Eagles Talk Week 18: Wild Card Matchups Preview & Predictions

Eagles vs 49ers 2025-26 Wild Card Matchup is here! Will the Philadelphia Eagles' defensive be able to shut down the San Francisco 49ers' offense, or will Brock Purdy and the pass game upset the reigning champions?
In this week’s Eagles Talk, we break down everything you need to know about the Eagles vs 49ers game. We cover the biggest mismatches, injury reports, and the specific keys to victory for both teams in this high-stakes contest.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hell down.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let me tell of hell down?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
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(00:44):
We're back. I'm back. It feels like forever since I've
been on been have had like issues with being sick
last week and before that it was you know, my
wife's birthday, and then of course the holiday came and
there's a bunch of stuff. But I'm back. I'm glad
to be here with you guys. I've missed you guys.
How you guys been since the last time I've seen you?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Guys?

Speaker 5 (01:07):
About the same, about the same.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, I've been great. Everything's good.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That awesome. That's awesome. With the year. And then we
got p Y joining in just in the nick of time.
What's going on? Py?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (01:22):
Finally healthy?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, finally healthy. I don't know how about you, I
know you're never healthy, but.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Like no, I was like really really sick in December,
Like I was sick enough to where they sent me
home on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well yeah, okay, yeah, Well it's it's tough. It's that
time of year always with you know, sickness going around.
I was, I was sick the day after Christmas and
it just yeah, it's still lingering. I'm still coughing, so like,
oh my god, but I'm back. I'm ready to go,
and just in a nick of time for the playoffs,
so we are gonna gonna get right to it. We

(01:58):
have a lot to talk about. Let's into a little
bit of talk from the Week eighteen game, because I'm
sure there's stuff that we want to get off our
chests and we want to kind of address before we
dive full in to the matchup against the Niners. But
our pole question, I wanted to address this because I
wanted to see where all you guys are at with

(02:20):
the whole situation. But our pole question is, Sirianni made
the right decision to sit in most of the starters
against the Commanders in Week eighteen. Agree or disagree, we
are going to have Obviously there's some hindsight. Is twenty
twenty involved in this? Because the Lions won, So had

(02:41):
the Eagles won that game, we would be the two seeds.
But I don't know what do you guys think? Least
as always, we'll start with you as our guest of honor.
Where are you with this whole thing?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah? I don't love missing out on the two seeds,
but I have played a bunch of guys just to
do that two versus three. Probably not. I let me
ask you this. If you saw that guy sit down
on ont leg yesterday and him leave the game with

(03:22):
ankle and and and leg injuries, would you like that
have brought to Ben Dallas Gotter? You know, I would
not going into the playoffs. And you just can't have
You can't guarantee that guys would have gotten they had
three guys hurt yesterday, you know. Yeah, I No, I

(03:45):
wouldn't have done it. I I hate if they didn't
get that two seed. That would have been really nice.
I really think they could have gotten it. I think
some guys could have played better that we're playing. Uh,
particularly the quarters could have at least handled themselves like professionals,

(04:07):
like they'd seen football games before. But yeah, no, I
would not have done anything differently. I don't think although
I wasn't expecting the Lions to beat the Bears.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Frankly, bring how about you, let's go to you.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Give made the right choice, probably the only one of
the only intelligent comments from Nick Sirianni. A Nick Sirianni
press conference came after the game against the Commanders, and
that's the only thing he could guarantee is that he
got his team to the playoffs healthy.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
He could not.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Guarantee that the Lions were gonna beat the Bears, which
they did, and I guess I understand that some fans
out there have a sour taste in their mouth because
the Lions did win. But it's gonna be fine. Any
one of the teams can win outside of the NFC
South Like you can pretty much kind of flip a

(05:06):
coin on all these NFC matchups. You have no idea
how these seeds are gonna play out. The Eagles hosted
as the two seed last year, and they would to
host it as a three seed as well because the
Lions were a wild card team. So the two three
things didn't matter last year. I don't think it's gonna
matter this year. I don't know if we have playoff
predictions on how this brackt is gonna play out on

(05:27):
the dock at the night, But I certainly have thoughts,
But they're healthy. It's fine, honestly. Maybe the rest for
the one first stringers on offense, maybe a week away
from football is what they need to get cooking for
the playoffs, because if the ones went out there and
played bad again and they lost anyway, then you got

(05:51):
a whole cloud of doom over the team going into
the playoffs. So sometimes less is more, And I think
Nick Sirianni did the right thing.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Yeah, it was one hundred percent the right decision. I understand,
like we wanted the two seed and we wanted it
last year.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
But like the difference between this year and last year
is the backup Scott it done last year. Like the
play calling was was atrocious. You know, they refused to
run the ball when it when it mattered the most. Uh,
the corners were atrocious, you know, Like these are all
things and like played a big part in like why

(06:35):
they they didn't beat the Commanders. But like never once
in my mind was oh my god, I can't believe
we didn't. We didn't start these guys like they're hurt
this is a hurt team.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Like you saw.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You saw what could happen when your your your ceenter
and and tackle aren't hurt and you're able to you're
able to actually effectively run the ball. Like That's more
important more about getting Dickerson and getting Cam Jurgen's healthy
than I do about making the two seeds, because if

(07:07):
I'm able to get those guys healthy and they're able
to go out there and perform, I'm not. I don't
care about what seed I am because if I'm able
to get Saquon going with whatever I have on this defense,
which is top shelf, I can go very far in
this in this playoffs because.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
I don't need Jalen to go nu clear.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I need them to play smart and not turn the
ball over. And if I can, and the defense is
gonna give me top, top effort like they do every week.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
It's it's one of the best defenses in the NFL
right now.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
And if I can get Saquon going, there's not a
team in the NFL that can beat me. So I
understand seeding is important to a lot of people. And
I've seen a lot of people talk about, oh, it's
not tough football. I said, guess what, the Lions played
tough football, and the last two years because of how
tough football they play, nobody on the roster is healthy

(08:04):
and they've and they've talked themselves or they've worked themselves
out of put deep playoff contention.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yes, And if I can jump on to that point
for a second, I don't know if you guys saw
the thing on social media today from Ben Johnson from
the Bear some teams set their starters out we play football. Well,
remind me how much did you win by with your
starters yesterday?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
I can't wait.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Like I like the Bears, you.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Look like a baffoon saying that. I mean, he's a
great coach, but to say something like that when you
played your starters and lost and lost is ludicrous.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Add and to add to that the the you know,
the sitting your starters thing. We won the we won
the Super Bowl last year sitting sitting our starters. So
I mean it worked. So I mean it's it's because
you can't. You can't. There's nothing like I thought it
was funny. I thought it was Ben Johnson again being
just like a macho coach and like being very like

(09:11):
high hyped and everything.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
That, which is which is Dan Campbell, which is which.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Is fine, Like you know, get riled up, but like
it's funny because there's no argument to back it up,
Like either way the Hill's point to let's his point
and to our point. We won the super Bowl. You
guys are getting to the playoffs for the first time
in how many years, so you know, you go through, yeah,

(09:36):
go do something. But you know they they've been playing well.
So I don't I don't have an issue. I don't
have a big problem with it. I just you know,
I thought it was funny because it really has there's
no grounds to stand on.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
He just has weird hills he's willing to die on.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Like between that and like the push push comments from earlier,
it's like it's not really an explosive point. I don't
really care much for it when they're like one of
the worst fourth down teams.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
In the That fol which is also funny, knows what
he's doing.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
He's yeah, uh.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Some coaches make silly comments to because they know they're
their personnel.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Like McVeigh, like he was like, Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
We were gonna rest, but we played like dog crap
against the Falcons, So no one's resting.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
After that and they went out.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's something that makes a lot better. That's a logical comment.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, I agree, Yeah, it's it's one of those things
like when you talk about like overall, I don't think
there's I think it just depends on the team and
it just depends on the coach, Like I don't think
I if I'm want to think back, you know to
all the years I watch football, I from what I remember,
there have been teams that rested and won the Super Bowl,

(10:52):
and there have been teams that played all the way
through and when the Super Bowl, I don't.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Know you had until just recently you had the two
uh two buys, which was golden, you know, and that
was important. I mean, the Eagles had to play twenty
one games last year to win that damn Super Bowl.
And we're we've definitely felt the effects of that.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah. I was about to add onto that last. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Absolutely, So it's those days less I miss those days
with the six.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Teams and the double by Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't. Well let's get into that after. Let me
answer the pole question. Answer the pole question first. I so,
I I think it was the right move. You know,
it's it's a lot of a hide insight is twenty twenty.
And it sucks that we could have win, like you
guys said, because we would be the two seed. So
and I get it, and it makes it even more

(11:43):
frustrating the fact that like our backups absolutely could have
won that game, like the game was in hand, like
we absolutely could have won that game. So it makes
it sting. But at the same time, I don't meant,
unless you just mentioned how before, for the top two

(12:03):
seeds gotta buy, if that was the case still that
the second seed gotta buy, I just don't think with
the way it is now, I don't think there's a
even though there is probably a difference between the two

(12:26):
and the three seed in terms of favorable matchups, absolutely,
I don't think it's that drastic enough to warrant playing
your starters. So I just and I know that the
rebuttal we've seen constantly online from some people is that,
you know, then why did they play Davante. Well, like
Davante is one starter who had an incentive in his

(12:49):
contract and he was only like forty four yards away
from getting it. It was very it was very it
was very attainable early in the game, and he got
it early in the game and was immediately pulled exactly
that Smitty's Smitty's situation and why he played is completely
different than playing all of your starters who don't don't

(13:12):
have much to play for anyways.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
So like, he also takes a backseat a lot, and
he doesn't really put himself first on this team. So like,
I have no problem giving him an opportunity. I saw
a lot of people compare it to Barkley and they're like, oh,
Bob Saqua, I'm pissed about what they did last year.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
If that's what Smitty did.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
If needed forty yards right last year, like he would
have played what did he need like one ten or so?

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, seven scrimmage yards for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, that's still that's still high.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yeah, that's still for Russia.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
It's still high, like at least half of the game
and probably three the game.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like unless he breaks off two big runs or something crazy, like,
it's not worth it.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
If sae Quon last year need it like.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Forty yards rushing, they're letting him just he's playing the
first corn, he's gonna get it, and then he's not
playing the rest of the game.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
But that wasn't that case.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Like it's it's it's a silly comparison, like this is
something you know, he could have gotten the first core.
It's similar to what he did his rookie year where
they just they forced spend the ball like six times
and then he was out.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, exactly. So it's context is so important when you're
talking about this stuff. So again I did. I didn't
have a problem with it, and you know, it's we
faced the Niners guys, So like it is what it is,
And I think that getting riled up. I think I
think it's it's understandable to be frustrated over missing out

(14:50):
on the two seed, but I think it's like some
of the reaction is just overblown. It's overreactionary, and it's
just it's not that big of a deal.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
If the Packers go out and surprise everyone and they
and they beat the they beat the Bears, Like we're
having a different discussion next week, aren't we.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
I don't think that would be that big of a surprise.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
It wouldn't be a huge surprise. No, Like I'd still
favor the Bears, but like it's not out of them
possibility at all.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Sure, it's a divisional rid, but that's really the I
don't think there's a gigantic difference between playing the forty
nine ers and playing the Packers, given the forty nine
Ers without Warner and both you.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Know, so on and so forth got hurt today too.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, no, yeah, but the difference is the next round
and going on the road. I don't find Soldier Field
like a really no. I've been there a bunch of
times with the Eagles, including one of the first Eagles
games I covered was we got there when Hugh Douglas

(15:58):
tossed Jim Miller down on the should I do you know?
So it's you know, the Eagles can certainly when it
Soldier Field, but you'd rather have that game at home,
wouldn't you?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
You know?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
I mean, and that if it all works out that
way then and they lose in Chicago, then people are
going to be you know WHOA they should have they
should have tried to get the second seed. But we're
a long way from that. You know, they have to
win this week. And if you can't win this game
at home, it's a team anyway. If if you can't

(16:37):
do this, So if we lose.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
If we lose the Niners of the Bears, it's not
because we were the three seed. I'm supposed to two seeds,
because they play calling is probably going to be really bad,
or you know, like we will beat ourselves. It's not
because of one of those other reasons. So, uh, let's
get into that matchup then, and if anyone else wanted
to still chime into the pole question, uh it is.
You know, you can definitely still uh give us your

(17:02):
thoughts the pole question. And Siriani made the right decision
to sit most of the starters against the Commanders in
week eighteen. Degree or disagree, So I don't know what
you think, But enough of that, because we want to
dive into this and give our give our thoughts on
how this matchup between the Niners and the Eagles are
gonna is gonna go. I'm gonna go around the world
like I usually do. Uh, bring so start with you

(17:25):
and then we'll go to pee wider than less than myself.
Give me one key to the game that you are watching,
What element, what aspect whatever to this game that you
think is going to be very important. What you've got
in your eye.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
On number one? Jalen hurts.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
He's gotta play good. He's got to protect the football.
He's gonna have to I have no confidence that this is.
These two idiots that run our offense from a coaching standpoint,
are gonna put together a good game plan. Like if
this team goes to the super Bowl, it's gonna have
nothing to do with coaching wise, it's gonna be purely
based on They have the most talent I think in

(18:05):
the NFL, let alone the NFC. So Jalen is gonna
have to overcome bad coaching. Jalen is probably gonna have
to overcome some shoddy offensive line play at times. Robert
Salz is a good coach. I mean, he's been scheming
without these guys all year and here they are. So
it's gonna be all about j Jalen. He's gonna have

(18:27):
to overcome which he's paid to do, by the way,
which no one really seems to mention. He's paid to
overcome roster deficiencies. Like all these quarterbacks that make a
lot of money do get it done. The games are
over for Jaalen. He hasn't had a great season in
my opinion. He's got to fix it now, and he's
got to get it done. It's all about Jalen Hurts

(18:49):
this week.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
P I so.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
I know what I'm getting in Jayalen.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I know that come player time, he's gonna step up.
The lights are never too bright for this guy like
Jalen always finds a way to make these moments matter most.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Someone I'm paying costential.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
It's Saquon, Like, I'm not gonna kill him for you know,
not having another two.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Thousand yard season. That's ridiculous. The old line hasn't been great.
I don't think he's played to the level we expect it,
or we at least spot so I think.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
He I need more from him.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
I understand the O line hasn't given him exactly what
we would have liked. But when they when the games
are important, I need one of my top tier players.
I need one of my X factors to take that
next step when it comes to a playoff time. I'm
not saying I need two hundred yards a game, one

(19:51):
hundred and fifty, but when the holes are there, I
need you to make that cut. I need you to
find that burst. I need you to make this more.
You know, I need you to show me what you
were last season, Like.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
I need that.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
I need to be able to trust you again, like
I need to be able to feel cough not I
want wrong use of words.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
I'm sorry, I didn't. I need to see the Saquon.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I saw last year in the playoffs, and I understand
a lot of things have to go right for that
to happen. But if you get that Saquon, if you
get Saquon to be able to make those moves and
get those runs going, the sky is the limit for
this team.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Interesting less.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, I don't have a specific player like you guys did.
I want to see the Eagles offense function. I want
to see them score. I want to see them keep
the ball and keep it away from the forty nine
ers offense. Forty nine Ers have really good offense, excellent offense,
productive offense, even though they don't have incredible weapons other

(21:02):
than Christian McCaffrey can kittle. But they don't have a
good defense. With those guys hurt that they have hurt,
that hasn't been enough of a factor for the Eagles lately.
They've played some bad defenses and not scored and they
you know that can't happen. They aren't going to win
this game. Thirteen to twelve like they did in Buffalo.

(21:24):
You know, get out there, keep the ball out of
the forty nine ers hands, score points, make it easy
on your defense, or at least easier, you know, And
there's no reason why that shouldn't happen. There's just no
good reason for it. If it doesn't happen, they have
an advantage there. I sure hope Lane Johnson coming back

(21:47):
really gets the offensive line straightened out. Apprehensive about that actually,
because he hasn't played in so long now, I was
kind of hoping maybe they would get him a series
or two.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Know, I mean, I know he's long tenured veteran, but
been a couple of months since he played any football
out there in a playoff game and not expect a
false start or you know, anything to happen is a lot, frankly,

(22:21):
but yeah, I want to see the offensive line and
get its acid year, and you know, with make use
of that rest that they were. I think Jordan Mylotto
was kind of campaigning for that, you know, not campaigning,
but it was clear that he wanted that week of rest.
And I want to see them look like a rested

(22:44):
and tough unit. And I want to see the Eagles
take charge of the game at home, as they should.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
The Great Reid Blankenship. Also in the locker room yesterday,
he had mentioned how like he they he was one
of the people that wanted rest to they didn't get
they wanted reress.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
So I don't know if anybody that really didn't, you know,
I didn't hear anybody say, damn, I really wanted to
go out there, they wouldn't let me.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, no, I hear you. I'll give my answer to this.
But I did want to rebuttal what the other two
guys had said because it kind of surprises me a
little bit. Brings says Jail, he's got his eye on
Jailen Hurts. Like, I think what p Why said is
just like it's playoff time most of the time, Jalen

(23:30):
Hurts shows up, so we he I know what I'm
getting in Jail and Hurts. So I agree with pe
Why on that. So he's not really what I am
eyeing because I trust that he's going to show up.
I also think that like the comment of you pay
these franchise quarterbacks to make up for roster deficiencies, this

(23:52):
this ego team doesn't have a roster deficiency. It has
a schematic offensive play colleague deficiency. And I don't care
who what quarterback you are, you're not gonna overcome that
to an extent. You have to have at least a
threshold of competent offensive play calling to help these guys out.
So I don't I don't agree with that. P Y

(24:14):
goes ahead and kind of contradicts himself and says, Saquon, Well,
the same thing I said about Hurts kind of applies
to Saquon. We've seen Saquon do what he does, he's
done and all year we've kind of I've kind of
hinted the fact that like Saquon is still Saquon, he's
still elite. So I don't understand this whole thing of like, oh,
I need you to be what we expected you to be,

(24:37):
Like he's been what we expected him to be. The
issue is there's no O line blocking for him, and
like it's it's it's so like, I don't I don't
understand that logic either. So like I'm a little surprised
by saying Hurts and Saquonder's the matchups are the matchups
that are key to here. When I think they're given.
I think those things are Saquon and Hurts are given.

(24:58):
For the most part, we know we're getting for both
of them. For me, the matchup that I'm eyeing down
as like one of the biggest keys to this game
for the Eagles is our linebacker play and how they're
going to be in coverage. I would take a long,

(25:19):
hard look at the film of what the Seahawks did
against the Niners last week or this past week and
use that as hey, we are going to do the
same thing until you show us that you can't that
you can move the ball us. And what the what
the Seahawks did was those second level defenders, especially like
you know linebackers, and then you know part of it

(25:41):
is also their nickel cornerback, whether that have been Evan
worri or or Witherspoon. Uh. What they did is they
pretty much played with great depth and took away that
that cushion that middle of the field. So whenever the
Niners tried to pass or try to call stuff with
crossers or stuff that would target the middle of the field,

(26:04):
those second level defenders got a lot of good depth
and took that away, took away the first and second
read for Purty and made him check it down and
hit short you know, short passes, and then they would
rally to the ball. So I expect VIC to pretty
much do the same thing. So these linebackers are going,
like when you talk about I don't know who's gonna start,

(26:24):
Probably no Kobe Dean, so you've got Zach Bond, Kobe Dean.
They've got to be on their toes when it comes
to coverage. And I know, like we have our concerns
with Dean, so hopefully he doesn't you know, he can
still make enough plays, but yeah, they're gonna be crucial.
And I don't mention Cooper Dejene because I know he's
capable of doing that too. But yeah, those second level

(26:47):
defenders in the middle of the field that spinted the
defense has to squeeze the those middle of the field
throws really well and then continue to be a great
pursuit and tackle team. You know, we were one of
the so that part of it is also expected, Like
I don't I think from that part of if we
keep forcing Purty to check these balls down to you know,

(27:10):
to the shallow, to the flat, to you know, to
near the line of scrimmage, they're not going to have
much room to breathe because we're we're very similar to
the Seahawks in that regard when it comes to rallying
to the ball and tackling and swarming the ball carrier.
So that's, to me is the big one because the
Niners don't have a great run game, all right, they

(27:32):
don't have on the offense. On the defense side of
the ball, we already mentioned how they're not that great
on defense, they can be had, So the one thing
you need to take away is their passing game. So
if you're able to do that, the Niners are going
to struggle mightily against us on either side of the ball.
So yeah, I mean, the overall for the playoff run,

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the big question Mark X is going to be the
offensive play calling and what kind of what kind of
offense are we going to get, because that's gonna that's
going to be that's gonna determine how far we make
this run. But in this matchup specifically, I think it's
I think it's taking away that passing game for the

(28:18):
for the Niners. And you know, McCaffrey, you've got our linebackers,
they're going to be matched up against him a lot.
They've got to be able to hold their own. So
I don't know if anyone had anything to add. I
know I'm the only one that mentioned defense, but you know,
bring some people up.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Johann play a lot yesterday. I didn't think he played great. Frankly,
I to me, I he was standing and watching a lot.
I know he hadn't played a lot lately before yesterday.
He didn't look like the same guy that he was
early in the season. He was much more back on

(29:01):
his heels. Maybe it was the guys he was playing with.
Maybe you know, I played defense as a unit, and maybe.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
That was a pretty bad unit yesterday, lest.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
It was, it was a horrible unit. If we were
talking about not playing starters, and I wouldn't do differently.
But the one thing that I did see is I
don't think you can play a secondary that's just spare
parts and have them function at all. If you can
played one starter back there. And maybe I had somebody

(29:32):
that knew what the hell was going on, it might
have been a little better. But but yeah, I as
far as na Kobe Dean, yeah I'd play him because
I didn't think it looked like he was really ready
to take a bigger loan. Frankly, I don't think sitting
out all this time that he set out has has
helped him a lot. Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
I mean, I don't think Kyle Shanahan is good.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
The reason I go offense is because, like Big Banj,
is a bigger given having the boys ready on defense.
In terms of Vic Fangio, that's a bigger given to
me than anything this team is on offense. Nothing on
this with this team is given on offense. It's and
the two opposite teams like Doctor Jackwell and mister Hyde,

(30:17):
Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy, they scheme their way to
great offensive performances with not a lot of talent, and
the Eagles have all the talent in the world and
struggle to get first downs. So that's why I go
offense over defense. I have no doubt that the Vic
Fangio and the defense are going to do their part

(30:38):
on Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
None.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I think that. The reason I hear you on that
I get. I get that part. I think the reason
why I still circle to the defense is because, like
I said, the Niners, really the one strength of their
team is their passing offense. You take that away like
you like, that is priority number one, is their passing offense.
So that game plan has to be what I had said,

(31:04):
because if you don't like as great as our defense is,
if they have a bad game plan against the Niners.
And I don't expect Victor to have a bad game plan,
but if they were to have a bad game plan
against the Niners, it's a game. Like it's it's absolutely
a game. And now you get into the spot where
the pressure is on your offense, so you have to
take away the one thing they do well. Like what

(31:26):
made Bill Belichick such a great coach all those years
when he was with New England and that dynasty is
he took whatever the offense was doing well their greatest
strength and took it away. And that's what That's the
main key. And I'm not saying like I'm not saying
I'm struggling aside the importance of the offense because like
I said, overall, how well the offense performs is going

(31:49):
to determine how far were making this playoff run. But
at the same time, if I'm focused on the offense,
my main focus is on the play calling, not the players.
That's why I kind of question from like yours and
p wise stands of like, oh, like we need to
make sure Hurts and take one step up. I think
they will, you know, I don't I trust them. I

(32:11):
don't trust to pay.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
I would have thought yesterday was that certainly was in
sharp focus yesterday, you know, down in the red zone,
not even really in the red zone, but in when
they had like third and one and they couldn't they
could throw it at thirty yards down feet. It was

(32:34):
just it made it pretty clear to people. I think
that the the play calling, the people who just wanted
to blame Hurts for all of this, how the collection
was horrible yesterday. It was just it was nonsensical. Uh,
they went away from Bigsby in the fourth quarter and.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
No sense, no sense.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
What was the average in Chucks, like six years of
Clary or something ridiculous?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
It was seventies five yards on like sixteen carries or
something like. I don't have it in front of you,
but yeah, they you know, And that's just not the
thing that really scares you is it's not gonna get better.
I mean, they're not gonna suddenly the light bulbs not
on with these guys, and they're not gonna start. Yeah,

(33:23):
they're gonna have bad they're gona have to live with
bad play calls and third and ones that turn into
punts and yeah and stuff like that, and somehow they're
gonna have to overcome it.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
No.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, it's it's crazy, Like I don't I don't have
a lot of confidence in them to overcome, like in
the coaching staff to like kind of flip a switch.
At the same time, I'm not going to say it's impossible,
because it's so weird that like we've had stretches, you know,
specifically the Vikings game, the Second Giants game, the who

(34:02):
else that we face, you know, I get they're all
kind of well, the Vikings are really good defense. Workings
are a really good defense, so like that's the one
really you know, proven unit. But like in terms of structurally,
even if you're playing a bad defense, they still did
a good job of relying on what was working and
just sticking to it. Like that's all. Like, that's the

(34:23):
overarching issue is that it's not that they can't find
things that work, it's just that they find them, but
then they go away from them. So can they stick
with it for a full sixty minutes of football? That's
that's the big question. We've seen them do it in
certain games and certain stretches, but the fact that they

(34:44):
you know, it's it's so inconsistent. We can week out
and you don't know what you're gonna get is what
makes it tough to trust. So I don't I don't know.
I don't know what kind of offensive play call we're
gonna get. It is, I mean, it is what it is,
I mean anything else in terms of matchups. So I'm
trying to think also, like because like the Eagles overall,

(35:05):
this is why I had no issues playing the Niners
because matchup wise, we do match up well with them.
I know we had this one comment. Let me get
it too, because a YK says, chucks, the Seahawks have
a deep secondary room that allowed them to do that.
We don't have that. Seattle ran dime for most of
the game too. I understand, like in terms of secondary

(35:26):
and DB's were not as deep as the Seahawks, and
I don't think any team is really because the Seahawks
really have like that much depth in their secondary. But
at the same time, if there's a team that can
do similar things in terms of taking away that middle
of the field. It's it's Eagles are one of them.
You know, Texans are another one. So like I I'm

(35:47):
not saying that don't match what the Seahawks did exactly
and shut and keep the Niners offense out of the
end zone completely like the Seahawks did. What I'm saying
is like you can have success doing similar things that
they did and having that same approach.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
And I don't think the I think Eagles can run
dime pretty pretty effectively.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Maybe not not like majority like you know, like the
Seahawks did, but yeah, we can run dime. And I
mean Michael Carter isn't and he played, he played during
the I don't know exactly how well he looked on film,
but you know he did play against the Commanders, so
he's he's got reps now under his belt.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
So look better than and Bennett And.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's what he plays the slot. So yeah, so I mean,
like you can put Michael Carter in there for certain
packages in dime because he plays the slot. So it's possible,
you know, it's absolutely possible. And you know the matchups
that you guys are thinking of any any other key
aspects that you want to touch on.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Well, I guess they're gonna get Trent Williams back, which
makes them, you know better. The rest of their offensive
line doesn't really scare me much. Defensively, they don't get sacks.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Nope, they don't get and I think breaks off they
have like the most sacks before.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, but no Bosa. It's hard for them to
get pressure. So yeah, I mean they they are, they're feisty.
I think I forget where they rank in the red zone.
So like they'll bet and then they'll they'll put up
a fight when it gets near the you know, the
red area. So I get them that, But at the

(37:32):
same time, it's like it's it's it's a totally different
animal between the Seahawks offense and our offense. Where you
know where the Seahawks offense, you know, they don't they
have Sam Donald and you know their running game is
has come on as of late, but like their passing
attack doesn't have a ton of weapons that you can
rely on, like unlike us, like we have weapons everywhere.

(37:55):
It's just a matter of and and well I think
we all know this. Like as bad as he's been
The one area where Kevin Patullo shines is the is
the red zone. So yeah, where likes he's actually been good,
So I mean we get to the red zone. I
do still think it favors us. We had a comment

(38:17):
that Avatar singhs as Niners fan here. I know it's
any given Sunday, but I don't think we have any chance.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Have a chance.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah, you have a chance, you have.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
A chance, But they do because our offense is so bad.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Yes, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, you don't know what you're gonna get. You just
don't know what you're gonna get.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Yeah, that's so weird that the offense. I was thinking
about this earlier today. You know that we're at the
end of the regular season. Think about where we were
in training camp, what we expected. I think we all
expected it would be very, very tough to dominate the
way they did last year and win the Super Bowl

(39:02):
again and so on. But I think if we had
a scenario for how it would go bad, it would
involve injuries on offense and the defense not being as
good as it was last year because of all the
changes on defense. Well, the defense is every bit's guess
it was last year. There haven't been Lane Johnson is

(39:23):
the only real injury on offense that caused anybody missed
any time. I would never have picked this scenario in
a million years.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Remember when we signed last it was like, we're gonna
score thirty points a game. We're gonna lay some deplete
step off the bus and score thirty points. We just
need our defense to be right middle of the pack.
This was after the collapse, Yeah, where the defense just
fell apart, couldn't tackle anyone, and it was just open
season for four quarters everywhere. Like, just if we can

(39:52):
just get that defense to be middle of the pack,
we're set. And two years later it's been the defense
has been carrying us for the most.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Two years later, you have to win games ten to seven.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, and we can't even We have to pray we
can get three first downs and a half.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
We can't even get sixteen yards and a half in Buffalo?
Are you kidding me? Like this game should be.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Close on Sunday, but the incompetence of our head coach
and our offensive are gonna make it close.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yes, I understand, but then it's frustrating. I know it's frustrating,
but I mean I got if they can figure it out.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
We can.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Like you were the Texans and you had this great
defense and all your resources were over there. You got
a pretty good quarterback in Stroud or an ok receiver Nico.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Collins, and you're just kind of he's.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Filling in the gaps with like Woody Marx, what a
fifth round pick two rookie receivers, Like.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
You're feeling good.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, But the Eagles have all these resources on the
offensive side of the.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Ball and they can't figure it out. And I think
the I think the Texans might go further the Eagles
in these playoffs.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
It's possible. I mean, I know, I'm not disagreeing with
anything you're saying. All I'm saying is I still think
there's a glimmer of hope because of what I said earlier.
There were have been stretches where where they did figure
it out. And that's what's maddening too, is that if
you figured it out before, and you could do this
for several games, why is it that you can't continue

(41:23):
to do it? You know, It's that's what's frustrating.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
So they haven't had a stretch of games, they haven't
had a stretch of games in a row.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Where they have.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
They they had against they had half against Tampa. They
had they blew out the Raiders, which I don't count.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
We also Jayalens had a perfect passer rating against the Vikings,
who have a good deal of really good defense.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Right, that's one game. What did they do after the
Vikings game? They came, They blew They blew out the Giants.
They blew up the same giants that steamrolled them on
read football. Okay, if you want to say giants with giants.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
So now that's a two game stretch.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Game stretch, yes, game stretch for what I have. And
then they went, they went seventeen games and then they
when we think it's gonna be fixed like it was
last year, and it's a bismal in Green Bay, it's
against the Lions.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
It didn't get. They didn't do. They had three good
drives against the cow Boys.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I don't I don't disagree with those.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
It's what I'm frustrating.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
What I'm saying is we had those that two game stretch,
which is a stretch, okay, and then we had the
Raiders and then we had the Commanders the following week.
That's another two game stretch where again I'll say this again,
regardless of how bad the defense of defenses they were

(42:51):
structurally in terms of what they were calling, they stuck
to it and they didn't They didn't deter from what
was working if they had. You can't nail them. You
can't criticize them for for not showing up against bad
defenses and then not give them credit for when they
showed up against those bad defenses. Like and again, it's

(43:13):
only four total games. It's only four total games. I
get that. That's why I'm concerned too. But what I'm
saying is it's those four games showed examples of them, yes,
sticking to it. So the million dollar question now becomes
why couldn't they keep doing that against all the other teams?

(43:34):
That's the most That's why. That's why again, and I
will I think our end result is the same brings
I think you're just I am. I am. I am
considering a world where Okay, I think it is possible,
but I think it wouldn't surprise me if this team
was one and done and lost to the Niners this

(43:56):
this Sunday. But it also wouldn't surprise me if we
repeat as champion. That's my whole point and.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
It would surprise me a little bit if they repeat
as champions. I mean, I think they have to develop
quite a bit over the next couple of games to
get back into that mode. I don't think they're close
to that mode right now.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
I think that with two things. One I have and
maybe this is me being lofty, I have started I
have put this Eagles defense now in that elite tier,
where weeks before I hadn't I needed to see it.
But now past several weeks I've seen this team absolutely
dominate to where I'm like, this could be a special defense.

(44:39):
Maybe not like the Texans. All right, so maybe not
like the Texans, but you don't have to be that.
You have enough on defense where the offense doesn't have
to score thirty points, they don't have to score twenty four.
If the offense score is seventeen to twenty, I do
think that could be enough. And then the second.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Thing, all the way through the Super Bowl with seventeen.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
So yeah, that's that's my point. So the second part
of it is if this was any other year where
you usually have that tier of teams, elite teams, yeah,
then absolutely I'd say no, I don't think we'll repeat
but I do not think this season there is a

(45:21):
juggernaut in the NFL. I think any team, regardless of
how much you favor them, can be had. Like, I
don't think from one to five in the conference, I
don't think it's.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Agree with that. I think is really like, oh my god,
how are you going to beat? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Because like, okay, let's look at the AFC real quick, right,
the one the one elite QB in there. Josh Allen,
his team is flawed, all right, the number one seed
the Broncos. Bo Knicks doesn't really like he's inconsistent. As ever,
the Jaguars, who are probably the hottest team in the
AFC right now maybe in the NFL. How much do

(46:00):
you trust that they're legit?

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
What other teams are missing? Texans? We just talk about
the Texans number one defense in the league. Do they
have enough juice on offense? Chargers, No, Patriots, the probably
the probable m v P Jake May Is that whole
team legit? I don't know, So go to NFC. The Rams,
who I probably consider is the top team in NFC,

(46:25):
even though they're not the one seed, I think they're
the most complete. Their special teams is horrible, and we
we've seen them be had the Seahawks the number one seed,
Sam Donald, we re questioned that.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Donald.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Ye, the Bears, they're young, they're they're inexperienced. How much
do we trust that inexperience in the playoffs. So like
it's just like there's no team where I'm like, yeah,
the Eagles don't have that, you know, don't really have
enough to overcome them. I wouldn't say that I'd fail
them in every matchup, but it's close. That's that's why

(47:03):
I say what I say where it wouldn't surprise me
if they found a way to move to repeat because
the whole stage like it's up in the air, like
both both conferences.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
There's no juggernaut, No no team is taking the ball
and run with it right now. Like every week that
you think you have the team figured out, there's a
new team the week after. Like some teams are hot,
some teams are the best teams, some teams are underwhelming.
Like we've seen this before, Like just because you look

(47:33):
like the best team does not mean you end up
being the best team.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Like the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
The playoffs determine that like a lot of times it
is the team that gets hot a lot of times,
you know, maybe maybe it's the team that you we suspect,
like every once in a while you get those oh
seven Giants.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, there'n't developed during the playoffs. I think
you have to improve every round, and usually the super
Bowl winner is a team that is playing better then
you know before that. And I think that's true of
the Eagles last year. If you look at their first
two playoffs and then their last two playoff games, you

(48:12):
know they really developed during the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
I agree, And it's it's just like and to this,
to that point, to continue, if you to continue that,
I wouldn't surprise me at the Eagles repeat. But it
also wouldn't surprise me to see some of these teams
win the super Bowl. That's how wide open it is.
And that's what I'm saying. It's just like like I

(48:38):
people can think I'm crazy. I could see a scenario
where the Seahawks win it. I could see a scenario
where the Texans win it. I could see a scenario
where the Jags win it. And that's what makes it
kind of like up in the air. This whole thing
is just that I don't know, but like I wouldn't
be surprised, like it's you know, it's you'd be surprised
if you were if if you were, if we were

(49:01):
in the middle of the season, someone told us what
we know now, right, we'd be like what the Jaguars, No,
like they're they're like so mediocre, but they're the hottest
team in football right now. Who could So it's it's
so wide open. So I I don't know. I just
I really really really don't know. That's that's why I

(49:21):
think there's there is some hope for the for the
Eagles moving forward, but I wouldn't consider them the favorite.
And I think I checked and brinks you would know
about this. I saw the Vegas odds for everyone, so
I think it had won the Rams next Broncos.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
I didn't look at that.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Yeah, Seahawks. When Seahawks Rams Broncos and then Eagles, he
was a fourth, So I wouldn't. I wouldn't really disagree
with that. Maybe there's another team i'd put a little higher,
but I mean, I don't. I think that's that's right
around where I put them. It's like maybe fourth best odds. No,
I can't understand that, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
I get I mean I guess. I mean, I'm not.
I'm taking the AFC out of it until I have
to worry about it.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
And honestly, I don't think the Eagles are gonna have
to worry about it.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
But maybe they will have to worry about it. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I think I think we better as Eagles fans on
Saturday night at eight o'clock.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
I think we better lock into that game and.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Hope the Bears win because the Rams are going to
smoke the Panthers. The only team in the in the
whole dance that has no chance of doing anything is
the Carolina Panthers. They stink they are going to get
absolutely routed by the Rams.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
And they said the same thing about the Packers and
the Cowboys a few years ago.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
This does not happening.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Well, I mean, I mean, if you want to die
on a Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 6 (50:45):
I'm not to die on it, but like.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Are because you interested me with just a nonsense take.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
I mean, it's it's a logical.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
It's not a logical take the Carolina. I'll give one
thousand dollars to your favorite charity pif the Carolina Panthers
beat the Rams on Saturday after a thousand dollars. We're
going it's live, it's a real off.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
I'll do it. I'll live offer, it's on tape, I'll
do it. Might have to be a payment plan, but.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Exactly exactly, rocking that back already.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
A thousand dollars. Thousand dollars, I'm not You're not even
have to. They're not gonna win beat the Rams.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Yeah, but I think the.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Bears need to win on Saturday Night because if the
Packers win, then you're gonna have to play the Rams
in the second round.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
And I don't think the Eagles guy would have takes.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I disagree, but they have their they have their number,
they have they have the mental.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
The Rams O S one and the Rams are better
than us. That's great.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
You have a mental.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Edge that only works for so long.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Sure, just like a story Scott Parkers, the Bullies, Ralphy
the whole movie, and then eventually Raupy gets up off
in l A I'm not scared of.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Wouldn't be coming here.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Yeah, I to be if I were. If it came
down to a game, it would be in Philly because
we're the three seed. The Rams are lower than us,
So like the Rams will come here if I were
to have to pick a favorite in that matchup, I
would lean Rams too, I would Brings. I would lean
Rams over Eagles.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
Depending on what.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
You might not go to Chicago and win.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
But that's not that's not anything that's terrifying. Yeah, going
to Chicago. Yeah, I'm not said we owe them just like.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
The Rams watch one, we owe them one.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I want to address this because like I always see
this on that I'm about to go on a random
p why knows? And and it's so like he says,
why scared of a team we always beat? I can't
stand like this. I constantly say this unless I know
you see it on Twitter. Two of like all these fans,
it's not just the Eagles fans, but all these fans
always saying like why would I be scared of this team? Like,
you know, why would we fear this team? It's not

(53:11):
about fearing any team. There's no Juggernaut. I just I
just got off a Ram saying there's no juggernaut team.
But it's not about being scared of a team. It's
about respecting them and knowing that hey, like they're a
good team. So like even though even though I say,
like if it's a if it's a playoff game between
the Rams and the Eagles, and I would slightly favor
the Rams. That's not me saying I'm scared of the Rams.

(53:33):
Bring it on. That's me just saying they're probably the
slightly better team and they'd have the edge.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Always carrying a lot of load there. The Rams had
a twenty six to seven lead in the third quarter
this year and the Eagles miraculously came back and won
on a blocked field goal. You know, the game in
twenty seventeen or whatever isn't gonna make too much of
a difference in this in this uh scenario. I don't

(54:01):
know that you know, we'll see I the Rams defense
hasn't played well lately. I'm not saying the Eagles can't
beat the Rams, but I would not want to play
the Rams in the second round.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
I would rather do Seattle for the NFC Championship than
host the Rams in the NFC Championship.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
It's a good one. It's close for me because traveling
we've had such bad, bad recent history in Seattle. So
if you're traveling east to West coast and you're playing
that defense, yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
That's I'm not saying it's gonna be easy. I'd rather
play Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
No, no, I hear you, I hear. But that's why
I can see that. Yeah, it's close, It's it's really close.
They both the Ram there's a reason that he just
puts the Seahawks and the Rams as the top two
teams to odds wise, they're I don't like it when
fans just ignore it like they're good. Why why does
it have to be a thing where like we're scared

(55:08):
of them just because we knowledge that they're good teams.
They're good, and it's kind of like it's kind of
like contradictory because we've done most of the show just
saying how the Eagles offensive coaches and play calling can't
that can't get their their foot out of their butts,
and how frustrating it is. But then they're gonna go

(55:29):
next minute and say, oh, there's no reason we should
we shouldn't beat this team or that team be consistent,
Like if we're that flawed, then yeah, there's a team
that could beat us. And Seahawks and the Rams are
are two of the better teams.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
They have a very yous have a very good defense,
you have to score close to thirty points to beat
the Rams. I don't think I can say that about
any other team in the I think you.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Have to score like twenty something, and I think it
would be in the twenties. Because the good things, the
Rams will get there. The Rams would like you because
they have Puka, who's elite. They have a good running
tandem in Quorum and Kiren, you know, and Matt Stafford
is is he's the man. Ad also going about the
Adams is also coming back, so like they have weapons.
So they'll even against like Rams, against any like top

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tier defense, like, they'll still get there. So you as
an offense, you're still gonna have to score like twenty
plus points. So absolutely you're gonna have to put points
of ward. But yeah, four or five minutes left, all right,
let's give our predictions. You can give a score prediction
if you want. You don't have to. You can give

(56:40):
a prediction and like say, like something you think is
gonna happen, but brings you go. First. Predictions for Eagles Niners.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
It's gonna be like twenty one seventeen Eagles win. I
don't think either team's gonna blow each other out in
this one. Uh, Eagles are capable of it. The Eagles
are capable of it, but they're not going to We've
seen this sun the dance the whole season. They're gonna
let the let the Niners hang around, not score points,

(57:13):
do mind boggling things from the schematic point offensive standpoint,
and make this thing a game.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
Maybe I hope they win.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
See why.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
I think I think twenty fourth pointeen.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I think they win. I think White score at the end.
They kind of just put a bow on everything. You know,
they're the better team. I think they're gonna dominate, not
as much as they should because, like if you look
at the Seattle game, like Seattle won it handedly even
if the score didn't didn't show it.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Less pradition.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Ah boy, I wouldn't be shocked if the forty nine
ers won. But I'm going to pick the Eagles right
around what Break said. I'll go twenty to eighteen something
like that. I don't think the Eagles are capable of
scoring a lot of points right now. The only way
they get back to the super Bowl is if last

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year's offensive line suddenly shows up at the playoffs, and
I guess that's possible. But I'm not counting on it.
I think it'll be really tough. I think we'll have
another quarter plus and I hope it's not an entire
half of just not being able to do anything offensively,
which is the hallmark of this team. And you know,

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they'll have to just gut it out on talent and
I think they should be able to do that, but
I don't have a lot of confidence that they will.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Maybe they've been saving all the good plays for the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
There you go, right, yeah, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
I'll go. I suck at score predictions.

Speaker 5 (59:06):
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
I if I were to give a score like maybe
like twenty to seventeen something like that, I think you
similar to what lesson and brings out. I think it's
gonna be close. But the one thing I will make
a bold prediction on I don't even know if you
can say it's bold. I think Jake Elliott hits a
clutch either late game or game winning field goal.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Yeah, because if he misses some god break out.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
But it's I think just call it like my last
bit of faith in Jake Elliott, especially after seeing these
kickers struggle the two weeks. It's just like, maybe, like
Jake is still like, maybe there's something in there with Jake.
I mean either Luke last night, Oh my god, both

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of them. Like, so I'm just holding up hope that
Jake still has one more clutch playoff stretch in him
before before he goes by. So you know, I still
love Jake. Pull through, pull through with a great game.
The comments giving some of their predictions, YK is taking,

(01:00:13):
uh the Eagles twenty one to seventeen. Bill middlebrooks no,
no surprise, thirty four to sixteen. Middle Brook Middlebrook is
also one of the words He's also one of those
fans that I just not done, uh describing where he'll
complain about everything, everything about the Eagles, but then come
back and say, like the Eagles will blow out the

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other team, like it's it's so funny. Thank you, thanks, Bill,
and Greg says Eagles twenty seven Niners eighteen.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
So I'd be happy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Weather wise, weather wise Sunday fifty three, cloudy, no precipitation.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Yeah, no issues. That's good issues. It feels like issues.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Yeah, no issues for Jake Elliott, no issues for passing game,
no issues.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
Period. It's not going to be the weather's fall warm
all week.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
When's the last time we had like a nice weather
game in Philly, it's been I feel like it's been months.
I feel like it's like we've always been hit with
that title.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
The title game last year was like a bombing fifty
five against the Commanders.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
I mean, I know that one. I know that one
was good, but I mean like this sea. Yeah yeah,
this season, it feels like we've had like bad weather,
bad weather to like in Philly, like all.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
The time when the rain or something, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Something right maybe like or maybe Black Friday. What Black
Friday was like that was freezing cold temperatures. And no,
that was windy too. Yeah, the Black Friday game gets
the best of windy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
So I was at the Lions game. It was the
most miserable game I've ever been at.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
I can't I get's tangent.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
But like weather, weather, why weather?

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I mean the game stuck because nothing happened. Yeah, yeah,
he's stuck, but they won. Yeah, Weather, I don't go.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I know, Binks, you have you still have your season tickets?
You're dead?

Speaker 5 (01:02:06):
Yeah, yes, I'll be in there, I'll be down there something.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Yeah. So like I'm not someone who goes to games anymore.
I kind of like I enjoy it more from the
comfort of my home.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
The extent of what I'll do is go out to
a bar with a couple of friends. But like I
even have done, I haven't done that in a while.
But you know, when it comes to even going to games,
if I were to go to a game, I don't
care if it's a playoff game. I could never ever
go to an Eagles game in December or January. It's
too cold. It's I can't like. And I can't go

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to an Eagles game in September even I am the
type of person who does not like extreme weather. So
September it's still really really hot from the summer, and
then December January it's like peak winter weather. I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
I'm in the wrong state. Why I am. I'm my
perfect weather is like the weather you've seen cal But
the thing is, I'm not a West Coast guy like I.
I love being on the East Coast, but I love
the weather over it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
I mean when it's snowing. When it's snowing out, it's sick.
I was at the Rams game last year in the snow,
and that was the best game I've ever been to.
In the best game I was that I.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
Can't stand I can't stand snow games. Snow games are
pretty looking, but they are the most stressful thing watching.
And it's frustrating too because you know, with weather games,
it's never gonna come down to talent or anything. It's
like so much of it as luck. So it's like,
I can't stand I can't stand snow games. Yeah, so
clear weather. I'm I'm excited. I'm very happy. All right, guys,

(01:03:44):
great stuff for the chat. You guys are live all show,
so thank you for keeping the chat alive and engaging
with us. Uh, you've got Super wild Card weekend this
upcoming or this this weekend, Super wild Card weekend for
the NFL. It's playoff time, and guys, cherish it. It's
the last month of football. Cherish it every single game.

(01:04:08):
Cherish it and enjoy it regardless. I know it's gonna
suck if the Eagles lose at whatever point in this playoffs,
but just still enjoy it as a football fan. Also,
if you want to get more get into more conversation
about wild Card weekend, Pete and I will be on
Film Don't Lie tomorrow to cover in depth all the

(01:04:31):
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