August 6, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's the best way to start your NFL Sunday. Welcome
everybody back to Sunday Morning Slants. I mean, here's Matt
Watson and as always, joins a lot joints side. Oh wow,
great start. We're so back joined alongside that wonderful crew
with Mason Pat Kyle. What's going on guys now, it's
just coming to that intro, So in a minute, a
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little rusty, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We got Matt Watson media all over.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, Matt Watson media is all over. How's it going guys?
All right? Yeah, we're pushing the brand, pushing narratives, pushing
agendas that is Sunday Morning Slants. So yeah, if in
case you've never listened to an episode of this, pat
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Twitter full of an agenda and you guys gotta love
what he has to say. But yeah, I in case
you've never listened to some morning slants, it's just a
bunch of dudes talking ball, just like your typical group
chat with the boys back home. So tonight we're gonna
be talking about the NFC East and all things NFC East.
And so in case you have not been paying attention
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and Pat, this is mainly targeted for you. A lot
of drama going on in the NFC East, starting with
Michael Parsons requesting out of Dallas refuses to speak to
Jerry Jones based on the contract negotiations that have pretty
much stalled at this point in Dallas, and the same
case for Terry mclauren of the Washington Commanders, also requesting
out because he wants a new deal with Washington. Washington
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signed a bunch of players in the last couple of years,
and yet they have refused to give him a new deal.
So Mason, I'm gonna start with you, and we're gonna
start down in Texas. Michael Parsons arguably a top three
defensive player in football, and the Dallas Cowboys have waited
the very last possible second to give him a contract.
What are your thoughts on the Michael Parsons saga as
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we are live here in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean, I think, just as an Eagles fan, you
take for granted how well run in an organization you're
a fan of, and then you see something like this
and you realize how bad it is elsewhere. I mean,
waiting the last minute to try and pay this guy
is just ridiculous. I don't know what kind of stunts
share Jones, Prime and Fool, but I think at this
point he just doesn't care. I mean, the things that
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they're saying at press conferences, I think it's his show.
He realizes, no matter what, they're going to be America's team,
even if they win like four games. And I don't
even know if he really has to pay Michael Parsons honestly,
because at this point, I think he's he doesn't care
about winning, he doesn't care about paying his players. He's
just he's gonna run whoever's out there out there as
long as they have a star on their helmet. I
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think he thinks that it's gonna work out for him.
So I mean, they're gonna be in cap hell no
matter what they do. I think at this point they
had to pay Dak, They had to a CD. I
can't remember, honestly, if there was much of a holdout
for was it last year that CD got paid. I
remember there being something, but I don't really remember if
it was as dramatic.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
As this, but as long as jam but it was pretty.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I mean, you can only play so many guys. I
don't really know what they do. They're in a weird
spot where they're gonna be in some rough cap situations
and they haven't really had much success, so paying another guy,
I mean, they might be better off just trying to
get an absolute hall. I mean the hall they would
good for this guy would be insane, and maybe that's
what they do.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm not sure, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
All Right, Kyla, good to you. What are your thoughts
on the Parsons situation in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, this is just Jerry Jones doing Jerry
Jones things. He loves to just drag this stuff out.
He did it with CD, he did it with Zach Martin,
he did it with Zeke. I think he just loves
the attention because when one of his players decides to
have a melt that not even melt down, they're fair
asking for what they're ode, and especially Michaeh.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Mich has watched t J.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Watte get paid, Miles Garrett get paid, Max Crosby, just
the whole list, all his colleagues, all the people in
the same tiers, and they're all getting paid and Micah
is being told he's basically lazy. Gets hurt all the time,
so I'd be pretty pissed off too. I would like
to point out that Mike's trade request seems a lot
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more personal than Terry's.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Was that when Terry Terry section? But yeah, just typical.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Jerry Jones stuff. Love to see it. It's always circus.
And yeah, like Mason said, makes me appreciate. We don't
have any holdouts and last one we had was like
Fletcher Cox, like twenty eighteen or something.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh yeah, I mean easy being the best run organization
in the league.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right, Pat, what do you think on this Michael
Parsons situation with the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, you know, I agree with with everything that Kyle
and Mason said. You know, the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones
loves to He loves to drop people through the locker room.
He loves to sell those fan passes. He loves to
call themselves America's Team, spout off at press conferences, go
crazy in the draft room.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He loves to do all these things. But the thing
he doesn't love to do is to just pay players,
like get your players who build your franchise into the room,
get him locked down the long term deals, and he
just wants to feel in control. He wants to feel
like he's the guy who's making all the decisions for
the team. And I think Jerry Jones thinks he still
plays football, man. I think he thinks that he could
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strap that home and on and be as good as
Michael Parsons. But I think he is. He's gotten a
little bit up there in age, and I think maybe
some people need to start taking the organization over and saying,
all right, Jerry, we will sit you up there in
the box. We'll get the camera on you every game
and you can wave and do your thing. But we
need to run this organization in the way that the
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Monorn Football organization is running. So it's gonna be interesting.
Michael Parsons, if you're listening, we know you are, Come on,
come on down to Philly. We'll get you paid well,
we'll send over like Ringo or something for you and
uh we'll bring out of the team. We'll love you here.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't think the Eagles want Michael Parsons, come on,
really honest, I don't think they want to pay him.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We'll give him anything.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Between him and Jalen Carter, it's gonna be like the
entire that's it, and there's the only two players have
your team.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Everybody's gone. Everybody else you can Quinny and Mitchell. Note
that you can't have can't sign him, Cooper Disien, can't
sign it. We'll have Jalen Carter and Michael And I
would just like to say I hope Jerry olds on
for at least another ten years, so that way he
has developed to the point to where they can just
inject him into a robot and then he leaves the
Cowboys for the rest of the tourney.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And that would be.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That would not that would not shock me in all honesty.
I think that I think Jerry Jones quite literally has
to die in order for him to be removed from
the ownership with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Like Stephen Jones is just a clone of Jared. It's
just gonna be.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't think anybody could be that bad. Like I
think Stephen Jones knows he has to at least appease
his father in certain situations, and I just think things
are out of his control. I can't imagine him letting
something like this happen.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, even that.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Would you rather be Stephen Stephen Jones, or would you
rather be Belichick's son, real.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Talk, Stephen Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, probably Stephen Jones.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Bank account is far higher, and you own your biggest
assets gonna be when you inherit the Cowboys. So it's
a pretty easy answer.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yes, Steve Belichick, he's not getting anything because his stepmom
taken off.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Wait are they both named Steve.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Stephen Steve Jones? Okay, Steve Belichick. There not a U
n C football pod, so sorry, thank god our heels.
That would be really fun to watch. But yeah, so
the Cowboys were awful last year. Now they were using
to play their best player. I think it's gonna just
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pa a lot of trouble for the Cowboys, especially in
an NFC East with the Eagles and with the Commanders
and uh, you know, I'm just saying the Giants not
not at tapping up in New York. I haven't heard
much about the Giants, so it is a very unusual
thing for the Giants. I wonder who they have playing
quarterback for them now.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think I think the only thing I saw about
the Giants was whatever rookie they had through a pick
on like the first play training camp.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, Jackson said, no more recording practice.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Never forget the Jamar Chase drops issue when he was
a rookie.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Did not catch the ball in pre season.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, it worked out.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It worked out well. So, speaking of wide receivers, the
other team in the NFC eas to Washington Commanders. They
are currently dealing with a situation similar to Michael Parsons
and the Cowboys with Terry mclauren. McLaren wants a new deal.
The Commanders have been, you know, kind of slow to
give him that money, and I think they're kind of
trying to play the waiting game a little bit different
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than the Parsons situations, where he's gonna probably set the
edge rusher market. Mclauren's gonna slot in nicely, probably in
the middle pack, maybe top ten in wide receiver contracts
if I had to imagine. So he is holding out,
he's not gonna play until he gets a new deal,
and the Commanders have to try and navigate that. And
I will say, you know, mclauren is definitely their wide
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receiver one, so this would definitely be an issue leading
into the season. You know, Jayden Daniels is top, top target,
you know, at that point, so it'd be interesting to see.
So Kyle will go to you here. Do you think
that the Commanders will resign Terry McLaurin to an extension
before or after Week three of the preseason.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Shout out Josh Harris. Typical Josh Harris run team. Let's
load the team up with old people, and then the
buck stops at Terry McLaren, the guy that's been there
the whole time. Shout out PG, because PG is probably
the reason why Josh Harris doesn't want to pay Terry,
because he just paid PG fifty five million dollars a
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year for the Sixers, So now he's like, Ooh, Terry,
let's let's close.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The pocketbook a little bit.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Because when he signed a bunch of one year deals
with Bobby Wagner and Zacher It's and all these other
older guys, that's fine, one year, get him off the books.
But I went in four or five years to Terry,
that's too much. But I think Terry's gonna get signed
pretty pretty soon, to be honest, because I alluded to
it with the MiCT thing. But Terry, it feels like
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his trigger request was more like when you're like thirteen
and you leave the group chat with your boys to
like get their attention and then come on, sit me back.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I feel like that was the vibe I got because
Terry's holding in.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And he's also signs and stuff, so I think that'll
get sorted out. But yeah, they gotta they gotta sign him, bro,
because well, I mean, Deebo. I think Debo is gonna
surprise some people this year. I don't think he's as
bad as like.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I don't think Debo is gonna do anything.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think he could be.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I mean, when you got to calling you fat, I
think that that sets the bar pretty low, and I
think he can exceed that bar.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He might be their running back one by week three
because I just don't see him as a wide receiver anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's gonna be He's gonna be better than people think.
He's not gonna be now a J.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Brown or Devate Smith or even the leak Neighbors or
Terry Carran.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Or George Pickens or CD Lamb.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
But it'll be it'll slot right there at a wide
receiver seven or eight NFC.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right, do you think that Terry is signed week
three of the preseason.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That's so tough. I don't think he is. And I'll
tell you why I think that Terry mclauren is a
talented wide receiver. I won't say any different, but I
do think that Terry mclauren is going to want money
that isn't Terry mclauren money. And I think that Josh
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Harris has a lot to think about in the future
for the team, especially for a team that has gone
through so much, like so many tumultuous times in the
last like decade, maybe five years, that I think like
he's just gonna be hesitant to pay a guy for
the long term that has been there for a while. Yeah,
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it's part of the team identity, but you could go
in the draft and pick up another player that will
slot in that Jyden Daniels is gonna have success with
at the wide receiver position. You know, Like I think
that wide receivers are kind of a dime a dozen.
You have your your elite wide receivers who rise the top,
the A. J. Browns, the Devanta Smith's of the NFL,
right like they rise to the top. Travis Travis Fullkam
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for for three weeks, we were thinking the same the
same thing, right, Travis Fulgum for like three weeks. But
to me, like Terry mclauren doesn't doesn't scream like I
get to sit out and get all this money. Like honestly,
I don't even think like DK Metcalf like screams that.
To me, there's a few elite guys in the NFL
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who I think can sit out and truly scream we
need to pay this guy asap. And I think that
Josh Harris will relinquish a lot of control if he
pays Terry mclauren before the end of the preseason. So
I think he's just gonna run with what they run with.
I don't think they have a whole lot of high
expectations for this year. I think they're just aiming for
Jadon Daiels to keep learning and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I would disagree with that. I think the Commanders
they can go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think Commander's fans think they can go to the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think Commander's front office feels they're going.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
To regress because you can't build a team with a
bunch of owks.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Let's know you cannot. And speaking of building a team,
I mean behind Terry mclauren, their depth chart is Deebo
Samuel As we talked about Noah Brown, Luke McCaffrey, kJ Osborne,
and then a bunch of younger players Jalen Lane, Jakobe Jones,
ja Cory Brooks. So you know they need to re
signed Terry mclauren Mason. Do you think they'll have it
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done by week three of the preseason.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So I do think they will. I think it's a
question of whether or not they should. I think the
Commanders are in that weird spot where I think they
can still have a good season. They could probably win
ten eleven games, maybe even approve a little bit from
last year.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think, what do they end up with last year ten?
I love them well.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
More than that I thought, did they I think.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They were the six seed. Maybe it was twelve, twelve
and six.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Last season they were twelve and five.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay, better than Honestly, yeah, it's better than I thought. Honestly,
I don't think they're gonna do better than that. Then
I don't think they're gonna win thirteen games with probably
a tougher schedule as well this year compared to probably
had a cupcake. But I just yeah, I just think
they're in a weird spot now where like you're saying,
the front office is probably in the mindset where where
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we were one, even though they got blown out, they
were one game away from the super Bowl, and they
need to use this window to get there. But it's
just this awkward position of you have Jade and Daniels
on a rookie contract, so you really need to go
all in. But now they're signing all these old heads.
So in two years, like, what's going to like, what's
what's the plan moving forward as you're moving into Jade
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and Daniels prime. So I understand you want to pay
this guy and he's been your best wide receiver and
he's he's been through a lot with the team when
they haven't been good. But I think in two years
you're gonna be looking back at this contract and if
if Terry McLaurin still making top ten wide receiver money, I.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Don't think you're gonna be in a good position.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
So it's this weird kind of small window that they
have where they kind of feel like they can they
can execute on something. But in a few years, I.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Think it's gonna be a regrettable decision.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Well, I think primarily because of the older players on
the roster. The contracts are gonna be expiring and coming
off the books the next couple of years, plus with
the cap going up, I think they could probably afford
to give McLaurin a deal and still not be paying
Jayden Daniels for another three seasons at this point. Then
he'll get the massive extension after that. So I think.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
To like, I guess, guys are still young, and I
just don't know how much like homegrown issue.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's like one Daniels in the league a few years,
it's yeah, winner, like who's behind it? And now they're
gonna have to draft well to replace some of these
older guys. But if you know, if you're not drafting well,
you're gonna kind of end up like the Cincinnati Bengals
at that point, where you have a star quarterback and
then nothing around him, especially defensively, because it seems like
teams are often to draft defense and signed offense.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So I forgot Von Miller signed.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
They really are just it's a retirement. Is a Retiremjosh
Harri nos ball, I guess, yeah, Josh Harris plays madd
in sixteen and goes I will get.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
To play wide receiver. For him, Light ends, Real.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Red Zone, Tighten three and d player. So all right, So,
while the drama of the NFC East still is yet
to be unraveled, we do have to talk about who
we think is gonna win the NFC East. Now, the Eagles,
of course won last year in route to the Super
Bowl fifty nine victory. However, the NFC East has not
seen a repeat champion in twenty years. There is a
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curse on the NFC East where there has not been
the repeat division winner. The Eagles are favorited to win
the division this year and are primed to break that curse.
But if we've seen anything with the NFC East over
the last twenty years, you know that the team that's
expected to win that second year has not. So the
Commanders are easily, you know, the number two in terms
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of a favorite to win the division, and then the
Cowboys and then the Giants. I know kind of just
joked about the Giants a little bit, but I don't
think that I have a real chance of winning the division.
So it'd be either a massive bounce back by the
Cowboys or the Commanders taking the next step. So Pat,
I'll start with you. I have a feeling. I know
who you've got to pick to win the division, But
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do you think the Eagles can break the curse and
repeat as NFC East champion?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Absolutely, I think the Eagles will repeat as NFC champion
and Super Bowl champion. But I have to say I
have to say that no. I just think, like when
you look at the NFC East, like the Eagles are
such a solid team right now, like just full of stars.
The I would go so far as to say probably
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the youngest, and I know, the cheapest defense in the
league and probably the best defense in the league. I
just think the organization culture is there. Yeah, they might
have some times where like AJ Brown is reading a
book on the sidelines and Philly's Talk radio makes a
big thing about it, but there's like no other team
in the NFC East that I really see as a
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threat to the Eagles. Again, I think they're just gonna
steamroll through and and maybe I'll be eating my words
eight weeks from now or whatever it is, but when
we're in the middle of the season, but I just
think it will be not even close that I would
go so far as to say it will be Eagles
on top than Commanders, than Cowboys than Giants. That's kind
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of my prediction for how it slates out. But I
really hope that the Giants win more games than the Cowboys.
That would make my life.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So you made a point about the Eagles being the
best defense in the league. They were last year, but
we don't really know if.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
They're going to bed.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, well not even that now. I'm not even like,
I'm just talk of the year. What do you mean? Yes,
you know, I just want to talk about some of
the attractions from the Eagles defense, right, Darius lay walks out. Now,
the Eagles are having an open camp battle for the
second quarter position. They have a question mark at linebacker two,
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They've lost some death with Josh Wett, Milton Williams on
the defensive line. Safety is a little bit of question
mark as well. I know they drafted with Cooba in
the second round. I know that Cooper de Jean has
been playing there in a base package. But you know
with C. J. Gardner Johnson, who I believe that six
or seven interceptions last year exiting the defense, you have
different but you have different positions that are up for grabs.
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They're battling in camp trying to figure out who's gonna
win that spot. They've got some young guys and some
veterans they brought in to compete. I just don't think
you're you're not bringing back the entire unit, and most
teams typically don't bring back an entire unit. But in
my opinion, I think there's those are enough question marks
to wonder whether or not that defense is could be
as stout as they were last year. Chances of the
repeating as the number one defense with a lot of
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these new pieces, I feel like it might be a
little hard to come by.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Zero.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I think they're still going to be close to the
top ten, and I think that's good enough that the
offense is the way they were last year.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I have a name for
the safety spot, Sydney Brown.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That is a name that is listed.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Start, I think they should just they should put this
guy that they just signed from the Raiders across from Quinnon.
All I've seen is that this kid's like second coming
to christ.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
And then.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
And then they should put Keeley Ringo lined up in
the slot and then move Coop to safety and then
boom and then the defensive line, you know, whatever. They
didn't get like any pressure until the Super Bowl anyway,
So like they were fine last year and that linebacker,
I mean either Shrot Junior or what's his name is
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gonna come back from.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Injury smile Mondon?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, Na Kobe, Like that's.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A deep pull.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
London, isn't the name? Smell?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I know a smile. I wrote an article about on
Inside the Eagle Georgia Linebacker.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah, how we learned his lesson from twenty twenty two
because after the twenty twenty two season there was a
mass exodus of players and they didn't really have any replacements,
which is why they kind of flamed out halfway through
the twenty twenty three season. Now we have those replacements, right,
So you got Moro Jomo on the.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
D line, you got the Vanilla Gorilla, and.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You got a lot of you just have a lot
of death, right, And then obviously Jalen Carter, anyone who
plays next to Jaalen Carters, who look pretty sweet, and
Jordan Davis and then Edge is a little a little
bit suspect because as you said, they lost Josh Sweat,
they also lost beg.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Now, Josh Sweat a little he went on a little
bit of a lull and.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Then he turned it up in the Super Bowl, and
obviously without that, I mean they probably still would win
it with a total whooping, but he definitely contributed. But
I think Nolan can take the jump. You got a bouche,
you got he's a Galai. So there are some pieces. Obviously,
you guys see if they step up live Acker, you
got the man John Campbell, Obviously you got the bald Eagle.
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So like those two, Nikobe Dean coming back, sail Mon
didn't trot. I feel like that's a good sod core,
probably the best we've ever had. And uh, secondary I'm
a little little concerned. I'm not gonna lie because you
got Coop running around like a Swiss.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Army and if that can go good or bad, and
then so I think there's potential for them to bounce back.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
But obviously there's probably gonna be a regression. Now is
it regression to the point that Wyp's called for Siriani's
job by week four? That remains to be seen. And
then now I just want to the Giants. They get
a lot of trash throwing on them right for good reason.
Obviously they've been in total disaster of the last sea
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since twenty eleven. But I would like to say their
their D line on paper may be better than the Eagles.
Do you think about They got Dexter Lawrence, who's probably
debatedly probably better than Jayalen Carter right now. And you
got Brian Burns, who's efficient. He got a Duke Carter.
I mean, he was probably the top prospect in the
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draft alongside Travis Hunter. So I mean that's a good,
solid punch. And then he got keve On Thibodau, who's
not a ten sacks season guy, but he's a good
five to six. So I think overall they're actually better
on the D line. It's everywhere else they're probably worse.
They got Deontae Banks, but I think the Giants, I
mean it's I mean, the only time Dable had like
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a quarterback that then pissed out his own leg, they
made the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So I think the danger which coming to.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
New York neighbors must tyrone Tracy. I think they're going
to surprise a lot of people. But also, the NFCS
plays a gauntlet every single one, don't They play the
a SEE West and the NFC North. Yeah, it was
gonna be a total total back don't winner. It's gonna
be so all the teams might get a wall and
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then they make the playoffs. The ones to make the
playoffs too better than you think. So yeah, I still
think that he was gonna win, but I think there's
still some threat.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's not a layup.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The first four weeks of the schedule for the Eagles
kind of scares me. Low key. I guess five weeks actually, Dallas, Dallas,
you should win, But then you're at Kansas City. I know,
you just beat the crap out of them, but that's
at Arrowhead and then the Rams revenge game. Then we
go to Tampa. Nothing ever good, nothing ever. Yeah, in September,
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it's probably gonna be like one fifty on the field.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And then you got the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Who are you know the Broncos are I won't say
they're not good there, So it's like.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You know, he just went on there.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The last and then the last three weeks of the
year are Commander's bills commanders.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Which is insane that the schedule makers waited until the
end of the season. You can say, Mason, this is
an anti commissioner channel. Fucking asshole, I'm clipping that, but
I'll be honest, I think the Commanders are gonna win
the East. I put some stock into the fact that
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there has not been a repeat champion in two decades.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I will say, if there's ever a team, if there's
ever a team that seems like they do it. And
I know it's hard to judge in training camp, but
like Jalen just seems like that guy who's like not
gonna let the team and I don't know like how
much he can really control. You know, he's a player,
but it just seems like the squab like still like
really bought in. Like I don't expect as much of
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a drop off in terms of Super Bowl hangover because
it just seems like they're so like and I know
it's just words, but like every time you hear one
of the players, so it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, we'll moving on.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I mean, Jalen didn't put on his guy damn super
Bowl ring, which is that was like, but like that's
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's like, yeah, but there's also things out of their
control too, right, you have to stay healthy. I mean
we kind of talked about some of the question marks
in terms of their defense. If guys get hurt. The
depth is not there, especially on the defensive side of
the ball. Offense, they should be Okay, you're gonna have
regression from Saquon and that's not even a shot at Takon.
It's just be able to.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I don't know, you might be going for twenty five
hundred this year.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
There's just no We're j m VP season so.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well off zero A J.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Brown two thousand yards.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's gonna be the happiest man alive.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
A J two k.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But okay, so I have the commanders and I'm assuming
you all are going with the Eagles like I're the Giants.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Were Week three.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The Giants.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
That gets me is is the like I would I
would say confidently Eagles, but that freaking nfccurs managed.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I mean, it's legit, like there's been some great teams,
Like there's been a lot of Super Bowl teams in
that twenty year span two the Eagles and the Giants,
and you know even they didn't repeat.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
So Giants for the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm gonna put his team on his back.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What is your what is your what was it your
uncle Cale that you said he called him.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Something that you woke.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But alrighty guys, well, those are our picks thus far
for the NFC East. Plenty of time, of course, to
be had, as Week one of preseason rolls in UH
football is back on Thursday, so you know, I'm sure
you guys will be locked into the Eagles preseason game.
I gotta wait till Saturday night, so whole.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Five minutes first, sus gonna be in five minutes into
the game.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I doubt both. I doubt the first Ringle was even play.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're not gonna play.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
They're not gonna play Tanner McKee.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, they're not even gonna play.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He's honestly too Valuabley're gonna play the god they got, honestly, honestly,
he might be electric and.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A touchdown.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Next the next w I p is gonna be calling
for the starting job over Jayalen.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Is there a QB battle going on?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And with that note, I appreciate you ready for it?
Hopping on. We'll be back next week with another edition
of Sunday Morning Slants. Until then, thanks for listening.
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's the best way to start your NFL Sunday. Welcome
everybody back to Sunday Morning Slants. I mean, here's Matt
Watson and as always, joins a lot joints side. Oh wow,
great start. We're so back joined alongside that wonderful crew
with Mason Pat Kyle. What's going on guys now, it's
just coming to that intro, So in a minute, a
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little rusty, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We got Matt Watson media all over.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, Matt Watson media is all over. How's it going guys?
All right? Yeah, we're pushing the brand, pushing narratives, pushing
agendas that is Sunday Morning Slants. So yeah, if in
case you've never listened to an episode of this, pat
uh PL twenty two at p L twenty two on
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Twitter full of an agenda and you guys gotta love
what he has to say. But yeah, I in case
you've never listened to some morning slants, it's just a
bunch of dudes talking ball, just like your typical group
chat with the boys back home. So tonight we're gonna
be talking about the NFC East and all things NFC East.
And so in case you have not been paying attention
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and Pat, this is mainly targeted for you. A lot
of drama going on in the NFC East, starting with
Michael Parsons requesting out of Dallas refuses to speak to
Jerry Jones based on the contract negotiations that have pretty
much stalled at this point in Dallas, and the same
case for Terry mclauren of the Washington Commanders, also requesting
out because he wants a new deal with Washington. Washington
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signed a bunch of players in the last couple of years,
and yet they have refused to give him a new deal.
So Mason, I'm gonna start with you, and we're gonna
start down in Texas. Michael Parsons arguably a top three
defensive player in football, and the Dallas Cowboys have waited
the very last possible second to give him a contract.
What are your thoughts on the Michael Parsons saga as
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we are live here in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean, I think, just as an Eagles fan, you
take for granted how well run in an organization you're
a fan of, and then you see something like this
and you realize how bad it is elsewhere. I mean,
waiting the last minute to try and pay this guy
is just ridiculous. I don't know what kind of stunts
share Jones, Prime and Fool, but I think at this
point he just doesn't care. I mean, the things that
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they're saying at press conferences, I think it's his show.
He realizes, no matter what, they're going to be America's team,
even if they win like four games. And I don't
even know if he really has to pay Michael Parsons honestly,
because at this point, I think he's he doesn't care
about winning, he doesn't care about paying his players. He's
just he's gonna run whoever's out there out there as
long as they have a star on their helmet. I
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think he thinks that it's gonna work out for him.
So I mean, they're gonna be in cap hell no
matter what they do. I think at this point they
had to pay Dak, They had to a CD. I
can't remember, honestly, if there was much of a holdout
for was it last year that CD got paid. I
remember there being something, but I don't really remember if
it was as dramatic.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
As this, but as long as jam but it was pretty.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I mean, you can only play so many guys. I
don't really know what they do. They're in a weird
spot where they're gonna be in some rough cap situations
and they haven't really had much success, so paying another guy,
I mean, they might be better off just trying to
get an absolute hall. I mean the hall they would
good for this guy would be insane, and maybe that's
what they do.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm not sure, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
All Right, Kyla, good to you. What are your thoughts
on the Parsons situation in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, this is just Jerry Jones doing Jerry
Jones things. He loves to just drag this stuff out.
He did it with CD, he did it with Zach Martin,
he did it with Zeke. I think he just loves
the attention because when one of his players decides to
have a melt that not even melt down, they're fair
asking for what they're ode, and especially Michaeh.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Mich has watched t J.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Watte get paid, Miles Garrett get paid, Max Crosby, just
the whole list, all his colleagues, all the people in
the same tiers, and they're all getting paid and Micah
is being told he's basically lazy. Gets hurt all the time,
so I'd be pretty pissed off too. I would like
to point out that Mike's trade request seems a lot
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more personal than Terry's.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Was that when Terry Terry section? But yeah, just typical.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Jerry Jones stuff. Love to see it. It's always circus.
And yeah, like Mason said, makes me appreciate. We don't
have any holdouts and last one we had was like
Fletcher Cox, like twenty eighteen or something.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh yeah, I mean easy being the best run organization
in the league.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right, Pat, what do you think on this Michael
Parsons situation with the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, you know, I agree with with everything that Kyle
and Mason said. You know, the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones
loves to He loves to drop people through the locker room.
He loves to sell those fan passes. He loves to
call themselves America's Team, spout off at press conferences, go
crazy in the draft room.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He loves to do all these things. But the thing
he doesn't love to do is to just pay players,
like get your players who build your franchise into the room,
get him locked down the long term deals, and he
just wants to feel in control. He wants to feel
like he's the guy who's making all the decisions for
the team. And I think Jerry Jones thinks he still
plays football, man. I think he thinks that he could
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strap that home and on and be as good as
Michael Parsons. But I think he is. He's gotten a
little bit up there in age, and I think maybe
some people need to start taking the organization over and saying,
all right, Jerry, we will sit you up there in
the box. We'll get the camera on you every game
and you can wave and do your thing. But we
need to run this organization in the way that the
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Monorn Football organization is running. So it's gonna be interesting.
Michael Parsons, if you're listening, we know you are, Come on,
come on down to Philly. We'll get you paid well,
we'll send over like Ringo or something for you and
uh we'll bring out of the team. We'll love you here.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't think the Eagles want Michael Parsons, come on,
really honest, I don't think they want to pay him.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We'll give him anything.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Between him and Jalen Carter, it's gonna be like the
entire that's it, and there's the only two players have
your team.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Everybody's gone. Everybody else you can Quinny and Mitchell. Note
that you can't have can't sign him, Cooper Disien, can't
sign it. We'll have Jalen Carter and Michael And I
would just like to say I hope Jerry olds on
for at least another ten years, so that way he
has developed to the point to where they can just
inject him into a robot and then he leaves the
Cowboys for the rest of the tourney.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And that would be.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That would not that would not shock me in all honesty.
I think that I think Jerry Jones quite literally has
to die in order for him to be removed from
the ownership with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Like Stephen Jones is just a clone of Jared. It's
just gonna be.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't think anybody could be that bad. Like I
think Stephen Jones knows he has to at least appease
his father in certain situations, and I just think things
are out of his control. I can't imagine him letting
something like this happen.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, even that.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Would you rather be Stephen Stephen Jones, or would you
rather be Belichick's son, real.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Talk, Stephen Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, probably Stephen Jones.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Bank account is far higher, and you own your biggest
assets gonna be when you inherit the Cowboys. So it's
a pretty easy answer.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yes, Steve Belichick, he's not getting anything because his stepmom
taken off.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Wait are they both named Steve.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Stephen Steve Jones? Okay, Steve Belichick. There not a U
n C football pod, so sorry, thank god our heels.
That would be really fun to watch. But yeah, so
the Cowboys were awful last year. Now they were using
to play their best player. I think it's gonna just
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pa a lot of trouble for the Cowboys, especially in
an NFC East with the Eagles and with the Commanders
and uh, you know, I'm just saying the Giants not
not at tapping up in New York. I haven't heard
much about the Giants, so it is a very unusual
thing for the Giants. I wonder who they have playing
quarterback for them now.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think I think the only thing I saw about
the Giants was whatever rookie they had through a pick
on like the first play training camp.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, Jackson said, no more recording practice.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Never forget the Jamar Chase drops issue when he was
a rookie.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Did not catch the ball in pre season.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, it worked out.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It worked out well. So, speaking of wide receivers, the
other team in the NFC eas to Washington Commanders. They
are currently dealing with a situation similar to Michael Parsons
and the Cowboys with Terry mclauren. McLaren wants a new deal.
The Commanders have been, you know, kind of slow to
give him that money, and I think they're kind of
trying to play the waiting game a little bit different
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than the Parsons situations, where he's gonna probably set the
edge rusher market. Mclauren's gonna slot in nicely, probably in
the middle pack, maybe top ten in wide receiver contracts
if I had to imagine. So he is holding out,
he's not gonna play until he gets a new deal,
and the Commanders have to try and navigate that. And
I will say, you know, mclauren is definitely their wide
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receiver one, so this would definitely be an issue leading
into the season. You know, Jayden Daniels is top, top target,
you know, at that point, so it'd be interesting to see.
So Kyle will go to you here. Do you think
that the Commanders will resign Terry McLaurin to an extension
before or after Week three of the preseason.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Shout out Josh Harris. Typical Josh Harris run team. Let's
load the team up with old people, and then the
buck stops at Terry McLaren, the guy that's been there
the whole time. Shout out PG, because PG is probably
the reason why Josh Harris doesn't want to pay Terry,
because he just paid PG fifty five million dollars a
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year for the Sixers, So now he's like, Ooh, Terry,
let's let's close.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The pocketbook a little bit.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Because when he signed a bunch of one year deals
with Bobby Wagner and Zacher It's and all these other
older guys, that's fine, one year, get him off the books.
But I went in four or five years to Terry,
that's too much. But I think Terry's gonna get signed
pretty pretty soon, to be honest, because I alluded to
it with the MiCT thing. But Terry, it feels like
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his trigger request was more like when you're like thirteen
and you leave the group chat with your boys to
like get their attention and then come on, sit me back.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I feel like that was the vibe I got because
Terry's holding in.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And he's also signs and stuff, so I think that'll
get sorted out. But yeah, they gotta they gotta sign him, bro,
because well, I mean, Deebo. I think Debo is gonna
surprise some people this year. I don't think he's as
bad as like.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I don't think Debo is gonna do anything.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think he could be.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I mean, when you got to calling you fat, I
think that that sets the bar pretty low, and I
think he can exceed that bar.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He might be their running back one by week three
because I just don't see him as a wide receiver anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's gonna be He's gonna be better than people think.
He's not gonna be now a J.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Brown or Devate Smith or even the leak Neighbors or
Terry Carran.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Or George Pickens or CD Lamb.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
But it'll be it'll slot right there at a wide
receiver seven or eight NFC.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right, do you think that Terry is signed week
three of the preseason.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That's so tough. I don't think he is. And I'll
tell you why I think that Terry mclauren is a
talented wide receiver. I won't say any different, but I
do think that Terry mclauren is going to want money
that isn't Terry mclauren money. And I think that Josh
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Harris has a lot to think about in the future
for the team, especially for a team that has gone
through so much, like so many tumultuous times in the
last like decade, maybe five years, that I think like
he's just gonna be hesitant to pay a guy for
the long term that has been there for a while. Yeah,
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it's part of the team identity, but you could go
in the draft and pick up another player that will
slot in that Jyden Daniels is gonna have success with
at the wide receiver position. You know, Like I think
that wide receivers are kind of a dime a dozen.
You have your your elite wide receivers who rise the top,
the A. J. Browns, the Devanta Smith's of the NFL,
right like they rise to the top. Travis Travis Fullkam
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for for three weeks, we were thinking the same the
same thing, right, Travis Fulgum for like three weeks. But
to me, like Terry mclauren doesn't doesn't scream like I
get to sit out and get all this money. Like honestly,
I don't even think like DK Metcalf like screams that.
To me, there's a few elite guys in the NFL
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who I think can sit out and truly scream we
need to pay this guy asap. And I think that
Josh Harris will relinquish a lot of control if he
pays Terry mclauren before the end of the preseason. So
I think he's just gonna run with what they run with.
I don't think they have a whole lot of high
expectations for this year. I think they're just aiming for
Jadon Daiels to keep learning and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I would disagree with that. I think the Commanders
they can go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think Commander's fans think they can go to the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think Commander's front office feels they're going.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
To regress because you can't build a team with a
bunch of owks.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Let's know you cannot. And speaking of building a team,
I mean behind Terry mclauren, their depth chart is Deebo
Samuel As we talked about Noah Brown, Luke McCaffrey, kJ Osborne,
and then a bunch of younger players Jalen Lane, Jakobe Jones,
ja Cory Brooks. So you know they need to re
signed Terry mclauren Mason. Do you think they'll have it
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done by week three of the preseason.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So I do think they will. I think it's a
question of whether or not they should. I think the
Commanders are in that weird spot where I think they
can still have a good season. They could probably win
ten eleven games, maybe even approve a little bit from
last year.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think, what do they end up with last year ten?
I love them well.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
More than that I thought, did they I think.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They were the six seed. Maybe it was twelve, twelve
and six.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Last season they were twelve and five.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay, better than Honestly, yeah, it's better than I thought. Honestly,
I don't think they're gonna do better than that. Then
I don't think they're gonna win thirteen games with probably
a tougher schedule as well this year compared to probably
had a cupcake. But I just yeah, I just think
they're in a weird spot now where like you're saying,
the front office is probably in the mindset where where
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we were one, even though they got blown out, they
were one game away from the super Bowl, and they
need to use this window to get there. But it's
just this awkward position of you have Jade and Daniels
on a rookie contract, so you really need to go
all in. But now they're signing all these old heads.
So in two years, like, what's going to like, what's
what's the plan moving forward as you're moving into Jade
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and Daniels prime. So I understand you want to pay
this guy and he's been your best wide receiver and
he's he's been through a lot with the team when
they haven't been good. But I think in two years
you're gonna be looking back at this contract and if
if Terry McLaurin still making top ten wide receiver money, I.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Don't think you're gonna be in a good position.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
So it's this weird kind of small window that they
have where they kind of feel like they can they
can execute on something. But in a few years, I.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Think it's gonna be a regrettable decision.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Well, I think primarily because of the older players on
the roster. The contracts are gonna be expiring and coming
off the books the next couple of years, plus with
the cap going up, I think they could probably afford
to give McLaurin a deal and still not be paying
Jayden Daniels for another three seasons at this point. Then
he'll get the massive extension after that. So I think.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
To like, I guess, guys are still young, and I
just don't know how much like homegrown issue.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's like one Daniels in the league a few years,
it's yeah, winner, like who's behind it? And now they're
gonna have to draft well to replace some of these
older guys. But if you know, if you're not drafting well,
you're gonna kind of end up like the Cincinnati Bengals
at that point, where you have a star quarterback and
then nothing around him, especially defensively, because it seems like
teams are often to draft defense and signed offense.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So I forgot Von Miller signed.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
They really are just it's a retirement. Is a Retiremjosh
Harri nos ball, I guess, yeah, Josh Harris plays madd
in sixteen and goes I will get.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
To play wide receiver. For him, Light ends, Real.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Red Zone, Tighten three and d player. So all right, So,
while the drama of the NFC East still is yet
to be unraveled, we do have to talk about who
we think is gonna win the NFC East. Now, the Eagles,
of course won last year in route to the Super
Bowl fifty nine victory. However, the NFC East has not
seen a repeat champion in twenty years. There is a
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curse on the NFC East where there has not been
the repeat division winner. The Eagles are favorited to win
the division this year and are primed to break that curse.
But if we've seen anything with the NFC East over
the last twenty years, you know that the team that's
expected to win that second year has not. So the
Commanders are easily, you know, the number two in terms
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of a favorite to win the division, and then the
Cowboys and then the Giants. I know kind of just
joked about the Giants a little bit, but I don't
think that I have a real chance of winning the division.
So it'd be either a massive bounce back by the
Cowboys or the Commanders taking the next step. So Pat,
I'll start with you. I have a feeling. I know
who you've got to pick to win the division, But
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do you think the Eagles can break the curse and
repeat as NFC East champion?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Absolutely, I think the Eagles will repeat as NFC champion
and Super Bowl champion. But I have to say I
have to say that no. I just think, like when
you look at the NFC East, like the Eagles are
such a solid team right now, like just full of stars.
The I would go so far as to say probably
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the youngest, and I know, the cheapest defense in the
league and probably the best defense in the league. I
just think the organization culture is there. Yeah, they might
have some times where like AJ Brown is reading a
book on the sidelines and Philly's Talk radio makes a
big thing about it, but there's like no other team
in the NFC East that I really see as a
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threat to the Eagles. Again, I think they're just gonna
steamroll through and and maybe I'll be eating my words
eight weeks from now or whatever it is, but when
we're in the middle of the season, but I just
think it will be not even close that I would
go so far as to say it will be Eagles
on top than Commanders, than Cowboys than Giants. That's kind
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of my prediction for how it slates out. But I
really hope that the Giants win more games than the Cowboys.
That would make my life.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So you made a point about the Eagles being the
best defense in the league. They were last year, but
we don't really know if.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
They're going to bed.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, well not even that now. I'm not even like,
I'm just talk of the year. What do you mean? Yes,
you know, I just want to talk about some of
the attractions from the Eagles defense, right, Darius lay walks out. Now,
the Eagles are having an open camp battle for the
second quarter position. They have a question mark at linebacker two,
(20:17):
They've lost some death with Josh Wett, Milton Williams on
the defensive line. Safety is a little bit of question
mark as well. I know they drafted with Cooba in
the second round. I know that Cooper de Jean has
been playing there in a base package. But you know
with C. J. Gardner Johnson, who I believe that six
or seven interceptions last year exiting the defense, you have
different but you have different positions that are up for grabs.
(20:44):
They're battling in camp trying to figure out who's gonna
win that spot. They've got some young guys and some
veterans they brought in to compete. I just don't think
you're you're not bringing back the entire unit, and most
teams typically don't bring back an entire unit. But in
my opinion, I think there's those are enough question marks
to wonder whether or not that defense is could be
as stout as they were last year. Chances of the
repeating as the number one defense with a lot of
(21:05):
these new pieces, I feel like it might be a
little hard to come by.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Zero.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I think they're still going to be close to the
top ten, and I think that's good enough that the
offense is the way they were last year.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I have a name for
the safety spot, Sydney Brown.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That is a name that is listed.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Start, I think they should just they should put this
guy that they just signed from the Raiders across from Quinnon.
All I've seen is that this kid's like second coming
to christ.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
And then.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
And then they should put Keeley Ringo lined up in
the slot and then move Coop to safety and then
boom and then the defensive line, you know, whatever. They
didn't get like any pressure until the Super Bowl anyway,
So like they were fine last year and that linebacker,
I mean either Shrot Junior or what's his name is
(22:00):
gonna come back from.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Injury smile Mondon?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, Na Kobe, Like that's.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A deep pull.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
London, isn't the name? Smell?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I know a smile. I wrote an article about on
Inside the Eagle Georgia Linebacker.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah, how we learned his lesson from twenty twenty two
because after the twenty twenty two season there was a
mass exodus of players and they didn't really have any replacements,
which is why they kind of flamed out halfway through
the twenty twenty three season. Now we have those replacements, right,
So you got Moro Jomo on the.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
D line, you got the Vanilla Gorilla, and.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You got a lot of you just have a lot
of death, right, And then obviously Jalen Carter, anyone who
plays next to Jaalen Carters, who look pretty sweet, and
Jordan Davis and then Edge is a little a little
bit suspect because as you said, they lost Josh Sweat,
they also lost beg.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Now, Josh Sweat a little he went on a little
bit of a lull and.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Then he turned it up in the Super Bowl, and
obviously without that, I mean they probably still would win
it with a total whooping, but he definitely contributed. But
I think Nolan can take the jump. You got a bouche,
you got he's a Galai. So there are some pieces. Obviously,
you guys see if they step up live Acker, you
got the man John Campbell, Obviously you got the bald Eagle.
(23:20):
So like those two, Nikobe Dean coming back, sail Mon
didn't trot. I feel like that's a good sod core,
probably the best we've ever had. And uh, secondary I'm
a little little concerned. I'm not gonna lie because you
got Coop running around like a Swiss.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Army and if that can go good or bad, and
then so I think there's potential for them to bounce back.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
But obviously there's probably gonna be a regression. Now is
it regression to the point that Wyp's called for Siriani's
job by week four? That remains to be seen. And
then now I just want to the Giants. They get
a lot of trash throwing on them right for good reason.
Obviously they've been in total disaster of the last sea
(24:01):
since twenty eleven. But I would like to say their
their D line on paper may be better than the Eagles.
Do you think about They got Dexter Lawrence, who's probably
debatedly probably better than Jayalen Carter right now. And you
got Brian Burns, who's efficient. He got a Duke Carter.
I mean, he was probably the top prospect in the
(24:22):
draft alongside Travis Hunter. So I mean that's a good,
solid punch. And then he got keve On Thibodau, who's
not a ten sacks season guy, but he's a good
five to six. So I think overall they're actually better
on the D line. It's everywhere else they're probably worse.
They got Deontae Banks, but I think the Giants, I
mean it's I mean, the only time Dable had like
(24:42):
a quarterback that then pissed out his own leg, they
made the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So I think the danger which coming to.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
New York neighbors must tyrone Tracy. I think they're going
to surprise a lot of people. But also, the NFCS
plays a gauntlet every single one, don't They play the
a SEE West and the NFC North. Yeah, it was
gonna be a total total back don't winner. It's gonna
be so all the teams might get a wall and
(25:09):
then they make the playoffs. The ones to make the
playoffs too better than you think. So yeah, I still
think that he was gonna win, but I think there's
still some threat.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's not a layup.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The first four weeks of the schedule for the Eagles
kind of scares me. Low key. I guess five weeks actually, Dallas, Dallas,
you should win, But then you're at Kansas City. I know,
you just beat the crap out of them, but that's
at Arrowhead and then the Rams revenge game. Then we
go to Tampa. Nothing ever good, nothing ever. Yeah, in September,
(25:41):
it's probably gonna be like one fifty on the field.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And then you got the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Who are you know the Broncos are I won't say
they're not good there, So it's like.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You know, he just went on there.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The last and then the last three weeks of the
year are Commander's bills commanders.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Which is insane that the schedule makers waited until the
end of the season. You can say, Mason, this is
an anti commissioner channel. Fucking asshole, I'm clipping that, but
I'll be honest, I think the Commanders are gonna win
the East. I put some stock into the fact that
(26:23):
there has not been a repeat champion in two decades.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I will say, if there's ever a team, if there's
ever a team that seems like they do it. And
I know it's hard to judge in training camp, but
like Jalen just seems like that guy who's like not
gonna let the team and I don't know like how
much he can really control. You know, he's a player,
but it just seems like the squab like still like
really bought in. Like I don't expect as much of
(26:49):
a drop off in terms of Super Bowl hangover because
it just seems like they're so like and I know
it's just words, but like every time you hear one
of the players, so it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, we'll moving on.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I mean, Jalen didn't put on his guy damn super
Bowl ring, which is that was like, but like that's
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's like, yeah, but there's also things out of their
control too, right, you have to stay healthy. I mean
we kind of talked about some of the question marks
in terms of their defense. If guys get hurt. The
depth is not there, especially on the defensive side of
the ball. Offense, they should be Okay, you're gonna have
regression from Saquon and that's not even a shot at Takon.
It's just be able to.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I don't know, you might be going for twenty five
hundred this year.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
There's just no We're j m VP season so.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well off zero A J.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Brown two thousand yards.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's gonna be the happiest man alive.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
A J two k.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But okay, so I have the commanders and I'm assuming
you all are going with the Eagles like I're the Giants.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Were Week three.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The Giants.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
That gets me is is the like I would I
would say confidently Eagles, but that freaking nfccurs managed.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I mean, it's legit, like there's been some great teams,
Like there's been a lot of Super Bowl teams in
that twenty year span two the Eagles and the Giants,
and you know even they didn't repeat.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
So Giants for the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm gonna put his team on his back.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What is your what is your what was it your
uncle Cale that you said he called him.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Something that you woke.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But alrighty guys, well, those are our picks thus far
for the NFC East. Plenty of time, of course, to
be had, as Week one of preseason rolls in UH
football is back on Thursday, so you know, I'm sure
you guys will be locked into the Eagles preseason game.
I gotta wait till Saturday night, so whole.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Five minutes first, sus gonna be in five minutes into
the game.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I doubt both. I doubt the first Ringle was even play.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're not gonna play.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
They're not gonna play Tanner McKee.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, they're not even gonna play.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He's honestly too Valuabley're gonna play the god they got, honestly, honestly,
he might be electric and.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A touchdown.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Next the next w I p is gonna be calling
for the starting job over Jayalen.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Is there a QB battle going on?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And with that note, I appreciate you ready for it?
Hopping on. We'll be back next week with another edition
of Sunday Morning Slants. Until then, thanks for listening.
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