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Eagles Offseason Storylines To Follow (PST Episode 618) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest
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  Speaker 1: running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining us here. As we are closing
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  Speaker 1: in on the end of May, I'm gonna be heading
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  Speaker 1: into June, heading into this summer. Twelve years were strong
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  Speaker 1: here at the PSD podcast show. Again, thanks for watching.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff warn Mere my buddy, Len Hunsicker, buddy, man,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what this summer is that you speak of,
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  Speaker 2: because I had a rain jacket on today.
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  Speaker 3: I was getting poured on. It was like low fifties.
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  Speaker 1: We're almost there.
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  Speaker 2: It's the end of May. Like I don't know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not feeling the summer part.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna get there. I'm telling you folks, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get there. Lenn. At the in June, I think
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  Speaker 1: things are gonna start turning around because, like, as you know, anymore,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have seasons, right, We just have cold and
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  Speaker 1: then crap, which we're in now, and then hot blazing summer.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Cold is cold is crap to me too, So it
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  Speaker 2: all it's all the same thing. You sound like our
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  Speaker 2: buddy Jay. I just I can't function and I can't think.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do anything in the cold.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I gotta tell you, I like your hat. Is
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  Speaker 1: that a new hat?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that one.
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  Speaker 3: In a why what?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: All right, very nice, nice Phillies hat that Lenn is
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  Speaker 1: wearing here. And we're certainly going to be getting into
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  Speaker 1: this Phillies team because they have been fantastic as of late,
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  Speaker 1: best team in Major League Baseball. We're certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: be getting into that team on the show. But first
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be getting into this week in Philly sports history.
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  Speaker 1: Then some Phillies talk. Also going to talk about Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Harper getting nailed in the arm and elbow from a
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  Speaker 1: pitch by Spencer Strider of the Atlanta Braves. So many
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  Speaker 1: of us saw that and we were just absolutely it
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  Speaker 1: took our breath away. Oh my gosh. Bryce Harper might
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  Speaker 1: be injured for a long time. X rays negative. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know when he's going to be back in the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to dive into that in terms of
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  Speaker 1: our Phillies talk, and then we're gonna get into some
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  Speaker 1: Flyers talk because the organizations bringing back in Leaparrier, they're
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  Speaker 1: bringing Lappie back to Philly. I tell you, they just
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  Speaker 1: love you.
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  Speaker 2: Take a puck to the face, Yes, I'm blocking a
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  Speaker 2: shot and your set for Lush absolutely yes.
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  Speaker 1: And from there we're gonna get into some football talk
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  Speaker 1: this week. We've got a storyline we're following here. We
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  Speaker 1: know that the Tush push we talked about it last
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  Speaker 1: week was alive and well, and we know that it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be for at least this coming season.
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  Speaker 1: But afterwards, it was a report that came out Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell in the NFL they're trying to take a hard
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  Speaker 1: look at the salary cap system and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do this in the future to make sure that teams
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  Speaker 1: are managing their rosters with the spirit of the system. Folks.
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  Speaker 1: This is obviously a direct jab at the Eagles and
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  Speaker 1: Howie Roseman for how they've been handling players salaries and
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  Speaker 1: contracts over these years. So we're gonna give our thoughts there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what we're thrown down on the table. This week, We've
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  Speaker 1: got our good friend, it's been coming on for so
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  Speaker 1: many years. Brandon Lee outing from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about this Eagles offseason a bit, and
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  Speaker 1: some other NFL storylines as well. We're gonna dive into
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  Speaker 1: the NFC East and what's been going on with some
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  Speaker 1: of these teams as well. So, Lenn, I think we
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  Speaker 1: got to get to our first story and first segment,
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  Speaker 1: as we've been doing here this week in Philly sports history. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through four different dates here, and all
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  Speaker 1: of them are so unique in their own way, and
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  Speaker 1: then we may talk about one or two of these
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  Speaker 1: after So, Buddy, I'm gonna start off with May twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five. Yes, May twenty fourth, nineteen thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies participated in Major League Baseball's very first
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  Speaker 1: night game against the Cincinnati Reds at Crossley Field. This
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  Speaker 1: historic event introduced nighttime baseball to the major leagues really
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  Speaker 1: changed how fans experienced the game. Moving along May twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seven, Folks, it was I was not alive, Lend
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  Speaker 1: You were not alive during that time either, correct, but
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  Speaker 1: it was. Yes, but it was the Flyers' first Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup parade. Following their first Stanley Cup victory on May nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, the Flyers celebrated with a massive parade.
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  Speaker 1: On May twentieth, an estimated two million fans lined Broad
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  Speaker 1: Street and Independence Mall to honor the Broadstreet Bullies, making
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  Speaker 1: it one of the largest gatherings in the city's history.
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  Speaker 1: And then from there moving along to May thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. Oh, yes, indeed, folks, And who knows
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  Speaker 1: if we'll ever see one of these again. Yes, Len,
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  Speaker 1: you and I were both alive, but I was a
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  Speaker 1: little tyke at this point. The Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 1: They clinched the NBA Championship on May thirty first, and
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  Speaker 1: they completed a four game sweep of the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: Lakers led by Julius Irving and in the finals MVP
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  Speaker 1: Moses Malone, first team title since nineteen sixty seven, and
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  Speaker 1: really solidified their place in NBA history. And finally May
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, nineteen ninety nine, this is interesting. On May
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, nineteen ninety nine, the Phillies featured a unique
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  Speaker 1: battery with pitcher Joel Bennett and catcher Gary Bennett sharing
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  Speaker 1: the same surname, and for the first time in team's history.
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  Speaker 1: The Phillies won that game five before of the Montreal
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  Speaker 1: Expos at Veterans Stadium. So lots happening this week in
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  Speaker 1: the world of Philly sports history, my friend, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of. It's funny just listening to some of that.
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  Speaker 3: Just a couple things jump out. One that what was
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  Speaker 3: the day of the Flyers Parade.
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  Speaker 1: The day of the Flyers Parade was May twentieth.
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  Speaker 2: May twenty, So May twentieth is when they're having the parade,
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  Speaker 2: which means the Stanley Cup Finals had been wrapped up
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  Speaker 2: probably a couple of days before.
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  Speaker 1: The day before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's now almost June and we're still in
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  Speaker 2: the conference finals for for hockey, So I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: much everything's gotten pushed back? And then it's funny, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you go through you talk about, Okay, the Sixers won
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  Speaker 2: in eighty three, so it's just like, Okay, I was
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  Speaker 2: this age when the Eagles last one. Obviously, Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm basically the same age I'm now I was thirty
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  Speaker 2: two when the Phillies last one. To know, eight, I
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  Speaker 2: was seven when I was when the Sixers last one,
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  Speaker 2: and I was a year away from being born when
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  Speaker 2: the Flyers won.
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  Speaker 1: Their last one.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, just going through all that, it's just like,
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  Speaker 2: holy smokes, it's been a while for both those teams.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's what I wanted to mention with you
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  Speaker 1: because you know, if we're like, if we look at
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  Speaker 1: our contemporary history, the world of Philly sports has seen
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  Speaker 1: a decent amount of success over these years.
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  Speaker 2: It has been bad when you consider that that like
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  Speaker 2: chasm between the Sixers in you know, in eighty three
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  Speaker 2: yea and the Phillies winning in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and there were some you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 2: Flyers made a couple Cup finals and you know they're
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  Speaker 2: there was some you know, the Sixers made an NBA final,
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  Speaker 2: the Phillies in ninety three make it the World Series final,
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  Speaker 2: but no actual winning of anything. So I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: been decent since. I mean, I'll take it exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'll take the Super Bowl wins, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take what the Phillies have done recently hasn't produced a championship,
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  Speaker 1: but it has been exciting to watch. In terms of
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  Speaker 1: baseball for this city it really has. Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: that was a great segment, and let us know if
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  Speaker 1: you like our This Week in Philly Sports History. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Lenn and I bringing this back after we started twelve
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  Speaker 1: years ago. It was one of our one of our
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  Speaker 1: ongoing segments. So hope you like. At Philadelphia Sports Table
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  Speaker 1: here on the show. If you have any ideas or
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about anything in the world of Philly sports, reach
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  Speaker 1: out to us again, Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Moving along here, Lenn, we're gonna dive now into the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the Phillies have the best record in Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. It has been pretty fantastic watching this team.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes these games have been nailbitiers for sure, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: as of late, and it's interesting reflecting on recent PST
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  Speaker 1: podcast shows and if you look, you know, even if
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  Speaker 1: you listen to other podcasts, one of our favorites is
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  Speaker 1: the Hitting Season podcasts with our friend John Stalinist, Liz
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  Speaker 1: Rocher and Justin Klue, you know, talking about how initial
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  Speaker 1: and early struggles they've really seemed to like smooth themselves out,
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  Speaker 1: including I hesitate to say and I should probably knock
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  Speaker 1: on wood the bullpen. The bullpen has been performing pretty
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  Speaker 1: well as of late, and especially exactly the whole concept
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  Speaker 1: of next man up. I think they're meeting the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And O'Ryan Kirkering, who we had some very very uh
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  Speaker 1: how can I say, we're very trepidacious about what his
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  Speaker 1: season was going to look like. He has really been
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  Speaker 1: smoothing some things out as well. So it has been
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  Speaker 1: really fun watching this Phillies team. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think if they continue at this pace, and yes, they're
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  Speaker 1: playing teams that they should be beating, but if they
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  Speaker 1: continue at this pace, I think it's going to keep
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  Speaker 1: the confidence level up there with this team and you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be a top of the NL East,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for some time here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we earlier in the season we had talked about, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they don't seem to have that spark. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: have a winning record, but you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: guess maybe they'll be in the wild card hunt whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Since May sixth, they have gone on a run i'd
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  Speaker 2: say past twenty one games seventeen and four, so they've
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  Speaker 2: been on a heater, you know, recently like really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there were some teams in there that aren't as good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you had that stretch with Pittsburgh and Colorado
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  Speaker 2: and then the A's. You know, they ended up winning
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  Speaker 2: you know what seven out of those nine games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, or some'm sorry, Yeah, it's eight out
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  Speaker 2: of those nine games.
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  Speaker 3: Rather sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they did what they had to do against
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  Speaker 2: teams that aren't as good. But you know that's everybody's
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  Speaker 2: going to play those teams, so it's not like they're
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, feasting on a on a cream pup
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  Speaker 2: schedule that nobody else is gonna play. So yeah, they've
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  Speaker 2: been they've been great, and they've been playing a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was able to watch. I worked overnights
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of days, so I was able to
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  Speaker 2: watch the entire A series that was that was tougher
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  Speaker 2: than I thought it was going to be because the
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  Speaker 2: all three of those games against I guess you can't
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  Speaker 2: call them Oakland anymore, and you're not allowed to call
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  Speaker 2: them Sacramento.
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  Speaker 1: The league team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, wherever they're from. Yeah, those were all
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  Speaker 2: like dogfights. All all three of those games are tight. All,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think couple win extra innings, So those
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  Speaker 2: are tough games. But they you know, they've really been
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  Speaker 2: handling business lately. Yeah, really nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they absolutely have. And again it's it's what we
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  Speaker 1: want to see because we know this team has the
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  Speaker 1: talent to do it. You know. I talked on our
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  Speaker 1: Opposition Territory Pod this week with our guest as we're
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  Speaker 1: diving into the Seattle Mariners team, just about how their
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  Speaker 1: team is much different in terms of their offense, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of their batting than the Phillies. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: just know that this Phillies team, it's all about power,
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  Speaker 1: you know, It's all about the launch angle, It's all
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  Speaker 1: about you know, how many home runs are they going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to hit during a game to really
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  Speaker 1: generate the offense. While a lot of other teams are
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  Speaker 1: playing small ball and being successful at it, there are
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  Speaker 1: times when I wish that they can turn that switch
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  Speaker 1: on and off of Okay, we need to play some
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  Speaker 1: small ball now in this moment. But then again, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to complain because the team is doing so well
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  Speaker 1: and they have the best record actually baseball, you know, ideally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the best teams don't just beat you the
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  Speaker 1: same way every single time.
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  Speaker 3: They can do different things. They can.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, one game, we're going to hit six home runs
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  Speaker 2: and just bury you with offense. Another game, you know
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  Speaker 2: they're doing the small ball thing. The best teams can
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  Speaker 2: do all of that, and I think that's all we
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  Speaker 2: want for the Phillies is for them to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best version of themselves and be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not be a one trick pony.
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  Speaker 3: I guess offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely lost. Reasonable, Yeah, it is, It's reasonable
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  Speaker 1: for sure. What's not reasonable is a guy named Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Stryder from the Atlanta Braves, the dirty Atlanta Braves. Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Strider nails Bryce Harper with a four seam fastball right
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  Speaker 1: in his elbow, and we were all just holding our
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  Speaker 1: breaths as Bryce Harper left the game. Fortunately, the x
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  Speaker 1: Rays came back negative, great sign considering it the same
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  Speaker 1: elbow that Bryce Harper had repaired with surgery after the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season. But man, that freaking Spencer Strider.
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  Speaker 1: How about him trolling Phillies fans with his postgame remarks
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  Speaker 1: saying because the athletics. Jason Stark asked asked Spencer Strider
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  Speaker 1: about his experience pitching at Citizens Bank Park, in particular,
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  Speaker 1: particularly about the crowd, and he says, oh, I love
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  Speaker 1: pitching here. I mean, where else do they chant your name,
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  Speaker 1: ask ask how your family is doing. They seem very
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  Speaker 1: interested in my well being and I appreciate that. God,
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  Speaker 1: I hate this guy, I really, I mean, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: like the The.
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  Speaker 2: Remark that kind of, I guess made me pause a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, was like, well, I thought he had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the armor, like, because these guys, you know, basically they
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  Speaker 2: have so many like you know, different so much patting
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  Speaker 2: when they come to the plate now, And I think
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  Speaker 2: he didn't really he thought that Harper was being a
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  Speaker 2: baby at first, and then he was and then he said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, oh, I didn't realize he didn't have the
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  Speaker 2: the elbow pad on, as if that would have made
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  Speaker 2: hitting him in that spot okay exactly. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: still you know, I don't think it was intentional. At
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  Speaker 2: the same time, I don't, you know, think he probably
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  Speaker 2: handled that, you know, the media scrum, I guess as
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  Speaker 2: well as he could have.
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  Speaker 3: There, Yeah for sure, But.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was watching that game too, and
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  Speaker 2: as soon as I saw it, I said, oh God, Damn,
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  Speaker 2: here we go, just like, come on, man, I know,
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  Speaker 2: but es actually you know, coming off the run that
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  Speaker 2: they've been on, I mean it's yes, and you know.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just about to bring that up.
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  Speaker 2: This is a guy that, you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago was hitting like what two thirty something.
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  Speaker 3: He's up to two sixty seven.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's the power has been you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not overwhelming eight home runs, but you know he's hitting
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  Speaker 2: the ball out better than he was a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: So you hate to see a.
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  Speaker 2: Guy that is in a groove now have an interruption,
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  Speaker 2: you know, due to you know, having having to sit
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  Speaker 2: out for a couple of days, you know, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: does he lose his timing? You know, that's the last
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  Speaker 2: thing you want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I go. I want to bring up what
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  Speaker 1: we were kind of just talking about, like in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the bullpen, how the loss of Alvarado was huge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and Bryce Harper doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be out for as long as Jose Alvarado.
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  Speaker 1: But that next man up mentality I think is really
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  Speaker 1: important right now. And if the team is seeing a
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  Speaker 1: bullpen that's able to do this, and if the team
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  Speaker 1: is able to rally behind the scene like they have
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  Speaker 1: done with the bullpen, to make sure that that next
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  Speaker 1: man up is going to be feeling good about going
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  Speaker 1: into certain game situations. And I think the same is
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  Speaker 1: going to be true for you know, whoever is going
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  Speaker 1: to be taken over for Bryce Harper and whoever is
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  Speaker 1: going to be that next man up as well. I
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  Speaker 1: think the team, as much as it stinks to not
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  Speaker 1: have Harper there for maybe a couple of games, a
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  Speaker 1: few games, I think they're in a good position and
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  Speaker 1: a good place mentally for it to actually happen and
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  Speaker 1: for them to be successful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you know what happened in that
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  Speaker 2: game is after Harper went down, you know, you had
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  Speaker 2: Sosa come in and play third, and then you move
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  Speaker 2: Bom over to first. I would imagine that's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, what it's going to be for
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  Speaker 2: the time being, and you know, we'll see how it
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  Speaker 2: works out. I mean, Sosa has been great in his
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  Speaker 2: limited role off of the bench so far. I mean,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: with anything, I think the more you know you have
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a bench guy at the plate, the more maybe they
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: get exposed a little bit, So maybe that'll happen with
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Sosa a little bit. But I mean, he's he's shown
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: himself to be capable in his time here, so you know, yeah,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: hopefully it's nothing that you know, he's not out for
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: like months or whatever. Hopefully it's you know, maybe a
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: week or two at the most, and you know they
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: can just hold the fort until he gets back.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: It was really great to see, though, the Phillies winning
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: that game, beating Spencer Stryder, because, like of course, we
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: have known over over the years here, Spencer Stryder's gotten
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the best of the Phillies his fair share of times
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and nine career regular season appearances, Spencer Strider has a
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: two point one five ERA and has struck out eighty
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: two Phillies and fifty four and a third innings of work.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: So the Phillies being able to beat him, and given
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: what happened to Bryce Harper, I think it really said
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a lot about this team, just them rallying together at
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: this point, like it's it's just fun baseball. I'm so
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: glad we're not watching the crap from from back in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you know, April. That was just really tough to watch.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: So Spencer Stryder's gotten the best of this Phillies team,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: but they got the to him this past week here
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and it was really good to say.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a couple of big games tomorrow. Obviously we're
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: recording this on Wednesday, May twenty eighth. They got rained
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: out today. Yeah, so we're looking at a doubleheader tomorrow
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: one oh five and six forty five. So, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: anytime you're playing a division opponent, especially the Braves as
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to be certain that they're out of it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: So you know, anytime you can put a foot on
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: their neck, you know you need to do it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Got to do it absolutely. All right, Well, we are
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: going to head to our first break here, but before
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we do, follow us on various social media sites. We
• 18:36
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• 18:40
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• 18:56
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• 18:59
  Speaker 1: over there. Len, you are still taking your social media diet,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and I think it's fantastic. I think it's great.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't see it at anytime soon. I
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: haven't really had the itch to you know that the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: whole blue sky thing potentially interests me. But you know, yea,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: by and large, I don't really miss social media.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Though, you don't miss social media that much.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, really right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Sounds good. I wish I could be. I'm like, I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm always there because I hate it so much.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: But I'm like, no, I can't do it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That's that's not you. That's people in this in this
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: age that we're in, you know, technologically driven. I just
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I I don't want to.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I don't want to spend my life doing this, you know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Just I just don't give you all the credit in
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the world. Buddy. All right, well, we are going to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: take our first break here. We will be back in
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: just a bit. Stick with us, all right, we are back, Len,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Len head is drink there? Fantastic? How was it was that?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: A tasty one? My friend? It's good, very nice?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Well, there it is there you go.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a late night here, you know, little Scotch,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you know, watching some sports. You know that that that's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: what life should be about. Nothing wrong with that, Nope,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: not at all. All right, folks, let's dive into the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Flyers here and that not too too much has been
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: going on with this team, But we did want to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: mention the fact that they are bringing Ian Leperier back
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. Yes, he is no longer the coach of
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Lehigh Valley Phantoms within the farm system. He's now
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: going to be an official advisor advisor to hockey operations.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: That's the title here. I wanted to just basically give
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: our thoughts here on this move. There was, of course,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: some grumbling with the Flyers fan base because you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the thought was that Lappie was kind of failing upwards
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and that the Flyers were continuing to recycle their eyes
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: within the UH organization here and and maybe that's true,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: maybe not, depending on how much influence a quote advisor
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in this capacity has. But Laperrrieri's coached the Phantoms for
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the last few seasons, and uh, this is a team
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that just had a pretty successful season. But I do
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: have to say this, like I don't mind if the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: organization is going to bring in a coach for the Phantoms,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that may be a little bit different. You know, you
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: may want someone different coaching this team, coaching the prospects
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in Lehigh Valley when you've got guys like Jet Luchenko
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Emil Andre who are developing and at that point in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: their career. So I don't know, just something for folks
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to think about. I kind of like that that it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: gonna be somebody. Well, maybe it's gonna be somebody new.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I should I shouldn't put the car before the horse here.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the Flyers do, like I don't know, maybe
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they maybe they make some some guy in the front office.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We don't know the coach of the Phantoms, But I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: was thinking, all right, I'm fine with it. If he's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to be a quote advisor or whatever the heck
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that is, then let some new blood come into this
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: organization and and and even the farm system here. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: don't know what were your thoughts here.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I just whoever the Fantoms hire as their coach, it
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: needs to be cohesion. Because there was that story where
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: like the Fantoms played a different way than the Flyers
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: played under Tortorella. Yes, and guys would come up and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: they're kind of they'd have to learn new terminology and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they're head to be on a swivel. Rick Tockett has
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to come in and say, this is the way the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: big club's playing, and this is the way the parent
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: club or the the the fantoms are going to be
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: playing as well. Ye, it's gonna it's got to be
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: cohesion across the two or else you're you're setting your
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: kids up for failure. So whoever they hire Tackett has
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: to say, this is the style we're gonna play, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: it's going to be that you know in the AHL
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and the NHL.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Is is that's what I want?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, you would mentioned that a couple of months ago.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I remember when we were talking about that, you had
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: mentioned that, and I think that cohesion is absolutely necessary.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: How are you going to develop players one way, get
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: them to the big club down in Philly and then
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it's a completely new system here. So I like that fact.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're just.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You're just basically tying a hand behind your back with
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: some of these kids if you do things that way.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I just it was strange to me.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: It's strange, but then again, I do feel that level
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of hope and optimism, and I know we weren't necessarily
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: going to get into, you know, with the future of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: this Flyers team and organization is going to hold. We're
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: going to have Madeline Campbell from Broadstreet Hockey dot Com.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: She's going to be joining us on Monday for the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Table Talk show to kind of dive into some prospects
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and who we should be looking at in terms of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the NHL Draft and who the Flyers may be taking
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in the first round. Some interesting prospects. But with all
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: these changes, Rick Tocket, you know, the fact that there's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: going to be that new head coach in Lehigh Valley,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Len and then you've got these first round picks, these
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: three first round picks, Like there is a lot on
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the line here. There's a ton on the line here
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: for Danny Brier and this Flyers organization moving forward, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: it's like they have to nail all of this right
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: now for there to be any chance that this team
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: is competitive in the future. They have to nail this
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the next two off seasons I think are gonna
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: set up the next maybe fifteen years for this team
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: in terms of this year, you know, you got you know, okay,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a new coaching You've got a chance to really stock
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: your system with contributors in the future. In this draft
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: because you mentioned the you know, the three first rounders,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: there's four second rounders. Those guys can contribute. If you
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: go back and look at on Wikipedia at NHL drafts
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: from different years, you can go into the second round
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of time and find all stars, find contributors,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: you know, guys that you know that can help you win.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So that's gonna be big. And then next year, if
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I believe the cap is supposed to go up, that's
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully they don't you know, spend money on
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: on guys that you know, I don't know, I don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: know that too crazy, Yeah, like or guys that just
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: aren't gonna really move the needle. Hopefully they don't do
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: that this this off season, but maybe next season, once
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the purse strings open up a little bit, then maybe
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: they can, you know, do what the Flyers under Ed
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Snyder did, which is, you know, entice people to come here,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: buy them, you know, because they're gonna have the money
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to be able to do that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, good talk there with
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: regard to the Flyers, Oh, I forgot to I forgot
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to put the banner for for the folks on YouTube.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I forgot to put the banner up. We had this
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: one right here. Flyers are bringing La Perri Air back
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to Philly. Man, I forgot to do it. I'm still
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: an amateur here on Uh.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: What I mean are you what are your thoughts with
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the little Perry? Do not care or does it matter
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: to you one way or the well?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Kind of like like I like I said before, it
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: really I'm kind of like I'm find that he's going
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to the Flyer's front office. He has institutional knowledge. Quite frankly,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's okay. I'm fine with it. I like
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the fact that there's going to be somebody new, hopefully new,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that's going to be coming from the outside into the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: organization to to uh to basically develop these players that
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at again Emil Ingree jet Luchenko.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: These guys need to develop and we need that coach
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and I hopefully it's an outside presence. It's going to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: be able to bring a different type of philosophy and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: maybe a different way of doing things, but that can
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: align with what Rick Tocket is going to be doing
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that it's exactly like from what you're saying, you know
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: earlier in the discussion. I just like, so.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: He's coming on as a you know, special advisor to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: hockey operations. John Leclair is also that Patrick Sharp also
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: former flyer also that you know that's not and so
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know what those guys do. The senior advisors,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the Paul Holme grins, Bob Clark's, Bill Barber's like.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: What they all just sit in a conference room and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it's it's incestuous.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: That's that's my that's my point of like I want
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to know what all these because like how many advisors
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: do you need?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Like what all you know?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Not to bring a political thing into this, but if
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: there was ever a company where Doge maybe needed to
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: come in, yes and and and cut some fat, maybe
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: it's the flyers, Like it's absolutely flyers.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I just like I just want to like be able
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to walk in the room when they're all sitting around.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I just want to know what is it that you
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: do here?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I send him an email ask for three things they've done?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be pretty great.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Threat. What are three things in your job responsibilities. Email
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: me back by tomorrow end of business. Yeah, that would
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: be awesome, that'd be great. All right, I'd love to
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: see that email from Bob Clark by the way, Oh God,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: wouldn't that'd be great? Lace probably yeah, probably exactly. Get
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Doze in there, get him in there. I love the idea.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, uh, before we let letting go here
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and before we get to what we're thrown down on
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the table. Great discussion with Brandon Lee gouton coming up.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: We wanted to get into an NFL and an actual
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Eagles based storyline, as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently said
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that the NFL is going to be taking a look
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at the salary cap system in the future to see
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: if teams are truly managing their rosters with the quote
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: spirit of the system. This, as many have thought within
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Eagles Nation, was a direct jab at the Eagles and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Howie Roseman for how they've handled player contracts and salaries
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: over the years. So we wanted to give our thoughts
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: here on this too. And you may be wondering, Okay,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: what are you what are you talking about?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: What what what is the integrity issue of the system
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that the NFL salary cap actually has. As we know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's a hard cap, and while it's true that there
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is a cap of money that teams cannot go under,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it's the manipulation of the salary cap that Howie Roseman
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and in fact other teams have have done and embarked
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: on over the years via salary to bonus conversions that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: has been on the rise since the league's salary cap
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: ceiling initially dropped in twenty twenty to combat the loss
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of money that went hand in hand with the COVID season. So,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for example, here say if I were a general manager
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: wanted to pay a player a one year, fifty million
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: dollar contract in twenty twenty five, I could pay him
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that fifty million dollars in salary game checks and simply
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: pay all of that fifty million dollars on the cap
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. But if I wanted to manipulate
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that number to its extreme, I could pay the difference
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: between his fifty million dollar salary and the league's minimum salary,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: which max is out around one point three million for
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a veteran who is at least seven seasons into his
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: NFL career, and then convert the rest of that money
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: into assigning bonus with four void years attached to the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: end of his one year deal to impact the salary
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: cap as little as possible in the short term. So
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: using that second method, the bonus could be spread up
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to over five years on the salary cap, meaning that
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: that fifty million dollar player would only cost around ten
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: million against that twoy twenty five salary cap. Now, we've
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: seen the Eagles and Howie Roseman do this a number
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of times with one particular guy, which is Lane Johnson.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: They've done it with a number of veterans over the years,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: whether it was Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, they've done it
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: with over the years. Len I Hope I explained that
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: right for Oh yeah, that actually, I think that's very helpful. Yeah,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you. So that is what the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: NFL is going to be looking into. The Eagles have
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: been successful with this. The Eagles have been successful in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a number of different ways on the field, whether it
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: was the Tush push that we talked about last week
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on the show with Eric. The Eagles have been successful
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: from a contractual standpoint in terms of being able to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: keep their veteran talent as long as they do because
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of salary cap manipulations. It's all there, it's all their
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: lend for them. I mean, there are loopholes and they
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: exploit them for good or for worse. It seems like
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: for worse now because the NFL and other other teams
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: are going to be looking into, Okay, what's really going
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: on here and the fact that this Philadelphia Eagles team, consistently,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: year after year after year, has been able to manipulate
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: this to their benefit. And we've seen a team who
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: is consistently relevant in the NFL year after year, consistently
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: relevant within their division, even though no team in the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: NFC East has won the division back to back years
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: since like two thousand and four, I believe it was.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: It's not like the Eagles are like, you know, just constantly,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: you know, going fifteen and one every year or something
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like that. I mean, and have like there's in and again.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know how a lot of the salary things work,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: but you know you look at like and again, different sport,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: different salary cap, but MLS and every time there's a
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: big time European player, whether it's Messy or just whoever
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: that comes over, it seems like they go to Miami
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: and I have the same reaction all the time. How
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: is this one team able to afford all these people?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And you know there's loopholes. There's loopholes in every sport,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: every you know CBA that these teams exploit. And Okay,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: why aren't other teams doing it?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Then?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure other teams are doing it, and you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: so I don't know, I just don't understand if if
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: you think somebody's getting an advantage, maybe you hire somebody
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: from their organization and say, hey, show us how to
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: do that, yes, and then you know, then you're in
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: on it, Like I don't you know, I don't know
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: why you'd want to stop that when it's easier just
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: to get somebody to, you know, show you what to do.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure the Eagles are far from the only team.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Difference, right. It ramped up though during twenty twenty during
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: COVID because I mean, yeah, the idea of that hard
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: cap it made sense until COVID. Now teams are well
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: aware of how salary conversions and void years can be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: used to manipulate the current cap system. So I guess
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: what Roger Goodell basically was referring to and really wanting
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to look into that quote integrity question that you know
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: members of the league are asking themselves is how the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: NFL treats the accounting of signing bonuses and or roster
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: bonus dollars on the cap and whether or not that
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: should potentially be changed under the next collective bargaining agreement.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I think that's really where this is going to go,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: because again, because the Philadelphia Eagles have been so good
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: at this manipulation here.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: To me, it just sounds like you're trying to penelize
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: someone for being smart and going using the system that
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: you know, their rules. I mean, if that was that
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: big of a deal, they should have made it so
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: that that was never even a possibility in the first
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: place for any team to exploit. So I mean, sorry
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: that he's poking holes in your you know, in your
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: your cap and the way you do things. But you know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, again, you're penalizing somebody for being smart,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: which is crazy to.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Me, Len I don't think the NFL has necessarily been
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the smartest organization and group of individuals in that front office.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, no, this is true, but you know, I
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: don't know you would think I don't know. I just
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: look at the NFL as this unstoppable juggernaut, and you
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: would just assume that in every position, whether it's you know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: rules committee or the accountants or whatever, you're just able
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: to hire the best of the best of the best
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: of the best to make sure that this golden goose
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: that you have continues on just making un godly amounts
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: of money for you and your and your your teams.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I just don't understand how they
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: don't already have those people in place.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's amazing that they don't. You know, it's
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a multi billion dollar organization and they don't have this
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: figured out. But it's a certainly a storyline we're going
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to be following here at the PST podcast show. Whenever
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a news breaks about it, we're obviously going to be
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: talking about it here. But then before I let you go,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I want folks to know that they can reach out
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to us over email Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com.
• 35:33
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• 35:37
  Speaker 1: reaction to anything that we've been talking about here, or
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: if you'd like us to dive into any specific issue
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: within the world of Philly sports or the sports world
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: in general. We'd love to hear from you again, Philadelphia
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Sports Table at gmail dot com. So, my friend, I'm
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: gonna let you go. Do you have any parting words
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: before we get blg on here to talk more eagles?
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I don't weather get warmer and you know, maybe not
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: rain on every single day that I'm off, Yes, that
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: would be nice as well. But yeah, no, other than that,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I got nothing.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: You haven't been able to get in the backyard, huh
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: because of the rain and stuff to get stuff done.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: But no, I've been able to cut like every four
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: days that I work, it's beautiful.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every four days that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I'm off, it rains, and like like I just like,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at my grass, going when am I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: going to be able to do this again?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that that kind of stuff.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I had something interesting, And I could say this because
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I know the guy doesn't listen, but my next door
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: neighbor he not only not only did he mentioned to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: his son, who then mentioned to my daughter about how
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: high our grass was at some point, which by the way,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: was only about maybe three four inches because of the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: rain that we saw, you know, this past month, tons
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of rain. So I have. I was able to get
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it cut down, and then he actually said to me
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: this past week, He's like, oh, the lawn's looking good there, Jeff, Yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: so you're cutting it shorter. I have a I have
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a neighbor who is carrying way too much about my
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: lawn and how it looks. Lynne.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, just go in the middle of the night, whatever,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: whatever you can pour on grass to kill it, Just
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: just do that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: His cameras everywhere those Yeah, he's got cameras everywhere. And
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: he shot me off a text yesterday. I swear to God,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: asking you you've seen my backyard area. We have neighbors
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: that have fences, and so it's like it's like we
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: actually have two thirds of a fence already in our backyard.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: He asked if we wanted to like go in and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: split putting up the other part of the fence. So
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: now he doesn't even want to see us, and he
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: wants us to help him pay for it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: You know, it's a shame that you're that you're in
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the field that you're in where you you have to
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: be a person, because like you had my job, you
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: could literally tell him and I'm assuming we're going to
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: keep this clean.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I won't say what's in my head, but
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I think you know we're just.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: F off, you know, yeah, more or less. Yes, all right, buddy,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Well I'm gonna let you go. We're gonna take a break, everybody.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna be talking to Brandon
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: leag Out and from Bleeding Green Nation dot com stick
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: with us and now on the table and joining us
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com to dive into this Philadelphia
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Eagles off season and what is going to be happening
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: with this team as we were looking forward to the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five twenty twenty six season. Again from Bleeding
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Green Nation dot com. We've got our good friend who's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: been coming on for so many years, Brandon leag Out
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and blg Man, thanks so much for jumping on this week.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Happy to join.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Can't believe we're kind of already here. Yeah, the point
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: of Eagles win the Super Bowl and you just don't
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: get like a whole lot of time to really like
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: revel in that in terms of just calendar just keeps
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: on going and going.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: But here we are, here, we are exactly and you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: were at the Novacare complex yesterday we were talking about
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: it before hitting the record button. Just real interesting to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: be back to see some of these new guys out
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: on the field, and you know, it's amazing. The season
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be here before we know it. Yeah.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Again, it's such a short amount of time that you
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: really get to like enjoy it. But at the same time,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: the good news is that the twenty twenty five Eagles,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: who could be good and have a chance to do
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: something special obviously given what they did last year, that
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: is going to be here before we know it.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely, Well, let's get this discussion started here, and
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get into the news that Roger Goodell
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: in the NFL front offices kind of let us in
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: on and Mike Florio in one of his articles this
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: past week really put out there for the masses. Lenn
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and I were just talking about this and wanted to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: get your take as well. Blg at how the NFL
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: is looking at possibly reassessing the salary cap system, how
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: well it's working, whether teams are operating within the quote
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: spirit of that system, and it seems obvious that this
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: is based on the Philadelphia Eagles front office and Howie
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Roseman and how they've been just able to find loop
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: holes to keep and extend really talented players and veteran players.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering what are your thoughts on the NFL making
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a push to potentially change the salary cap system here
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: based on what the Philadelphia Eagles do from season to season.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the timing certainly isn't really I would say,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: good look. Yeah, wake of the Toush push, which obviously failed,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: it's kind of hard not to think the Eagles are
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: being targeted in some way. And ultimately, I don't think
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: it's just about that. In fairness, I do think that's
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: an element. I'm not going to say it's not, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: I do think the problem that I think some owners
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: are having with this system is that, and it's pathetic.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: To be clear, I'm not defending them, but I think
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: their stance would be that, you know, the Eagles have
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: this advantage because of how cash forward they're willing to be,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: as opposed to, you know fully just worrying about the cap,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: you know, and taking on more cash than other teams do.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: And I think some of the owners who don't want
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: to be spending as much are annoyed by that. They
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: don't want to have to spend that cast that same level,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: which again is pathetic. And why are you getting into
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: the sports ownership world if that's the case. But I
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: think that's where it's coming from, and I think that's
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: going to be, you know, the impetus for a kind
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: of change. There is these owners who don't want to
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: spend that cash. I want the system to change, So
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: not just about targeting the Eagles, but certainly part of it.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you make a really great point there too.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Why be an owner? Why get into this business if
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you're not willing to do what you need to do
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to win at the end of the day, just like
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles do. But moving along with the conversation here,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I wanted to dive into Nick Sirianni with you, BLG
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: because he has received, as we know, a contract extension
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: from Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurie, and his evolution as
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: a head coach is pretty remarkable in my opinion, how
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: he's really leaving his mark so early in his NFL
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: head coaching tenure. Just on the league in general. You
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: have been behind the scenes, my friend, You have heard him,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you have seen how he acts. You talk to other
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: players and you talk to your sources as well. Is
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: this really a coach who has taken things to the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: next level in terms of their growth, in terms of
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: what type of person they are, how they relate to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: their players, or has he kind of been the product of,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: you know, quote luck maybe having the roster that he
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: has as well as having a really great front office
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: with vision as well. What are your thoughts here, BLG.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's fair to just say it's
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: luck just because of how much he has won. The
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: degree to which he has won, yep, you know, like,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: what's it the fifth highest winning percentage ever from a
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: head coach.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: You know, he's up there. It's like he's just or he's.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Like just behind like John Madden and Vince Lombardi, these
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: like crazy names right that you're looking at on that.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: List and you're like, how are you in Philadelphia here?
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Exactly? Yeah, it's just it's wild and so you know.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I do believe believe there's
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: a difference between correlation and causation. I think some of
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: the biggest, most fervent Sirianni supporters, I think like maybe
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: don't always acknowledge that and that you know, there's it's
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: a great ecosystem here for him. And again, to his credit,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I think he's taken advantage of that and done what
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: he's needed to do within that. And certainly when you
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: hear the players talk, you see a lot of support
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: for him. You hear a lot of support for him,
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: So you know, it's a really good sign. I just
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: think that, you know, for being honest about it, Like
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: if you're ranking the drivers for this team's success, like
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: he's not number one, he's not number two, and that's okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: He doesn't have to be based on the ecosystem that's here.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: But you know, let's just call a spade a spade
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: and like not act like you know, he is the
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: one driving this thing as much as he is in
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: a position where he is doing his role, and he's
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: doing his role seemingly at a pretty high level. You know.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: I just think it's gonna be interesting to see, obviously,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: how you handle success as a big challenge for teams,
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: not just how you handle failure as they did coming
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: off with two only twenty three seasons, but how you
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: handle the success. They didn't really handle success in an
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: amazing way coming off their last Super Bowl exactly, so
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: you know that's that's the big challenge for him up next.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great, great points for sure. And I also wanted
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: to get into during our discussion here some of the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: offseason acquisitions, whether it's through the draft, whether it's through
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: free agency, just picking up some other players who may
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: be contributors to this team in the future. Again, you've
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: been around some of these guys here and there, and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: especially at OTAs here. This week, the Eagles decided to
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: sign edge rusher Aziz Ojelari, who received the biggest veteran
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: free agent contract from the Philadelphia Eagles. He has had
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: health issues, which is the biggest knock on him at
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: this point, but I mean he's a He's a damn
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: good pass rusher in this league from what we have
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: seen thus far. You put up a recent piece on
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Bleedinggreen nation dot com about Ojalari, and I wanted to
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: get into this a little bit more, just based on
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and the contract that he was given by the Eagles,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: possibly what they believe in him in terms of what
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: he can do in terms of contributions. Do you think
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: he could be a large maybe middle of the road
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: or a small contributor on defense this coming season. BLG,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: what are you thinking?
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm expecting more towards middle of the road. I
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: do think, you know, he could be a solid contributor
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: and look for the contract one year, four million dollars
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: like obviously worth it, worth the risk. Even if he
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: doesn't work out, Even he turns out like what Bryce
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Huff was obviously last year, which is not good.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Then that's fine.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: He took a totally acceptable risk for that kind of
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: contract and a player who is what twenty four years
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: old at least was at the time of signing. But
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: that very fact also raises like buyer butware flags that
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: you know, why it was he available for so cheap
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: in the free agent market at such a young age
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: for a player who's had production and yeah he's had injuries, sure,
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: but still like there's other players who had injury issues
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: that have gotten more money then he did, certainly at
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: one year, four million. So you know, watching him from
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: last year, you know, I came away a little like
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: less overall impressed in terms of being you know, a
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: difference maker at the position. But I saw a solid player,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: and I think that's what the Eagles are going to
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: get I'm guessing this could be a situation where he has,
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: like again, a solid kind of year for this team
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: and then maybe goes and test the market again, finds
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: a new contract elsewhere. But for this year, I think
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: he can be a like against good, solid kind of
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: contributor in the Eagles pass Russ rotation. I think ideally
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: you would want him to be like your third best
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: rusher behind Nolan Smith and behind jilex h people to
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: make that leap.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it also leads me to believe that, you know,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio has some say in this as well, and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: you would probably know this, you know, better than anybody
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: out there, being a member of you know, a credentialed
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Eagles reporter, you know, behind the scenes. It seems like,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: you know, you look at the NFL Draft and we're
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: certainly going to get into some NFL or some Eagles
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: draft pieces and what they're contributions may be. But with
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio and how much influence he has behind the
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: scenes in terms of acquisitions defensively and what he sees
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in them and how they can contribute to his particular system,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm wondering, do you think that's the case, is
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: he's possibly seeing something in Ojulari where he's like, you
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: know what, he is going to be a contributor based
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: on what I'm able to do for him, how I'm
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: able to coach him. Maybe he is coachable to an extent.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think we necessarily know that one hundred percent
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: short yet, But I don't know how much is vic Fangio.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think playing into the acquisitions that we've seen
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: here in the off season.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a really good question, and one
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: will certainly find the answer too, because you saw it again.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: I'll bring up Bryce Toff like that is a guy
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: that fake Fangio clearly did not love, like from the jump,
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: from the standpoint of in training camp and multiple times
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: talking about how he needs to get better at run defense. Yes,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: this is your top free agent signing. Yes, like, this
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: isn't just like a guy, Oh you're taking a flyer on.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: This is the guy you signed with all your resources,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: got a bigger contract than Sakwon Barkley last year. Yes,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: to be like, this is our guy. You know, that's
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: not a guy who you bring in with like, oh,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: you know, if we piece it together, there's questions here, No,
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: like you're paying for a proven kind of commodity in theory,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: but clearly that wasn't the case. And certainly we saw
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: Rice off and play in the preseason, and then we
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: saw him lose playing time. You got hurts that kind
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: of factored in there, but ultimately healthy scratch in the
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. You know, a lot of that speaks to
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: and and a big reason why I think, you know,
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: his outlook moving forward is questionable is because I don't
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: think Vic Finjia wants to play that guy. Yeah, and
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: in a way, you know, that's a good thing from
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: the standpoint of Vic is not going to be you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: committing the sunk cost fallacy here. If you can play,
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: he'll play it, and if you can't play, he's not
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: going to play you. And it's really that simple. So
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to see here that you know,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: how the depth heart sorts out will be based on merit,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: which is you know, again a good thing. It's not
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: it's less in other places. You know, there could be
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: more politicking and and things like that, but in Vic's case,
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: I think he genuinely just goes with who he trust
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: and who he doesn't.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, I've been trying to assess here some
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: of the incoming rookies to see if they're gonna have
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to be real contributors this coming season on
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the field as well, BLG, I mean, safety Andrew mccooba
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: seems like he'll be in the mix to get some
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: good playing time in Vic Fangio's defense. But in terms
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: of the rookies who were just drafted, who do you
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: think may see significant playing time just like Quinnon, Mitchell
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and Cooper dejen did last season? Are you seeing that
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: at all or is there an opportunity for these rookies
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to really have a significant impact this season.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I think it'd be really.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Hard to like count on them this year's rookies having
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: the impact that yeah, Quinnon and Cooper did, just because
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: it's not the norm. Like that's that's like the incredible
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: top possible outcome you could realistically hope for. And maybe
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: even more than that hes got out of those players
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: last year. And you know, even if the Eagles made
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: like great picks this year totally you know, did their
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: part to make the right picks, it could just work
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: out that it's not going to happen that fast for
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: these guys.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Right, So I just like this, you.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Know, lower the expectations a little bit from a standpoint
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: of it might take a little bit of time, not
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: even necessarily after the season, but through the course of
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: the season. Certainly in year two we saw no One
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Smith get a lot better over the course of a season. So,
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: you know, John Campbell obviously top contender. We just don't
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: know exactly when he's going to be healthy. Still not
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: practicing yet, that could change by training camp. We don't
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: We don't know, we haven't heard anything on that, so
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: it's just you know, merely guessing at this point. When
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: it comes to Makuba, you know he was with the
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: first team defense on Wednesday when the Eagles were practicing.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: Now you know the Eagles were missing reblanking ship there,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: so we don't fully know what that looks like. So
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: we'll see, you know, when if he's back, how the
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: starters go, whether it's him or Sidney Brown up. But
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, last year, Vic Fangio, whant I go
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: back to that trust conversation, did not trust Sidney Brown
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: to play, and he was playing Tristan McCollum and Avonte
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Maddox over him when there were chances for Sidney Brown
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: to play now. Part of that is that Sidney Brown
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: missed so much time in the off season last year.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: He didn't really get the chance to prove that trust
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: to Vic Fangio, and he will get that this year.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: So he has this opportunity to earn that from him.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: But it's not a given.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: And obviously Vic Kanjo was not here when the Egles
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: drafted Sidney Brown. He was here they drafted Andrew mccoobaugh.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: So I think mccouba, you know, it's in a good
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: spot there to take that job and ultimately end up
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: with it. But obviously, you know, Sidney Brown is not
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: going to go down easy. Hes could also sign a
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: veteran fre agent still too, if mccuba struggles a bit.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: But for now, I think mccouba, you know, probably looking
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: like the best chance at projecting a role, especially given
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: the uncertainty of Joha Campbell's health.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's some great analysis there.
• 51:49
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• 52:06
  Speaker 1: consistent daily basis. So I wanted to move over to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the offense at this point BLG. I mean, the offense
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: last year, as we know, so potent. We saw what
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: they did to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: And as we discuss what might we see this season,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: some saying that we're not going to see the same
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley that we saw last year. The offense won't
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: be as good. There may be some regression here or there.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Some say the offense is still going to dominate the
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: league like they did last year in various ways. How
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: are you seeing this? What should the expectations be for
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: this Eagles offense coming into this season?
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: There's like eight or nine players that have ever had
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: more touches in the single season than Saquon Barkley did
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: last year. So you know, it's a pretty special thing
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: he did last season, and it's to me, it's the
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: best running back season in NFL history. So you know,
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: the standard of you know, it's hard to reach that again,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: probably impossible. Maybe the top that so there's probably.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Only room to go down. But even so, even if that's.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: The case, there's still you know, a lot of room
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: from that in the very bottoms. And I think Saquan
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: will be pretty good still, but I do think that
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: it might be hard to rely on him to this
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: same extent that they did. And it seems kind of
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: inevitable that the Egles are going to have to pass
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: the ball a bit more than they did last year.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying it has to be suddenly Gales dropping back,
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: you know and chucking it like thirty five times a game,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: something extreme, but it's probably gonna be up to a
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: little bit more than it was last year, especially as
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: they're playing tougher teams too, and might be trailing in
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: certain spots and not having the game script to be
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: as favorable as it may have been for them a
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: lot of the time last year. So certainly, you know,
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: I'm expecting differences there. You have a new offensive coordinator
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: and Kevin Patulo, who I think has kind of been
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: like a little bit unfairly labeled just as like Nick Sirianni,
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: you know, like like Buddy and like has no kind
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: of image of his own, identity, of his own I mean,
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: he worked at other places before he teamed up with
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Nick Sirianni in the NFL, so I think, you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: he has his own ideas and you know, tweaks and
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: things that he can do. I'm not it's saying it's
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: a night and day offense, but I do think it'll
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: be interesting to see how it looks with a new
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator. I mean, a lot of people didn't even
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: love Kellen Moore for most of the season, are a
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: frustrated with them with how the offense it's going at
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: times until the very end there really, so you know,
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: I think there's room to kind of get better from there.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: And yeah, obviously you know, health is a big factor
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: as it goes with the offensive line and everything. He
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: does have good depth, I would say, mostly on the offense,
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: you know, and even adding some more tight end. We'll
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: see if Johan Dotson can kind of have more of
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: a role this year after not really doing too much
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: last year. I think targeted something like twenty two times
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: by Geland Hurts. Yeah, so that's something I'm keeping an
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: eye on as well. But overall, the big picture you know,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: I think we should see an offense that is pretty
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: good again just because it's so talented. Yeah, and maybe
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: you can, you know, again add some tweaks.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: In there, and in terms of adding to weeks, I'd
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: love to see more of the screen game being implemented.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: This is a this is a team that really hasn't
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: implement offensive screens like running back screens to too much.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: When you have a weapon like Saquon Barkley, and you've
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: even got aj Dillon coming in as well, I mean,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I can't see how they wouldn't go to or potentially
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: gravitate towards the screen game on offense this coming season.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: That's something I've been thinking about.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: Just one day of practice in May, but Will Shipley
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: was getting a lot of catches the practice, so I
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: don't know how many of them are screens, but you know,
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: being a target.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: In the in the in the passing game.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: We haven't seen running backs really have that here, especially
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: and Jalen Hurts has been and Nick Sirianni has been
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: head coach. Jale Hurts has been the quarterback, So that
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: is another element I think that, you know, it would
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: be nice to get a little bit more of that
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: mixed in.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, all right, we'll be LG. I wanted to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: dive into some overall NFL storylines that I know a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: lot of US football fans have been following over the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: course of this offseason. Here and the one storyline, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: it jumps from team to certain teams to team to team.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Here about how some of these veteran quarterbacks who are
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: going to and we may see this season on other teams,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: how they're gonna fare this season. So I kind of
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: want to go through Geno Smith with you, Sam Darnold,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and then the one and only Daniel Jones
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: in Indiana. So I'm wondering if you can maybe give
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: us your take real quick on how these these veteran
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in terms of these storylines, how they're gonna fare
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: with their new teams. So let's start off with Gino
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Smith and the Raiders. How do you think he's gonna
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: fare this coming season? Yeah?
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: I like the Geno trade for the Seahawks one than
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: I really did for I mean, for the Raiders. I
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: think it makes some sense in the standpoint I they've
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: been just so bad for so long, so irrelevant really
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: for so long, that they're just trying to read some
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: kind of level of competency, and I think that's not
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: like the best way to build a championship team in
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: the long run, but I do respect it. I kind
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: of say the same thing about like the Jaggs dating
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter. I don't think that's a smart trade for
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: them and the big picture. But from the standpoint of,
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: like Jackson are probably gonna be terrible anyway. I think
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: a lot of their fans know that that why not
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: get like a really exciting player that we can at
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: least like glom onto that. So I do think from
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: a standpoint of trying to get a little bit more
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: competitive for once and not just be such a laughingstock,
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: you know, does raise the floor there, But I don't like,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: you know, what he does for their ceiling. And I'm
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: a lot less impressed with him than NFL Twitter and
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: mass seems to be there. So I'm not a huge
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: fan of this one.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what about Sam Donald had such a
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: fantastic season in Minnesota last year, He's now heading to
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. How do you think he's gonna fare this
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: year on his new team?
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I said I loved the I liked the
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: Gno Smith trade for the Seahawks signal, but then they
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: went out and signed Sam Donald, and I'm like, I
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: don't love that part of it. Like, I don't think
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: I think it's good to pivot away from Geno considering
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: I think they kind of just reached their ceiling with
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: him and there wasn't really more to see. But with
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: Sam Donald, I mean I just think, yeah, he was
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: great for the Vikings last year, right, but it's so
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: hard to shake like how that season ended too for
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: them and for him, where he kind of just looked
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: like like the year in the headlights like he has
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: other times in his career when he was younger. And
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's a difference maker for them, Like
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: he's posting good stats like he did for the Vikings
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: last year, But was anyone at any point like scared
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: about having to play Sam Donald and the Vikings, Like
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: I don't really think so, and just you know, to
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: kind of have that year, like quarterbacks have good years.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: We know that in Philadelphia. We've seen that, like Nick Foles,
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: you know, like as twenty seven and two obviously goes
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: on to win a Super Bowl, but like he wasn't
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback right after twenty seven and two, so
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: and case Keenum previously for the Vikings, you know, has
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: that really good year and then get smacked by the
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: use of the championship game. So yeah, I'm buyer to
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: beware on that. They did draft jale and Milroe, which
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: I like a lot. So I think, you know, having
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: the two kind of options there, you see what shakes
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: out of that. I kind of like that approach as
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: a whole. But I'm just not high on Sam Donald.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not high on Sam Donald at all. But let's
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: go inside the NFC East here with the New York Giants.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: They acquire Russell Wilson. How do you think he's gonna fare?
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: I've been a long time Russell Wilson fan from afar
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: just because you know he's especially because having watched him
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: torment the Eagles for years, it's like, damn it, like
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: you can't stop this guy. It's so annoying. They finally
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: beat him for the first time last year on the Steelers.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: Obviously he's not the same player he used to be
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: earlier in his career, but you know, I just don't
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: think this is gonna work out. Very I'm really hating
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: at all of these. Don't you look at the Giants schedule.
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: You know, it's Commanders, it's cow It's at Commanders at Cowboys, Chiefs,
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Chargers at Saints, and then you get the Eagles game
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: there on Thursday night football run. Then yeah, it's a
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: it's a rough start. So I just feel like, and
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: how much even if Russ is like playing like kind
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: of like he did last year, like decent, a team
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: is not very good and they're gonna be losing and
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: at some point, like it might not even be his fault,
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: could be his fault, but it might not be, and
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: then they just want to, you know, turn the page
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: to Jackson Dart as they really should, and you know,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: get him in there and see what he's got. So
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: I just don't think he is a very long leash,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: especially considering they have a really difficult schedule.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and last, but not least here in terms of
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks going to their new teams, got Daniel Jones?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: What does he beat out Anthony Richardson for the starting
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: job in Indy? How do you think Daniel Jones' career
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: is gonna go this season?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: Here?
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think I'm like, I'm like, I'm like ninety
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: nine percent out on Daniel Jones in general, not like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent out, just from the standpoint if he
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: went to like, let's say the Eagles, he went to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: like a really good organization that had pieces in place
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: and stability, Like I'd be interested to see what that
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: looks like, you know, a little bit after he was
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: with the Giants and obviously their disaster, But I don't
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: know that the culture like that spot for him to
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: really take off and really kind of give him the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: last chance to be any kind of good. So I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: don't think he's gonna go well for him either, None
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: of these quarterbacks, clearly, I'm thinking it's going well for
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson is obviously incredibly talented, but I just man,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: the bad Like the highs are very high in terms
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: of the talent he's able to do at a special
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: kind of level, but the lows are extremely low as well.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: And you're like, he's completing what like forty two percent
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: of his passes or something insanely like that's that's just
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: not gonna cut it at all. You need more consistency
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: than that. So maybe Daniel Jones gets a chance to
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: play a decent amount. I could buy that, but I
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: just I don't really think it's going to be a
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: needle mover for the Colts.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I don't think so either. It was a
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: tough offseason in terms of quarterback free agents and where
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: they were moving. It was really tough. So blg before
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: we let you go here, buddy, And it's really you know,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: the question that we're all going to be asking, all
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about the we we we wait for
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: that first game every season, and in the Dallas Cowboys
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: are going to be coming to Philadelphia and the Eagles
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: are going to be raising that Super Bowl banner, which
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: is going to be so sweet to have the Dallas
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Cowboys on the sidelines while that is happening. Even though
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are a much better team than
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys heading into this season, they still have Dak
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Prescott coming back. He's no slouch. The Commanders have a
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: really good team led by Jaden Daniels and a pretty
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: prolific offense. Even though I do think Jayden Daniels is
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: gonna take some steps back this season. Do you think
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are still the team to beat in the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: NFC East this season, and can they be the first
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: team to win back to back division titles since they
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: were the last team to do it, you know, back
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: in the two thousands. What are your thoughts here?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate that framing because that's like, if you're
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: gonna talk about the Eagles repeating as super Bowl champions,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: probably gonna have to repeat as division champions first, right,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: not necessarily, but probably would be a really good thing
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: to do, And it's incredibly hard to do it impossible
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: to do basically in this division as we've seen. So
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I think it's you almost have to be
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: like a sucker each year to be like the if
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: your team wins the division the year probably to be like, oh,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: we're definitely gonna do it again, Like, how can you
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: possibly believe they're just one hundred percent gonna do that?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: By virtue of no one does that? It is eventually
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: obviously it will be broken, but you just have to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: keep betting against history each year to really truly believe that.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: So look, you know, I think you outlined it well there.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think the Giants are joking. I don't
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: think they're going to be a big factor at all,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: and just their schedule is so tough. So then it's
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: you know, is it the Commanders, who I haven't really
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: loved their offseason. I think their draft was okay, but
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: I didn't really love the approach of you know, it
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: was getting older a lot. I know we're trying to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: take advantage of Jayden Daniel's Brookiet window contract there, and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: I respect that, and I think that makes some sense,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: but you don't have to do it with like players
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: that are only thirty plus all like pretty much like
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: a lot of them were, and players who I question
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: if you know they're they're best football is behind them
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: at this point, certainly like Deebo Samuel. So yeah, I
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: just think maybe they could be in a mode where
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  Speaker 4: they're thinking they're a little bit closer than they are.
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  Speaker 4: And I think teams fall into the trap of thinking
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  Speaker 4: you just get to pick up where you left off
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  Speaker 4: last season, which is not how it works. You have
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  Speaker 4: to go and climb the mountain. All again, that's for
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  Speaker 4: legals as well, So I think they could be humbled
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  Speaker 4: a bit this year. And I also I say that
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  Speaker 4: was still saying that. I still think Kayden Dale's really
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  Speaker 4: good and I think their long term projection could still
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  Speaker 4: be good. But as like people like to say, the
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  Speaker 4: probablyst isn't always linear, so it might just be more
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  Speaker 4: of a step back year for them, and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden the twenty twenty six they're right back
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  Speaker 4: at it, depending on how it goes. But so that's
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  Speaker 4: Commanders and then the Cowboys. Yeah, like Dak's coming back,
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  Speaker 4: that's huge obviously. Typically, you know, when Dak is healthy,
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  Speaker 4: they're right in the mix for the division every single year. Now,
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  Speaker 4: Dak did not look good before he got hurt last season,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that is worth noting. And he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be what age thirty two, aged thirty three here,
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how much these injuries over the course of
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  Speaker 4: his career have taken toll a little bit. They get
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  Speaker 4: George Pickens, I know people are excited about that. I
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  Speaker 4: think there's some buyer beware there and that he's talented.
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  Speaker 4: But the Steelers typically don't move on from a wide
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  Speaker 4: receiver and like really regret it at all typically, So
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think they're to be kind of like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe a ten win, eight nine win, that
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  Speaker 4: kind of somewhere in that in that mix. So I
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  Speaker 4: do think it's would be competitive division. But I think
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  Speaker 4: ultimately negals have earned for as much as the repeat
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  Speaker 4: thing doesn't happen, you have earned some level of benefit
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  Speaker 4: of the doubt with just how good they were last
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  Speaker 4: year and how much of that you're still keeping this year.
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  Speaker 4: So and even though the Eagles did not win the
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  Speaker 4: division a couple of years ago, they were right in
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  Speaker 4: position to before every collapse. So it's not like, oh
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: they were just they couldn't even get close to doing it,
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  Speaker 4: to repeating. They were close to repeating. So I think
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  Speaker 4: if there could be a year, maybe it could finally
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  Speaker 4: be this one for them, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I think it would be fantastic, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that is what we are going to see. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's a end of May here, folks, and training
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: camp hasn't even started, but I think that could potentially
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  Speaker 1: and is a great chance to happen for this Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Eagles team this coming season. Again, folks, He's Brandon League
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  Speaker 1: out and BLG from Bleedinggreen Nation dot com. Buddy, Like,
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  Speaker 1: where else are you out on the interwebs? Know you're
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: all over the place. I think you're on threads. I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: think you're on Blue Sky and stuff. Why don't you
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: get that out there so folks can know where to
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: find you.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, Brandon Gauton on Twitter and that's probably
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: threads as well. And I think Blue Sky is Brandon Lee.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: Got oh okay name in there. Yeah, and then yeah,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: those are those are the main ones. Leeding Green Nation
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  Speaker 4: dot com obviously check that out. Do some podcasting sometimes
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: as a special guest with Hilcapatia on The Ring or
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: Philly Special from time to time, so you can check
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: that out. Still figuring out bag N's podcast situation a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: whole year later. Still it's not up to me. I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: have no control over this. No, ridiculous, everyone I think
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: can see that. Clean the Sea. Still doing some NFCS
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  Speaker 4: mixtape YouTube episodes.
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  Speaker 3: With j J.
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  Speaker 4: Check that out, yes, on the Bleeding Green Nation YouTube channel,
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  Speaker 4: so you can subscribe to that if you want to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: see those videos. But uh, I think that's.
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  Speaker 1: About it all right. Sounds good, folks. He again is
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Lee Gatten, Bleedinggreen Nation dot com. Buddy, It was
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  Speaker 1: great talking to you. Thanks so much for taking the
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