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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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buying should be. When I was a kid, Okay, when
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I was in my twenties, even my twenties, still a kid,
there would be games that Mets or the Jets, mainly
where I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Yeah,
I thought it was such a horrible loss, right, such
a horrible loss.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't believe you left that that far behind. I've
been doing this showing on now a decade. No, there
are plenty of days where I was really concerned that
insomnia and Big Max were gonna be your downfall.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, but at some point I gotta let it go
and go to sleep. So, I mean, I've gotten older
down I'm like, okay, but on my twenties and you know,
you're in that invincible phase of your life. You're like,
I got the thing that the Jets matter the most
to me in the world, and then you wind up
with stuff like a mortgage and a wife and a kid,
and you tell the stuff and you know, and you're like, okay,
the Jets. But like, there's games where I remember where
I just couldn't go to sleep, Like and the game
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had been over since one o'clock in the afternoon, right,
you know, or or or four o'clock in the afternoon,
and it's midnight, and I'm just laying in bed, going
I can't sleep because I keep thinking about that, how
do we not convert that first down? How do we
not make that play, how do we throw that pick,
how does Keishaw drop that pass? Whatever? At times, I'm
just going, I can't I can't get I can't get.
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I can't fall asleep. I can't fall asleep. I think,
make a sandwich, and then eventually I would fall asleep.
But I wake up the next day and I would say, Okay,
I got I gotta take a shower and then be
ready to move on. Uh That's how I would feel tonight,
found an Eagles fan, because that's how bad they gave
this game away to the Falcons. And no matter what
they do, no matter what the Eagles do, they are
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always I feel like they are one step away from
complete and total chaos.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, he had all the off season stories and hurts
and their dysfunction lack of a relationship and understanding and whatever.
That divide was the great start to last season, even
with changing out both your coordinators, only to have it
be one of the most more historic collapses we've seen
in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So yeah, it's tenuous.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, Sirianni, despite all the success in the regular season,
became a is he on the hot seat?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Week one? Look, they're great front runners, the Eagles, but
when the tiny things happen, it just it's like unraveling.
We're pulling at this loose thread and I'm not gonna
be happy until I pull the entire thread out, and
then you pull the thread and it goes all the
way down one side, and then it comes back to
the other side and that comes back and he's like, Okay,
now I'm just pulling the thread out of there.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Now you've just unraveled oogy boogie and there's bugs every.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Why why didn't I just cut it? And I would
have been done with it. But that's the Eagles, like
they can't not be one step away from chaos. Like
they're they're in front of this door in this club,
and the club is called Club Chaos, and there's a
guy at the door checking IDs, and the Eagles are
standing right out front, and they keep trying to get in,
and sometimes a guy don't you don't have the right ID.
Don't have the right ID none, Okay, I'll help You're in.
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Guess what you're in. You make all these horrible mistakes
to lose this game with the Falcons. I will open
the door and the Eagles go, ah, we just got
in Club Chaos. Woo man, that's my disco call. They
turn around and see to your friends in the back
of the light. Ah, suckers. I got in the club
and suddenly Club Chaos is there and the Eagles are
in the middle of the dance floor and they're jumping
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around there getting hand passed around the bar, and people
are pouring body shots on in the Egle like, yeah,
it's chaos and we love it. You really added another
layer to that picture.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It got disturbing as you left your friends in the dust,
because I mean, you know, that kind of showed what
you know, your tralors. But then now you're you're getting
body shot around on. Now there are three things tonight
and this is what I mean when the Eagle, because
now they're in chaos. Now, I don't know how the
rest of the season's gonna go, because suddenly, after one
game they were they were a minute and a half
away from feeling unbelievable. Where we go and play in
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South America, we're not allowed to leave our hotels. We
win a game, you know, we played, we start we
open up Monday night at home. All we're we're looking
at starting two and oh the Cowboys have problems. Commanders
have problems. The Dolphins, the Giant Dolphins, Giants have problems.
Hey we're looking great, and now they're in all kinds
of chaos and Sirianni.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
How much are they following him? How mad are they
at him? Does he still have the locker room? Does
he get along with Jalen Hurts like that? They're so
close to that every single second of the day.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But here's the thing, now, you exacerbate the problem because
you watched your defense toothless. I saw the stat three
point four yards attempts when they got after Cousins and
then well for the final drive they didn't bother to.
But here's the Eagles now are on the road for
back to back games against the Saints. You've all seen
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the graphic. You've all witnessed it. Maybe you've been on
the wrong end of it, either betting, picking games, or
your fantasy lineups.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They've scored ninety one.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Points through two weeks, fourth most in NFL history. Oh
and then after that, then you're on the road at
the Buccaneers, where that offense is Homan and Chris Godwin
looked like a guy that injury is light years away, right,
and Mike Evans doing his thing, and even with a
little bit of shuffling in the backfield, Baker Mayfield's been fantastic.
Oh and once you're done with that, you get the
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Browns at home. I don't know what they are. Their
offense isn't very good, but guess what, but their defense
can cause you some fits.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So all of a sudden, you got three straight.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Games before a date at the Giants, and let's face it,
Giants should have won that game on Sunday too. They
should have beaten the Commanders, but for you know, a
kicker getting hurt on the opening play.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But push that aside.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You've invited, to your point, you've invited chaos in by
not finishing the job, making a play call, not executing
on what was a fine play call. Maybe it should
have been a different play, but either way that you
should have been the excellence of execution and celebrated brought
the hitman heart. Instead, you opened the door to chaos.
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Now how did chaos get this door open? Well, there
were three specific things in this game that get you
to that cast. First is first possession of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
For the second persession the game for the Eagles, nice
five to six minute drive their face with a fourth
and four where it's a thirty five yard field goal,
but instead the Eagles acide to go for it. If
it was fourth and two, fourth and one, fourth and
two short, you can run the toush push lots of
different things. I get it, Hey, we want to get
we want to get down here. You want to imprint
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our will on the game very early. I I get that.
But this is fourth and four. It's fourth and long, right,
that's a long four day right now that Falcons are going, oh,
thank you fourth and for you. We could stop fourth
and four, But the Eagles and Nick Sirianni decide to
go for it. They don't get it three points they
really could have used the rest of that game. And
here's Sirianni explaining the thought process by going for it
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on fourth down in the first quarter. Are there decisions
you would have done differently?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
In Nislinger? Sure, Like anytime you go, you go and
you don't get points on drive in the red zone.
You know, fourth and three in the first one, you're like, well,
should I have one for that there? And you know
I went for a fourth and three after that. You
know when after the con or the completion of Dallas
that got us the fourth and three, We got that
and we got points out of that. So anytime it
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doesn't work out, you know, that's why I'm sitting in
the seat, the head coaching seat, like I gotta be
ready for the consequences of what it works or whether
it doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Now, great answer, right, yeah, of course because normally get that.
Oh no, you get the Dan Campbell. No, that's how
we do it all the time. And I went doing it. Well,
of course it didn't work out. I would do it
over forget a different way, but there as I would.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But the follow up is then the the play calling
an execution of that series, right, because Sakua Barkley had
run amuck, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Then he's out of the game. And then he's out
of the game.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Here's a couple of carries the game will and here's
an incompletion to a receiver that people were looking up
on the depth chart to see who the hell he was.
So it's like what and then you run the fourth
down play to god? Or you don't get it? Steve
van Buren, where did they get him?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Apparently he was really good at the ninety four. So
again a stupid decision because it's fourth and long. It
wasn't fourth and three. He was fourth and four. He's
trying to make it seem like it was like fourth
and short, No, fourth and four and you didn't get it.
Horrible decision. You take the points, you put the first
points on the board in the game, right, and things
unraveled from there. You get to the end of the
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game and the Eagles have a chance to end it.
They have the ball inside the Falcons ten yard line
in their face with a third and three minute forty
six left to go. Falcons are out of timeouts. Eagles
get the first down on this play. The game is over.
They're kneeling on the football and Eagles go home with
a win. And they call a great rollout play and
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Jalen Hurts puts it right on the money to Saquon Barkley,
who all he's got to do is turn around and
he's got the first down. There is no way this
is not a first down and the game is over,
and instead Barkley just drops it. He had a great
game till that point, but now the honeymoon is over
because he dropped that ball. And here's Nick Sirianni talking
about that play.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
The third pre called you want to pass it? Un
tell my players are a mechanism where Jalen just a
name and six downs takes it back.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
We uh, we wanted to. They were they were running
a certain defense and junking it up in the middle,
so we're trying to go on the round the outsid
and uh, you know, it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You're a golf pattern there on getting you think about.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Going you know again in that scenario, I was thinking
they might not have any timeouts there, but obviously they
did with with the with the incomplete pass, you know,
that would have that would have came down to maybe
a minute, and so we wanted to go up six points,
you know, and it didn't work. So you know, my
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the decision to pass it there again, like I said,
you know, when they were junking it up inside with
it being fourth and three to go for it, I thought,
you know, with them not having any timeouts, I wanted
to be down a touchdown and and see if they
could drive the field.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And they did. Hats off to them. Now, look, I'm
there's nothing wrong with that play call, because Sirianni goes
on to say, hey, yes, if the play's not there,
Hurt slides down, takes a sack, we take a bunch
of time off the clock and kick the field goal.
But the play was there. The play was there. It
was a great play. The Falcons, as he said, they
gummed up the middle and Barkley's got the first down.
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And it's hard for me to, you know, to say, Okay,
this one play cost somebody the game. But this was
a play that you called to put the ball in
your best player that night, in your best players, and
you didn't try to throw it to gain Well or
your fourth or fifth receiver. You threw it to your
stud running back and all he's got to do is
catch it. Eddie dropped it. And that's on Barkley, and
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that's completely on him for this game, because that's a
win or lose play. You win the game if you
make that play. You didn't and you open the door
for the Falcons to win. He's gotta make that play.
You can't shy away from saying I'm gonna call this play.
If Barkley was in contact with someone, if it was
a difficult play, if he was one on one and
somebody makes a player, Barkley's not I get it, but
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he's all by himself. You got to catch that ball.
I'm sorry, but you have to catch that ball. That loss, right, there,
that's on him. That's one catching of the ball where
you see guys in practice all the time do all
kinds of crawf Look how I catch the ball. Look
at the ball, and then the footballs fly for real
and you drop a ball like that, which there is
no excuse for. That's what I think of. That's what
I'll think of the most. If I'm an Eagles fan
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and I think about this game in this season, who
knows where it goes from here, because it really could spiral,
because that's how it works with the Eagles. I think
of that play going. If that play had just been executed,
we didn't have to achieve anything, just had to execute.
We couldn't. That's the play that makes me go and
Mikes want to pull my hair out if I had hair.
If I'm an Eagles fan, there you go.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
The other thing with it, I guess is putting the
ball in Barkley's hands. Could you ask Nick, hey, he's
averaging four point three yards per cardy you needed three
run the ball clock keeps going. Yeah, you know, like
you said, you don't great play call. It was a fantastic,
great play call, right Like that would have been the
only other question to it would be either way. Barkley
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should see me seeing the ball, like you said before
with the second possession, right, is how he runs it
all the way down. You've got first and ten from
the fifteen, and he doesn't see the ball again unless
he's at the Oxen Intent where he's now injured. How's
he not on the field and touching the football and
making plays there? And then in this situation, Yeah, he's
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gonna he gets the official goat horns coming out of
this game because the ball hits him on the hands.
It's a beautifully throwing ball, perfectly executed, whether he would
have turned up and plowed into the end zone or
if he'd just fallen down in bounds to let the
clock run. I mean that that's an easy pitch and
catch man Like that was. That was a perfect design
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one on one on the outside and the defender was
a couple of yards off. Yeah, this one screams because
especially if you then go to New Orleans and get
thumped right, the potential for.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It to slide is huge.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And obviously we watched the first two weeks of the
season and teams did a remarkable job of recovering. In
many cases after disastrous Week ones or whatever. But for
the Eagles, and then we got enough of history. They
lost the three games. This was a stat that they
threw up on the broadcast three games last year where
they had the lead and you know, hey, they're now
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giving the ball back inside of two minutes and they
gave up the lead.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, here you go, add to that graphic. Now, the
third part of this is it really is the cherry
on top of it, and that is the lax defense
they played on the Falcons final drive. They kicked the
field goal because Barkley drops the ball on third down,
stops the clock and for a defense that had stopped
Kirk Cousins, made him look bad, made him look unsure
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where to go with the football. Cousins was not accurate.
They lay off of his receivers so much. It's almost
like they said, hey, he stinks. All we gotta do
is just not not give him big plays, and he's
gonna throw four in complete, so we're gonna pick him off.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
He's been baculate on that tackles, even if he does
compect it because he's throwing short.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But even Kirk Cousins is gonna with a minute forty five,
Kirk Cousins, Will Nickel and Dime's way down the field.
When you get the ball to the thirty yard line,
if you're not gonna bring any pressure, no, it's what's happen.
And guys were wide open. Darnold Mooney had ten yards
of separation on a big play. Kyle Bitts at separation,
Drake London had separation. Mooney had separation on a couple
of plays. I don't know what the Eagles were doing.
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I don't know what Vic Fangio is doing. He doesn't
have to worry about timeouts. I don't get it. I
don't get how the Eagles went from we are pressing
you and you are not gonna be able to move
the ball downfield, and you can't move it downfield, and
all of a sudden, he's a world beat. It looks
like an All Pro on the final drive of the.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Game, five of six seventy yards for that final drive touchdown.
He'd had one hundred and seventy one passing yards before that,
and it was a struggle to get to those cause
we're talking about dinking and dunking and hoping for a
little bit of yack. Nothing pushing downfield. We've talked about
that all night. People could listen to the podcast after
the show ends. It'll go up wherever you get your audio.
(15:48):
But very much for Kirk Cousins, it's the short and
intermediate game, I think is pushing it. If we're describing
what the shot chart looks like. If everybody was gonna
make fun of what justin Field did after week one
in a win, you can do the same thing for
what Captain Kirk's done the first two weeks. It ain't
pushing the ball down the field. You got maybe two
throws at this point that have traveled over twenty air yards.
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Everything else is short and intermediate. So the fact that
as Fangio gets inside the two minutes, they're not putting
pressure on him to try to get him off the
spot and make him uncomfortable. Guys seeing every type of
defense you could possibly throw, and you're not gonna try
to disrupt things, and you're gonna let him pick you apart.
Come on, he was like playing playing in the sandlot
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where it's at one one thousand and two, one thousand
and three with the and he's you know the whatever,
the official quarterback for the game, where you can't touch
him right where you drag your old man. It's like, hey,
you gotta play, because I don't know. Anybody touches me,
I'll killing you. That's what it looked like here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What a descent into chaos, and who knows where the
Eagle season goes from here. Already things were nervous with
Sirianni and Hurts. They had to have a big year
this year, and now suddenly Bill Belichick's going on. I
may have another opening next year, may not just be
the Giants or the Cup. I might be able to
go anywhere in the NFC East. Oh, this is gonna
be fed.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Something we talked about in the offseason that potentially that
was gonna become a possibility. And certainly coming out of
this game, two tough games against the NFC South coming
up here on the road in both road games. So
curious to see the response out a short week. Good
luck Eagles, good luck not to mention the fish raps tomorrow.
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Tell me you don't want to listen to some Philadelphia
radio when you wake up in now.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I can't believe we didn't do it. It was we
had the game. All Barkley's got to do is catch
a ball. You know, Once a giant, always a giant.
I knew he was gonna do that. I bet you
dropped it on purpose. He's gonna go back to Joe
Shane and Brian Dable. He's gonna say, hey, bring me back,
give me some money. I'll even drop passes in the game.
We would lose. I bet you did on purpose.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What if I were to tell you there is a
growing conspiracy theory online that this game was fixed based
on the way they called the defense in that final possession.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Exit out about Yeah, Vic Fangio fixing it for uh
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Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my best
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do in a couple of minutes, I have a silver
lining for the Eagles. After you can do silver lining
for the Eagles, but first let me it won't be
so passive defense.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
No no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean the anger and vitriol of the fans will listen.
Because the Eagles are in such enveloped in chaos, the
good news has to come from outside, outside of that bubble. No,
I have no good news for the Eagles inside tonight. No no, no,
none tonight, no bubbes. But let me just say this
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at some point and and just because we get to
see a little bit of it, but we don't get
to see all of it. The manning cast for Monday
Night games doesn't happen every week. When it happens, usually
Peyton and Eli are entertaining or entertaining to a point.
But ratings for it are really slipping. And I don't
know if it's because people feel like, Okay, I've seen
(20:33):
enough of it. I've seen the act. I really just
want to watch the game. I I am not interested
in trying to figure out how I watch the alternate
Manning cast.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, that's just it. The value of those multicast I
don't know. So that's so that's kind of going by
the wayside a little bit. And I really, I really
don't think ESPN is going to have any other choice
other than to say, hey, guess what, right, seeing how
Tom Brady joining the booth Fox is such a big deal,
and you look now they're interviewing Brady after games on
(21:04):
NFL on Fox and Terry Brad said, Tom, Terry Bradshawn,
Terry's asking them questions. At some point, you're gonna have
to put Peyton in the booth, and whether it is,
it's gonna be difficult because you hired Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman as a team to come in together, and
they do a good job, as they've been solid broadcasts.
And ESPN went out and got Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman because they were sick and tired of coming into
(21:26):
work on Tuesday morning, seeing how oh, on Monday night
all anybody did was rip Steve Levy or Joe tessitour
bigam McFarlane. They got sick of it because they were
because they were beholden to social media, which is the
worst way to make a decision.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
But that's what ESPN did. Oh, we can't believe they're
saying this about I hate when we get on the air.
That's why Chris Berman doesn't do stuff with the ESPN
hardly much anymore, because people get on social media make
fun of them and they think that's the end all
be all. Oh, we can't do it, so they make
the move to go get Joe and Troy, which, hey, solid,
no one's gonna complain about what they have to say.
But at some point you're gonna have to put Peyton
(21:59):
Manning on the show. You're gonna have to put Peyton
and Eli on the show together at some point. And
and because if the Manning cast is not really giving
you the bang for the buck, but you put them
on the main broadcast, hey, okay. And there's a way
to figure that out, whether it's hey, Troy's gonna take
a couple of series off, or you're just gonna put
Peyton in the booth with Troy Aikman and Troy. Sorry,
you're getting paid a lot of money. Suck it up,
(22:21):
and you and Peyton are gonna analyze this game for
a bit. Doesn't need to be for the whole game,
but a third quarter Peyton Manning is gonna be in
with us, right, Like that would be more valuable than
having Peyton Manning do the Manning cast. Whether I'm I'm saying,
I know, I'm sitting in my home and I'm watching
the game and I'm talking over the play by play
and I'm feeling comfortable. But if you're ESPN, you're saying,
all right, we got it. We're paying Peyton Manning a
(22:42):
lot of money. We're paying these guys a lot of money.
We got to get our money's worth, and maybe putting
them on the main broadcast is the thing to do,
because that's God. There's got to be some way to change,
because you just can't keep putting this stuff out there
and having nobody watch. Right. It's it's like the TV
shows in the middle of the day when everybody's fighting
over all the you know, one hundred thousand people are
watching a TV show and it's, oh, look at this,
we're paying guys six seven eight million dollars a year,
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where one hundred thousand people are watching a show in
the middle of the day. But this is what we're doing, Like,
that's kind of what it's. It's for Peyton, man. We're
paying them all this money all because we're gonna get
clips and people are gonna watch what Peyton and Eli
say on that there's got to be some better way,
some better bang for me. Well, but that just said.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's trying to figure out what is the bang for
the buck and and that overall production deal with O
Maha that they put together. But you know, you and I,
as we're working on the show tonight and with the
Manning cast as it's been in years, we'll get the
best of highlights. So I mean, I'm sure there's plenty
that isn't very exciting because obviously we don't have audio
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in here as we're working. But you know, we get
we get a quick minute, grab a cup of coffee,
slap some water our face, and get ready for the
next round. You get to bring up the sound for
a minute and listen to what they're doing. I mean,
Peyton's animated as hell. Oh yeah, he's getting out of
his seat and he's losing his mind, like his his sequence,
saying it was him and Eli and they had Matt
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Ryan there and I'll let people think of what they
want with whatever contribution. Matt Ryan was making the things.
But you know with Peyton, like he's going through play
by play and how they should do it. Oh, you
didn't need to get out of bound. And he's fully
invested in what you're doing. That energy is so good
not to mention the breakdown, Like and he and Eli,
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guys with each have two Super Bowl wins, right, and
they're arguing and debating the complexities of the play call
and the situational football and going back and forth with
some of their you know, snark to one another, like
it's a good watch. But to your point about the
cost of doing business, get paid a lot if this
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can goose the ratings and the interest of the Monday
night main broadcast, Yeah, you got to figure out a
way to do that. And will it would have disrupt
the team that's been working together. How many years were
it with Fox before they went back over the man,
they're twenty plus years at this points. Everybody gets paid. Fine,
here's the third man in the booth.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That guy exit out about a Fresca exit Swalling Dome
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen. Now I can
make Eagles fans feel better. You can't, actually, and the
fans of other other teams not feel better? How do
you make Eagles fans feel better after that? Because I
feel like I need to after all the bad they've
had to experience tonight, the lack of sleep they're gonna
get how how mean everybody's gonna be and upset they're
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gonna be the rest of the week. Did you at
the end of it. I'm not even gonna go buy hog.
You can't even. I'm too depressed. Can't even go buy depressed? No, no, don't,
I don't even. I'm not even gonna vote on who
I like more between gritty and the fanatic. I won't.
I can't even vote in that pole anymore. Can't do it. Uh,
here's what makes me make Eagles fans feel better? Okay,
because I could do this for you. We know the
Giants stink, right, we know them. We know the Commander's
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stink too. Oh yeah, but here's the other thing. The
Cowboys might also really stink. All right? This is yes,
give the Saints credit for the win they had yesterday.
But I'm still not all in on the Saints. And
this is a Cowboy team that just got obliterated by
a Saints team that was barely adequate last year, didn't
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really add anything to their team this year. It's the
same cast of characters. It's Alvin Kamara a year older.
It's Derek Carr another year when you know who he
is and people are wondering rashatcha Heed. I had him
on my fantasy team all year last year. Now he
blows up there. The Cowboys got rolled by a team
that is not any good. Right, they beat the Panthers.
Pen's the worst team in the NFL. I'd be surprised
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if they won more than one game, right, this is
a really bad team. They beat the Cowboys. And what
did we see from the Cowboys? The Cowboys who went
all in this year, meaning we did nothing except wait
for a long time to pay Dak and ceedee lamb.
They didn't get better in the offseason. We told you
in the offseason this is gonna be a big year
because the Cowboys are gonna not be good. They're gonna
stink because they didn't get better. Every team needs to
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get better, even super Bowl champions need to get better
in the offseason or you get passed by. The Cowboys
did not show up any weaknesses. They still are I
have nobody to run the football and now they are
trying to navigate twenty twenty four and what did we
see yesterday? Over the first couple of weeks. Defensively, you
can get the Cowboys right. You can get that this
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was a this is a this is a nickel and
dime a New Orleans Saints offense. Yes, they scored a
lot of points, but wow, this is a Cowboy defense
that's supposed to be pretty good and they got worked,
absolutely worked. And then on the offensive side of things,
it's Dak and Ceedee Lamb and that's it. And there's
lots of teams I can tell you that have a
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good quarterback and one good wide receiver and guess what,
they went about five or six games a year. That's all.
The Cowboys have nobody else that scares you. Their offensive
line is not as good as it was. They have
nobody at running back. There's no second or third guy
to take the pressure off of Ced Lamb. The Cowboys
have gone from a team very quickly that, oh maybe
we can win the division again, another twelve win team.
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To now they're a team, They're just a tricky team.
Hey be careful with the Cowboys because if you don't
take care of business, Dak CD can get hot, Micah
Parsons can get in the backfield a lot and win
a couple of games. They're a tricky team. But if
you but most teams are better than they are, have
better rosters at this point, are able to win better
the Cowboys. It's just been a slow erosion of their
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talent the last couple of years. And so now it's
unless you let DAK and CD go nuts. If you're
a decent team, you can win this game. And now
you're throwing in the fact that here's a lane duck
coach and Mike McCarthy who and they get they get
boat raced by the Saints, and suddenly it's hey, Mike,
what do you got?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You got really? So you're a lane duck coach and
we just got rolled week two by the Saints at home?
What is going on? What is going on here? And
so now you have to navigate that part of it too.
So that's why for the Eagles the silver lining is, Yeah,
the Giants sink, the Commander stink. The Cowboys could really
stink too, and that's a huge possibility after this week. Yeah,
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the potential is there for chaos. Go back to Week
one when we're looking at that game against the Browns.
For as much as it was a down and an effort,
part of that being Look, the Cleveland offense is uh,
not good. They I know they got to win this
this week, but I'm okay with staying where that is.
But you've had to settle for a lot of field goals.
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And the Cleveland defense with reputation and execution like they're
gonna they're gonna make some teams pay along the way.
But that game, coming out of it, it's like, well,
Dek wasn't dominant. They moved the ball just enough for
a guy to hammer home a bunch of fifty yard
field goals. Again, wins a win, and you try to
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put it all in context and say, all right, this
will get better. One thing we don't know, or I
think we're pretty sure, if I should say, is that
the running back room wasn't good coming in and through
two weeks. That's been confirmed, right, that is confirmed. If
you got Tony Dorsett at sixty eight years old, you'd
have the same production.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
But like Brandon Cooks is a is a good receiver,
you know, but he's off and on right. We've watched
the stats year to year. The aggregate might look good
a week to week. He could disappear. Ferguson was hurt.
They're hoping he's back in the lineup sooner rather than later.
That was a guy that was supposed to be a
nice sit down option. But otherwise it's Cede Lamb and
a bunch of guys running around at this point. So
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if you're not gonna get effort and consistent results from
Micah Parsons in the defense, and now you've got Parsons
going in the interviews and already calling out the effort
of the guys on his defense, you just made the
other guy escapegoat after they got run over with the
perfect rating by Jordan Love. Now Mike Zimmer comes in,
and that's the effort you get against the Saints team
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that will take what one or two big shots downfield.
Everything else is dink, dunk and yack. And they did
it brilliantly, and they have for the first two weeks.
So I had the Saints down as because we couldn't
take the Panthers as potentially the worst team in football,
and through two weeks one, I look like an idiot,
but I still don't know what they are. But they
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made the Cowboys look really bad. Yeah, and so now
any of the early thoughts of what the Cowboys might be.
If you bet the under, you're feeling pretty good about
it right now.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Quick quiz, hotshot. What are all Eagles fans saying right now? OII.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I think there might be a couple of expletives mixed
therein But we're a family friendly show here at Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Why did Sekwan drop that ball on that big third
down play?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Why didn't we kick that field goal? On fourth and
four Fox Sports Radio, The Chase Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmen, Because you know what they didn't
do in that at the end of that possession.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
You know that early when you talk about their second
they didn't gain well once they got inside the.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Fifteen as you did that, I like that. I like that.
Ever freestyle of TNT before that was pretty good. Yeah,
that's a good first effort. So two more big takeaways
from this incredibly dramatic game between the Eagles and the Falcons.
We've given you the Eagle side of it. Two big
things for the Falcons. One is something I'm hoping and
I say this because I stand up for fantasy owners everywhere.
(32:18):
And also, hey, you're gonna be better. Give the ball
the Bijon Robinson. Look what happens when you give him
the ball. The guy was unstoppable tonight.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, you get one of those celebrity like telethon songs
written for the ball.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, really, give give Bjeon Robinson the ball. The
guy is really good. You saw him tonight. He had
what one hundred and thirty yards of offense? Yeah, over
seven yards and total yards was the bet. I mean, well,
because you know, the Falcons, for some reason, we're gonna
draft a guy this high and then not use him.
You know that's that's a thing. But I we understand
he's fantastic. This guy is a is a is A
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is a trend setting running back, and he's great out
of the backfield and he's he's all. He does it everywhere.
He's big, he's fast, and I don't understand all the
lack of saying, oh, we're gonna feed him and give
him the ball like at least here they put him
back in drives and he was running a seat as well.
We're coming out and Algier is coming in. Wait, why
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why is he coming in? He just had four plays
of thirty yards and now all Gier is coming in.
So hopefully the Falcons get it for fantasy owners and
for their own play because more bijon Robinson means they're
gonna win more games.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Eighteen touches today for fantasy owners PPR League, he finished
fifteenth for the week. You can send your thanks and
congratulations to Captain Kirk Cousins and the brass there in Atlanta.
But just to open things up for the passing game, right,
you're trying to buy Captain Kirk time because we watched
him try to move off the spot. If you bring pressure,
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it is not a pretty sight at this point, right,
he doesn't trust the plant leg all of that. And
so for Robinson, if nothing else, you're backing them off
because you're running the ball effectively. Maybe you can get
a little play action, Maybe you can freeze the linebackers instead,
he's off the field or a non factor for chunks
and it worked today. Hey, you got the five of
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six seventy yards and a score to finish things off
and vanquish the Evil Eagle Empire. But yeah, he's got
to see a bigger touch count.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
The other thing is this Kirk Cousins with that last
drive and touchdown pass made it look like he had
a great game. He did not. He had a good
last drive because the Eagles decided we're backing off and
we are going to allow you to throw the football
down the field and gee, someone still have to throw
the football to get to the end zone. Kirk Cousins
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saved his job for another month. I did hit. Winning
this game tonight bought him another month to start for
the Falcons because a lost to Night the lack of
a drive. There where's another bad game offensively where Kirk
Cousins airmailed balls and was inaccurate and can't throw deep
and Michael Penick Junior might have been starting in a
couple of weeks. But this game tonight allowed him to
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save his job for another month where hopefully he gets
a little bit stronger, a little more accurate, and can
throw the ball downfield. He bought himself a month holding
onto this job. Remember he's a bridge quarterback, no matter
how much money you're making. He's a bridge quarterback until
Michael Pennick Junior is ready to start. And he did
what he did was he bought a month most likely
to be able to keep the starting job in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, it's gonna be curious, is watching the schedule these
next couple of weeks. They've got home dates against KC,
then the upstart New Orleans Saints, and then the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. So a three game home stand coming up here.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I'm telling you, man, it is. It is sooner to
the Michael Pennick Junior era than you think. And this
was a game the Eagles gave to the Falcons tonight.
But I want to give Kirk Cousins the credit for
Hey winning the game coming through at the end. I
still question, you know, is he still the same? Him
and Aaron Rodgers? Are they gonna be able to throw deep? Still?
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Are they still guys? Because if they can't, that's gonna
really hamper their success the rest of this year because
they're both in the same boat. They both made some
big plays in their games in Week two, but wow,
Rogers looked a little skittish early on it didn't look
like he could throw deep. Same thing with Kirk Cousins,
So that's a thing that you need to be able
to do over the course of the next few weeks.
For Rogers, he's got the whole season. Cousins doesn't have
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nearly the time.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
So but the other part is that, you know, trying
to make plays with their legs, you know potentially you know,
neither of those cats are doing that right. It's not
a all right, this play's broken down. I'm gonna go
pick up a first down.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Man.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
You might as well just do that turtle move and
live to see another down, because that's what you're gonna see,
or it's gonna be quick.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
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