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  Speaker 2: talk Eagles football with the guys from the Inside the
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  Speaker 2: Birds podcast. And right now we are back with Adam
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  Speaker 2: Kaplan as he does every Tuesday here for Football at four.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the Birds getting ready for Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: We had the Vic Fangio presser earlier today. A couple
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  Speaker 2: interesting things came from that, and Adam is with the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens this week as well, the Eagles preseason opponent number one.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Adam Kaplan? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am well. I also saw the Giants yesterday, which
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  Speaker 3: we could talk about later in the week. But yeah, look, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I heard Fanjos press conference. I was able to listen
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  Speaker 3: to it in my car. Julie Jonathan Jones injury, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: that's not good. He is their third corner. Like he's
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  Speaker 3: not even being he's not even being competed against for
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  Speaker 3: that job. That's not good. He turns thirty three in September,
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  Speaker 3: so he's thirty three in NFL years. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: shoulder injury. Sounds like it's going to be a little
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  Speaker 3: bit So, Mike, that's not good because Jacroyne Bennett is
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  Speaker 3: not he's not taking the number four job of Mac McWilliams.
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  Speaker 3: What Mac mcgoiams has the sure to be inside tracted
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  Speaker 3: with the fourth corner, Mike and the other guy's kind
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  Speaker 3: of been a sleeper's tree, Castro Fields a decent sized
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  Speaker 3: corner formerly yet another former forty nine er six round
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. Who's who's been around a little bit? Niners,
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  Speaker 3: the Commanders, the Panthers, and now the Eagles. He was
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  Speaker 3: with the Eagles last summer, got cut once he cleared waivers,
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  Speaker 3: they had to wait a couple of months because he
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  Speaker 3: had injury settlement. Then he signed to their practice squad
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  Speaker 3: and he was there until the playoffs. So, Mike, they're
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit of a tough spot in the corner.
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  Speaker 3: They probably are going to need to add someone by
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  Speaker 3: the start of the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one thing other thing that Fangio mentioned. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it was a surprise to you or not,
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  Speaker 2: but he said we won't see for him for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks. When it comes to Jonathan Grenard, I
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  Speaker 2: think we anticipated that he would miss. What does that
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  Speaker 2: worry you at all?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, my feeling was because you've got a patrol strain,
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  Speaker 3: we wouldn't see himuntil the regular season. But here, here's
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  Speaker 3: what Jeff and I were talking about off the air today.
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  Speaker 3: He had shoulder surgery. Now he's a pectoral string. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know its side, whether it's just left or right side,
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  Speaker 3: the surgically repaired side. But like, here's the problem. How
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  Speaker 3: well could he lose? How could you be lifting weights
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  Speaker 3: normally and getting your body built up for the season
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  Speaker 3: when when you're coming back from pectorial string. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a concern. So let's just assume Howie Roseman is right
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles general manager, that Grenard will be able to
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  Speaker 3: play Week one against the command But how many SAMs
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  Speaker 3: could he handle? How strong is he going to be?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 3: The good things have got plenty of depth. It's not
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  Speaker 3: a problem. But that's not good for him being a
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  Speaker 3: quality player early on. Remember he came back from major
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  Speaker 3: shoulder surgery. We need to remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gernard obviously too a key pick up. But as
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  Speaker 2: you just kind of hit to that, I want to
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  Speaker 2: reiterate with you. If Gernard is unable to kind of
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  Speaker 2: have the role that they thought he would have, did
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  Speaker 2: they have enough to kind of hold off until he's
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  Speaker 2: maybe ready to have a bigger role.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're actually really good there. They're really good there
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  Speaker 3: with Jylex sn with Nolan Smith, with all on Evacuetty.
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  Speaker 3: We were joking on our show that Eva Kay's going
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  Speaker 3: to make one four million dollars. But if everybody's helf,
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  Speaker 3: he's not gonna play like he would dress. But Fangio
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  Speaker 3: only plays three edges. And don't forget our guy, aj
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  Speaker 3: F Panessa. It's been a training camp sleeper who now
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  Speaker 3: even increases his chances of making the team with Grenard
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  Speaker 3: unable to practice. So yeah, this is it's interesting. You know,
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  Speaker 3: as I said on your show last Friday, they're about
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  Speaker 3: seven eight spots that are available back in spots forty
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  Speaker 3: five to fifty three, and there're gonna be some guys
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  Speaker 3: are gonna make it. You go, wow, that guy made
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  Speaker 3: the team. Well, look there the bottom of the roster, Scott,
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  Speaker 3: A lot of competition, some guys who might surprise you
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  Speaker 3: that what I'm making the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and on Friday show, you also talked about you
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  Speaker 2: think spots forty eight through fifty three are up for grabs.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be interested to see that all kind of play
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  Speaker 2: out over the next.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks with these preseason games goes.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine hearing Vic today, he says, you guys
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  Speaker 2: have been around here, you know how this plays out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we'll see any starters, but those back
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  Speaker 2: end guys, that's who we're watching for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So, yeah, what I meant is forty
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  Speaker 3: five to fifty three, not forty seven to fifty three.
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  Speaker 3: It's really seven or eight spots. But Vic, look Vic,
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  Speaker 3: those I get it. They have it because they'll do
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  Speaker 3: their game planning after Thursday. So Thursdays their last practice
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  Speaker 3: of the week. It's a light one. Then they have
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  Speaker 3: the walkthrough on Friday before they travel to Baltimore Front afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah up till and we'll talk more about this as
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  Speaker 3: reprieve of the game on Friday. But Mike, but it
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  Speaker 3: is a Here here's where it comes down to. Right
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  Speaker 3: guys at the bottom of the roster. You are Bernard right,
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  Speaker 3: Deoncey Lawson, Chance Campbell, who was my guy in ot As,
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  Speaker 3: has had a good training camp. Cole was Nesky unfortunately
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  Speaker 3: is heard. He was heard in the spring. J T. Gray,
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  Speaker 3: the Special Team superstar A. Kathy Ringo should make it
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  Speaker 3: because he's Ringo is a Special Team's player only, but
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  Speaker 3: he's a lead at it. Guys on offense, uh, John
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  Speaker 3: o'juku who I mentioned earlier, Mike who has been He
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  Speaker 3: was the backup left tackle before before Lane Johnson got
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  Speaker 3: hurt because remember Markel Bell was was running with the
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  Speaker 3: ones at right tackle and Fred Johnson was kind of
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  Speaker 3: backing up at both tackle spots. So John and Juku
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be he's a long shot. And Willie
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  Speaker 3: Lampcut has really come on. There are just a lot
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  Speaker 3: of and all these backup receivers Johnny will Kles Watkins
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  Speaker 3: highly unlikely to make it because they kind of know
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  Speaker 3: who he is. But he's back because you know, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's the offense. Yes, and Zion Wilson, who I know,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're very excited about as an untractored free agent.
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  Speaker 3: They think they got a pretty good deal on. So
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of guys way back of the
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  Speaker 3: roster who are going to keep, who need these three preseasons,
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  Speaker 3: these three preseason games to see if they could get
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  Speaker 3: on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let's look at you know, the other
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  Speaker 2: day and Jeff and I talked a lot about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday we heard what Lane Johnson said, and it's been
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  Speaker 2: talked a lot about that. Lane Johnson said, this is
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  Speaker 2: potentially possibly his last season with the Philadelphia Eagles, and
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  Speaker 2: you look at the future now of the Eagles offensive
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  Speaker 2: line and what that might look like down the road
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  Speaker 2: with his potential departure.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's take a look at this. Let
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  Speaker 3: after this season, Mike, Let's say, Lane, we don't put
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  Speaker 3: percentages ever. We haven't done that for nine years. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to start now. We've been full before. So
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  Speaker 3: because I remember talking to people close to Jason Kelcey,
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  Speaker 3: yet sounds like it is probably gonna be it. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't sounds next year that yeah, he's he's not gonna play.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to playing. So we don't we don't do
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  Speaker 3: percentages Mike. It's a complete waste of time. But we
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  Speaker 3: go only go by what Blaine said. He's leaning towards retirement,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean he's going to definitely do it. If he
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  Speaker 3: does retire, they're they're they're training Markel Bell to be
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  Speaker 3: his replacement. He's really not a left tackle at this level,
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  Speaker 3: not athletic enough. He coordination's gonna be a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better to play left tackle. Complain it if he needed to,
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  Speaker 3: but he's he's a right tackle. As we told you
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  Speaker 3: exactly when he was drafted. Fred Johnson's contracts up, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: He's signed a one year deal, so they don't have
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  Speaker 3: a swing tackle past the season. Uh. Look this this
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  Speaker 3: this preseason game to the other two plus the rest
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  Speaker 3: of training camp. Jake Major's number seventy five has been
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  Speaker 3: a good story. He's been cross trained center and guard.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to take a hard look at him. He's
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  Speaker 3: got a real shot to make the team. They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: take a real shit look at him in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is he's got really short arms, too short
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  Speaker 3: to play guard outside chance to get a backup center job.
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  Speaker 3: Drew Kennell is absolutely making the team. He's their future.
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  Speaker 3: Backup center for the cross training Guard Miles in is
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  Speaker 3: not there yet. They tried mcguard hasn't worked out, hasn't
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  Speaker 3: only worked out a left tackle. He's a major loan
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  Speaker 3: shot to make the team. Willie Lampkins sixty one, who's
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  Speaker 3: there's a small portion of Eagles Twitter who's infatuated. Infatuated
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  Speaker 3: with this guy. We're gonna learn a lot Mike through
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  Speaker 3: training camp and in the preseason. Number sixty one. He's
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  Speaker 3: built like a fire hydrant. He's a short guy, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: He's under five ft eleven. Nobody I can't remember the
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  Speaker 3: last time a offensive lineman played at five to eleven
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  Speaker 3: or shorter in the NFL. He could shock us, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: he could shock us. So they'd like to get a
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  Speaker 3: couple of these guys on the roster. Kennel is definitely
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  Speaker 3: part of the future because right now, Mike, honestly, you
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  Speaker 3: could only count on eight guys to me the roster
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive line. After that, Kennill's making it, Bells
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  Speaker 3: making a Fred Johnson's making it after that, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: I guess one the question is with Lampkin is last
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  Speaker 2: year they got criticized for going after him. You know what,
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  Speaker 2: did they see in him that they would do something.
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  Speaker 2: They got them, you know, got them in not in
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  Speaker 2: such a good light.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what happened, Mike. It's there's an unspoken role
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  Speaker 3: with general managers that you do not claim a guy
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  Speaker 3: who has waved it waved injured. You just it's it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of something that you just don't do. But you
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  Speaker 3: know Howie doesn't have to play by the rules. He
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  Speaker 3: could do it. Look, he's close to some of the
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  Speaker 3: the fram front office people, so you know, maybe they
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  Speaker 3: have a little bit of hard feelings, but it's about
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  Speaker 3: your football team and what's best for you. And Willie
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  Speaker 3: Lampkin is a pretty talented guy, but he's so short
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  Speaker 3: that it's just teams that you couldn't justify draftic on him.
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  Speaker 3: That's the truth. And you know, the Rams really liked
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  Speaker 3: the guy, and they they they did not want to
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  Speaker 3: carry him to the to the because what you have
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  Speaker 3: to do is a a non vested player, if you
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  Speaker 3: put them on injury, reserve their their own ir for
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  Speaker 3: the full season. I mean, she can't practice. So what
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  Speaker 3: could have happened was Mike, had he passed through waivers unclaimed,
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  Speaker 3: he would have went to their ir and they could
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  Speaker 3: have worked out an injury settlement and he could have
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  Speaker 3: come back in two months. So look, they were not
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  Speaker 3: happy about it. Oh well, but Willie Lampkins, he's got
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  Speaker 3: reps in training camp, at guard and at center. So
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  Speaker 3: the good thing is Mike through Kendall, through Lampkin, through Majors.
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  Speaker 3: They may have a future with a couple of guys
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  Speaker 3: here who could at least be good backup for the future,
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  Speaker 3: but they got to get through through the rest of
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  Speaker 3: training camp and the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Kaplan is of course ready for football as we
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  Speaker 2: all are, and you are with the Ravens. To go
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  Speaker 2: check out the Baltimore Ravens today. That is the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: preseason opponent number one. And you've seen some Eagles, You've
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  Speaker 2: now seen some Ravens. So how did these two teams
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  Speaker 2: stack up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Giants and Ravens are similar in that
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  Speaker 3: both teams are on a thirty four front. Jesse Minner
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  Speaker 3: is the head coach. His dad, Rick was on Chim
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  Speaker 3: Kelly's coaching staff here in Philly. A lot of people
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  Speaker 3: probably don't know that, but Rick was. I believe he
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  Speaker 3: was a linebackers coach. I talked to coach minnor Rick
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  Speaker 3: over the years. He's actually on Jesse's staff, I believe
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  Speaker 3: as a senior defensive assistant or something like that. But
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  Speaker 3: Jesse was the former Chargers decordinator and Jim Harball's defensive
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  Speaker 3: coordinator at Michigan, and he's really smart, detailed coach, good energy. Offensively,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a little different. They don't have a fullback.
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Ricard speaking of the Giants with John Harball is
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  Speaker 3: the giants highly paid fullback. So it's gonna look different
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  Speaker 3: under Declan Doyle. Mike, Declan Doyle the youngest offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 3: of the National Football at just thirty years old. I
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  Speaker 3: think David Blount might be a little bit older. Who's
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Commander's offensive coordinator. Declan Doyle's not called plays
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  Speaker 3: before he interviewed for the Eagles offensive coordinator job, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: you might remember, and in fact, maybe it's because he
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  Speaker 3: removed his name from the running and maybe he knew
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  Speaker 3: he was going to get the Baltimore job. But it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna look different. And he did work with Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 3: last season, he didn't call the plays as an offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 3: so this is the first time calling plays. So all
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  Speaker 3: had been at coaching like seven years. He was like
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  Speaker 3: twenty three. Most of his career was with Sean Payton
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  Speaker 3: in one year under Ben Johnson. So he's going to
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  Speaker 3: bring a lot of Sean Payn's concepts. So it's going
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  Speaker 3: to look different now. Unfortunately, might get happen. When I
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  Speaker 3: was there and I saw it happen. Nate Wiggins, number two,
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  Speaker 3: their best corner, he suffered a left knee or leg injury.
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  Speaker 3: He went up a jump for a ball that was
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  Speaker 3: to Jacoby Lane, their their third round receiver out of
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  Speaker 3: USC and they got tangled up and Wiggins of writhing
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  Speaker 3: in pain. I felt so bad. It was really bad
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  Speaker 3: to see. I hate to see that when the players
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  Speaker 3: like kind of tossing in the field. He's so upsad,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's had to move from south side. He's so
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  Speaker 3: much pain. So they're not very good at corner in
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  Speaker 3: terms of depth, So that that's gonna affect them if
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be out a while. But they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: look different, Mike, They're gonna look different than on good
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, norb Harball, Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 3: Horrible, It's weird. It is weird. I gotta tell you, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: you bring that up, it's very odd not seeing John
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  Speaker 3: Harble there, but I just saw him with the Giants yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: How weird is that? Like? That was that was really odd?
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  Speaker 3: Like that that part of so far my mini. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna have a longer tour the next week. I should
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  Speaker 3: beat the Eagles Patriots. But seeing John Horrible not in
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  Speaker 3: Baltimore today and seeing him with a Giant yesterday, that
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  Speaker 3: like blew my mind. I'm so glad you brought that up,
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  Speaker 3: because it just was really like I've seen Pat Sherman there,
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  Speaker 3: former Eagles assistant coach right who was their their head
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  Speaker 3: coach years ago, And it's just kind of weird seeing
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  Speaker 3: John Harble there. But there are a lot of ex
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  Speaker 3: Ravens people, a lot of X Raven players and coaches
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  Speaker 3: there now with Baltimore all right, And by.
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  Speaker 2: The way, first unofficial depth chart of the season for
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  Speaker 2: the Birds was released earlier today as well. Having even looked,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I think crazy Jonathan Gernard's not listed
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 1: That was one thing.
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  Speaker 2: So Nolan Smith is there, Jay loxsn Carter Davis, Ojomo, Bonn, Campbell, Woolen,
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell now Cooper de Geni is listed as the starter
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  Speaker 2: at both nickel corner and at safety, and Michael Carter
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  Speaker 2: is listed as the backup to him at both spots,
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  Speaker 2: and the backup quarterback is both Dalton and McKees.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the slashes there. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's another area that of interest. Everything else seem pretty
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  Speaker 2: status quo. McKay lemon was listed as the starter as
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  Speaker 2: three wide receivers with Wix and Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing, though, Michael Carter now really to
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  Speaker 3: start training camp. Marcus EPs is clearly starting over him.
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  Speaker 3: Now Carter is short in the gap and it's close.
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  Speaker 3: I will be interested to see what do they let
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  Speaker 3: Epps play in the preseason? Will they will they have
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  Speaker 3: the start of defense play Historically they haven't, But we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens here.
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  Speaker 2: Epstein's, by the way, actually have quarter and Apps listed
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: as the backup safety slash and Carter and Mac McWilliams
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: listed as the backup nickel.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Well, that is true. What although McWilliams is playing corner
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: right now, where the he's playing nickel? They they I'll
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: tell you what, man, Mike, the fourth corner jobs open,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: no question about it. Actually, the fifth, pretending us they
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: keep fifth. You could say the fifth. Backup safety jobs
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: are open. Fifth defensive tackle jobs open. Interior offensive line
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: jobs are open. Backup receiver jobs are open. Like I
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: told I wouldn't kid when I talked Friday about this,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: there're gonna be some surprises. You're gonna holl and the
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: will did that guy make it? Well, they had opportunity
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: and they seize it. That's why there you go.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: By the way, Ho ho ho? You got Christmas?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Basketball? Sixers Lakers? Man?
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I saw that. I said, six six or Knicks or
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: six ers?
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Like who's Lakers?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Lakers? Okay, that's five o'clock. Yeah, well you had Lebron
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: get that's funny, the Lebron ball, so to speak.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Well, you got you got, so you gotta have Christmas Eve,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Eagles and Christmas Day?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: You got cool?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Look, I as I told you
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: last Friday, I am.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just absolutely pumped for this. This is something we have.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Six Ers diehards have waited so many for them to
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: be competitive, and this whole thing came out of the blue.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: As you know, because I remember saying when a show
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: can't get out Embat's contract, can't get a pull George's contract. Oops,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I was wrong, and man, have I ever been happier?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Nobody saw all this coming, so you're you're nos. You
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: know they had Mike Gansey's timeline. It was like he
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: was hired draft day trades for Jalen Brown signs. I mean,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: this guy had like the most unbelievable two month span
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: that I think anybody.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Like like honestly, how he's had his moments. Obviously he's
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: been He's had some moments that were just incredible with
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Barkley could go over them, but as you said, in
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: the short timeline, I'd have to, we'd all have to
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: go back in our minds and within two weeks, three weeks,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: four weeks, who has had a better run. Now, I
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: know these guys haven't played yet, but he hasn't controlled that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You control the health of the team and how they're used.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: But this is one of the all time great runs
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: that a new channel manager has made.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Here for sure, Adam Kapling everybody with the Ravens today,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but with the Eagles all season long for the Inside
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the Birds podcast, which you can get on all podcasting platforms.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Football at four, Getting Ready for the preseason games on Saturday,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and of course he'll be back on Friday show.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I won't be here, Adham.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to the World Series, so I'll lay off,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but Josh will be in. You'll have a little football
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: at four previewing the Eagles and Ravens with him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Sounds good, thanks, h Right, buddy, there he.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Goes Adamkapling everybody here on The Sports Best Live ninety
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: seven three ESPN, and of course you can check out
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the Inside of the Birds podcast on all podcasting platforms.