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All right, everybody, you are listening to Eagles postgame analysis here at the
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Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in
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the world. That's right over ten and a half years strong, And somehow
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here in week eleven, the Philadelphia Eagles going out to Kansas City beating the
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defending Super Bowl champions in a Super Bowl rematch by a score of twenty one
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to seventeen. Again, I do not know how this team ended up winning
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this game. I mean, we're certainly going to be getting into it.
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Holy cow. The Eagles are nine to one on the season, the Kansas
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City Chiefs seven and three. My gosh, I am here with my good
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buddy Matt Rodgers, the one and only Matt Rodgers, as I like to
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introduce him. And again, I'm Jeff Warren here. I don't even think
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I put my name out there to begin with, but Matt, buddy,
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thanks so much for filling it for the guys. Now, I guess yeah,
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at this point, why do I have to introduce myself? For God's
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sake? Anyway, buddy, this team is now, like I said,
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nine to one on the season. They go out to Kansas City, they
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get the job done in the ugliest way possible, where the offense was absolute
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garbage for about seventy five percent of the plays that were run. And we're
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gonna get into this more, but first and foremost, thanks for being on
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the show, buddy. I love talking to you when we do our Eagles
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postgame podcasts and other shows as well. Biggest themes from this game, let's
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start. I'm gonna start. Let you start because I usually start pontificating right
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off the bats. So what are your thoughts here? Man? Yeah,
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So one of my big, my big takeaways from this game is obviously you
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don't want to get two worked up about a regular season game, you know,
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even before Thanksgiving. But the reality is it's it's a huge win for
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the for the Eagles locker room, and for the you know, for the
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minds of Philadelphia sports fans like ourselves. I mean, this idea to go
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into Kansas City and go and take the loss tonight, even if you take
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a close loss. What happens is even if the Eagles rattle off you know
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NFC East championship in a few weeks, they win you know, division round,
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they win the championship game, They're going to the Super Bowl again,
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it's all hanging in our heads. Hey, oh, but it doesn't matter
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what the hell they do, because because the Chiefs have their number yep,
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and and so we don't have to deal with that. Now that they have
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to deal with the fact that they had a ten point lead in the second
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half in Arrowhead and they couldn't bring it home. Yeah, there are a
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lot of reasons for that, but that is going to sting for for weeks.
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It's going to sting them for weeks. The fact that they could not
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score, the fact that the Kansas City Chiefs could not score against this Eagles
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defense in the second half, not one point scored in the second half.
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Chiefs scored seven points in the first quarter, ten points in the second quarter,
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zero in the third, zero in the fourth. And it goes to
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show the tenacity of this Eagles defense, a defense that has been absolutely plagued
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in the secondary. We've talked about it a number of times, Matt on
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these postgame shows, how the secondary's getting burnt. Secondary continues to get burnt.
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Issues with Bradbury, issues with Slay, the slot position, just a
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revolving door, and what's gonna happen. So many question marks and they ended
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up getting it done. They ended up getting it done in this game again
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on the road. And I'll tell you too, aside from the defense,
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I will say it's mind boggling to me too that if you told me Jalen
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Hurts was going to be fourteen of twenty two for one hundred and fifty yards,
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zero touchdowns thrown, one interception, and a rating of sixty four point
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six, I would have said, there's no way this team is actually winning.
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But with DeAndre Swift on the ground averaging six point three yards per rush,
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seventy six total yards on twelve carries, one touchdown, Jalen Hurts with
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two rushing touchdowns in this game at fantastic quarterback draw for the first touchdown,
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push push for the second touchdown. I'll tell you the tenacity of this team,
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both on offense and defense. When this team was not cohesively playing well
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from an offensive standpoint and partially a defensive standpoint in the first half, for
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them to be able to rebound, it really says a lot about the tenacity
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of this team. Yeah, I mean, and you know, one of
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the themes that jump out to me here is you know, it's incredible you
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know this defense that has been torched by Sam Howe twice. Yeah, wrtch
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by Dak Prescott for four hundred shuts down Tula, shuts down mahomes in Arrowhead.
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It is. It's fascinating. Desai is clearly doing a little bit more,
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you know, eating his wheedies, you know, during these weeks with
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the Dolphins and the Chiefs, because these guys are showing up to play.
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I mean, this is a you said earlier, they were the Thiefts were
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unable to score. They had a ten point leave in the second half,
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they couldn't bring it home and they couldn't score another point. Against what you
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and I know and everybody else who watches the team in the midnight green for
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most of the time, this is a challenged secondary. I mean, you
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got Sidney Brown, who is just I'm gonna say it, I don't you
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know. I don't like ripping the Eagles players. The man is slow.
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Now, if he wants to get ready to play, you know, box
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safety or something like that, then that's fine. But with these tight ends
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and these slot receivers, I don't want to see it anymore. I've seen
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enough that man, you know, you know it is not He would certainly
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smoke me in a race, but but that's not the level that we need
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to play at. This guy is not ready. He's not fast enough to
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cover these NFL wide receivers, especially these shifty guys in the slot. It's
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bad, I do have to say. From a slot receiver standpoint, you
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see Travis Kelcey a lot of times lining up in the slot. Travis Kelcey
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targeted nine times in this game. He came down with seven balls, but
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for only forty four yards six point three yards per reception. Yes, he
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did catch a touchdown. I think it was like three yard touchdown reception and
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as long was thirteen on the day. This Eagles team kept Travis Kelcey in
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check and it says so much about the middle of the field, the preparation,
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what Sean Decide was able to do in terms of prepping these guys this
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week. I can't say enough about that. I can't say enough about that,
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and I think too you know, the defense needed to make plays when
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they needed to make plays, and that's how they ended up winning this game.
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Aside, then on the opposite side of the of the ball, the
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offense needing to make plays when they needed to make plays, whether it was
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like I mentioned the Jalen Hurts quarterback draw for a touchdown right before or in
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the what was it in the first It was in the first quarter, right,
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I think it was the first quarter, yes, and yep, and
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then DeVante Smith with a forty one yard reception. The team needed to make
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plays when they needed to make plays, and they executed. The Chiefs did
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not execute when they needed to. At the end of the day, they
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didn't execute when they needed to. And you know, until they get receivers
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that don't have rakes or boxing gloves for hands, you know that they're gonna
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be they're gonna be struggling a little bit here and there. You know,
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we've seen this Chief's team with a drop off from an offensive standpoint this season.
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We talked about it both. I think we both talked about it on
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our our preview shows. I mean, coming into this game, the Kansas
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City Chiefs had a twenty percent drop of the amount of points that they've scored
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this season from last season and they're just not executing from an offensive standpoint.
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So, you know, good on the Eagles, of course, and we'd
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love it now. The fact that this team. I mean, it's nine
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to one, so I mean, go ahead, Yeah, what are your
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thoughts here? I have another theme that just occurred to me. They've got
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this you know, this is supposed to be Murderers Row, but we already
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killed the biggest boss of the lineup. But anyways, so we've got Murderers
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Row coming up. We got two more legitimately teams that were thought about as
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conference championship contenders. So we've got the Bills coming up for twenty five with
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the Kelly Greens yep, and then you got the forty nine Ers that next
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week. Let's say the Eagles go one and one in those games, I
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don't know which one they win, which one they lose. They go one
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and one, the Eagles, this year's Eagles have a great chance to match
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last year's win total. Now having go on into Arrowhead, having moved to
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now nine and one, they're in a position where, I mean, after
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you get through that first two. We just watched the Seahawks lose to the
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LA Rams. Yeah, only scoring seventeen points. So I'm not about to
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go and get worked up about that game. You can lose to anybody in
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the NFL. Giants twice. Yeah, I mean the Eagles lost to the
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New York Jets. For God's sake, that's the one loss of the season.
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You can lose anybody in this league on any given Sunday. You can.
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But on the other hand, as they get these things together in the
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second half, at some point, DeVante Smith is going to get it together.
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Today was a great a great showing of that of what he can do,
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especially with the coverages that people have to play with with aj Brown,
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And I'm feeling really bullish. I mean, obviously, you know, going
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into Arrowhead win in a game, but you know, this puts them in
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a really good position, especially again considering that this defense you know, clearly
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has you know, gaping holes and they're shutting down the league's top quarterbacks.
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Yeah, offenses, it's a great theme for sure, great theme to reflect
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on as we head into Week twelve. But I also have to say too,
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and I mean, yes, they win and we're like, we're we
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feel more relief I think from this win than just the gleeful type of feelings
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because in the first half of this game, Matt this Eagles passing attack,
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it just wasn't worried, it wasn't working for the majority of the game.
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The pass protection was breaking down, some plays were just taking way, way
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too long to develop, and Jalen Hurts just wasn't seeing the entire field and
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entering this game he had the second slowest average time to throw the ball at
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three point one four seconds. And meanwhile, Brian Johnson he wasn't calling the
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best game either. Plays that were awful, absolutely and not accounting for the
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blitz that was consistently occurring, especially in the first half. My gosh,
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I mean, Jalen Hurts had forty six total passing yardards in the first half.
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There were seventy eight yards of total offense in the first half for this
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Eagles team, Jalen Hurts being sacked five times before the half. If you
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had have told me the Eagles were gonna win this game on the road with
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stats like that in the first half, it was unbelievable. And the run
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defense too, was shredded for one hundred and twenty one yards, most any
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team has run for against this Philadelphia Eagles defense this season. And again,
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that was just the first half. But they ended up pulling it together somehow,
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and again I'll say they made plays when they needed to make plays,
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and that fourth quarter drive by the offense that led to Hurt scoring from the
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one on the tush push. You know, I mean, what a great
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drive and again have to say Devonte Smith just a fantastic forty one yard reception.
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It just needs to be said that I think that was the play of
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the game that really turned things around. Absolutely, it was demoralizing, I
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think for a chief secondary that had done very well up until that point.
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That's just they completely collapsed after that. And I do want to you know,
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whatever folks want to call it, toush push, brotherly shove whatever.
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On honiable mention, I started calling it America's favorite play, and then I
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just shortened it. You know, since the Cowboys America's team, this is
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now America's play. Yeah, And so I do want to point out that
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when we go back and we look especially for the folks who you know,
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who work too hard and they were legitimately they're gonna get off at will all
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right now and they're listening to your show or they're legitimately you know, they
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just there are people who can't afford to watch the games, or people who
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like to just go and watch Sports Center and talk about it and watch the
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shows throughout the week. But when you watch the game, I think something
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to point out about the toush pushes. The Eagles are not playing games.
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If they get within five yards of the end three or four five yards of
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the end zone, they're not doing. They're doing like the anti Pete Carroll
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and the Super Bowl thing. They're like, yeah, we're not gonna let
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We're not gonna let Jalen throw a two yard touchdown, which a lot of
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teams allow their quarterbacks to do. If Jalen gets anywhere near the end zone,
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those guys are just gonna hammer it in and it doesn't even matter.
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And so I think his statistics from that perspective, whereas his rushing TD numbers
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are gonna he's gonna like double you know what anybody else has done, especially
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in Eagles history. But I also want to point out that when you look
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at his passing statistics, he very well could have thrown a dink and duck
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a little you know, some of these touchdowns that McNabb through those little,
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uh you know, underhand pitches that even with all respect to uh mahomes,
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Andy Reid brought that same little pitch play over and that's a touchdown pass.
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Jalen Hurts can do that. So I just want to point that out for
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the listeners folks. You know, just because he didn't have a touchdown and
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his and his QB rating was in the sixties, doesn't mean that that guy
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still didn't have a legitimately good game, you know, with pressure in his
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face and all that constant pressure in his face tonight exactly exactly. And I
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think what's important too is that that ten yard quarterback draw for a touchdown in
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the first quarter. That was Jalen hurts thirty fourth rushing touchdown of his career,
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and he passed Cam Newton for the most touchdowns by a quarterback in his
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first four seasons as a starting quarter Credible, it is, It's absolutely incredible.
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And the fact that again there was enough tenacity offensively and then defensively defensively,
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with Patrick Mahomes only throwing for one hundred and seventy seven yards, he
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averaged four point one yards per attempt, the tenacity of the defense too,
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and just all around. You know, I'm not going to say that again,
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this isn't some sort of gleeful win here, but a tenacious win by
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this Eagles team and it's why they are a top of the NFL at this
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point, the best team. Yep. Absolutely absolutely the league, not the
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conference, the league exactly, exactly, Yeah, DEEVIDI other takeaways here,
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buddy, before we get into grades and uh and before we uh, before
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we head out here, you know, and just kind of digest this before
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we twelve you'll you'll ask me about this, so so I'll I'll save my
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theme. But I but I do have something, but I know you're gonna
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ask me later as we get through the different position groups and coaching and stuff.
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Okay, sounds good. We can save we can save that particular talking
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point for sure for the grades and themes. So why don't we just do
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that? Why don't we take our break right now, and when we come
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back, we'll start with grades, grade by unit as we do every postgame
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show, and then grade the coaching. Does that work for you, buddy?
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Great? Thank you? All right, let's take that break. We'll
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be right back. All right, we are back and again with Matt Rogers
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from the honorable mentioned podcast. I think I forgot to mention that right off
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the bat the honorable mentioned podcast. I listened on Apple podcasts, and I
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think I forgot to mention it because I was absolutely, you know, mind
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boggled by this Eagles win here. But yes, yes, follow Matt defensive
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win, Yes, defensive win for sure. Follow Matt on on threads at
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Politidope. And you can also catch the honorable mention pod on threads as well.
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I know you're on threads a lot more than Twitter. Correct. Yeah,
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I'm hoping. I'm hoping to get there myself at some point. It's
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just making the decision. It really is. At this point, it really
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is. He's like, yes, yes, Jeff, do it, do
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it exactly. God, you would have thought it was the end of the
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world our Twitter feed with this Eagles game. Holy cow tonight. Anyway,
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all right, yes, let's get into these grades, folks. We are
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going to start with the quarterback grade Jalen Hurts. Very interesting grades we're gonna
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be giving out here. I have no idea what you are thinking, Matt,
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but I am going to give Jalen Hurts because at the end of the
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day he was able to pull out the win. I'm gonna end up giving
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him a B for all the crap that we did see in the first half.
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You know, again able to pull out the win. You said it
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before we went to break. It's not just the passing yards. It's not
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just simply what he did in the pocket. It's what he was able to
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do with his legs, how he was able to extend plays when they needed
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to be extended. I'm going to give him a bee in this game,
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going out to Arrowhead and beating Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl rematch B for
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me? What do you give? What do you give Jalen Hurts? Yeah,
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he was a B. He was a B quarterback to I mean obviously
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a B performance tonight. I think that the interception that he threw, Sure
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he threw the ball, but when you look at it, there was a
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clear miscommunication. There was and it wasn't even a miscommunication. It was it
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was it was a j Brown decided I beat this guy. Jalen should have
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seen me and I'm going deep. We called a play in the huddle.
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I'm going to run a different play, and that happened sometimes. But when
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but when Jalen's got pressure in his face, AJ going and doing you know,
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another play or running another route here, you know, he put Jalen
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in a bad situation. And so that that I n t especially again when
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Jalen doesn't get to come up to the two yard line and throw a little
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swing pass to the to the flat and then somebody running for a touchdown and
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bring up his quarterback rating. Yeah, so that that one, that one
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interception will bring him. But but tonight, I said this to Oj Spivey,
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our friend, I don't know if even Donovan McNabb comes out of that
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stadium tonight with a win. I think that's great points. Leadership, Yeah,
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absolutely, with that, this leadership will be ye. Yes, leadership
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brings up the great a lot, absolutely great great points. All right,
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let's move to the running back position. And in terms of rushing for this
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team, of course, Jalen Hurts had twelve carries for twenty nine yards.
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If you take away those twenty nine yards, you know it wasn't the greatest
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day rushing for this team. But overall from a rushing standpoint, with Boston
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Scott Kenneth Gainwell only getting one touch for one yard, was actually happy to
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see that DeAndre Swift with twelve carries for seventy six yards, which I mentioned
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earlier, six point three yards per carrying a touchdown. His Long was thirty
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five on the day, one hundred and fourteen total rushing yards, four point
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two yards per rush, three rushing touchdowns too, and that is including Jalen
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Hurts right there, folks, that's including Herts. He's part of that rushing
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attack. But in terms of the running backs, thought they did what they
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were asked in this game, and DeAndre Swift just coming back strong. They
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called his number a number of times and he delivered. I'm given the running
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backs and a minus. Actually in this game, what do you give him?
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I'm gonna give him B plus because you said backs, You've put the
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s on, yes, And when you say backs, I'm still seeing nothing
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from Gainwell pretty much nothing from Gainwell. Penny is an a witness protection program
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somewhere, and uh, Boston Scott had two carries for eight yards. Yep.
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Because you said backs, I'm gonna give it a B plus. Okay,
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okay, that's fair, that's fair, all right. The receivers,
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wide receivers and tight ends. So this was an interesting game and interesting notion.
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Coming into this particular game. I came into this interested to see how
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the Eagles were gonna go about compensating for the loss of Dallas Goddard, Matt
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you know, Jack Stall, Grant cal Katara combined for just fifteen targets over
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the five games that Dallas Goddard missed in twenty twenty two last season, and
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we saw what happened compensating for the loss of Dallas Goddard. It was four
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wide receivers consistently throughout this game. They were like, you know what,
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We're not gonna trust Jack Stall, We're not gonna trust Grant cal Katara with
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regard to what Dallas Goddard does on this field. It was four wide receivers
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consistently. So in terms of what the wide receiver productivity was in this game,
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one hundred and fifty total yards. Davante Smith led the pack with ninety
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nine yards. DeAndre Swift yeah he yes, he's a running back, but
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from a receiving perspective, thirty one yards. Aj Brown was only targeted four
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times callte one ball for eight yards. Just amazing. How the Chiefs time
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for him? Yeah yeah, absolutely, Chiefs defended him well too. I
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mean I saw on a various instant replays. You got a Chief's credit for
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it. They defended him very well. Olio Jones had two targets came down
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with both of them only for five yards. So I think this receiving Corps,
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when it was asked to perform, it did in some ways and it
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certainly didn't in others. I'm going to give him a bee, and a
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lot of that is because of Davante Smith. So what do you give the
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receiving Corps this week, Buddy, Well, I guess, I guess in
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a rare occurrence, you're you're more optimistic, Yeah, Avante's if not for
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DeVante Smith just going off today, you know, I'm really down on I
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mean the tight end room. I love what you said about because in the
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second half that is what we started to see. We start to see it
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for wide receiver sets with you know, a hybrid tighten type of tight end.
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I think of Julio Jones is more so you're tight end. Have him
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run those those shallows, you know, across the middle, you know,
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tight end type of routes go four wide and then it'll make it it'll make
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it harder for these teams to line up against you and load up the box
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because they've got to spread out, they got to bring in their packages,
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get the you know, more defensive backs on the field. I'm giving them
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a I'm giving them a C plus. Calca Tara Stole gave me absolutely nothing.
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A J. Brown, A J Brown with his worst, worst output
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of the season. Zakiyas, I don't even know that has made a catch
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today. Yeah, Now, the Goddter injury could end up being a blessing
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in disguise because maybe they do realize that this four wide receiver set kind of
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thing, you know, with with Julio as your tight end, and when
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Goddard gets backed and maybe you can slot him right back into that position.
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But especially when Ques Watkins is able to make his return and all that it
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could it could make a big difference. All right, very good. Let's
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grade the offensive line. I am going to give the offensive line this week
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a C minus because I think it was a ten two halfs for them.
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I do. I think it was just it was the most horrendous first half
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of the game for the offensive line that we have seen in quite some time.
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The Jets game was not the best by any stretch of the imagination,
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but boy the man, even Jason Kelsey whiffing on some on some key blocks,
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it just it was. It was terrible and just and just with Brian
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Johnson not making any sort of game decisions to help give Jalen Hurts more protection
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when the blitz was coming almost every single play in the first half. But
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then they turned things around in the second half. So I'm gonna give him
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a C minus here. Yeah, what are your thoughts in terms of this
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grade? I think you're right. I came into this thinking I was gonna
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give him the sea, But as as you explained what you were just saying
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there, you're right, because I mean, every time Jalen dropped back,
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he was either hurried pressure and you know, he's stepping up in the pocket,
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running around making a throw on the run, or you know, and
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every time that that happens, especially with you know, them doing zoom in's
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on camp on Jalen's knee, it's like, oh my gosh, you're holding
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your breath every single time. Yeah, and they made us do way too
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much of that. I'm gonna go with you on that with a C minus.
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All right, very good. Let's head over the defensive side of the
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ball. Defensive line. I have never seen a defensive player like Jalen Carter
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legitimately getting held on every play and I I do wonder if the refs were
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like, do we honestly have to throw the flag on every play? I
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mean, he's getting held on every single play, double cup or double teamed.
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I should say, you know, probably, I don't have the numbers
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in front of me, but it looked like at least fifty to sixty percent
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of the time. So I just think that that the defensive line. Yes,
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in terms of sacks, they only sacked Patrick Mahomes one time, but
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nine quarterback hits. There were two tackles for a loss. I mean,
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it's a it's a prolific to an extent Kansas City Chiefs offense, even though
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they have been struggling. Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes. He is a great
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talent. As much as I justf and hate him at this point, I
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really do like I'm just like really really tired of him at this point.
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And I'm I'm tired of the Kelsey thing too, by the way, which
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I want to get into at the end before we go. But anyway,
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I'm gonna give the defensive line this week and a minus. Actually, even
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though they didn't really have the sacks only one, Like I said, Hassan
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Reddick, right, you know, beginning of the game, I'm going to
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give him an a minus. What do you think I've really got to give
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them? I I you know, I think I'm going a little far here,
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but I'm gonna give him a plush wow, because considering considering that,
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you know, we are not getting the best from James Bradberry, We're not
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getting the best from the slack corners. As I spoke of before, I
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really really don't like that last that call on that third down on Fletcher Cox
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when you get Mahomes at the end there. I mean, that's just a
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hard tackle. And I was like, that was one of our we're gonna
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we're gonna cover our guys and we got our top quarterbacks and we're gonna make
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sure that they stay healthy. I get it, but no, that's one
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of those that kind of turns the you know, the stomachs of the football
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fans who just no ball. That was not a that was not a targeting,
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that was not unnecessary. He took two steps. He's a huge man.
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I also like the adjustment, and you spoke about that. With the
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way Jalen Carter started, you could just obviously tell he was being held basically
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every play. I liked what Hassan Reddick and others started doing was in a
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basketball kind of sense. It's like, you're getting fouled, go ahead and
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sell it. And they were doing that, And I really liked that they
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started doing that because it was frustrating because they were getting a lot of things.
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They were getting a lot of outside runs, and I'm thinking, like,
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there's no way that the Eagles defense defenders are just running past these plays.
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They must be getting held. And as they started showing it later in
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the game, as the player started flopping without you know, short of having
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a type of Giants Giants versus Eagles where they go and do twelve sacks,
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I don't know if you'll ever see that again. You're not going to go
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and get twelve sacks on Patrick Mahomes. I think this defensive line put a
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put as good a pressure as you can expect. I think so. Yes,
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I think that's fair. Absolutely, I'm still going I'm still gonna give
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him an A minus. I hear you on the A plus. Yes,
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But moving over to the linebacker position here, and look, you know,
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the linebackers at times were burnt throughout the course of the game, In terms
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of the Chiefs passing game, Zach Cunningham had seven total tackles. Nicholas Morrow
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had had five total tackles on the day. Cunningham had pass defended as well.
28:25
You know, it wasn't a it was a bend but don't break type
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of situation, you know, not just for the linebackers, for the whole
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defense. But I really saw that with the linebacker position. I'm gonna give
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them a B minus this week. What do you give the linebackers? Yeah?
28:38
Around that again. We talked about this last last week, last time
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I was on and really again, the way they build this team just they're
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asking like linebackers just don't suck. Yeah, please don't be the reason that
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we lose today. And they did that. They did that, they did
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beyond that today. So whether it's B minus or C, you know,
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they didn't. They didn't suck today. All right, Defensive backs, I
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gotta tell you again helden Travis Kelcey to forty four yards on the day in
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six point three yards per reception. I think they did a fantastic job and
29:12
specifically the slot corners, you know they were working. I mean, Eli
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Rix had a tough penalty later in the game. However, I think given
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that this has been one of the weaknesses on this Eagles team, the secondary,
29:26
the defensive backs, you have new personnel that have come in in terms
29:33
of in terms of, you know, actually having a safety now, Kevin
29:37
Byard. I mean we actually have a safety who brought into a reception in
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this game. Bradley Roby, you know, playing as well. You know,
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guys still trying to get acclimated after being injured as well. I have
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to say this is probably this one of the secondary's best games of the season,
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and that's why not perfect, but that's why I'm gonna give him a
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B plus at Actually I don't know, maybe it's shad be higher, but
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be plus same for you, Okay, matp go ahead say same, because
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I think that they played well. They played well enough if the Eagles offensive
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line for a lot of this time could get out of our way and allow
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Jalen to operate and put some points up. They were definitely assisted by some
30:22
just flat out drops and then some and there were some misses today from Patrick
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Mahomes. I know we'll never hear about that, but he did have some
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flat out misses today. He was having drop passes, but he also had
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throws on the run. He was pressured by the defensive line, and sometimes
30:38
you're stand in the pocket flat out missing guys. They played as well as
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I think they played today, as well as this dB room can play.
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Yeah, I think that's I hate to be so down on them, especially
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because they got one, but yeah, I think it's very fair for sure.
30:56
All right, let's head to the coaching. Special teams. Britain Hovey
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on three punt returns, averaging seventeen point seven yards per return. That is
31:06
great. Jake Elliott making all three of his extra points. Braydon Man averaging
31:11
forty seven point seven yards per punt on seven punts. He did have a
31:18
shank a couple punts not not not the best, but I'm gonna give the
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I'm gonna give special teams coaching overall a be this week. What do you
31:26
give them if Josh Joe doesn't make that great tackle to set up that that
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that drive at the at the seven. I would go with you on that,
31:41
but I'm gonna have to go with the B plus because that was such
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a huge play and because Kansas City's special teams can can really break the game
31:51
wide open. I mean, anybody who watched the Super Bowl nose or even
31:55
watch Tonight's game, yeah, knows that they come to play in Kadarius Tony's
31:59
days and job with that. You know, rugby sweep of the leg tech
32:04
hole. He saved a lot of yards there. Having a totally different conversation,
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if Mahomes gets that ball at the thirty yep or the forty absolutely did?
32:14
Absolutely did Sean decide? Moving to the defensive coaching, I'm going to
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give him an a minus this week. I again don't want to rehash everything
32:22
we were just talking about, but when you hold Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
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offense that Andy Reid is running to zero points in the second half, you're
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definitely in the A territory For me, He's getting a minus this week.
32:35
What do you give him, buddy? Totally totally. He just doesn't have
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what he's been able to do again against the Dolphins and against the Chiefs is
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nothing short of a miraculous Now he will have a different test with all the
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pieces that the forty nine ers have to throw at him. So if he
32:52
passes that test, then wow, yeah wow side yep ye. All right,
32:59
Now, this is going to be interesting. Offensive coaching Brian Johnson,
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Nick Sirianni, I am going to be giving these guys a C minus in
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terms of their coaching. I think the personnel on the field won this game
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in spite of the offensive coaching this week. Yes, I think that is
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absolutely fair to say C minus for me. What do you give them,
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Matt, We're on the same page, okay on that one as well.
33:24
You know, some of these plays are just horrible. On the first drive
33:29
of the second half, just just pitiful. A QB drawl on third and
33:32
seven on a must have. I mean, I guess it's not must have
33:36
because they won the game anyways, but on a night where Mahomes is Mahomes,
33:40
Yeah, first drive of that second half you need and then and then
33:45
on the next drive after that, the drive stopped on a third and one
33:50
mix up with the hand in the ball off and getting stopped in the backfield.
33:55
It's it's really really frustrated sometimes, and they're running the play clock down
34:02
all the way to nothing. Yeah. Really, if we didn't have the
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guys we had, they'd be in trouble. Absolutely absolutely. If the personnel's
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getting it done on the field, folks, that is what's happening. And
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to close us out here, Matt, after our grades here, I gotta
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say, I'm so tired of the Kelsey thing. I am so tired of
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Jason Kelcey and Travis Kelcey. And I love Jason Kelcey, please don't get
34:25
me wrong, but I'm just tired of this whole brother's thing and how one
34:30
is the sexiest guy in the world. Yeah, lerpaying, I am so
34:37
tired of this crap exactly. Let's stop. I hope it stops for a
34:42
little bit here, geez, until February. Yeah, yeah, I want
34:46
to get another rematch exactly. Well, I know we've only got a couple
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of minutes here, Matt, anything else before we head out of here,
34:52
Buddy, No, I do expect AJ Brown to comp completely go off.
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He might torch the Bills for at his customary one twenty five is my floor,
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Okay? The Bills and Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown versus Josh Allen and
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step On Diggs, Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen with everything to prove everything in
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the line. They lose the game. At the late next week, they're
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six and six. They're gonna come to play against this defensive backs room,
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and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Guys. If you like offensive
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football, I think Johnson and Sirihanni are gonna you know, maybe listen to
35:32
PST, maybe listening to some other people who are ripping them to night and
35:36
get some damn good offensive plays and some rhythm and some cadence going next week.
35:40
Absolutely, great way to end this postgame show again, the Philadelphia Eagles
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beating the Kansas City Chiefs out of Arrowhead by score twenty one to seventeen.
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Week eleven in the books, folks, we're gonna be moving on to week
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twelve. We've got some great content coming up here at the PSD podcast show.
35:58
And also remember too follow Matt. Make sure you're following him on threads
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He's on a ton of other podcast platforms as well. Matt. Thank
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you so much, buddy for filling in for the guys, and I'm looking
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forward to talking to you down the road again, my friend. Absolutely,
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I'd love to be back on all right, folks, that's going to do
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it for us. Take care we'll catch you next time.