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Speaker 1: On today's episode of the Game Day Live Preview podcast,

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Speaker 1: we talked Philadelphia and how Washington can get a dub

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Speaker 1: up in Philly with those Bleacher creatures up there yelling

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Speaker 1: at him. Man, it's gonna be a great time. Great

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Speaker 1: defense up in Philly. Offense got some struggles. I think

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Speaker 1: Washington can take advantage of it. And then fun things

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Speaker 1: to watch. Bobby Wagner is five tackles away from two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Man, that's rarefied air. It all starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Command Center Game Day Live Preview podcasts. Logan,

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Speaker 3: it's the last one of the year. I know, made

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Speaker 3: it all the way here.

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Speaker 1: This last one of the year, you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: been kind of an up and down year obviously, and

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Speaker 1: it's but it's good.

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Speaker 2: It's good. This show's always fun.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is a fun one to talk about the

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles. They're always fun to talk about with this

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Speaker 3: group that they have out there. So I'm Jason JOHNSONM

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Speaker 3: just a guy. I'm just a producer of the show.

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Speaker 3: So I'm kind of just going to steer the chip

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Speaker 3: for our ten year NFL That one of the smartest

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Speaker 3: guys I know, Logan Paulsen also a really good friend

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Speaker 3: of mine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we shared a piece of cake once.

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Speaker 3: I think we did share a piece of cake once.

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Speaker 3: And we've shared a Christmas gifts before, right that. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just want everyone to know how good of a

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Speaker 3: friend of you are of mine.

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Speaker 2: Everyone should just know that.

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Speaker 3: But really, what I want to do is I want

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Speaker 3: to pick your brain on Philadelphia. By the time our

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Speaker 3: fans have been listening to this or watching Commander's fans,

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Speaker 3: they've heard almost everything you can possibly hear about with

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia with all the content that's out on the Commander's

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Speaker 3: YouTube page and podcast channels. But logan, let's tap in

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Speaker 3: one final time. Basically, what I'm going to ask you

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Speaker 3: is can we win this game? How can we win

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Speaker 3: this game? So let's start this way, right, Let's start

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Speaker 3: with the Eagles offense because it feels like this is

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Speaker 3: the area where they kind of beat themselves. Talk to

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Speaker 3: how the command can take advantage of what is going

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Speaker 3: on with Jalen Hurts in that offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the thing with Philly's offense

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Speaker 1: is they're just not clean. And what I mean by

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Speaker 1: that is like we just we just did the film

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Speaker 1: Breakdown Show, and you know, like they're having a hard

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Speaker 1: time getting runs targeted. Right, they're having a hard time

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Speaker 1: just having successful you know, running the football on first down.

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Speaker 1: Their philosophy, they have a lot of gun runs. They're

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Speaker 1: very simplistic in that way. So again, their rushing efficiency

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Speaker 1: on first down is way way down. Right, they have

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Speaker 1: I think there are times when you're watching concepts and

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Speaker 1: There's a great opportunity here to get the football down

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Speaker 1: and Hurts doesn't get there, there's a pressure given up,

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Speaker 1: It's just not like so there's a certain offensive that

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Speaker 3: Well, let's focus in a little bit on what you

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Speaker 2: Most if you just look at the.

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Speaker 3: there's no big runs coming in. Is there something that

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Speaker 2: Of in terms of running the football? As of running

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Speaker 1: And when you, I think you bring up a great point,

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Speaker 1: Let's possess the football, let's put pressure on them, let's

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Speaker 1: to me, this Eagles team is such a defensive led group.

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Speaker 1: And so what I'd say with regards to Saquan is like,

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Speaker 1: So let's just make sure when we get there, let's

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Speaker 1: multiple hats of the football. Let's pursue and just play

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Speaker 1: good defense. And again there's nothing schematically that they're.

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Speaker 1: Like so when you play like when we played Dallas,

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Speaker 2: The challenges run fits.

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Speaker 1: They use a fullback, they use multiple tight ends, they

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Speaker 1: kind of they shift strength of motional lot. Those things

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Speaker 1: So just own your gap, own your fit, let's get

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Speaker 3: Right, Now, how do we stop their dynamic pass catchers?

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Speaker 2: Last time we played them we did decently. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the thing with these pass catchers is

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and aj Brown not being on the same

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Speaker 1: concur with Fred's assessment there. So really with Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 2: And in years past.

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Speaker 1: That's been fine because Lane Johnson, Jordan, my lot of

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Speaker 3: He doesn't throw the spots.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't throw the spots. And he will always kind

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Speaker 1: times where he doesn't do that. And I think that again,

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Speaker 1: look a little bit cloudy, and I'm not talking like

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Speaker 1: those all of his little foibles and quirks as a

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Speaker 3: Well, they've been able to win get when he doesn't

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Speaker 3: complete or score points in the second half. That's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 3: It's the first time since nineteen seventy eight, seventy eight

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Speaker 3: that's happened or something like that where it too. ESPN

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Speaker 3: said that I didn't In fact, I wonder if like

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Speaker 3: we could hold him to try and do that again,

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Speaker 3: try and make it three and zho and how far back.

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Speaker 2: That would go probably the first time be pretty crazy.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, they're gonna beat themselves a little bit on offenses.

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Speaker 3: Kind of what you're saying, you think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they're gonna bring their own baggage. That's

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Speaker 1: It's like like they're not like this, They're not a

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Speaker 1: perfect offense. Like last year, there was this like inevitability

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Speaker 3: I want to see history be made. Bobby Wagner is

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to all our fans. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 3: throughout this season. Thanks to Brian Colbert who hosts when

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Speaker 3: we have home games every DC Prime with Gary Clark,

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Speaker 3: be Mitch. We've had London on that show, Fletch on

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Speaker 3: smartest guys you know, and you're moving up there like

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Speaker 3: Bobby Wagner. You're breaking into the top three of my

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Speaker 3: best friends. You're right there. You're really close.

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Speaker 2: More than a work acquaintance.

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Speaker 3: That's good, all right, Thanks for listening, everybody,