bring this new balance I
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: think to this Eagles offense. Look, we know he's good
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: we know his skill level, alexis what will you be
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: looking for in terms of that, you know, quote Saquon
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Barkley dynamic to bring really to this new offense.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like you said, we know what he can do,
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: you know as a running back and as a runner,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: and the weapon he's going to be and the run
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: threat between him and Jalen Hurts is just going to
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: give defenses nightmares and it's going to be so fun.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: So I'm actually most interested in seeing some of the
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: other things that he'll hopefully bring. I mean, we desperately
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: needed help protecting Hurts last season, and so to have
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: a guy like Barkley who can also block at a
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: high level hopefully give them some answers to those blitzes
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: that here were literally no answers to last year. Like
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: those are the types of contributions from running backs that
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I think the Eagles offense has needed for a while.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: And that's the stuff I'm kind of more excited. Like,
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: you know, DeAndre Swift was an amazing runner, Like that
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: wasn't his concern last year, right, you know, Kenny Gainwell
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: can get it done in certain situations, Like that's not
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: the concern. It's like all those other things that contributes
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: to the offense that I think we've been missing. So
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping he's that stuff.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I agree too, I hope he is. Hope he's able
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: to bring that dynamic. And at the end of the day,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, this is a new offense that we're
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: going to be seeing, and I swear a Lexis, I
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: better see Jalen Hurts throwing some balls over the middle
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: of the field on intermediate routes. I better see that.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: That's what we want. It's a new offense for Hurts,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see what that
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: balance of the rushing attack and what that passing game
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: is going to be, how it manifests itself throughout training
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: camp and even in some of the preseason games. I mean,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: the Eagles were nineteenth in yards per carry since Week
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: four last season, and they were ranked thirty second in
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: yards after contact, which is definitely I think going to
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: change this year. So to before we head over the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: defense and we're still on offense here, what kind of
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: balance do you want to see with this new offense.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of on the fence about this, So
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: you know, going again, going back to Ohio, State. Urban
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: Meyer used to say the perfect offense is fifty percent run,
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: fifty percent pass, right, But I really don't think that
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: that's the case, especially the way the Eagles do their
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: game planning, Like every week, they don't really consider having
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: a specific scheme so much so that they just look for,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: you know, the matchups against whoever their next opponent is.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: So you know, if one game they run the ball
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: twice and pass one hundred times, but they win, and
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: then the next game, you know, Barkley carries it thirty times,
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: they win. Yeah, Like I don't I don't really care
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: what the split is because I think this team can
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: do it all. So I think it's every week. I
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: think it's going to change a lot.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: So matchup dependent. Matchup dependent basically is what you're saying.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I think it's you know, it might
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: be skewed at the end of the year or at
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: the end of the season when it's like, oh, you know, collectively,
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: over the season, this is what they did. But I think,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: you know, if you pay play a defense who's really
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: bad against the run and you just run it three
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: weeks in a row, like that's you know, you'd have
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: to do what you have to do to win, So
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm not really concerned about what that looks
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: like so long as they're effective.
• 59:35
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• 59:46
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• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the defense here, following this cornerback talent throughout training camp
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: is going to be fascinating. We know how much Howie
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Roseman in the front office invested in the corner back
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: in the safety position the secondary and revamping it. The
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: million dollar question is what are they gonna do with
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: James Bradberry, Because you know, both players and coaches have
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: said like he's gonna play and he's gonna contribute. Of course,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: that's the lines they have had to tote throughout the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: course of the offseason. But we're coming up to that
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: line in the sand here, that line in the sand
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: where the front office is going to need to make
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: some sort of decision. I think about James Bradbury, whether
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: he stays and how he may contribute, or whether he
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: goes in some way, shape or form, Alexis, how do
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: you think this storyline is going to play out here
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: throughout training camp and perhaps into the season if he's here.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll contribute to the scout team. I think I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: think depth is always good. Today they had him or
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: you know, on Wednesday they had him taking second team
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: snaps at safety. I think I'm fine with him staying
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: in Philly as long as he's okay being a backup
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: slash like role player and move around as needed. You know,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: now he'll have two off seasons with like safety experience,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: which gives him a little more like versatility, and his
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: contract doesn't really make me mad enough to care too
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: much if he's on the roster right like, because his experience.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: You know, they do have a lot of young guys.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: If he can be sort of that mentor you know,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: he he was phenomenal in twenty twenty two, like most
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: of his career was impressive. Last year was not. But
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: he still I think does have a lot to bring
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: to the table. But I don't want him in the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: starting lineup on week one, Like that's not where I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: want him, But I don't I don't mind him staying
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: at this point, Like I could see the value in
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: having him, and some of that might be on a
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: scout team exactly.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I think it's important for folks also to realize that
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: NFL players, they can have a stinker of a season,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: they can perform badly, and they can bounce back from it.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not sitting here saying James brad
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: is going to be doing that by any stretch of
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: the imagination, but it is possible. We've seen it time
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: and time again where and it's not even from a
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: cornerback or a secondary based talent. You know, we see
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: it on the offensive lines. We see it with quarterbacks,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: we see it with running backs as well. NFL players
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: they can have stinkers of a season, but they do
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: have the ability to bounce back. And as we're moving along,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I do have to say that I have concerns with
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: this defensive line too. Another storyline a lot of us
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: have been following as well, and I've been saying it
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: since the spring. There's some old guys on this defensive
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: line and there's some brand new guys on this defensive
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: line too. What is the mix going to be and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: how the defensive line is going to be shuffling itself
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: throughout the course of this season in terms of not
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: just who's going to be starting, but what the rotation
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: is going to be, Like, who's going to be contributing
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: mostly on first downs, who's going to be contributing then
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: on third downs as well? We just really don't know,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I think what we're going to get from a defensive
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: line stampt Alexis, I'm wondering, are you concerned about the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: D line? Why or why not?
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I think your concerns are totally valid. For some
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: unknown reason, that group rely isn't or hasn't been on
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: my radar as an area of CONCERNI line. I have
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of opinions about how the defense was handled
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: last year. But I spent a lot of time listening
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: to Sean Decai early in the season, and he talked
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: about having to earn the right to rush the quarterback.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: And I really like that because you really do have.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: To stop the run first, yeah, and then you have
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: earned the right to get after the quarterback, right, And
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: so you know, I think that's going to be a
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: main focus for them, is stopping the run.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: But you know, if nothing else, I still have faith,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: you know, Jordan Davis is still huge, albeit a lot
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: more toned and seemingly better condition condition than last year.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: And you know, Jalen Carter showed more than enough to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: earn my optimism heading into this season. And everyone says
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: that Milton Williams is super underappreciated, and so you know,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: Nolan Smith came back looking a lot bigger. You still
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: have Brandon Graham out there. I think there's enough pieces
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: to still be a dominant group. And so, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: your concerns are totally valid. It's just not something that
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  Speaker 3: like I'm concerned about until you know, until week one
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  Speaker 3: when it becomes like obvious maybe they need a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of depth.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, for me, it's a matter of who
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  Speaker 1: are going to take those next steps? Nolan Smith, you
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  Speaker 1: want to see the former first round pick take a
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  Speaker 1: next a next step, even Josh Sweat having a really
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  Speaker 1: really nice season last year kind of dropping off towards
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  Speaker 1: the end, seeing if he can really put it all
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  Speaker 1: together in one season. Can Milton Williams take that next
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  Speaker 1: step as well? And also Jordan Davis too. Like again,
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  Speaker 1: all of these contributing factors about guys needing to take
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  Speaker 1: the next step, that that's what I want to see
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  Speaker 1: do I think they can do. I think they have
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  Speaker 1: the coaches to be able to help them do that, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's inevitably what I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: interested in hearing about behind the scenes too, what's the
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  Speaker 1: relationship like with the defensive line coach and this crew,
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  Speaker 1: because I think if the relationship as cohesive, if these
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  Speaker 1: guys are coachable, then they are going to move ahead
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  Speaker 1: and progress very very well. So it's something it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on my radar for sure. So I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 1: you go in just a bit here, Alexis. But one
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  Speaker 1: more topic I wanted to dive into with you, and
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  Speaker 1: it's the obvious one and the one everybody's been talking
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  Speaker 1: about the pressure on Nick Sirianni to win this year
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  Speaker 1: and to win big. But the real question is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to what extent for him to be able to keep
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  Speaker 1: his job. Where does he need to take this Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Eagles team. We were talking about this last week on
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  Speaker 1: this show, and both Len and I we believe he
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  Speaker 1: needs to outright win the divisional round and make it
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  Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game in order for him to
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  Speaker 1: potentially keep his job. Look, I think It's amazing he
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  Speaker 1: was able to keep his job this past offseason. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of different dynamics went into that, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts here. You know, what's
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni gonna have to do in order to keep
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  Speaker 1: his job and to get this Eagles team to where
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  Speaker 1: I think they can be given what we see on
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  Speaker 1: paper here at least, What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he definitely needs to win the NFC East.
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  Speaker 3: I think if he wins the division, he keeps his job. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: if he doesn't win the division but still makes it
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  Speaker 3: two games, like you said, you know, win the divisional
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  Speaker 3: round of the playoffs, I could see him also keeping
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  Speaker 3: his job. Like I don't think it has to necessarily
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  Speaker 3: be both. I think winning the division and getting to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs would be enough, especially you know after last
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  Speaker 3: year and how the division went crumbled under them.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people have a problem with
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  Speaker 3: him being this sort of you know, like manager type
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  Speaker 3: role instead of being super involved in the offense or defense.
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  Speaker 1: But like that doesn't bother me. Yeah, I agree too,
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  Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of coaches throughout NFL history
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  Speaker 1: that have had that type of role. I mean, look, look,
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  Speaker 1: people will complain and Steelers fans complain about Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: but he's always had he's always had that role and
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  Speaker 1: he's still there. And yeah, they haven't necessarily seen that
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  Speaker 1: much success, but it's still the type of leadership that
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  Speaker 1: you want for your locker room and for the roster.
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  Speaker 1: I think. So that's just one example of that quote
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  Speaker 1: manager of things being able to be somewhat successful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I would argue too that you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: wanted him to solely focus on the offense, then he
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  Speaker 3: should just be an offensive coordinator. And last year when
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  Speaker 3: he tried to be kind of in charge of the
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  Speaker 3: offense but was still the head coach, I mean we
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  Speaker 3: all saw how that went right, and that was a disaster.
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  Speaker 3: So like, I don't want him half in either, if
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  Speaker 3: like running things like because as a head coach you
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: do have to have like your hand in every single
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  Speaker 3: position and that's going to be hard to do if
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  Speaker 3: you're also, you know, the one solely in charge of
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  Speaker 3: deciding what kind of offense you want. So I really
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  Speaker 3: like that role for him, and I think, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think his seat is warm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not as far that it's like a hot seat.
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  Speaker 3: I think he and how we have a good relationship.
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  Speaker 3: They've always had sort of like this awkward dynamic to
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  Speaker 3: me when they're in press conferences together, like how he
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: tries to play up, how they have inside jokes and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: it just seems weird to me most of the time.
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  Speaker 3: But to during their intro press conference to training camp,
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like a much more natural relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, I feel like, as you know, he gets as
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  Speaker 3: Sirianni gets his like feet, you know, more firmly on
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  Speaker 3: the ground, starts developing what this team and this team's
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: identity will be. I think as the season goes, unless
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: it like completely explodes and we just waste all this
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: talent that we have, I think he'll probably get more
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: lee way than people are maybe thinking he will at
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: this point.
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  Speaker 1: All right, very good, gonna let you go. Alexis Chasin
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• 1:09:29
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• 1:09:32
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me and.
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